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So I decided to reset my charts... again (after about 23,000 scrobbles). Here are my top artists and albums from early January up until late November. It seems I can't go more than 25k scrobbles without resetting... I would probably have over 100,000 scrobbles if I never reset my charts (combined with my scrobbles from my old account).


1. Steve Roach- 504
2. Boards of Canada- 490
3. Agalloch- 377
4. maudlin of the Well- 343
5. Autechre- 324

6. Mayhem- 273
7. Bethlehem- 269
8. The Prodigy- 259
9. Organized Konfusion- 256
9. Tiesto- 256
9. Aphex Twin- 256
12. Stars of the Lid- 233
13. OutKast- 227
14. Enslaved- 202
15. Slowdive- 198
16. Global Communication- 183
17. Stendeck- 181
18. Gorguts- 179
18. Drudkh- 179
20. Sun Kil Moon- 177

21. Bjork- 174
22. Burzum- 168
23. Hypocrisy- 167
24. Emperor- 166
25. Biosphere- 163
26. J-Live- 160
27. Cannibal Ox- 157
28. Harold Budd- 156
29. Warning- 155
30. Have a Nice Life- 152
31. Bathory- 147
31. Isis- 147
33. Robert Rich- 145
34. Deepspace- 143
35. Tool- 142
36. Low-140
37. The Cure- 136
38. Darkthrone- 134
39. Venerean- 127
40. Katatonia- 124
40. Air Liquide- 124
42. Cryptopsy- 122
43. The Future Sound of London- 120
43. The Smashing Pumpkins- 120
45. dälek- 119
46. Wolves in the Throne Room- 117
47. Death- 115
47. Squarepusher- 115
49. diSEMBOWELMENT- 114
50. Red House Painters- 112

51. Thomas Köner-107
52. Jesu- 106
52. Atheist- 106
54. Nine Inch Nails- 105
55. Above & Beyond- 104
56. Ulrich Schnauss- 101
57. Devin Townsend- 100
58. Tenhi- 97
58. CunninLynguists- 97
60. Edge of Sanity- 96
61. Eluvium- 94
61. Jóhann Jóhannsson- 94
61. Tiamat- 94
61. Amorphis- 94
61. Lykathea Aflame- 94
61. The Orb- 94
67. Walknut- 93
68. Opeth- 92
68. DJ Shadow- 92
68. Pestilence- 92
68. Negură Bunget- 92
72. Jeru the Damaja- 91
72. Nas- 91
72. Shining- 91
72. Aesop Rock- 91
76. In the Woods...- 90
77. Harold Budd/Brian Eno- 88
78. Smif-N-Wessun- 86
79. Natural Snow Buildings- 81
80. Arcticology- 80
80. Proem- 80
82. Deep Puddle Dynamics- 79
83. Jedi Mind Tricks- 76
83. Ulver- 76
85. Neurosis- 75
86. Dereleech- 74
86. Lifelover- 74
86. Boris- 74
89. Morbid Angel- 73
90. In Flames- 71
90. Radiohead- 71
92. Antonio Vivaldi- 70
93. M83- 69
93. Carbon Based Lifeforms- 69
95. The Flaming Lips- 68
95. Depeche Mode- 68
95. Satyricon- 68
98. Weakling- 66
98. Wu-Tang Clan- 66
100. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls- 65
101. Genelec & Memphis Reigns- 64
102. Fen- 63
102. Blut aus Nord- 63
104. Dolorian 62
104. Elliot Smith- 62
104. Nadja- 62

Albums
1. Boards of Canada- Geogaddi- 283
2. The Prodigy- Music for the Jilted Generation- 251
3. Bethlehem- Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irrelioser- 249
4. Agalloch- The Mantle- 246
5. Steve Roach- Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces- 243
6. Organized Konfusion- Stress: The Extinction Agenda- 240
7. maudlin of the Well- Leaving Your Body Map- 227
8. Slowdive- Souvlaki- 192
9. Global Communication- 76:14- 166
10. Stendeck- Faces- 162

