Apologies if there's already a thread about it. What's your favorite BM releases of this year? Not necessarily a pure BM release.

Top of my head :

Alpha Eri by Alrakis
Celestial Lineage by Wolves In The Throne Room
Torn Beyond Reason by Woods Of Desolation
Mammal by Altar of Plagues
777 Sect(s) and 777 Desanctifaction by Blut Aus Nord
Noregs Vaapen by Taake
Femundsmarka - Eine Reise in drei Kapiteln by Waldgefluester
Dort, wo das alte Böse ruht by Aaskeria
Passion by Anaal Nathrakh
Fallen by Burzum
Diotima by Krallice
Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa by Moonsorrow
Vlast by N.K.V.D
Kosmonument by Oranssi Pazuzu
Redemption at the Puritan's Hand by Primordial
Heart of Darkness by TOBC
Beyond the Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life by Verwustung
Epoch by Fen
Abzu by Absu

I'm too lazy to copy/paste from my list but my top 25 black metal albums can easily be found there.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.12.2011 at 21:08

I'm too lazy to copy/paste from my list but my top 25 black metal albums can easily be found there.

Hahahaha your Lulu description is fucking class.

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 22:05
Hahahaha your Lulu description is fucking class.

It's the brutal truth.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.12.2011 at 22:08

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 22:05
Hahahaha your Lulu description is fucking class.

It's the brutal truth.

Mate, in your list, the Fell Voices album.. isn't it the untitled one? You listed there as the self titled one, which was 2009 release. I got confused. Which one you meant?

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 23:09
Mate, in your list, the Fell Voices album.. isn't it the untitled one? You listed there as the self titled one, which was 2009 release. I got confused. Which one you meant?

According to the band's distro's blogspot, both albums are actually self-titled, not untitled.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.12.2011 at 23:10

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 23:09
Mate, in your list, the Fell Voices album.. isn't it the untitled one? You listed there as the self titled one, which was 2009 release. I got confused. Which one you meant?

According to the band's distro's blogspot, both albums are actually self-titled, not untitled.

Hmmm. In M/A its stated differently. Maybe they are wrong then. Thanks then, checking them out

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 23:13
Hmmm. In M/A its stated differently. Maybe they are wrong then. Thanks then, checking them out

No problem. Between RYM and MA, and probably other places like last.fm and MetalKingdom, the albums are probably assigned random titles - one of the two are bound to be untitled or self-titled, but they probably don't get both right ever.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 24.12.2011 at 21:08

I'm too lazy to copy/paste from my list but my top 25 black metal albums can easily be found there.

Easily? Where can your list be found??

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 20:25

Apologies if there's already a thread about it. What's your favorite BM releases of this year? Not necessarily a pure BM release.

Top of my head :

Alpha Eri by Alrakis
Celestial Lineage by Wolves In The Throne Room
Torn Beyond Reason by Woods Of Desolation
Mammal by Altar of Plagues
777 Sect(s) and 777 Desanctifaction by Blut Aus Nord
Noregs Vaapen by Taake
Femundsmarka - Eine Reise in drei Kapiteln by Waldgefluester
Dort, wo das alte Böse ruht by Aaskeria
Passion by Anaal Nathrakh
Fallen by Burzum
Diotima by Krallice
Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa by Moonsorrow
Vlast by N.K.V.D
Kosmonument by Oranssi Pazuzu
Redemption at the Puritan's Hand by Primordial
Heart of Darkness by TOBC
Beyond the Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life by Verwustung
Epoch by Fen
Abzu by Absu

Most of mine is already in the list even though I would have reated them differentaly but it really doesn't matter. Black metal isn't about competing.

Written by Savopipo on 25.12.2011 at 02:18
Easily? Where can your list be found??

http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=1147

Just skim over the non-black metal releases.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.12.2011 at 02:20

Written by Savopipo on 25.12.2011 at 02:18
Easily? Where can your list be found??

http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=1147

Just skim over the non-black metal releases.

Well I think BaN deserve a higher rankeing than you giv'em but again I think WITTR is overrated in the original one. Also there are a lot of bands in both lists that I haven't even heard so I bail out. Merry X-mas fuckers!!

I'd advice the debut from Saille, "Irreversible Decay" and also the one of Dekadent, "Venera: Trial & Tribulation"

Takasako Army by Chthonic. Celestial Lineage would be number two.

01. Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
02. Fell Voices - Fell Voices (2011)
03. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
04. Dwellers of the Twilight - Sycophant
05. Alda - : tahoma :
06. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
07. Epheles - Je suis autrefois
08. Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
09. Forteresse - Crépuscule d'octobre
10. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
11. Nightbringer - Hierophany of the Open Grave
12. Taake - Noregs Vaapen
13. Cloak of Altering - The Night Comes Illuminated With Death
14. Lantlôs - Agape
15. Lake of Blood - As Time and Tide Erodes Stone
16. Leviathan - True Traitor, True Whore
17. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
18. Panopticon - Social Disservices
19. Farsot - Insects
20. Shining - VII - Född förlorare
21. Totalselfhatred - Apocalypse in Your Heart
22. Alrakis - Alpha Eri
23. Noctem - Oblivion
24. Ebonylake - In Swathes of Brooding Light
25. P.H.T.O - Affliction

Subject to change of course.

