^ Great album. Same with Kentucky.

March Into The Sea - Before I Sleep

Not sure I'm liking it, the best thing about this band seems to be the name.

My new CD: Mutiilation - vampires of black imperial blood

Can't lie, this kicks ass.

Candlemass - Bewitched

I really need to check this album out. For some reason I just keep putting it off but from what people say it's amazing.

Black September - Solitude

Sonata Arctica – The Cage

while i have listened to this album numerous times and appreciate it for its unique spin on the black metal genre, i just cannot get behind it. it is definitly something i think each persons needs to decide for themselves if they are in to it or not. i guess i fall in the "not" camp.

mysticum: streams of inferno

boris - leviathan

Stygian - Cremation

I hope this CD isn't too hard for me to find.

Invocator - weave the apocalypse

Holy crap, those riffs! The vocals may be a little redundant, but it by no means dampens the effect of the music.

What haters? I've never heard hate for that album.

Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity

Hmm, looks like this album will be getting into my top 10 this year, maybe. Loving it more and more.

this album has the merit of being the first Cattle Decapitation that I liked. it's pretty good but I feel it's being overly praised

np: skepticism - march october

I have heard only very little Cattle Decapitation before this one, so I can't compare it to their previous stuff, but this is very nice on its own, in my opinion.

Sacred Reich: Independent

The Slow Death - Reclaimed By Dust

And thus their tiny discography comes to a close.
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Theocracy - Ichthus

Alright! I've been waiting for these guys to show up!

Dissona - Illumination

Huge leap from first play to second - grown on me a lot. Epic, eclectic and original prog metal...cool shit.

Silence - vision

*last sold ebay listing: 800 dollars

I found this going through the recently sold, crazy priced listings, of some ebay seller who sold a gorement - the ending quest CD (maybe it was a differently listed CD than the one the gorement guy sold, I don't really know).
Pretty lucky that I happened upon this band. No one's ever going to tell you about crazy rare stuff like this. You have to find the really good stuff. But who spends 800 dollars on a CD though, anyway?
I gotta hear this entire album, and get it on my iPod. That'll be cool.

ISIS - Weight

Jammed with a couple buddies today and started writing a song with sort of ISIS/tool feel except more heavy like old ISIS but more progressive/complex. Made a couple bad ass bass riffs.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Before: Encoffination - O' Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres

Think of Incantation's slower sections stretched out into a whole album with more church bell. Welcome to Encoffination. A winner in my books. There's very little speed to show off here, but just some great, slow-pounding death metal, bordering on death/doom. Would love for Encoffination to continue this sort of style on future albums. Dare I say...play even slower? That would be epic.

Now: Undergang - Til Doden Os Skiller

Ah, Undergang. A part of the recent dirty death metal revival but they manage to stand out from the pack. No, they don't do anything different, but they don't fuck around, bombarding you with riffs and killer drumming. Just as good as their first album (although that one may be just a touch better).

Encoffination have done a split with the feral, bestial beast that is Grave Upheaval too Mikey, and is great stuff.

Necros Christos - Descending into the Kingly Tomba

It has taken me quite some time to unveil the darkness within this colossal beast. The Gates and interludes can be irritating (and I hate saying that about a NC record), but with repeated listens it has yielded it's obfuscated secrets, with some astoundingly atmospheric and carefully crafted occult death/doom - with this, the closing track shining like a sickly yellow beacon in the dense, fog laden land of the dead.

*searches MA* So they have. I also see they released an EP this year that has slipped my radar. Must get!

Slayer : Show No Mercy

HELL YEAH!
Shit got real with that album.

TORMENTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!

Aggression - Viocracy

Big surprise packet for me! MoshPirit was more of a fun thrashing album with songs to drink beer to. Viocracy shows more of their serious side with a darker feel. A coming-of-age for this young Spanish thrash band. I do feel I'll be spinning this one a lot more than MoshPirit.

Emperor - The Burning Shadows of Silence

I don't normally listen to much Emperor - I can't get into it the same way I got into the other "entry-level" black metal bands. I'm enjoying the song, granted, but I still feel I'm missing the point somehow - I'd venture to say that they're overrated, if I wasn't fairly certain that the it's just me.

Mion's Hill - Festering Curses

Fenriz' band of the week. Cool shit.

Kataklysm - A view from inside

I like the bass in this song.

Emperor never "clicked' with me the same way their contemporaries did. I enjoy Wrath of The Tyrant and ITNSE sometimes, but that's it.

np:Katatonia - Brave

not as good as Dance of December Souls, but still a damn good album. this song rules

Mayhem - Chimera

It's actually not bad, although I think nowadays my mind constitutes it to be a side-project Blasphemer had while he wasn't doing Aura Noir stuff.

Sentenced - Epic

Man, I wish more bands did this kind of ''throw everything in a blender and see what comes out'' melodic death metal. It's kinda messy and wild but at the same time really keeps things interesting.

Woods of Ypres - Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth

Zao- "The Icarus Complex"

According to EM, Zao isn't metal. I say bullshit.

Theocracy - I Am

Epic build-up, infectious vocal lines, masterful instrumentation, AND thoughtful lyrics as the cherry on top? Sign me right the fuck up!

Father befouled - Christless Mass

Sirius - The Stargate

This album always makes my head spin. Phenomenal, and the symphonic elements actually ADD to the integrity of the music, rather than just act as lazy filler. Just an all-around winner.

EDIT: Also, this was a FREE extra that was included in an online order I made a while ago. SCORE!

Windir - Journey to the End

Threshold - Opium

Decided to skip straight to Subsurfance because because.

Listening to the new Neurosis.

Threshold - Colophon

One of my favorites off the new one. Hypnotic beauty. "Did you do all the things that you WANTED TO DO?"

Katatonia - Without God

You could basically hear how Lord Seth's rage was building up before he'd release it with that venomous spitting at the end. Amazing.