11. Stars of the Lid- The Tired Sounds of...- 159
12. Sun Kil Moon- April- 157
12. Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein- 157
14. Warning- Watching From a Distance- 149
15. Bjork- Vespertine- 139
16. Mayhem- De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas- 136
17. OutKast- ATLiens- 120
18. Gorguts- The Erosion of Sanity- 118
19. diSEMBOWELMENT- Transcendence Into the Peripheral- 111
19. Mayhem- Wolf's Lair Abyss- 111
19. Autechre- Amber- 111
22. The Future Sound of London- Lifeforms Disk 1- 109
23. Steve Roach- Dreamtime Return- 107
24. Biosphere- Substrata- 103
25. Harold Budd- The White Arcades- 101

26. Red House Painters- Red House Painters [Rollercoaster]- 100
27. J-Live- The Best Part- 97
27. Tool- Lateralus- 97
29. Air Liquide- The Increased Difficulty of Concentration- 96
30. Ulrich Schnauss- Far Away Trains Passing By- 95
30. Low- I Could Live in Hope- 95
32. Lykathea Aflame- Elvenefris- 94
32. Eluvium- Copia- 94
34. Walknut- Graveforests And Their Shadows- 93
34. dälek- Absence- 93
36. Tiamat- Wildhoney- 92
36. DJ Shadow- Endtroducing...- 92
38. Hypocrisy- The Final Chapter- 91
38. Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children- 91
40. Emperor- Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk- 89
40. Jeru the Damaja- The Sun Rises in the East- 89
42. Enslaved- Below the Lights- 88
42. Nas- Illmatic- 88
44. Tiesto- Magik, Vol. 7: Live in Los Angeles- 87
45. Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark- 84
46. maudlin of the Well- Bath- 83
47. Negură Bunget- Om- 82
48. In the Woods...- HEart of the Ages- 81
49. Deep Puddle Dynamics- The Taste of Rain... Why Kneel- 79
49. Aphex Twin- Drukqs Disk 1- 79

51. Atheist- Unquestionable Presence- 77
51. Deepspace- World Ocean Atlas- 77
51. Smif-N-Wessun- Dah Shinin'- 77
54. Jedi Mind Tricks- Violent By Design- 76
55. Tenhi- Kauan- 75
56. Johann Johannsson- Fordlandia- 74
57. Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness- 73
57. Agalloch- Ashes Against the Grain- 73
59. CunninLynguists- Strange Journey Volume One- 70
60. Death- Human- 68
60. Natural Snow Buildings- The Dance of the Moon and the Sun- 68
62. Pestilence- Testimony of the Ancients- 67
63. Wu-Tang Clan- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)- 66
63. Weakling- Dead as Dreams- 66
65. Amorphis- Tales From the Thousand Lakes- 65
65. Thomas Koner- Nuuk- 65
65. M83- Saturdays=Youth- 65
65. Drudkh- Autumn Aurora- 64
69. Genelec & Memphis Reigns – Scorpion Circles- 64
69. Devin Townsend- Ocean Machine- 64
71. Fen- The Malediction Fields- 63
71. The Orb- The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld Disk 1- 63
73. Have a Nice Life- Voids- 62
74. Burzum- Filosofem- 61
75. Drudkh- Forgotten Legends- 60
75. Arcticology- Eternal Now- 60
75. J-Live- All Of The Above- 60
79. Cryptopsy- Blasphemy Made Flesh- 59
79. The Marcia Blaine School for Girls – Halfway Into The Woods- 59
81. Sodom- Persecution Mania- 58
82. GZA/Genius- Liquid Swords- 57
82. The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere- Polar Sequences- 57
82. Isis- Wavering Radiant- 57
82. Lifelover- Konkurs- 57
86. Stars of the Lid- Avec Laudenum- 56
87. Proem- Socially Inept- 55
87. Burzum- Det Som Engang Var- 55
87. OutKast- Aquemini- 55
87. Edge of Sanity- Purgatory Afterglow- 55
87. Elliot Smith- Either/Or- 55
93. Isis- Oceanic- 54
93. Jesu- Jesu- 54
95. The Cure- Pornography- 53
95. ColdWorld- Melancholie- 53
95. Terrorizer- World Downfall- 53
98. Enslaved- Blodhemn- 52
98. Massive Attack- Mezzanine- 52
98. Aphex Twin- 52
101. October Tide- Rain Without End- 51
101. Carbon Based Lifeforms- Hydroponic Garden- 51
103. Depeche Mode- Black Celebration- 51
103. Wolves in the Throne Room- 51
103. Robert Rich- Calling Down the Sky- 51
103. Darkthrone- A Blaze in the Northern Sky- 51

