Best Metal of 2011 - Challenge Accepted[views:6720][posts:25]____________________________________ [Dec 31,2011 12:28pm - demondave ""] this is connected to Slag's thread {2011} Best Albums of - in no particular order http://www.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=74420 The lists were great, so I decided to turn it into a listening guide. Usually I catch lists at the end of the year and I haven't checked out even a quarter of them. My commute comes to almost 4 hours a day on train and subway, so that opens a lot of time. I was going to listen to as many as I could in December. [img] |
| ____________________________________ [Dec 31,2011 12:30pm - demondave ""] Dec 2 Argus - Boldy Stride the Doomed Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore Midnight - Satanic Royalty Dec 4 Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult Dec 5 Ramlord - Stench of Fallacy Abysmal Darkening - No Light Behind Dec 6 Disma - Toward the Megalist Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand Entrails - the Tomb Awaits Mitochondrion - Parasignosis Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Deception Dec 7 Ash Borer - Self Titled Brutal Truth - End Times Archgoat - Heavenly Vulva Dec 8 Invidious - EP Necrovorous - Funeral for the Sane Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations Dec 9 Omegas - Blasts of Lunacy Saturnalia Temple - Aion of Drakon Tombs - Path of Totality Vanhelgd - Church of Death Dec 10 Vomitory - Opus Mortus VIII Alghazanth - Vinum Intus' Dec 11 Venom - Fallen Angels Cianide - Gods of Death Chthonic - Takasago Army Cryptborn - Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead Funerary Bell - Circle within Circle Dec 12 Deafheaven - Roads to Judah Absu - Abzu Dec 13 Vektor - Outer Isolation Condenados - A Painful Journey into Nihil Demonical - Death Infernal Wormrot - Dirge Nekrofilth - Worship Destruction Dec 14 Autopsy - Macabre Eternal Azarath - Blasphemer's Maledictions Aosoth - III Dec 15 Exhumed - All Guts No Glory Blessed Offal - S/T Blut Aus Nord - 777(sects) Bones - S/T Dec 16 Bloodfreak - Mindscraper Desecresy - Arches of Entropy Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients Bastard Priest - Ghouls of the Endless Night Serpent Ascending - The Enigma Unsettled Dec 17 Morne - Asylum Vastum - Carnal Law Demo Dec 18 Burzum - Fallen Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command Crucified Mortals - S/T Dec 19 Burzum - From the Depths of Darkness Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All Beyond Creation - the Aura Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage Maruta - Forward into Regression Neige Et Noirceur - Hymnes de la Montagne Noir Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift Dec 20 Cellgraft / Drainland split Dolorvorte - Dolorvotre Demonaz - March of the Norse Ravencult - Morbid Blood Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes Deceased - Surreal Overdose Dec 21 Ghamorean - Terra Ruina Virus - The Agent that Shapes the Desert Dec 22 Krisiun - The Great Execution Inquisition - Ominus Doctins of the Perpetual Blasphemophager - The III Command Warbringer - Worlds Torn Assunder Embrace of Thorns - Praying for Absolution Immolation - Providence Dec 23 Pathology - Awaken to the Suffering Sabbat - Sabbatrinity Fortresse - Crepuscule D'Octobre Dec 24 Creeping - Order of Snakes Dec 25 Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder Rotten Sound - Cursed Marduk - Iron Dawn Dec 26 The Carrier - Blind to What is Right Panopticon - Social Disservices Dec 27 Necrophagia - Deathrip 69 Harm - Demonic Alliance Origin - Entity Skeleton Witch - Forever Abomination Anvil - Juggernaut of Justice Dec 28 Nunslaughter / nekrofilth split Machetazo / Marrow split Broken gravestones - Let Sleeping Corpses Lie Obscura - Omnivium The Axis of Perdition - Tenements (Of the Anointed Flesh) Dec 29 All Pigs Must Die - God is War Benighted - Asylum Cave Decapitated - Carnival is Forever Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage Apocalypse Command - Damnation Scythes of Invincible Abomination Dec 30 Northless - Clandestine Abuse Batillus - Furnace The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre Heresiarch - Hammer of Intransigence Morbus 666 - Mortuus Cultus |
| ____________________________________ [Dec 31,2011 12:32pm - demondave ""] [img] |
