Howl - Full of Hell

Relapse still has some bands worth investigating. This is one of those bands. Riffy, sludgy stuff that's not gonna bullshit you.

Abhorred - Wallowing In Utter Chaos

Sleepwalker - Track 3

This may be the most honest combination of "post-rock" and black metal I have ever heard. Though the mixture makes some people cringe, I doubt anyone has heard it done quite like this. The way this track fades out is just beautiful. One of my favorite tracks of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46XceonAhvE

Before: Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis

Great album from this band. It's too bad that the last two songs are a little weaker, thus ending the album on a lower note than it could've, but otherwise this is stellar stuff. The cleanest production of anything they've done, including Carnival is Forever, but I think it works here. "Post(?)Organic" is a bitchin' track and my favourite from this.

Now: Portal - Swarth

Getting pumped for Vexovoid, so I decided it was time for some other Portal. It's meandering and bellowing guitar tone makes for some uneasy listening, despite the fact that Swarth is their most accessible to date. Still a haunting listen and hopefully a band I will one day see live.

"The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull" -
Earth

That piano... Oh man.

I know!

Reanimator - Exterminate The Weak
Checking out some modern thrash. Holyshit, the vocals are terrible.

"Demo" -
In The Sea Of Trees

An Americana answer to Neofolk? I think so.

Sonata Arctica – Wolf and Raven

Vomit the Soul - Apostles of Inexpression

Since I am deployed and can't give the new Katalepsy album that everyone seems to be going apey over a proper listen, I will jave to make do with this for the next 9 days. It better be as good as some of you lot are making it out to be cause I don't know if I can take the dissapointment.

Dead Can Dance - Anabasis

This is quite good, driven by a repetitive, vaguely middle-eastern undercurrent, and wholeheartedly powered by those vocals of Lisa Gerrard. It's a grower though, both in scale and grandeur, starting to fully unwind towards the end. Beautiful.

Smile Carved Sour -- Enemies Of The Sound You'll Never Hear

Quite messed up stuff from Norway. Has a nice trumpet (!) solo. Avant-garde black metal is the tag, but the band has much more to offer.

I like this Track so MUCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NP: Exoto - Carnival of Souls

Cadaver - In Pains

Fleshgod Apocalypse- The Violation

I really shouldn't like this. "Agony" made them into the Dragonforce of death metal; over the top, a tad gimmicky, but still lots of fun. Still prefer "Oracles" though.

One of my fave VBE clones. I am still unable to find download for Puppet Death though...

Katalepsy - Autopsychosis - Cold Flesh Citadel

Such a crushing groove to the main riff. The breakdown at the end just sets this song off. This album is just loaded with riffs.

Witch In Her Tomb - VII

Increasing the production values for their contribution to Fallen Empire's "Svn Okklt" sampler, Witch In Her Tomb show that they're all style and no substance, as I had expected since my first listen to their raving reviews-receiving demo tape.

Conception - Gravity

This song has some of the heaviest riffs the band ever came up with. No idea why it's a bonus track though.

Ikkadian - Archangel

JANVS - VEGA

Suffocation - Pierced from Within

Mutiilation- Tears of a Melancholic Vampire

Anesthesy - Exaltation Of The Eclipse

Christ Agony - Unholyunion

Abnormality - Shooting The Messenger
This band deserves attention not because they have a frontwoman but because they write some good ol' hard hitting BDM.

"Messenger of Doom" -
Vault Dweller

Fallout 3 references? Oh hell yes.

Slauter Xstroyes - Winter Kill

Kreator – Behind The Mirror

Sinister - Hate

Napalm Death - From obtainment to enslavement

After a day of listening to anything BUT metal, I needed to let loose some pure metal madness upon my ears.

Kongh - Unholy Water

I like the riffing but it's not very memorable, nor original. Despite that I haven't heard a riff I didn't like so far with these guys.

Hammerfall – Child of the Damned

Voivod - Target Earth

Ozzy- Mr. Crowley

Incinerate - Infecting the Crypts

Centvrian - Contra Rationem

Fermento - Hunger Among Wolves

great stuff

Dark at Dawn - End of Ice - Warriorqueen

This still gets me after all these years. Great, unique music.

Summoning - Flesh and Blood

Conquest - Frozen Sky