I have a dream that one day metal elitists will take their heads out their arses, and realise taste is purely subjective, such that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all genres are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the grim frostbitten hills of Norway, the black metalheads and the gangsta rappers will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even Gothenburg, a place sweltering with shitty melodeath, and rife with generic sellouts, will be transformed into an oasis of progressive soul nurturing music.

I have a dream where bands will not be judged by how 'catchy their riffs are' but by how well they accomplish what they set out to do.

Who's with me?

Between the Buried and MeBurzumOpethDimmu BorgirNileDream TheaterNevermoreMastodonIsisNeurosisMeshuggahThe OceanMayhemDarkthroneEmperorSymphony XSikThAfter the BurialThe Dillinger Escape PlanBorisBehemothAgallochToolAyreonSlayerIn FlamesDeftonesLamb of GodNightwishChildren of BodomTriviumKatatoniaAmon AmarthDragonForceGojiraCradle of FilthArch EnemyDevilDriverStrapping Young Lad

I WAS THE BEST

fuck all other lists

Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01a: 200 to 181
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.01b: 180 to 161
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02a: 160 to 141
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.02b: 140 to 121
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03a: 120 to 101
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.03b: 100 to 81
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.04a: 80 to 61
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.04b: 60 to 41
Previously: My top 200 tracks 1990-99 Pt.05a: 40 to 21

20
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The Dead Flag Blues
F# A# (Infinity)
1996

The sound of a world slowly decaying and descending into the apocalypse, this was like some kind of future prophecy recorded to tape, as the three-part, sixteen minute epic took in bleak spoken word, cinematic soundscapes, quasi-orchestral movements, and the sound of the world rushing past in slow motion. This wasn't post-rock, it was post-apocalypse rock. It needs a description of it's own as, simply, no-one else sounds like this.

19
Massive Attack
Inertia Creeps
Mezzanine
1998

This Massive Attack album was more than a bit of a change from the mellow electronics of the previous albums - a suffocating darkness took hold of the whole album, of paranoia and fear, of which one of the few deviations from that was this - a track of after-dark, sultry tones that was clearly about sweat-drenched sex. I'm not sure I want to know how many, er, liasons this has soundtracked over the years, but I bet it's a lot.

18
Rico
Smokescreen
Sanctuary Medicines
1999

As the air-raid siren heralds the slow, trudging beats, and the track hauls itself into life as Rico details another song of fear and loathing, all the memories of the time around it that I went through come flooding back. This first album was one of those that became seriously personal to me, and the intense claustrophobic feel of this track more than any other.

17
Whale
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe
We Care
1995

Formed by a couple of TV presenters, as I recall, and I'm not exactly sure how serious they were, but whatever happened, this track blew up in a big way, although we in the UK were later to the party than everyone else (this was being played wall-to-wall on MTV Europe a long time before it was a hit in the UK). What they were on about, none of us ever had any idea, really, but the track ruled. Female-fronted, psuedo-rap rock with a massive, massive chaotic chorus - and a fun video - was always going to be a hit in the days when music channels actually realised that alternative music was popular. Incredibly, footage exists on Youtube of the performance of this on TOTP, although what the comedy outfits are for, I have no idea.

16
VAST
Here
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
1998

A song so radically different to anything that came before it that it still, eleven years hence, sounds unique, it serves as a reminder that small artists can still break through to wider success, even for a short while, with actual talent. This track, the opening track to the striking debut album by Jon Crosby (for he is VAST), introduced itself on the back of string sample that continued to weave it's magic for longer than you'd perhaps expect, before the track proper kicked in - pounding, skyscraping rock that should really have been sung back by stadium crowds, such was it's magnificence. That it never quite worked out like that is a testament to how short-sighted that the music industry can be.

