Liturgy - Aesthethica

*Year : 2011

*Country : USA

*Genre : (Transcendental) Black Metal

Tracklist :  

1. High Gold
2. True Will
3. Returner
4. Generation
5. Tragic Laurel
6. Sun Of Light
7. Helix Skull
8. Glory Bronze
9. Veins Of God
10. Red Crown
11. Glass Earth
12. Harmonia

*******

Total playing time : 1.05.36

Comment:

Modern, solar, intense and innovative Black Metal. If you're a defender of trve black Metal, this is not for you (maybe in some years). But if you're open minded enough it'll interest you. In any case Liturgy won't let you indifferent. I let you watch an excellent review by Anthony Fantano

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Breach - Kollapse

*Year : 2001

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Punk-Post-hardcore, Post Rock

Tracklist :  

1. Big Strong Boss
2. Old Ass Player
3. Sphincter Ani
4. Alarma
5. Lost Crew
6. Alarma
7. Breething Dust
8. Mr. Marshall
9. Seven
10. Murder Kings and Killer Queens
11. Kollapse

*******

Total playing time : 31.00

Comment:

Something new, creative and a little more human in a Hardcore scene that doesn't interest me at all. The final offering of Breach is honestly a revelation, a masterpiece. If I could, I would force all visitors of this blog to listen to this album. Essential...


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Oathbreaker - Mælstrøm

*Year : 2011

*Country : Belgium

*Genre : A mix between Black Metal and Hardcore...

Tracklist :  

1. Orgin
2. Hierophant

3. Fate Is High

4. Sink Into Sin - I

5. Sink Into Sin - II

6. Thoth

7. Black Sun

8. Glimpse Of The Sun

9. Maelstrom

*******

Total playing time : 31.00

Comment:

Very good 2011's discovery, and the presence of a female singer is still unusual in this kind of music. I advise you to watch the video clip.

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Yacopsae - Einstweilige Vernichtung

*Year : 2001

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Fastcore/Blastcore/ Powerviolence

Tracklist :  

1. Internetejakulator
2. Feinbild
3. Blutrausch
4. Drehzahlficker
5. Faustrecht

6. Nichts

7. Sprengstoff
8. Slachtfest

9. Ziegenschadel
10. Homunkulus
11. Nihilist
12. Apokalypsae
13. Beziehungskiste
14. Autopsie

15. Seuchenherd

16. Fadenkreuz
17. Asozial
18. Verwesungsprozess

19. Kamikaze
20. Iltifatlar
21. Mikrokosmos
22. Molekularzerhacker
23. Hippiepest

24. Gaskammer
25. Fleisch
26. Arschlocher
27. Schweinegott
28. Granatenkopf
29. Uberlebenschance
30. Spiesser
31. Rucklaufsyndrom
32. Dunkelziffer
33. Aasfresser
34. Ghetto
35. Zerstorung
36. Maskiert
37. Slapahampogo

*******

Total playing time : 20:31

Comment:

KRIEG!

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Mescalin Massacre - Liquid, Soma

*Year : 2011

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Industrial Black Metal

Tracklist :  

1. Introduction of LSD 25
2. Trip 1 - The Beginning of the Ending
3. Trip 2 - Metamorphosis of the Sphere 

4. Trip 3 - Calls From the Otherworld 

5. Trip 4 - Decompostion of the Mind

6. Outroduction: Never 

*******

Total playing time : 20.40

Comment:

It's rough and druggy but in the same time methodical, repetitive and industrial; The kind of music that crush your brain. Personally I like the noise, psychedelic, complex and strange side of this concept. But it's still rather abstract...

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Asunder - A Clarion Call

*Year : 2004

*Country : USA

*Genre : Funeral Doom/Death Metal

Tracklist :  

1 Twilight Amaranthine
2 Crown of Eyes
3 A Clarion Call

*******

Total playing time : 40.17

Comment:

Monumental, majestic, refined ... qualifiers aren't lacking to define this impression of omnipresent power. A solitary violin opens the album with a mournful sadness, then moved a foggy, morbid and epic atmosphere. Haunting Funeral Doom with mesmerizing melodies for fans of Skepticism and Disembowlement.
An indisputable reference.

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The Gault - Even as All Before Us

*Year : 2004

*Country : USA

*Genre : Doom, Post Metal, and much more

Tracklist :  

1 Ire (Intro)
2 Obliscene
3 Bright white blind
4 County road, six miles in
5 Outer dark
6 The shore becomes the enemy
7 Hour Before Dawn

*******

Total playing time : 1.13.33

Comment:

This is the single album of a deceased band. This music is a cruise in a kind of progressive metal, navigating between dirty doom, ultra obscure post-rock (remind me Neurosis), the breaks are almost drone and the atmospheres stinks the end of the world. The atmosphere! The word is out! Behind this musical recount, the post-rock and dilapidated side of theire music, The Gault offer an icy and iced music, on the bottom frankly near to Dolorian. I would say that The Gault is for the Doom what In the Wood is for the Black Metal.

