Funeral Mist - Marantha

Review

Somewhat experimental or avant garde black metal, I guess. Has its share of blastbeats, but throws some other elements in.

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The Suicide Machines - Destruction By Definition

If the first song doesn't have you dancing like an idiot, your inner teenager is dead.

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Geisha - Die Verbrechen Der Liebe

Post-music.
I recommend at least giving a listen for the simple fact that I can't name another single band that sounds like this.
If I had to describe it, I'd describe it as sounding like Lightning Bolt, Mogwai, Black Sabbath, and maybe Merzbow getting in a fight.

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Shellac - 1000 Hurts

The best noise rock.

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Warcollapse - Defy!

Crusty, grindy punk. Somewhat reminiscent of older Napalm Death. It's fast (or occasionally doomy), raw, and pissed off.

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Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone

New.

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From Monument To Masses - On Little Known Frequencies

New. Active, un-boring post rock. It's really good.
Track 7 is misspelled, it should be 'Let Them Know It's Christmastime'.

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Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

New.
You know what to expect from this band.
Great if you like this kind of stuff.
Terrible if you don't.

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Godflesh - Hymns

Their last album.

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Narrows - New Distances

To absolutely no one's surprise, this doesn't even come close to comparing to any of Botch's material, but it's still rather enjoyable.

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Dawn of Demise - Hate Takes Its Form

METAAAAAAAAAALLLL \m/ >.< \m/

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Machetazo - Mundo Cripta

metalreview.com:

The more I listen, the more I realize that guitarist Rober Bustabad (also of Banished From Inferno) is the star of this particular horror show. His riffs are sick and simple, and his guitar tone is positively nasty—it’s thick, almost dripping something vile, sharp without being thin, viscous without being muddy. There are really no new additions to the gore-grind bag of tricks here, but this is done so expertly, so passionately, so violently that it doesn’t matter. You know the drill. Death metal riffs meld seamlessly with grinding blastbeats… Below vocals growled and occasionally rasped in a Carcass-y midrange… Alongside ominous samples from what I’m assuming are Spanish language horror films (no hablo, I’m afraid)... Riffs like the simple three-note repeated run in "Altares De Lo Macabro" twist and turn and ooze without overpowering the listener with sheer blunt force, and then riffs like the pounding intro to "Exstatis Nauseabundo" smash your skull like a hammer. It’s give and take; it allows you a second to breathe before it punches you silly… Even as it sits strictly within the proscribed framework, Mundo Cripta is akin to the slasher film that manages to transcend its own limitations, manages to scare the piss out of you without relying solely upon cheap shock tactics amidst predictable machete-wielding stock characters. Put differently, it’s the "Halloween" to a lesser band’s "Silent Night, Deadly Night."
Good ‘n’ bloody ‘n’ bloody good, this one is. Gore metal doesn’t get too much better than this, kids.

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Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI

Austrian blackened death. If you don't know, you should.

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Altar of Plagues - White Tomb

Post-black metal? If you've heard Wolves In The Throne Room, you have a pretty good idea of what this sounds like. And if you like that band, you'll probably like this one.

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Dishammer - Vintage Addiction

Discharge + Hellhammer.
Raw Spanish punk/metal about drugs, disease, and Satan. Fun stuff.

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Operation Ivy - Energy

More formative, moderately-challenging to find ska/punk.

Wikipedia:
Energy is the only full album released by the hardcore punk/ska punk band Operation Ivy. It has been cited as one of the most important albums of the ska punk genre. Energy was released twice, the second time with the addition of eight tracks. The original release (1989) was only nineteen tracks (the first nineteen listed below) and released only on Vinyl and Cassette. The 1991 CD release added tracks from other albums. Tracks twenty through twenty-five were originally on the Operation Ivy EP Hectic, while the tracks "Officer" and "I Got No" were taken from the Turn It Around compilation. In 2004 Hellcat Records re-released the nineteen track version as a 12" LP picture disc.

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Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers

Sole full length of the ska/punk band that turned into Leftover Crack.

wikipedia:
No Gods, No Managers is the only full-length studio album by American hardcore punk band Choking Victim. The album was released in 1999 through Hellcat/Epitaph Records and re-released on LP format by Epitaph in 2004. Being the sole full-length album of Choking Victim, it became hugely popular in the punk scene. It inspired many nascent bands, and the band members of Choking Victim went on to form other bands, most notably Leftöver Crack.

The tone of the album is largely dark and pessimistic, with lyrics and artwork containing Satanic imagery. The cover does not contain a barcode, presumably in accordance with their staunch anti-capitalist message, and is decorated with various satanic and anti-Christian symbols. However, a later pressing includes a barcode on the back cover.

