Autothrall's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009
01. Oranssi Pazuzu (Finland) - Muukalainen Puhuu
02. Arckanum (Sweden) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
03. Onirik (Portugal) - After Centuries of Silence
04. Nokturnal Mortum (Ukraine) - The Voice of Steel
05. Midnight Odyssey (Australia) - Firmament
06. Klabautamann (Germany) - Merkur
07. Nazxul (Australia) - Iconoclast
08. Sólstafir (Iceland) - Köld
09. De Magia Veterum (Netherlands) - Migda Bavel
10. Blut Aus Nord (France) - Memoria Vetusta II
11. Tribulation (Sweden) - The Horror
12. Hellveto (Poland) - Od południa na północ
13. Xasthur (USA) - All Reflections Drained
14. Peste Noire (France) - Ballade Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
15. Insomnium (Finland) - Across the Dark
16. Abigail (Japan) - Sweet Baby Metal Slut
17. CSSABA (Poland) - Toxic Cssaba
18. Lost Soul (Poland) - Immerse in Infinity
19. Kreator (Germany) - Hordes of Chaos
20.Katatonia (Sweden) - Night is the New Day
21-100: 2009 Extended Buyers' Guide (i.e., Autothrall's Top 100 Metal Albums of 2009, or to quote Paul Harvey, "The Rest of the Story")Ranxxerox's Best of 2009
- Absu (US) - Absu
- Arckanum (SE) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
- Blut aus Nord (FR) - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
- Khanate (US) - Clean Hands Go Foul
- Kylesa (US) - Static Tensions
- Ruins of Beverast (DE) - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
- Shrinebuilder (US) - Shrinebuilder
- Wolven Ancestry (CA) - Silence of the Boreal
- Xasthur (US) - All Reflections Drained
Frank Austin's Best of 2009
1) Immortal (Nor) - All Shall Fall
2) Propagandhi (Can) - Supporting Caste
3) Arckanum (Swe) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
4) Anaal Nathrakh (UK) - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
5) Wardruna (Nor) - Gap Var Ginnunga
6) Kreator (Ger)- Hordes of Chaos
7) God Dethroned (Nld) - Passiondale
8) Fukpig (UK) - Spewings From A Selfish Nation
9) Horned Almighty (Ger) - Contaminating the Divine
10) Oranssi Pazuzu (Fin) - Muukalainen Puhuu
JD/Adrenaline's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2009
01 Insomnium - Across the Dark
02 Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
03 Blut Aus Nord - In Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
04 Vektor - Black Future
05 Andacht - Chapter I
06 Klabautamann - Merkur
07 Katatonia - Night is the New Day
08 Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us
09 Peste Noire - Ballad Cuntre lo Anemi Francor
10 Tombs - Winter Hours
11 Mastodon - Crack the Skye
12 Portal - Swarth
13 Wodensthrone - Loss
14 Midnight Odyssey - Firmament
15 Nazxul - Iconoclast
16 Devious - Vision
17 Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque
18 Funebrarum - Sleep of Morbid Dreams
19 Ekron Cult- Queen of the Luxury
20 Abigail - Sweet Baby Metal Slut
Narian's Best Metal Albums of 2009
01. Fleshgod Apocolaypse (It) - Oracles [Debut of the Year]
T2. Mastodon (US) - Crack the Skye
T2. Behemoth (Po) - Evangelion
04. Vader (Po) - Necropolis
05. Ensiferum (Fi) - From Afar
06. Vektor (US) - Black Future
07. Azarath (Po) - Praise the Beast
08. Hypocrisy (Se) - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
09. Cannibal Corpse (US) - Evisceration Plague
10. Slayer (US) - World Painted Blood
11. Naxzul (Au) - Iconoclast
12. Immortal (No) - All Shall Fall
13. Lost Soul (Po) - Immerse in Infinity
14. Devious (Nld) - Vision
15. Suidakra (De) - Crógacht
16. Be'lakor (Au) - Stone's Reach
17. Tribulation (Se) - The Horror
18. Savage Circus (De) - Of Doom & Death
19. Mistaken Element (Fr) - Mind Over Matter
20. Cobalt (US) - Gin
21. Arckanum (Se) - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
22. Insomnium (Fi) - Across the Dark
23. Týr (Fa) - By the Light of the Northern Star
24. Voivod (US) - Infini
25. Oranssi Pazuzu (Fi) - Muukalainen Puhuu
Candlemass's Best of 2009
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue with the Stars
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Klaubatamann - Merkur
S0up's Sexy Time Top 10: Keeping it unmetal since 2007
01. Porcupine Tree - The Incident
01. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
01. Devin Townsend - Addicted
04. Destroyer 666 - Defiance
05. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
06. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
07. Devin Townsend - Ki
08. Vader - Necropolis
09. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
10. Slayer - World Painted Blood
META METAL 09 OH YEAH
1. Klabautamann - Merkur
2. Insomnium - Across the Dark
3. Peste Noir - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
4. Midnight Odyssey - Firmament
5. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
6. De Magia Veterum - Migdal Bavel
7. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
8. Behemoth - Evangelion
9. Tribulation - The Horror
10. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
11. Xasthur - All Reflections Drained
12. Reverence - Inactive Theocracy
13. Vektor - Black Future
14. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
15. Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen
16. Immortal - All Shall Fall
17. Onirik - After Centuries of Silence
18. Sanctus Nex - Aurelia