Download it, buy, but above all, listen to it.

 

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Herder - Herder

*Year : 2011

*Country : Netherland

*Genre : Stoner Doom/Sludge

Tracklist :  

1. F.O.A.D. (Intro)
2. Waster
3. Come Now Fire
4. Fernweh
5. The Foul Year
6. We Shall All Suffer From What The Gods Have Given To Us
7. Heading South
8. Haywire
9. Sons Of Thunder
10. Blood Faith Growth

*******

Total playing time : 38.00

Comment:

A great Rough Doom'n Roll mixing the hatred of sludge and the heaviness of Doom. It's Heavy, it's Rough, it's Herder. Very very good first album, a pleasant 2011 surprise!

(Herder is closely related to Urfaust, it also explains la resemblance with Einsidler's cover...)

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Goatsnake - 1 & Dog

*Year : 2004

*Country : USA

*Genre : Stoner Doom

Tracklist :  

1. Slippin' The Stealth

2. Innocent

3. What Love Remains

4. IV

5. Mower

6. Dog Catcher 

7. Lord Of Loz Feliz

8. Trower

9. The Orphan 

10. Long Gon

11. Heartbreaker 

12. Raw Curtains

13. Man Of Light 

14. Who Are You (Black Sabbath cover)

15. Knucklebuster

*******

Total playing time : 01.16.32 

 

       

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Kypck - Nizhe

*Year : 2011

*Country : Finland

*Genre : Soviet Doom Metal

Tracklist :  

1. Гифарус (Gifarus)
2. После (After)
2. Аллея Сталина (The Alley of Stalin)
4. Чужой (Stranger)
5. Фелица (Felitsa)
6. Разрыв (Rupture)
7. Бурлаки На Волге (Burlaks on the Volga) 

8. Бардак (Brothel)

9. Товарищам (Comrades)

10. Вальс Смерти (Death Waltz)

*******

Total playing time : 57.16

 

Comment: 

An interesting and largely unexplored theme, an original singing, harrowing compositions. Above all, the album has really a stylistic unity, between a rough and wintry doom, and some raised parts, more slow and atmospheric. Slow rhythms, heavy guitars and serious, the voice of Seppänen is still captivating with his inimitable voice's tone and his Russian song.

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Laudanum - The Coronation

*Year : 2009

*Country : USA

*Genre : Sludge/Doom Metal, Noise

Tracklist :  

1. Procession
2. Invoke
2. In Obscura
4. Wooden Horse
5. Autumn Ghost
6. The Last Sleep
7. Apotheosis

*******

Total playing time : 49.19
 

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Nether Regions - Into the Breach

*Year : 2011

*Country : USA

*Genre : Psychedelic/Stoner Doom

Tracklist :  

1. Into the Breach/Spanish Werewolves

2. Do You Live?

3. Your Name Is Madness

4. Pale Faced God

5. Blood Ritual 

6. Alpha/Omega 

7. A City Far Enough Away 

8. Outrun the Sun

*******

Total playing time : 44.54

Comment:

Listen to the album here

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Hexvessel - Dawnbringer

*Year : 2011

*Country : Finland

*Genre : Psychedelic Folk/Rock

Tracklist :  

1. Kapitel Eins (Der Frühling) - Als die Tore sich öffnen...

2. Kapitel Zwei (Der Sommer) - Die Existenz jenseits der Tore

3. Kapitel Drei (Der Herbst) - Endzeit

3. Kapitel Vier (Der Winter) - Trümmer

4. Kapitel Fünf - Willkommen zu Haus...

*******

Total playing time : 54.29

 

Comment:

Esoteric Folk mixed with psychedelic and occult rock; Mysterious atmospheres created by acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, violins and melancholic vocals. Quality songwriting. And a great special guest named Carl-Michael Eide (VIRUS / VED BUENS ENDE).

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Nagelfar - Srontgorrth

*Year : 1999

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Black Metal

Tracklist :  

1. Kapitel Eins (Der Frühling) - Als die Tore sich öffnen...

2. Kapitel Zwei (Der Sommer) - Die Existenz jenseits der Tore

3. Kapitel Drei (Der Herbst) - Endzeit

3. Kapitel Vier (Der Winter) - Trümmer

4. Kapitel Fünf - Willkommen zu Haus...

*******

Total playing time : 01.10.00

 

Comment:

One of the most "epic" sounding black metal albums I know.Some might say that Srontgorrth is one of the biggest monument in the history of Black Metal, and in my opinion they're not far from reality. Everything is great in this records. Comparable to Arckanum, Helheim and Limbonic Art. Recommended...

