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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

Honestly, Behemoth are on a big comeback tour after Nergal won the battle with Leukemia. Plus, they are pretty big with the extreme metal crowd so it isn't that big of a stretch.

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

Kronos and "The Hellenic Terror". Goddamn the French can dish this shit out.

Nah, don't get Black Pyramid, it's bad. So bad.

You shut your terrible mouth dane

Anything good coming out of the sludge, doom, or stoner metal camps? I've been out of the loop for a while and I no longer know what's hip.

Shrinebuilder is a stoner-doom supergroup that released an excellent self-titled record last year, which owned bones and seems like nobody gave a shit about. For the life of me I do not know why.

Other recent great stuff in this vein:

Black Pyramid (debut self-titled last year, probably a personal AOTY, also released a compilation of demo stuff and b-sides this month titled "Stormbringer", get this get this get this get this)

Sunsmasher - "Loud/Mammothian/Cult" is a collection of demo stuff and is a blast

Bloodiest - "Descent", a sludge-post rock masterpiece, huge collective brainchild of Bruce Lamont and like a million other people

The Body - "All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood", some of the darkest sludge material of 2010, definite vibes of Eyehategod and Buzzov*en if you are into that sort of grimier stuff

White Buzz - "Book Of Whyte", German stoner doom from 2009, plenty of fuzz and chill groove to be had

Aderlating. Just loads and loads of Aderlating. Really vile noise/drone/metal, feels like watching sunshine getting curbstomped. "Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Bone" is def. one of my favorite albums this year.

"Our Slow Decay" by Black Sleep Of Kali, the two opening tracks are such monsters that they easily suck me in for the rest of them too.

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Been on the service since '05, slowly climbing towards my 200,000th play, also so very little compatibility with this thread

A shitload of Yeasayer. Got their "Odd Blood"-7", went on to find their live album, then their studio efforts - this fucking owns bones. Like a Ssaliva record with vocals.

"Laika Still Want Go Home" by Powder! Go Away. Been a long while since post-rock made me feel anything, but this is just adorable in its concept and sadness. Poor lonely space dog

Champloo and Zetsubou Sensei are head-and-shoulders above the rest of them, go with those in any order depending on preference re: comedy/drama/action

I have no idea, do we use this as the generic manga thread as well? Or should that go into the comics thread?

Anyway, I just finished reading Eyeshield 21, and was wondering if there's any other cool team sports manga I have missed in the past. Don't care if it's over-the-top or anything, anything in the vein of Eyeshield/Giant Killing/Inazuma Eleven would own bones.