Metal Reviews

Enough with all the negativity, let's talk about the albums that came out this year that didn't suck.

Shining's Blackjazz is my favorite album of the year, but Kvelertak is a close second.

Are we doing threads this year?

Don't know yet, it's being discussed..

Anyway, I'm really struggling to find 15 to fit into my year-end list, so far I have:

Overkill - Ironbound
Heathen - Evolution of Chaos
Kvelertak - S/T
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Helstar - Glory of Chaos
Social Suicide - Broken Pilgrims
Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
The Crown - Doomsday King

And that's what I have so far. It's been a pretty shit year for my personal taste. If I had been more into black/death and power metal I wouldn't have this problem of course.

No Grand Magus?

IMO this has been an awesome year for metal:

Overkill - Ironbound
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Grand Magus - Hammer Of The North
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
Coheed & Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
Heathen - The Evolution OF Chaos
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
The Lord Weird Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

Honorable mentions:

Electric Wizard - Black Masses

I still havent heard the new albums from Sodom and Tankard and i was listening to new Immolation last night and was very impressed.

No idea about my picks yet, but this is a shortlist -

Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here
Shining - Blackjazz
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Atheist - Jupiter
The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew
Cathedral - The Guessing Game
Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
Krieg - The Isolationist
Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Option Paralysis
Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void
Burzum - Belus
Drudkh - Handful Of Stars
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Alcest - Écailles De Lune
In Vain - Mantra
The Pineapple Thief - Someone Here Is Missing

Must listen to the new Neggy Bungo album.

Top 5 (so far):

1) Cloudkicker -- Beacons
2) Enslaved -- Axioma Ethica Odini
3) Blind Guardian -- At The Edge Of Time
4) Allegaeon -- Fragments Of Form And Function
5) Veil Of Maya -- [id]

Still haven't heard the new DsO or Seventh Wonder, however...

A quick list.

Arsis - Starve for the Devil
DsO - Paracletus
DEP - Option Paralysis
High on Fire - Snakes for the Divine
Lair of the Minotaur - Evil Power
Salome - Terminal
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Withered- Dualitas

A lot of really good EPs this year: Fleshgod, Panopticon/Skagos, Petrychor, I Fail, Altars of Plague...

Overkill
Slough Feg
Heathen
Atheist

still waiting to hear Electric Wizard, Sodom, Tankard...

The new Sodom isn't really worthy of a year-end list, unfortunately.

Anyway, a list of picks in no particular order:

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
Shining - Blackjazz
Watain - Lawless Darkness
Athest - Jupiter
Overkill - Ironbound
Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Heljareyga - Heljareyga
Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
Angra - Aqua
Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Wuthering Heights - Salt
Ea - Au Ellai
Rage - Strings To A Web
Derdian - New Era Pt. 3
Dark Fortress - Ylem
Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
Woe - Quietly, Undramatically
Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied Pt. 2
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned

Well, in no order (except for Anathema) --

Anathema -- We're Here...
Blind Guardian -- ATEOT
Overkill -- Iornbound
Vanden Plas -- The Seraphic Clockwork
God Is An Astronaut -- Age Of The Fifth Sun
Elvenking -- Red Silent Tides
Orphaned Land -- ORwarriOR
Enslaved -- AEO
Arsis -- Starve For The Devil
Cloudkicker -- Beacons
Coheed -- YOTBR

I feel like I'm missing some.

when I hear it, I will decide if it makes my list or not.

Negura Bunget
Enslaved
Alcest
Burzum
Drudkh
October Falls

Haven't heard the new Watain, Atheist, Blind Guardian or Cathedral yet.

The best material I've heard is the Dordeduh EP.

I think it's been another great year for metal. I've made my top 10 and other favorites and disappointments and everything for another forum, I'll just paste them:

1. Immolation - Majesty and Decay
2. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
3. Overkill - Ironbound
4. Danzig - Dethred Sabaoth
5. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
6. Goatpenis – Biochemterrorism
7. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
8. Lair Of The Minotaur - Evil Power
9. The Black - Gorgoni
10. Impaled Nazarene - Road to Octagon

I also enjoyed the hell out of:

good ol death - Grave, Cemetery Urn, Malevolent Creation, Interment, Grave Miasma, Atheist, Hate, Alfa Eridano Akhernar, Martial Barrage, Blood Revolt, God Dethroned

evil blasphemies - Grave Desecrator, The Royal Arch Blaspheme, Blasphemophagher, Excruciate 666, Krieg, Inquisition, Burzum

doomy and crushing - The Wounded Kings, Hour of 13, Age Of Taurus, Place of Skulls

thrashing stuff - Morbid Carnage, Immaculate, The Batallion, Cruel Force, Violator, Sodom, Witchaven, Hellish Crossfire

heavy/power/trad - Blind Guardian, Accept, Sister Sin, Zuul, Skullview, Borrowed Time, Christian Mistress, Steel Maid, White Wizzard, Atlantean Kodex, Slough Feg, Halford, Warship, Ghost.

prog/avantgarde - Myrath, Vulture Industries, Ihsahn

Disappointments or shitty albums: Virgin Steele, Primal Fear, Astral Doors, Tarot, Enslaved, Therion, Drudkh, Grand Magus, Kamelot, Ross the Boss and the unbeatable Ozzy.

1) Anathema
2) Aborym
3) Alcest
4) Shining
5) Ihsahn

Haven't heard the DsO yet.

Burzum
Dimmu Borgir
Deathspell Omega

I'm with ya on Blackjazz. What a power house of an album. Haven't heard Kvelertak though, will check it aauut.

And then it':
Pin-up Went Down - 342
Barren Earth - Curse of the Red River
Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
The National - High Violet
Sigh - Scenes From Hell

Kinda lacking in new discoveries this year :/

Aborym
Belenos
Murmuure
Neaera
Allaegeon
Machinae Supremacy

Possibly Fleshgod Apocalypse. I feel like I didn't really hear any good death metal this year.

And unfortunately my MP3 tracks got rearranged and won't file back into the dates I downloaded them in, so going back through my history is tough. I'm definitely missing out on a few and will add when they come to my head.

I know there were definitely some other solid black metal releases I'm overlooking.

A new Solefald album?

http://rateyourmusic.com/collection/Wog ... ss.rd/2010

Most of my favourites are EPs lol

metal shit:
Taint - All Bees to the Sea
East of the Wall - Ressentiment
Sahg - III
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Canvas Solaris - Irradience
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt
The Sword - Warp Riders
Arsis - Starve for the Devil