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"Mastery Of Creation" by Wormsblood, some of the best black metal that actually evokes anything remotely depressive or sad without the vocalist trying to sound like an elephant getting a barbed wire enema. Likewise in the same vein, "Dead As Dreams" by Weakling and "Earth Turned Skywards" by Deafest.

Yesterday, I finally got to listen to Black Pyramid's "II". And likewise, yesterday you should have locked this thread because it is futile for everyone that is NOT Black Pyramid to even try.

Black Pyramid's "II". Everyone else can just stop releasing music because this is the album of the year if not every other year where there was no Black Pyramid release.

Vader is majestic and awesome and deserves all of the praise. Their latest release, "Welcome To The Morbid Reich", kicks ungodly amounts of ass and is as fine a starting point as any. Work your way back from there, skipping "The Beast" on the way and you are golden.

If your heart holds any love for occult black metal, go go go go pick up Nightbringer's "Hierophany Of The Open Grave" from last year. It falls somewhere between traditional USBM like Krieg or Judas Iscariot and modern French BM like Blut Aus Nord and Glorior Belli, with a darker, oppressive atmosphere. It done gone own

"Multitudes" by Super Minerals, reminds me a lot of Natural Snow Buildings-type ambient/folk stuff but with a more sci-fi edge. Been going p. much 50/50 between electronic ambient and raw black metal recently: Nordvrede's "Hammerprofeti" and Behexen's "By The Blessing Of Satan" own, dumb album art aside.

Raised Fist - "Dedication" Let me dedicate this song to those who never act in frustration Let me give this song to those who have respect for all the punkbands in the nation Let me pass this song to all the people that dare to disagree Let me dedicate this song to those who downloaded this song as a mp3 swedish hardcore punk for y'all

"Meanderthal" by Torche i love this fucking album

2011 was cool as all hell, and really picked up into hyperdrive over the summer-early autumn, at least for me. Tons of great stuff across the board from all the genres I love, and even some amazing outliers from everywhere and everything. Some random thoughts: - more estabilished death metal bands released quite lackluster showings: Decapitated, Exhumed, Fleshgod Apocalypse and Jungle Rot did pretty much nothing for me on repeated listenings. Really only Origin and Immolation stayed up to snuff on their most recent ventures. - European BM fucking slew across the board this year, with new Blut Aus Nord, Glorior Belli, Corpus Christii, Arckanum and Tsjuder especially owning bones. - Dirty Knobs. "Field Recordings From The Edge Of Hell". BWWOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. anyways, I am still trying to whittle down my top 10 for the year, but here are the albums that have so far made it through the cuts: Sunsmasher - "LoudMammothianCult" Ssaliva - "Thought Has Wings" Battles - "Gloss Drop" Das Racist - "Relax" Blut Aus Nord - "777 Sect(s)" Glorior Belli - "The Great Southern Darkness" Corpus Christii - "Luciferian Frequencies" Dirty Knobs - "Field Recordings From The Edge Of Hell" Gridlink - "Orphan" A Dancing Beggar - "Follow The Dark As If It Was Light" Easily Embarrassed - "Tales Of The Coin Spinner" Belphegor - "Blood Magick Necromance" Celestial Aeon Project - "The Fall Of Ragnaros" Graveborne - "Pure Negativity" Endstille - "Infektion 1813" Mochipet - "Hello My Name Is Mochipet" Charts And Maps - "Dead Horse" .... yeah. LOTS of good stuff this year.

420 listen to Propagandhis "Todays Empires, Tomorrows Ashes" erryday

Are they bigger than Dimmu Borgir (who are just a sub-headliner this time)? This is a slot that Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom, Fear Factory and Blind Guardian were only seen big enough to 'co-headline' between them. It's a little bit of a stretch imo. I honestly think it's just the big comeback tour factor, plus it's been more than a year since "Abrahadabra" so DB can't really pull the headline slot on the power of that anymore. Eagerly hoping that Behemoth gets booked for Finland this summer.

Citizen - "Manifesto For The New Patriot" if your grind band is not staunchly in favor of maoism/third-worldism then you can just get out

currenlty listening through Nile's "Those Whom The Gods Detest". I had a sneak listen to "Ithyphallic" after the first song and holy fuck did they get back in form with this one. medals all around for Sanders and crew.

Lazaa's "Eeria", followed by Arizdmendia's "Without Circumference Or Center" NOTHING BUT BLACK METAL NOVEMBER rules

Listening to Cult Of Lunas "Eternal Kingdom" after a long while. This is a fucking awesome album, I have no idea why I don't listen to it more often. GHOOOOOOOST TRAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL