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A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays Album of the year; varied, weird, strangely beautiful yet ultimately creepy. |
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Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas A relentless assault of pure violence. Well, that's what I call fun! |
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Faal - The Clouds Are Burning Being utterly miserable rarely sounds so good and warm! |
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Klone - The Dreamer's Hideaway Klone's masterpiece, for sure. Entrancing... |
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Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence Proggily good metalcore! |
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Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata For once, they managed to be surprising during the whole album... |
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Enslaved - RIITIIR Do they ever disappoint? |
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Gorod - A Perfect Absolution Groovy, technical, catchy and brutal - once again. Plus they're an absolute blast live! |
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Igorrr - Hallelujah Weirdo weIRdo wEirdO (oh, yeah, breakcore/metal/chicken/everything)..?! |
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Kong - Merchants Of Air Classy, electro-proggy instrumental stuff. |
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Metallic Taste Of Blood - Metallic Taste Of Blood Weird, chilling, trippy. Interesting stuff... |
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Mindplotter - Event Horizon Trippy, electro-djenty instrumental stuff. |
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Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White Omega White is the Moonspell we love - but both feature great songs. |
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Stolen Babies - Naught Less wacky than their first album, but still mightily enjoyable. |
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The Blood Of Heroes - The Waking Nightmare Hip-hop meets Godflesh, with a brilliant result. |
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Vortech - Devoid Of Life Great, catchy electro/industrial death metal. Love it! |
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Bend The Sky - Origins Atmospheric and proggy instrumental djent. Beautiful. |
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Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn Infectiously catchy thrash/death of great quality! |
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Blutmond - The Revolution Is Dead! |
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Cancer Bats - Dead Set On Living |
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Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind |
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Coram Lethe - Heterodox Honestly surprised with how much I enjoyed this proggy "death" stuff. |
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Dordeduh - Dar De Duh They couldn't top Om, of course (who could?), but that's a nice attempt nonetheless. |
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Elysian - Wires Of Creation |
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Forgotten Silence - La Grande Bouffe |
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Jambinai - Différance Korean instruments mix oh-so-well with post-stuff atmospheres. One of the most original albums released this year! |
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Meshuggah - Koloss solid, yet not exceptional |
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Minority Sound - The Explorer Catchy electro-metal done right. |
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Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus (The Remixes) No I'm not kidding, some remixes are better than the original versions. OK, that wasn't too hard :lol: |
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Unsane - Wreck Noise-rock/hardcore just came back with another great album. |