| 4.5 superb |
| Abysmal Grief Strange Rites of Evil |
| Abysmal Grief Celebrate What They Fear |
| What more can one ask for? Amazing energy, absolutely faboulous organic production and such catchy rythms. |
| Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse |
| Versatile, catchy, dissonant, really hard to ask for more, absolutely magnificent! |
| Agalloch Marrow of the Spirit |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Agalloch The Mantle |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans |
| Ahab The Call of the Wretched Sea |
| Ahab Live Prey |
| I don't like what they did with The Hunt here. Other than that this is stunning |
| Anthropophagous Death Fugue |
| Absolutely crushing, old school riff frenzy. I can't stop headbanging to this filthy banger. |
| Arcturus La Masquerade Infernale |
| Asphyx On The Wings of Inferno |
| Asphyx God Cries |
| Asphyx Last One on Earth |
| Asphyx Asphyx |
| Asphyx The Rack |
| Asphyx Crush The Cenotaph (demo) |
| Asphyx Crush The Cenotaph |
| Asphyx Mutilating Process |
| Blackbeard Wizard Blackbeard Wizard |
| I have waited on this for soooo long. Absolutely amazing, delicious as Hooded menace, very catchy and the vocals are absolutely amazing and unique. Lots of fun as well btw |
| Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen |
| A truly beautiful atmospheric black metal piece of art. Everything is set up in a way that is entrancing and soothing at the same time. |
| Blut Aus Nord Deus Salutis Meae |
| What an epic journey. Very diverse. Catchy and super interesting. |
| Blut Aus Nord Triunity |
| A masterpiece, dissonant, having masterful production that sounds simply delicious and simply so original and creative that it leaves the listener speachless. |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Cosmosophy |
| This is so beautiful. It really cures all pain and sadness, in case you got any. |
| Blut Aus Nord Ultima Thulee |
| A timeless gem, so unique, so organic, so harsh and beautiful. |
| Brutal Truth Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Burzum Det Som Engang Var |
| Burzum Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| Burzum Burzum |
| Burzum Burzum Demo |
| Absolutely superb sound, atmosphere and songwriting. Almost too good for a promo |
| Burzum Balders Død (Dauði Baldrs demo) |
| I am of course biased and wierd to have Daudi Baldrs as one of my favorite albums ever. This sounds great and shockingly I even find the tehno pieces very original and enjoyable. |
| Cannibal Corpse Hammer Smashed Face |
| Absolutely great stuff. Magnificent songs, amazing production, love the guitars' chunkiness, the bass tone and of course the bloody vocals |
| Cardinals Folly Defying The Righteous Way |
| Such a beauty, mistique to the latest glimpse of soul, needs to be approached with an openmind. |
| Cerebral Rot Odious Descent Into Decay |
| Fabulous stuff, cannot praise this enough, not sure why it did not instantly click , this absolutely great death metal. |
| Coldworld Melancholie² |
| Count Raven High On Infinity |
| Although you can feel Ozzy sings on this at times it is done so well and so varied that it surely counts as a big plus. Drums sound as well so good and are following truly creative patterns. Guitars are a mix of crunchy and melodic. Really superb stuff. |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Henbane |
| Darkthrone The Underground Resistance |
| Darkthrone F.O.A.D. |
| Darkthrone Sardonic Wrath |
| Darkthrone Astral Fortress |
Rating this at 4 is showing that I do
not learn from my mistakes. I had to
bump up the previous 2 albums multiple
times, will probably do the same here ..
Edit: of course I cannot listen to
anything else..switched up to 4.5 |
| Deathspell Omega Paracletus |
| Dunerider Ruins |
| I have hit play on this with close to no expectations. I found uniqueness, creativity, atmosphere and all the slow headbangable riffs that stoner usually brings to the table. The make it or break it elements are though the guitar tone and the vocals, which I both just love. |
| Electric Wizard Black Masses |
| Electric Wizard Dopethrone |
| Erebos (POL) Nan iChir Gelair Mordor |
| Fen Epoch |
| Fen The Malediction Fields |
| Fleshrot (USA-TX) Demo 2020 |
| Fluisteraars Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking |
| Listening to this only now is definitely a big mistake. Wonderful stuff |
| Forming the Void Skyward |
| This would have been stellar as instrumental. rAdding some of the best vocals out there make me be all over this.r |
| Heights of despair On the Heights of Despair |
The World in Which Nothing Is Solved is one of
my favourite songs ever. Super underatted band,
not sure how they remained so underground. |
| High on Fire De Vermis Mysteriis |
| Best Pike vocals on display on this album. The production seems more claustrophobic than the previous albums which I can dig, especially that the bass is so round and fat.r |
| Hooded Menace Fulfill the Curse |
| Midnight Odyssey Ruins of a Celestial Fire |
| Mizmor Yodh |
| struggled a lot to get passed the first scream. I am into extreme vocals but that was just to intense. But I insisted and now it works like a charm. Crushing, bone chilling, fat sound. Very unique. |
| Mizmor Yodh - Live at Roadburn 2018 |
| it's basically Yodh live. I am amazed how this can sound even scarier than the studio album version. Excellent musicianship, love the full, clear but NOT polished. Instead, what we have here is a rather organic sound. A live album that feels so live. |
| Moonspell Under the Moonspell |
| Moonspell Under Satanae |
| My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion |
Everybody says this needs multiple listens to
fully grasp. It is indeed so, it started from
lukewarm upon first listen and moved up the
ladder to downright amazing for me after
repeated listens. Lyrics are as well amongst
the best I have ever seen. Just beautiful
stuff. |
| My Dying Bride Sinamorata (DVD) |
| So so lovely, absolutely superb atmosphere and bonus materials. Solemn, classy, just mesmerising. |
| My Dying Bride The Barghest o’ Whitby |
| Way too long build-up for a climax that is not as good as I would have expected. These were my thoughts after the first listen. What a fool I was. This is such a massive grower, extremely original, very entertaining and ending in a magnificent manner. |
| My Dying Bride The Vaulted Shadows |
| Contains some of the best MdB songs although coming from 2 EPs and they flow so well together. |
| My Dying Bride A Harvest Of Dread |
| This is more than 5 hours of MdB goodies, absolutely brilliant stuff. Demo versions, live, band members' favourites. |
| Napalm Death Smear Campaign |
| Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration |
| Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat |
| Nekromantheon Visions of Trismegistos |
| Very refreshing thrash, a true bomb with excellent riffs ,such tasty leads and solos and jaw dropping vocals. |
| Obituary World Demise |
| Obituary The End Complete |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Obliteration Black Death Horizon |
| Paramaecium Exhumed of the Earth |
| Paysage d'Hiver Steineiche |
| Portal Avow |
| One would say that a guy that was listening to Cannibal Corpse, Obituary, Napalm death and the likes since the early 90s would not get easily intimidated but I mean this is very frightening and disturbing - in a very enjoyable way, of course.r |
| Primordial To the Nameless Dead |
| Reverend Bizarre III: So Long Suckers |
| I rarely listen to trad doom, just not my thing. So ...we have here obnoxiously long songs clocking at over 2 hours in total under the monicker of a cringy album title.. which were the odds? I love this, the repetition gives a funeral doom (which I dig big time) aroma , there is a feel of natural, unforced organic in the superb flow, the riffs are not reinventing the wheel but are rolling like few other wheels can whilst the vocals are dinamic, superb, special, mind-blowing. |
| Reverend Bizarre Death Is Glory... Now |
| You rarely get so much goodness in a single release, bsides, tracks from splits, a plethora of covers. This is top quality stuff, excelent andtrad doom , very well produced with trademark top notch beautifully insane vocals. The instrumental part is quite playful, but all the experimentation is done with lots of taste and inspiration. As well, most of the time there is a feel that this was was done effortlessly and I am saying that in the best possible way, it just flows so naturally and keeps you hooked and entertained at all times. |
| Rorcal The Way We Are, The Way We Were, The Way... |
| However I would describe this it will sound generic. But nothing could be further from the truth. This is having a fantastic atmosphere , superb songwriting, great guitar sound, amazing drumming and insane vocals. I am blown away. |
| Rorcal Creon |
| This flows so well, almost giving me an atmospheric black metal feel, so beautiful. |
