| 4.0 excellent |
| 40 Watt Sun The Inside Room |
| A Wilhelm Scream Ruiner |
| A Wilhelm Scream Career Suicide |
| AC/DC Highway to Hell |
| AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap |
| AC/DC The Razor's Edge |
| AC/DC High Voltage |
| AC/DC AC/DC Live |
| Addaura Addaura |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch Marrow Of The Spirit |
| Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre Monde |
| Alcest Ecailles De Lune |
| Melancholic Agalloch plus Wolves in the Throne Room black metal is win. |
| Alda :Tahoma: |
| Entirely legit. Great cascadian mehtuls right here, boy. |
| Altar of Plagues Teethed Glory and Injury |
A lot less black metal, a lot more atmosphere and experimentation. Essentially, this is
what real "post-black metal" should sound like. This sounds virtually
nothing like White Tomb and I'm strangely OK with that. |
| Amon Amarth With Oden On Our Side |
| Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God |
| Anathema We're Here Because We're Here |
| Anathema Weather Systems |
| Anti The Insignificance of Life |
| Some pretty good stuff here. Not as pretentious and "atmospheric" as the likes of Xasthur or Leviathan, Anti are more traditionally-aligned black metal. Lots of sad, buzzing tremolo and slow, brooding drums. The vocals themselves are more along the Xasthur-esque line of "depressing black metal," their vocalist doing basically whateverthehell he wants; black metal rasps, whispers, groaning screams and making sufficiently strange noises. All in all a good listen. Lots of melody and a great doomy atmosphere. |
| Arch Enemy Wages of Sin |
| Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center |
| Ash Borer 2009 Demo |
| Ash Borer Tour Rehearsal Demo |
| Ash Borer and Fell Voices Split |
| Bad Religion Suffer |
| Baroness Blue Record |
| Baroness Yellow and Green |
| Be'lakor Stone's Reach |
| Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell |
| Black Sabbath Mob Rules |
| Black Sabbath Dehumanizer |
| Black Sabbath The Dio Years |
| Blind Guardian At the Edge of Time |
| Bloodbath The Wacken Carnage |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars |
| Born of Osiris The Discovery |
| Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me |
| Cara Neir Stagnant Perceptions |
| Atmospheric/black/grind/punk yeah. |
| Chelsea Wolfe Ἀποκάλυψις |
| Chelsea Wolfe Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs |
| She's Relinquish's cousin? Dang, she's really pretty. |
| Cloudkicker The Discovery |
| Cloudkicker The Map Is Not The Territory |
| Cloudkicker ]]][[[ |
| Cloudkicker Portmanteau |
| Cloudkicker Beacons |
| Cloudkicker A New Heavenly Body |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| Converge Jane Doe |
| Converge All We Love We Leave Behind |
| Converge can borrow my fancy suits because this suits my fancy. None for you, Nancy Drew. |
| Dan Swano Moontower |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dead Branches Dead Branches |
| Really fun melodic instrumental rock/metal. Get it for free, bro. rhttp://deadbranches.bandcamp.com/ |
| Deafheaven 2010 Demo |
| Band is pretty great. |
| Deafheaven Roads To Judah |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Evil and demented, like always. |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| tl;dr this rules. |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Dimmu Borgir Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia |
| Dimmu Borgir Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| Dio Holy Diver |
| Dio The Very Beast of Dio |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson II |
| Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow |
| Eluveitie Slania |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Ensiferum Iron |
| Ensiferum Victory Songs |
| Equilibrium Turis Fratyr |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood |
| Fauna Avifauna |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fell Voices 2010 Tour CD-R |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Frontier Demo |
| Get Rad I Can Always Live |
| Punk is as punk does, fast, hard, and with little care for your eardrums. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor F#A# (Infinity) |
| Not as good as 'Fists, but still excellent. |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! |
| Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage |
| Grey Waters Below The Ever Setting Sun |
| Hammock Departure Songs |
| Heartsounds Until We Surrender |
| Hope Drone Hope Drone |
| Hypocrisy Virus |
| Hypocrisy A Taste Of Extreme Divinity |
| Ictus Imperivm |
| If These Trees Could Talk Red Forest |
| Ihsahn After |
| Isis Panopticon |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah The Black Waltz |
| Kamelot The Black Halo |
| Krallice Years Past Matter |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Lagwagon Hoss |
| Lake Of Blood The Burial Grounds Sessions |
Lake of Blood pull themselves together and release an aggressive EP that hints at greater
things to come. |
| Leech If We Get There One Day... |
| Leech [US] Against Leviathan! |
| Les Discrets Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées |
| Les Discrets Ariettes Oubliees... |
| Leucosis Pulling Down the Sky |
| Atmospheric, aggressive, epic, brooding, doomy, with a drop of folk. For fans of the Cascadian brand, Weakling, and the like. |
| Leucosis Leucosis |
| Light This City Stormchaser |
| Mastodon Blood Mountain |
| Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree |
| Meshuggah obZen |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| . w00t. |
| Metallica Ride the Lightning |
| Morbid Angel Altars of Madness |
| Morbid Angel Covenant |
| Nails Unsilent Death |
| Nightingale Nightfall Overture |
| Nightingale White Darkness |
| Nine Covens On The Dawning Of Light |
| NOFX Coaster |
| Oak Pantheon The Void |
| Off With Their Heads In Desolation |
| Off With Their Heads Home |
| Old Man's Child In Defiance of Existence |
| Omnium Gatherum Beyond |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth The Roundhouse Tapes |
| Opeth The Candlelight Years |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Paysage d'Hiver Nacht |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Very good. |
| Pelican The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon... |
| Petrychor Dryad |
| Petrychor Effigies and Epitaphs |
| Pig Destroyer Terrifyer |
| Protest the Hero Scurrilous |
| Ronnie Dio was here. |
| Red Sparowes At The Soundless Dawn |
| Rotten Sound Exit |
| Sadhaka Terma |
| Do you like all that Cascadian jazz? Ya? Then here you go bud. |
| Samael Passage |
| Slayer Reign in Blood |
| Soilwork The Living Infinite |
| This is getting ridiculous. Even the cheesy parts are well-executed. |
| Sophie Madeleine Love Life Ukulele |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle II |
| Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| Tenacious D Rize of the Fenix |
| Testament The Gathering |
| Testament The Formation Of Damnation |
| The Devin Townsend Project Addicted |
| The Devin Townsend Project Ghost |
| The Secret Solve Et Coagula |
| The Secret Agnus Dei |
| The Sword Warp Riders |
| The Tallest Man on Earth There's No Leaving Now |
| The Wonder Years The Greatest Generation |
| Threnos By Blood and By Earth |
One of the fathers of the American Cascadian black metal scene. And, even though their time
together was short, they will remain to be known as both one of the finer and more
influential black metal acts from the last decade. |
| Titus Andronicus The Monitor |
| Tonight Alive What Are You So Scared Of? |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| If you like Der Weg Einer Freiheit, you should like this a lot. |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Volbeat Beyond Hell/Above Heaven |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Whirr Distressor |
| Whirr June |
| Whirr Pipe Dreams |
| Windir Arntor |
| Windir 1184 |
| Windir Soknardalr |
| Windir Likferd |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Malevolent Grain |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Woman is the Earth This Place That Contains My Spirit |
| Atmospheric USBM. Driving guitars, synthesizers, and blast beats drenched in reverb. In terms of the overall recording style, this is what Ash Borer's new album should have sounded like; full, organic, and with the right amount of reberb. Minus that overly distorted drum section, that is. |
| Woods of Desolation Toward the Depths |
| Woods of Desolation Torn Beyond Reason |
| Finished listening to it. Get this, NOW. Amazing. |
| 3.5 great |
| A Loathing Requiem Psalms of Misanthropy |
| Abigail Williams Becoming |
| AC/DC Flick Of The Switch |
| AC/DC For Those About To Rock... |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| So much better than Turn of the Eternal Wheel. |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Alcest Les Voyages De L Ame |
| Alice in Chains Black Gives Way to Blue |
| Altar of Plagues White Tomb |
| Altar of Plagues Tides |
| Amon Amarth Surtur Rising |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow |
| Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine |
| Arch Enemy Burning Bridges |
| Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant |
| Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil |
It's been released in Europe; it comes out in the U.S. on Oct 6, and it's been on youtube for at least a week now, and it's pretty good, too.
