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1. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars.
Blut Aus Nord seem to change their musical direction with each album release without losing their signature sound. The biggest change on this album is the melodic touch, which was absent on previous albums such as MoRT or Odonist – The Destruction of Reason by Illumination. The use clean guitar in some of the interludes is a great addition to their sound. I’m sure this album will be on a lot of ‘best of 2009’ lists.



2. El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Cryptomnesia.
Fans of the Mars Volta should enjoy this release… and rightly so, because half of the members are shared with El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. Apparently the other half are members of Hella; a band that I’ve never heard of before, but will probably check out in the future. All of the instruments are played with a high degree of proficiency, as you would expect on any Omar release - just listen to the drums on ‘Shake is for 8th Graders’ and you’ll see what I mean. The thing I like about all Omar Rodriguez-Lopez releases is that the separate instruments have this improvisational quality, but integrate well with one another. The album is a great fusion of progressive/psychedelic rock with Latin and jazz influences. The only thing which might put off people this release is Cedric’s high pitched vocals, which are an acquired taste.

3. Njiqahdda - Taegnuub - Ishnji Angma.
For those who haven’t heard of Njiqahdda before, they produce a strange mixture of black metal, ambient and psychedelic music. Njiqahdda have a knack for writing good riffs, repeating them and then simply adding layers to the mix. It's hard to believe that Njiqahdda and their side projects, Oaks of Bethel and Funeral Eclipse, have recorded 18 or so releases this year. So far I’ve only been able to get my hands on ‘Taegnuub –Ishnji Angma’, ‘Yrg Alms’ and Oaks of Bethel - The Folk and the Ground. If the back catalogue is anything to go by, I’m sure the 15 other releases of 2009 will be of a high quality. The only reason this doesn’t get a higher position is that the transition between the black metal and ambient based tracks doesn’t feel very fluent. If you haven’t heard Njiqahdda before, check out this release or Njimajikal Arts.

4. Njiqahdda - Yrg Alms.
I wasn’t really sure what order to put Taegnuub – Ishnji Angma and Yrg Alms. My only (minor) problem with Taegnuub was that the album didn’t flow as well as it could have. Yrg Alms actually has much smoother transitions between the songs. It’s also a bit more progressive and has slightly better production than some previous releases. However, I still think that the individual songs on Taegnuub were marginally better.

5. Deepspace - World Ocean Atlas.
I only discovered Deepspace about 6 months ago and since then I’ve been listening to his music almost constantly. The music is a type of drone based ambient; no beats, pretty minimal. This album is good to listen to on walks, during study, or if you just want to relax. According to Mirko (the man behind Deepspace) “this album works on the idea of obscure desolate places created by your imagination, and the idea of an atlas comprised purely of maps of oceans”. That statement sums up the album pretty well. On a side note, half of music (including this entire album) is available for free download on last.fm.

6. Atlas Sound - Logos.
Atlas Sound is the solo project of Bradford Cox of Deerhunter. I have only been able to play this record a couple of times because I only got it recently. Despite this, it’s pretty easy to recognize that this album kicks ass. If you like shoegaze or dream pop then this is probably up your alley. If you want to check out Deerhunter, listen to Weird Era Cont.

7. Moby - Wait For Me (Deluxe Edition).
If you’re thinking of getting this album, make sure you get the deluxe edition. The bonus CD contains ambient reinterpretations of the 1st CD, which are great for a night in. I’m not usually a huge fan of Moby’s radio-friendly songs (ie. bodyrock etc.), but he is really good at making downtempo electronic music, which makes up the majority of this album. I still haven’t listened to this album heaps because it only came out in November, but it grows on me each time. However, Moby’s best album is still Hotel: Ambient, which also happens to be a bonus CD.

8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Phoenix play some very catchy ‘indie rock’ (I think it’s called post-punk revival but don’t quote me on that) type music with a strong electronic presence. It’s pretty poppy, but don’t let that put you off. It’s good backing music for summer evenings or parties.

9. Midnight Odyssey - Firmament.
I’m impressed with this release because a) it’s Australian b) black metal and c) really good. This album has a strong Burzum influence, with atmospheric keyboards overlaying simple guitar riffs. Most of the songs are mid-paced, with no blast-beats. The guitar work is quite melodic and catchy, without sounding cheesy - to a degree reminiscent of ColdWorld. It’s also worth checking out their demo, The Forest Mourners.

10. Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening.
Sybreed are quite possibly the best Industrial Metal band going round. They have managed to make an album that is both heavier and poppier than Slave Design and Antares. The production on this album is about as clean as it gets. For example, check the blastbeats at the start of ‘I am Ultraviolence’. The vocalist, Ben, sounds kind of like Gary Numan when he’s singing, and has a distinctive high pitched growl which works well. The guitars and base have a heavy groove going on and you can expect a lot of machinegun-esuqe riffs (similar to Fear Factory… but better). The heavy use of spacey keyboards and electronics also add a nice touch to the album.

11. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest.
I haven’t listened to a whole lot of death metal this year, but this album stands out because it is brutal as fuck and has some great vocals. After hearing this album I’m considering checking them out live in May. One of my favorites off the album is 4th Arra of Dagon (ARRA ARRA ARRA DAGON DAGON DAGON – check the shoutbox for the song), which I reckon will go off live. If you like the Egyptian influenced interludes you should check out Karl Sanders solo material, which is equally impressive.

12.Porcupine Tree - The Incident.
Porcupine Tree always deliver solid releases, and The Incident is no different. It’s good modern progressive rock with a touch of metal here and there, particularly towards the end of the album. From reading the Porcupine Tree shoutbox, there seems to be differing views on the album, particularly because of the song ‘Drawing the line’ which has a very poppy chorus. I personally think it’s the best song of the album.

13. Panopticon - Collapse.
This band has one of the worst tags I have ever seen – Red and Anarchist Black Metal. Probably the only worse tag is Wooden metal (self proclaimed by Varghkoghargasmal). Imagine what black metal would sound like if it was played by John Butler… I guess that’s kind of this album sounds like. The interludes are pretty much bluegrass, which is a good change. My only problem with this album is that the drums are a bit high in the mix.

14. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow.
Anaal Nathrakh play a mix of black metal and grind, which is insanely heavy. At the start of their career they were strongly influenced by bands such as Mayhem, but over the last four albums they have steadily improved their production. This is probably their weakest album, mainly because I’m not a huge fan of the slight metalcore influences. However, it’s still heavier than 99% of releases and shits over most other bands. I would recommend Eschanton or Hell is Empty, and all the Devils are here over this.

15. The Temper Trap - Conditions.
Conditions is a collection of very catchy rock/pop songs. It kind of sounds like Eskimo Joe with the Beegees singing over it (yes some of the vocals are falsetto). My personal favorites off the album are love lost and fader.

16. Old Man's Child - Slaves Of The World.
- Why doesn’t Galder just quit Dimmu Borgir and just focus on Old Man’s Child? The albums are consistently better than Dimmu Borgir. If you liked Vermin then you will also enjoy Slaves of the World.

17. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion.

18. The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite.
- Alexander von Meilenwald gets bonus points for the great album title. The funeral doom influences have been bumped up a notch and the production is significantly improved.

19. Drudkh - Microcosmos.
- One of the better Drudkh releases in recent times. I would still recommend checking out Autumn Aurora first which I personally think is one of the best black metal albums out there.

20. Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of..
- Faunts have a nice mixture of Dream pop, post rock and shoegaze going on. This is their weakest album, but still quite good. Do yourself a favour and check out High Expectations/Low Results.

21. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings.
- One of the weaker Dream Theater releases. Wither is a terrible ballad, which has to be one of the worst songs they have made (and I like many of their previous ballads – ie. the spirit carries on). On the up side, they have also made one of their best songs, The Count of Tuscany. This album would probably be rated higher, but I have high expectations for Dream Theater releases. On a side note, I saw them live (only $59!), and they did a great show with an impressive set-list.

22. Hellveto - Od Poludnia na Pólnoc....
- This is a good album, but Hellveto have released nearly 20 albums which sounds pretty much the same. L.O.N. needs to try something new.

23. Nazxul - Iconoclast.
- I had been waiting for this album for quite some time. After hearing the Black Seed EP a couple of years ago I was hooked on Nazxul. Iconoclast sounds a bit like Emperor at times, because of the epic/atmospheric keyboards. A good introduction to the album would be Oath (Fides Resurrectio).

24. Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - Megaritual.
- Pretty similar to most Omar albums. I would have included his other albums in this list, but I thought it might get a bit boring.

25. Gigantic Brain - World.
- This album is a bit different. I didn’t realize that ambient music could be mixed with grind. Somehow, this works quite well, despite some awkward transitions between the songs.

26. Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer.
- Fullständigt Jävla Död Inuti is a great song; a lot heavier and more technical than previous work.

27. Hellveto - Kry.
- Sounds exactly the same as Od Poludnia na Pólnoc... but runs for 30 minutes.

28. Muse - The Resistance.
- Their weakest album, but some good songs in there. I like the exogenesis symphony and MK Ultra.

29. Yusuf (ie. Cat Stevens) - Roadsinger (To Warm You Through the Night.
- Good folky songs, but doesn’t have those classic songs which were typically of his ‘Cat Stevens’ era.

30. The Mars Volta - Octahedron.
- The Mars Volta have slowed down the tempo a bit, which is an interesting experiment, but I think they are best when they play the faster style improv-esque songs. Cotopaxi is my pick of the album.

Albums I never got around to listening to / Special mentions:

Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt

¡M.G.R. y Destructo Swarmbots! – Amigos de la Guitarra

Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity

Isis – Wavering Radiant: I never got round to listening to this, but I hear that it is very good)

Elysian Blaze – Blood Geometry: This album will surely get released soon. I predicted that this would be one of the better albums of 2009, but it looks as though it will have to wait until 2010.

Transatlantic – The Whirlwind: Word is that this album is very good.

Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country: A good ambient/glitch artist. Didn’t get round to this album.

Alice in Chains – Black gives way to blue

Magma - Ëmëhntëhtt-Rê

Music prior to 2009 that I got into this year:
- Prog rock: A lot of great music was made during the 70’s. Check out bands such as Camel, Aphrodites Child, Goblin and King Crimson.
- Shoegaze: Working for a Nuclear Free City, Deerhunter, Phaser, SIANspheric.

What to look out for in 2010:
- Varg Vikernes (Burzum) has finally been released from jail and will be releasing Belus around March/April.
- Working for a Nuclear Free City are releasing Jojo Burger Tempest
- Radiohead - TBA
- Oceansize - New album in March

They said it couldnt be done, they said it was impossible, they said you'd be crazy to even try, but one band has finally done it. One band, Agathodaimon, have finally achieved the unimaginable. The first band to crack the mystery that has confounded musicians across the world for centuries now. They are the first band to flawlessly combine the once incompatible genres of pop and black metal, into one superior art form.

Drawing influences from the timeless greats (Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and more), infused with refreshing stylish helpings of 21st century pop, they surpass all predecessors with their extensive discography loaded with masterpiece after masterpiece.Their latest album, Phoenix, caused an earthquake in the black metal scene when it hit the shelves earlier this year, and since then has been flying off them quicker than you can count. I suggest you all go and download them, or better yet pick yourselves up a copy. You dont want to miss the chance to hear is what is quite possibly the most groundbreaking, progressive music to ever grace the earth.

Cradle of FilthEisregenSummoning Impaled NazareneNaglfarOld Man's ChildBorknagarBelphegorCeltic FrostShiningUlverDrudkhNargarothAjattaraXasthurDeathspell Omega WindirWatainCatameniaTaake ArcturusBeheritAnorexia NervosaFinntrollWolves in the Throne RoomBlut aus NordKeep of KalessinTsjuderAbsurdSatyriconMardukBehemothGorgoroth EmperorMayhemBathoryDark FuneralCarpathian ForestSamaelRotting ChristAnaal NathrakhVenomDissectionEnslaved1349Graveworm

1. Behemoth - Evangelion
2. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
3. Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
4. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
5. Redemption - Snowfall On Judgement Day
6. Epica - Design Your Universe
7. Insomnium - Across the Dark
8. Slayer - World Painted Blood
9. Andre Matos - Mentalize
10. Immortal - All Shall Fall

11. Amorphis - Skyforger
12. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
13. Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...
14. Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
15. Celesty - Vendetta
16. The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
17. Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
18. Lamb of God - Wrath
19. Necrophobic - Death to All
20. Urgehal - Ikonoklast

21. Dream Theater - Black Clouds And Silver Linings
22. Mastodon - Crack The Skye
23. Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters
24. Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast
25. Azaghal - Teraphim
26. Mantic Ritual - Executioner
27. SuidAkrA - Crógacht
28. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
29. Strandhogg - Ritualistic Plague (Evangelical Death Apotheosis)
30. National Suicide - The Old Family is Still Alive
31. Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
32. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
33. PANTHEON I - Worlds I Create
34. Ex Deo - Romulus
35. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
36. God Dethroned - Passiondale
37. Suffocation - Blood Oath
38. Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmare
39. Marduk - Wormwood
40. ChthoniC - Mirror of Retribution
41. Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin
42. Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
43. Blackguard - Profugus Mortis
44. Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
45. Code - Resplendent Grotesque
46. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
47. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
48. Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
49. Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
50. Swallow the Sun - New Moon

51. Týr - By the Light of the Northern Star
52. Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
53. Tardy Brothers - Bloodline
54. Amberian Dawn - The Clouds Of Northland Thunder
55. Megadeth - Endgame
56. Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
57. Sepultura - A-Lex
58. Nomans Land - Farnord
59. Marionette - Enemies
60. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
61. Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
62. DGM - FrAme
63. Svarttjern - Misanthropic Path Of Madness
64. Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой!
65. Ulcerate - EIF
66. Månegarm - Nattväsen
67. Obituary - Darkest Day
68. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
69. Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space
70. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
71. Evil Masquerade - Fade To Black
72. Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
73. Absu - Absu
74. Aeternam - Disciples of the Unseen
75. W.A.S.P. - Babylon
76. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
77. The Few Against Many - Sot
78. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
79. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
80. IXXI - Elect Darkness
81. Orcustus - Orcustus
82. Artillery - When Death Comes
83. Irminsul - Irminsul
84. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process
85. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
86. Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow
87. Devin Townsend - Ki / Addicted
88. Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
89. Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument of Glory
90. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
91. Susperia - Attitude
92. Deströyer 666 - Defiance
93. Mind Key - Pulse For A Graveheart
94. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
95. Ensiferum - From Afar
96. Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria
97. Lion's Share - Darkest Hours
98. Thanatos - Justified Genocide
99. Vindictiv - Ground Zero
100. Inferno - Black Devotion

