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In response to a perfectly named journal by rbt: http://www.last.fm/user/rbt/journal/2007/04/24/mua_which_of_your_top_50_bla_bla_bla_who_gives_a_fuck%3F

Radiopuhelimet x2
Skyclad x1
YUP x7?
Viikate x5?
Entombed x3
The Dillinger Escape Plan x1
Joose Keskitalo x1
Machinae Supremacy x1
Tenhi x1
Risto x6?
Stam1na x5?
Gojira x2
Amorphis x5?
Nevermore x1
Isis x2
Converge x1
Soilwork x2?
Pestilence x1
Killing Joke x1
Gama Bomb x1
The Eternal x2
Dinosaur Jr. x1
Evergrey x1
Carcass x1
Cult of Luna x1
Omnium Gatherum x3?

so 26/50 plus i have a few pretty bad explanations why not more!

Never played in Finland as far as i know (which is pretty far, at least not in past 5 years):
Kat
Sol Invictus
Vampire Mooose
Agalloch
Nothing - also played only a few live gigs
Aarni - never played live i think
Sculptured - never played live i think
The Clan Destined - played only a few concerts and then split
The Fall of Troy - going to see them THIS NOVEMBER in Glasgow (btw In The Unlikely Event is clearly their weakest album, horrid and clicheic clean singing)
Godflesh
Candiria
Lawnmower Deth
Agathodaimon
Numen
Eldritch
Umbra Nihil - They play live? I dont think so.
Havoc Unit - They play live? I dont think so.
Sedän Näkemys

Cause i was short of money, too lazy or forgot:
Napalm Death
Primordial
Eternal Tears of Sorrow
Keep of Kalessin
Iiwanajulma

Broke up when i was about 5
Euthanasia
Intense Degree

bands I have listened to already. list will be upgraded every 6 months. for any point of reference just ask. for need to check out mentioned band also ask.

sludge

16
5ive's Continuum Research Project
Across Tundras
Accept Death
Acid Bath
Aldebaran
Amenra
Among the Missing
A Storm of Light
Angel Eyes
Arachnotaur
Atavist
Isis
Baroness
Back When
Beaten Back to Pure
Beneath Oblivion
Big Baby Satan
Big Business
Birushanah
Bison B.C.
Birds of Prey
Altar of Earth
Black Cobra
Black Hell
((THORLOCK))
Black Noise Cannon
black market Ministry
Black Shape of Nexus
Black Sun
Blacktusk
Blackwaves
Blessing the Hogs
Blindead



stoner



Clutch
7Zuma7
Abdullah
Abramis Brama
Acid King
Ahkmed
35007
Agents of Oblivion
Alabama Thunderpussy
Allhelluja
Eagles of Death Metal
Acrimony
Amplified Heat
Five Horse Johnson
Fu Manchu
Artimus Pyledriver
Asteroid
Astroqueen
Axehandle
Acajou
4Mag Nitrous
57Chevy
Kyuss
9horizon
Beyond Perception
ASG
Barn Burner
Birch Hill Dam
Black Debbath
Black Rainbows
Balero
Black Pyramid
Blake
Blood Island Raiders
Black NASA
Blind Dog
The Atomic Bitchwax


doom (only oriented around the topic , cause there are lots of variations of it like funeral doom or gothic doom , i'll pick only those you might like if you dig stoner or sludge)

Aarni
Aaen Anima
Ablaze in Hatred
Abysmal Grief
Against Nature
All Souls' Day
Agalloch
Amarna Sky
Amphitryon
Abstrakt Algebra
Anathema
Apostle of Solitude
Arcanar
Argus
Ascend
Asgaut
Arcane Sun
Astral Sleep
Asunder
Asva
Acid Witch
Autumnblaze
Autumnal
Avernus
Avec Tristesse
Averon
Khanate
Bedemon
Before the Rain
Beyond Black Void
Beyond Dawn
Beyond Belief
Bilocate
Bitterdusk
Black Hole
ANDROID EMPIRE
Black Manta
ARMAGA
Blood Ceremony
Blazing Eternity
Abstract Essence



Don;t hate me for putting a band under wrong tag. I did this journal to share my knowledge not to discuss tagging.

TRADITIONAL DOOM
Abstrakt Algebra // Against Nature // Alchemy // Angels In Exile // Another Messiah // Benson, David // Black Hole // Black Manta // Blackfuckingdoom // Blood Farmers // Blood Shot Eye // Caldera // Cambian Dawn // Cast in Stone // Centurions Ghost // Chain, Paul // Church of Misery // Cold Mourning // Confessor // Count Raven // Coven, The // Credo // Dark White // Dawnrider // Deer Creek // Devils & His spells // Doom Engine // Doomraiser // Doomsday Gouvernment // Dream Death // Dreaming // Earthride // Eternal Elysium // Exitus // Faith // Fall of the Idols // Fear My Solitude // Forsaken // Funeral Planet // Garden of Worm // Gates Of Slumber, The // Ghouli // Glow // Heretic's Fork // Hermetic Vastness // Hidden Hand, The // High In Fungoid Void // Hymn to the Ancient // Hypnotic Fear // Internal Void // Iron Man // Kilauea // Krux // Las Cruces // Last Chapter // Life Beyond // Luz de Invierno // Memento Mori // Mercy // Minotauri // Mirror Of Deception // Mood // Mourn // Never The Sunshine // Obsessed, The // Ominous Sky // Orodruin // Oversoul // Pagan Altar // Pale Divine // Passage // Penance // Place of Skulls // Plutonium Nyborg // Purgation // Pÿlon // Red Dwarf // Revelation (US) // Reverend Bizarre // Rise and Shine // Rising Dust // Ritual // River, The // Rose // Rote Mare // Rusty Souls // Sahg // Saint Vitus // Semlah // Serenity // Serpent // Sevenchurch // Sévèral // Shepherd // Sorcerer // Sorrows Path // Southern Cross // Spirit Caravan // Spiritus Mortis // Tefra // Tekhton // Tortured Spirit // Tremble Saith Thy Master // Troglodyte Dawn // Trouble // Violet Vortex // Voodoo Shock // Wall of Sleep // War blade // Warhorse // Warning // Well of Souls (Ger) // Well of Souls (US) // Witch Mountain // World Below // World Funeral // Wretched // Zess

