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Amber Asylum - Bitter River
Black Tape for a Blue Girl - 10 Neurotics
BONNIE PINK - One
Cheryl Cole - 3 Words
Dunkelschön - Katharsis
Leaves' Eyes - My Destiny
Madonna - Celebration
Nelly Furtado - Mi Plan
Nox Arcana - Blackthorn Asylum
Omnia - World of Omnia
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Perfume - ⊿
Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da
Stellamara feat. Ross Daly & Kelly Thoma - The Golden Thread
The Soil Bleeds Black - The Knightly Years
Theatre of Tragedy - Forever Is the World
VocaMe - Kassia
Within Temptation - An Acoustic Night at the Theatre
べスパ☆くまメロ - PLASTIC CONFUSION

1.How did you get into no.29?
The Mission : I can't even remember, I guess I found them on audiogalaxy once

2. What's the first song you ever heard by no.22?
This Mortal Coil: "Song to the Siren" I think, so beautiful.

3. Whats your favorite lyric by no.33?
Enya: "May It Be" or "On My Way Home"

4. How did you get into no.49?
Deine Lakaien: probably audiogalaxy, those where the days.

5. How many albums by no.13 do you own?
Fields of the Nephilim: 2.

6. What is your favorite song by no.50?
Love Spirals Downwards: "Will You Fade"

7. Is there a song by no.39 that makes you sad?
Hans Zimmer: One of the tracks from The Last Samurai soundtrack always makes me a bit sad. Just the feel of it makes me sad in a good way.

8. What is your favorite song by no.15?
Michael Kamen: The whole soundtrack to Band of Brothers.

9. What is your favorite song by no.5?
Nitzer Ebb: "Get Clean".

10. Is there a song by no.6 that makes you happy?
Type O Negative: "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity", brings back a lot of memories.

11. What is the worst song by no.40?
David Bowie: Hard to say, he has done a few that just doesn't fit my taste.

12. What is your favorite song by no.10?
Autumn's Grey Solace: "Treasure Box"

13. What is a good memory you have involving no.30?
My Dying Bride: "For My Fallen Angel", I once made a mixed tape to someone I cared a lot for, this was the song I was most eager to have on it. I loved the feel of the song and I used to call him Angel. So cheesy, I know. XD

14. What is your favorite song by no.38?
Siouxsie and the Banshees: "Christine", always brings a smile to my face.

15. Is there a song by no.19 that makes you happy?
Billy Idol : " Dancing With Myself". It's my song.

16. Is there a song by no.25 that makes you sad?
Death in June: No.

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Lycia: "Snowdrop" perhaps.

18. What's your favorite lyric by no.11?
Dargaard: Let's just say that I don't listen to them because of the lyrics.

19. Who is a favorite member of no.1?
Tori Amos, enough said ;D

20. Is there a song by no.14 that makes you happy?
Combichrist: Probably "electrohead".

21. What is a good memory involving no.27?
Hungry Lucy: Nothing special.

22. What is your favorite song by no.16?
Feindflug: "Gulag".

23. What is the first song you ever heard by no.47?
Dead Kennedys: "Too Drunk To Fuck"!

24. What is your favorite album by no.18?
Depeche Mode: Ultra

25. What is your favorite song by no.21?
Frédéric Chopin: hard to say,

26. What is the first song you ever heard by no.26?
Placebo: "NancyBoy"

27. What is your favorite album by no.3?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

28. What is you favorite song by no.2?
VNV Nation: "Standing"

29. What was the first song you ever heard by no.32?
Katatonia: " I Am Nothing"

30. What is you favorite song by no.8?
The Birthday Massacre: "Happy Birthday"

31. How many times have you seen no.17 live?
Skinny Puppy: Never :(

32. Is there a song by no.44 that makes you happy?
Black Tape for a Blue Girl: all of them.

33. How did you get into no.12?
The Sisters of Mercy: My sister had a mixed tape with "Temple of Love" on it and the rest is history

