Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Best ofs :)

2009 - extreme metal

1.Goatwhore – Apocalyptic Havoc
(From the album Carving Out The Eyes of God)

The opening riff is one of the most unabashed kick ass riffs I’ve heard all year and this song just makes me want to bang my head. Awesome opener from a great album.

2.Sacrifice – Tetragrammaton
(From the album The Ones I Condemn)

The comeback album of the year and the bands best by a long way. This song is awesome mid pace thrash metal.

3.Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
(From the album time waits for no slave)

It’s Napalm like they’ve always been but also just a little bit better than the last couple of albums.

4.Earth Crisis – To Ashes
(From the album To the Death)

Metal-core in the truest sense of the word. Earth Crisis will kick your head in.

5.Vomitory – Serpents
(From the album Carnage Euphoria)

Old school death metal done superbly

6.Hearse – The Moth
(From the album Single Ticket to Paradise)

This band does not get enough love. Awesome guitar work on this song and Liiva’s vocals have never sounded this good.

7.Martyrdod – Gloria Runt Iris
(From the album Sekt)

Another band that seems to exist only to cause aural carnage. Fantastic.

8.Immortal – Rise of Darkness
(From the album All Shall fall)

Spoke too soon about the Sacrifice. This is probably the comeback of the year)

9.Marduk – Funeral Dawn
(From the album Wormwood)

Marduk has grown in leaps and bounds over the last two albums and this song is pretty much the pinnacle of the new Marduk)

10. - A Sutra of Wounds
(From the album Resplendent Grotesque)

It’s been a great year for extreme metal bands with a slight black metal touch and ’s album has been on my play list all year round.

11.Wolves in the Throne Room – A Looming Resonance
(From the ep Malevolent Grain)

Getting the chick from Hammers of Misfortune to sing over the band’s sludgy black metal was a masterstroke.

12.Anaal Nathrakh – More of Fire than Blood
(From the album In the Constellation of the Black Widow)

Just when I thought I’d be getting a cleaner less dangerous Nathrakh, these two fellows pulled out all the stops and showed off a perfect exercise in brutality. Just awesome from start to finish.


2009 – Sludge, stoner and other heavy shit

1.Giant Squid – Dead Man’s Slough

(From the album The Ichthyologist)

More Tom Waits sounding that sludge but awesome song from a fantastic album)

2.A Storm of Light – Midnight
(From the album Forgive Us Our Trespasses)

Call it whatever you want to but this band blew my mind with their mix of post metal, Neurosis inspired sludge and total Euro doom worship. Awesome shit.

3.16 – Man Interrupted
(From the album Bridges to Burn)

Sludgy heavy goodness.

4.Coalesce – Wild Ox Moan
(From the album Ox)

Down and dirty delta blues done in the band’s very own apocalyptic hardcore style. One of my favourite songs this year from any genre.

5.Keelhaul – THC for One
(From the album Triumphant Return to Obscurity)

The more I heard this album the more I liked it till the liking became a deep love and left me in awe

6.Taint – Black Rain
(From the ep All Bees to the Sea)

Awesome. Never been a fan but this little ep blew my mind

7.Minsk – Three Moons
(From the album Echoes in the Movement of Stone)

This band is getting better and better with every release and the new album is an absolute killer.

8.Kongh – Voice of the Below
(From the album Shadows of the Shapeless)

Kongh just upped the level of their game this year. The album is a monster and this song is brilliant.

9.Salome – With Hell for a Mouth
(From the split album with Thou called Our Enemy Civilisation)

Two of my favourite sludge bands got together this year for a split album that’s been blowing my mind. This is Salome at their best.

10.Gaza – The Meat of a Leg Joint
(From the album He is Never Coming Back)

Second album and this band have already come up with an album that is very very close to being an absolute classic. Fantastic stuff.

11.Cable – The Failed Convict
(From the album The Failed Convict)

Cable’s new album is just a master class in post hardcore sludge songwriting. Must must listen.

12.Shrinebuilder – Blind for all to See
(From the album Shrinebuilder)

This song is driven by Al Cisneros’s bass groove and has a terrific jammy feel pretty much like the entire album.

13.Thou – The Song of Illuminate Darkness
(From the split with Salome called Our Enemy Civilisation)

More awesomeness from Thou. Maybe more melodic than before and probably even more awesome than anything they’ve done before.

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