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Rainbow Demon
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 1:07 pm 
 

satanscurse wrote:
Deus Otiosus - Godless


Cool. I didn't know that they had a new album out, I really liked Murderer.
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Ulfhethnar
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:08 pm 
 

reven wrote:
Horrendous' The Chills is a damn amazing old school death metal album, the vocalist sounds like a mix of Chuck and Van Drunen to me.


I have to download this album.

One of my favourites of this year is Grand Magus - The Hunter.

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NJMike
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 4:44 pm 
 

Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme
Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron
Dråpsnatt - Skelepht
Evoken - Atra Mors
Krallice - Years Past Matter
My Dying Bride - A Map of All Our Failures
Nile - At the Gate of Sethu
Tempestuous Fall - The Stars Would Not Awake You
Coprophiliac - Whining Bitch Treatment
Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies of Artificial Origin
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The Prophet Muhammad
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 5:17 am 
 

Pallbearer's album is fantastic.

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satanscurse
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Location: Denmark
PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:49 am 
 

Rainbow Demon wrote:
satanscurse wrote:
Deus Otiosus - Godless


Cool. I didn't know that they had a new album out, I really liked Murderer.


Yeah, they do. And the new one is even better actually!

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Frozen Hearth
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Joined: Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:25 pm
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:26 pm 
 

I would say, my favourite 2012 metal albums so far would be:

Wintersun - Time I
The Faceless - Autotheism

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ogmetal
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:07 pm 
 

Ulfhethnar wrote:
reven wrote:
Horrendous' The Chills is a damn amazing old school death metal album, the vocalist sounds like a mix of Chuck and Van Drunen to me.


I have to download this album.



You don't have to leech/illegally download it. It's streaming on the Dark Descent Band Camp page.

http://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
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MARSDUDE
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:11 pm 
 

Add The Levitation Hex's first, and self-titled.

Kickass successor to Alchemist's unfortunate breakup.

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~Guest 82538
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:25 pm 
 

Matt, have you thought about that PM I sent you a while back? You never answered, too much wishful thinking on my end? ;)

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ogmetal
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:33 pm 
 

androdion wrote:
Matt, have you thought about that PM I sent you a while back? You never answered, too much wishful thinking on my end? ;)


No, I gave it a good listen for sure. Probably more than I do most requests/emails that I get for bands. You know, so many bands, so little time. Even I can't release everything I like. :)
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~Guest 82538
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:03 pm 
 

ogmetal wrote:
androdion wrote:
Matt, have you thought about that PM I sent you a while back? You never answered, too much wishful thinking on my end? ;)


No, I gave it a good listen for sure. Probably more than I do most requests/emails that I get for bands. You know, so many bands, so little time. Even I can't release everything I like. :)

I appreciate the time you took then, it is indeed a really interesting album! Maybe in the future, who knows. :)

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IntoNevermore
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:17 pm 
 

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I'm sitting here in my room in front of the PC, completely baffled by the Ataraxy album released last month on Memento Mori. It's as if Finland and Holland collided in a maelstrom of creepy atmospheric death metal. Holy fuck this is so good! :love:


How you keep sharing amazing bands without failing every year?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 11:57 pm 
 

IntoNevermore wrote:
androdion wrote:
I'm sitting here in my room in front of the PC, completely baffled by the Ataraxy album released last month on Memento Mori. It's as if Finland and Holland collided in a maelstrom of creepy atmospheric death metal. Holy fuck this is so good! :love:


How you keep sharing amazing bands without failing every year?

I have no social life?! :idea:

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Necroticism174
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 12:28 am 
 

I would be your friend. :beer:
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lord_ghengis
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 2:30 am 
 

This year is going really well for EPs, in addition to the excellent Agalloch and DsO ones, Encoffination's new one is the best thing they've done, a huge relief after putting the unbearable O' Hell last year. The guitar tone is lightened up a bit, which sacrifices weight in favour of actually being halfway interesting to listen to. The first side is the same stuff as before but well done, but the second side is where it shines, lots of bells, an uptempo part with a goofy punk beat, clean chanted vocals, it's interesting and has an atmosphere which I can best sum up as a ritualistic cult which happens to convene their evil meetings in a Moby Dick era whaling town. It's interesting, it's unique, and it rules. The tracklisting is a bit weird, since it pretty much ends with song, outro, outro. But the outro tracks are cool as so it isn't really a negative.
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Nahsil
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 3:24 am 
 

This Ataraxy is BADASS, where did these guys come from?
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Tod_Im_Juni
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:02 am 
 

Scorntyrant wrote:
Tod_Im_Juni wrote:
They are not metal, but they are listed in MA:
Arcana - Emerald EP


How is that one? I really didn't like Serpent Rouge at all but love the early stuff.