34. What is the worst song by no.45?
Jack Off Jill: hmm. never even thought about it.

35. What was the first song you ever heard by no.34?
I have no 34 :)

36. What was the first song you ever heard by no.48?
Wagner: "Ride of the Valkyries"

37. How many times have you seen no.42 live?
Autumn Tears: none.

38. What is you favorite song by no.36?
Mozart: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"

39. What was the first song you ever heard by no.28?
Libera: "Sanctus"

40. What is you favorite album by no.7?
Clan of Xymox: Medusa

41. Is there a song by no.31 that makes you happy?
Delerium: "Silence"

42. What is your favorite album by no.41?
Kate Bush: I wish I could pick more than one :/

43. What is your favorite song by no.24?
Händel: The Messiah album as a whole.

44. What is a good memory you have involving no.46?
The Ducky Boys: walking around in Mölndal.

45. What is your favorite song by no.35?
Bad Religion: "Better Off Dead"

46. Is there a song by no.9 that makes you happy?
The Cure: "Just Like Heaven"

47. What is your favorite album by no.4?
Cocteau Twins: BBC Sessions

48. Who is your favorite member of no.37?
Fixmer/McCarthy: both.

49. What is the first song you ever heard by no.43?
beethoven: " Für Elise"

50. What is your favorite song by no.20?
In My Rosary: "Your shimmering hair"

A
A Challenge of Honour – Ashigaru Revealed (Eternal Pride)
Aghast – Hexerei im Zwielicht der Finsternis (Eternal Pride)
All Gone Dead – Fallen & Forgotten (Gravitator)
AKPAN – Schwarze Sonne (Стрелы Перуна)
Apoptygma Berzerk – Sonic Diary (BMG Russia)
Arcana – Le Serpent Rouge (Displeased)
Arcana – Raspail (Gravitator)
Ataraxia – Kremasta Nera (Shadowplay)
B
Bay Laurel – Where Pain Comes To Die (Irond)
Black Heaven – Kunstwerk (Shadowplay)
Black Lung – Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars (Shadowplay)
Black Tape for a Blue Girl – A Retrospective | 1986–2008 (Shadowplay)
Blink 182 – Enema Of The State (Universal Russia)
Bliss – Re–Thought (Massacre)
Brainstorm – Four Shores (Grand)
C
Caprice – Kywitt! Kywitt! (Shadowplay)
Caprice – Elven Music 2: The Evening Of Iluvatar’s Children (Soyuz)
Caprice – Sister Simplicity (Soyuz)
Caprice – Elven Music 3: Tales Of The Uninvited (Soyuz)
Carbonized – Disharmonization (Irond)
Carbonized – Screaming Machines (Irond)
Charon – Songs For The Sinners (Фоно)
Children Of The Gun – From The Sea To The Ocean (Shadowplay)
Cinema Strange – Cinema Strange (Irond)
Clan of Xymox – Creatures (Gravitator)
Covenant – Dreams Of A Cryotank (Soyuz)
Covenant– Skyshaper (Soyuz)
Colony 5 – Colonisation (Soyuz)
Combichrist – Everybody Hates You (Irond)
Converge – No Heroes (Soyuz)
Cradle of Filth – The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh (Cacophonous)
Cradle of Filth – Dusk And Her Embrace (Music For Nations)
Cradle of Filth – Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (Cacophonous)
Cradle of Filth – Cruelty And The Beast (Music For Nations)
Cradle of Filth – Midian (Music For Nations)
Current 93 – Imperium (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Halo (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Soft Black Stars (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Sleep Has His House (Soyuz)
Current 93 – The Great In The Small (Soyuz)
Current 93 – A Little Menstrual Night Music (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Birdsong In The Empire (Soyuz)
Current 93 – The Inmost Light (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Dawn (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Of Ruine Or Some Blazing Starre (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Bar Maldoror (Soyuz)
Current 93 – Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain (Coptic Cat)
D
Dave Gahan – Hourglass (SBA/Gala)
Das Ich – Die Propheten (Danse Macabre)
Das Ich – Satanische Verse (Danse Macabre)
Dead Can Dance – Spleen And Ideal (Soyuz)
Dead Man’s Hill – Songs From The Forthcoming Apocalypse (Midnight)
Death in June – Black Angel – Live! (Leprosy Discs)
Decree – Moment Of Silence (Irond)
Depeche Mode – Playing The Angel (Mute)
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe (Deluxe Edition) (Mute)
Dernière Volonté – Le Feu Sacré (Hau Ruck!)
Dernière Volonté – Les Blessures De L’Ombre (Hau Ruck!)
Dernière Volonté – Devant Le Miroir (Hau Ruck!)