| Sanguisugabogg Pornographic Seizures |
| Saturnalia Temple Paradigm Call |
| Septicflesh The Ophidian Wheel |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn |
| Sepultura Under Siege: Live in Barcelona |
| Shades of Deep Water Waterways |
| Sleep Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| It takes time investment to fully understand it, the whole stoner world and Sleep's one of a kind stage presence. Just magnificent stuff with a feel that is unique but hard to get within several casual listens. |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| So beautiful, so eerie, so catchy, an amazing return, I am so happy they got back together. |
| Sodality Gothic |
| When I saw the album title I thought I will skip this in 30 seconds. Nothing against Gothic but this a very unoriginal name. Tossing that out, I was stunned of how well crafted and mind numbing this is. It is as unsettling as Sektarism, Emptiness or Hallowed butchery. Extremely diverse, very varied tempo wise, generally doomy and atmospheric but topped with some monstrous riffs that completely go out of the Black Metal spectre with almost a wall of sound effect often coming out of nowhere and leaving the listener in awe whilst vocals are truly amazing through their sheer quality but also through their unpredictability. |
| Sunn O))) Black One |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Purging |
| The Ruins of Beverast Exuvia |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure |
| The Ruins of Beverast Unlock the Shrine |
| The Wounded Kings Embrace Of The Narrow House |
| This is mind-blowing, very hard to find better songwriting, genious, subtle, rythms crawling under your skin. |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Undergang Aldrig i livet |
| Straightforward, crushing, beautifully filthyly. Starts of a bit predictable but spices up from middle onwards. I also love how the band conveys power and control over its craft. It literally owns the listener. Another banger from the Danish monsters. |
| Undergang Misantropologi |
| Urfaust Compilation Of Intoxications |
As usual, magnificent vocals are empowered by
mesmerising atmospheres and psihedelic vibes. |
| Warhorse (USA) As Heaven Turns to Ash |
| Windhand Levitation Sessions |
| When a band sounds like this live you gotta give them tons of respect. Dorthia's vocals never sounded better, simply divine. |
| Zolle Zolle |
| Instrumental sludge packed full with engaging and greatly executed riffs. |
| 4.0 excellent |
| Abhorrent funeral Ugly Tales |
| Such a beast of an album. Slow, punishing, reminds me of masters like Cerebral Rot and Undergang. |
| Abstract Spirit Tragedy and Weeds |
| Abysmal Grief Feretri |
| Abysmal Grief Abysmal Grief |
| Abysmal Grief Misfortune |
| Abysmal Grief Foetor Funereus Mortuorum |
| Abysmal Grief Exsequia Occulta |
| Abysmal Grief Reveal Nothing... |
| Excellent compilation showing the keyboard and organ heavy mastery of these super underatted doomsters. The only complaint I have is that generally compilations are not working for metal, it is better to hear out the original albums in the first place although these are previously unreleased or taken from singles or EPs. |
| Abysmal Grief Mors Eleison |
| Absolutely delicious, gorgeous riffs, unique atmosphere and an unreal vibe. |
| Abysmal Grief The Samhain Feast |
| Let's get something straight: these guys can ?i no wrong. So creative, so refreshing, so enjoyable. |
| Abysmal Grief Narcissistic Necrophiles |
| Abyssal (UK) Denouement |
| Abyssal (UK) Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius |
| Abyssal (UK) Antikatastaseis |
| Acoustic Wizard Please Don't Sue Me |
| Acoustic Wizard Please Don't Sue Me Volume 2 |
| Acoustic Wizard Acoustic Wizard III |
| Ad Nauseam Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est |
| Agalloch The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes |
| Nothing to dislike here, it's Agalloch live, feels organic, emotional and briliant |
| Ageless Summoning Demo MMXVIII |
| Amort Winter Tales |
| Anatomia Dissected Humanity |
| Annihilation Rite World below |
| An absolutely classy monster. The dude behind this is quite a genious |
| Antediluvian Through the Cervix of Hawaah |
| Antediluvian Watchers' Reign |
| Excelent cavernous stuff, very good riffing and the atmosphere is perfect for the music |
| Antediluvian Watchers' Reign II |
| At first I did find this too happy and sloppy. Inwas dead wrong, this is pummeling, inspired and very enjoyable |
| Apparatus Cthulhu I |
| There is reason in the madness: great production and really Cthulhian in all vibes |
| Apparatus Cthulhu II |
| A painfull listen in the good. Slow, torturing riffs and vocals |
| Apparatus Cthulhu III |
| These mood and rythm turns are pretty much as nightmarish as it gets |
| Arckanum ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ |
| Arckanum Kampen |
| Arckanum Fran Marder |
| Arckanum Kostogher |
| Arckanum Fenris Kindir |
| Arckanum Första Trulen |
| This is probably as analog as it gets. The whole feel of this takes you places. |
| Arckanum Trulen |
| Very hard to get a demo better than this. It sounds great, the atmosphere is magical and the songwriting is top notch. |
| Arcturus Shipwrecked in Oslo |
| Arcturus Sideshow Symphonies |
| Arcturus The Sham Mirrors |
| Arcturus Aspera Hiems Symfonia |
| Arkheth IX & I: The Quintessence Of Algaresh |
| Athene Noctua I. Cugetarea mitica |
| Atomic Trip Strike #3 |
| Slow, pownding , trance inducing and bloody heavy. Excellent stuff |
| Avsky Embrace Armageddon / No Cure for Mankind |
| This is pure and grim, this is catchy and bold. This sounds both cold and sweet, excelent stuff |
| Below the Sun Alien World |
| Below the Sun Envoy |
| Bergraven Till Makabert Vasen |
| Bergraven Dödsvisioner |
| Black Decades Hideous Life |
| Black Decades Never A Word |
| Blood Revolt Indoctrine |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - The Desanctification |
| Getting so many dreamy vibes from this one, could be even more mesmerizing without the industrial tones present at times. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Ages |
| Lovely melodies, a sound that cannot be replicated nowadays with its mystique and dread. |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium – Nahab |
| Body Void I Live Inside A Burning House |
| Absolutely immense , excellent dinamics and atmosphere, very catchy and immersive.r |
| Bongripper Satan Worshipping Doom |
| Bongripper Miserable |
| Bongripper Meat Ditch |
| This sounds so different, tribal, pulsating, quite scary actually. Love it |
| Bongripper Sex Tape/ Snuff Film |
| Some of the better Bongripper songs on this one although uncharacteristically features many tempo changes and twists. |
| Borgia Ecclesia |
| Brutal Truth End Time |
| Brutal Truth Need to Control |
| Brutal Truth Kill Trend Suicide |
| I love this a lot. Amazing production, sounds really organic and vibe this gives is quite chiling |
| Brutal Truth Round Two |
| Quite a lot of interesting and engaging moments for such a short release |
| Burzum Fallen |
| Burzum Burzum/Aske |
| Burzum Aske |
| Burzum Svarte Dauen |
| This is perfection in terms of getting the rawness sweet spot. It sounds quite insane, I love it |
| Burzum Et Hvitt Lys Over Skogen |
| Unreleased track but it borrows a lot from released tracks. Very well done nonetheless, full of emotion and with great riffing. |
| Burzum The Land of Thule |
| Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth |
| Cannibal Corpse The Best Of Cannibal Corpse: Deadly Tracks |
| This rules hard. Best drum sound possible, excelent songs and Barnes being at his best. |
| Cannibal Corpse Classic Cannibal Corpse (Boxset) |
| Cannibal Corpse 15 Year Killing Spree |
| Cannibal Corpse Monolith of Death Tour '96–'97 [DVD] |
| The guitars sound a bit muffled. Other than that this is an absolute beast. |
| Cannibal Corpse Torturing and Eviscerating |
| This sounds absolutely magnificent, faboulous song selection |
| Cardinals Folly Orthodox Faces |
| Short and sweet. Tempo variety handled magnificently, sound production is perfect. It feels at times like doom metal vibed riffs under a thrash rythm. |
| Cardinals Folly Strange Conflicts of the Past |
| 1+1=5..too much though. 4 more like it. 2 great EPs plus some unreleased tracks, sounds so good |
| Carrion Mother Koronis |
| Celtic Frost Monotheist |
| Celtic Frost To Mega Therion |
| Cerebral Rot Excretion Of Mortality |
| This is so heavy and old school it literally crushes you. Excellent stuff in every way. |
| Coldworld Autumn |
| Conan Monnos |
| Conan Live at Bannermans Bar - August 2012 |
| Sounds bloody heavy even with low volume on the headphones. Hails Conan! |
| Conan Horseback Battle Hammer |
| Convocation Scars Across |
| Corpsegrinder Corpsegrinder |
| A real banger, this fun and easygoing guy never disappoints. |
| Corrupted El Mundo Frio |
| Corrupted Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos |
| Corrupted Llenandose De Gusanos |
| Corrupted Anciano |
| Love this. So chuncky. Did not think Spanish spoken by Japanese can sound so metal.r |
| Count Raven Destruction Of The Void |
| Needs multiple listens to really feel the vibe. This is top quality. So so well done. |
| Count Raven Messiah Of Confusion |
| The sound works well with the dinamic ranges that are aimed for. Vocals are the icing on the cake. |
| Count Raven The Sixth Storm |
| Sweet and fresh doom ...I will probably listen to this over and over for days |
| Cretin Stranger |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Coven |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Sinister |
| Darkspace Dark Space I |
| A journey into space filled with amazing riffs and atmosphere. |
| Darkspace Dark Space III I |
| I am exhausted after all this space travelling, not to mention all the aliens I've met. This is such a beautiful ride!!r |
| Darkspace Dark Space -II |
| Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive |
| Darkthrone Arctic Thunder |
| Darkthrone Circle the Wagons |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Preparing for War |
| Darkthrone Black Death and Beyond |
| Darkthrone Under beskyttelse av mørke |
| Darkthrone Too Old, Too Cold |
| Darkthrone NWOBHM |
| Daudi From the Void |
| Not really impressed by any particular instrument taken separately but they make an excellent blend together. Some highlights include: incredible mix of the drumming with a sort of a thunder reverb (my interpretation of this) I don't think I heard before, the absolutely unique vocals and the production that is organic, foresty and grandiose at the same time. |
| Dead in the Dirt The Blind Hole |
| Dearly Beheaded Temptation |
| Death Fortress Reign of the Unending |
| Death Fortress Deathless March of the Unyielding |
| Death Fortress Triumph Of The Undying |
| Deathspell Omega Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Deathspell Omega The Synarchy of Molten Bones |
| Deathspell Omega The Furnaces of Palingenesia |
| Deathspell Omega Kenose |
| How come this is not a full length? Very interesting, droney stuff with excellent atmosphere. |
| Dephosphorus Ravenous Solemnity |
| Dephosphorus Night Sky Transform |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Der Weg Einer Freiheit |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Stellar |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Live in Berlin |
| Die Kunst Der Finsternis Revenant in a Phantom World... |
| Dohlmen Dohlmen |
| This shines due to its high level of originality in a genre spectre that is littered by samey outputs. Just scratching the surface: the tempo variety is huge, the vocals are so different between songs that I cannot even think of one other band that goes for this, not to mention the language used in Sardinian, didn't even know that's a thing. |
| Dolorian When All The Laughter Has Gone |
| Donarhall Helvegr |
| Donarhall Misanthrope |
| Dragged Into Sunlight WidowMaker |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind |
| Draug (USA-MS) The Suffering Plague |
| Punishing death doom with low tuned guitars and insane gutturals. Nothing you have not heard before but definitely well produced and executed. A filthy banger! |
| Draug (USA-MS) Corruption Within the Catacombs |
| This would have been hyped if released some 5-6 years later when everyone was ready to take on the cavemen. |
| Dread Sovereign Pray to the Devil in Man |
| AAs delicious vocals obviously suit anything so why would trad doom be the exception? |
| Dread Sovereign All Hell's Martyrs |
| Dunerider Ascend to the Void |
| I cannot see how can one not like this as a fan of doom, sludge, stoner...And that tone.. |
| Dunmharu October |
| Dunmharu Frozen Eden |
| Dunmharu Curses Come Home |
| Dunmharu Finding The Eternal |
| Dunmharu The Light |
| Ebonylake On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive |
| Ehnahre The Man Closing Up |
| Electric Wizard Wizard Bloody Wizard |
| Electric Wizard We Live |
| Electric Wizard Time to Die |
| Electric Wizard Come My Fanatics... |
| Electric Wizard Let Us Prey |
| Emptiness Nothing but the Whole |
| Ensnared Dysangelium |
| Erebos (POL) The Light in My Darkness |
| Eternal Khan Lost In The Night Of Ages |
| Evilfeast Elegies of the Stellar Wind |
| Evoken Quietus |
| Evoken Antithesis of Light |
| Evoken Atra Mors |
| Fallow Trelu |
| Fat Grass Shadows |
| The riffs, the production, the unexpected turns...oh boy..what an unexpectedly gorgeous ride |
| Fat Grass Deep Trip |
| Heavy, inspired, chuncky, original, this has all my praise. |
| Fell Voices Untitled |
| Fell Voices Fell Voices |
| Fen Dustwalker |
| Feretri The priests of chaos |
| Really great stuff I'm the vein of mid-era Darkthrone. Excellent hooks as well. The vocals take a bit of time to adjust to but work very well. Cannot stop headbanging to this. 7 years in and still no lp, not sure what he is waiting for. |
| Fleshrot (USA-TX) Unburied Corpse |
| This is so chunky and delicious. ISSN, cavernous, all the good stuff on display |
| Flourishing The Sum of All Fossils |
| Fluisteraars Dromers |
| Fluisteraars Luwte |
| Forming the Void Relic |
| Seemingly generic but the sheer quantity and talent destroy that perception. |
| Forming the Void Rift |
| Engaging doom with very powerful vocals. Some of this is on par with Sleep and I guess there is no need to say anything else.r |
| Fuath II |
| Very soothing, some very catchy and engaging atmospheric black metal going on here. |
| Fuath I |
| Funestus Destrvcto Infinitvm |
| This is excellent stuff, very hypnotising, some very creative drumming and a really unique atmosphere. Excellent guturral vocals as well on display. |
| Fyrnask Fórn |
| Fyrnask Bluostar |
| Gloam Hex of Nine Heads |
| Gorgon (FRA1) The Lady Rides a Black Horse |
| Gorguts Considered Dead |
| Gorguts From Wisdom to Hate |
| Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity |
| Gorguts Pleiades' Dust |
| Gorrch Introvertere |
| Gorrch Nera Estasi |
| Goya 777 |
| Gra Ending |
| Gra Lycaon |
| This is top shelf stuff. Pure quality breathing through all the veins. |
| Grav Tomb of Agony |
| Gris À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Âme Constellée... |
| Gris Il Était Une Forêt... |
| Haapoja Haapoja |
| Hadanfard Smutsiga sinnen |
| Extremely underatted, very nice catchy Black Metal |
| Hadez Aquelarre |
| Hail of Bullets ...Of Frost and War |
| Hallowed Butchery Funeral Rites for the Living |
| Heretic Cult Redeemer Heretic Cult Redeemer |
| Hermodr Forest Sky |
| Hermodr The Howling Mountains |
| Hermodr What Once Was Beautiful |
| Hermodr Krigstid |
| Hermodr To the Nightside |
| One of his best. Much more varied then usual, really enjoyable |
| Hic Iacet The Cosmic Trance into the Void |
| High on Fire Art of Self-Defense |
| This is definitely more on fire than high. Very ferocious for a stoner flag holder, feels like a mean machine is after you and you have no way out. Huge props for achieving this with neat riffs and a warm, round atmosphere and sound. I like the variety on the vocal side as well. |
| High on Fire Surrounded by Thieves |
| Very heavy stoner, very far away from Sleep in terms of agressivenes and not only. Not worse, just different. |
| High on Fire Blessed Black Wings |
| well...as ironic as it sounds this might turn me into Motorhead.. heavy, old school, excellent, I love the overall sound with the fat guitars, those cymbals are great and what can one ask for more in terms of vocals. It feels so organic that one could take it for a live album quite easily. Oh yes, as well, involuntary almost continuous headbanging is guaranteed. |
| High on Fire Death Is This Communion |
| I am calling most metal albums generic, well, they are...I have a very hard time explaining why this is not at all generic given that on paper it does not have something special; on the contrary, this is brilliant, very engaging, I love it. It feels like the Champions League, some of goals seem so simply built that anyone could potentially do it but in fact you need huge player and team quality to pull it off. Same with this album, it all feels just naturally right. One thing I do see strange, I feel that vocals are not used as much as on other albums, even leaving out the interludes . Is it a calculated scheme to make us crave for more and more..Last thing, I would give this an even higher rating if it wasn't for 'Ethereal', only 7 minutes in the album slightly underwhelming. |
| High on Fire Electric Messiah |
| There is no doubt, no dude has put out 2 albums that I like more within the same year. He sure is the dude of all dudes. I hope there is no need to say who am I talking about. |
| Hinterkaifeck Iniquitous Foul |
| Early Napalm Death vibes here, very dinamic, poignant and diverse. The wrapping contains many insane guitar riffs that also resonate with Black Metal. |
| Hooded Menace Effigies of Evil |