EPIC DOOM // // Akilles // All Souls' Day // Angel of Damnation // Averon // Back // Bells of Doom // Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom // Candlemass // Child Saint // Circle of Nero // Cold Embrace // Dark Quarterer // Dawn Of Winter // Doomenicus // Doomsday Ceremony // Doomsday Cult, The // Doomshine // Doomsword // Ereb Altor // Godsend // Goliath // Heathendom // Imago Mortis // Isole // Lamented Souls // Litany // Memory Garden // Misericorde // Nemesis // Raven Black Night // Scald // Solitude Aeturnus // Solstice // Sorcerer // Thunderstorm // Veni Domine // While Heaven Wept // Wytchcraft // // //

STONER DOOM // // Abdullah // Acid King // Acrimony // Back // Black Magick // bong // Cathedral // Doom Extravaganza // Dragonauta // Dust // Elder // Electric Wizard // Gate9 // Goat Horn // Grand Magus // Grievous // H.C. MINDS // Heavy Lord // High on Fire // Lake of Tears // Low Man's Tune // Middian // Mighty Nimbus, The // Nephusim // Obiat // Ocean Chief // Olde Crone // OM // Orbital Doom // Planet Gemini // Pod People // Ramesses // Rebreather // Salt of the Earth // Sleep // Slow Horse // Solace // Sons of Otis // Starchild // Stinking Lizaveta // Thee Plague of Gentlemen // Toner Low // Ufomammut // Unorthodox // Versus The Stillborn // Minded // Viaje A 800 // Walrus, The // YOB // Zebulon Pike // // //

SLUDGE DOOM // // 13 // 137 // 12 // Sep // 3D House of Beef // Abandon // Analysis Of Bison Kills // Atavist // Beaten Back to Pure // Bloody Panda // Blutch // Buried at Sea // Cephalic Carnage // Coffins // Corrupted // Cortisol // Crowbar // Cruevo // Deadbird // Dirge // Dot[.] // Drear // Eyehategod // Eyehatelucy // Fistula // Fleshpress // Frogskin // Fugüe // funeral for rosewater // Goatsblood // Godeatgod // God's Iron Tooth // Gorilla Monsoon // Grang // Graves at Sea // Grief // Halo // Hesitation Wounds // Indian // Iron Monkey // IX // Jack Lord // Last Act of Man // Lazarus Blackstar // Mala Suerte // Malasangre // Mammoth // Mary Bell // Men in Search of the Perfect Weapon // Monarch // Möse // Murinus // Negative Reaction // Negative Theory // Noothgrush // Ocean // Otesanek // Our Survival Depends on Us // Philistine // Psychotoblack // Rectal Haemorrhage // roanoke // Rot in Despair // Rwake // Seraphtomb // Sextodecimo // Sloth (UK) // Sloth (US) // Soulpreacher // Sourvein // sOy bOmb // Spancer // Stone Golem // Stumm // Subversion // Super Timor // Syrafex // Tear Gas and Plate Glass // Thrones // Toadliquor // Vat Of Fat // Weedeater // Wellington // When the Deadbolt Breaks // wuzor // Zoroaster // // //

INNOVATORS OF DOOM // // Agnosis // Bedemon // Black Sabbath // Death Row // Lyijykomppania // Northwinds // Pentagram // Witchfinder General

GRINDCORE DOOM Magus Visceral Evisceration

GOTHIC DOOM
Agalloch // Anthemon // As Divine Grace // Ashen Mortality // Autumn // Autumn Flowers // Ava Inferi // Black Fever // Cantar // Cemetery of Scream // Chalice // Consecrated // Consensus // Dark Embrace // Dawn of Dreams // Dead Heart Bleeding // Demonia // Desiderium // Desolate Ways // Divine Lust // Draconian // Ecthalion // Elbereth // Evadne // Even Vast // Evictus // goresleeps // Grave Flowers // Hanging Garden // Helevorn // How Like a Winter // Jack Frost // Lacrimas Profundere // Left Hand Solution // Letargy Dream // Long Since Dark // Lords Of The Stone // Lust I Seek, The // Lycanthia // Mistralth // Morbidreams // Morbydia // My Garden // Mystic Moon // Nadir // Nyctanthous // Oröm // Revelation (Blr) // Sanity Obscure // Sea of Desperation // Sentient // Sesta Marconi // Silent Cry // Silentium // Sundial // Sweet Mother of God // Thorns of the Carrion // Triarchy // Underwater Moon // Vigilia Septima // Weeping Silence // Yearning

FUNERAL DOOM
1000 Funerals // Ahab // Amaranthine Trampler // Asunder // AUSTERITY // Before the Coruscating Apollyon // Beprasmybe // Beyond Black Void // Bosque // Celestiial // Colosseum // Comatose Vigil // Consummatum Est // Craving, The // Dark Abyss // Despond // Dictator // Dionysian // Doom:vs // Doomcide // DoomSquirrel // Doomthrone // Dusk ov Shadows // Ea // Eleventh Room, The // Endymion // Enoch // Ethereal, The // EtonéDicius // Fragments of Duration // Funeral // Funeral Orchestra, The // Funeralium // Funerary Dirge // Fungoid Stream // Grívf // Hierophant // Hymn of Lament // Hyponic // I Drowned In A Stream of Mourn // Iniquitous // Intaglio // Inter Arbores // Iota Draconis // Kairi // Lacrymae Rerum // Lake of Depression // Liquescent Horror, The // Longing For Dawn // lord grief // Lux Incerta // Maiden Voyage // Mausoleum // Midwinter Storm // Misery // Monolithe // Mørkheim // Mournful Congregation // Nepenthean // Night Must Fall // Night of Suicide // Nortt // Of Darkness // Oktor // Pantheist // Qabr // Quasar // Reclusiam // Reido // Remembrance // Rigor Sardonicous // Sad Sun, The // Senthil // Serenity Forgotten // Shape of Despair // Sinistra // Skepticism // Solicide // Stabat Mater // Tears of a Mourning Angel // Thergothon // This Empty Vessel // Through the Valley // Tomb // Torture Wheel // Tragedy Eternal // Tyranny // Unholy Cross // Until Death Overtakes Me // Whelm // Wind Through the Trees // Witchthrone // Wormphlegm // Worship // Wraith of the Ropes