| _______________________________________ [Dec 31,2011 12:33pm - the_reverend ""] ha! I need 99% of those. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 1,2012 8:13pm - ThirdKnuckle ""] Marduk on Christmas Day |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 1,2012 8:36pm - boblovesmusic ""] the_reverend said:ha! I need 99% of those. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 2,2012 8:53pm - demondave ""] Here are my top twenty for the year. They are not specifically in order. It was hard to thin it down to twenty, and I could picture it changing if it did it a week later or earlier, but I felt like putting this together. This is mostly due to other peoples suggestions from Slag's thread. For example, I enjoyed everything on Kevord's list, and with more time, more of those would end up on my list. Anyone who is interested should also look at Autothrall's list on From the Dustbin Returned. http://autothrall.blogspot.com/2012/01/aut...hralls-top-metal-albums-eps-of.html And Conversationist's list http://www.examiner.com/metal-music-in-houston/best-metal-of-2011 [img] Midnight - Satanic Royalty Midnight never really thrilled me before. I saw them with Nunslaughter and they were pretty good live, but I never really got into them. Kevord had this at the top of the list and it surprised the hell out of me. This is black thrash speed with a vibe that I haven't gotten since early venom. [img] Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore I don't know too much about the assault charges and the story with his ex girlfriend, but it apparently resulted in this. I've ignored Leviathan for the last few years, but Wrest being unhinged is the secret. [img] Ash Borer - Self Titled Really impressive black with drone prehaps "post-"whatever. Black Metal soundscapes are a plus for me. [img] Autopsy - Macabre Eternal Autopsy are on top of their game. It is a little cleaner than their other recordings, and people have critiqued it for being long (as in it could be trimmed down to give more of a punch) but I have noticed that people disagree on what the throw away tracks would be. Thoroughly enjoyable to me. [img] Burzum - Fallen Just amazing. And this isn't coming from Varg worship. I had this on with a nice pair of headphones while laying on a couch at 2am. The dual guitar work just mesmerized me. The vocals are awesome - the use of the rasp and the spoken voice. Check this out. [img] Ravencult - Morbid Blood This is not reinventing the black metal wheel, but it completely rips from beginning to end. Get this [img] Deceased - Surreal Overdose After all these years who would have thought a band could still release something this good. I was completely surprised. [img] Batillus - Furnace Blackened Doom, but I feel a sludgy vein inside. At first I expected very little from it, but I got hit by the end of the 1st song. The distorted vocals and infections base line hooked me, and I can't shake this buzzoven feeling. [img] Heresiarch - Hammer of Intransigence Black Death in that war kult arena with a big Revenge influence with the pick slides and drumming. There is more variety in tempo, and I noticed that some reviews act as if this is a solid brick without variation. I don't see that at all. [img] Cianide - Gods of Death Straight up Death Metal that just sounds good. A solid album with a great biting guitar sound. It is not innovating or retro, but I keep going back to it again and again and I think anyone else will too. [img] Dolorvotre - Dolorvotre So many people on this board cringe at the Black Twilight Circle, but that tour up here was great. I got to see the Dolovotre lineup in Providence. Keep in mind that I liked the Les Légions Noires scene, and this tape carries the same vibe with the low fi nature contributing to the overall sound. [img] Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult More bands should take advantage of soundscapes. There are a ton of intros and instrumentals between the black death tracks to create a solid LP. [img] Funerary Bell - Circle within Circle This was different, I'll give it that. Black but really and atmospheric death metal lp, that is heavy on the double bass and in a hypnotic slow to mid gait. [img] Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift There are a ton of old shool death metal worshiping bands that have hit lately. Expecially empulating the Swedish sound (Entombed, Dismember, Grave Carnage). Really good stuff too, like Disma and Entrails. I liked Morbus Chron the best. They are slightly different though. Kind of like Repugnant. It has all of the influences of that scene without being an outright imitation. [img] Vektor - Outer Isolation Vektor have had a buzz going on for a while, but this is the lP that brings it all together. Sounds great with solid writing, it is crazy future voivod thrash combined with the lead singer of Sadus hitting the high notes. (any old schoolers that have chemical illusions would recognize it right away) [img] Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Deception Bestial war kult with a punishing lp. Yeah, I eat this stuff up. [img] Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations Really haunting guitar work. I definitely recommend giving this a chance. The dark tremolo guitar work has a surfer psychedelic tone to it, but please understand that it totally works. I know that description sounds awful but it makes good Black Metal and its so worth the time [img] Exhumed - All Guts No Glory A marriage of Slaughtercult vibe with Anatomy is Destiny production. [img] Morne - Asylum This sudgy doom death lp grew on me. It will be perfect for a long