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I don't know too many people who have been here longer than i have, but there's bound to be some. Speak up if you are!

It's been a cool five years, this is definitely one of my favorite websites and since i'm already a numbers/stats kinda guy, it just fed my addiction.

So let's compile some of those numbers and stats and see what we get.

Total plays: 223,077 (i have no idea if that number's right, i've deleted so many bogus (mistagged) tracks from my collection that i'm sure it might be a couple thousand higher)

Total artists: 2,397 (again, this one is probably higher)

Top artists:
311 - 1910 plays
Pig Destroyer - 1866 plays
Nasum - 1813 plays
Throwdown - 1655 plays
Between the Buried and Me - 1572 plays
Bleeding Through - 1493 plays
Bury Your Dead - 1408 plays
Killswitch Engage - 1362 plays
As I Lay Dying - 1360 plays
Chimaira - 1339 plays
Killwhitneydead - 1320 plays
Darkest Hour - 1282 plays
Unearth - 1240 plays
Trivium - 1239 plays
Poison the Well - 1217 plays
Hopesfall - 1189 plays
Eighteen Visions - 1187 plays
Atreyu - 1150 plays
Converge - 1135 plays
Meshuggah - 1127 plays
Underoath - 1124 plays
HORSE the band - 1121 plays
Terror - 1111 plays
Hatebreed - 1099 plays
Remembering Never - 1086 plays

Top tracks:
On Broken Wings – I Do My Crosswords in Pen - 95 plays
From a Second Story Window – I Tried Voodoo Once - 85 plays
As I Lay Dying – Forever - 84 plays
On Broken Wings – Listless - 83 plays
Between the Buried and Me – Alaska - 81 plays
Animosity – Life Advocate - 80 plays
Ion Dissonance – She's Strychnine - 80 plays
From a Second Story Window – The Challenge of Caring - 79 plays
Gunmetal Grey – Solitude - 74 plays
Death Before Dishonor – Born From Misery - 72 plays
Still Remains – I Can Revive Him With My Own Hands - 72 plays
The Blinding Light – Heads Up - 71 plays
Set Your Goals – Latch Key - 70 plays
Killswitch Engage – Vide Infra - 69 plays
Still Remains – Light Through Skin - 69 plays
Unearth – The Great Dividers - 69 plays
Verse – Let It All Rust - 68 plays
Animosity – Shut It Down - 67 plays
Glass Casket – In Between the Sheets - 67 plays
Animosity – Holy Shackles - 66 plays
The Taste of Blood – I Guess That's Why They Make Safety Pins - 66 plays
The Taste of Blood – The Kid in the Background of Every Picture - 66 plays
Misery Signals – The Year Summer Ended in June - 65 plays
Unearth – Endless - 64 plays
Isis – Backlit - 64 plays
The Acacia Strain – Smoke Ya Later - 64 plays

Top albums: (everybody knows these aren't accurate and haven't been counted right, and didn't even start counting anyway until like late 2007, so, whatever)
The Ghost Inside – Fury And The Fallen Ones - 476 plays
Discordance Axis – Original Sound Version - 397 plays
American Me – Heat - 337 plays
Vanna – Curses - 334 plays
Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard - 329 plays
Killwhitneydead – Never Good Enough for You - 323 plays
Born of Osiris – The New Reign - 319 plays
The Taste of Blood – Predator - 319 plays
A Day to Remember – For Those Who Have Heart - 311 plays
Gwen Stacy – The Life I Know - 310 plays
Emmure – The Respect Issue - 308 plays
Pig Destroyer – Terrifyer - 307 plays
Discordance Axis – Jouhou - 306 plays
Destroy The Runner – I, Lucifer - 296 plays
Parkway Drive – Killing With a Smile - 295 plays
Emmure – Goodbye To The Gallows - 293 plays
Trivium – Ember to Inferno - 290 plays
For the Fallen Dreams – Changes - 289 plays
Stick to Your Guns – Comes From The Heart - 287 plays
Bullet For My Valentine – The Poison - 286 plays
Devilinside – Volume One - 284 plays
Stick to Your Guns – For What It's Worth - 277 plays
Trivium – Shogun - 272 plays
Life in Your Way – Waking Giants - 271 plays
xDeathstarx – We Are The Threat - 271 plays