Der Jager / Ryr – Reichskoloniallied / 415 (Ufa Muzak)
Desiderii Marginis – Years Lend A Golden Charm (Eternal Pride)
Diary of Dreams – Nekrolog 43 (Irond)
Die Form – Extremum (Irond)
Die Form – ExHuman (Irond)
Die Sektor – To Be Fed Upon (Gravitator)
Doppelganger – Saturnian Rings (Shadowplay)
Doppelganger – 12 Steps To Inhumanity (Shadowplay)
Dornenreich – Hexenwind (Irond)
Draconian – Arcane Rain Fell (Irond)
Dracul – Follow Me (Irond)
Dreadful Shadows – Estrangement (Irond)
E
Eden Synthetic Corps – Matte (Gravitator)
Enigma – Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (Virgin)
End of You – Unreal (Spinefarm)
Endvra – Black Eden (Red Stream)
Escape With Romeo – Emotional Iceage (Shadowplay)
Escape With Romeo – Psalms Of Survival (Shadowplay)
Esoteric – Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum (CD Maximum)
Eva O – Damnation / Salvation (Irond)
F
Fields of the Nephilim – Dawnrazor (Soyuz)
Fields Of The Nephlim – The Nephilim (Soyuz)
Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium (Soyuz)
Fields of the Nephilim – Revelations (Soyuz)
Fields of the Nephilim – From Gehenna To Here (Soyuz)
Fields of the Nephilim – Fallen (Soyuz)
Flesh Field – Strain (Soyuz)
Front Line Assembly – Epitaph (Soyuz)
Front Line Assembly – Civilization (Soyuz)
G
Garbage – Beautifulgarbage (BMG Russia)
Girls Under Glass – Minddiver (TME)
Girls Under Glass – Zyklus (Irond)
Godflesh – Songs Of Love And Hate (Earache)
Godflesh – Hymns (Earache)
Golden Apes – Structures [The Inner Scars] (Shadowplay)
Golden Apes – The Geometry Of Tempest (Shadowplay)
Gothminister – Gothic Electronic Anthems (AMG)
Grendel – Harsh Generation (Gravitator)
H
HEX ON – In Slow Motion (Shadowplay)
Heiliges Licht & Zr 19.84 – Empor die Herzen. A Tribute to st. Michael (Ufa Muzak)
Hocico – Memorias Atras (Irond)
I
Icon of Coil – Machines Are Us (Irond)
In My Rosary – 15 (Shadowplay)
In Strict Confidence – Where Sun And Moon Unite (Irond)
Inade – Aldebaran (Cold Spring)
Inade – Burning Flesh (Loki)
Inade – Colliding Dimensions (Loki)
Inade – The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects (Loki)
Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (SBA/Gala)
Interpol – Antics (SBA/Gala)
Interpol – Our Love To Admire (SBA/Gala)
Insekt – Teenmachine (Soyuz)
J
Jesus on Extasy – Holy Beauty (Irond)
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (Никитин)
K
Karjalan Tazavalla – С.Л.О.Н. (Ufa Muzak)
Karna –The Haunted: Age Of Destruction (Eternal Pride / Posession)
Khold – Mørke Gravers Kammer (Irond)
Khold – Krek (Фоно)
Korn – Issues (Epic/Immortal)
L
Lacklustre Mirror – The Book Of The Shattered Bonds Chapter III: The Forgotten Songs (Shadowplay)
Lacrimosa – Stille/Stolzes Herz (Irond)
Lacrimosa – Lichtgestalt / The Party Is Over (Irond)
Lacrimosa – Lichtgestalten (Irond)
L’ame Immortelle – Als die Liebe starb (Irond)
L’ame Immortelle – Gezeiten (BMG Russia)
Les Mort Skin – Provocative Aesthetics (Ufa Muzak)
London After Midnight – Psycho Magnet (Irond)
London After Midnight – Violent Acts Of Beauty (Irond)
Longing For Dawn – A Treacherous Ascension (Irond)
Love Like Blood – Chronology Of A Love–Affair (Hall Of Sermon)
M
Marvargr – Likstank (205)
Meshuggah – obZen (Irond)
My Dying Bride – A Line Of Deathless Kings (Soyuz)
Monumentum – Metastasi (Irond)
Moon Far Away – Беловодие (Shadowplay)
Moon Far Away – Sator (Shadowplay)
Moonspell – The Antidote (Фоно)
Mortiis – Født Til Å Herske (Soyuz)
Mortiis – Crypt Of The Wizard (Soyuz)
Mortiis – The Grudge (Soyuz)
Mylène Farmer – L’autre… (Universal Russia)
Mylène Farmer – Anamorphosée (Universal Russia)
Mylène Farmer – Point de Suture (Universal Russia)
My Shameful – Of All The Wrong Things (CD Maximum)
My Shameful – ...Of Dust (CD Maximum)
MUCC – Kuchiki no tou (Universal Gear)
Muse – Showbiz (Universal Russia)
Muse – Origin Of Symmetry (Universal Russia)
Muse – Absolution (Universal Russia)
N
N-616 – [ex–Planet Earth] (Desolate Catacombs of SMERSH)
Necro Stellar – Pulsing Zero (Shadowplay)
Necro Stellar – Белый Покой (Shadowplay)
Necro Stellar – Saturating Cemetery / Dissaturating Stellar Space (Shadowplay)
Necro Stellar – Red Beast (Shadowplay)
Nirvana – Nevermind (Geffen)
November Növelet – Magic (Galakthorrö)
Nortt – Ligfaerd (Red Stream)
Nurse With Wound – Drunk With The Old Man Of Mountains (Soyuz)