Great releases that didn't make it into the list but still worth mentioning:
Saratoga, Flashback of anger, Graveland, Necrodeath, Theodore Ziras, Disparaged, Nightmare, Blood Red Throne, Shining, Skyclad, Unholy Matrimony, Dagon, Veloce Hystoria, Bornholm, Jungle Rot, Soulfallen, HammerFall, Grave Digger, Destroy Destroy Destroy, Napalm Death, Impious, Stratovarius, Vreid, D Creation, Andreas Kisser, Trail of Tears, Gorgoroth, Endstille, This Ending, Graveyard, Trepalium, Bibleblack, Mistur, Sarke, Tyrann, Ashent, Dark the Suns, Inmoria, Nefertum, Paganizer, Tim Ripper Owens, Stormheit, Silent Memorial, Torture Killer, Hammer Horde, Ablaze in Hatred, Conquest, Empires of Eden, Elias Viljanen, Bob Katsionis, Kiko Loureiro, Code For Silence, Old Man's Child, Wretched, Guilt Machine, Leaves' Eyes, Demonical, Kult ov Azazel, Dying Fetus, Gothmog

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.

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
Alternative Metal

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

A:
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 (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
AFI - Love Like Winter
AFI - I Heard A Voice, Live From Long Beach Arena
AFI - Crash Love (Reviewed)
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 - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Altered States of America (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
Anarchsphere - 2008 Sampler
Angela's Dish - War On Time
Angelcorpse - Of Lucifer And Lightning
Anime Fire - On The Wings Of Hope (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
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 - Allegiance (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
Austrian Death Machine - A Very Brutal Christmas (Reviewed)
Autopsy - Severed Survival
Avenged Sevenfold - Sounding The Seventh Trumpet
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold

B:
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
Behemoth - Evangelion (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
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
Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast
Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
The Boy Will Drown - Fetish (Reviewed)
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 (Reviewed)
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season (Reviewed)
Brokencyde - I'm Not a Fan But the Kids Like It (Reviewed)
Buio Omega - Planet of Tombs
Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet for My Valentine (Reviewed)
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire (Reviewed)
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

C:
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
Capitalist Casualties - Disassembly Line
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
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
Charles Bronson - Complete Discocrappy (Album of the Week)
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
The Crown - Crowned in Terror
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

D:
Daath - The Concealers (Reviewed)
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain (Album of the Week)
The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return
Darkthrone - Dark Thrones & Black Flags
Dash & Will - Up In Something
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 (Reviewed)
Defcon 4 - File Under Fuck
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 (Reviewed)
Dreadnaught - Dirty Music
Driller Killer - The 4Q Mangrenade
Drowning Pool - Sinner
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition

E:
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

F:
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 on the Beach - Power Violence Forever
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

G:
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 (Reviewed)
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

H:
Hatchet Dawn - Faith In Chaos
Hate Eternal - Fury & Flames
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
Hawthorne Heights - Fragile Future
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids
Helmet - Meantime
Her Nightmare - Come Anarchy Come Ruin
Himsa - Courting Tragedy and Disaster
HIM - Razorblade Romance
HORSE the band - A Natural Death
The Hot Lies - Streets Become Hallways
The Hot Lies - Heart Attacks and Callous Acts
The Hot Lies - Ringing In The Sane
House vs. Hurricane - Forfeiture
Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox

I:
I Killed the Prom Queen - When Goodbye Means Forever
I Killed the Prom Queen - Music For The Recently Deceased
I Set My Friends On Fire - You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter (Reviewed)
Ignominious Incarceration - Of Winter Born
Ihsahn - angL
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Black-Ash Inheritance
In Flames - Whoracle
In Flames - Come Clarity
In Trenches - In Trenches
In Trenches - Relive and Regret
Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
Inveracity - Extermination Of Millions
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Edward the Great

J:
Jet - Get Born
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Jimmy Eat World - Stay on My Side Tonight
Job for a Cowboy - Doom
Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Judas Priest - Ram It Down
Judas Priest - Nostradamus