Airavis's top albums (overall)
1. The Arrogant Sons of Bitches - Three Cheers For Disappointment (215) 2. Big D and the Kids Table - Good Luck (155) 3. Against All Authority - All Fall Down (154) 4. Catch 22 - Alone in a Crowd (151) 5. Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy (140) 6. He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood (130) 7. Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (115) 8. Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers (112) 9. Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings (104) 10. Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom (98) 11. Emmure - Goodbye To The Gallows (93) 12. Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (93) 13. Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder (89) 14. HORSE the band - R. Borlax (86) 15. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops (84) 16. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (83) 17. Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights (83) 18. Authority Zero - A Passage in Time (80) 19. Daughters - Canada Songs (76) 20. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (74) 21. Arsonists Get All The Girls - The Game Of Life (70) 22. Tenacious D - Tenacious D (69) 23. See You Next Tuesday - Parasite (68) 24. High School Football Heroes - Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (64) 25. Bloodhound Gang - Use Your Fingers (63) 26. Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You (63) 27. Sublime - Sublime (62) 28. Bad Brains - Bad Brains (58) 29. One Cool Guy - From Downtown (58) 30. Lords - Swords (58) 31. Emmure - The Respect Issue (57) 32. Me and Him Call It Us - Loss (56) 33. Slayer - Reign in Blood (55) 34. Various Artists - Mailorder is FUN! (53) 35. The Offspring - Americana (53) 36. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Hits from the Bow (52) 37. Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview (52) 38. He Is Legend - 91025 (51) 39. Emmure - The Complete Guide to Needlework (51) 40. Choking Victim - Squatta's Paradise (51) 41. blink-182 - Enema Of The State (51) 42. Dillinger Four - Versus God (50) 43. Raptorkill!? - I trained my mastodon to kill zombies (49) 44. Fatter Than Albert - Most Poets Do (48) 45. Genghis Tron - Cloak of Love (48) 46. Slapstick - Slapstick (48) 47. Since By Man - We Sing the Body Electric (45) 48. Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies (45) 49. The Esoteric - With the Sureness of Sleepwalking (44) 50. Killwhitneydead - Never Good Enough for You (44)

Airavis's top albums (overall)
1. The Arrogant Sons of Bitches - Three Cheers For Disappointment (215) 2. Big D and the Kids Table - Good Luck (155) 3. Against All Authority - All Fall Down (154) 4. Catch 22 - Alone in a Crowd (151) 5. Dillinger Four - Situationist Comedy (140) 6. He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood (130) 7. Bear vs. Shark - Terrorhawk (115) 8. Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers (112) 9. Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings (104) 10. Sublime - 40 Oz. to Freedom (98) 11. Emmure - Goodbye To The Gallows (93) 12. Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy (93) 13. Kid Dynamite - Shorter, Faster, Louder (89) 14. HORSE the band - R. Borlax (86) 15. Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops (84) 16. Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute (83) 17. Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights (83) 18. Authority Zero - A Passage in Time (80) 19. Daughters - Canada Songs (76) 20. Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (74) 21. Arsonists Get All The Girls - The Game Of Life (70) 22. Tenacious D - Tenacious D (69) 23. See You Next Tuesday - Parasite (68) 24. High School Football Heroes - Close Only Counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades (64) 25. Bloodhound Gang - Use Your Fingers (63) 26. Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You (63) 27. Sublime - Sublime (62) 28. Bad Brains - Bad Brains (58) 29. One Cool Guy - From Downtown (58) 30. Lords - Swords (58) 31. Emmure - The Respect Issue (57) 32. Me and Him Call It Us - Loss (56) 33. Slayer - Reign in Blood (55) 34. Various Artists - Mailorder is FUN! (53) 35. The Offspring - Americana (53) 36. Arsonists Get All The Girls - Hits from the Bow (52) 37. Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview (52) 38. He Is Legend - 91025 (51) 39. Emmure - The Complete Guide to Needlework (51) 40. Choking Victim - Squatta's Paradise (51) 41. blink-182 - Enema Of The State (51) 42. Dillinger Four - Versus God (50) 43. Raptorkill!? - I trained my mastodon to kill zombies (49) 44. Fatter Than Albert - Most Poets Do (48) 45. Genghis Tron - Cloak of Love (48) 46. Slapstick - Slapstick (48) 47. Since By Man - We Sing the Body Electric (45) 48. Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies (45) 49. The Esoteric - With the Sureness of Sleepwalking (44) 50. Killwhitneydead - Never Good Enough for You (44)

1. How did you get into 31?
General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners - Mike Patton Compilation Torrent

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
-Nine Inch Nails - Closer

3. What's your favourite lyric by 29?
Dethklok - "Many years ago Today something grew inside of your mother...that thing was you"

4. What is your favourite album by 49?
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Tub Ring - 4, with 3 others on my laptop

6. What is your favourite song by 50?
The Demonstration Golden Hour

7. Is there a song by 4 that makes you sad?
Faith No More - Easy

8. What is your favourite song by 15?
Foxy Shazam - Aroma Of You

9. What is your favourite song by 5?
Arsonists Get All The Girls - City Of Angels Cakewalk

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
(this was a difficult one to answer)Killwhitneydead - Nothing Says 'Party' Like Her Head on a Stick

11. What is your favourite album by 40?
Daiquiri - Box Office Poison

12. What is your favourite song by 10?
Dance Club Massacre -brewtality


13. What is a good memory you have involving 33?
Suicide Silence - Seeing them live open for Nile, and seeing vocalist Mitch Lucker do unbelievable range from ear splitting high pitch shrieks, to earth-shakingly low growls. And one of the most brutal mosh pits ever. So much blood.

14. What is your favourite song by 37?
Deadsy - Key to Grammercy Park

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Lovage - Book of the Month

16. How many times have you seen 24 live?
Fear Factory - Sadly, none

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
[aritst]Mindless Self Indulgence - Bring the Pain

18. What is your favourite album by 11?
The Locust - Safety Second, Body First

19. Who is a favourite member of 1?
Mr. Bungle - MIKE PATTON (duh)

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
Oingo Boingo - no, before my time

21. What is a good memory involving 45?
(I get the worst bands for these feel-goodery questions)Silverstein - I dunno, seeing lots of hot chicks at their show in the 930 club? Even though they were emo scene bitches....

22. What is your favorite song by 16?
Fantômas - Book 1: Page 9

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Ideamen - Vivid (when they were opening at the DFD reunion show)

24. What is your favourite album by 21?
El-Creepo! - they don't really have any albums...yet....but hopefully soon(i scrobble plays from their myspace songs i d/l'd)

25. What is your favourite song by 18?
Tomahawk - Rape This Day

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 38?
Cradle of Filth - Babylon AD

27. What is your favourite lyric by 3?
Dog Fashion Disco - tie between "root of all evil is the smile of a demon, inebriated slob drunk on a tonic of gin and tonic, blood and semen" and "don't fall asleep or we'll mutilate your genitals"

28. What is your favourite song by 2?
The Residents - N-ER-GEE (Crisis Blues)

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
Can - I'm so Green

30. What is you favourite song by 8?
Frank Zappa - Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
As Blood Runs Black - None

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
The Black Dahlia Murder - I'm Charming

33. What is your favourite album by 12?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

34. What is the worst song by 46?
Depeche Mode - Most of them, I dunno...what kind of question is this? How would I even know that about my 46?

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Secret Chiefs 3 - Zulfiqar III

36. What is you favourite album by 42?
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction

37. How many times have you seen 39 live?
Mike Patton - Zero :(

38. What is your favourite album by 36?
Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors (I don't listen to him anymore though, but when I did this was my fav)

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
Peeping Tom - Mojo

40. What is your favourite album by 7?
Spineshank - Self-Titled

Fourth in a series of two.
See parts ONE, TWO and THREE

This time, they're in chronological order

Sempiternal Deathreign[NED] - The Spooky Gloom [1989]

Here's a band every Obituary fan should listen to and realize how foolish they've been to have worshipped that overrated tripe. Sempiternal Deathreign was probably the ORIGINAL death/doom band. This album came out a full two years before Autopsy's Mental Funeral, and one year before Winter's Into Darkness. Basically, it's really raw, ugly doom/death, influenced primarily by the likes of Hellhammer and Black Sabbath, as well as classic Teutonic thrash (Sodom, Kreator). And unlike the aforementioned Obituary, their solos AREN'T the only interesting thing about their music. There are some actually great riffs to be found in here. Songs range anywhere from 1:55 to 10:53, so there's plenty of variety here, as well.