Angela's shrieks and screams are still punishing and just plain scary. If you want real aggression, look no further. I think this may be some of her more br00tal material  |
| Arsis A Celebration of Guilt |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Astral Rebirth The Axis of the Utter Black Ocean |
| This does kinda sound like Ash Borer. |
| At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul |
| Autumn Leaves As Night Conquers Day |
| Axis of Light By the Hands of the Consuming Fire |
| Raw, harsh, melodic and a tad punky. |
| Ayr Circling |
| Ayr Nothing Left to Give |
| Bad Religion The Empire Strikes First |
| Barghest/False Split |
| Bat For Lashes Two Suns |
| Bat For Lashes The Haunted Man |
| Take the corn out of your ears, and try again. |
| Be'lakor Of Breath And Bone |
| Behemoth Demigod |
| Behemoth Pandemonic Incantations |
| Billy Talent Dead Silence |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I |
| Blutklinge Reflection of a Bleak Mind |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom |
| Bosse-de-Nage II |
| Braveyoung Will The Dust Praise You |
| Brendon Small Galaktikon |
| Carcass Swansong |
| Celephais Becoming the Deceased |
| Children of God Coup De Grace |
| Cloudkicker Loop |
| Cloudkicker Fade |
| Converge Axe to Fall |
| Cormorant Metazoa |
| Cradle of Filth Midian |
| Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine |
| Cradle of Filth Thornography |
| Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis |
| Decapitated The Negation |
| Decapitated Carnival Is Forever |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Destroy Judas Wake |
| Post-rocky, shoegazey, doomy, sludge. Or something? Whatever. |
| Dethklok Dethalbum III |
| Most of this album has already leaked. Get on that, sheeple. |
| DevilDriver The Fury of Our Maker's Hand |
| DevilDriver The Last Kind Words |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Dissection Reinkaos |
| Dragonlord Black Wings Of Destiny |
| Drapsnatt Skelepht |
| Drudkh Microcosmos |
| Dying Fetus Descend Into Depravity |
| Echtra Sky Burial |
| Echtra brings the atmosphere this time. |
| Eluveitie Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion |
| Emperor IX Equilibrium |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Equilibrium Rekreatur |
| Eternal Tears of Sorrow Before the Bleeding Sun |
| Ezkathon The Cvrsed Idols |
| Fallujah Nomadic |
| False Untitled |
| This is pretty good. Space reserved for the 3.5-4.0 I will most likely end up giving it once I've had enough time to decide on a proper rating. |
| Fauna Rain |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fire In The Cave Fire In the Cave |
| Fyrnask Bluostar |
| Galaktik Cancer Squad Celestia |
| Germ Loss |
| It's the end of the world, so let's get out our glowsticks and dance, throw our heads back, and scream into the heavens. |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
| Gorod A Perfect Absolution |
| Heartsounds Drifter |
| Not as good as their first record, but still really enjoyable, yet simple, pop-punk/metal. |
| Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know |
| Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| In Flames Colony |
| In This Moment Beautiful Tragedy |
| In This Moment The Dream |
| Insomnium One for Sorrow |
| Iron Chic Not Like This |
| Kalmah 12 Gauge |
| Katatonia The Great Cold Distance |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day |
| Krallice Diotima |
| La Mar La Mar |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lantlos .neon |
| Lantlos Agape |
| Love Sex Machine Love Sex Machine |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity |
| The production is cleaner and the vocals sound much better (and hurt the ears less) than they did on the debut. |
| Megadeth Endgame |
| Meniscus War of Currents |
| Meshuggah Nothing |
| Meshuggah Chaosphere |
| Meshuggah Nothing [Re-release] |
| Meshuggah Koloss |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| Mogwai Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will |
| Mogwai Les Revenants OST |
| Mushroomhead XIII |
| Mutilation Rites Demo 2011 |
| Naglfar Harvest |
| Nails Abandon All Life |
| I feel like I just got punched in the face for twenty minutes. |
| Nameless Coyote Devoured by the Swirling Night |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyrs Crown |