19. Striborg - Perceiving the World With Hate
20. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
I N V I C T U S's Best of 2009
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Beherit - Engram
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Maim - From the Womb to the Tomb
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising
Shrinebuilder - s/t
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
LoveIsUnity's Best of 2009
1) Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
2) Klabautamann - Merkur
3) Mastodon - Crack the Skye
4) Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
5) Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
6) Behemoth - Evangelion
7) Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
8) Isole - Silent Ruins
9) Rhino - Dead Throne Monarch
10) Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Yakul's Best of 2009
1. Nokturnal Mortum: The Voice of Steel
2. Klabautamann: Merkur
3. Abigail: Sweet Baby Metal Slut
4. Grave Digger: Ballad of a Hangman
5. Oranssi Pazuzu: Muukalainen Puhuu
6. Kreator: Hordes of Chaos
7. Demonical: Hellsworn
8. Senmuth: Madinat Al-Mayyit
9. Onirik: After Centuries of Silence
10. Savage Circus: Of Doom and Death
Crazy Larry's Best of 2009
Vektor - Black Future
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
Vader - Necropolis
Behemoth - Evangelion
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
Bulldozer - Unexpected Fate
Grave Digger - Ballads Of A Hangman
Lonewolf - The Dark Crusade
Cobalt - Gin
Paradox - Riot Squad
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Rebellion - Arise - From Ginnungagap To Ragnarok - History Of The Vikings Part III
Ensiferum - From Afar
brorstein's Best of 2009
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
Zu - Carboniferous
Klabautamann - Merkur
Ancestors - Of Sound Mind
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
Narrows - New Distances
Volcano Choir - Unmap
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
St. Vincent - Actor
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
L|ama's Best of 2009
10) Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
9) Nazxul - Iconoclast
8) Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
7) Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!!!
6) Tormented - Rotten Death
5) Rebellion - Arise - The History Of The Vikings Part III
4) Mistur - Attende
3) Drudkh - Microcosmos
2) Nokturnal Mortum - Голос Сталі
1) Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
Futt Bucker's Best of 2009
1. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
2. Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor
3. Klabautamann - Merkur
4. Nokturnal Mortum - Голос Сталі
5. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
6. Obliteration - Nekropsalms
7. Voivod - Infini
8. Marduk - Wormwood
9. Empty - The House Of Funerary Hymns
10. Vader - Necropolis
Mgcw's Best of 2009
1. Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
2. Hellveto - Od Poludnia na polnoc
3. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
4. Insomnium - Across the Dark
5. Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity
6. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
7. Voivod - Infini
8. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
9. Portal - Swarth
10. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Morg's Top 20 Albums of 2009 That He Listned To More than A Few Times Each and Still Found Amazing Extravaganze List
1a.) Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
1b.) Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us...
2.) Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
3.) Evile - Infected Nations
4.) Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
5.) Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
6.) Vektor - Black Future
7.) Behemoth - Evangelion
8.) Suffocation - Blood Oath
9.) Vader - Necropolis
10.) Pestilence - Resurection Macrabe
11.) Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
12.) Voivod - Inifini
13.) Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
14.) Portal - Swarth
15.) Claws - Absorbed in the Nethervoid
16.) Marduk - Wormwood
17.) Drudkh - Microcosmos
18.) Cobalt - Gin
19.) Havok - Burn
20.) Expulsion - Wasteworld
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Man, Gigantic Brain's been busy since I last looked at them. I'm liking these tracks I'm hearing from World, reminds me of my favorite stuff from Devin Townsend's Ziltoid the Omniscient.
Across the Sun Pestilence & Rapture
Semargl Ordo Bellictum Satanas
Protest the Hero Kezia
Protest the Hero Fortress
Sigh Imaginary Sonicscape
Akphaezya Anthology II
Journal Unlorja
The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses
Mutiny Within Self-titled
Abigal Williams In The Shadow Of A Thousand Suns
Martriden Self-titled
Martriden The Unsettling Dark
Forever in Terror The End
Keep of Kalessin Armada
Keep of Kalessin Reptilian
Structures All of the Above
The Syncope Threshold Tale Of The Complex Circuit
Xerath I
Textures Drawing Circles
Within The Ruins Invade
Oblomov Communitas
Trepalium XIII
Whyzdom From the Brink of Infinity
Light This City Facing the Thousand
Barren Earth Curse of the Red River
Biomechanical The Empires Of The Worlds
Byzantine And They Shall Take Up Serpents
Crimfall As the Path Unfolds...