DRONE DOOM
5ive's Continuum Research Project // Aardtmann op Vuurtopberg // Absolute Misery // Asva // Boris // Bunkur // Burning Witch // Cervix // d o m // Earth // Funerary Ward // Goatsnake // Hjarnidaudi // Hlidolf // Hordes of Satan // Hyatari // Jesu // Mare // Marzuraan // Mills of God // Moonn // Mordor (CH) // Moss // Nadja // Orthodox // Pavementsaw // Pelican // Stasis // Sunn O))) // Svetlana // Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine // Thee Kvlt Ov (((Ouruboros // Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg // Unlife // Unpure To Christ // Vonn

DEATH DOOM
A Dawn Serene // Ablaze in Hatred // Abske Fides // Absurd Existence // Age of Storm // All Dies // Also the Orchards Wane // Amber Tears // Amelion // Anathema // And Here I Lie // Angor // Antestor // apostate // Ars Moriendi // As The Sea Parts // Aseidad // Ashes You Leave // Astral Rising // Astral Sleep // Ataraxie // Ater // Autumnal // Autumnal Discord // Autumnia // Avernus // Awakening // Back // Before the Rain // Bellator // Beneath The Frozen Soil // Beyond Belief // Bitterdusk // Black Forest // Blood Divine, The // Blood Legacy // Blood Tears // Bloody Wings // Breath Of Life // Carnal // Castle // Catacombs // cataleptic // Celestial Season // Centurion X // Ceremonium // Chorus of Ruin // Cianide // COD // Covered In Ashes // Crestfallen // Crown Of Pain // Crush Evil // Cryptal Darkness // Daedeloth // Daemora // dawn of everwinter // Dawn Of Gehenna // Dead Monuments // Dead of Winter // Decemberance // Decomposed // Desire // Devout // Discrucior // diSEMBOWELMENT // Dissolving of Prodigy // Dissonance // Divine Silence // Dooms Vain // Doomsday // Dusk // Dying Embrace // Dying Rose // Earthcorpse // Ekklesiast // Elysium // Eminent Shadow // Enchantment // Endor // Erg Noor // Eria D'Or // Eternal Darkness // Eternal Sorrow // Eternal Tear // Eternal, The // Evoken // Extinguished Fire // Eyes of Fire // Eyes of Ligeia // Faded Hopes // Fall of Empyrean // Fall Of Every Season, The // Fallen // Foetor // Forest of Shadows // Forest Stream // Forty Days Longing // Frost And Fury // Gardarika // Garden Of Silence // Gathering, The // Goatlord // Goat's Ass Trumpet // God Forsaken // Il Sangue // Imindain // In age and sadness // In Torment // Inborn Suffering // Indesinence // Indicium // Inmemorial // Insanity Reigns Supreme // It Will Come // Knell, The // Lachrimatory // Lamentation // Lapsus Dei // Lethargia // Libra // Little Dead Bertha // Loss // Lost In Darkness // Lugubrious Hymn // M // 26 // Mael Mórdha // Majesty // Mar de Grises // Mastaba // Methadrone // Mindrot // Mist of the Maelstrom // Modern Funeral Art // Mordor (PL) // Morgion // Morphia // Morrigu // Moth Eaten Dream // Mournful Grace // Mourning Beloveth // Musaka // My Dying Bride // My Shameful // My Threnody // Mystic Charm // Mythic // Mythological Cold Towers // Necare // Necro Schizma // nee // Neolithic // Nightrealm // Ningizzia // Niobes Ivory Dream // Novembers Doom // Nyarlathotep // Nymphea Aurora // Obskure Torture // October Tide // Officium Triste // On Wings // Ophis // Ordog // Paradigma // Paradise Lost // Paramaecium // Perpetual Dying Mirror, A // Phantasmagoria // Pledge Sin and the Painful // Poema Arcanus // Poetry // Poetry of Chaos // Prior's Diary, The // Procession of Mourning // Prophecy of Doom // Prophecy, The // Pyogenesis // Reaction Ecstasy Trance // Runemagick // Ruttovirsi // Saattue // Sadness // Saturnus // Sempiternal Deathreign // Serenades // Serpent Rise // She Cries // shEver // Shroud of Bereavement // Silent Winter // Solarfall // Soma // Somber Blessings // Sorrow // Sortilegium // Spina Bifida // Spirit Of the Deep Waters // Spiritual Dissolvent // Stone Wings // Stonehenge // Substance for God // Swallow the Sun // Symphony of Grief // Syrach // Tales Of Dark // Tears Of Beggar // This Tangled Web // Thorr's Hammer // Thy Sinister Bloom // Unburied // Unsilence // Vaikus // Valaruk // Vassago // Vedova // Vinculum Terminatii // Voice of Destruction // Voidal // Vulkro // Waterfall // Whispering Forest // Whispering Gallery // Why Angels Fall // Winter // Withering Spring // Withersoul // Within Tears // Womb // Wounded, The // Zafira // Zatokrev // Zazozora

BLACK DOOM
Abysmal Darkening // All Shades of Grey // Beatrik // Bethlehem // Black Vein Prophecy // Cantas Ad Mortuos // Cultus Sanguine // Darkflight // Deinonychus // Forgotten Tomb // Frozen Tears // Gardens of Gehenna // Jordskaelv // Katatonia // Lacrimae Mortalium // Mortuum // Mourning Dawn // Nightly Gale // Ocean of Sorrow // Sarkus // Souldust // Tristitia // Vae Victis // Wanhoop // Winterkou // Woods of Belial

AVANT GARDE DOOM
Aarni // As The Tide Consumes // Asofy // Beyond Dawn // Black Lodge // Blueprint Human Being // Camel of Doom // Drug Honkey // The Gault // Harvey Milk // Kongh // Life's Decay // Long Winters' Stare // Minsk // MÜL // Olive // Omens of Desolation // Overmars // Oxbow // Quercus // Soulsearch // Space Raven // Umbra Nihil // Unholy // Virgin Black // Wreck of the Hesperus // 206 & Thinkers // 3rd and the Mortal, The // Abysmal Grief // Adagio // Amaranth // Arcanum XIII // Avrigus // Circus of Damnation // Dead Wish // Denun // Dimness Through Infinity // Dis Pater // Distress // Elegeion // Estatic Fear // forever autumn // Golgotha // In Somnis // laggardrone // Lethian Dreams // Mist and the Morning Dew, The // Moon Of Sorrow // Pain of Soul // Process of Guilt // Rain Paint // Rapture // Ras Algethi // Second Sun // Secropiagor // Sifr // Skumring // Sobre Nocturne // Somnium Mortuum // Supersoma // Tanha // Tides of Eternity // Tragedian // Transient

A

Aarni - Bathos
Ablaze in Hatred - Deceptive Awareness
Ablaze in Hatred - The Quietude Plains
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Agalloch - Pale Folklore
Agalloch - The Demonstration Archives 1996-1998
Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - The White EP
Age of Silence - Acceleration
Agonizer - Cain (Demo)
Airdash - Both Ends Of The Path
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Greatest Hits
Alice in Chains - The Essential
Ambrazura - Storm In Your Brains
Amesoeurs - S/T
Amorphis - Chapters
Amulet - All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
Anathema - A Vision Of A Dying Embrace DVD
Andy Winter - Shades Of Light Through Black And White EP
Angel - A Woman's Diary-Chapter 1
Antimatter - Leaving Eden
Antimatter - Planetary Confinement
Aphotic - Stillness Grows
Apocryphal Voice - [The Sickening]
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Asgaut - Village EP
Audrey Horne - Le Fol
Audrey Horne - No Hay Banda

B

Bathory - In Memory Of Quorthon
Before The Rain - One Day Less
Behemoth - Thelema 6
Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus
Behold...The Arctopus - Nano-Nucleonic Cyborg Summoning
Beneath The Frozen Soil - The First Wreath (Demo)
Beyond Dawn - Pity Love
Black Label Society - Hangover Music Vol. VI
Black League - Utopia A.D.
Black Manta - Fuck Them All But Six
Blake - Fireroot
Blazing Eternity - A World To Drown In
Blazing Eternity - Times And Unknown Waters
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage
Bonesaw - Pathological (Demo)
Borknagar - S/T

C

Callisto - Providence
Candlemass - 20 Year Anniversary Party DVD
Canyon Creep - Hijack The World!
Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All!!!!
Carpe Tenebrum - Mirrored Hate Painting
Cavus - Cavus EP
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Chaosbreed - Unleashed Carnage
Chaotic - End Of Progression (Demo)
Chris Caffery - Faces
Creeping - Funeral Crawl
Crisis - Like Sheep Led To Slaughter
Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom

D

Dan Swanö - Moontower
Dark Filth Fraternity - Breathe Again
Dark Haven - Your Darkest Hour
Darkness Remains - Lamia
Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northen Sky
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones And Black Flags
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer+Of Chaos And Eternal Night
Dave Slave's Doomed And Disgusting - Satan's Nightmare
Dawn Of Gehenna - The Night Dog Sessions
Daylight Dies - A Portrait In White EP
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion
Deftones - White Pony
Deftones - S/T
Deinonychus - Ark of Thought
Denata - Art Of The Insane
Devils Whorehouse - Revelation Unorthodox
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution
Devin Townsend - Terria
DHG - Supervillain Outcast
Diablo - Elegance In Black
Diablo - Renaissance
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Domination Black - Fear Re-LoaDEAD (Demo)
Domination Black - Trendofobia (Demo)
DOOM VS. - Dead Words Speak
Down - Over The Under
Drudkh - Songs Of Grief And Solitude
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Dumper - X-Teen Revolution
Dusk - Jahilia


E

Echosilence - Distorted Horizon
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson I
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II
Elend - Sunwar The Dead
Eljudner - Daudningekvider
Eläkeläiset - Humppa United
Eläkeläiset - Sekoilun Ytimessä DVD
Eläkeläiset - Ukki, Mitä Oli Jenkka?
EmSinfonia - Intimate Portrait
Enid - Seelenspiegel
Ensiferum - S/T
Enthrope - Silenced Earth (Demo)
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary To Know
Ephel Duath - Rephormula
Ephel Duath - The Painter's Palette
Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty
Evemaster - Lacrimae Mundi
Extol - Synergy
Extol - Undeceived

F

Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Farmakon - Robin
Finntroll - Visor Om Slutet
Fen - Ancient Sorrow EP
Fen - The Malediction Fields
Folkearth - A Nordic Poem
Forgotten Tomb - Negative Megalomania
Furia - Płoń EP

G

Gallhammer - Ill Innocence
Gates Of Winter - Lux Aeterna
Gévaudan - The Arrogant Chronicles
Giant Squid - Metridium Field
GODS - I See You Through Glass.
Godsplague - Shovel EP
Green Carnation - A Blessing In Disguise
Green Carnation - Alive And Well... In Krakow DVD
Green Carnation - The Burden Is Mine... Alone EP
Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring
Grey Skies Fallen - The Fate Of Angels
Grey Skies Fallen - Tomorrow's In Doubt
Grey Skies Fallen - Two Way Mirror
Grinderman - S/T
Gwynbleidd - Amaranthine EP

H

Harmaa - Airut: Aamujen
Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails
Hevein - Break Out The Hammers (Demo)
Hevein - Fear Is...Only Human (Demo)
Hevein Sound Over Matter
Hidria Spacefolk - Symbiosis
Hämärä - Thamurin Saaga

I

Iiwanajulma - Sitä Ei Ole Mitä En Näe
Ikuinen Kaamos - The Forlorn
In Age And Sadness - Promo 2005
Insomnius Dei - Illusions Of Science
In The Woods... - Live At The Caledonien Hall
Into Eternity - Dead Or Dreaming
Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy
Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes
Íon - Madre, Protégenos
Island - Orakel
It Will Come - 47 (Demo)

J

Jääportit - Uumenissa
Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire

K

Kaihoro - Mainheadskull
Kaihoro - Second To None (Demo)
Kalmah - Swampsong
Kamara - Synti, Tuomio, Katumus
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Katatonia - Brave Yester Days
Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Katatonia - Live Consternation
Katatonia - The Black Sessions
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Katatonia - Tonight's Decision
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
Kauan - Lumikuuro
Kauan - Tietäjän Laulu
Kotiteollisuus - Helvetistä Itään
Kotiteollisuus - Kuolleen Kukan Nimi
Kypck - Cherno

L

Let It Flow - The Momentary Touches To The Depths
Lifelover - Konkurs
Lo-Ruhamah - S/T EP
Loits - Ei Kahetse Midagi
Loits - Must Album
Loits - Mustad Laulud EP
Loits - Vere Kutse Kohustab

M

Mahtra Sõda - S/T
Mar De Grises - Demo
Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart (with bonus disc)
Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express
Martyrium - Withering in Voluptuous Embrace
Medea - ДЕКАДАНС
Megadeth - Arsenal Of DVD
Megadeth - Warchest
Melechesh - Sphynx
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Metsatöll - Hiiekoda
Metsatöll - Iivakivi
Metsatöll - Lahinguväljal Näeme, Raisk!
Metsatöll - Suteksäija EP
Militia Christi - Non Timor Domini, Non Timor Malus
Mirzadeh - Ancient Rites
Mirzadeh - The Creature Of Loviatar
Misteltein - Divine, Desecrate, Complete
Mog Ruith - Catatonic Stellar Illusions
Mokoma - DVD
Mokoma - Kurimus
Mokoma - Valu
Monumentum - Metastasi
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky EP
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Mother Depth - Miscarriages EP
Munruthel - Oriana's Tales
My Dying Bride - Anti-Diluvian Chronicles
My Dying Bride - Sinamorata DVD
My Dying Bride - Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
Mythological Cold Towers - The Vanished Pantheon
Mythos - Dark Material (Demo)
Månegarm - Dödsfard

N

Necare - Ruin
Neglected Fields - Mephisto Lettonica
No Festival Of Light - If God Lived On Earth, We Would Break His Windows
Novembers Doom - Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
Novembers Doom - Of Sculptured Ivy and Stone Flowers
Novembers Doom - Pale Haunt Departure
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Novembers Doom - To Welcome The Fade

O

Oathean - Fading Away Into The Grave Of Nothingness
Oblomov - Mighty Cosmic Dances
Obscurant - First Degree Suicide
Obscurant - Lifeform: Dead
October Falls - Marras
October Tide - Grey Dawn
October Tide - Rain Without End
Omnium Gatherum - Spirits And August Light
Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Deliverance
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Lamentations DVD
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes DVD
Opeth - Watershed
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Overkill - Killbox 13
Overkill - W.F.O.

P

Paganizer - Murder Death Kill
Pantheist - Amartia
Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown
Paradise Lost - In Requiem
Paradise Lost - The Anatomy Of Melancholy DVD
Passengers In Time - The Musical History Tour
Pimentola - MM-MMV
Primordial - Dark Romanticism
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

Q

R

Rankkuri - Sormet Poikki Ja Vitusti Turpaan
Rain Paint - Nihil Nisi Mors
Rapture - Futile
Rapture - Silent Stage
Rapture - Songs For The Withering
Ram-Zet - Escape
Ram-Zet - Intra
Refusal - Obey The Meat Grinder (Demo)
Relikvia - Ismeretlen Földeken
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam

S

Sacramentum - Far Away From Sun/Finis Malorum
Sacramentum - Thy Black Destiny
Samael - Black Trip DVD
Sara - He Kutsuivat Luokseen
Sara - Veden Äärelle
Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
Scar Culture - Inscribe
Scent Of Flesh - Become Malignity
Sculptured - Embodiment: Collapsing Under the Weight of God
Sculptured - The Spear of the Lily is Aureoled
Sentenced - Frozen
Sentenced - The Funeral Album
Sentenced - Crimson
Sethian - Into The Silence
Shining - IV The Eerie Cold
Shape Of Despair - S/T
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Skyforger - Thunderforge
Sniper - Seducer Of Human Souls
Speedfreaks - Out For Kicks
Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In The Presence of Conviction
Soilwork - Predator's Portrait
Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
Solefald - Pills Against The Ageless Ills
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animatio Dreams
Subterranean Masquerade - Temporary Psychotic State EP
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Summoning - Minas Morgul
Summoning - Nightshade Forests
Swallow The Sun - Ghosts Of Loss
Swallow The Sun - Plague Of Butterflies EP
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came
Swan Christy - Black Is The White Color
Swan Christy - Today Died Yesterday

T

Tenhi - Folk Aesthetics 1996-2006
Thanatoschiz0 - InsomniousNightLift
Tharaphita - Iidsetel Sünkjatel Radadel
Tharaphita - Primeval Force
The Chariot - Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing...
The Dogshit Boys - Business Doing Pleasures With You
The Eternal - The Sombre Light Of Isolation
The Gault - Even As All Before Us
The Green Evening Requiem - S/T
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
The Ocean - Aeolian
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Armageddon March Eternal
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Killing Hellsinki
The Soundbyte - Rivers Of Broken Glass
Thy Mesmerized - S/T
Tjolgtjar - Holnijimnjok
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Tom Waits - Used Songs
Trashcan Dance - Doomsday Disco
Trident - Chained To Routines (Demo)
Trollheims Grott - Bloodsoaked And Ill-Fated
Tumulus - Winter Wood
Tuomari Nurmio & Alamaailman Vasarat - Kinaporin Kalifaatti
Turbonegro - Retox
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
Type O Negative - Symphony For The Devil DVD
Type O Negative - The Least Worst Of

U

Uncanny - Splenium For Nyktophobia
Underdark - I Am Above All
Unexpect - _We, Invaders
Ulver - Blood Inside
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal-Natte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Unsilence - A Walk Through Oceans

V/W

Vanquished - Black Northern Storm
Wasara - Kaiken Kauniin Loppu
Velvetcut - Thirteen
Wetwork - Synod
Viikate - Noutajan Valssi
Viikate - Surut Pois Ja Kukka Rintaan
Viikate - V-DVD 1: Videogaala
Will Of The Ancients - S/T
Windir - Valfar, Ein Windir
Winds - Prominence Of Demise
Winds - Reflections Of The I
Winds - The Imaginary Direction Of Time
Vintersorg - Visions From The Spiral Generator
Wintersun - S/T
Withering - Gospel Of Madness
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Wolves In The Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Woods Of Belial - Deimos XIII
Woods Of Ypres - Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat
Woods Of Ypres - Pursuit Of The Sun & The Allure Of The Earth
Woods Of Ypres - Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blues
Wyrd - Heathen
Wyrd - Huldrafolk
Wyrd - Kammen
Wyrd - Rota
Wyrd - The Ghost Album
Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt.2

Y

X

Z

Znich - Zapaviety Aposniaha Starca

ÅÄÖ

Ásmegin - Hin Vordende Sod & Sø

VA's&Splits

Aphotic/Dust - To Find New Darkness/The Slumber
Beneath The Frozen Soil/Negative Reaction - Split
Celtic Frost Tribute - Order Of The Tyrants
Skepticism Tribute - Entering The Levitation
Exit Wounds/Luciferase - Deathpoint/Misery Ritual
Kukerpillid/Metsatöll - ...Suured Koerad, Väiksed Koerad...
Negative Reaction/Ramesses - Split
Saralee/Gotham OD/Velvetcut - Split

So I'm going through one of those 'I can't find any decent music' stages in my life. I can't really say exactly what i'm looking for because i'm willing to give anything a shot. Have a look at my charts to see if you can get any inspiration from there.

