Der Stürmer - Transcendental Racial Idealism (2011)

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Greece

One of the better NSBM bands returns with this offering to cut all of our inferior faces off.

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Strongblood - The Beaten Paths Of Youth (2011)

Genre: Raw Black Metal
Country: United States

Love this raw, punk-influenced style of black metal and these guys do it just right. If you like this also check out their other releases The Night Is My Whore and Crooked Cross.

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Meth Drinker - Meth Drinker (2011)

Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal
Country: New Zealand

Cuz this should already be up here...nihilistic sludge that will alter your face in a way that may or may not scare little children (Depending on their tolerance for horror movies).

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Cruciamentum - Engulfed In Desolation (2011)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: United Kingdom

sup nigs this rules filth and satan and crush

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Cavity - Supercollider (1999)

Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal
Country: United States

Trudging sludge filled with narcissistic riffing and belligerent, tortured vocals. Fans of Eyehategod, Melvins, Noothgrush, Grief and other such bands will definitely find lots to like here.

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Vektor - Outer Isolation (2011)

Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: United States

How 'bout some motherfucking sci-fi themed THRASH

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Nocturnal Blood - Devastated Graves - The Morbid Celebration (2010)

Genre: Death/Black Metal

Country: United States

It's blackened death metal. It has riffs all over the motherfuckin place. Get it.

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Panopticon - Social Disservices (2011)

Genre: Black Metal
Country: United States

Haven't heard a single thing from Austin Lunn that has let me down, and this is no different. Labeled as his darkest and heaviest work yet, I tend to think that overstates the heaviness here (his S/T I think is heavier) but this certainly leaps away from the relative mellowness of On The Subject Of Mortality. There is plenty of black metal excellence to be found here, and the concept of the album is one that is clearly true to Lunn's heart. Its power is right here on display.

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Sempiternal Deathreign - The Spooky Gloom (1989)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal

Country: The Netherlands

Seminal, old school death/doom full length from 1989, Nineteen-eighty-motherfuckin-nine. Does anything else really need to be said?

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Eskhaton - Nihilgoety (2011)

Genre: Death/Black Metal

Country: Australia

Unmerciful, destructive death metal from the land down under that will toss you into a dizzying tailspin for several hours. Throw a few Immolation and Ignivomous influences together with some seriously jagged, thrashy, at times blackened riffing/soloing and hellacious gutturals and you have yourselves one mother of a wretched and satanic steamroller waiting to come and plaster you into the ground.

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Antediluvian - Through The Cervix Of Hawwah (2011)

Genre: Black/Death Metal
Country: Canada

Oh hey look another awesome band signed to Profound Lore releasing excellent material who'd of thought.

Slays.

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Incrust - Baptized In Unholy Gore (2005)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Brazil

Raw and acidic Incantation/Immolation/Autopsy worship with a very hideous and foreboding feel (As one can probably tell from the album artwork/title). Any fan of Craig Pillard will get a kick out of the vocals, which are bellowed out in a bottomless tone that sounds as if the beast emitting them was trapped in a sinkhole.

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Encoffination - O' Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres (2011)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Country: United States

Fine fine here's a real post before I go back to playing Skyrim.

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Skyrim Has Come

The lack of posts here over the past week (at least for me) has been due to one thing: Skyrim. So watch this power metal guy shred the skyrim theme song while I go back to playing the game. I can assure you that once he gets going this is really impressive.

Download an MP3 of the track here

Faustcoven - Rising from Below the Earth (2008)

Genre: Black/Doom Metal

Country: Norway

Pulverizing, yet catchy listen from these Norwegian doom mongerers. The catchiness can be attributed to a distinct Sabbath influence on the guitar work, which is blended with cutting old school black metal undertones and a trudging bass creating a pummeling low end, while the vocals carry a sort of twisted combination between Tom G. Warrior, Black Cactus from Von and a death growl with a bit of a raspy edge as well. Strongly recommended for listeners of both of these genres.

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Also, a stream of the title track from their upcoming album, Hellfire and Funeral Bells can be heard here.

Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance (2011)

Genre: Doom Metal
Country: United Kingdom

Here's one that I had no idea was coming out: a new Esoteric album. Two discs, two hours of excellent doom metal that has some really dissonant melodies and a superb atmosphere. Highly recommended, along with the rest of the band's work. Most of their stuff is like 492356787 hours long but it's worth it.

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Ritual Necromancy - Oath Of The Abyss (2011)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States

This one's for you, Andy.

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Acid King - Busse Woods (1999)

Genre: Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal

Country: United States

Dirty and crunching stoner metal from San Francisco with some really trippy vocals. If you are a fan of such bands as Electric Wizard and Sleep, there is no reason you shouldn't slap this on the speakers right now, take a fat toke and drift away into the monstrous riffs that this thing is chock full of.