Unfortunately, it' s a slightly worse than the early stuff. There is a slight "ethnic/oriental" influence. Still really good and typical Arcana.

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Tod_Im_Juni
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:06 am 
 

Asphyx - Deathhammer. As old school as it should be, without sounding like a repetition of the early stuff.

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Beer Baron
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:13 am 
 

Nahsil wrote:
This Ataraxy is BADASS, where did these guys come from?


Been wondering the same thing myself.
Awesome stuff

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~Guest 82538
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:23 am 
 

Beer Baron wrote:
Nahsil wrote:
This Ataraxy is BADASS, where did these guys come from?


Been wondering the same thing myself.
Awesome stuff

They're Spanish, go figure! :p They're a relatively new band with a three year track record and the demo/EP/album path. I'm a regular at Memento Mori and I suddenly decided to check out the album based on its description and what do you know? It's a beast! I already hunted down the EP and the album follows as these MM editions are limited in offer.

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VampireofTheNazereth
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Joined: Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:14 pm
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:35 pm 
 

Meshuggah- Koloss
Gojira -L'Enfant Sauvage
Nile- At The Gates of Sethu
Sybreed- God Is An Automaton
Cradle of Filth - The Manticore And Other Horrors

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Shadoeking
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 5:34 pm 
 

Yeah I love the Ataraxy album. Fucking fantastic. It is definitely a challenger for my favorite album of the year.
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~Guest 171512
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 6:04 pm 
 

Evoken - Atra Mors

I'm listening to this for the second time now, and loving it. Funeral doom is a tricky genre, but these guys pull it off brilliantly.

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OneSizeFitzpatrick
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:06 pm 
 

Dead Beyond Buried's new album the Dark Era is some of the most unique and punishing death metal I've heard all year. England is really churning out a lot of heavy hitters this year, Bloodshot Dawn, Winterfylleth, Anaal Nathrakh, now these guys too..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_QQqz56WEQ -Cold Black stars music video off the new album
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lord_ghengis
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 7:42 am 
 

Only listened to it once, but I am loving the new Graveyard album, Lights Out. The style remains the same as the last album, but the areas of inconsistency have all been cleaned up. The catchy rock songs that always rocked, the slower blues tracks which used to be tedious are great, and the shorter more hard rocking numbers like "Seven Seven" are all expertly written. The vocals have improved, and the whole sound is excellent and inviting, and the whole thing is super catchy and infectious, I love it.
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vengefulgoat
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:18 pm 
 

GRAVELAND - Pamięc i Przeznaczenie

More than just another lifeless rerecording of and old album, the recreation made this masterpiece better than ever.

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MacMoney
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:40 pm 
 

lord_ghengis wrote:
This year is going really well for EPs, in addition to the excellent Agalloch and DsO ones, Encoffination's new one is the best thing they've done, a huge relief after putting the unbearable O' Hell last year. The guitar tone is lightened up a bit, which sacrifices weight in favour of actually being halfway interesting to listen to. The first side is the same stuff as before but well done, but the second side is where it shines, lots of bells, an uptempo part with a goofy punk beat, clean chanted vocals, it's interesting and has an atmosphere which I can best sum up as a ritualistic cult which happens to convene their evil meetings in a Moby Dick era whaling town. It's interesting, it's unique, and it rules. The tracklisting is a bit weird, since it pretty much ends with song, outro, outro. But the outro tracks are cool as so it isn't really a negative.


You heard the Genocide Shrines EP yet?