Traumatic Voyage [GER] - Traumatic Voyage [1992]

This is just plain weird shit. I'm not even sure whether this can be classified as death metal, per-sé. There are a lot of progressive and psychedelic elements, the songs are abnormally long [averaging around 8 minutes], and there are occasional clean vocals as well. The closest thing to this that I can recall having heard prior was Timeghoul's demos, but those aren't exactly well-known, nor is a direct comparison fully accurate. You know what? Just check it out for yourself. There's a good chance you'll hate it, but it was definitely one of the more unique early extreme metal bands [use of past tense is misleading, since they're still around... and their more recent albums have gotten even weirder].

Chemical Breath [BEL] - Fatal Exposure [1992]

This one's a bit more mundane, but also has a lot more immediate appeal. Thrashy Belgian death metal, influenced by the likes of Sadus and early Pestilence, with a surprising amount of depth and technical prowess. These guys almost certainly would've been bigger if they'd come from Sweden or the U.S.
See also: Values [1994]

Ghost [POL] - The Lost of Mercy [1994]

One of the earliest Polish death metal bands, and one of the few that doesn't owe its sound directly to Vader in one way or another. I actually came upon this record while looking through the chronological data on the 'brutal death metal' genre on RYM. This was one of the first dozen or so releases under that tag, and the only one I hadn't heard. Turns out, this doesn't really fit the description [as it's commonly used], since it doesn't sound like NYDM at all. Instead, what we have is a solid slab of European death metal that can most directly be compared to Iniquity's classic Serenadium, with thick, abrasive, and often sludgy riffs, and vocals reminiscent of Grave's Jörgen Sandstrom. More surprisingly, this album actually has stellar production - especially for something so obscure. And if you don't get a chuckle out of the very first riff on the record, you suck at metal.

Agony [CAN] - Apocalyptic Dawning [1994]

Canadian death metal tends to be awesome. This is no exception. It's brutal as shit. Clearly inspired by NYDM in a big way, but also surprisingly melodic. In that sense, it also resembles the aforementioned Serenadium. It's not the most original thing ever, but it's pretty damn solid.

Morbius [USA] - Alienchrist [1995]

If that title sounds familiar to Arghoslent fans, it should. Drummer Matt Sylvester assumed the title as a pseudonym when he played in said band for several years. There are natural similarities between Morbius and Arghoslent, as well as fellow Virginians Deceased. But the closest parallels can be drawn to early Absu and The Chasm, with whom they share the distinction of being simultaneously raw and epic, with obscure melodies aplenty.
See also: The Shades Below [1992], Sojourns Through The Septiac [2005]

Scenery [CZE] - The Drowning Shadow Of Mankind [1997]

One word: Atheist. This is practically IDENTICAL to what Atheist might have put out between Unquestionable Presence and Elements. A lot of jazziness and unpredictable twists and turns. A few of the songs run a little bit long, and lack the punch that Atheist does, but for anyone wanting to get more from that same sound, you really couldn't do any better.
See also: Philosophy Of Ages [2002], Continuity [2006]

Cauldron Black Ram [AUS] - Skullduggery [2004]

This album sees members of Australian visionaries Portal and Stargazer returning to their roots, playing stripped-down, ugly, primitive death/thrash in the vein of Celtic Frost and Unleashed. Of course, it wouldn't be the same if they didn't let some of the progressive elements from their more well-known bands seep in, so expect some of that, too. Plus... their songs are about pirates, so there's awesomeness all around.

Mitochondrion [CAN] - Archaeaeon [2008]

This is one of the more intriguing up-and-coming bands in extreme metal. They take the 'war metal' sound native to western Canada, pioneered by Blasphemy and infuse it with a heavy dose of progressive elements. Think of it as Axis of Advance meets Ved Buens Ende, with elements of Lykathea Aflame also included. The down-side is that the production is typical of the war metal sound, with drums and vocals being over-emphasized and guitars frequently buried.