15
Emperor
Ye Entrancemperium
Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
1997

For me Emperor's finest single track, this is a technically astonishing whirlwind of sound that is somehow surprisingly accessible at the same time (and is also reasonably melodic, too, something you don't always expect from Black Metal). It's still satisfyingly extreme, though, don't worry about that...

14
Machine Head
Davidian
Burn My Eyes
1994

Has metal, really, ever got much better than this? It may be endlessly overplayed nowadays, but there is a good reason for that - it's awesome. From the lengthy tease of the riffing opening, the bellowed chorus, the solos, and that breakdown to close...this is all but metal perfection.

13
Girls Against Boys
Bulletproof Cupid
Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
1993

Unconnected to the Placebo track of the same name (other than that the Placebo one could be suggested to be a nod to this band), one of the greatest (and unheralded) alt.rock tracks of the early nineties. But then, GVSB never did adhere to fashions, instead preferring to go for a melodic, hardcore-esque sound with Scott McCloud's distinctive, smoky vocals and of course the twin-bass sounds. This track is from their revered Venus Luxure No.1 Baby album, a long-time live favourite and probably featuring Alexis Fleisig's best-ever drumming, too...

12
Front 242
Happiness
Re.Boot. Live
1998

The only live track I even considered for entry into this listing, this was the track that, when released on Re:boot, reminded us that 242 were indeed still very, very vital and very much alive. Much changed from the slightly-dull album version, the way this builds is a textbook lesson in how to do so and raise the tension of the crowd. Perhaps this is why a studio version of this track never materialised in this form: let's be honest, it works best in the live arena, even if this has become a rare live track that DJs are willing to use!

11
White Zombie
Super-Charger Heaven
Astro-Creep: 2000
1995

My girlfriend and I reckon a graph showing number of "Yeeeaaah"s uttered by Rob Zombie in each song compared to how popular/great they are would show a pretty strong correlation. And here's proof. The skull-crushing, rampaging second track on the last White Zombie album, they never got better than this. You know the song by now, right? Surely I need say no more...

10
The Breeders
Cannonball
Last Splash
1993

Who could have predicted that it would be Kim Deal that got the big success post-Pixies? It took a few years, and the albums never were that consistent, but when her new band got it right, the results were astonishing. And exhibit A? This immortal track, that starts slowly, before blossoming into a garage-surf-punk-sixties revival track that still brings a smile to my face every time I hear it...

9
Spiritualized
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
1997

The beautiful, aching lullaby that opens Jason Pierce's tour de force of drug-infused/related space rock, this is music that really had a soul. And soul, as it turned out. A lament to lost love, or drug addiction, it's difficult to separate them in this context, let's be honest, but either way this is gorgeous. The "proper" version, including the Elvis Presley lyrics so cruelly removed the first time around, has been played live this year at least (and was even better than the original at the RFH gigs), and is finally released properly on the new release of the album next week.

8
Swans
Failure
White Light From the Mouth of Infinity
1991

Probably the bleakest song about human nature that I will ever include in any list, ever, I'm not sure what this says about me that it's in my top ten songs of the 90s. When Michael Gira reined in the extremities of the sound of Swans as the 90s dawned, he didn't rein in the lyrical themes of darkness, despair and hate one bit. Here's proof - this track is little more than Gira and a guitar, but emotionally is heavier and more draining than just about anything else he did, an extraordinary musing on the titular subject. Just recently, too, the astonishing power of the track has been harnessed by My Dying Bride, whose cover is equally brilliant.

7
Misery Loves Co.
Kiss Your Boots
Misery Loves Co.
1995

The first Misery Loves Co. album was, to put it mildly, somewhat unsubtle. For the most part, it was rampaging industrial metal, with more of an emotional core than the machine-orientated themes of the like-minded Fear Factory, but it didn't come up short on heaviness, either. Kiss Your Boots was a perfect example, made to sound all the heavier by the whispered intro before the chorus bursts into contention. Oh, and that breakdown in the middle was immense, too...