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The Exploited - Beat The Bastards

A punk band signed to Nuclear Blast. If you listen to this, it makes sense.

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Ignominious Incarceration - Of Winter Born

teethofthedivine.com:
Musically, Ignominious Incarceration play a sort of melodic but still relatively brutal and technical death metal. The only real comparison in the balance I could think of was maybe a cross between Sweden’s Aeon, Vehemence and Woe of Tyrants, though don’t quote me on that and the band has cited Decapitated, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder and Beneath the Massacre as some of thier favorite acts -so maybe thats more reliable. That being said, the naysayers will say some of the dual melodies and solos do have a certain modern death core ‘wanna be European’ presence (i.e “Savior”, ‘Solitude”, “Dynasty Damnation”) and the production from Scott Atkins (UK metalcore act Sylosis) is awfully polished. But on the whole, when taken as a single entity, the back bone of the music is far more death metal structured- there are no breakdowns, no uber noodly blast beats, no pig squeals (Andy Wardle has a fairly standard mid level scream/growl), just well done melodic death metal with a beefy edge and some very cool solos (”Deeds of Days Long Gone”), though not quite total shred fests like Woe of Tyrants and their ilk.

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Swashbuckle - Crewed by the Damned

Some great deathy thrash with random pirate bits thrown in. The number of piratey acoustic interludes is kind of annoying. They kill all the momentum, particularly in the second half of the album. That said, the metal parts kick ass. And I honestly laughed out loud the first time I heard gang vocals shout
X
MARKS THE
SPOOOT

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Isis - Wavering Radiant

No download, but the album is streamable on their myspace. It's probably their best work since Oceanic, though honestly they're never going to top that. Check it out.

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Cryptopsy - None So Vile

Here's some death metal anyone who cares probably already has.

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Harpoon - Double Gnarly / Triple Suicide

teethofthedivine.com:
At a brisk 23 minutes, the sticking point for many on the 12 tracks will be the programmed drums which make an already clinical, caustic tone, even more mechanical and sterile. Also the vocals of Binder are more in line with the modern hardcore/screamo style than classic grindcore. Still, there are some nifty riffs and structures that range from the typical blistering, scathing grindcore blasts (”Lefty”, “The Cacographer”, “Frogs, Boils, Locusts”, “You Should be Longer”) to violent punky expulsions (”The Midget and the Duchess”, “) and few grooves (”Sloth-Ass”, “The Difficulty in Listening to the Elderly”) and some tasty thrash injections (”Buddy System”, Bad Beekeeping”). It’s all furious and fun, and never overstays its welcome.

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Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk

Shred-your-face-off black metal. If you don't already have it, do yourself a favor and check it out.

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Swarm of the Lotus - The Sirens of Silence

Old Isis meets old Converge maybe? You could call this metalcore if you wanted, but they have nothing in common with As I Lay Dying or Chimaira or other Hot Topic bands. It's heavy as balls and really good. Another band that went before their time.

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Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

Wikipedia:
Drudkh, meaning "wood" in Sanskrit, is an atmospheric black metal band from Ukraine... Their strongly folk-influenced music focuses on a strong atmosphere with a lot of feeling, and the lyrical contents embrace Slavic mythology, seasons and poetry. Many of the band's lyrics are derived from the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ukrainian poets, especially Taras Shevchenko.

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Millions - Gather Scatter

Hey look, another band that likes The Jesus Lizard a lot.
Lambgoat:
Gather Scatter is an unbelievably impressive full-length debut for this Chicago foursome. It's one part melody, one part punk energy, and one part inventive rock, all wrapped up with enough off-time rhythms and coarse emotion to ensure the listener's engagement. It goes well with Akimbo and a lot of the current Louisville scene (Young Widows, Lords, Brain Banger, etc.). I like to use my "mandatory listening" stamp responsibly, but refraining from applying it to Millions would be a crime. Check this out.

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From Monument To Masses - The Impossible Leap In One Hundred Simple Steps

I saw these guys on Monday and they were pretty awesome. Extremely active, un-boring post-rock. They have actual riffs and stuff.

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The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted To Bad Ideas

The World/Inferno Friendship Society (commonly referred to as "World Inferno" or "The Inferno") is a cabaret punk band from Brooklyn, New York. Its style merges punk, klezmer, and gospel, while its collective membership features horns, piano, guitar, a number of percussionists, as well as a variety of other instruments such as accordion, xylophone and orchestra bells.

This album starts off a little slowly, but starts getting great with "Ich Erinnere Mich An Die Weimarer Republik".

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Trinacria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely

This is the product of Enslaved members and Fe-Mail members getting together and writing psychedelic, noisy, progressive, blackish metal. I like it.

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