| Nightrage return with a fitting addition to the melodic death metal legacy. Harsh vox, screaming guitarz, lots of drumz and the occasional acoustic good melodeath does make, and Nightrage a good melodeath band does...are..is..verb. |
| Nightshade Wielding The Scythe |
| NOFX The War on Errorism |
| NOFX So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes |
| NOFX Never Trust a Hippy |
| Novembers Doom The Novella Reservoir |
| Obolus Demo |
| Obolus Lament |
| Ever wondered what those atmospheric black metal bands would sound like if their songs were sliced down into concise, no-frills pieces of no more than seven minutes, max? This is what that sounds like. |
| Old Man's Child Vermin |
| Omnium Gatherum New World Shadows |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Opeth Deliverance |
| Opeth Watershed |
| Opeth Heritage |
| Ozzy Osbourne Black Rain |
| Panopticon On the Subject of Mortality |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| STOKED FOR THIS. |
| Paramore Brand New Eyes |
| Pennywise All or Nothing |
| Periphery Periphery |
| Punky Bruster Cooked on Phonics |
| Red Fang Red Fang |
| Red Fang Murder the Mountains |
| Red Sparowes Aphorism |
| Revocation Chaos of Forms |
| Rhinocervs RH-07 |
| Rhinocervs RH-11 |
| RVIVR The Beauty Between |
| Samael Solar Soul |
| Samael Reign Of Light |
| Samael Above |
| Sarah Longfield Par Avion |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Shaidar Logoth Chapter I - The Peddler |
| Skagos Ast |
| Skagos Anarchic |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Sleepwalker Sleepwalker |
| Soilwork The Panic Broadcast |
| Sorrows Lethe |
| Sorrows Threads |
| Ambient. Pounding. Bleeding ears. Fifteen minutes. Interesting. |
| Soul Cycle Soul Cycle |
| Strapping Young Lad City |
| Terzij de Horde A Rage of Rapture Against the Dying of Light |
| The Body/Braveyoung Nothing Passes |
| The Devil Wears Prada Zombie |
| The Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction |
| Yep. |
| The Devin Townsend Project Epicloud |
| The manliest singalong metal these ears have ever heard. Watch your back, Manowar. |
| The Rain in Endless Fall Weald of Introspection |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
| Thy Serpent Death |
| Atmospheric, melodic, black. |
| Trap Them Darker Handcraft |
| Turisas The Varangian Way |
| Twilight Monument To Time End |
| Unru Demo MMXIII |
| Vales Clarity |
| Verwustung When Light Broke the Stars, Humanity Rejected Us |
| Verwustung Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life |
| Verwustung Soft Hands, Pale Moon |
| One great 20-minute slab of atmospheric black metal, drenched in ambience. |
| When Woods Make Graves The Aroma Of Dead Witches |
| When Woods Make Graves This Light That Decays |
This time, he slows things down and tries a more ambient-laden approach to his aggressive
atmospheric black metal template. At this point, I think it's probably the best thing he's
done; the songwriting seems to be more complex, and the songs are more diverse. The ambient
sections reek of WitTR worship, that's OK. |
| When Woods Make Graves Consuming Darkness |
| Wildernessking The Writing of Gods in the Sand |
| Within Temptation The Unforgiving |
| Wodensthrone Curse |
| Woe Quietly, Undramatically |
| Woe Of Tyrants Kingdom of Might |
| Woman is the Earth Of Dirt |
| Wormrot Dirge |
| Yellowcard Southern Air |
| 3.0 good |
| AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip |
| AC/DC Blow Up Your Video |
| AC/DC Fly On The Wall |
| Alkerdeel Morinde |
| Amaranthe Amaranthe |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion |
| Ash Borer Bloodlands |
| Avril Lavigne Let Go |
| Ayr Eternal Sustain |
| Barghest Barghest |
| Barghest create grim black metal that is harsh to the touch yet unabashedly melodic. |
| Black Sabbath Greatest Hits 1970-1978 |
| Bloodbath Unblessing the Purity |
| Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery |
| Bosse-de-Nage III |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Celephais Tir n'a n'Og |
| Children of Bodom Are You Dead Yet? |
| Christian Mistress Possession |
| Crowbar Sever The Wicked Hand |
| Dark Tranquillity Fiction |
| Dark Tranquillity We Are The Void |
| Demonaz March of the Norse |
This surprisingly good. Demonaz's voice reminds a bit of Peter Tagtgren's clean voice.
