Ea - Laeleia.

THIS IS AWESOME. Funeral Doom really makes my day.

Symphony X - Iconoclast

Stand and FIGHT!!

Virgin Steele - By the Hammer of Zeus (and the Wrecking Ball of Thor)

Samael - Crown

Helloween - Future World
So cheesy, but I can't resist it from time to time.

Kronos - Colossal Titan Strife

Very melodic for brutal death metal, indeed. Very enjoyable too.

This...actually sounds a lot less shit than I remember it sounding years ago. I just might check this out in more detail.

NP: Kraanium - "Choking on Rectal Discharge"
The murky guitar tone...

Hey, at least we might have one thing in common then!

Nox Arcana - Night of the Wolf

If another Legacy of Kain video game is ever released, Nox Arcana should compose the soundtrack. They're made for each other.

encoffination: annunciation of the viscera

Vader - Only Hell Knows

Recently I've gotten Asphyx's 'Deathhammer' and their 'Live Death Doom' supercompilation. Not long before this I had 'found' this band as was just blown away by 'Death...The Brutal Way'. Man, what an album, and this coming from an oldtimer; a conservative, Priest, Maiden, Sabbath, Running Wild, Grave Digger fan whose most "extreme" moments might be likeing Sodom or Kreator, Celtic Frost or Coroner. Yeah, I know, stuck in the 80s.
Anyway, 'D...tBW' was awesome, right up in my wheelhouse as some might say. And one thing I really liked, apart from the other things that clicked, was the production; just perfect for my stereo system. But the two albums I just got are nearly aweful when it comes to those same production values. My car stereo equalizer, which is always nearly flat except for one upper treble adjustment needs to be radically positioned on both these albums. The lower end, especially on the live album gets a pretty solid boost but it is the upper midrange and lower treble that needs an amazing, to me (with 700 CDs in my collection), adjustment towards to lesser end. Something I don't think I've ever had to do before in such a radical fasion except in the case of bootleg recordings.

Katatonia - Tomb of Insomnia

When art meets real life.

The Black League "Utopia A.D."

Cannibal Corpse - As Deep As The Knife Will Go. Best song off torture. Those triplets!

Listening to Torture right now myself. What a great album! Intestinaaaaal...CRAAAAAAANK!

Mistress - Hell is other people

The truth of that Mistress song title is quite apt...

Moss - Skeletal Keys

Fucking hell! Sloooowww, fucked up, monolithic speaker destroying desolation.

[quote="CrushedRevelation"]The truth of that Mistress song title is quite apt...

Unfortunately yes..

Machetazo - Garrote vil

That album sounds great.

NP: Dream Theater - Afterlife

Quite riffy as far as Dream Theater goes. Pretty decent stuff.

Grand Magus - The Lord Of Lies

This band is fucking phenomenal.

Black Breath - Razor to Oblivion

I ordered both of their albums and their EP. So far just the EP has arrived, and I'm loving it - the tone is crushing, the songs are memorable, and the riffs are tasty as hell.

Rwake- Absence Due to Projection

love that song...the vocals sound so tortured on that song.

Ahab- Below the Sun

Septicflesh - Magic Loves Infinity

I think I lost count as to how many times I've spun this album.

Paradise Lost - The Last Fallen Saviour

Groovy but just like most material on the new record really average at best.

Bathory - Twilight of the Gods

I've never understood artistic significance of that little epileptic-seizure which seems to happen to the bass just before the solo, but It's definitely a distinct part of an epic song.

asphyx: last one on earth

for some reason i missed this band and just now have gotten around to listening to them. I really think this is some classic stuff and and am glad i finally checked them out. i like this album better than the rack but by a hair.

In A Deeper World - Borknagar.

Great, great stuff.

Rage "Black in Mind"

Sonata Arctica - I Have a Right

Catchy as hell.

Iron Maiden – Aces High

nuff said

The Afternoon Gentlemen - Get Fucked.

I feel suddenly drawn towards grindcore, I wonder where this is going to take me.

Eumeria - Rebel Mind

Guess this style of progressive metal is a bit too over the top for me.

Oh, they released that song already?

Katatonia - Without God

Am I the only one who thinks the harsh vocals are half-assed here? If they had more meat to them, they'd work a lot better.

Steel Prophet - Dreamer Deceiver (Judas Priest cover)

Man, this is a great cover (especially considering how difficult it is to cover Priest without making a fool of yourself). And Mythiasin reigns supreme, as always. Guy nails down the vocal performance to a T, not something many singers could presume when it comes to a song like this one.

Falls of Rauros - Retracing Our Lineage

Dragged into Sunlight - Boiled Angel/Buried with Leeches

Mother of fuck.

Type O Negative - Christian Woman

A serene song. I enjoy the contemplative aspect of listening to things like this - It reminds me that my taste in metal has evolved so much, gotten much more broad, and I'm just enjoying the ride through the music.

Nice! He raped that really high note part. i'd put that particular moment on par with Halford.

Katatonia - Nerve

Why does it seem like all the death/doom pioneers went on to do gothic/atmospheric rock? They still made great stuff, but this is getting weird.