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Decrepitaph - Profane Doctrines Unburied (2011)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal

Country: United States

Excellent release from one of Elektrokutioner's (Father Befouled and Encoffination among his other outfits) primary projects. A fantastic guitar tone gives this a crushing sound, as it transfers between death and doom metal effortlessly. Septic growls that sound as if being forced through a hole in a coffin underground add to the atmosphere and some morbid melodies and solos also make their presences known. Definitely one worth checking out if you're into this type of thing.

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Vordr - Vordr MLP (2009)

Genre: Raw Black Metal
Country: Finland

Vordr are consistently releasing quality material, and as long as they keep on this track they will remain as one of the better black metal bands to come out of Finland. While III wasn't the band's best effort, it was still a good listen for fans of no-frills, raw black metal. Vordr MLP I like a lot better, and is my favorite release from them since II back in 2005. Awesome vocals and some krieg riffs to hopefully usher winter in a bit early this year.

Plus "Weeping the Seas" rules.

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Flourishing - The Sum of All Fossils (2011)

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Country: United States

If you like later era Gorguts (i.e. Obscura/From Wisdom to Hate), Ulcerate or other bands with that type of sound, get this immediately (yep, code red text). Not much more needs to be said.

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Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs (2011)

Genre: Neoclassical
Country: Iceland

Going out of the usual routine of death metal and black metal to bring some neoclassical to your attention by one of my favorite composers Ólafur Arnalds. His new EP Living Room Songs is available for FREE DOWNLOAD from his website, and I encourage all of you to give his stuff a listen. Bleak, minimalistic neoclassical that is right up my alley.

And yes, this was recorded in his living room.

Funerus - Reduced to Sludge (2011)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: United States

Pretty much everything John McEntee (long time Incantation member) has been involved in has ruled in some way or another, and this release, the second full length (first in eight years) from his project, Funerus, is no exception. This also features his wife, Jill, on vocals/bass and she sounds just as good as her hubby at spewing out guttural refuse.

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Maveth - Breath of an Abomination (2011)

Genre: Death/Black Metal

Country: Finland

Rampant blackened death metal compilation from these Finnish goat slaughterers with a healthy injection of Incantation and Ignivomous influences thrown in for good measure. If you're looking for riffs, you'll find 'em here...

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Prosanctus Inferi - Red Streams Of Flesh (2011)

Genre: Death/Black Metal
Country: United States

I think I actually like this better than Pandemonic Ululations of Vesperic Palpitations, which I thought was pretty damn good.

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Abhorer - Zygotical Sabbatory Anabapt (1996)

Genre: Death/Black/Thrash Metal

Country: Singapore

One of the first extreme metal bands to come out of Asia, Abhorer will absolutely rip your face off with this unrelenting and merciless display of finesse. The guitar licks import death, black and thrash styles into the music while the vocal offering is a rather desperate sounding growl as if someone tuned Martin Van Drunen's vocals down an octave with several double-tracked, higher pitched howls thrown in for good measure. Complete with automatic drumming, anyone looking for a good pounding in the sensitive areas should check this out.

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Coercion - Forever Dead (1997)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: Sweden

Coercion's Forever Dead is a rather under-appreciated album from the Swedish scene that came out in the mid 90's that packs everything you could really ask for into a single unit. The riffs are crunching, acidic affairs and the vox are nice and low. The final track is a 23-minute song that, despite the fact that the final half is basically just ambiance, shows the dynamic nature of this band.

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Graveyard - Into the Mausoleum and One With the Dead (2008/2009)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Spain

Some of the best Swedish-styled death metal I've heard in awhile and it comes from Spain. Blended with other styles of death metal from other countries, needless to say, on both the 2008 EP, Into the Mausoleum, and the 2009 full length, One With the Dead, Graveyard seemingly annihilates the speakers with all manner of terrific riffage (Like the one that begins "Ritual" on the EP), drums that will crush you into a pulp and viscous vocals. They also have an EP released in 2011, called The Altar of Sculpted Skulls, which I can't for the life of me find a download link. If anyone has one, it would be greatly appreciated and will be added to this post as soon as possible.

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Swallowed - Swallowed (2010)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Country: Finland

If the words "death/doom metal" and "Finland" used in the same sentence don't excite you sexually then you are hopeless.

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Bastard Priest - Ghouls of the Endless Night (2011)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden

Bastard Priest's new full length after their 2010 release, Under the Hammer of Destruction. For those of you unfamiliar with the band, they play a style of dirty old school death metal infused with a solid helping of crusty goodness (Similar to Tribulation, Repugnant, Miasmal, etc). This album is no exception and the riffs ooze with a vibe as if these guys were playing back in the late 80's and early 90's when the underground was filled with shit that would cock smack your face if you dared to approach.

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Serpent Ascending - The Enigma Unsettled (2011)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Finland

Excellent Finnish death metal from this year with an abundance of solid instrumental work including some tearing, cleaving riffs and while the production is a bit flat, they sound adequate. Vocally, the album is classic Finnish material, consisting of cavernous, bowel-churning gutturals which add into the trademark low-end that death metal from this particular country is known for.