I do however prefer male vocals either singing/growling/screaming though I also enjoy music that infuses female vocals on occasion, i'm a sucker for acoustic pieces in the vein of Agalloch.

Shit to be honest recommend me black metal, sludge, electronic, acoustic, hip hop whatever and i'll even be kind enough to tell you what I think of said band, i'll also give a pony to the winning recommendation. GO!

Recommendations so far;

Aarni
Abigor (Nachthymnen)
Acrid
Aeon (Bleeding The False)
Ars Diavoli (Pro nihilo esse)
Bekhira
Belenos (Errances oniriques)
Bongzilla (Amerijuanican)
Black Sheep Wall
Children of Maani
Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ
dälek
Darkestrah
Darkflight (Perfectly Calm)
Dark Fortress (Eidolon)
Deceased (Fearless Undead Machines)
Deep Purple (In Rock)
Discordance Axis (The Inalienable Dreamless)
Down I Go
Ef
Electric Wizard (dopethrone)
Evil Bebos
Fester (Winter of Sin)
Hematovore
Ianva
Impetigo
King Crimson (In The Court Of King Crimson)
Kvist (For kunsten maa vi evig vike)
Legion of the Damned (Feel the blade)
Madvillain (Madvillainy)
Manatees
Menace Ruine
Nae'blis
Negative Plane (Et In Saecula Saeculorum)
Ne Obliviscaris (The Aurora Veil)
Nick Drake (Pink Moon)
Njiqahdda
Noiserv
Pentagram (Be Forewarned)
Pretend
Rabies Caste
Rinoa
Rosetta (Wake/Lift)
Secret Chiefs 3 (Book Of Horizons)
Shoreline
Sloth
Swans (White Light From The Mouth Of Infinity)
The Ascent of Everest
The Foreshadowing (Days Of Nothing)
To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie
!T.O.O.H.!
Umbra Nihil
Up There: The Clouds
Uaral
Untold (Scharzwald)
Urfaust
Vàli Forlatt
Warning
Woven Hand
Yndi Halda (Enjoy Eternal Bliss)
Zuriaake

1974 Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla

Tag: heavy metal

This album defines the first Not-Sabbath band, Metal begins taking shape as it goes farther away from simple Hard Rock. This is also the year Kiss and Van Halen form.

When I was a kid I was turned away by Judas Priest when I knew they didn't want kids listening to their albums, I rediscovered them much later in life.


1975 Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Tag: heavy metal

Black Sabbath's seminal first five albums have already been released, however it includes one of my favorites, Symptom Of The Universe as well as my least favorite, Am I Going Insane (Radio).

1976 Scorpions - Virgin Killer

Tag: heavy metal

Metal begins the long hard road of being stereotyped as controversial, by now Shock Rock by the likes of Alice Cooper and Kiss is in full strenght.

I never listened to Scorpions seriously, when I was discovering Metal their glory days had already passed.

1977 Motörhead - Motörhead

Tag: heavy metal, speed metal

The reticent fathers of Speed Metal make their debut this year. A scene that is only seven years old begins showing signs of being diverse.

1978 Van Halen - Van Halen


Tag: heavy metal, glam


The seed of the very decadent and brief incursion of Metal into the mainstream, I would know about them alongside everyone else, with their album 1984

1979 AC/DC - Highway to Hell

Tag: heavy metal

By now, AC/DC is a well established band and shirts with their logo are common in the street, my introduction to AC/DC was thanks to a lone song in a compilation; I knew I liked it, but I dared not look for more.

Well, what do you expect? I'm five in 1979!

1980 Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz

Tag: heavy metal

I love the riff of Crazy Train,yet I secretly wish the song was better...

1981 Venom - Welcome To Hell

Tag: heavy metal

The beginning of Extreme Metal and yet I am oblivious to this. No death growls yet, but the satanism associated to Black Metal is there.


1982 Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

Tag: doom metal

By now, Both Witchfinder General and Saint Vitus have taken the original somber sound of Black Sabbath and created Doom Metal, a distinct branch of tye Metal tree.

1983 Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind


Tag: nwobhm


When I was a kid I was absolutely terrified of Eddie! I could not stand watching at the covers! This is my favorite Maiden album, although my Favorite song is Fear of the Dark.

1984 Ángeles del Infierno - Pacto con el diablo


Tag: heavy metal


When I was in Secondary school they made me watch this documentary where a priest spoke about how Metal was evil and had subliminal messages and was corrupting the youth (yeah right). He continually used the song Maldito Sea Tu Nombre as evidence of thus, because it presents the Devil in a positive light. so I listened to that song, I loved it and got myself the tape, Guess my soul was beyond salvation at that point!

1985 Possessed - Seven Churches


Tag: death metal


Extreme metal at its finest and I am still playing with my action figures from Return of The Jedi...

1986 Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus


Tag: doom metal


This album contains one of my favorite songs ever; Solitude. This is one of the reasons I started previewing albums from the Internet, CDs are very expensive in my country, so I have to make sure the one CD I do buy is not going to be a waste. I only knew about this album as from recently.


1987 Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark


Tag: black metal

The world has to suffer the decadence of mainstream metal from the likes of Ratt, Skid Row and Cinderella and this jewel is brewing, the future seed of all metal is silent but extrtemely loud...


1988 - King Diamond - "Them"

Tag: heavy metal

I love King Diamond because he dares to sing evil in that chipmunky voice! In that moment of my life I believed all metal had the same operatic, Dioesque quality but oh no!

1989 - W. A. S. P. The Headless Children

Tag: heavy metal

I entered preparatory and I had to save for a week to buy an album. I saw this one at the record store and bought it the same reason many other kids do, because it looked "evil" and was I surprised!!! Many of you may think less about W. A. S. P. but I still enjoy this album very much.

1990 - Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow

Tag: doom metal

Although many people like Beyond the Crimson Horizon better, I rediscovered this jewel thanks to a fading memory, I had this lyric I could not take from my mind, so one day I googled it and found it was from White Ship, which remains one of my favorite songs.