| Hooded Menace Never Cross the Dead |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| This is so enjoyable, how can it being such a mystique with such simple riffs and hooks? |
| Howls of Ebb Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows |
| Idre Idre |
| Imperial Triumphant Alphaville |
| Imperial Triumphant Abyssal Gods |
| Imperial Triumphant Vile Luxury |
| Imperial Triumphant Spirit of Ecstasy |
| So creative, so chaotic, love it. Technicality without show off |
| Impetuous Ritual Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence |
| Infernal Torment Birthrate Zero |
| Irkallian Oracle Grave Ekstasis |
| Iskandr Heilig Land |
| J'ai si Froid Loin des Hommes |
| Jacc Casus Fortuitus |
| Better than the following 3 albums as the vocals are meatier and more brought to the front which works better imho |
| Karpackonaut Beyond |
| Maaan!! I am so happy I stumbled into this band. Absolutely stunning vocals, guitar tones and oh boy, those cymbals!! |
| Krisiun The Great Execution |
| Krisiun Southern Storm |
| Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon |
| Krisiun Ageless Venomous |
| Krisiun Apocalyptic Revelation |
| Krisiun Black Force Domain |
| Krypts Unending Degradation |
| L'Acephale L’Acephale |
| L'Acephale Stahlhartes Gehäuse |
| Lautreamont Silence of the Deceased |
| Lautreamont The Cult of Grinning Martyrs |
| Dissonant, creative and refreshing. I really liked the variety in the vocals and the pummeling drums. |
| Light of the Morning Star Nocta |
| Lluvia Premonicion De Guerra |
| Lluvia Eternidad Solemne |
| Lord Vicar Fear No Pain |
| Crunchy, fat, warm production wrapping up doom mastery in the Sabbath, Reverend bizarre vein. Vocals are truly special and giving the uniqueness to the emotive, catch vibe. At a superficial listen this sounds run to the mill doom but the sheer quality, although subtle, is downright excellent. |
| Lord Vicar Signs of Osiris |
| Such classy trad doom. An untrained ear could confuse this with Sabbath and I am saying this as a compliment. A trained ear would feel more of a Reverend Bizarre in the instrumental work - which might be a boring and predictable thing to say from my side. |
| Lord Vicar Gates of Flesh |
| Just beautiful, such a mix of emotions , from joy and hope to melancholy to despair. |
| Lurking sorrow Lurking sorrow |
| Malokarpatan Stridžie dni |
| Mammoth Grinder Extinction of Humanity |
| MasseMord (POL) The Madness Tongue Devouring Juices of Livid Hope |
| Medico Peste א: Tremendum et Fascinatio |
| Megalith Levitation Void Psalms |
| It is hard to describe what a finely crafted piece of art this is. The kind of crushing doom that feels like coming from the hand of a magnificent painter. The album has such a high level of majesty and theatrical grandeur that it drives you into a meditating headbang. |
| Megalith Levitation Acid Doom Rites |
| 76 minutes of droney stuff and quite a dismal album picture. I did not go in filled with enthusiasm. But oh boy this keeps me interested throughout its magnificent, greatly timed and innovative approach. |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 2 - The Golden Orb |
| Great atmosphere and vocals. A special album from a special artist. |
| Midnight Odyssey Funerals from the Astral Sphere |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains |
| Midnight Odyssey Echoes of the Thalassic Deep |
| Miserere Luminis Miserere Luminis |
| Miserere Luminis Ordalie |
| Mitochondrion Parasignosis |
| Mitochondrion Archaeaeon |
| Mizmor Cairn |
| their warmest so far, very crushing and good just not bone chilling |
| Mizmor This Unabating Wakefulness |
| starts with a long beautiful intro. Of course this gets one very worried about what's next given what Mizmor usually turns into: that is a beast that destroy your brains (in a good way of course). The intro is 7 minutes long but remains interesting as it is spiced up with beautiful chants and a series of undertone melodies that flow beautifully and threatening at the same time. Post the intro we have extreme ferocity, great sounding at top speed initially, doomier and more toned down towards the end. |
| Monolord Vænir |
| Monolord Empress Rising |
| Monolord Your Time to Shine |
| This is unexpectedly beautiful. Very soothing moments, of course, the crushing are still there. |
| Moonspell Extinct |
| Moonspell Anno Satanæ |
| Moonspell Lisboa Under The Spell |
| Moonspell Lusitanian Metal |
| Morbus Chron Sweven |
| Mork Isebakke |
| Mork Den Vandrende Skygge |
| Mork Det Svarte Juv |
| Mortichnia Heir to Scoria and Ash |
| Mosaic (DE) Heimatspuk |
| Organic, warm, innovative, such a pleasure to listen to this |
| My Dying Bride As the Flower Withers |
| So raw, so heavy, extremely organic, love the doomy and gloomy vibe. Excellent old school death metal. |
| My Dying Bride Like Gods of the Sun |
| Great riffs pulverising the exceptional atmosphere, this one is a very engaging whilst also sorrowful output. Top notch drum work as well. |
| My Dying Bride The Dreadful Hours |
| Majestic, sublime, eerie, crushing, really impressive. The atmosphere is pulled out in a magnificent fashion. |
| My Dying Bride Anti-Diluvian Chronicles |
| A monster compilation. It sounds so well and blends cohesively for an uter enjoyment (in a dark and dreary sense of course). |
| My Dying Bride A Line of Deathless Kings |
| Elegantly crushing, such a tasteful album, growing more and more with each listen. |
| My Dying Bride An Ode to Woe |
| Such a soul enriching experience, setlist is great, theatrics have a lot of refinement and depth. |
| My Dying Bride A Map of All Our Failures |
| Super blend of melody and heaviness, cleans and growls, almost ambient and all out ferocious attacks. |
| My Dying Bride The Manuscript |
| Love the guitar tone, vocals and songwriting. Minor complaints: drums are a bit thin and although I like the individual songs a lot they do not blend too well. |
| My Dying Bride Feel the Misery |
| The maturity of the band is fully visible on how much the band is in control of its craft here, a heavy, emotion filled, inspired craft that is. |
| My Dying Bride Meisterwerk III |
| Really appreciate the massiveness of this , filled with rawer than the norm material, sound just wonderful to my ears. |
| My Dying Bride Macabre Cabaret |
| The sound is just perfect, mid-paced, hypnotic doom, very enjoyable. |
| My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding |
| Mysticisme Rites |
| Napalm Death Order of the Leech |
| Napalm Death The Peel Sessions |
| Napalm Death Resentment is Always Seismic... |
| There is nothing stopping the ND machine. Very intense and one of their most diverse outputs. Barney continues to be absolutely stunning, the drumming is top notch and did you hear that bass tone? |
| Necrot Blood Offerings |
| There are tons of bands in this vein but this stands out with the catchiness, jazzy production and by not forcing it at any time.. |
| Necrot Mortal |
| Well well well, these guys know how to put together a non stop headbanging piece of osdm |
| Negative Plane Et In Saecula Saeculorum |
| Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations |
| Nekromantheon Rise, Vulcan Spectre |
| No Funeral Misanthrope |
| Nocternity Harps Of The Ancient Temples |
| Nyss Princesse Terre |
| Obituary Dying Of Everything |
| This is an amazing return to form. Best one since World demise imho |
| Obituary Cause of Death |
| Obituary Inked in Blood |
| Obituary Ten Thousand Ways to Die |
| Obliteration Nekropsalms |
| Obliteration Perpetual Decay |
| Om Conference of the Birds |
| Om Advaitic Songs |
| Omega Massif Karpatia |
| Omega Massif Geisterstadt |
| Omegavortex Black Abomination Spawn |
| Ossements Ossements III |
| Fantastic atmosphere, very creative song writing and excellent musicianship. |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times |
| Paradise Lost Draconian Times MMXI |
| Paramaecium A Time to Mourn |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Tor |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schnee |
| Paysage d'Hiver Das Gletschertor/Das schwarze Metall-Eisen |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schattengang |
| Paysage d'Hiver Die Festung |
| Paysage d'Hiver Paysage d'Hiver |
| Paysage d'Hiver Geister |
| Glorious, trance inducing, harsh, I absolutely appreciate this work. One of the best blends of old and new out there. |
| Pentacle ...Rides the Moonstorm |
| Pentacle Under the Black Cross |
| Perverted Ceremony Sabbat of Behezaël |
| This is an absolutely delicious gem. I still struggle to understand why I needed multiple listens to get it, a one of a kind cavemen black metal with simple delicious hooks, keeps you nodding your head all throughout with it's superb speed handling. |
| Pestilence Spheres |
| Pestilence Consuming Impulse |
| Pestilence Resurrection Macabre |
| Pestilence Testimony of the Ancients |
| Pestilence Malleus Maleficarum |
| Pestilength Eilatik |
