Metal Reviews

So the year is coming to a close and it's time for the yearly list. We still have a month and a half so list can be tweaked and rearranged.

My list could be much longer than ten and if your can too please feel free to make a longer list. For the sake of sleep I'm gonna do a list of my top ten and I will add to it tomorrow when I don't have to wake up at 5:30 for work.

1.)Royal Thunder-CVI
2.)Jess and the Ancient Ones-S/T
3.)Woods of Ypres-Grey Skies and Electric Light
4.)Daylight Dies-A Frail Becoming
5.)Orange Goblin-Eulogy For the Damned
6.)Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
7.)Cormorant-Dwellings
8.)Paradise Lost-Tragic Idol
9.)Christian Mistress-Possession
10.)High On Fire-De Vermis Mysteriis

Like I said, this list is incomplete and semi out of order. I will fix and add to it tomorrow.

Also at the end of December we should put our final lists in as our final list.

Thank you and enjoy the making of your list!!!!!

Not sure about the order except for the first couple, but here's my 10 from the year so far. Really everything after the first 3 or 4 is kind of interchangable, position wise.

1) Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
2) Overkill - The Electric Age
3) Napalm Death - Utilitarian
4) Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
5) Hexen - Being and Nothingness
6) Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Ghostmaker
7) Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
8) Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
9) Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression
10) Master - The New Elite

EDIT: Made a conscious choice to make a metal only list.

Thrash, I'd be curious to see your non metal list too if you feel like making it.

In no particular order:

Evoken-Atra Mors
Cattle Decapitation-Monolith of Inhumanity
Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
Unleashed-Odalheim
Pharaoh-Bury the light
Kreator-Phantom Antichrist
Ketzer-Endzeit Metropolis
Burzum-Umskiptar
Om-Advaitic Songs
Panopticon-Kentucky

Runners up: Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Revolting, Denial of God, Beheaded, Behexen, Converge, Mgla, Alcest, Revenge, Blut Aus Nord (Cosmosophy), Skelator, Ea, Dawnbringer, Incantation, Deftones, Dead Can Dance, Execration

Shit of the year: Enslaved, Sigh, Aborted, Katatonia, Accept, Hour of Penance, Liberteer, Castle, Withcraft, The Faceless, Spawn of Possession, Drudkh, Proclamation, 3 inches of shit,

All and all was a better year for picking up reissues, was a mediocre for metal all and all.

Alright...Here's some non-metal I liked from the year so far. Consider this one to be pretty much entirely out of order. Havn't had much time to think about.

1) The Mars Volta - Nocturniquet (Prog)
2) Jack White - Blunderbuss (Rock)
3) Rush - Clockwork Angels (Prog)
4) Dirty Three - Toward the Low Sun (Instrumental Art Rock)
5) Anglagard - Viljans Öga (Prog)
6) Sync 24 - Comfortable Void (Downtempo Electronica)
7) The Flaming Lips - The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Psychedelic Rock)
8) Crippled Black Phoenix - (Mankind) The Crafty Ape (Space Rock)
9) Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls (Southern Rock)
10) Tame Impala - Lonerism (Psychedelic Rock)

Yeah....like I said, haven't really thought about this much. This is basically just 10 albums from this year I enjoyed. Order is arbitrary.

Forgot to add the newest Baroness and Psycraptic to this years pile of shit.

Ahh need to go to bed, but love lists. This will get edited.

1.) Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity.
2.) Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3.) Enabler - All Hail the Void
4.) Panopticon - Kentucky
5.) Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
6.) Om - Advaitic Songs
7.) Burning Love - Rotten Thing To Say
8.) Author & Punisher - Ursus Americanus
9.) Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
10.) Gaza - No Absolutes in Human Suffering

Hmmm I had thought this was a better year for metal than this...

^Forgot to add the new Om and Panopticon to my list.

Shining- redefining darkness
napalm death- utilitarian
ofermod- thaumiel
grave- endless procession of souls
God Seed- I, Begin
Burzum- Umskiptar
Aura Noir- Out To Die
Ihsahn- Eremita
Godspeed you black emperor- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

only 9 but i'll probably add the behexen to that list once i hear it.

pretty much impossible for me to actually make a list only having bought one album released this year and that was Angel Witch - As Above, So Below, a favourite of mine this year

It's too early for me to tell.

Some that may, however, be in the list whenever I come to it :

Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Fiona Apple - The Iddler Wheel
Guillaume Perret & the Electric Epic - ST
Overkill - The Electric Age
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Beardfish - The Void
Rush - Clockwork Angels
John Zorn - The Gnostic Preludes
John Zorn/David Krakauer - Pruflas, Book of Angels volume 18
John Zorn/Moonchild - Templars-In Sacred Blood

Vektor came out November, 2011. Otherwise it would be in my top 2!

Also, man, you should make a metal list and a non-metal list like I did. Just because I'm curious.

Metal:
Ancestors - In Dreams and Time
Overkill - The Electric Age
Hexen - Being and Nothingness
Testament - Dark Roots of Earth
Conan - Monnos
Baroness - Yellow and Green
Accept - Stalingrad
RAM - Death
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Angel Witch - As Above So Below

Non-Metal:
Fiona Apple - The Iddler Wheel
Guillaume Perret & the Electric Epic - ST
Beardfish - The Void
Rush - Clockwork Angels
John Zorn - The Gnostic Preludes
John Zorn/David Krakauer - Pruflas, Book of Angels volume 18
John Zorn/Moonchild - Templars-In Sacred Blood
Swans - The Seer
Dr. John - Locked Down
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill

Does that suit you, TTD?

Yes, awesome!

EDIT: By the way how good was that Dr. John album!! His best in years. I should have included that in my non-metal list for sure. Forgot about it.

Which John Zorn? FYI, he's already released 11 in 2012 and one more should come soon.

Overkill - The Electric Age
Witchcraft - Legend
3 Inches of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal
Overkill - The Electric Age
Tankard - A Girl Called Cerveza
Hexen - Being and Nothingness
Overkill - The Electric Age


Wow, what a shitty year.

wasn't there a new Candlemass this year? hard to see that disappointing

and how is Angel Witch - As Above, So Below being ignored?

Nah, man, I said Dr. John!

I thought you liked the Master album that came out this year.