6
Garbage
Vow
Garbage
1995

The song that started Garbage on the way to being big, big stars, and it remains their peak (and that's not to say that the first two albums, at least, weren't brilliant). Channeling elements from various sources (not least Curve, whose earlier style they purloined somewhat), this was a thrilling, chilling track with Shirley Manson delivering a devastating vocal performance that suggested it was, to say the least, best to stay on her good side. And that phased guitar intro still gives me the shivers.

5
Machines of Loving Grace
Butterfly Wings
Concentration
1993

A band that only ever gained real recognition thanks to their musical inclusion in The Crow, their material otherwise really did merit further listening - one of the many bands experimenting with industrial rock during the decade, their dark, seedy take on the genre resulted in some really interesting and unusual songs, and in particular this one - a track that I first heard thanks to the wonders of 120 Minutes on MTV Europe (oh for the days when MTV still covered real alternative music). A strange, dark but poppy(ish) track with lyrics referencing chaos theory, and something of a contempt for humanity, this was as about as commercial as the band ever got...

4
Alice in Chains
Would?
Dirt
1992

The final track on Dirt, and by some considerable distance the greatest song of the grunge era, I'm not really sure what else to say about this. For one, it always struck me lyrically as Layne Staley exorcising his demons in song, a plea for those criticising his lifestyle to look at things from his perspective for once. Musically, it's chorus is chillingly moving, but it's the sudden key shift at the end, as the track changes tack entirely, that always leaves a lump in my throat.

3
Dark Star
Vertigo
Twenty Twenty Sound
1998

An album that has been far, far, too precious to me for over ten years now, there was something about Dark Star's spaced-out and taut alt.rock that got me from the off - it may well, frankly, have "Bic" Haye's confessional lyrics that really got their claws in. The slightly messy, confused state-of-mind that the lyrics hinted out certainly resonated with my head at the time, but in particularly the scratchy, muscular beats of Vertigo dug their claws in that little bit deeper than the rest - a track about dusting yourself down, and moving on. The final refrain, of course, became my website domain (and my username here, too).

2
Underworld
Cowgirl
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
1994

The single greatest electronic track ever from probably the greatest of all of the electronic acts, this is eight of the most thrilling minutes to listen to. It doesn't initially sound like a lot - the whirling vortex of the electronics start things off, before Karl Hyde's stream of conciousness helps the track to get going, and then the beats kick in and we're off on a ride to the stratosphere. Even more astonishing is the live version of this - I saw them close with it late into Sunday evening at V98 and it remains one of the greatest live "moments" of my life.

1
Brainiac
I Am a Cracked Machine
Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
1996

The sheer oddness of this band really cannot be overstated. So far ahead of their time they were in space before most of their so-called peers were rubbing sticks to make fire, their ascent to the top of the pile was cut short by Tim Taylor's death - and it's tempting to wonder exactly how much further they could have pushed the envelope. While the last EP was a curious, electronic beast, this mighty track was the robotic snarl that closed their last full-length album, with a sound somewhere in the realms of Nine Inch Nails, if they had instead been armed with a Moog and a sonic template closer to new-wave - and where Tim Taylor admits he is flawed, but frankly couldn't give a fuck, as he was a rock star in waiting. A shame that latter bit was never realised.

Coming Soon: My top 100 albums 1990-99

As a metal listener, I have been trying to get people to pay attention to why I listen to metal -- for most of my adult life. They focus on it being loud, "angry" and possibly antisocial, but never accept that it might have a reason for being that way and I might have a reason for liking it.

Until the Light Takes Us looks into why people make metal, and crosses political and genre lines to show how large corporations, fast food restaurants, religions and socially popular ideas are all the same type of thing, and metalheads have reason to reject it.

By looking into early 1990s black metal, this film explores the thoughts all of us have but are afraid to admit we do. Metal is only the lens, but the topic is a very human one: how do we both get along socially and stay true to ourselves?



