Control Denied - Consumed

Chuck had a feel for the dense, complex rhythms and strange guitar patterns. This is like music made in some 100-year-far future. Pretty out there for metal standards, a lot of things tried, for sure. He's a death metal guy interpreting prog/power in this really quite different way, with all different shades and moods and styles of writing. Very intriguing.

Their first four are untouchable. They were a 70s band that happened to exist in the mid 80s.

Shezmu - A Travers les Lambeaux

« La fièvre les emportera tous, autant les faibles que les grands. Et c’est avec grande joie que la mort triomphera »

« Fever will take them all, as much the weak as the great. With great joy, death will triumph. »

Premium quality death metal from my neck of the woods.

My Dying Bride - The Fever Sea

The artwork and title indicate how this album sounds. I find this a lot more gloomy in a broad melancholic sense, rather than a personalized manner that one could expect of The Angel and the Dark River. Nice to hear some growls again, too.

Grip Inc. - Nemesis

This is cool. Post-thrash metal / post-punk, that sounds very German. 1990's Kreator and Killing Joke crashing together. Must check out the rest of their discography...

Pharaoh - The Year of the Blizzard

Bury the Light is their most colorful and emotional work, the one with the most catharsis, even if I sometimes go for the more melodic complexity of Be Gone or the extreme techy side of Powers That Be... but this one, in the middle of both, does feel so complete and epic, with a real storm of a flow to it all, a lot of poignance and power.

Mortician - Bloodcraving

Perfect band for October!

"Fever Sea" crushes.
They are one of my fav bands and have been since first hearing "Swans" in 1994. Nothing I'd ever heard sounded like it...it is as much prog as it is doom. 'Prog' in the sense of pushing boundaries and doing something new & fresh.

NP, speaking of boundary-pushing artists:
Steven Wilson - "The Harmony Codex"
The title track is mesmerizing.

Denial of God - The Lake in the Woods

Lates album is really good, love the sorrowful feeling.

Antestor- The Forsaken

This is an amazing album. And the album cover is amazing as well.

Shylmagoghrar - "Emergence"
I've no idea how to pronounce the band's name but when the music is this good, who cares?
Beautiful melodeath.

Kiss - Love Gun

Another classic album if slightly less good than Deströyer. There’s still plenty to like here. Those guys are eternal party boys and it’s no wonder why they have/had such a large following.

Devilment - Hitchcock Blonde

This Dani Filth side project sounds like what would have happened if Cradle of Filth progressed further with what they were doing on "Thornography". Whether or not you think that's a good thing is up to you. Not sure this is something I'd wanna listen to all the time but I don't hate it either - catchy, at least. It also makes me even more thankful for those last few COF albums.

Varathron - Crowsreign

Same problem I had with The Lament of Gods, it's too experimental and eclectic for his own good and ends up being unmemorable, the keyboard player is too prominent for my taste.

Dismember - Like an Everflowing Stream

This is almost like a blueprint for classic DM... just a lot of crunchy, barraging riffs and beastly, nasty vocal work. Pretty great.

Shores of Ladon Durch die Augen des Raben

Man what song!!!!

Jewel

Blut Aus Nord - Day of Revenge (The Impure Blood of Theirs)

Revenge's day has come! Let's spill the blood of the bastard!!!

It doesn't get much better than this.


I need to revisit some My Dying Bride. My absolute favourite is The Angel and the Dark River, but I also haven't really given the later albums a good chance, except for The Dreadful Hours.

Dark Funeral - Ravenna Strigoi Mortii

Ineffable kings of norsecore.
Really though, they're a lot of fun.

W.A.S.P. - Kill, Fuck Die

This is actually killer. Industrial overtones for sure, but Blackie's riffs and melodies are still there.
'The Horror' is some scary shit.

Pantera - Mouth for War

Probably my favorite Pantera cut. Just love how that main riff moves.

Wasp The headless children title track

That bass

Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)

This might be my nr 1 favourite doom song of all time. It's up there with classic Sabbath.

Exhumed - Necromaniac (live)

From the Ultimate Death Revenge album. It sounds awful but the raw energy is there.

Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere

Powerful, torrential melding of guitar riffs, leads, furious drums - a maelstrom of a fuckin DM album.

Todays workday spings

Necrot - Blood Offerings - I need to get the next one as this album scratches most of my itches when it comes to death metal. Catchy bludgeoning songs.

Saor - Origins - Man I love this album. It takes me on a journey. A nice mix of folk and black metal.

Mortal is even better in my opinion…

Now listening Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels

What bang

Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle

An amazing debut. Like Children Of Bodom 2.0

Juggernaut - Baptism Under Fire

I love this nasty little piece of work. Technical but super dirty.

Moonlight Sorcery - Suden tie (Wolven Hour pt. II)



This isn't far off, especially if we're talking COB circa "Something Wild" due to the very clear meloblack elements (though there's more of it on this album than on SW... which makes sense since their EPs are basically straight up symphonic/melodic black metal). Very good stuff!

Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant

The down n dirty doom n death is so fuckin strong in this one. Which explains why I like it a lot.

Bolt Thrower - Zeroed

followed by:

Amorphis - The Way

Strange but great two-song-combo that hit me this morning.

Judas Priest - Judas Rising

Way to make a comeback and start an album. Angel of Retribution is pretty decent effort even beyond this song.

Awesome album and it's got one of my favorite songs on it Worth Fighting For.

NP: Earth Crisis - Gomorrah's Season Ends

Their 2nd album and it's another kick ass collection of tunes. If this thing had solos it would be on MA for sure.

Car stereo: Black Sabbath - The Sabbath Stones

Super cool compilation of Ozzyless Sabbath songs.

Root - Zjeveni

Amazingly fully realized even on their debut album. This is just so creative with the songwriting, truly unpredictable and with that morbid atmosphere. Great, thundering, innovative riffs. What a band!

Torture Rack - Fucked by Death

Portland's answer to Autopsy, it seems. Punky and primitive death metal. I have no problem with this.

Dokken - Back for the Attack

Long, long album, but some sweet songs.

I will be picking that up. I have heard it but wanted to start grabbing the vinyl from the start.




I think AoR has a ton of really strong tracks and that is one. Still my favorite reunion album.

Emperor Anthems

A perfect album

Darkthrone Total Death

Near unholy trilogy level

Sunless - Ylem

Saw these guys open for Thantifaxath yesterday and was very impressed. For fans of Gorguts.Thantifaxath was incredible too.

Fear of God - Zeitgeist 2xLP

Noisecore at it's finest