Denial [MEX] - Catacombs Of The Grotesque [2009]

you remember that level in the original Quake, where the big red dude rises out of that pit of lava, and starts throwing hot rocks at you? That's what this album reminds me of. Insanely brutal Finnish-style death metal, played by Mexicans - including former members of Cenotaph and Shub Niggurath. These guys have a convincingly hellish, morbid sound with a sludgy [but well-defined] guitar tone, and manage to pull it off with virtually no palm muting. If you enjoy Convulse and Demilich, you definitely need to check out this record.



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[the deathcore faggots might actually learn something...]

Well i made a journal back in 2006 to see how my music taste compared to the mainstream listeners, in that you had to mark down how many listeners each artist had at the time, now looking back on it i find its very interesting to see how they've grown over the years.
so i thought i'd record what each artist has currently so that again i can look back in a year or so and see how they've grown again.
im planning to mark down my top 50, but might take longer then i can be bothered tonight.

1. Venetian Snares - 5,592,744 plays (184,534 listeners)
2. TrollfesT 600,535 plays (17,839 listeners)
[nov 06' 2287 listeners]
3. Korpiklaani 8,095,259 plays (150,483 listeners)
[nov06' 20,758 listeners]
4. Cardopusher 163,713 plays (9,651 listeners)
5. Ensiferum 10,982,263 plays (182,926 listeners)
[nov06' 34,024 listeners]
6. Sabrepulse 1,179,707 plays (33,182 listeners)
7. Månegarm 1,154,721 plays (39,024 listeners)
[Nov06' 3331 listeners]
8. Jimmy S 12,708 plays (681 listeners)
9. Acrnym 113,568 plays (11,605 listeners)
10. Akercocke 972,862 plays (33,869 listeners)
[Nov06' 4377 listeners]
11. Forefather 304,541 plays (13,459 listeners)
[Nov06' 1371 listeners]
12. Finntroll 9,123,958 plays (194,962 listeners)
[Nov06' 51,014 listeners]
13. Adorned Brood 294,293 plays (19,039 listeners)
[Nov06' 1580 listeners]
14. Nobuo Uematsu 16,148,766 plays (161,432 listeners)
[Nov06' 46,687 listeners]
15. Ásmegin 371,853 plays (25,631 listeners)
[Nov06' 3179 listeners]
16. Tenhi 1,404,054 plays (33,965 listeners)
17. Therion 9,912,625 plays (220,147 listeners)
[Nov06' 46,109 listeners]
18. Amon Tobin 10,422,509 plays (444,447 listeners)
19. Turisas 3,570,443 plays (103,237 listeners)
[Nov06' 9121 listeners]
20. Heol Telwen 86,616 plays (3,079 listeners)
21. Sufjan Stevens 43,247,643 plays (778,583 listeners)
22. XIV Dark Centuries 512,659 plays (25,447 listeners)
23. dj fhantom 2,739 plays (164 listeners)
24. Skream 1,378,091 plays (79,845 listeners)
25. Aphex Twin 21,494,733 plays (668,954 listeners)
26. Saskrotch 224,488 plays (9,623 listeners)
27. Eluveitie 4,476,215 plays (82,611 listeners)
28. Ebola 116,258 plays (11,516 listeners)
29. SuidAkrA 1,154,691 plays (35,309 listeners)
[nov06' 4533 listeners]
30. DJ Shadow 12,848,575 plays (607,218 listeners)
31. Equilibrium 3,344,156 plays (58,836 listeners)
[Nov06' 8112 listeners]
32. Dark Tranquillity 14,149,013 plays (234,481 listeners)
[Nov06' 54,495 listeners]
33. Job for a Cowboy 3,172,799 plays (97,685 listeners)
34. In Flames 59,265,586 plays (518,232 listeners)
[Nov06' 123,007 listeners]
35. Finsterforst 266,214 plays (22,085 listeners)
36. Bal-Sagoth 1,309,537 plays (42,930 listeners)
37. Aaron Spectre 193,435 plays (16,115 listeners)
38. Killwhitneydead 1,307,237 plays (28,366 listeners)
39. Devendra Banhart 15,219,133 plays (447,652 listeners)
40. Novembers Doom 1,165,597 plays (48,465 listeners)
41. Macabre 569,567 plays (17,334 listeners)
42. Rotator 95,285 plays (8,267 listeners)
43. Shitmat 404,425 plays (33,490 listeners)
44. Maladroit 103,761 plays (8,303 listeners)
45. Swampyboy 20,257 plays (1,433 listeners)
46. Summoning 2,992,824 plays (54,201 listeners)
47. Enter Shikari 9,748,964 plays (183,542 listeners)
[Nov06' 5175 listeners]
48. Stille Volk 121,418 plays (17,256 listeners)
49. BLÆRG 38,840 plays (4,668 listeners)
50. MFC Team 4,953 plays (255 listeners)