See the film at these locations:

AUSTIN, TX
November 21-26 at Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
http://www.originalalamo.com/Show.aspx?id=6922

CHICAGO, IL
Starts January 8 at Siskel Film Center
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/

DENVER, CO
Starts January 29 at Starz Film Center
http://www.denverfilm.org/filmcenter/

DETROIT, MI
November 27 at Burton Theatre
http://www.burtontheatre.com/

GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Starts December 4th at UICA
http://www.uica.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=612

HOUSTON, TX
Starts December 10 at Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks
http://www.drafthouse.com/westoaks/

LOS ANGELES, CA
Starts December 11 at Laemmle's Sunset 5
http://www.laemmle.com/index.php

NEW ORLEANS, LA
November 24-30 at Zeitgest Art Center
http://zeitgeisttheater.wordpress.com/

NEW YORK, NY
Starts December 4th at Cinema Village (22 East 12th Street, between University and 5th)
http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/

PROVIDENCE
Starts December 4th at Cable Car Cinema
http://www.cablecarcinema.com/

Don't see your local theater or city on here?  Call your local alternative theater and request that they show UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US. Be polite, be friendly, and let them know that there's a big audience in the community. You'd be surprised how well it works!

* Until the Light Takes Us
* Last.fm
* MySpace
* YouTube (official trailer)

Featured bands:

* Mayhem
* Emperor
* Burzum
* Darkthrone
* Satyricon
* Ulver
* Boards of Canada

1000: Queens of the Stone Age - Battery Acid
2000: Hate Eternal - The Obscure Terror
3000: Disrupt - Smash Divisions
4000: Cold Fusion - Dominium Maris Baltici
5000: Edge of Sanity - Black Tears
6000: Setherial - In the Still of a Northern Fullmoon
7000: Abscess - Deathscape in Flames
8000: Death in June - Bring in the Night
9000: Insomnium - At The Gates Of Sleep
10000: Death in June - Luther´s Army (Black Mix)
11000: Cannibal Corpse - Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead
12000: Ulver - Like Music
13000: Amduscia - Dead or Alive (club mix)
14000: David Bowie - Let's Dance
15000: Cypress Hill - Illusions
16000: Velvet Acid Christ - discolored eyes
17000: Mayhem - A Bloodsword and a Colder Sun (Part I)
18000: Sol Invictus - Here We Stand
19000: Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
20000: Mayhem - Freezing Moon
21000: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
22000: Dimmu Borgir - Da den kristne satte livet til
23000: Death in June - This is Not Paradise
24000: SPK - day of
25000: Der Blutharsch - CD2-IX
26000: Mayhem - Necrolust
27000: Belphegor - The Sin - Hellfucked
28000: Arditi & Toroidh - Untitled I
29000: Yazoo - Mr. Blue
30000: Bal-Sagoth - Behold, the Armies of War Descend Screaming From the Heavens!
31000: Lifelover - En Tyst Minut
32000: Carpathian Forest - Bloodlust and Perversion
33000: Bad Boys Blue - I Totally Miss You
34000: Turbonegro - Hot Cars
35000: Warloghe - Desecration
36000: Emperor - The Ancient Queen
37000: Skinny Puppy - Testure (S.F. mix)
38000: Rammstein - Herzeleid
39000: Interpol - Evil
40000: Rollins Band - Disconnect
41000: Camouflage - Music For Ballerinas
42000: Dismember - Never Forget, Never Forgive
43000: KoЯn - Somebody Someone
44000: Depeche Mode - Comatose
45000: The Smiths - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish
46000: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lacrimosa
47000: Aphex Twin - Pulsewidth
48000: Pink Turns Blue - Celebration's Day
49000: Velvet Acid Christ - Pretty Toy
50000: Public Enemy - Fight The Power
51000: Spiritualized - I Didn't Mean to Hurt You
52000: Cypress Hill - Audio X
53000: Månegarm - Drakeld
54000: Black Flag - Six Pack
55000: Public Image Ltd. - Bad Life
56000: Camouflage - Time Is Over
57000: Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
58000: Stalingrad - I Stood Beside Your Mothers
59000: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
60000: Editors - Papillon
61000: Sepultura - Bestial Devastation
62000: Loits - Kiri Kaevikust
63000: Destroy All Monsters - Mom's and Dad's Pussy
64000: Earth - Tethered To The Polestar




yes, I have no life


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My newest article for MetalSucks.net. I write about the controversial genre post-black metal. I contend that the style exists and originates with the Celtic Frost album Into the Pandemonium.