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Russian Circles - Geneva

Year : 2009

*Country : USA

*Genre : instrumental post-rock/metal

Tracklist : 

1. Fathom
2. Geneva
3. Melee
4. Hexed All
5. Malko
6. When the Mountain Comes to Muhammad
7. Philos

*******

Total playing time : 55.34

 

Comment:

Not quite post-metal, and not quite post-rock, it's the kind of music you can't classified, it would be too reducing.Such a solid release. For fans of: Isis, Pelican & Mogwai

 

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Belzebong - Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves

*Year : 2011

*Country : Poland

*Genre : Doom, Stoner

Tracklist : 

1. Bong Thrower
2. Names Of The Devil
3. Witch Rider
4. Acid Funeral 

*******

Total playing time : 30.4

 

Comment:

Almost instrumental Stoner practicing the sacro saint mighty power riff.. No real subtlety, but it's the perfect music for the listener who want to be overwhelmed with heavy and effective riffs; it's basic, it has no pretensions, but it's damn good.

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The Open Mind - Magic Potion

*Year : 1969

*Country : UK

*Genre : Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist : 

1. Dear Louise

2. Try another day

3. I feel the same way too

4. My mind cries

5. Can't you see

6. Thor the Thunder god

7. Magic Potion --> = The song which introduced the double-bass drums in rock music

8. Horse and Chariots

9. Before my time

10. Free as the breeze

11. Girl I'm so alone

12. Soul and my will

13. Falling again

14 Cast spell

*******

Total playing time : 43.25

Comment:

Certainly one of the most famous Psychedelic Rock band. I would say: Essential to your musical knowledge, so even if you doesn't want to DL it, watch the video ;)

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Serpent Venom - Carnal Altar

*Year : 2011

*Country : UK

*Genre : Doom

Tracklist : 

1. Carnal Altar

2. Blood Of The Serpents

3. Four Walls Of Solitude

4. Conjuration

5. Under The Compass

6. Devilshire

7. The Outsider

*******

Total playing time : 56.01

Comment:

A mix between Seventies Horror/Occult films, Psychedelic Rock and classic Doom. In Chapter of the esoteric and cosmic delusions, there isn't more evocative.I wouldn't be surprised if their next album was signed on Rise Above Records. A giant is born. Maybe the album of the year with "Capricorn" (Orchid)...

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The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite

*Year : 2009

*Country : Germany

*Genre : Atmospheric Black Metal

Tracklist : 

1. I Raised This Stone As A Ghastly Memorial

2. Alu 

3. God's Ensanguined Bestiaries 

4. Mount Sinai Moloch 

5. Transcending Saturnine Iericho Skies 

6. Kain's Countenance Fell 

7. The Restless Mills 

8. Theriak - Baal - Theriak

9. Blood Vaults (II - Our Despots Cleanse The Levant) 

10. Arcane Pharmakon Messiah 

*******

Total playing time : 1.19.56

 

Comment:

Slow Black Metal sometimes really near to Doom Metal. Powerful, mystical, hypnotic... " Buy it, listen to it, absorb it, be absorbed by it. Masterful.". An explosion of genius, a must have.

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Dopethrone - Dark Foil

*Year : 2011

*Country : Canada

*Genre : Doom, Sludge

Tracklist :

1. Unholy Water
2. Essence Asunder
3. Tänk På Döden
4. Voice of the Below
5. Shadows of the Shapeless

*******
Total playing time : 43.53

Comment:

Electric Wizard, Bongzilla, Weedeater,... with a near Black Metal voice. Recommended!

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Kongh - Shadows of the Shapeless

*Year : 2009

*Country : Sweden

*Genre : Doom, Sludge

Tracklist :

1. Unholy Water
2. Essence Asunder
3. Tänk På Döden
4. Voice of the Below
5. Shadows of the Shapeless

*******
Total playing time : 42.12

Comment:

Arid, stifling. and heavy. An enormous power.

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Voodoo Kungfu - Voodoo Kungfu

*Year : 2008

*Country : China

*Genre : Extreme Traditional Folk

Tracklist :

1. 此岸 (This Shore) 

2. 魔 (Evil Spirit) 

3. 只有神能评判我 (Only The Gods Can Judge Me)

4. Sweet Dreams (Eurhytmics Cover) 

5. (Untitled) 

6. 接受或者被诅咒 (Accept Or Be Damned) 

7. 毁了 (Destroyed) 

8. Get Up Stand Up (Bob Marley Cover) 

9. 李小龙 (Li Xiaolong)

*******
Total playing time : 48.55

Comment:

Amaaaazing chinese band with the particularity to use matouqin (Mongolian violin) and overtone singing (singing technique to produce two sounds simultaneously). Atmospheres like no other, a disturbing, religious and indescribable music.Simply unique!

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