. . . yeah
I said, last post, that the days of things leaking and showing up on music blogs en mass were about to come to an end. .

. . ..and then. . .

like 20 albums showed up

so many, I doubt I'll be able to remember them all. . .

i'll try though. . .

Brutal Truth - evolution through revolution
. . .this is streaming somewhere. . .I found out last night and listened to it. . .and then listened to it again. . .and then listened to it again. . .and then listened to it again. . .I don't think I went to bed til 1:00.
I'm not one of these people that think if a band comes back from a breakup and records new shit it's automatically gonna suck. . .but I'll be damned if Brutal Truth didn't just pull the best comeback ever.
For real, between this and For The Love Of (that's an 8.5, by the way), Coalesce better bring it.
I actually like this better than Sounds. . . .and I'm not one of those kids that hates on Sounds (hell, it was one of the first actual grind albums I ever heard). My favorite song is "detached". . . .it's got a riff that reminds me of Gorguts.
20 songs. just the right length to leave you wanting more (to the point where you stay up late and listen to it over and over and over).

10/10

I didn't think anyone was gonna come CLOSE to topping Antigama. . . .they got a fucking contender now man. . . .shit. . .
Slobberknocker for #1 spot, and it's not even June yet.

. . . .this is gonna be a pretty good year for Relapse I think.
ya know who else this is gonna be a good year for?
Willowtip

Ulcerate - everything is fire
yes, the second half of the album is skipping a hell of a lot. . .but I've heard enough of the album to tell you it is a 9/10
New vocalist is damn good. I like his range. Ben was an awesome singer, but I like this guy too. If the Gorguts reunion disappoints at all, we can just listen to this band.

Mumakil - behold the failure
This bands drummer is trying to singlehandedly take the stigma off gravity blasts. (that is, if Chainsaw to the face's drummer doesn't do it first). Sure, all that blasting can get tiresome. They do throw in some memorable parts amidst all of it though. Moreso than their previous album had, for sure. . . .I wish they would've had more of those crushing slow parts they threw in on that album . . .but this is still a little bit better.

8/10

Parlamentarisk Sodomi - De Anarkistiske An(n)aler
There is a 10 minute song on this record. I'm going to describe it to you. First, there's an intro. It sounds like Venetian Snares, but with no drums. It's barely even a minute. Then, the song kicks in. It's the same thing you just heard on keyboard now played on guitar with full on blast beat. The rest of the song continues like this. No doom parts, no ambient parts, and there's way more than two riffs (there's a lot of fucking riffs).
yes, a 10 minute fucking grind song. It's not 10 songs stuck together either.
and I'll tell you what, the entire thing is memorable and catchy.

and to top it off, there's 11 other songs. and many of them have SOLOS

and this is just one guy

in fucking Norway

10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10/10


I heard the last song on the new Mastodon
so I've heard the whole thing now
so
it's official score is 7.5/10

good record for if you have to drive with your parents

once again

but, I like it a little better than Blood Mountain.

again, Intronaut are everything this band were on Remission (AND MORE!!)
so check them out immediately