| Phantom Winter Sundown Pleasures |
| Pike vs The Automaton Pike Vs. The Automaton |
| Hell yeah! All hails to Pike, very interesting and entertaining, no surprise! |
| Pilgrim Forsaken Man (Demo) |
| Crushing and gritty, just the way it should be brought up and delivered. |
| Portal Swarth |
| Portal Seepia |
| Portal Outre |
| Portal Hagbulbia |
| Is this really noise? I find it more like extremely dissonant death metal. Anyway, enjoyable, frightening stuff. |
| Primordial Spirit the Earth Aflame |
| Primordial Imrama |
| Process of Guilt Faemin |
| Purple Hill Witch Purple Hill Witch |
| Such a super delicious pie with mushrooms and cheese , cooked properly slow and garnished with crunchy riffs. |
| Purple Hill Witch Celestial Cemetery |
| Very unexpected, celestial indeed, the whole thing is so pure and otherworldly. |
| Ramihrdus Eternity |
| Ramihrdus The Sorrow of the Evergreens |
| No surprise, very solid stuff. A superb mix of melancholy and crushing (relatively) atmosphere. |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Regarde les Hommes Tomber |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Exile |
| Regarde Les Hommes Tomber Ascension |
| Reverend Bizarre II: Crush The Insects |
| 'Doom over the world' was for quite some time one of my most disliked songs ever, mainly due to the chorus on the refrain. I have come to peace with it meanwhile after many many listens. 'Cromwell' is an excellent banger and contributed a lot in me clicking with the band. Overall the album is quite upbeat and sounding happier than the debut which is not necessarily a good thing in metal but this band has got quality to pull out many diverse things. It is definitely more diverse as well. Very strong overall. |
| Reverend Bizarre In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend |
| Nothing bizarre here, we are having a very talented group of individuals that have great synergy and implicitly they have managed to put out this excelent riff filled journey, having heartfelt and quite magical vocals toped by so many subtle nuances that put me down in awe. Or up. I don't know. A real gem here.r |
| Reverend Bizarre Return to the Rectory |
| Superb doom. diverse stuff. Contains Aleister, one of the best doom metal songs, period. Vocals are absolutely brilliant all across with high variety. |
| Ride for Revenge Feed The Infamy |
| Warm bass, intricate fills, unique feeling. They deliver again. Extremely underated band imho |
| Rorcal Muladona |
| This is more intense than Dragged in the sunlight and Teitanblood, never thought I would get to say this. Probably got there as this is moving me in a very profound way. |
| Ruin Spread Plague Death |
| Absolutely magnificent caveman metal. Chunky chunchy slow riffs, vocals are really unique and fitting and yes, also very diverse in terms of songwriting. |
| Ruin Drown in Blood |
| Ruin Human Annihilation |
| Ruin Plague Transmissions (Vol.1) |
| RuYYn RüYYn |
| Probably the random find of the year for me. Top notch songwriting, atmosphere and production. |
| Sand Into Glass Till the End |
| Sometimes you can be in the position of anticipating exactly what will happen next whilst still being surprised because although it did happen it was done with some nuances that were so fulfilling. Absolutely gorgeous work |
| Sand Into Glass Waves of fire |
| The cover is just too good for me not too get my expectations high. And .. hell yeah..fresh..interesting...keeps you hooked all the time... brilliant stuff |
| Sand Into Glass Slopes of Doubt |
| Sanguine Relic Vampyric Will |
| Sanguisugabogg Tortured Whole |
| Hell yeah, jump on the bandwagon of knuckle drugging metal |
| Sanguisugabogg Homicidal Ecstasy |
| Sounds amazing, riff after riff killing it, this is a true banger but they still did not get to the ep level |
| Sannhet Revisionist |
| Sarke Vorunah |
| Organic, flows magnificently well. These are some very top notch musicians. And yeah, Nocturno Culto on vocals! |
| Sarke Oldarhian |
| Love this. So catchy and vibrant. 'give me a shotgun'!! |
| Sarke Bogefod |
| This has it all, memorable riffs , great atmospheric parts, angelic female vocals and Nocturno Culto |
| Sarkom Bestial Supremacy |
| Saturnalia Temple Gravity |
| Saturnalia Temple Aion of Drakon |
| Saturnalia Temple To the Other |
| Saturno Menhir |
| Such a breeze of fresh air, very cool stuff incorporating a wide variety of means and methods. |
| Seagulls Insane and Swans Deceased Mining Out the Void Seagulls Insane and Swans Deceased... |
| Sektarism Le Son des Stigmates |
| Septicflesh Sumerian Daemons |
| Septicflesh A Fallen Temple |
| Septicflesh Titan |
| Septicflesh Communion |
| Septicflesh Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX |
| Septicflesh Mystic Places of Dawn (Reissue) |
| Sermon of Rot Embodiment of Evil |
| Very surprised by this, keeps you on your toes with menacing, interesting and diverse filth. |
| Shaarimoth Current 11 |
| Shades of Deep Water Death's Threshold |
| Shape of Despair Monotony Fields |
| Shape of Despair Angels of Distress |
| Shape of Despair Illusion's Play |
| Shape of Despair Shades Of... |
| Shape of Despair Return to the Void |
| No point in discussing over this instrument by instrument. This is pure atmosphere that is tearing down all your shields and pulls you down into a melancholic state that can hardly be taken away. |
| Shrine Of Insanabilis Disciples Of The Void |
Absolute madness, a major grower of an album,
this is magnificent in terms of song
arrangements, the atmospheric bits coming just
in time to heal the wounds from the previous
ferocious attacks. It is all across very well
balanced but what I appreciate most is that it
is very well crafted and very varied and never
gets boring. |
| Siege Column Darkside Legions |
| Siege Column Inferno Deathpassion |
| Skaphe Skáphe |
| Slayer Live Undead |
| Sleep Jerusalem |
| Of course it is excellent but such a lame story behind this. I am happy that despite the lack of guts and inspiration from the former recording company the one song album was still releases one day and way later the band also reunited. |
| Sleep Dopesmoker |
| One of a kind, mesmerising experience. I have 'worked' a lot (years of trying it once in a while) to get into it but it was definitely worth yet. |
| Sol (DK) Let There Be A Massacre |
| Solar Temple Fertile Descent |
| Sombres Forets Quintessence |
| Sombres Forets Royaume De Glace |
| Soulburn Noa’s D'ark |
| Spectral Lore Gnosis |
| Spectral Lore III |
| Squalus The Great Fish |
| Oh boy, such a goodie, so tasteful and creative use of the instruments and one of the most unexpected synergy with the cover. |
| Stabat Mater Stabat Mater |
| Very catchy, raw, filthyly delicious funeral doom. Unique and organic, a true pleasure (in a murky way) to delight oneself upon. |
| Storm Nordavind |
| Sun of the Sleepless To The Elements |
| Sunn O))) White1 |
| Sunn O))) ØØ Void |
| Sunn O))) White2 |
| Sunn O))) Flight of the Behemoth |
| Svoid To never return |
| Excellent vocals and great atmosphere. Very underated |
| Swallowed Lunarterial |
| Tchornobog Tchornobog |
| Teitanblood Death |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Reverses |
| Terra Tenebrosa The Tunnels |
| Thallmoth ANVRF |
| Thantifaxath Sacred White Noise |
| Thantifaxath Hive Mind Narcosis |
| The Body No One Deserves Happiness |
| The Body All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To... |
| The Deathtrip Deep Drone Master |
| The Deathtrip A Foot in Each Hell - The Complete Demos |
| This is so good. Getting Darkthrone trilogy quality vibes |
| The Funeral Orchestra Feeding the Abyss |
| The Funeral Orchestra Opium de occulta |
| Dirgy, entertaining, creative. Excelent sound for the ages, must listen if you need a dose of all school death doom. |
| The Great Old Ones Tekeli-Li |
| The Great Old Ones Al Azif |
| The Ruins of Beverast Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite |
| The Ruins of Beverast The Thule Grimoires |
| Too obsessed about the claustrophobic feel I get from most of its albums and about whatever one would use to describe what's breathing out of Exuvia to put this at the peak of glorious Ruins catacombs but nonetheless this is magnificent.r |
| The Temple (NZ) The Temple |
| I hate this kind of generic band names and self titled albums. So I have skipped this through every time I got it in the feed. Until the split with Acolytes of Moros popped up. What a gem of a band |
| Thou Magus |
| Thou Heathen |
| Throane Derrière-Nous, La Lumière |
| Thy Listless Heart Pilgrims on the Path of No Return |
| This is so fresh, so emotional and beautiful , a huge surprise |
| Tome of the Unreplenished Innerstanding |
| Trap Them Blissfucker |
| Trapped Within Burning Machinery The Filth Element |
| Turin horse Uncleared |
| A hidden gem, mind-blowing in every sense of the word, some truly amazing atmospheres with jazzy vibes topped by many crushing moments. |
| Ulcerate Stare Into Death and Be Still |