Read and comment here:
http://www.metalsucks.net/2009/11/19/tiberian-vocalizations-arthur-von-nagel-on-post-black-metal-and-being-a-shameless-metal-nerd/

Bands cited in the article:
Mayhem
Bathory
Burzum
Darkthrone
Celtic Frost
Emperor
Venom
Enslaved
Ulver
Immortal
Wall of Voodoo
Sigh
Therion
Cradle of Filth
In the Woods...
Green Carnation
Pink Floyd
Fleurety
Opeth
Cormorant
Winds
Arcturus
Ved Buens Ende
Slint
Aura Noir
Virus
Dødheimsgard
...and Oceans
Spinal Tap
Solefald
Borknagar
Age of Silence
Asmegin
Carpathian Forest
Sturmgeist
Blut aus Nord

Sadly it does contain a lot of crap from when I first started listening to music. Also, if I own multiple albums by an artist they are ordered by the year of release.


Abigail Williams - Legend
Abigail Williams - In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns
Aborted - Goremaggedon: The Saw And The Carnage Done
Aborted - The Archaic Abbatoir
Aborted - Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
Aborted - Strychnine.213
Absu - Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L.
Absu - Absu
The Acacia Strain - The Dead Walk
The Academy Is... - Santi
AFI - Answer That and Stay Fashionable
AFI - Very Proud of Ya
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes
AFI - A Fire Inside E.P.
AFI - All Hallow's E.P.
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
AFI - The Art of Drowning
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
AFI - DECEMBERUNDERGROUND
AFI - Love Like Winter
AFI - I Heard A Voice, Live From Long Beach Arena
AFI - Crash Love
Against - Left For Dead
Against - Loyalty & Betrayal
Agnostic Front - Victim In Pain
Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
Agnostic Front - Liberty & Justice For...
Agnostic Front - Warriors
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Apartment 213 - Domestic Powerviolence
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Alice in Chains - Nothing Safe
All Shall Perish - The Price Of Existence
Alkaline Trio - Maybe I'll Catch Fire
The Amenta - n0n
The Amity Affliction - The Amity Affliction
The Amity Affliction - High Hopes
The Amity Affliction - Severed Ties
Amon Amarth - Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here
Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
Anarchsphere - 2008 Sampler
Angela's Dish - War On Time
Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
Anime Fire - On The Wings Of Hope
Ansur - Axiom
Annotations of an Autopsy - Before The Throne Of Infection
Antagonist A.D. - These Cities Our Graves
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anti-Flag - Underground Network
Anti-Flag - For Blood and Empire
Apocalyptica - Cult
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Architects - Hollow Crown
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Arsebreed - Munching The Rotten
As Blood Runs Black - Allegience
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor
August Burns Red - Messengers
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
Behemoth - Evangelion
Behind Crimson Eyes - Prologue: The Art Of War/Cherry Blossom Epitaph
Behind Crimson Eyes - A Revelation For Despair
Behind Crimson Eyes - Behind Crimson Eyes
Beneath the Sky - What Demons Do To Saints
The Berzerker - The Berzerker
The Berzerker - Dissimulate
The Berzerker - World of Lies
The Berzerker - Animosity
The Berzerker - The Reawakening
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Black Comedy - Instigator
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Like Vengeance - Empty As The Day
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Tide - Light From Above
Blaqk Audio - Cexcells
Bleeding Through - Portrait of the Goddess
Bleeding Through - This Is Love, This Is Murderous
Bleeding Through - The Truth
Bleeding Through - Declaration
blink-182 - Cheshire Cat
blink-182 - Dude Ranch
blink-182 - Enema Of The State
blink-182 - The Mark, Tom And Travis Show
blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants And Jacket
blink-182 - blink-182
blink-182 - Greatest Hits
BLKOUT - Total Depravity
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blood Duster - Cunt
Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast for Vultures
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
The Boy Will Drown - Fetish
Boys Like Girls - Boys Like Girls
Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
Break Even - The Bright Side
Breaking Benjamin - Phobia
The Bright Star Alliance - Oceania
Bring Me the Horizon - This Is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For
Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Brokencyde - I'm Not a Fan But the Kids Like It
Buio Omega - Planet of Tombs
Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Burning Skies - Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption
Burning Witch - Towers
Burning Witch - Rift. Canyon. Dreams
Burst - Origo
Burzum - Burzum
Burzum - Aske
