Metal Reviews

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I knew all the gay pics he posted were of himself!!!

Btw I can't stand job for a cowboy either.

I didn't care for anything they've done before Demonocracy, though I liked a few tracks off Ruination. If you've not heard their new one I'd recommend trying it, you may be surprised.

i heard a single on liquid metal. its ok. they definitely have talent and are a solid band its just my taste doesnt go to deep into straight death metal too often. but thanks for the rec man.

For whatever it's worth, I agree with you. Good album. Not top 10 of the year good, but good nonetheless.

ok this took me over two hours. im gonna break my lists up in categories.

blackish metal-anything remotely black

1.)Ihsahn-Erimita
2.)Absu-Abzu
3.)Anaal Nathrakh-Vanitas
4.)Wodensthrone-Curse
5.)A Forest of Stars-A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
6.)Mgla-With Hearts Toward None
7.)Borknagar-Urd
8.)Agalloch-Faustian Echoes
9.)Enslaved-Riitiir
10.)Panopticon-Kentucky
11.)Burzum-Umskipitar

Rock/Stoner

1.)Royal Thunder-CVI
2.)Jess and the Ancient Ones-Self Titled
3.)Christian Mistress-Possession
4.)The Sword-Apocryphon
5.)Orange Goblin-A Eulogy For The Damned
6.)High on Fire-De Vermis Mysteriis
7.)Bison BC-Lovelessness
8.)Conan-Monnos
9.)Corrosion of Conformity-Self Titled
10.)Mastodon-The Hunter

Doom/Death Doom/Funeral

1.)Ahab-The Giant
2.)Evoken-Atra Mors
3.)Woods of Ypres-Grey Skies and Electric Light
4.)Daylight Dies-A Frail Becoming
5.)Pallbearer-Sorrow and Extinction
6.)Ancestors-In Dreams and Time
7.)Pale Divine-Windows Painted Black
8.)Paradise Lost-Tragic Idol
9.)Samothrace-Reverance in Stone
10.)Bilocate-Summoning the Bygones
11.)Candlemass-Psalms for the Dead

hard to classify/more rock

1.)Cormorant-Dwellings
2.)Midnight-Satanic Royalty
3.)Anathema-Weather Systems
4.)Meshugggah-Koloss
5.)The Gathering-Disclosure
6.)Katatonia-Dead End Kings
7.)Stolen Babies-Naught
8.)Brendan Small-Galakticon
9.)Tiamat-The Scarred People
10.)Kill Devil Hill-Self Titled

Death/Thrash

1.)Barren Earth-The Devil's Resolve
2.)Kreator-Phantom Antichrist
3.)Overkill-The Electric Age
4.)Gojira-L' Enfant Savauge
5.)Cannibal Corpse-Torture
6.)Testament-Dark Roots of Earth
7.)Prong-Carved Into Stone
8.)Binah-Hallucinating in Resurecture
9.)Necrovation-Necrovation
10.)Fear Factory-The Industrailist

whewwww. godamn that took forever. more tweaking needs to be done and some more stuff has to be added to these lists but i made a nice dent in all this music.

btw the worst piece of shit album i bought this year was
Deiphago-Satan Alpha Omega
what a fucking turd.

You forgot a major band in Black/Thrash: fucking Destroyer 666!

EDIT: I quite like you BM list.

Serpente my man, that's an awesome list. You've very good taste. I totally forgot about MGLA in my list, will correct that asap.

Thanks man.

I don't own it yet. So it can't be in my list. These are all albums I own. And quite few were left out cause I have work tomorrow.

Thanks.

Good job, buddy.

As usual the majority of albums I purchased were from previous years. As far as 2012 goes I only have Imaginaerum, Koloss, and Koi No Yokan. I enjoyed all three.

In no specific order and mixing genres(including non metal):

Katatonia - Dead End Kings
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Daylight Dies - a Frail Becoming
Soundgarden - King Animal
Metric - Synthetica
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird
Kamelot - Silverthorn
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania

still looking forward to get a chance to listen to the new Stolen Babies, Rush and Alcest.

Abzu and Satanic Royalty are both 2011 releases, but no worries

Absu was supposed to release Apsu this year...

And I didn't realize that Stolen Babies had put out a new album

you are correct. but i like them so much they will be on next years list too. hehee.

Top 4:

1. Vision Divine - Destination Set to Nowhere (95/100)
2. Rush - Clockwork Angels (85/100)
3. Arjen Lucassen - Lost In The New Real (NQ)
4. Kreator - Phantom Anti-Christ (NQ)

Obviously, I have a lot of catching up to do. I think both Rhapsody bands released a new record that I am in no hurry to hear, really.

I haven't heard nearly as many records as exist that I want to hear eventually this year. In five years my list will be far more accurate. It's a good thing metal can exist outside the timeframe it was written.

^ Nice call on the Kreator.

If you liked the first one Trapt, you will like this one.

Yeah, that Deiphago album was crap. Generic Beherit worship with shitty noise influences throw in, how hacks like that make it big is a testament to how tolerant some of the more vocal black metalheads who enjoy generic black/death metal tolerate mediocrity.