1991 - Thergothon - Fhtagn-nagh Yog-Gothoth


Tag: doom metal

Yay! Lovecraft inspired music that is not corny,. but actually captures qhat I felt when I was a kid and read "The color out of space" for the first time!


1992 - Root - The Temple In The Underworld


Tag: heavy metal

If I ever have a daughter I am definitively naming her Casilda because of Casilda's Song.


1993 - Brujería - Matando Güeros

Tag: death metal, grindcore

My first real approach to extreme metal. To this day I prefer Death Metal in a language that is not my own (spanish), because actually being able to understand it creeped me out big time.
And the cover is a real classic!


1994 - My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans

Tag: doom metal

I heard this album for the first time in a discman that a girl I was dating gave me while I waited for her outside her class. She had been looking for that album and she finally got around to order it and I was hooked instantly! Back then I liked all sorts of music that I consider stupid now. (I actually took band names from MTV! ugh!!!)


1995 - Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

Tag: doom metal

One of my regrets in life is not going to concerts when I had the chance. I actually missed them when they came to Mexico!!


1996 - Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

Tag: doom metal

One of the only albums or pieces of art that have made me realize the sad reality that I have the personality of an addict, but not the access to the drugs.
That might be the reason I like stoner doom so much.

1997 - Burzum - Daudi Baldrs

Tag: black metal, dark ambient

I love the mental pictures this album gives me, so cold, so desolate, so majestic.. Free Varg Vikernes!!!


1998 - Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

Tag: epic metal

The only album of Epic Metal I like, I haven't been so proactive in listening to more Blind Guardian or Iced Earth or other Epic bands, just because this album fills me so completely.


1999 - Morgion - Solinari

Tag: doom metal

What? You got the name wrong!!! It should be Nuitari!!! Get your Dragonlance deities right!!! You almost make me ashamed of having played Dungeons and Dragons so many years!


2000 - Ufomammut - Godlike Snake

Tag: sludge doom

For years and years this band eluded me, it was the holy grail for me, I just listened to a preview in an obscure website and I was hooked! Until recentñy I got the albums and they don't dissapoint!

2001 - Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order

Tag: symphonic black metal

Do you remember Audiogalaxy? It was a lot like last.fm, with genre clouds, recommendations, forums, live chat... Back in the day of dial-up it was the place where us Napster refugees went to discover new music, I still listened to a lot of garbage The New Shins? blechhhh!!! I got Stabat Mater Dolorosa because I was hooked on a play by the same name and I got this jewel. I got to admit that it was hard for me to get Black Metal, but once I did I never regretted it.


2002 Funeral - In Fields of Pestilent Grief

Tag: funeral doom

I loved Funeral Doom from day one! The ambient, the atmosphere, the twenty minutes or more-long songs. That's why I don't scrobble more songs, my average song is ten minutes long! (and also I listen to one-hour podcasts, last.fm should take into account the time you spend scrobbling!)


2003 - Necrophagia - The Divine Art of Torture

Tag: death metal

An album inspired by ultrahorror films! Both Flower of Flesh and Blood and A meia-noite levarei sua alma are films that inspire me.


2004 - Aarni - Bathos

Tag: funeral doom

The only reason I got this album is because someone tagged it as Industrial Doom. For years I thought that Industrial was my favorite genre of music (I love Velvet Acid Christ, Skinny Puppy and KMFDM, but not that much). This album also oncorporates elements of Thelema and Magick, subjects that fascinated me in the past.


2005 - Reverend Bizarre - Crush the Insects

Tag: doom metal

Thanks, because By This Axe I Rule! taught me that great metal can also afford to be self-aware and parody itself without being silly and rock harder than ever!


2006 - Saturnus - Veronika Decides to Die

Tag: doom metal

Same title as the novel by Paulo Coelho, but the most badass title for an album ever!

2007 - Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir

Tag: death-doom metal

Twilight Innocence brings tears to my eyes, it's so beautiful, and yet it's between br00tal headbanging tracks. If I ever learned something from the original Black Sabbath is that Metal always had a place for ballads, Solitude and Changes being perfect examples of this. (of course, the 80's brought us the power ballad, but I dare you to say that 18 And Life does not rock)


2008 - Ataraxie - Anhédonie

Tag: funeral doom

Avide de sens may last 20 minutes, but I can listen to it again and again. The song that made me buy an Ipod, so I could scrobble while in the street.

2009 -

It’s clear upon first listen to this follow up to their last album that they've have not altered any slightest thing to their sound, and why should they? They’ve mastered their sound and production and topped themselves with this early January release, it's fucking perfect. Flawless, polished production. Great creative song writing. The front man has been consistent releasing new material with his various side projects, and whilst he’s revealed that this is his most personal album yet, it doesn’t seem evident upon first listen. His harsh and demonic voice cutting through you whilst the bass pounds into your ears, leaving no chance of catching a breath as a swift jump into the dirty underground sound of the next track, ups the ante and the relentless bass and monotonous robotics, these are some fucking promising first tracks. The dissonant experimental sound manipulation is just cutting through your ears. It’s easy to critisize the lyrical content of this album; some tracks have some sub-par lyrics, some even having none at all and just manages offensively addictive by their title, but what it really is; lyrically dark, threatening, and very fitting in some respects. This isn't lyrics, this is music. Music has nothing to do with lyrics, if you only want lyrics go read some teenage poetry on myspace.

Easily the album of the year, nothing could possibly beat this, and also one of the best industrial albums ever made.

























FUCK YAR AWESOME COVER TOO
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Obviously, I haven't listened to all that '08 has to offer, so don't act all butthurt if you don't see ColdWorld or Dismember or something.
Well, let's get to it:

10. Fight Amp - Hungry For Nothing

Imagine you're a wasted, stoned, redneck highschool drop-out (seriously, you rip bongs on your mom's couch all day, you fucking leech) and you're at a crust show, having a stompin' good time. That's probably a good description of the atmosphere present here. The guitar tone and attitude bring
Eyehategod to mind, there's some fast d-beat going on at times, and the last two tracks are like a pissed-off bong-missing Sleep. It's quite an energetic album, in a passive-agressive way, at times, and it won't let you go untill you acquaint a Green Day fan with a lead pipe. Oh, and Get High And Fuck is probably the best piece of advice a band can give, be it punk or metal.