Nurse With Wound– Salt Marie Celeste (Soyuz)
Nurse With Wound – Echo Poeme: Sequence №2 (Soyuz)
O
Occult – Rage To Revenge (Painkiller)
Old Man's Child – Revelation 666 (The Curse Of Damnation) (Фоно)
ohGr – Devils In My Details (Soyuz)
Oomph! – Defekt (Soyuz)
Oomph! – Wunschkind (Soyuz)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Cocktails, Carnage, Crucifixion & Pornography (Cold Meat Industry)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – Apocalips (Cold Meat Industry)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – O N A N I [Practice Makes Perfect] (Cold Meat Industry)
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio & Spiritual Front – Satyriasis (Cold Meat Industry)
Ortokon – Вытравление (Ufa Muzak)
Outofsight – Vodka Likes Smoke –the damned poets– (Rage In Eden)
P
Panzer AG – Your World Is Burning (Irond)
Patenbrigade: Wolff – 12.1.21.20 (Shadowplay)
Placebo – Once More With Feeling (Singles 1996–2004) (SBA/Gala)
Psychic TV – Hell Is Invisible, Heaven Is Her/e (Feelee/Soyuz)
Psyclon Nine – Crwn thy frnicatr (Gravitator)
R
Rabia Sorda – Metodos Del Caos (Irond)
raison d'être – Prospectus I (Cold Meat Industry)
Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against The Machine (Epic)
Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire (Epic)
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle Of Los Angeles (Epic)
Razed in Black – Shrieks, Laments & Anguished Cries (Irond)
Reaper – Hell Starts With An H (Gravitator)
Requiem For FM – Krash! (Shadowplay)
Ritual Front – Солнце Мертвых (Bunkier)
Rome – Nera (Cold Meat Industry)
Rome – Confessions d'un Voleur d'Ames (Cold Meat Industry)
Rome – Masse Mensch Material (Cold Meat Industry)
Rosetta Stone – An Eye For The Main Chance (Shadowplay)
Ryr – 118. The Hidden Sword (Ufa Muzak)
S
Samael – Passage (Фоно)
Samael – Era One (Soyuz)
Samsas Traum – a.Ura und das Schnecken.Haus (Irond)
Scream Silence – Aphelia (Gravitator)
Second Lass – Try to paint a fitful love… (Irond)
Sins Of The Flesh – The Death Of The Flesh (Shadowplay)
Sistrenatus – Division One (Cold Spring)
Six Dead Bulgarians Vs Moon Far Away – Матица (Shadowplay)
Skinny Puppy – Mythmaker (Soyuz)
The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore (SBA/Gala)
Snog – The Last Days Of Rome (Shadowplay)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Todeswunsch – Sous le Soleil de Saturne (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Dead Lovers’ Sarabande (Face One) (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Songs from the inverted Womb (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Es reiten die toten so schnell… (or: the vampyre sucking at his own vein) (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – La Chambre d’Echo – Where the dead birds sing (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Les Fleurs Du Mal (Apocalyptic Vision)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Like A Corpse Standing In Desperation – Part 1 (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Like A Corpse Standing In Desperation – Part 2 (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Like A Corpse Standing In Desperation – Part 3 (Irond)
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows – Sanatorium Altrosa (Irond)
Spiritual Front – Armageddon Gigolo (Irond)
Suicide Commando – Axis Of Evil (Soyuz)
Svasti-ayanam – Sanklesa (Remastered) (Eternal Pride)
Swallow the Sun – The Morning Never Came (Фоно)
T
Tanzwut – Ihr wolltet Spass (Irond)
Tiamat – Wildhoney (Фоно)
Tiamat – A Deeper Kind Of Slumber (Century Media)
The 69 Eyes – Paris Kills (AMG)
The 69 Eyes – Framed In Blood (The Very Blessed Of The 69 Eyes) (AMG)
The 69 Eyes – Devils (SBA/Gala)
The Cure – Disintegration (Fiction)
The Cure – Bloodflowers (Universal Russia)
The Cure – The Cure (Universal Russia)
The Cure – Faith (Remastered) (Universal Russia)
The Cure – 4:13 Dream (Universal Russia)
The Doors – The Doors (Никитин)
The Doors – Strange Days (Никитин)
The Electric Hellfire Club – Burn, Baby, Burn! (Irond)
The House of Usher – Radio Cornwall (Shadowplay)
The Last Days of Jesus – Dead Machines’ Revolution! (Shadowplay)
The Moon and the Nightspirit – Regő Rejtem (Shadowplay)
The Sisters of Mercy – First And Last And Always (Никитин)
The White Stripes – De Stijl (Soyuz)
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan (Soyuz)
Terminal Choice – Menschenbrecher (Irond)
Terminal Choice – New Born Enemies (Irond)
Theatre of Tragedy – Storm (CD Maximum)
Theodor Bastard – Agoraphobia (Q-Code)
Therion – Lemuria / Sirius B (Nuclear Blast)
Tragic Black – The Cold Caress (Shadowplay)
Tribe of Circle – Children of a Weakened God (Hau Ruck!)
Two Witches – Eternal Passion (Shadowplay)
Two Witches – Singles Collection(Shadowplay)
Two Witches – Bites (Shadowplay)
Type O Negative – Dead Again (Soyuz)
U
Unter Null – The Failure Epiphany (Soyuz)
V
V/A – A Special Tribute To Pink Floyd (ZYX)
V/A – Fenriz Presents… The Best Of Old-School Black Metal (Soyuz)
V/A – Perception Multiplied, Multiplicity Unified… The manifold of Peter Andersson (Cold Meat Industry)
V/A – Shadowside Vol. 1 (Shadowplay)
V/A – Spider–Man (Music From And Inspired By) (columbia)
Velvet Acid Christ – Lust For Blood (Metropolis)
Velehentor | Vishudha Kali | Closing The Eternity – Ishopanishad (Vegvisir)
W
Winterkälte – Structures Of Destruction (Hands)
Wolfsheim – Spectators (Irond)
:wumpscut: – Bone Peeler (Metropolis)
:wumpscut: – Evoke (AMG)
:wumpscut: – Body Census (Betonkopf)
Z
Zeraphine – Traumaworld (AMG)
Zeraphine – Blind Camera (AMG)
Zeraphine – Still (Irond)
Zeromancer – Eurotrash (Irond)
Zeromancer – zzyzx (Irond)
А–Я
Агата Кристи – Опиум (Стиль Рекордс)
Агата Кристи – Чудеса (Стиль Рекордс)
Анкылым / Вирь – Tribute To Ministry (Split) (Stauropygial)
ВеданЪ КолодЪ – Волчья Тропа (Славянский Восход)
Вирь – Хорна (Mosquito)
Во Скорбях – Во Скорбях (Sound Age)
К Свету Тьмы – Зов предков (Vegvisir)
Мумий Тролль – Икра (Утекай)
Мумий Тролль – Точно Ртуть Алоэ (Утекай)
ПрологЪ / Мечтец / Вирь – Сплит (S/R)
Тiтло – Лес (Shadowplay)