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Zelkiiro
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:49 pm 
 

I'm just not as enthusiastic about this year as I was 2011. Very little this year made me absolutely giddy

Tentative Top 10 Albums of 2012 List:
1. Black Majesty - Stargazer
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels
3. Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name
4. The Slow Death - II
5. Diabulus in Musica - The Wanderer
6. Steelwing - Zone of Alienation
7. Pharaoh - Bury the Light
8. Damnation Angels - Bringer of Light
9. Delain - We Are the Others
10. Threshold - March of Progress

Runner Ups:
Xandria - Neverworld's End
My Dying Bride - A Map of All Our Failures
Kamelot - Silverthorn

Non-Metal Albums of the Year (That I've Bothered to Check Out and Greatly Enjoy):
Teenage Bottlerocket - Freak Out!
Ayumi Hamasaki - Party Queen
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Pamyu Pamyu Revolution
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lord_ghengis
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:50 pm 
 

MacMoney wrote:
lord_ghengis wrote:
This year is going really well for EPs, in addition to the excellent Agalloch and DsO ones, Encoffination's new one is the best thing they've done, a huge relief after putting the unbearable O' Hell last year. The guitar tone is lightened up a bit, which sacrifices weight in favour of actually being halfway interesting to listen to. The first side is the same stuff as before but well done, but the second side is where it shines, lots of bells, an uptempo part with a goofy punk beat, clean chanted vocals, it's interesting and has an atmosphere which I can best sum up as a ritualistic cult which happens to convene their evil meetings in a Moby Dick era whaling town. It's interesting, it's unique, and it rules. The tracklisting is a bit weird, since it pretty much ends with song, outro, outro. But the outro tracks are cool as so it isn't really a negative.


You heard the Genocide Shrines EP yet?


Nope, I'll give it a go. I tend to find these sort ritualistic bands are much better in shorter forms than longer albums.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:44 pm 
 

Silverthorn is really growing on me. It's probably Kamelot's darkest and most hopeless release, and with the most genuine sorrow they've ever had. I still like Khan better (well, in his prime anyway), but this proves that they're a talented band and can do well without him. If they thought this was the best choice, I am siding with them after this album - clearly they know what they are doing.

March of Progress is definitely in my top 3 or 4, along with Hellwell and Pharaoh. Sonata Arctica's is also in there - massively replayable hook-fest.
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Evil_Johnny_666
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:06 pm 
 

Anatomia's Decaying in Obscurity is absolutely gruesome and dark. I'm not sure I heard an album which sounds as much as... death as this one. I mean, it's fucking heavy and pounding, disgusting and morbid. As if you were hearing a musical description of death itself and what does around it. You feel like death is claiming someone's life while listening to this. And with the vocals, it's beyond this world.

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MikeyC
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:54 pm 
 

Evil_Johnny_666 wrote:
Anatomia's Decaying in Obscurity is absolutely gruesome and dark. I'm not sure I heard an album which sounds as much as... death as this one. I mean, it's fucking heavy and pounding, disgusting and morbid. As if you were hearing a musical description of death itself and what does around it. You feel like death is claiming someone's life while listening to this. And with the vocals, it's beyond this world.

Listened to a couple of songs from this and I like it. Should hunt for this if I can.
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percepticide
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:49 am 
 

The new Rings of Saturn is pretty awesome.

Cloudyhead's new album is pretty sweet too.

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ThatzNOTmetaL
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 2:36 pm 
 

Alcest-Les Voyages De L'ame
Cannibal Corpse-Torture
Cattle Decapitation-Monolith Of Inhumanity
Malignancy-Eugencis
Municipal Waste-The Fatal Feast

a few more but these have been some of my favorites of the year

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Kuranes Trevor
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:29 am 
 

The best stuff I've heard this year is the new ones from Aura Noir, Deus Otiosus and Horrendous!

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Vintersorrow
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:50 am 
 

Menace Ruine - Allight in Ashes.

Minblowing.

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SleightOfVickonomy
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:56 am 
 

Loving the new My Dying Bride!

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kapala
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Location: Sweden
PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 7:02 am 
 

lord_ghengis wrote:
Only listened to it once, but I am loving the new Graveyard album, Lights Out. The style remains the same as the last album, but the areas of inconsistency have all been cleaned up. The catchy rock songs that always rocked, the slower blues tracks which used to be tedious are great, and the shorter more hard rocking numbers like "Seven Seven" are all expertly written. The vocals have improved, and the whole sound is excellent and inviting, and the whole thing is super catchy and infectious, I love it.


Agreed. Liking it a lot more than Hisingen Blues (which was still excellent) after a few listens. Kind of a Zeppelin-feel with Lights Out.
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lord_ghengis
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:56 am 
 

Indeed, Hard Time Lovin sounds like something that could have sat on any of LZs biggest albums without raising an eyebrow.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:21 pm 
 

lord_ghengis wrote:
Indeed, Hard Time Lovin sounds like something that could have sat on any of LZs biggest albums without raising an eyebrow.


I love graveyard new album!!!
though hard time lovin is the worst song in the album!

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