| Ulcerate Vermis |
| Ulcerate Shrines of Paralysis |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Häxan Sabaoth |
| Such a pleasent surprinse, very skillful and diverse |
| Undergang Døden læger alle sår |
| Undergang Indhentet af Døden |
| Unholy (FIN) From the Shadows |
| The guitar tone and the drum sound are quite annoying. But the overall product and atmosphere are literally out of this world. |
| Unholy (FIN) The Second Ring of Power |
| It hardly gets more otherworldly than this. Absolutely sweet stuff. |
| Urarv Aurum |
| No frills, no theatrics, pure black metal done with taste and inspiration. |
| Urarv Substratum |
| A very unusual output. It is happy at times, melancolic at some points but without the usual cheesiness that usually accompanies these traits.. |
| Urfaust Verräterischer, Nichtswürdiger Geist |
| Urfaust Der freiwillige Bettler |
| Urfaust Geist Ist Teufel |
| Urfaust Ritual Music for the True Clochard |
| Urfaust Trúbadóirí Ólta an Diabhail |
| This is so good, those vocals are really like nothing else and it is live as well |
| Urfaust Untergang |
| Urzeit Anmoksha |
| Usnea Random Cosmic Violence |
| Usnea Bathed in Light |
| Ustalost The Spoor Of Vipers |
| Ustkara ghost Consuming the Abyss |
| Exquisite death doom , with great atmosphere and very varied vocals. |
| Vader Necrolust |
| 1989...wooow..great riffing, I love the sound, a truly excellent outing |
| Vallendusk Black Clouds Gathering |
| Verdunkeln Weder Licht noch Schatten |
| Verdunkeln Einblick In Den Qualenfall |
| Verdunkeln Verdunkeln |
| Verminous Serpent The Malign Covenant |
| VI De Praestigiis Angelorum |
| VIII Decathexis |
| Warcrab Damned In Endless Night |
| What a surprise, super creative, keeping you on your toes at all times with an excellent mix of aggression and atmosphere. |
| Warcrab Warcrab |
| crushing, the production is fantastic, riffing excellent, very good stuff. These guys have 3 guitarists, yet this is keeping it well focused, no wankery. |
| Windhand Windhand |
| Crushing, captivating, a thrill of a ride. Some of the best drumming in doom paired with truly special vocals. |
| Windhand Soma |
| Gritty, very headbangable, guitars are twisting your brains with all the emotions the vocals did not bring out already. |
| Windhand Grief's Infernal Flower |
| Same recipe, same unchallenged trademark quality. |
| Windhand Eternal Return |
| Nice flowing doom, a relaxing listen, I would have preferred to have a more engaging vocal style though. |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestial Lineage |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Two Hunters |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars |
| Wulkanaz Paúrpura Fræovíbôkôs |
| Yellow Eyes Hammer of Night |
| Yellow Eyes Sick With Bloom |
| Ygg Ygg |
| Yith Dread |
| Yith Yith |
| YOB Atma |
| YOB Clearing The Path To Ascend |
| Young and in the Way When Life Comes to Death |
| Young and in the Way I Am Not What I Am |
| Zolle Macello |
| So fresh and creative, a very funny and innovative that mixes up sludge, stoner and even some heavy metal tinges. |
| Zolle Infesta |
| I have not heard anything quite like this, the way this instrumental work its way with the riffs is..well.. instrumental |
| 3.5 great |
| 200 Stab Wounds Piles of Festering Decomposition |
| Above Aurora Onwards Desolation |
| Above Aurora The Shrine of Deterioration |
| Above Aurora Path to Ruin |
| This ended just when I was getting warmed up to it. Great listen nonetheless |
| Above Aurora Live in Barcelona |
| Very intense, perfectly executed, would have wanted though some more atmospheric stuff in the setlist |
| Abruptum In Umbra Malitae Ambulabo, In Aeternum In Triumpho |
| Abruptum Vi Sonus Veris Nigrae Malitiaes |
| Abruptum Casus Luciferi |
| Abruptum Potestates Apocalypsis |
| Abruptum Hextum Galaem Zelog |
| Enormously wierd , needs a lot of time to sink in, a very pleasantly inconfortabile listen |
| Abstract Spirit Theomorphic Defectiveness |
| Abstract Spirit Horror Vacui |
| Abstract Spirit Liquid Dimensions Change |
| Abstracter Tomb of Feathers |
| Abstracter Cinereous Incarnate |
| Abstracter Wound Empire |
| Abstracter Abominion |
| I must say the production here is just stunning. Vocals are extremely powerful, the drums are hitting well but the atmosphere in itself is not so amazing. |
| Abysmal Grief Blasphema Secta |
| Abysmal Grief Funeral Cult of Personality |
| I have no clue why this is not better known. A band that once again proved they are amongst the best doom bands out there. |
| Abysmal Grief We Lead the Procession |
| Some amazingly delicious pieces of doom here, very organic, diverse and original. Some parts though seem to pointlessly meander. |
| Abyssal (UK) A Beacon In The Husk |
| Abyssion Luonnon Harmonia Ja Vihrea Liekki |
| Abyssion Rautapää |
| Easygoing and lots of fun but not in a cheerful way. |
| Abyssion Karhun lähde / Siniaaltoja ja singulariteetteja |
| Abyssion Psyykkinen taisto |
| Feels strongly influenced by Burzum and Arckanum without being a wrip-off |
| Accursed Womb Crushing the Larvae of Christ |
| So much filthy, banging stuff on this. Very diverse as well, getting caught off guard a lot on this one. |
| Acolytes of Moros The Wellspring |
| Acolytes of Moros Illusions of Progress |
| Slow and enjoyable, misses the kick and innovation to be really top notch. Also, I don't get why an EP lasts 40 minutes |
| Aergewinn Down |
| Agalloch The Serpent and the Sphere |
| Agalloch The White |
| Agalloch From Which of This Oak |
| Agalloch Faustian Echoes |
| Agalloch Of Stone, Wind and Pillor |
| Agalloch The Demonstration Archive: 1996-1998 |
| This is very nice if you need a twist to the songs you have already listened over and over |
| Agalloch Whitedivisiongrey |
| I still cannot wrap my head around how cam they create such emotion with so little |
| Agalloch Tomorrow Will Never Come |
| One piece is usual Agalloch magnificence. The other one is actually pointlessly overriden by some spoken voice. |
| Ahab The Stream |
The guitar tone is delicious , very
good stuff |
| Ahab The Oath |
| These are clasics. What's not to like. Amazing emotional, crushing tunes |
| Alder Glade Spine of the World |
| Alice in Chains Alice in Chains |
| Anatomia Decaying in Obscurity |
| Anatomia Cranial Obsession |
| Anatomia Corporeal Torment |
| Absolutely terrifying, slow, creepy walls of sound with extremely low gutturals. |
| Anatomia Human Lust |
| This feels like Anatomia met Saturnalia Temple. Great stuff |
| Anatomia Dissecting Cadavers |
| This is my kind of filthy dirge, absolutely sick stuff |
| Ancient Flame Tyrant Blood |
| Annog Vnrama Seven Names ov Chaos |
| Antediluvian The Divine Punishment |
| Less terrifying than their previous releases but still dark and creative. |
| Antediluvian λόγος |
| Antediluvian Prehistorik Khaos |
| This is mostly recorded in a rehersal environment so it's natural for it to sound the way it does but honestly I headbang to it all way through so I guess that's all that matters, right? |
| Antediluvian Primeval Cyclical Catastrophism |
| Pummeling, primal, relentless, having a low production level. |
| Antediluvian Revelations in Excrement |
| Very unorthodox stuff, needs very attentive listening to really get to the cave |
| Antediluvian Septentrional Theophany |
| 7 minutes of insanity, cavernous wondering death metal on display |
| Anthropophagous Spoiled Marrow Demo |
| Anthropophagous Post-Natal Abortion |
| Anthropophagous Abuse of a Corpse |
| Antichrist (PER) Pax Moriendi |
| Ape Vermin Sonic Monolith |
| Sludgey stuff with a very interesting take on the soundscapes conveyed. |
| Ape Vermin Arctic Noise |
| Really refreshing sludge, the bass tones are wild and funky, really enjoyable. |
| Apparatus Yonder Yawns the Universe |
| Apparatus Apparatus |
| Arckanum Den Förstfödde |
| Arckanum Helvitismyrkr |
| Arckanum Antikosmos |
| Arckanum Arckanum - The 11 Year Anniversary Album |
| Enjoyable but not falling so well together , production is not so great either |
| Arckanum Demo 1993 |
| Mixed feelings on this. The production is quite scrambled but at least the drums sound well and the atmosphere is quite warm. Vocals are excelent, the norm for Arckanum |
| Arckanum Boka Vm Kaos |
| Beautiful black metal, relentless, warm, mystical and very enjoyable. |
| Arckanum Kaos Svarta Mar |
| Excelent songwriting in display but it feels a bit watered down and not as raw and vicious as what I would have expected it to be. |
| Arckanum Antikosmos |
| This is very surprising for me: first song feels industrial whilst the second one reminds me of early Slayer. Enjoyable, of course. |
| Arcturus My Angel |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Arcturus Constellation |
| Worth checking but definitely not at the LP quality |
| Argonavis Passing the Igneous Maw |
| Arkheth Hymns Of A Howling Wind |
| Arkheth Clarity Came With A Cool Summer's Breeze |