K:
Karl Sanders - Saurion Exorcisms
Kataklysm - The Vortex of Resurrection
Kataklysm - Epic (The Poetry Of War)
Khold - Krek
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Killers - Sam's Town
The Killers - Sawdust
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Kingdom of Sorrow - Kingdom Of Sorrow
Kisschasy - Hymns For The Nonbeliever
Korn - Korn
Korn - Follow the Leader
Kreator - Flag of Hate
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
KTL - Ktl

L:
Lacuna Coil - In a Reverie
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Lamb of God - As The Palaces Burn
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God - Sacrament
landmine marathon - Wounded (Reviewed)
Last House on the Left - Among Flies
Leathermouth - XØ
Leng Tch'e - The Process of Elimination
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
Limb from Limb - Rip Him from His Fucking Throne
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavoured Water (Reviewed)
Limp Bizkit - The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1)
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park - [Reanimation]
Linkin Park - Meteora
Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight
Lisa Mitchell - Wonder
The Living End - From Here On In
The Living End - State of Emergency
The Locust - Plague Soundscapes
Lucy's Doll - Formula for Hate
Ludwig van Beethoven - Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies

M:
Machetazo - Mundo Cripta
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Machine Head - The Blackening
Madina Lake - From Them, Through Us, To You
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments
Malevolent Creation - The Will to Kill
Malevolent Creation - Warkult
Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk (Reviewed)
Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque
Marilyn Manson - Eat me, Drink me
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
Matchbook Romance - Voices
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Maze of Torment - Hidden Cruelty
Meatlocker - Meatlocker
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Merauder - Master Killer
Merauder - Five Deadly Venoms
Merauder - Bluetality
Meshuggah - Chaosphere
Meshuggah - obZen
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Metric - Fantasies
Miles Away - Consequences
Mindless Self Indulgence - Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy
Mindless Self Indulgence - Alienating Our Audience
Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel to Anything
Mindless Self Indulgence - Shut Me Up: The Remixes + 3
Mindless Self Indulgence - If
Mindless Self Indulgence - Never Wanted To Dance: The Remixes
Minor Threat - First Demo Tape
Misery Signals - Mirrors
Misery Signals - Controller
Misfits - Earth A.D.
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Mortification - EnVision EvAngelene
Mötley Crüe - Shout At The Devil
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Murder Squad - Unsane, Insane and Mentally Deranged
Murderdolls - Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
My Chemical Romance - I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours (Reviewed)
My Dying Bride - An Ode to Woe

N:
Napalm Death - Fear, Emptiness, Despair
Napalm Death - Enemy of the Music Business
Necromantia - Crossing the Fiery Path
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Necrophagist - Epitaph
New Pornographers - Challengers
Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Nile - Ithyphallic
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
NOFX - So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes
NOFX - Pump Up the Valuum
NoIR MaCABRE - Victory (Darkness Reigns Forever)
Novembers Doom - For Every Leaf That Falls
Novembers Doom - To Welcome the Fade

O:
Obituary - The End Complete
Obituary - World Demise
The Offspring - Smash
The Offspring - Americana
Old Man's Child - Slaves Of The World
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Damnation
Opeth - Watershed
Organic Infest - The Way to Temptation
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

P:
P.O.D. - The Fundamental Elements of Southtown
Panic at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Panic at the Disco - Nine In The Afternoon
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Papa Roach - Infest
Paramore - Riot
Parkway Drive - Don't Close Your Eyes
Parkway Drive - Killing With a Smile
Parkway Drive - Horizons
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Pennywise - Land of the Free
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients
Pig Destroyer - 38 Counts Of Battery
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard
Poison the Well - The Opposite of December
Poison the Well - Tear From the Red
Praetorian - Crushing Torment
The Presets - Apocalypso
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Primus - Antipop
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)
Puddle of Mudd - Famous
Pungent Stench - Ampeauty
Putrescence - Sledgehammer Holocaust

Q:
Queen - Greatest Hits
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (Album of the Week)

R:
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Ramones - Leave Home
Ramones - Road to Ruin
Raunchy - Confusion Bay
The Red Chord - Prey For Eyes
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
The Red Paintings - Destroy The Robots
The Red Shore - Unconsecrated (Reviewed)
The Red Shore - Lost Verses
Reel Big Fish - Favorite Noise
Rise Against - Siren Song of the Counter Culture
Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos

S:
The Sabians - Beauty For Ashes
Salem - Collective Demise
Salem - Necessary Evil
Saliva - Blood Stained Love Story
Salt The Wound - Carnal Repercussions
Samael - Above
Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Still Searching - Still Seaching
Septic Flesh - Communion
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead
Severe Torture - Feasting on Blood
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance
Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
Shakira - She Wolf
She Said Destroy - Time Like Vines
Sick Puppies - Dressed Up As Life
Sigh - Scorn Defeat
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Sigh - Gallows Gallery
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Sikfuk - Teabagged At Birth
Silence the Foe - Sweet Sweet Suicide
Silverchair - Freak Show
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom
Simple Plan - No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls
Simple Plan - Still Not Getting Any...
Simple Plan - Simple Plan (Reviewed)
Six Feet Under - Death Rituals (Reviewed)
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - South of Heaven
Slipknot - Slipknot
Slipknot - Iowa
Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Slowmotion Apocalypse - My Own Private Armageddon
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Soilwork - Figure Number Five
Something With Numbers - Perfect Distraction
Sonic Syndicate - Love and Other Disasters
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Goo
Soulfly - Prophecy
Soulfly - Dark Ages
The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You (Album of the Week)
Sparkadia - Postcards
Spiderbait - The Flight of Wally Funk
Starkweather - Croatoan
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Starsailor - Four To The Floor
Still Remains - Of Love and Lunacy
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Story of the Year - The Black Swan
Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Striborg - Nefaria/A Tragic Journey Towards The Light
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Subway to Sally - Nord Nord Ost
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky - The Grand Partition, and the Abrogation of Idolatry (Reviewed)
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Suicidal Tendencies - Join The Army
Suicide Silence - The Cleansing
Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler
Sum 41 - Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41 - Underclass Hero
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Reviewed)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
The Surrogate/Worms of the Earth - Split E.P.
Survivor - Ultimate Survivor
Swallow the Sun - The Morning Never Came
Swashbuckle - Back To The Noose
Sweet - The Greatest Hits
System of a Down - System of a Down
System of a Down - Toxicity
System of a Down - Steal This Album!
System of a Down - Hypnotize
System of a Down - Mezmerize

T:
!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment
Tegan and Sara - Sainthood (Album of the Week)
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
Terror - Lowest Of The Low
Terror - The Damned, The Shamed
Textures - Silhouettes
Three Days Grace - Three Days Grace
Thy Art Is Murder - Infinite Death
Tiger Army - Tiger Army
Tiger Army - III: Ghost Tigers Rise
Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose Of Death... (Album of the Week)
Trigger the Bloodshed - Purgation
Trigger the Bloodshed - The Great Depression
Turisas - The Varangian Way
Twisted Sister - Still Hungry

U:
Underoath - Define the Great Line
Unmerciful - Unmercifully Beaten
The Used - The Used
The Used - In Love and Death
The Used - Lies For The Liars

V:
Vader - Future Of The Past
Vader - Black to the Blind
Vampire Mooose - Vampire Mooose
Venomous Concept - Retroactive Abortion
Venomous Concept - Poisoned Apple
Verse - Aggression
Vile - The New Age of Chaos
The Vines - Highly Evolved
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic (Album of the Week)
Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Voivod - Katorz
Vomitory - Revelation Nausea

W:
Walls of Jericho - All Hail The Dead
Walls of Jericho - With Devils Amongst Us All
Waltari - Release Date
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Watchmaker - Erased From the Memory of Man
Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead (Reviewed)
Wednesday 13 - Bloodwork
Weezer - Weezer
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Make Believe
Weird Al Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood
When - You Are Silent
The White Stripes - Elephant
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
Whitechapel - This Is Exile
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 25 Mozart Favorites
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

Y:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (Reviewed)
A Year to Remember - A Year To Remember
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard - Lights And Sounds

Z:
Zombie Ritual - Night of the Zombie Party

#:
30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars
30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
324 - Rebelgrind
36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside The Flames
36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
3OH!3 - Want (Reviewed)
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
8 Foot Sativa - Season for Assault

WTF!!?!:
Потоп - Канали (Reviewed)

One last thing, I didn't include all of the compilations/movie soundtracks and a bunch of singles I own. Yeah.

1349
Absurd
Arcturus
Aura Noir
Ancient
Agathodaimon
Anorexia Nervosa
Barathrum
Beherit
Behexen
Belphegor
Blut aus Nord
Burzum
Catamenia
Carpathian Forest
Dark Funeral
Dodheimsgard
Dark Fortress
Dimmu Borgir
Dissection
Darkthrone
Enthroned
Enslaved
Emperor
Gorgoroth
Graveland
Hades Almighty
Horna
Immortal
Impaled Nazarene
Keep of Kalessin
Khold
Lord Belial
Limbonic Art
Marduk
Mayhem
Morgul
Nargaroth
Nattefrost
Naglfar
Old Man's Child
Obtained Enslavement
Rotting Christ
Satanic Warmaster
Satyricon
Summoning
Susperia
Taake
Trelldom
Tsjuder

Продолжение статистических изысканий. Предыдущие посты см. здесь, здесь и здесь.

A new chapter of statistical researches. The previous entries on the topic you can find here, here and here.

