The best heavy metal album of 2016. It's a shame we missed it

Hear hear!

Interesting drone sludge with female vocals

Ovo - Creatura

Weird, but kinda cool ^

US one-man atmospheric black metal album from last year. Actually their sophomore release it seems. The guy behind this is also the one who makes that Tchornobog album this year. Pretty solid stuff and lots of well written and furious bm parts here. One of the better albums I've heard in this genre and surprisingly a great listen.

Aureole - Aurora Borealis

Sludge metal from the UK with a truly epic cover art. Looks like this is a 2016 release but couldn't find any bc page from 2016 though but the label and most of the reviews/streams are from 2016. Oh well.

Garganjua - A Voyage In Solitude

Experimental extreme sludge doom and other stuff. It has supposedly connections to Qualeaceans, but is more tamed and less chaotic. Still a noisy approach to production, which results in somehow psychedelic sound. Riffs are extremely dissonant, covered by a layer of improvised lead guitar. Overall, maybe a bit challanging for most people.

Enmeshed- The Egesal

Written by mz on 20.01.2017 at 12:12

Experimental extreme sludge doom and other stuff. It has supposedly connections to Qualeaceans, but is more tamed and less chaotic. Still a noisy approach to production, which results in somehow psychedelic sound. Riffs are extremely dissonant, covered by a layer of improvised lead guitar. Overall, maybe a bit challanging for most people.

Enmeshed- The Egesal

That sounds quite good actually.

That Garganjua art is also really nice indeed.

Written by [user id=4365] on 20.01.2017 at 12:39


That sounds quite good actually.

That Garganjua art is also really nice indeed.

yeah I like it. Brings some fresh air to extreme doom.

What is it with Russia and great black metal recently.

Spectacular Virus / Carbonized type avant-garde metal from last year. Production is so good.

Cracking melodic death metal of the non-Gothenburg variety. Wish there was more of this type of thing.

Written by [user id=4365] on 25.01.2017 at 18:29

Spectacular Virus / Carbonized type avant-garde metal from last year. Production is so good.

this stuff is amazing. More bands should try to go for this type of sound.

Written by mz on 26.01.2017 at 11:58

this stuff is amazing. More bands should try to go for this type of sound.

Yeah I love it. These guys seem to have a particular knack for this approach.

Techdeath from Leeds, UK.

Cognizance - Illusory

Great sounding older school black metal. Wicked riffs and somewhat distinctive in approach. Nice to hear something of this nature with so much personality.

Great usbm from the same guys behind Triumvir Foul, Ash Borer, Dagger Lust and a million other bands. This just got released on vinyl by Fallen Empire records too.

Uskumgallu - Rotten Limbs In Dreams Of Blood

Here's another album by the same guys I posted earlier which you bitches didn't bother with.

Written by 3rdWorld on 07.10.2016 at 22:58

New bm from the guys behind Ash Borer, Triumvir Foul etc. And artwork by H.V.Lyngdal aka the Wormlust guy.

Urzeit - Anmoksha

Riotous fun stoner album from Belgium. Great riffing, songwriting and very percussive.

King Hiss - Mastosaurus

Written by 3rdWorld on 13.10.2016 at 14:20

Dutch Stoner metal. Melodic and relentless riffage.

Komatsu - Recipe For Murder One

Full album stream here

Reposting this unbelievably good album from Netherlands with the YT link. Stoner fans and riff lovers shouldn't miss this one. Also my aoty from 2016.

Written by 3rdWorld on 09.02.2017 at 18:59

Written by 3rdWorld on 13.10.2016 at 14:20

Dutch Stoner metal. Melodic and relentless riffage.
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Reposting this unbelievably good album from Netherlands with the YT link. Stoner fans and riff lovers shouldn't miss this one. Also my aoty from 2016.

Your double quoting intrigues me. Goes into my checklist.

Don't know if was already posted, but Mannveira released a split last year. Two great songs in the vein of their EP. Would really like a full album by these guys!

Ellorsith​/​Mannveira



(I think the other band is quite uninteresting).

I'm on a my shitty laptop speakers now, but this is interesting, both muscially and from thematic point of view (at least for me)
atmo black with elements of Iranian traditional/ folk music. Lyrically concerned with the ancient Iraninan history.
Also, dope as fuck cover :

Akvan-میراث

Written by [user id=136611] on 17.02.2017 at 10:41


Damn, in only heard the other band.

sorry, what?

No one is the new Bad English?

Haha, I thought I had deleted that. I wasn't even supposed to quote mz's post, I was suppose to quote vombatus post about that split.
Anyway I have heard both bands off that album now and vombatus is right, Mannveira is awesome!

Written by 3rdWorld on 04.02.2017 at 11:10

Urzeit - Anmoksha

Been listening to this a lot lately

Written by [user id=136611] on 01.03.2017 at 01:37

Written by 3rdWorld on 04.02.2017 at 11:10

Urzeit - Anmoksha

Been listening to this a lot lately

Yeah Vrasubatlat is generally good for psychedelic-y/suffocating bm. I don't remember this record as I didn't spin this as much as that Uskumgallu record which was really good. So need to visit this again soon.

Written by 3rdWorld on 01.03.2017 at 05:20

Written by [user id=136611] on 01.03.2017 at 01:37

Written by 3rdWorld on 04.02.2017 at 11:10

Urzeit - Anmoksha

Been listening to this a lot lately

Yeah Vrasubatlat is generally good for psychedelic-y/suffocating bm. I don't remember this record as I didn't spin this as much as that Uskumgallu record which was really good. So need to visit this again soon.

If i remember correctly it got lots of praise on CVLT too. Mizmor guy is in the band. Gonna check it out later.

If the opening track is not one of the best things from 2016 then I dont know what it is