God Is My Co-Pilot
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O
Bel Canto
Iced Earth
Woven Hand
Bitch Magnet
Pussy Galore
Between the Buried and Me
At the Gates
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
AIDS Wolf
Appalachian Death Ride
Archers of Loaf
The Who
Hash Jar Tempo
Bardo Pond
The Flaming Lips
The Flamin' Groovies
Kaizers Orchestra
TV on the Radio
The The
Motorhead
Metallica
Deftones
Paradise Lost
Kreator
Reverend Bizarre
Electric Wizard
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Squirel Bait
Tricky
Ozric Tentacles
Mercury Rev
High on Fire
Screaming Trees
Strapping Young Lad
The Riverboat Gamblers
Spirit Caravan
Moonsorrow
Stone Roses
Flying Burrito Brothers
Arcturus
Neutral Milk Hotel
Sunny Day Real Estate
Throbbing Gristle
Faith and the Muse
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Star of Ash
Hammers of Misfortune
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Beat Circus
Orange Goblin
Celtic Frost
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Sepultura
T. Rex
Fetchin Bones
Fine Young Canibals
Circle Jerks
New Bomb Turks
Gas Huffer
Southern Culture on the Skids
Vulgar Boatmen
Cop Shoot Cop
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Archipelago Brewing Co.
God Bullies
Agnostic Front
Rites of Spring
The Replacements
Fearless Iranians From Hell
Gaye Bykers on Acid
Infectious Grooves
Burn Witch Burn
The Jesus Lizard
Saint Vitus
Heroine Sheiks
Dirty rotten imbeciles
Mount Holyoke College Class of '66
No WTO Combo
BogMaster
Bad Religion
Arab on Radar
Militant Cheerleaders on the Move
Dead Kennedys
Happy Go Licky
Spinal Tap

All the albums I've actually bought (CD and iTunes) this month, with my impressions from 1 (terrible) to 3 (solid) to 5 (eargasmic).