Agoraphobic Nosebleed - agrapocalypse

(and now the KHR guy will talk about the new album by his main influence, ANb)
I was worried about this one.
why?
well, history has proven that often when this band do songs longer than a minute, fun is not had. There's a reason Converge stole the show on the split they did back in 1999 (other than. . well. .they're Converge). There's a reason Clockwork Sodom wasn't that good. Other than the latter, I've enjoyed everything they've done in the past year. . . but the fact remains, the things that made them so special on Frozen Corpse and Altered States are gone now. The random samples, the experimental vocal stylings (phonecore!), gabber noise interludes, etc. Done. The first four songs on this, would be fine, if they weren't exactly alike. Probably could've spaced them out, but I guess they wanted to get that filler out of the way before beginning the ascent to greatness that is tracks 5 through 13. The slow and sludgy side of ANb becomes more prevalent as the album progresses, and is truly thier strong point on this outing. Yes, ANb have become another one of those bands who are better when they slow down. Scotts drum programming has become more meticulous than ever. Dude threw in a fucking drum solo. . . .what?!?!?! The drums sound realer than ever. They're eschewing the weirdness that made them influential (except for the lyrics. Mr. Randall's still got it.) to sound like a more regular band with a drummer and everything. ... . . .I mean, that's cool, but, there's already a Pig Destroyer. That said, I'm sure I'll listen to this more than I did Phantom Limb. (I played that to death in a week and a half).

7.5/10

oh, and the girl. . .Kat. . .yes, she sounds pretty damn good.
(and gets extra props from me for what she said in the Decibel interview. . . . .and you know I don't give girls props. . . .unless thier name is Gianna Michaels)


War From a Harlots Mouth - In Shoals

I'm kind of iffy on this band. They're deathcore, but they throw some interesting stuff in sometimes. Last album, you had a hip-hop instrumental(not jazz), a pretty decent doom song and a breakdown set to an actual machine gun. That was 3 tracks out of whatever many though. This album. . . .welll shit. First of all, kudos on laying off the studio tricks and recording your tracks live. They sound a hell of alot better that way (every band does, c'mon now). The drums sound REAL. They claim to have no used triggers. I beleive it. Certainly helps though that they're moving away from deathcore. They have a lot of parts that sound like The Handshake Murders on this. They'll still blast, but it's when they slow down they get interesting. There's an instrumental on this that's much closer to "jazz" than the hiphop instrumental from last album, but the beat the drummer is playing gives it an Aphex Twin/drum and bass sort of feel. . . .and to add to it, glitch effects. It's like that one song from Ire Works. I dig it. This album reminds me of what both Nights Like These and Elysia have done in trying to advance their sounds above trendy deathcore shit. I'd say thier success in doing so is somewhere between those two. I'll listen to it a hell of a lot more than I did Lion of Judas, but NLT still did it the best (because they completely left it behind). Good show.

7.5/10

Paria - the barnacle codius

not sure what to make of this. One really funny thing though, the instrumental "pish-posh" has a total visual kei (think DAS:VASSER) riff. This record is way less noisy than the last one. More melodic, and they've gone kind of "prog" with it too. There aren't many songs under 4 minutes. One song has clean singing, straight out of. . . .I don't know. Someone said it sounded like Cheap Trick. I kinda see it, actually. It's not bad either. I'm probably gonna need a couple more listens, but it's not holding my attention as much as the first album did.

7/10


Graf Orlock - destination time today
you know Graf Orlock. They're like Killwhitneydead, except Graf Orlock are still good after 3 records :) I really wouldn't call them grind, because they sound like Maharahj. There's no big climactic closer like the Jurassic Park ending (my buddy Matt is gonna be so pissed when I tell him they did that. He wanted to do that.), but they do play the theme from Conan in one of the songs.

8/10

Fukpig - spewings from a selfish nation
this is the most pissed off thing I've heard since the last Splitter record. It's got bass like a motherfucker. I've thought for years that somebody should apply Tones On Tail's bass tone to metal, and someone finally did it. This is crust punk played by black metal people. . .specifically Anaal Nathrakh members. I'm not too fond of CURRENT Anaal Nathrakh. . .but I fucking love this. Your average crust punk fan might be a little turned off by the production. It has modern black metal production(only the first song sounds like it has keyboards though). . .with way more bass. Seriously, the last song (which is pretty much what I'm talking about when I say this is the most pissed off band since Splitter) has a part with just the bass and the drums. When you hear this, you realize that 80% of the distortion you're hearing is the bass. I'm surprised that's not Shane Embury. It is coming out on his label. They're only pressing like 500 cds or something (I heard nothing about a vinyl release), so either grab this now or you're gonna HAVE to download it.

9.5/10

. . . . .I heard so much shit, I can't keep track of all the this I heard.
March/early April ended up being a pretty insane month for leaks, so, yeah.
See you on the flipside.