Grey Waters- Broken

Out of all the obnoxious amount of side projects that Tim and D. have, I wish they would have kept this one. Really great depressive rock with some truly beautiful moments. Who knows, maybe one day they'll come back...

Deicide - Once Upon the Cross

Twisted Tower Dire - The Epic War Never Ends

Dammerfarben - Im Abendrot.

Godly album right here

Altar of Oblivion - Sentenced in Absentia

Epic doom with a really strong sense of swing/groove, I guess - maybe not quite the phrases I'm aiming at. Whatever it is, it renders it rather catchy.

Tarkan - Dön Bebeğim. Nice song with excellent guitar and bass work. The vocals are pretty good too.

Satyricon - Hvite Krists død. One monster of a song.

nice. i went through their early discography last night myself.

Morgion: god of death and disease
this is fucking killer stuff.

Art Blakey - Caravan

Anaal Nathrakh - Of Fire, and Fucking Pigs
Can't wait for Vanitas, this sounds insane

Vàli - Forlatt I've been getting into dark folk lately. I've basically always was looking or this kind of music but didn't know it actually had a name or that there were more albums similar to Ulver's Kveldssanger.

Niice! Try Empyrium too.

Dark 1.2 from (2003) Darkspace - Dark Space I (2006 Avantgarde Music Reissue) just because of Metantoine's comment:
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end of the harvest by neurosis

Opeth - Demon of the Fall

Sunn O)))-Flight of the Behemoth

Been on a little Sunn kick at the moment. White 2 last night and now this.

Askeregn - ...Og mellom de blodrøde skyer stråler Satans Sol mot meg

Crimson Moonlight - Eyes of Beauty

Witchcraft- Flage of Fate

Black Sabbath - Sign of The Southern Cross

Thy Disease - Rat Age

Roots Of The Mountain from (2012) Enslaved - RIITIIR.
New Enslaved!

My Dying Bride - In Your Dark Pavilion

Breathtakingly beautiful.
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My Dying Bride - You are Not the One Who Loves Me

See above.

Demonic Death Judge - Pilgrimage

Revocation - Teratogenesis EP - Spurn The Outstreched Hand

Revenge - Atrocity March.

Absolutely diggin' the grind influence here.

Katatonia - Brave

the souuunndddss of faaaallllinnnggg, when the pictures are mooooviiing

doing vocals in this album was probably the only good thing Akerfeldt has done in his career

Helloween - Heaven Tells No Lies

"I need a shotgun in my dreams toniiiiiiigggghhhhtttt..." That line is always interesting to me. Cool song too. Groovy and catchy.

And his charismatic delivery is almost nearly as interesting. That's definitely one of my favorite Deris Helloween songs.

Enslaved - RIITIIR

And so it begins. Obsession, part infinity.

Evoken - Of Purest Absolution

This is right up there with Tending The Dire Hatred as one of my all-time favorite Evoken tracks. Absolutely bludgeoning as all hell. I really do want to find more bands / songs particularly in this vein.

My Dying Bride - The Barghest O' Whitby

I dunno about this one. It's pretty much the only thing they've done that I haven't immediately loved.

Nightwish - Taikatalvi

Skipping straight to the new album, because Nightwish already have a bloated track count on my Last.fm. More astute stalkers will also notice I skipped "Walking in the Air," because fuck that song.

"Inle" -
Fall of Efrafa

One of my top ten, easily.

Nightwish - Scaretale

Squeeeeeaaaaaling PIGS!!

At the Toronto show last week, the audience stood there for like ten minutes after the final bows doing the usual "one more song!" chants. I think what really tipped us off that there wasn't going to be an encore was when the roadie came and started disassembling the drum kit. Great show, though.

Rush - The Garden

Awesome.

War Master - Pyramid Of The Necropolis

If I were that roadie, I would've performed a song by myself. Hey, they asked for it!

Nightwish - Turn Loose the Mermaids

Considering the title's an homage to My Dying Bride and Tuomas says they were a major influence, you'd think it'd be all over the place. But it isn't.
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Nightwish - Rest Calm

I read a review where someone described this song as "doomy." I nearly rage-shat myself.
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Nightwish - Song of Myself

The sheer amount of vitriol aimed at this song puzzles me, and the only explanation I have is that these people have either never read the original poem, have no idea what the original poem's intent and meaning are, or have no idea that the song is meant to encapsulate the spirit of the poem.

Annihilator - Ultra-Motion

Is it a guitar? Is it a swarm of bees? Man may never know.

It plays some pretty good riffs, though.

Nope, it's because it sucks and is filled with awful voice overs. Nothing to do with the lyrical content - and I have read the poem, by the way.

I dread even imagining what the newest Nightwish must sound like. One thing I've noticed about all these "female fronted" bands--all the awful gimmick bands with "angelic" vocals and half-assed songwriting are all men with a token female singer who has no other talents besides C-cups. The ones that are actually metal have women who play instruments and participate in the songwriting process as equals.

unholy: alone