Enslaved - Monumension - black metal - 2.5
Doesn't seem as focused as other Enslaved albums, so there are lots of parts that put me to sleep.

Enslaved - Isa - progressive black metal - 4

It's true, this may be "Enslaved lite," but "Enslaved lite" is a lot better than "Amorphis lite" or "Emperor lite." Enslaved have successfully integrated psychedelic (Pink Floyd especially) flavours into their sound, which come mainly from the keyboardist Herbrand Larsen, who also does most of the clean vocals. This is still a pretty guitar based album. The guitarists Arve "Ice Dale" and Ivar Bjornson weave guitar riffs harmoniously, creating dark and primal, yet truly catchy, backdrops for bassist Grutle Kjellson's furious gutteral vocals and Nordic imagery. "Lunar Force" and the title-track are perfect slices of what some people call "progressive black metal," although post-black metal makes more sense to me. I don't feel like a storm is descending on me (most black metal); I feel like I am in a warm bubble as I watch the storm. The title-track has a very catchy riff, as well as one of the psychedelic keyboard breaks. Larsen chanting "watching you die with tears of ice" is absolutely memorable. "Lunar Force" has an unbelievably powerful riff that is permanently burned into my psyche. The album continues, picking up again at "Return to Yggdrasill" and not letting up through the monster 12 minute "Neogenesis." "Return to Yggdrasill" has another amazing harmonized riff and almost feels celestial with the heavy use of keyboards and acoustic guitars later on. One track that caught my eye the second or third time around was "Ascension," which has another surreal keyboard passage and uses an organ in a good way.

This album isn't as disturbing as most black metal. If anything, it's completely the opposite of black metal. Most black metal I know tries to destroy my psyche; "Isa" is a pleasing (but pretty dark) experience. The only track I wouldn't reccommend is "Bounded by Allegiance," but that's just me. I'm sure some would like it.

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness - progressive rock, metal - 2.5

I want the hour of my life back. Basically, the band pulls out all the stops, including but not limited to: strings, sitars, eastern sounding melodies, mellotron, sound effects, acoustic guitars, blah, am I missing something? I wish Tchort had cut down on some of the excess, because this takes a lot of pretentiousness to appreciate. Listen to A Change of Seasons, Black Rose Immortal, Crimson, or one of the prog classics if you want a good long song. This could be cut down by at least 2/3 and still been good.

Husker Du - Zen Arcade - hardcore punk - 5
A shocking album that, incredibly, mixes hardcore punk, pop music, psychedelia, and noise rock into a neurotic snapshot of the life of the messed up kid in the 80's. Words like harrowing, cathartic, and terrifying don't even begin to describe this album. More a sociological artifact than music in some places, this is not easy album to listen to. It's pretty rewarding though. Amid the hardcore cathartic bursts, there are a couple of beautiful piano interludes, as if to say that the brutal emotions are there for a purpose, not necessarily to avoid convention. I'm sure this represented more than a few peoples realities better than much of the pop muzak of the 80's. Great songs include: the traumatic "Pink Turns to Blue," the total anthem "Somewhere," the poppy acoustic song "Never Talking to You Again," and the emotional tour-de-force "Reocurring Dreams," which appears once as a shorter blast, and then as the full 14 minute piece. This is really way too diverse to be called punk rock, but this sheer unhinged emotional force is common in hardcore. I think this band defintely inspired many of the first emo and post-hardcore bands. It is one of the greatest album of the 80's to my ears.

Lush - Gala - shoegaze - 5
This album is basically Lush's first 3 ep's put together. One of them was produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, so it's easy to see how much the ladies and guys of Lush enjoyed the 80's dream pop music. They play a very effective brand of it though, which came to be known as shoegazer rock. The vocals and guitars are dreamy, and well, "lush" is a very good word to describe them. I found this album very relaxing and easy to get into. The vocals are sometimes smothered beneath layers of guitar, but this actually works well for most shoegazer bands.

Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty - folk metal - 4.5

...And the Finns once again reclaim the folk-epic-viking-whatvever crown. What an album! This totally blows Light of Day, Day of Darkness away. I was swept away. I could not put this album down. It is basically two songs that go for about an hour. There is a nod to the viking kings Bathory at the beginning of track 2, but I feel like Moonsorrow has sort of grown out of their Bathory influence (some might say dependence). Epic, orgasmic, this is how you write a metal epic.