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Immolation - Providence (2011)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States

New Immolation EP oh yeahhhhhh

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Ygg - Ygg (2011)

Genre: Atmospheric/Pagan Black Metal
Country: Ukraine

Ukraine has some seriously good black metal, and Ygg continue that tradition with some well-produced atmospheric black metal with nice, howling vocals and an altogether grim atmosphere and a large handful of heavy, winding riffs. A promising debut album. Krieg.

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Cult Ritual - Cult Ritual (2009)

Genre: Hardcore

Country: United States

Seriously ragged, unorthodox and off the wall hardcore from Tampa, Florida which will just keep kicking you in the crotch until you drop to the ground for good. "Cancer Money" is especially nasty and just an epic closer in general.

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Ayr - Eternal Sustain (2011)

Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal
Country: United States

Ayr's second EP that came out in January of this year. It's a shame these guys went on hold because they are a talented band that simply understands how to write good, captivating black metal. Rare qualities these days, that's for sure.

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Transgressor - Ether for Scapegoat (1992)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Japan

Bludgeoning riffs, devastating doom passages and repulsive vocals are just a few of the elements within this nasty album from The Land of the Rising Sun, that should more than meet your current death metal cravings.

On an extra note, what is it with these filthy Japanese death metal vocals? (Intestine Baalism, Coffins, this, etc.)

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Entrails - The Tomb Awaits (2011)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: Sweden

Well look at this, the band who released one of my favorite death metal albums from last year Tales from the Morgue are back with another awesome old school death metal album to tear your face off.

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Karnarium - Karnarium (2008)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden

Not your typical Swedish death metal offering. This disgusting, vile, grungy output will throw you into the dumpster faster than an obese person devours a Big Mac. So sit the fuck down...

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Ildjarn - Forest Poetry (1996)

Genre: Raw Black Metal
Country: Norway

Not gonna name names but there was this one dude I know who kept saying he hated Ildjarn but then when he realized cool ppl liked it he changed his mind.

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Cianide - Gods of Death (2011)

Genre: Death/Doom Metal

Country: United States

So uh, in case you didn't know, Cianide is a death/doom band from Chicago that goes back to the early 90's. Gods of Death is another pounding offering from this outfit, altering between ransacking medium-paced death metal and crushing, plodding doom sections with some really nasty production. One of the better metal offerings so far this year, not to be missed.

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Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit (2011)

Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal
Country: Japan

So here's that new album I mentioned in the last post.

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Corrupted - El Mundo Frio (2005)

Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal
Country: Japan

So I guess Corrupted is coming out with a new album in a few days, which is superb news for anyone who loves this Japanese sludge/doom band (and really, who doesn't?). In honor of this here is their best album (that also happens to be their latest, until this new one drops), the 71-minute epic that is El Mundo Frio.

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Acrostichon - Engraved In Black (1993)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: The Netherlands

Because your face is too clean and you need to bury it in this slab of filth from the land of orange-clad soccer players (and everything else). Also, the vocalist is female, and she does a damn great job...

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Grand Belial's Key - Kosherat (2005)

Genre: Black Metal
Country: United States

Apologies for the lack of posts as of late, my computer died and I'm stuck on a fucking netbook until the parts for my new one arrive. Today's post isn't anything really unheard of but it does rule. Grand Belial's Key are a fantastic band who really haven't put out anything lackluster so you can't go wrong with Kosherat.

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Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood (2011)

Genre: Atmospheric/Folk Black Metal
Country: United States

It's always surprised me how little black metal comes from northern New England. I've lived here all my life and have always thought that it would provide the perfect stage for a sort of counterpart to the Cascadian black metal sound from the geographically opposite side of the country. There is one band, though, that puts into practice what I've been thinking all this time. Falls Of Rauros have already put out several releases, and with each one they evolve their sound. Featuring Austin Lundr of Panopticon on drums (he is a good friend of the band) and some excellent acoustic and electric riffs to be had this is exactly what this region needs. More bands in northern New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont need to take cues from what is going on here and showcase the fact that what our region offers for inspiration can easily rival anything else going on across the country.

As of now, The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood is available for stream here, and available for purchase here.

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Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar (2006)

Genre: Drone/Doom Metal
Country: United States/Japan

A collaboration between two excellent bands produces, you guessed it, and excellent album that brings out the best of both acts on one production. The album flows unusually well (probably due to Boris' influence) and the sublime likes of "The Sinking Belle (Blue Sheep)" is nothing short of wonderful to experience.

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Iniquity - Serenadium (1996)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: Denmark

Hard to deny the songwriting ability of these Danes who churn out more than their fair share of awesome riffs both crushing and memorable. Couple that with excellent vocals that throw around several different pitches and great drumming and you have a recipe for superb death metal.

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Crematory - Denial and Netherworlds of the Mind (1992)

Genre: Death Metal

Country: Sweden

Two nasty EP's that will riff until the sun goes down (and never comes back up again).

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Disma - Towards The Megalith (2011)

Genre: Death Metal
Country: United States

Undoubtedly will crush.

UPDATE- Confirmed. This crushes.

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