midnight drive. [img] Antichrist - Forbidden World Last minutle LP that I came across from an Autothrall review. He decribes it as "taking everything I so loved about the early, aggressive thrash from both the Bay Area and German scenes, mashing it up, adding a relish of kinetic, blackened vitriol and then feeding it to me all over again." So true. Here are others that could easily be in my top 20. Disma - Toward the Megalist Mitochondrion - Parasignosis Vomitory - Opus Mortus VIII Absu - Abzu Nekrofilth - Worship Destruction Blut Aus Nord - 777(sects) Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All Sabbat - Sabbatrinity Rotten Sound - Cursed Marduk - Iron Dawn Benighted - Asylum Cave Gridlink - Orphan Entrails - the Tomb Awaits Origin - Entity Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients The last Inquisition would be on here but it actually came out in 2010. |
| _____________________________ [Jan 3,2012 8:50am - ark ""] A++ thread |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 8:55am - arilliusbm ""] Nice work, demondave. I'm real out of the loop with new stuff |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 8:58am - AndrewBastard ""] ^&^ same here but Daves list is pretty on point.. That Disma and BAN would def but in my top 10... |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 9:49am - Manowarrior ""] Mostly hipster bullshit. Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 10:07am - Randy_Marsh ""] Im interested in that morbus chron, ill check it out later today |
| ________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 10:11am - KEVORD ""] Will the big boys table have copies of Mental Kingdom the rare Autopsy album? |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 10:16am - Randy_Marsh ""] Origin isnt that good. |
| __________________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 10:17am - Voice of reason ""] Manowarrior said:Mostly hipster bullshit. Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots. So what are your top of 2011? If you answer "nothing it's all hipster" then you fail. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 12:47pm - Manowarrior ""] Voice%20of%20reason said: Manowarrior said:Mostly hipster bullshit. Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots. So what are your top of 2011? If you answer "nothing it's all hipster" then you fail. Other thread. Learn to read, faggot. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 12:50pm - arktouros ""] Manowarrior said:Portrait and In Solitude put out decent albums. In Solitude are a little suspect, but they at least play real metal. Manilla Road's newest is stellar. Argus is pretty decent. Autopsy was disappointing and shitty despite all the hip young types being all about it. Listen to Mental Kingdom, faggots. This new shit sucked. Deceased and Disma rendered all other death metal releases from 2011 irrelevant, but I still deleted them after two listens and never bought them, as all of those dudes are clearly past their creative peaks. Not bad, just old and weak sounding. You sound interesting, do you want to go out for coffee sometime? |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 12:54pm - Manowarrior ""] arktouros said: Manowarrior said:Portrait and In Solitude put out decent albums. In Solitude are a little suspect, but they at least play real metal. Manilla Road's newest is stellar. Argus is pretty decent. Autopsy was disappointing and shitty despite all the hip young types being all about it. Listen to Mental Kingdom, faggots. This new shit sucked. Deceased and Disma rendered all other death metal releases from 2011 irrelevant, but I still deleted them after two listens and never bought them, as all of those dudes are clearly past their creative peaks. Not bad, just old and weak sounding. You sound interesting, do you want to go out for coffee sometime? Just keep in mind I don't put out on the first date. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 3:15pm - amorok666 ""] Just keep in mind you're a total poser. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 3:18pm - nekronaut ""] That Negative Plane is FUCKING KILLER! |
| _____________________________ [Jan 3,2012 3:19pm - Yeti ""] i think that Exhumed album is meh at best. it has a few good tracks, but overall it's a letdown. |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 4:18pm - Manowarrior ""] amorok666 said:Just keep in mind you're a total poser. Just keep an open mind. I just ain't like the dudes that you normally date. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 5:45pm - amorok666 ""] dude only mental kingdom is so real |
| _____________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 6:02pm - Manowarrior ""] amorok666 said:FAGGOT Yes, we know. |
| _________________________________ [Jan 3,2012 9:25pm - CurlyRed ""] That Cianide cd is wikkked good... |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 9,2012 10:33am - the_reverend ""] that cianide CD is great. |