Сегодня темой нашего разговора будет black metal - довольно узкий и специфический жанр. Кстати, разглядывание страниц с сотней исполнителей этого тега доставляет довольно своеобразное эстетическое удовольствие) Также хочу сразу поделиться радостной новостью - теперь у меня есть скрипт авторства Hzlqgmnzhh (которому огромное человеческое спасибо), благодаря которому я могу а) быстро собирать нужную статистику б) также иметь статистику по рупору исполнителя. Так что сегодня нас ждет две новых разновидности графиков.

Today the black metal will be the field of our researches. By the way, watching a hundred of black metal artists' pages gives a kind of perverted aesthetic pleasure) Also, there's some good news: I've got a script by Hzlqgmnzhh (great thanks to him), and by its help I can a) collect the needed stats quickly b) obtain the shoutbox stats for each artist. So, a couple of new graphs awaits us now.

Сначала наша традиционная статистика по числу слушателей и прослушиваний (логарифмический масштаб).

First of all, our traditional statistics by playcount and number of listeners (semi-logarithmic scale).







Лидируют в обоих номинациях "праклятые пазеры" Dimmu Borgir и Cradle of Filth. А вот на следующем графике представлен общий вид зависимости числа прослушиваний от числа слушателей.

"Damned posers" Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth are heading both charts. And on the next graph a general view of playcount to number of kisteners dependence is represented.




И что же мы видим? Точки довольно хорошо ложатся на прямую, разброс довольно мал по сравнению с другими жанрами. И это значит, что Dimmu Borgir и Cradle of Filth не являются каким-то особенным отклонением от "канонов жанра". Разница количественная, а не качественная.

So what? The points can be satisfactory interpolated be a straight line, and their scattering is less than in previously studied genres. In fact, that means Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth do not deviate from "genre standards". One can easily see, the difference is quantitative, not qualitative.




Прямым следствием малого разброса точек на рис. 3 является малый разброс удельного числа прослушиваний. Среднее удельное число прослушиваний составляет около 37. Максимальные значения имеют довольно малоизвестные команды - Absurd, Lifelover, Infernal War (от 75 до 80). Для наиболее популярных групп эти показатели близки к средним.

A straight consequence of low level of scattering in pic. 3 is low level of scattering in specific number of scrobbles. The average specific number of scrobbles is around 37. Maximal values belong to not so famous bands Absurd, Lifelover and Infernal War, whose specific numbers of scrobbles are from 75 to 80. For popular bands these values are close to the average.




Наша традиционная гистограмма распределения исполнителей по удельному числу прослушиваний. Пик вокруг среднего значения довольно широк, зато в хвосте - единичные исполнители.

Our traditional specific number of scrobbles histogram. The peak around the average value is rather broad, and only a several artists belong to the tale.

А теперь немного новой статистики, связанной с активностью в рупоре исполнителя.

And now, some new stats related to the activity in shoutboxes.




Вот график зависимости числа сообщений в рупоре от числа слушателей. Как вы видите, разброс довольно сильный (хотя в целом можно сказать, что более популярные исполнители имеют больше сообщений в рупоре), так что ничего интересного сказать здесь нельзя, за исключением того, что Burzum со страшной силой выпадает из общей закономерности, имея более 9000 сообщений в рупоре. В принципе, это неудивительно, учитывая репутацию этой команды, а также то, что они в некотором смысле являются воплощением жанра и все, желающие посраться на тему блэк метала идут в первую очередь сюда. Да и Варг, опять же, на свободу недавно вышел)

Here's the messages-in-shoutbox-to-number-of-listeners plot. The data is rather scattered (though one can say, more popular artists have more messages in general), so there's nothing really interesting here, except Burzum falling far from others with over 9000 messages in their shoutbox. That's not so surprising, taking into account their reputation and the fact they in a way represent the whole genre, so everyone who wants to make some trolling around black metal goes right to their shoutbox. And, yes, Varg have been released some time ago)




Последний график, на мой взгляд, намного более интересен. За исключением пресловутого Burzum, мы видим что здесь наличествует что-то вроде потенциального баръера: большое число сообщений в рупоре могут иметь только исполнители, с удельным числом прослушиваний не меньше среднего. Это я считаю довольно нетривиальным результатом. Интересно, насколько это будет выражено в других жанрах.

The last graph appears to me to be much more interesting. Without Burzum, we have something like a potential barrier here: only artists with more-than-average specific number of scrobbles can have many messages in their shoutboxes. I consider it to be not so trivial result. It's interesting, if that feature would be well represented in another genres.

P.S. Всего на last.fm наслушано около 200 миллионов black metal-треков.
Overall, there's about 200 millions of black metal tracks scrobbled on last.fm.