9. Hooded Menace - Fulfill the Curse

Razorback Records seem to be diversifying their catalogue, for this Winter/Candlemass/Asphyx loving freaks are death/doom, and use the Tombs of the Blind Dead as thematic. At times, it's slower than the zombie templars themselves, but it's got plenty of tempo shifts, melodic solos and heavy as fuck ass-kickery to maintain your attention. However, if you have ADD and/or eagerly await the latest SAW movie, don't bother.

8. Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels

I haven't heard of this band up untill a couple of weeks ago, when someone pointed it our to me. I took one look at the cover, and my nipples got harder than an arab's "hammer" before detonating his stylish C4 belt. Having picked up this vibe, I finally gave the album a spin, and, maaan, was it rewarding as hell. These Greeks play blasphemous american/swedish old school-tinged death metal, with obvious nods to Incantation or Immolation. However, even though the religious incantations sprinkled across the album suggest an antichristian theme, the cyclopean artwork brings Lovecraft to mind. Which is good. Lovecraft should be the worthiest reason for any band to start playing death metal.

7. Coffins - Buried Death

Do you like Autopsy? Do you like Celtic Frost? Apparently, these Japs sacrifice orphans on the altar of The Gods on a weekly basis. It's simplistic, mid-paced, aggressive, distorted, and more infectios than your mother-in-law's corpse found floating on the toxic waste dump outside of town. There's not a lot to be said about this album, it's the kind of bulldozing, sludgy-as-that-infection-between-your-toes death metal that makes you headbang or dig up graves. Or both, which is even more WIN.

6. Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

Imagine the horror movies and pulp comics of the '50s-'70s through the eyes of three guys that have tried pretty much every hallucinogenic substance ever invented. This psychedelic death/doom metal album shines through diversity and good, fluent songwriting. A sample here, a Halloween-ish organ solo there, a great Quorthon-ish guitar solo, and it's on to the next track, without you even noticing. It could just as well be a 44 minute song. Recommended for fans of Master Of Reality, Winter and anything that's vintage horror.

5. A Forest of Stars - The Corpse Of Rebirth

Victorian Occult Psychedelic Black Metal, even though it sounds more pompous than some transsexual's stage name, might be an accurate enough description for this band. Only the Brits (or maybe the Japs, too) could come up with such a concept, such a band name, such a kick-ass logo! Using a violin as the main actant (but also as a counterpoint to the guitar), a piano, moments of silence, schizoid voices, and some good ol' fashioned British know-how, A Forest of Stars have crafted a very...classy journey. It's an album with good taste, it's very gentlemanly, yet very psychedelic. Extreme, yet soothing. Calculated, yet psychotic. It's definately one of the most original things to arrive on the black metal scene in quite a while.

4. Fullmoon Bongzai - Noisense: a Voodoo Beach Party Celebrating the Unholy

Look at the cover motherfucker it's a bunch of motherfucking goats and a pink motherfucking black metal logo. Fuck.
I gave it a spin, and, maaan, was my habit of downloading bands with weird names rewarded! I guess I could say it's idm/ebm/power electronics/psychedelic trance/any other electronica subcategory I've never heard of, but, in essence and structure, it's black metal with quite a sense of humor, played with atypic instruments for black metal. Shitting at the end of the rainbow is an "interpretation" of Ved Buens Ende..., the guy from Varathron provides vocals for three tracks, and various samples from artists such as Diamanda Galas and Screamin' Jay Hawkins are deformed for your entertainment. I feel somehow guilty for liking this a lot, I feel like I should wear tight, Armani t-shirts, memorise the initial cast of "Cats" on Broadway, and try cocaine at rave parties. It's not a true album, but it's a very, very entertaining listen.

3. Darkspace - Dark Space III

There's not a lot to be said about the interstellar vacuum. Darkspace are back, doing what they do best: they shut the hatch, depressurize, and eject your ass into space, only to be saved by aliens who want to test their new anal probes on you. It's pretty much the same raw atmospheric black metal, with blunt riffs and hypnotic leads that project your consciousness beyond the Gates of the Silver Key.

2. Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags

The last Darkthrone album I've listened to was The Cult Is Alive. The lack of great riffs and songwriting left a bitter taste in my mouth, so I've skipped F.O.A.D.. Still, when this came out, I said "what the heck" and got it. Wise move, apparently, for this might be the catchiest and most memorable album this year. It's pretty damn old school, and I can let go of the fact that it's not entirely original. So what if some riffs were lifted from here and there? The songwriting's great. From the brilliant solo in Hiking Metal Punks, to the rock'n'roll atmosphere of Hanging out in Haiger or the instrumental doom track that gives the album it's name, this has more variety than an International Day for Tolerance meeting. So what if you worship Transilvanian Hunger? Yeah, they've got a new thing going on now, but to scoff and simply say "Meh, punk" is completely idiotic. Get that A Blaze in the Northern Sky CD out of your pants, wipe off that make-up, and give this tremendously entertaining album a try.

1. Crypticus - They Called Me Mad!

"Lovecraft should be the worthiest reason for any band to start playing death metal." -Me.
If that's the case, Crypticus is the worthiest death metal band this year. The instrumental track that opens the album sets the path for the rest. Spacial sounding keys, samples, and a chaining of riffs so tasty, you'd die of colon cancer (you can't restrain yourself from eating, huh, pig?). That is, if riffs were edible. More vicious than an attack conducted by the cats of Ulthar, it doesn't let you breathe one bit. There are no mellow acoustic breaks or long build-ups. It's just lovecraftian death metal with sinuous riffing (which nods to finnish and swedish death metal) that makes you headbang your...uhm, head, clean off. But no worries, the good doctor Herbert West can help you, if that happens. It's catchy, it's fast, it's fun, it's well-written and well played, it's lovecraftian, it's, in my sometimes-humble opinion, the best album of 2008. Bravo, Razorback Records, bravo, Patrick.

Honorable mentions (in no particular order):
Caïna - Temporary Antennae
Wrath of the Weak - Alogon

Helheim - Kaoskult

Cardiac Arrest - Cadaverous Presence

Gruesome Stuff Relish - Horror Rises From The Tomb

Gravehill - Metal of Death/Advocation of Murder and Suicide

Lifelover - Konkurs

Circle of Ouroborus - Veneration

Mgła - Groza

Thyrfing - Hels Vite

Aarni - Tohcoth

Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom

Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life

Birdflesh - The Farmer’s Wrath

So, I guess it's been a good, psychedelic year. Can't wait to see what '09 brings. Can't wait to see what Razorback Records bring in '09.

(Romanian version here.)