Written by The Turbanator on 24.12.2011 at 20:25

Alpha Eri by Alrakis
Celestial Lineage by Wolves In The Throne Room
Torn Beyond Reason by Woods Of Desolation
777 Sect(s) and 777 Desanctifaction by Blut Aus Nord
Passion by Anaal Nathrakh
Fallen by Burzum
Vlast by N.K.V.D
Beyond the Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life by Verwustung
Epoch by Fen

This, + Stained Glass Revelations by Negative Plane, Ex|st by Infestus, Ash Borer by Ash Borer, Without Circumference Nor Center by Arizmenda, Tahoma by Alda, Sjukdom by Lifelover etc.
There are still a few releases that need to be checked out, though.

1. Epoch by Fen
2. Kossmonument by Oranssi Pazuzu
3. Skeletonwitch- Forever Abomination
4. Cendres et Sang by Aenon
5. Blasphemers Maledictions by Azarath
I know there are a lot more that I like, but I forget.

I think Lantlôs's Agape is the only one I would include in my top ten. Thy Cataflaque's latest may be close also.

Outside of that, Kosmonument and Celestial Lineage were lovely also.

Absu - Abzu
Krallice - Diotima
Nightbringer - Hierophany Of The Open grave
Taake - Noregs Vaapen

Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctication
Infestus - E x | I s t
Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
Absu - Abzu
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)
Botanist - I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose From the Dead
Cloak Of Altering - The Night Comes Illuminated With Death
De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis
Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness
Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument
Smohalla - Résilience
Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

In no particular order because I'm to lazy.

Faves:

Oranssi Pazuzu - Kosmonument
Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness

Very Goods

Agrypnie - Asche
Aosoth - III
The Belonging - An Immortal Creation
Chaos Moon - The Ouroboros Worm
Ebonylake - In Swathes Of Brooding Light
Enslaved - The Sleeping Gods
Epheles - Le Suis Autrefois
Fen - Epoch
Krallice - Diotima
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Immortal I
Tsjuder - Legion Helvete
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

Good

Arckanum - Helvítismyrkr
Benighted In Sodom - Reverse Baptism
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Sects
Blut aus Nord - 777 - Desanctification
Craft - Void
Dwellers of the Twilight - Sycophant
Farsot - Insects
Forteresse - Crépuscule d'octobre
Gorath - Apokalypsis
Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
Raventale - Bringer Of Heartsore
Samael - Lex Mundi
Skogen - Svítjod
Svartsyn - Wrath Upon the Earth
Taake - Kveld

Absu - Abzu
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
Dornenreich - Flammentriebe
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

Written by BitterCOld on 26.12.2011 at 05:56

Chaos Moon - The Ouroboros Worm

Didn't know he made a new album (EP) this year, thank you!

Some that weren't mentioned (or that I just didn't see):
Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
Charnel Winds - Der Teufelsbund
Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
Aenaon - Cendres Et Sang

Written by Marcus on 26.12.2011 at 10:33
Didn't know he made a new album (EP) this year, thank you!
Some that weren't mentioned (or that I just didn't see):
Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood

Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.12.2011 at 10:47
06. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
08. Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs

And I was going to review the Chaos Moon EP in our Clandestine Cuts feature but they were deemed "to well-known".

Written by Troy Killjoy on 26.12.2011 at 10:52

"to well-known"

As in 20 people in the forums give a fuck about them ?

Written by InnerSelf on 26.12.2011 at 11:27
As in 20 people in the forums give a fuck about them ?

Well they're not an up-and-coming band and they're not unsigned and shit.

And shame on me for that "to" typo.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 26.12.2011 at 11:29

Well they're not an up-and-coming band and they're not unsigned and shit.

And shame on me for that "to" typo.

Well yeah they are rather old and were reviewed here by Lucas so it kinda makes sense
and I did not correct it as a punishment for your Beaver avatar

Written by Troy Killjoy on 26.12.2011 at 10:52

Written by Marcus on 26.12.2011 at 10:33
Didn't know he made a new album (EP) this year, thank you!
Some that weren't mentioned (or that I just didn't see):
Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs
Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood

Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.12.2011 at 10:47
06. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood
08. Petrychor - Effigies and Epitaphs

And I was going to review the Chaos Moon EP in our Clandestine Cuts feature but they were deemed "to well-known".

Hehe that's exactly why I threw that disclaimer up there; I was certain those two would have been mentioned, but I didn't wanna take the time to actually read through and find out by who. Why not just do a normal review for the new Chaos Moon?

Written by Marcus on 26.12.2011 at 11:41
Why not just do a normal review for the new Chaos Moon?

Eh. I'd rather do a mini-write up for it rather than a full 250+ word review.

Who knows. I've been doing a lot of stuff at my leisure now that I'm not officially reviewing for labels anymore, so I might have the time for it. Right now I'm working on a review for Fell Voices' 2011 release.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 26.12.2011 at 11:43

Eh. I'd rather do a mini-write up for it rather than a full 250+ word review.

Who knows. I've been doing a lot of stuff at my leisure now that I'm not officially reviewing for labels anymore, so I might have the time for it. Right now I'm working on a review for Fell Voices' 2011 release.

Fair enough I suppose, although I always figured as a staff member you were sorta exempt from the whole word-count guidelines.

On a side note, I was just about to add Alrakis - Alpha Eri to my above post, only to realize you had already put it