| Extremely jazzy, mellower than expected but creative and interesting all throughout |
| Asphyx Necroceros |
| Asphyx delivers the goods, as usual; to make this even better imho production should have been rawer and riffing catchier |
| Asphyx Deathhammer |
| Asphyx Incoming Death |
| Asphyx Death... The Brutal Way |
| Asphyx Live Death Doom |
| Very good extensive live show but I would have prefered a rawer production honestly |
| Asphyx Carnage Remains |
| This sounds to me more like Sepultura meets Burzum, enjoyable 5 minutes |
| Asphyx Enter The Domain |
| Some exceptional songwriting on display but still awaiting for some finetuning in order to reign supreme |
| Atavisma The Chthonic Rituals |
| Atavisma On the Ruins of a Fallen Empire |
| Monstously heavy, like a heavy tank crushing souls. I wish though this was a bit rawer. |
| Atolah Post, Cross and Yoke |
| Catchy, crushing, trance inducing, quality stuff. Looking forward to a full length. |
| Atomic Trip Strike #1 |
| Atomic Trip Strike #2 |
| Avsky Mass Destruction |
| Avsky Scorn |
| Avsky Malignant |
| Azothyst Blood of Dead God |
| Batushka Panihida |
| Bell Witch Mirror Reaper |
| Extremely slow, building emotion like a spider net, a truly amazing journey within your inner depths. |
| Bell Witch Four Phantoms |
| I have gone through many reviews of this and I can conclude there are no perfect words to describe this. My go at it: this is an intense experience, keeping the listener very attentive whilst variating from flying amongst clouds to nailing down to the ground with immense force. |
| Bell Witch Longing |
| Just imagine being in or around that building and hearing this play.r |
| Bell Witch Bell Witch Demo 2011 |
| I rarely saw demos in the metal realm that are more accessible than the full lengths. This is really where to start in order to get into this band, a more accessible version of the goodies that came after it. |
| Bell Witch Live at Roadburn 2015 |
| A true experience, monumental in all ways, giving you shivers down your spine. |
| Bell Witch Future's Shadow I: The Clandestine Gate |
| Bergraven Det Framlidna Minnet |
| Bergraven Fördärv |
| Blazar Phase omega |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber I |
| Heavy, punchy, very enjoyable blast of black metal. |
| Blut Aus Nord Debemur MoRTi |
| Enjoyable ritualistic stuff, love the drums here, very innovative. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars |
| A meditative passage through all depth of the soul. Really powerful. |
| Blut Aus Nord The Work Which Transforms God |
| Probably their most straightforward black metal album although it has some atmosphere and doom incorporated. |
| Blut Aus Nord The Mystical Beast of Rebellion |
| Melodic dissonance hovers over hateful vocals, wonderful stuff. |
| Blut Aus Nord Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses |
| A very good album but the hooks are not working as well for me as their previous works |
| Blut Aus Nord Lovecraftian Echoes |
| Blut Aus Nord delibers another quality stab of hellish disonance |
| Blut Aus Nord Decorporation ... |
| Blut Aus Nord Dissociated Human Junction |
| Body Void Ruins |
| Reminds me a lot of The Body, mainly due to (quite unexpectedly) the vocals (they even look a bit alike, maybe with some Barney Greenway appearance mixed up in between). Very intense, crushing and diverse in terms of tempos and flow. |
| Body Void Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth |
| Slow and punishing, a constant wall of sound with massive riffs wrapped around truly despaired vocals |
| Body Void Atrocity Machine |
| Body Void You Will Know The Fear You Forced Upon Us |
| I have put this on like a go to sleep upon the first listen. Did not work. I started slowly headbanging in the middle of the might. Slow , well crafted doom with punchy and/or pinchy vocals that are just so good. Very well constructed lava flows topping one another under the foggy atmosphere. There are as well some fast paced for the stone showers fans. |
| Body Void Burn the Homes of Those Who Seek to Control Our Bo |
| This is incredibly dense, desperate and crushing. Don't listen to this whilst reading a suspense novel. Just sayin' |
| Bongripper The Great Barrier Reefer |
| Bongripper Heroin |
| Bongripper Hippie Killer |
| Bongripper Terminal |
| Bongripper Hate Ashbury |
| Bongripper Live at Roadburn |
| Very nice stuff, great song selection, the only problem I have with this is that it hardly feels live. |
| Bongripper Fisting |
| Starts with boring ambient - a genre Bongripper should really stay away from. Continues with a boring generic riff that overatays its welcome. And then it transforms into a masterpiece with amazing riffs, twists and atmosphere. |
| Brown Jenkins Dagonite |
| Brown Jenkins Angel Eyes |
| Brown Jenkins Death Obsession |
| Brutal Truth Sounds of the Animal Kingdom |
| Brutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution |
| Brutal Truth Ill Neglect |
| Raw, violent, fast but missing the Brutal Truth swag we all love |
| Brutal Truth For Drug Crazed Grindfreaks Only! |
| Burzum Thulêan Mysteries |
| Burzum Sol austan, Mani vestan |
| Burzum The Ways of Yore |
| Burzum Belus |
| Burzum From the Depths of Darkness |
| Burzum Anthology |
| Amazing songs of course but I do not think it makes too much sense to have them together like this |
| Burzum Anthology 2002 |
| Better selection of songs than in the other one but it still feels wrong to mash songs like this. |
| Burzum Draugen - Rarities |
| A piece of history and of course amazing songs. The problem is that the first Burzum albums have bad production quality to the point that it sounds amazing and it is truly enjoyable. Worst quality passes the line and is no longer enjoyable. |
| Burzum Unreleased Material 1988-1994 |
| Lovely both historically speaking but as well the riffing and the atmosphere are pretty sweet (in an evil sense of course). |
| Burzum Demo I |
| There is no logical reason to listen to this instead of the full lengths. Good thing we are not always logical. |
| Cannibal Corpse Red Before Black |
| Cannibal Corpse Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Torture |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague |
| Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn |
| Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed |
| Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst |
| Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide |
| Cannibal Corpse Vile |
| Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated |
| Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life |
| Cannibal Corpse Worm Infested |
| Cannibal Corpse Global Evisceration |
| Cannibal Corpse Created To Kill |
| Cannibal Corpse Sacrifice / Confessions |
| Cannibal Corpse Violence Unimagined |
| Good ol' Cannibal Corpse is back with new forces. Great stuff. |
| Cannibal Corpse Centuries of Torment: The First 20 years |
| Cannibal Corpse Cannibal Corpse |
| Cannibal Corpse Chaos Horrific |
| Cardinals Folly Heretic's Hangover |
| Excellent career start. Very interesting vocals coupled with eerie production and strong riffage. |
| Cardinals Folly Deranged Pagan Sons |
| Slowed down heavy metal accompanies the classical, non-aggresive doom. |
| Cardinals Folly This Is No Church! |
| Cardinals Folly Live by the Sword |
| Carrion Mother Nothing Remains |
| Celtic Frost Into the Pandemonium |
| Cerebral Rot Cessation of Life |
| Charnel ascension Spectral Dances Towards the Coffin |
| Circle Incarnation |
| Really creative, diverse stuff, lots of great atmosphere, original leads and unexpected turns. |
| Circle of Salt Suffer the Cold |
| Codex Nero The Great Harvest Of Death |
| The name and album cover are misleading. This is but no means stock black metal, really creative and well executed stuff.r |
| Coldworld Isolation |
| If this had somewhat more hooks this would be my AOTY as the atmosphere is just amazing |
| Coldworld The Stars Are Dead Now |
| Coldworld Wolves and Sheep |
| Coldworld Melancholie (Demo) |
| Nice little demo, beautiful atmosphere and a foreplay of the greatest that was yet to come. |
| Coldworld Nostalgia |
| One of the purest black metal releases of Coldworld, retaining the beautiful and sorrow atmosphere |
| Coldworld Interludium |
| Hard to describe this one. So quiet and relaxing, very serie except for few minutes of relative heaviness. |
| Coldworld Toteninsel |
| Very interesting and different from other releases. Hermodr comes to mind whilst listening to this. |
| Conan Blood Eagle |
| Conan Revengeance |
| Conan Existential Void Guardian |
| Conan Evidence of Immortality |
| Great stuff although I was hoping for more stuff that would just stick in my mind and refuse to let go. |
| Conan Mount Wrath: Live at Roadburn 2012 |
| I would have hoped for a better sound and song selection but enjoyable nonetheless, of course, it's Conan. |
| Conan Live at Freak Valley |
The sound seemed somewhat muffled to me. But
