Current Bleak Spins
So first 6 weeks of the year Im in Asia at the end of my annual 4 months trip being a WRONG UN' so don't listen to any new music until end of Feb so these are some of my older go to's being spun for the first 6 weeks of the year and to a fitting return to the cold, grey skies of the Scottiish Highlands and another 8 months of work until freedom again. Although a new room and some new speakers are helping me deal with it. No order but half of that top 10 is MY shit man. Slow and bleak sludge/doom/drone. Beautiful. |
| 25 |  | Slavearc
Structural Damage In The Blueprint of Humanity
Death metal core before you knew it was a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhFZEPQ40dE&t=248s |
| 24 |  | Rubberoom
Gothic Architecture
Too slept on, hip hop.
https://youtu.be/pIc6gAlvblA?si=cK5pStEluXkyLcxq |
| 23 |  | Overcast
Fight Ambition To Kill
Hadn't listened this is agggges til a few days ago. Still bangs. MILES better than Shadows Fall too.
https://youtu.be/hQus3ckpoZM?si=jmkWJlX3hLXlNBjy |
| 22 |  | Townes Van Zandt
Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas
The man
https://youtu.be/iZa2FC3iYpg?si=y24CqIOJbUeDdTar |
| 21 |  | Kickback
Forever War
OH NO THERES A FEW ARTICLES KNOCKING AROUND ABOUT KICKBACK BEING DODGY.
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED!?!? GTF
https://youtu.be/PuND7qjqzsQ?si=kRYcl__CIKREEPxw |
| 20 |  | Weekend Nachos
Punish and Destroy
Best ban.....ah man. Gotta save that. Watched this Live show form 2024 recently. So dope. Gonna see them this year too. Time to do some squats see if these creaky knees will wake up.
https://youtu.be/aIAbz5Uqke0?si=6U6ldwrN9HJ1f4c6 |
| 19 |  | Cambodia (CAN)
Weight of ages
New discovery. From 2012 ish I think. Doom/Sluge from Canada somewhere. Screams are a bit out there at first but doesnt last. Rules.
https://youtu.be/9MqqlJnZWBk?si=4XeTDvfEN0RczL65 |
| 18 |  | Disrupt
The Rest
Legendary
https://youtu.be/DlmtBhfbHB8?si=-U3cp9ieBcezYLzl |
| 17 |  | His Hero Is Gone
The Plot Sickens: Enslavement Redefined
Best band eve....ahhhhh ffs
https://youtu.be/Z-svv4LbZ8c?si=3jD2rORZKGz00_C0 |
| 16 |  | Kuroi Jukai
Kuroi Jukai
Honestly the Remaster of this last year on Sentient Ruin would have been my album of the year if that wasnt cheating. I LOVE this record one of my fave grind albums ever.
https://youtu.be/42hNpFZio0Y?si=yd0M7iKcG-ZtKyi0 |
| 15 |  | Disgust
Where Angels Fear To Tread
Power Electronics
https://youtu.be/6p4dXpBKFxo?si=QViVbsr1CgO_y-bo |
| 14 |  | Tigran Hamasyan
The Bird of a Thousand Voices
What an amazing album from an otherworldy talent. Hail Tigran.
https://youtu.be/qmSCuWJZo00?si=JSTsJVqu9LIUqAFC |
| 13 |  | ledge
All I Hope For
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0yd8N13G2Y |
| 12 |  | Miles Davis
Dark Magus
Love Miles but for some reason not really gone into his whole cocaine era. This is absolutely gold.
https://youtu.be/fWdmMCnNw2I?si=d-0_WmX3SDIV1Ciy |
| 11 |  | Neurosis
An Undying Love for a Burning World
Best band ever yeah [2]
https://youtu.be/EC4UGPsfZKk?si=qFNu3Cxbmy-19_FM |
| 10 |  | Walk Through Fire
Vår Avgrund
They don't even get a look in on this site TREMENDOUS band from the ashes of Abandon. Grim, dark but absolutely beautiful. One of my fave bands in the world right now without doubt gives me that exact feeling I look for it said...doom/sluge/droney stuff. Bludgeoning, subtle just the whole weight of it. Majestic
https://youtu.be/jx3jRBXG7hM?si=QLusigG8EMXAVDHj |
| 9 |  | Goatsblood
Goatsblood
Monster record.
https://youtu.be/Olkv7yX20tc?si=wAGCAWH8BRw7LW5X |
| 8 |  | Noothgrush
Erode the Person
Does not get much better.
https://youtu.be/2OeQhwneJys?si=1i7HQA0hSWKXdt9Q |
| 7 |  | Starkweather
This Sheltering Night
OH WE DOING AN UNDERRATED LIST HERE I SEE NOW
No where near as good as 'Croatoan' but still undersold, even by myself. Bonding again after finding it for like 6/7 quid ($9) on wax. Booya
https://youtu.be/AW9xrehvqj0?si=7_lkj0n0p5njTb1m |
| 6 |  | Koreisch
This Decaying Schizophrenic Christ Complex
Just a horrendous, harsh, messed up, bad trip kinda record. Dope samples too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFWX-EQZCU |
| 5 |  | Burning Witch
Towers...
Unreal band, Everythings been said before but yeah.....this
https://youtu.be/Sp8xjMGAgl4?si=WQeqY0MGCTWnS8Zm |
| 4 |  | Abandon (SWE)
The Dead End
Somehow still underrated. The perfect melancholy sludge with a damn pump organ. If im ever gonna end it Ill end it to this. The perfect song...
https://youtu.be/Fi-ZCGlI4wk?si=bXBZXUmJeBGSbXhT |
| 3 |  | Redrighthand
They Sang And Chanted For Hours, Then...
The greatest live act I ever saw in a pub of about 25 people. Had to sit on a step outside in the road until I could talk again. The heaviest, blackest hole ever.
https://youtu.be/CG4V4LnaWyg?si=7iACzMGe2kHyvBf7 |
| 2 |  | Monarch (FRA)
666
For me the early stuff is actually a perfect miz of 1 and 3. Love this band but always listened their later stuff. Revisited this recently and was blown away all over again. I had forgot...sorry.
https://youtu.be/Prgp2i3fcs0?si=nD3e5fXX8iElOZ_l |
| 1 |  | Corrupted
Paso Inferior
Best band ever yeah....(well tied with Neurosis obvs) Nothing quite moves me like Corrupted. Gives me the screwest of faces, The clenchest of fists.
https://youtu.be/PhJmQ2f-Dgk?si=UTzh9oSCMPRIeXhP |
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