I am making a list for 2011. Like every one else. Originality is overrated anyway.
This is the very top of the year and still a work in progress.
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| 23.11.2011
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Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Black/Shoegaze (Blackgaze is an horrible name for a genre BTW). This one puts my ass on the floor with every listen. Great music, great atmosphere, great everything. |
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Beyond Creation - The Aura
Technical Death. Excellent album where Mr Lapointe abuses my bass fetish. It's Cosmogenesis all over again, maybe even better. |
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Benighted - Asylum Cave
Brutal Death. Four words. BETWEEN MY BROKEN TEEEEEEEHEEEEEEHEEEEETH. My favorite song of the year on an awesome album. |
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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony
Symphonic Extreme. Not the successor to Oracles and Mafia that I expected but very good in its own right. I cannot for them to do better (because they will... or I'll riot) |
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Obscura - Omnivium
Progressive Technical Death. Feels like a natural evolution from where they left us with Cosmogenesis. I wonder where they will go from here. |
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Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth
Technical Death/Thrash. *bangs head with very serious look on its face* |
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Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
Electro-dark-pop-folk-whothefuckcares-metal. I want to go out in the streets at night and dance with people to that music. A unique blend of sound. |
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Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
Funeral Doom. Less directly enjoyable than The Maniacal Vale… Okay, scratch that, you should not compare it to the Maniacal Vale. This is great music. |
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Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Slightly Blackened Brutal Death. Crushing. Period. |
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Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
Heavy Devin. The album that never lets you know where it's going to take you next. Plus the lyrics are strangely touching. |
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Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes
Technical Death/Grindcore. The Earth crust has broken releasing toxic fumes. Lovecraftian entities have invaded our world. My skin has turned grey and I'm breathing through gills. And yet I've never felt better. |
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Noisear - Subvert The Dominant Paradigm
Grindcore/Noise. Rapes your ears (in a good way) and then sends you to space. My favorite grincore release of the year. |
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Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues
Progressive Metalcore. I just love it. |
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Leprous - Bilateral
Progressive. Crazy songs with lots of energy. |
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Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason
Atmospheric Black. This one will swallow you and digest you into a desperate, happy ice cube. I don't know if that makes sense. |
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Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Not a 2011 release. But if Lulu taught us anything, it's that we should remember how awesome Kill 'Em All is. |
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Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
Blackened Thrash. I did not find any "straight thrash" release that excited me this year. However, this one makes me want to break stuff with a smile on my face. |
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Taake - Noregs Vaapen
Black. Too good to be just "solid", not enough to be awesome but deserves a place here for the f***ing banjo solo \m/ |
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Appearance Of Nothing - All Gods Are Gone
Progressive Power. Has the merit of being one of the few "proggy" albums I liked. Is corny but feels manly. |
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Alestorm - Back Through Time
Folk Power. OK, this is not on the same level as the other. But this was my first Alestorm album. I mean, how did I live ignoring the existence of Pirate Metal before. With a song about rum (the greatest drink in the world). |