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Butthole Surfers - Independant Worm Saloon
Caliban - The Awakening
Cancer Bats - Birthing The Giant
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious
Carnage - The Day Man Lost
Carnage - Infestation of Evil
Carnage - Dark Recollections
Carnal Forge - Testify For My Victims
Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare
Carpathian - Carpathian
Carpathian - Nothing To Lose
Carpathian - Isolation
Catastrophic - Pathology Of Murder
Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Circle of Dead Children - Human Harvest
Civet - Hell Hath No Fury
Closed Casket - Thy Blood, Thy Word
Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Coldseed - Completion Makes the Tragedy
Comeback Kid - Turn It Around
Confession - Can't Live, Can't Breathe
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and a Day
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Crowbar - Equilibrium
Cry Murder - Above Us The Waves
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Daath - The Concealers
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones & Black Flags
The Day Everything Became Nothing - Invention: destruction
Dead Child - Attack
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death - Human
Decapitated - Organic Hallucinosis
Deeds of Flesh - Crown Of Souls
Deez Nuts - Rep Your Hood
Deez Nuts - Stay True
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Demilich - The Four Instructive Tales... Of Decomposition
Demilich - Nespithe
Demiurg - The Hate Chamber
Deranged - The Redlight Murder Case
DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver - Pray For Villains
Dew-Scented - Impact
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Riders On The Storm
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Dinosaur Jr. - Green Mind
Dio - Holy Diver
Disbelief - 66Sick
Disillusion - Back To Times of Splendor
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Disturbed - The Sickness
Disturbed - Believe
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed - Indestructible
Double Dragon - Scars of Fire
Double Dragon/Truth Corroded - The Devastation/Decimation E.P.
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
Dreadnaught - Dirty Music
Driller Killer - The 4Q Mangrenade
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Ekpyrosis - Mensch Aus Gold
Electric Six - Fire
Emperor - In The Nightshade Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Escape the Fate - There's No Sympathy for the Dead
Escape the Fate - This War Is Ours
Evanescence - Fallen
Evanescence - The Open Door
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Faith No More - King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime
Faker - Be The Twilight
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Fall Out Boy - Fall Out Boy's Evening Out With Your Girlfriend
Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket - Split E.P.
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Fear Factory - Archetype
Fear Factory - Transgression
Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
Five Star Prison Cell - Slaves Of Virgo
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - The Late, Late, Late Show
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Night of the Living Drag Queens
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Songs From the Recently Deceased
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Viva la violence
Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 - Rare Treats
Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi - The Arguement
Funeral for a Friend - Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation
Funeral for a Friend - Hours
Furze - UTD
Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves
Gallows - Grey Britian
General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis: Analyzing Necrocriticism
The Getaway Plan - Hold Conversation
The Getaway Plan - Streetlight
The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
The Getaway Plan - Where The City Meets The Sea
The Getaway Plan - Shadows
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless
Good Charlotte - The Chronicles of Life and Death
Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion
Gorelord/Wurdulak - Creature Feature Vol. 2
Gorerotted/Gronibard/Gruesome Stuff Relish - Split Your Guts, Vol. 1
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Gorgoroth - Twilight Of the Idols (In Conspiracy With Satan)
Gorguts - Considered Dead
Gorillaz - Gorillaz
Gorod - Leading Vision
Green Day - Dookie
Green Day - Nimrod
Green Day - American Idiot
Gutworm - Disfigured Narcissus
Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold

If any of the bands belong to these genres:
Crunk
Funk Rock
Glam Metal
Hard Rock
Hip Hop
Melodic Metalcore
Nu Metal
Pop Punk
Pop
Pop Rap
Pop/Rock
Post-Grunge
Rap Rock

Then odds are I hate that band and I don't listen to them anymore.

H through # coming soon.