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Textures - Silhouettes Mindblowingly awesome. |
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Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale Mindblowingly awesome, part 2. |
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Burst - Lazarus Bird Mindblowingly awesome, part 3. |
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ADX - Division Blindée Comeback? Yeah. Not near their best works, but still better than good. |
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Cynic - Traced In Air Delicate stuff as fragile and beautiful as a flower. |
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Darkspace - III Who said the void between stars was silent? |
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Enslaved - Vertebrae Some great songs, some less so, but an all-round excellent album - if difficult to get into |
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Ez3kiel - Battlefield Electronica infused rock (or the other way around?). Nice chilling release. |
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Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh Good for sure, but it lacks the luminous and beaufiful feeling that permeated From Mars To Sirius. |
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Hail Of Bullets - ...Of Frost And War Crushing you to the bone. Yeah, that's about it. |
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Hans Zimmer / James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight OST Fantastic soundtrack for an even better movie. |
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Genghis Tron - Board Up The House Electro / Synthpop / Grindcore. And a fucking nice swansong. |
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Hexen - State Of Insurgency Retro-thrash rarely sounded so good. |
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Hollenthon - Opus Magnum Now THAT is epic. |
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Meshuggah - ObZen Some 'classical' Meshuggah. Bleed, er read, that 'awesome'. |
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Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul Darkly beautiful (and soothing) ambiant music by Riverside's Mariusz Duda. |
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Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1 Psychedelic black metal, with dark mood, raw sound, an Hawkwind influence, and a saxophone. Yeah. |
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Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance A weird, unique, and very personal mix of sounds and influences for some great music. |
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Opeth - Watershed Somehow one of the least-loved Opeth albums around, but the only one I got into for real. |
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Septicflesh - Communion With this and Hollenthon, symphonic death metal at its best since... Therion's Theli, maybe. |
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SUP - Hegemony Not as original as their previous efforts, still pretty mind-blowing nonetheless. |
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The Arkitecht - Hyperstructure Truly great geeky prog stuff. Hey, anyone claiming Nobuo Uematsu as an influence can't be bad. |
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The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate A well-made mix between death metal and electronics? Count me in! |
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Tribe After Tribe - M.O.A.B. Stories From Deuteronomy 'World metal'? Yup. Happy, somber, reflective, meditative and uplifting. |
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Ultra Vomit - Objectif: Thunes Catchy, stupid, fun, fun, fun!!! And ducks. Alive, of course. |