Mortiis - Født til å herske - dark ambient - 4
Pretty cool gothic/dark ambient album with 2 27 minute ambient but melodic songs. I was surprised at the direction Mortiis went in after hearing how extreme Emperor got. I think this is as good as the 80's gothic masterpieces by bands like Black Tape for a Blue Girl and Dead Can Dance.

My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River - doom metal, gothic - 4.5
This really is the best MDB album. "The Cry of Mankind" repeats an epicly sorrowful siren-like melody over and over, giving way to the verses and later a (kinda unnecessary) 3 or 4 minute ambient passage. The rest of the album is almost as good: "A Sea to Suffer In," "Two Winters Only," and "Your Shameful Heaven" are still some of the best songs MDB has written. Aaron Strainthorpe seems to be terminally depressed on this album. The combination of his mournful drawl and morbid lyrics, the crawling guitars and the somber violins, and the romantic elements creates a very austere atmosphere which is still something MDB can do better than 90% of the bands that try. I'm left comfortable numb, and in a way I enjoy this, but much differently than say a Doors or Wilco album, obviously. This is not happy music, but it is likeable music. I'm excited to see where this goes, and I don't care where. My version includes a couple bonus live songs, one in which the singer cracks his voice from despair. Truly a MDB moment.

Ramones - Rocket to Russia - punk rock - 4
Goofy punk rock fun fun fun music from one of the top bands of New York's CBGB's. Like all Ramones reissues these days, mine has shiteloads of bonus tracks, outtakes, live performances etc, and the liner notes give a good perspective of the urban life their music turns inside out. They turn the most serious and unhealthy topics into 2-3 minute bubblegum pop songs with snotty vocals and buzzsaw guitars rampaging throughout. I love the snotty "he don't care" in the call-and-response of "I Don't Care" and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" is a classic. The dumber the choruses and topics, the more I like this (see "We're a Happy Family"). Overall, the best Ramones album I own.

Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - psychedelic rock - 4
This album comes right from the late 60's psychedlic/counter-culture scene of the USA, and is full of far-outness. I can't remember half the song right now, but this album is really great to 'experience' as opposed to remember later. 3 stand out: "Space Child," "When I Touch You," and "Street Worm," although I could've easily said "Morning Will Come" or "Animal Zoo." Just get high. S'all good.

Tank - Filth Hounds of Hades - nwobhm - 4
This band was put together by The Damned's bassist/singer Algy Ward, and they share the asskicking simplicity of punk, if not the sound. The guitars are raw and typical of the NWOBHM sound that bands like Iron Maiden and Samson did at the time. This is riff-based, with good ones coming in the stupidly named "(He Fell in Love With) A Stormtrooper" (maybe that's the point, dumb and fun), "Run Like Hell" whose lyrics bring a big dumb grin to my face, and the most metal song of all, "Blood, Guts, and Beer." This is low-brow, party metal with punk and Motorhead influences, and I like it.

Wintersun - Wintersun - melodic death metal - 3.5

It was hard for me to decide what genre this is. While it has some death metal elements, and is melodic, it`s almost more like black metal or folk metal at times, with it`s emphasis on frostbitten-ness and, well, winter. I found some of the tracks epic and good (Starchild, Death and the Healing), while the effect of others wears off after a few listens (Beyond the Dark Sun). Overall, though, with fantastic songs like Winter Madness (truly an high moment for Finnish metal), I can`t complain. I`m close to liking this a lot, but there are some moments that kinda leave me cold, and not in the way Jari Maenpaa and co. want.

Within Temptation - The Silent Force - gothic rock, pop - 3
It all gets a little too fancy and over-emotional at times. I wish that the singer Sharon del Adel would vary the emotions her vocals represent, because this whole "drowning in tears" thing has been done before, so it's not really special, just annoying. Other than that, it's a pretty enjoyable album. She actually is a good singer when she tones it down a bit (something Tarja never learned to do), like on the beautiful ballad "Somewhere" and the graceful symphonic rock of "It's the Fear." I don't mind that the guitars are polished and pushed back in favour of keyboards and orchestration. It's not that WT were becoming more pop that irritates me, it's that I don't believe all these *grief and tears* displays come from the heart, so it is kind of hard to put my heart into it when these emotions are so commonplace and overused.

A list of my favourite bands that are extremely underground or unsigned. I've provided download links for all the ones that are currently without a record label, or whose work is unavailable elsewhere.

