As an IE fanboy, If I Could See You is probably the worst. I can dig I Died For You. I can dig Watching Over Me. I can even tolerate When the Eagle Cries. But If I Could See You just does absolutely nothing for me.

Pontus Hultgren - Setzer's Theme

This guy does some pretty amazing Final Fantasy covers. Highly recommended if you are into old game songs being redone with a bit of a fresh sound.

Watching Over You has a pretty solid solo, but the rest of the song is lame. I Died For You is ok, but it's not Melancholy.


King Crimson- I Talk To The Wind

Mist of Misery - "Hymn To Silence" from Fields of Isolation


Ashamed of myself for sleeping on this release for as long as I did. Phenomenal record.

Iluno (by Adhur) from (2001) Triarchy Of Vasconia - Iluntasunaren Itzulera:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Aiumeen_Basoa_-_Ilbeltz/Triarchy_of_Vasconia/166363


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Naglfar - Horncrowned Majesty

Sounds nice.

Dead World - El Shaddi

Godflesh's groovier cousin with one of the most underrated Industrial Metal albums!

Razor - Violent Restitution

Either it's just me, or no one talks about Razor! Heavy as shit!

Virgin Steele - Veni, Vidi, Vici

Absolutely, totally glorious.

Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting

Absolute heavy metal perfection.

I was just listening to this! That part toward the end where the instruments drop out and there's the cheering crowd... almost makes me tear up. Glory!

NP: Saint Vitus - "Ice Monkey".
Weird song with some cool lead guitar.

Melechesh-Triangular Tattvic Fire

Ok, this is without a doubt my favorite Melechesh song. Fucking hell everything about it is incredible. Those blistering riffs and Proscriptor just having a ton of fun on the kit, and the RIFFS. AGHHH.

No one talks about them, but Evil Invaders is the better record. Violent Restitution is a bit samey.

Dio- One Night In The City

Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénérescence

It's amazing how if Sally Famine didn't have the controversy around him, Peste Noire would be another mediocre black metal band. I'm failing to see how this album is supposed to be significant in any way.

Cool! Now, go ahead and keep us informed.



(2016) Saor - Guardians.
His best one?

Panopticon - "(Cowering) At The Foot Of The Mountain" from The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (I and II)

Wrapping up my first listen of this monolith of an album. So much depth to the first hour which leads into a simply stripped down, remarkable second hour of Americana. As a whole this release is greater than each of the individual parts. Such an intelligent work, and something that I look forward to revisiting several times more just to find all of the things I overlooked on my first journey.

Kreator- Gods of Violence

I need more time.

(2013) Saor - Roots.
I prefer his folkier side.

Edit: (2010) Ilbeltz - Auskan Gabiltz Olatun Gainian:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ilbeltz/Auskan_gabiltz_olatun_gainian_%281598_Potrobizargorri_I%29/275225


Basque pirates! Yeah!

Porcupine Tree - Even Less

Amazing stuff.

Sacrilege -Fifth Season. Another forgotten swedish brilliant death metal combo.

Summoning - With Doom I Come

Ok album, not to much that sticks out though.

Porcupine Tree - Lips of Ashes

Heartbreaking.

Judicator - King of Rome

One of the best bands in the US metal scene! They're like the American Blind Guardian. Very consistent and deserves more recognition for their awesome work.

Deafheaven - Honeycomb

DEAFHEAVEN JUST RELEASED A NEW SONG AND IT'S FUCKING AMAZING

Scorched - Excavated For Evisceration

some sick death metal, 20 Buck Spin is killing it this year

Seasons of the Wolf - Last Act of Defiance
What a beast album!!

Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of Dying Sun
Love this so much..

Pierre Boulez - Œuvres complètes [Compilation]
Insane 13 hours Modern Classical!

Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Another classics death metal album that I'll never forget..

I really like it, as well. To me, they are the gold standard for the "Post-black" sound. There is such a quick over saturation of the style already, but no one has "found it" like them (yet, imo)

Malice- In the Beginning...

An incredibly meh USPM album. I utterly love "Air Attack" (maybe because I'm a shameless Judas Priest fanboy?), but the rest of this album otherwise varies from bland to boring.

Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation

So mighty. So crushing.

I just jammed two Anaal Nathrakh albums which were Hell Is Empty and All The Devils Are Here and Vanitas. Both albums were excellent and I really can't wait for the group to come out with some new material.

It's good, but to me feels a bit overlong. ''Emalaith'' is probably their best epic number.

NP: Immortal - Mountains of Might

Each riff sounds like a cold gust blowing in your face.

Shudder Before The Beautiful is pretty good in my opinion.

Running Wild- Calico Jack

Sodom- In The Final Sign of Evil

Sounds pretty damn good, I just wish some Obsessed By Cruelty tracks were recorded for this. That album has an atrocious sound, and not the good kvlt kind either.

The Chasm - A Dream of an Astral Spectrum (To an Eternal Hate)

The disturbing atmosphere of this album reminds me a bit of The Red in the Sky is Ours era AT The Gates. I dig it; doesn't seem to be as busy sounding as their latter material.

(1997) Windir - Sóknardalr.
Never cared much about this band.

Leviathan - The Bitter Emblem of Dissolve

Well, damn.

Hate Meditation - The Genocide March

Reminds me of Choronzon, especially the vocals.

Paradise Lost - Permanent Solution

From their Depeche Mode era. A billion percent different from the early and later parts of their career, but then again, I've always been fascinated by the mid-periods of all these 90s-borne gothic/death-doom bands where they started getting really into electronica and synthpop.

And all of them they did a great job there, from Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride to Moonspell, Morgoth and Tiamat.

Theatre of Tragedy also had a really great middle electronica period. They're the band I always think of when that kind of style change comes to mind.

Rush - 2112

Probably my favorite song intro. My Rush kick is winding down I think but not totally yet. I could listen to Neil Peart drum all day long.