Hmmm. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, Demonaz. This is no kvlt blak mehtul--hell, it's
hardly black to begin with--but that doesn't mean it isn't a highly enjoyable listen. Which
it totally is. Get it. |
| Despised Icon Day of Mourning |
| Dispirit Rehearsal At Oboroten |
| First track is long and brooding, second is much more concise and aggressive. Definitely excited for debut LP, expected sometime around 2019. |
| Dissection Maha Kali |
| Disturbed The Sickness |
| Disturbed Believe |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Disturbed The Lost Children |
| Dodecahedron Dodecahedron |
| Dragonlord Rapture |
| Drudkh Handful of Stars |
| Drudkh Eternal Turn of the Wheel |
| Not as good as Addaura. |
| Echtra Paragate |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Evanescence The Open Door |
| Fauna The Hunt |
| Fear Factory Mechanize |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony |
| Fractal Gates Altered State Of Consciousness |
| HIM Dark Light |
| I Between Two Worlds |
| In Flames Whoracle |
| Job for a Cowboy Ruination |
| Lake Of Blood Heed The Primal Calling |
| Lake Of Blood As Time and Tide Erodes Stone |
| Lamb of God Wrath |
| Luciation Darkened Apocalyptic Occult Goat Ritual |
| Mayhem Deathcrush |
| Megadeth Greatest Hits, Back To The Start |
| Merkaba Bones of the Sacred Forest |
| Post-black metal with lots and lots and lots of reverb. It makes it sound booming and quite pretty, actually. Unique in that sense, although it's truthfully not much different than the other post-rock-meets-blast-beats experiments. |
| Merkaba Continuum |
| Metallica St. Anger |
| Metallica Death Magnetic |
| Municipal Waste Hazardous Mutation |
| Nachtmystium Addicts: Black Meddle Pt. 2 |
| Nachtmystium Silencing Machine |
| Naglfar Pariah |
| Novembers Doom Into Night's Requiem Infernal |
| Old Man's Child Slaves Of The World |
| Opeth Damnation |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Planks The Darkest of Grays |
| Slightly blackened sludge. Yarp. |
| Rotten Sound Species At War |
| Ruin Lust Demo 2011 |
| Samael Lux Mundi |
| Scar Symmetry The Unseen Empire |
| Septic Flesh The Great Mass |
| Sepultura Dante XXI |
| Sepultura Kairos |
| Serj Tankian Elect the Dead |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Yep, this is slayer. |
| Sodom In War And Pieces |
| Sutekh Hexen Luciform |
| Sutekh Hexen Larvae |
| Take some minimalistic black metal, some dark ambient, some fuzz, and some noise, and smash the bastards together. The resulting mass of misanthropic noise is this album. Or this band, rather. |
| Sutekh Hexen Behind the Throne |
| Second track had less black metal than I'd have hoped, but the first track was entertaining. |
| Testament Demonic |
| Testament Low |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual |
| Verwustung I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And |
| Verwustung Tunnel Ghosts |
| Vestiges The Descent Of Man |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| When Woods Make Graves This Forest That Will Eclipse The Sky |
Three tracks that weren't included on This Patch Of Dirt Where Nothing Grows were
rewritten/rerecorded and slapped together for this LP. This guy doesn't seem to disappoint,
even if all of his songs have that "guitar plugged directly into computer" sound and the
drums are obviously programmed. WWMG continue to try combining the driving riffs of WitTR
with some of the fuzzy atmosphere of Paysage D'Hiver. Consistently good material. |
| Wintersun Time I |
| A Song of Winter +4/5rLand of Snow and Sorrow 3.3/5rTime 3/5r |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| I don't know, man. I don't know. |
| Wretched Beyond The Gate |
| 2.5 average |
| AC/DC Ballbreaker |
| Anaal Nathrakh Passion |
| Arch Enemy Khaos Legions |
| There are splatterings of greatness throughout, but the utter inconsistency in delivery makes the record feel like nothing more than a band's half-assed attempt at regaining their former glory. |
| Arsis Starve for the Devil |
| Children of Bodom Blooddrunk |
| Chimaira The Infection |
| Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli |
| There's just nothing that moves me about this record, at all. It's all just personality-less, sterile symphonic black metal. Utterly devoid of any emotion at all. Ugh. |
| Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition...Exhibit A |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| In Flames A Sense of Purpose |
| Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What! |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Nargaroth Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare |
An hour-long LP of which half the music is either made up of needless ambient or
instrumental fillers. With only twenty seven minutes of actual heavy metal spread across
three tracks we can only wonder as to why this LP runs almost an hour in total. The black
metal, while sparse, is slow, melodic and reminiscent of Burzum--while not the most
interesting musically the tracks are still a rather enjoyable listen. In the end this album
lives by its melody-driven black metal sections but stalls and dies by the utter uselessness
of many of the included ambient tracks. If anything, "Spectral Visions of Mental Warfare"
is worth listening to for the three tracks that contain actual instrumentation, with maybe
one or two of the ambient tracks being interesting enough to not put you to sleep or turn
you off from the record completely. God knows why this ended up being more than forty
minutes in length, though. |
| NOFX Self Entitled |
| Satyricon Now, Diabolical |
| Satyricon The Age Of Nero |
| Sepultura A-Lex |
| When Woods Make Graves This Patch Of Dirt Where Nothing Grows |
| Whitechapel A New Era of Corruption |