List of considered artists:

Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Satyricon, Darkthrone, Immortal, Behemoth, Marduk, Emperor, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Mayhem, Bathory, Carpathian Forest, Anaal Nathrakh, Samael, Rotting Christ, Dark Funeral, Venom, 1349, Dissection, Enslaved, Graveworm, Naglfar, Old Man's Child, Summoning, Eisregen, Borknagar, Impaled Nazarene, Belphegor, Celtic Frost, Drudkh, Shining, Ulver, Deathspell Omega, Nargaroth, Ajattara, Xasthur, Watain, Catamenia, Windir, Taake, Keep of Kalessin, Finntroll, Anorexia Nervosa, Arcturus, Beherit, Wolves In The Throne Roo, Blut aus Nord, Tsjuder, Akercocke, Nokturnal Mortum, Endstille, Agathodaimon, Satanic Warmaster, Limbonic Art, Judas Iscariot, Moonspell, Absu, Peste Noire, Dornenreich, Vesania, Melechesh, Amesoeurs, Nocte Obducta, Infernal War, Behexen, Nachtmystium, Primordial, Deströyer 666, Kampfar, Leviathan, Abigor, Sigh, Dark Fortress, Hate Forest, Agalloch, Graveland, Horna, Absurd, Lord Belial, Kat, Lifelover, Hellhammer, Funeral Mist, Nattefrost, Enthroned, Gehenna, Isengard, Abigail Williams, Bal-Sagoth, Sargeist, Mercyful Fate, Aborym, Vreid, Stormlord, ...and Oceans, Ihsahn, Goatwhore, Craft

...Nothing official, just my personal opinions and ratings.

List (obviously) in progress... New albums coming, and ratings may change, as I'm changing my mind all the time. ;]




[ updated 03.11.09 ]

Other albums I've listened _{(under five stars)}:
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Adept - Another Year Of Disaster ☆☆☆
^{(post-hardcore)}
Ajattara - Noitumaa ☆☆☆
^{(black metal - acoustic)}
Amoral - Show Your Colors ☆
^{(melodic/technical metal)}
Amorphis - Skyforger ☆☆☆☆
^{(progressive/melodic metal)}
Asa & Toverit - Via Karelia ☆☆☆☆
^(hip-hop)
Behemoth - Evangelion ☆☆☆☆
^{(blackened death metal)}
Chimaira - The Infection ☆☆☆☆
^{(groove metal)}
DevilDriver - Pray For Villains ☆☆☆☆
^{(groove metal)}
Devin Townsend Project - Ki ☆☆☆
^{(progressive metal/rock - experimental)}
Eminem - Relapse ☆☆
^{(hip-hop / rap)}
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children of the Dark Waters ☆☆
^{(symphonic/melodic death/power metal)}
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs ☆☆☆☆
^{(progressive/melodic death/doom metal)}
God Damn - Old Days ☆☆☆☆
^{(stoner metal)}
Horna - Musta Kaipuu ☆☆☆☆
^{(black metal - raw)}
Job for a Cowboy - Ruination ☆☆☆☆
^{(technical death metal / deathcore)}
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos ☆☆☆☆
^{(thrash metal)}
Kotiteollisuus - Ukonhauta ☆☆☆
^{(melodic metal)}
Mastodon - Crack The Skye ☆☆☆☆
^{(progressive metal / sludge)}
Method Man & Redman - Blackout! 2 ☆☆☆
^(hip-hop)
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave ☆☆☆☆
^{(death metal / grindcore)}
Neaera - Omnicide - Creation Unleashed ☆☆☆☆
^{(melodic death metal)}
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal ☆☆☆☆
^{(death-doom metal)}
Obituary - Darkest Day ☆☆☆☆
^{(death metal - old school)}
Oh, Sleeper - Son Of The Morning ☆☆☆☆
^{(post-hardcore)}
Redrama - The Getaway ☆☆
^{(hip-hop / rap)}
Scalping Screen - Twelve Out Of Chamber ☆☆☆☆
^{(hardcore / death metal)}
Sepultura - A-Lex ☆☆
^{(thrash/groove metal)}
Static-X - Cult of Static ☆☆☆☆
^{(industrial rock/metal)}
Stratovarius - Polaris ☆☆
^{(power metal)}
Susperia - Attitude ☆☆
^{(thrash/heavy metal)}
Venetian Snares - Filth ☆☆☆
^{(breakcore / acid)}
Viikate - Kesävainaja ^(EP) ☆☆☆☆
^{(rock - melancholic)}
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade ☆☆☆
^{(black metal - ambient)}

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[ yet unrated ]

Agathodaimon - Phoenix
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
Gigantic Brain - World
Hacride - Lazarus
Hatebreed - For The Lions
Icewind Blast - Necropolis
Karjalan Sissit - Fucking Whore Society
Marilyn Manson - The High End of Low
Mumakil - Behold the Failure
Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg
:wumpscut: - Fuckit

1. Ad Hominem '
2. Dimmu Borgir
3. Ruina
4. Satyricon
5. Anaal Nathrakh
6. Capitollium
7. Khors
8. Zyklon
9. Gloria Morti
10. Old Man's Child