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Prosaic (LP)
MIZMOR
I’m going to cheat a little bit, as of this writing there is only 1 song for preview but it sounds great! I am sure the rest of this album is going to be just as good.
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Penetralia [reissue] (LP)
HYPOCRISY
So, Hypocrisy finally gets around to reissuing their back catalog [ including “Osculum Obscenum”, “The Fourth Dimension” and “Abducted]. Penetralia is classic Swedish death metal with heavy doses of anti christianity but by the time they get to “Abducted” they get a bit weirder and more into futurism/sci-fi. Don’t get me wrong, Hypocrisy kept their brutality and both feet planted firmly in death metal through out their 30 year career. If you are not familiar with this band, start with this reissue and work your way forward.
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Aborted From Reality (LP)
STATIC ABYSS
They’re back…and boy do they deliver another excellent slab of metal with both doom and death influence. Great nightmarish atmosphere, ear hook riffs and killer vocals. What more could you ask for.
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Sky Bvrial (LP)
CONCILIUM
Nauseating black metal riffs, beastial drumming, gut churning voices and high on atmosphere, Concilium created a monster of an album.
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Evenfall Of The Apocalypse (LP)
ASCENDED DEAD
Vicious sounding semi chaotic death metal that barely sounds controlled. An excellent release and another one of my favorites for the year.
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Iniquitous Barbarie Synthesis (LP)
IMPETUOUS RITUAL
Otherworldy metal that shares members of Portal and Grave Upheaval. This is a kind of ritual inducing black metal that you can easily get lost in.
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Black Flame Eternal (LP)
CLOAK
This band plays a great mixture of black, goth and synth metal that is easy to digest and leaves you feeling satisfied. Don’t get me wrong, there is genuine darkness, aggression and sincerity of all things metal to be found on this album, as well as cohesion and strong song composition without scarfing the flame of metal. Two horns up!
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Upal (LP)
KOSTNATENI
Unique avant-garde black metal with twist and turns, brutal and beautiful, conventions that have been broken are to be found in these tracks that make up Upal. Top tier multifaceted musicianship abounds and another great album for my best of the year list.
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Purge (LP)
GODFLESH
Pioneering industrial metal icons are back with a new album, buy this, ok.
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Alfold (LP)
THY CATAFALQUE
An ever evolving music project, Thy Catafalque’s approach to making metal that reaches beyond easy genre defining boundaries, and succeeds on this particular album. Most musicians have a hard time combing such desperate elements like folk, electronic and metal into a recipe that works. If you’re looking for a metal album to help cleanse palate, that still has enough aggression and metal to be metal. Look no further.
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Caverns Of Occult Hatred (LP)
VILE RITUAL
Guitars that feel suffocating, guttural vocals, thick drums buried in some kind of sludge while being projected from a cave...it’s that good.
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All Hell’s Breaking Loose (LP)
RAVEN
NWOBH rockers Raven {5 Decades and 15 albums!} created one enjoyable album. Hints of thrash and a dash of speed metal make this one ferocious rocking album. Our amps go to 11.
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P.R.I.S.M. (LP)
SUTEKH HEXEN & FUNERARY CALL
Serious sonic atmosphere nightmare inducing spectrums of black metal that is expressed in a massive cocoon of experimental miasma and mystical passages. Powerful and ritualistic, this is an impressive collaboration and an album that is hypnotically stunning. I am simply blown away by P.R.I.S.M and this also goes into my best of the year list.
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Trisect Joy Of Pierced Hearts (LP)
LUCIFIXION
This is an excellent slab of Black Metal that delivers all the goods and then some.
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Being (LP)
BAABA MAAL
Yet another album that is going on my best of the year list. Incredible Senegalese musician that delivers us a fusion of both familiar music and unfamiliar, mixed in elements of groove, pop and desert rock that has helped open new musical ideas and possiblities. This music speaks to ones heart as well as ones ears. It is transformative and healing as well as something that you can simply enjoy for the infectious bass lines and subwoofer shaking rhythms.
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Water Witches (CD)
Rainforest Spiritual
One of Dominick Fernow’s many many experimental projects. Similar to his main alias, Prurient, the RSE makes gritty industrial-noise themed around jungles and witchcraft. It’s equally spooky as it is intense. This box set contains the band’s first several EPs that were initially only released on cassette. It was very exciting to see that it got a proper CD release complete with excellent packaging. It’s everything a Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement fan could ask for.
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Chronology (CD)
Chapterhouse
A wonderful collection of (almost) everything Chapterhouse put out in their short tenure. This thing packs in both their studio albums, their 3 EPs, various demos, and a variety of songs from miscellaneous releases. It’s everything a Chapterhouse fan could ask for.
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Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (CD)
Pauline Oliveros
An insanely dense collection of Pauline’s weird computer music compositions. Consisting of 11 discs worth of material, it’s everything a Pauline Oliveros fan could ask for.
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Meteora20 (Other)
Linkin Park
Celebrating the 20th birthday of this classic. There’s multiple versions of this release but if you’re gonna pick one, I’d go big and get the super deluxe version; 5 LPs, 4 CDs, 4 DVDs, a 40 page book, and copious other little goodies. It’s everything a Linkin Park fan could ask for.
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Space, Energy & Light (Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88) (CD)
Various
A phenomenal collection of primitive electronica and new age deep cuts from some criminally underrated artists. Once again Soul Jazz has outdone themselves.
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