Communic Waves Of Visual Decay
Between the Buried and Me Alaska
Darzamat Solfernus' Path
Deadlock Wolves
The Project Hate MCMXCIX Armageddon March Eternal
Soilwork A Predator's Portrait
Some bands are on the edge of being lopped off for being too generic and blah, particularly a few of the -core ones.
I actually prefer The Invasion Discography, when the band was quite sillier than they are now. The serious material like World is interesting enough, but there was just something about that collection that blew me away (if you remember, it was on the old top 200 list, though I later admitted it was part joke being there).
Nice thread title. Totally forgot it was time to change.
Going away until Monday. I'll try and get the damn Power metal list posted to RYM next week, it's a month overdue.
<Imagine this is a youtube link to Wormrot - Good Times>
The Voice of Steel
I must have this, but I don't see it for purchase anywhere. Seriously I need to bump this in my car and scare the other military students.
He dug through some boxes and pulled out a copy for me.
Man, MDF ruled.
Also, just back from seeing Mael Mordha. That was a bitta fun. Got a free t-shirt off the band
I was going to post and ask you about that today. It's not like I'm anywhere near done with the other ones, though!
Also, the thread title is great. Tav, YOU are the lamer!
Mindblowing album.
Oh shit, that's hot.
Hey what's a good place to get a leather jacket suitable for patching up? Harley store?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3lxuFn0R78
anyway why did nobody tell me that the lady from Sigh has a PhD in physics and is really hot? Disappointed in you, thread.
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
Apparently new album in a month too!
They are fantastic live, too.
This is the truth.
To be fair, Dr. Mikkanibal, the name, doesn't generally conjure up images associated with "legitimate doctor and researcher of sciencey shit." She is super hot, though.
But is it racism if their music makes people want to kill everybody, indiscriminately?
EDIT - KILL ALL THE HUMANS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbo0jFUzX6k
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChKsxQ81g-Y
SO AWESOME
I prefer the shorter version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu6fLVkIViw
But yes, Varg is a moron.
It's much better than I remembered.
New Kylesa is, and always has been, a good thing.
Nazxul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOvlsxSd1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yFvfe31cC8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w2y5ldS70U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aRMq40I01U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1OKPH8teog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS4hilVujJs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8lRV22sFE
This isn't black metal but this album is pretty great and I just feel like linking it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT6besBieWs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nlcYtiyjM
Not the best song from the album, but the only one I could dig up quickly on youtube. Also, that Nazxul album is quite the winner; listening to it always gives me the urge to start up a cult dedicated to the destruction of the world. Seconding Summoning as well; probably the best Tolkien metal out there. Oath Bound and Minas Morgul are good places to start and absolutely fantastic albums.
Also, for your enjoyment.
iTunes says Equilibrium has a new album coming out on the 12th. I was hesitant to like them because too synth-sounding musical instruments are a massive peeve of mine. C'mon guys, it's not new technology, just look at Soul Calibur 4. It can be done right.
Welcome Adus!
We actually keep a blog here with all manner of reviews, many of which are black metal.
http://www.fromthedustreturned.com
Also I placed a list of my 400 classic black metal albums up to the year 2000, this can be found at RYM:
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/autothrall/autothralls_classic_black_metal_formula_400
Each has a brief description, you'll find a lot of epic stuff in there.
I will be placing a modern, 400 black metal records from 2001-2010 at some point in the coming months.
A lot of reading, I know, but you can cover many bases there...
Nice. Any quick recommendations for someone who likes orchestral/symphonic elements?
Recent recommendations for this might be:
Suffering Souls "Sadistic Goat Complex" (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vQnvlFmfqY
Nazxul "Iconoclast" (2009) (Which another poster here pointed out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240H7a6NBkA&feature=related
Nokturnal Mortem "Voices of Steel" (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Bm_cNkt1g
Sigh "Hangman's Hymn" (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tso2Ee0eVOc
A lot of people here like the band Ceremonial Castings who are symphonic black metal.
Also, the new Dimmu Borgir album that I just reviewed fits the parameters, though I can't give it a glaring recommendation.
I don't have time at the minute to run through the RYM list and point out specifics, that's why I wrote the list
Obviously you should also know Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse. I think this is the best symphonic black metal album of all time, even if that just means an occasional keyboard line...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ks29jnKD4o
Edit: Need to qualify that by saying it's not really symphonic. Good bridge to other subgenres, though.
That's Vortex singing. I didn't know where he was. What the fuck. :^:
He sings like a very, very very evil angel from hell.