1. 2 Bullet

A Japanese EBM/industrial metal group. This group is one of my favourite bands right now. First off, they're interesting for mixing guitars and synth with about equal emphasis. Second off, they're an EBM act with practically no techno influences, and undistorted vocals, which makes them completely different from basically every other EBM band except Das Ich. They're also very theatrical. The theme seems to be "revolution", and they start shirtless-wrestling with each other at a lot of stage shows. They're really talented and I think pretty much anyone who likes EBM or industrial metal will like them.
You can get their free album You're Downloading Anarchism here:
http://2bullet.net/xoops/modules/contents0/index.php?id=8

2. Vanished Empire

This band is a side project of Dee Lee from 2 Bullet(Collaborating with Dj Chihiro), and is probably the least known of any band on this list with only 16 listeners on last.fm. It's similar to 2 Bullet, but darker, and without guitars.
Download:
http://rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/165499655/vanishedempire.rar.html

3. Acretongue

What genre is this band? Ethereal, atmospheric, avant-gardeish electronic music. People usually call it EBM, and it makes appearances on compilation such as Endzeit Bunker(an industrial compilation), but it's really not. It is, however, extremely awesome.
I'm actually quite excited about this band, since it's excellent and apparently their first album is nearing completion. As it is they've only put out limited edition demos and made a few compilation appearances.
Download:
http://rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/165502198/acretongue.rar
4. Killer Bug

Some of the harshest noise out there. Killer Bug was an alias Kazumoto Endo used to use for his pedal-based noise music. I don't like to use a cliched phrase, but it's definitely not for the faint of heart.
You can get a compilation of his work here(remove the space in the URL):
megaupload .com/ ?d=LF7I7L67

5. Control Alt Deus

Extremely trancey EBM from Portugal. It's pretty awful generic, but it does generic-ness better than a lot of big name aggrotech bands.

[url=http://www.[spam nofollow=yes]/download/50557583d9653ed6]All songs in studio
Live album:
http://www.rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/151254061/Control_Alt_Deus_Live_at_Metropolis_Club_2008.rar.html

HocicoCombichristIcon of CoilDas IchSchwarz SteinBlack Tape for a Blue GirlDead Can DanceEisbrecherMegaherzAural VampireGothikaBLAM HONEYMasonnaGovernment AlphaMerzbowThe Gerogerigegege

A list of my favourite bands that are extremely underground or unsigned. I've provided download links for all the ones that are currently without a record label, or whose work is unavailable elsewhere.

1. 2 Bullet

A Japanese EBM/industrial metal group. This group is one of my favourite bands right now. First off, they're interesting for mixing guitars and synth with about equal emphasis. Second off, they're an EBM act with practically no techno influences, and undistorted vocals, which makes them completely different from basically every other EBM band except Das Ich. They're also very theatrical. The theme seems to be "revolution", and they start shirtless-wrestling with each other at a lot of stage shows. They're really talented and I think pretty much anyone who likes EBM or industrial metal will like them.
You can get their free album You're Downloading Anarchism here:
http://2bullet.net/xoops/modules/contents0/index.php?id=8

2. Vanished Empire

This band is a side project of Dee Lee from 2 Bullet(Collaborating with Dj Chihiro), and is probably the least known of any band on this list with only 16 listeners on last.fm. It's similar to 2 Bullet, but darker, and without guitars.
Download:
http://rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/165499655/vanishedempire.rar.html

3. Acretongue

What genre is this band? Ethereal, atmospheric, avant-gardeish electronic music. People usually call it EBM, and it makes appearances on compilation such as Endzeit Bunker(an industrial compilation), but it's really not. It is, however, extremely awesome.
I'm actually quite excited about this band, since it's excellent and apparently their first album is nearing completion. As it is they've only put out limited edition demos and made a few compilation appearances.
Download:
http://rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/165502198/acretongue.rar
4. Killer Bug

Some of the harshest noise out there. Killer Bug was an alias Kazumoto Endo used to use for his pedal-based noise music. I don't like to use a cliched phrase, but it's definitely not for the faint of heart.
You can get a compilation of his work here(remove the space in the URL):
megaupload .com/ ?d=LF7I7L67

5. Control Alt Deus

Extremely trancey EBM from Portugal. It's pretty awful generic, but it does generic-ness better than a lot of big name aggrotech bands.

[url=http://www.[spam nofollow=yes]/download/50557583d9653ed6]All songs in studio
Live album:
http://www.rapidREMOVEMEshare.com/files/151254061/Control_Alt_Deus_Live_at_Metropolis_Club_2008.rar.html

HocicoCombichristIcon of CoilDas IchSchwarz SteinBlack Tape for a Blue GirlDead Can DanceEisbrecherMegaherzAural VampireGothikaBLAM HONEYMasonnaGovernment AlphaMerzbowThe Gerogerigegege

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