it's Conan, still highly enjoyable |
| Conan Man Is Myth (Early Demos) |
| Conclave Sins of the Elders |
| Conclave Dawn of Days |
| Very enjoyable, surprisingly atired towards trad doom. |
| Convocation Ashes Coalesce |
| Convocation No Dawn for the Caliginous Night |
| Corrupted Paso Inferior |
| Corrupted El Dios Queja |
| Corrupted Nadie |
| Corrupted Dios Injusto |
| Corrupted La Victima Es Tu Mismo |
| Corrupted Vasana |
| Corrupted An Island Insane |
| Corrupted Loss |
| Corrupted El futuro en la oscuridad |
| Count Raven Storm Warning |
| Delicious vocals with really good trad doom wrapped around. Annoyed by a good portion of the lyrics though. |
| Count Raven Mammons War |
| Great doom with quite a lot of emphasis on atmosphere. |
| Cretin Freakery |
| Cretin Cretanic Grind Ambush |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Häxan |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Deeds Without a Name |
| He he he...short but really sweet..good ol' CdG |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Angel of Poison and Death |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Odd Spirituality |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Spectres over Transylvania |
| Cultes Des Ghoules The Rise of Lucifer |
| Cultus Capra Dominus Mundi |
| Such a surprise. Instruments sound somewhat generic but the genius of this work is obvious upon focused listening. The vocals are truly disturbing and out of this world. |
| Darkspace Minus One |
| Darkthrone Hate Them |
| Darkthrone Ravishing Grimness |
| Darkthrone Total Death |
| Darkthrone Plaguewielder |
| Darkthrone Soulside Journey |
| Darkthrone Sempiternal Past - The Darkthrone Demos |
| Darkthrone Frostland Tapes |
| Darkthrone Too Old, Too Cold / NWOBHM |
| Darkthrone Introducing Darkthrone |
| Darkthrone The Wind Of 666 Black Hearts |
| Darkthrone A New Dimension |
| Darkthrone Thulcandra |
| Darkthrone Cromlech |
| Dead in the Dirt Vold |
| Dead in the Dirt Fear |
| Death Carrier Das Ewige Grab |
| Oh man, I love it when I randomly stumble into such goodies. Very hypnotic, atmospheric and catchy stuff. |
| Death Fetishist Clandestine Sacrament |
| Death Fetishist Whorifice |
| Death Fetishist Lucifer Descending |
| Death Fortress Mirror Into Eternity |
| Deathspell Omega Infernal Battles |
| Deathspell Omega Inquisitors of Satan |
| Deathspell Omega Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum |
| Such fitting artwork for such a demented song, a real journey into the depths of obscurity. Flows so well.. |
| Deathspell Omega Mass Grave Aesthetics |
| Very chaotic as usual, it is harsher than the DsO norm although has quite some jazzy parts as well. It also gives you (like the DsO norm) the feeling you falling into the abyss. |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus/Mass Grave Aestheti |
| Hypnotic, atmospheric and downright creepy. Guitar work is very special here, really slow and spooky. |
| Deathspell Omega The Long Defeat |
| I like it, bleak , quite unerving. Created by scumbags? I have no clue, I hope not |
| Deathspell Omega Manifestations 2002 |
| Deathspell Omega Manifestations 2000-2001 |
| Deathspell Omega Diabolus Absconditus |
| Deathspell Omega Drought |
| Decrepitaph Condemned Cathedral |
| Decrepitaph Beyond the Cursed Tombs |
| Decrepitaph Profane Doctrines Unburied |
| Decrepitaph Conjuring Chaos |
| Dephosphorus Sublimation |
| Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits |
| Dephosphorus Axiom |
| Dephosphorus Impossible Orbits (remix/remaster) |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Unstille |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| I am pleasantly delighted if the hype on this one. Very good release |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Agonie |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Wacht / In die Weiten |
| Die Kunst Der Finsternis Queen of Owls |
| Dionysian rites Kriegsanleihe |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Fear of Angst |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Pleasuredome |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Expositionsprophylaxe |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Not to be Undimensional Conscious |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Ahead |
| Dispirit Rehearsal At Oboroten |
| Dispirit 111112 |
| Dispirit Enantiodromian Birth |
| Dispirit Separation |
| Divide And Dissolve Basic |
| Basic only on the surface, many subtle notes and progressions throughout. Works well as background but also as immersive dirge of proud misanthrophy. |
| Divide And Dissolve Abomination |
| I really did not expect this to be any good but it is super diverse and immersive, great album. |
| Divide And Dissolve Gas Lit |
| Very catchy drone if you accept there can be such a thing, interesting instrumentation, hyptnoptic parts. What else would one need? And also, 2 ladies form the band. |
| Divide And Dissolve TFW |
| Divide And Dissolve Systemic |
| Dolorian Voidwards |
| Dolorian Dolorian |
| Donarhall Arousal |
| Donarhall Nihilist |
| Donarhall Asgardsvegr |
| DorDeDuh Dar De Duh |
| Draath Black Slumber |
| Dragged Into Sunlight Terminal Aggressor |
| Dread Sovereign For Doom The Bell Tolls |
| Dread Sovereign Alchemical Warfare |
| AA is amazing as usual and fits well in the medieval, heavy metal tinges doom metal. Mid paced, very well produced , good stuff. |
| Drowning Horse Sheltering Sky |
| Drowning Horse Drowning Horse |
| Drowning Horse Meghalayan |
| Dumal The Lesser God |
| Dumal Piety and Iron |
| Dumal The Confessor |
| DVVAD Burning times |
| Dysylumn Occultation |
| Dysylumn Cosmogonie |
| Dysylumn Conceptarium |
| Dysylumn Chaos Primordial |
| Ebonylake In Swathes of Brooding Light |
| Ebonylake With Infants Drowned and Pulled Cold from the Sea, |
| Ehnahre Taming The Cannibals |
| Ehnahre Old Earth |
| Ehnahre Douve |
| Ehnahre The Marrow |
| Ehnahre The Scrape Of A Keel (Drones And Improvisations) |
| Ehnahre Alpha / Omega |
| Ehnahre Quatrain |
| Electric Wizard Electric Wizard |
| Electric Wizard Legalise Drugs & Murder |
| Electric Wizard Chrono.Naut |
| Electric Wizard The Processean (Procession) |
| Electric Wizard L.S.D. |
| Elysian Blaze Cold Walls And Apparitions |
| Elysian Blaze Levitating the Carnal |
| Elysian Blaze Blood Geometry |
| Elysian Blaze Prophecies of Misery |
| Emptiness Oblivion |
| Emptiness Error |
| Emptiness Not For Music |
| Ensnared Inimicus Generis Humani |
| Erebos (POL) Faded into the Shadows |
| Erebos (POL) Pesta kommer |
| Erebos (POL) A Flame That Pierces with a Deadly Cold |
| Erebos (POL) Upon the Northern Shores |
| Eternal Khan A Poisoned Psalm |
| Evilfeast Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest |
| Evilfeast Funeral Sorcery |
| Evilfeast Lost Horizons of Wisdom |
| Evilfeast Wintermoon Enchantment |
| Evoken Hypnagogia |
| Evoken A Caress of the Void |
| Evoken Embrace the Emptiness |
| Exsul Allegoresis |
| Very interesting stuff, the guitar work and the guitars are really creative |
| Fell Voices Regnum Saturni |
| Fen The Dead Light |
| Fen Carrion Skies |
| Fen Winter |
| Fen Monuments to Absence |
| Fluisteraars Bloem |
| Folteraar Vertellingen Van Een Donkere Eeuw |
| Forming the Void Reverie |
| Interesting mix of styles, I really enjoy it although I feel this is the least stellar full length so far from these guys. |
| Foudre Noire The Dark Gods |
| Fuil Na Seanchoille Hunger |
| Funeral Oratorium |
| Funeral From These Wounds |
| Funeral Tragedies |
| Funeral Praesentialis in Aeternum |
| Majestic, theatrical, crushing and unexpectedly fresh sounding from the godfathers of the genre. Vocals need to be particularly called out, truly beautiful. |
| Fyrnask Eldir Nótt |
| Fyrnask Fjorvar ok Benjar |
| Fyrnask VII - Kenoma |
| Tasty black metal with a lot of atmosphere and ambient, some very good set pieces and guitar leads get powered by powerful vocals. |
| Gevurah Sulphur Soul |
| Gevurah Hallelujah! |
| Gevurah Gehinnom |
| One of the best production ever, the drums are simply perfect, l like this a lot |
| Ghoulgotha To Starve the Cross |
| Ghoulgotha The Deathmass Cloak |
| Ghoulgotha Prophetic Oration of Self |
| Crushing, beefy and sounding like proper 90s death doom. |
| Goat rider (De) Demo 02.2019 |
| Gone postal In the Depths of Despair |
| Gorgon (FRA1) Traditio Satanae |
| Their best since the debut. Varied, classic BM with my favourite female vocals in the genre. |
| Gorgon (FRA1) Reign of Obscenity |
| Gorgon (FRA1) The Spectral Voices |
| Gorgon (FRA1) The Veil of Darkness |
| Gorguts Live in Rotterdam |
| Goya Obelisk |
| Goya Harvester of Bongloads |
| Goya Doomed Planet |
| Love this. Quality doom with a unique twist. The vocals are particularly impressive. |
| Gra Gra |
| Gra Väsen |
| Grand Supreme Blood Court Bow Down Before the Blood Court |
| Grav Projektioner Af Död |
| Grav Omhulda Ondskans Kretslopp |
| Grav Mental Illvilja |
| Grim tormentor Lizard |
| Grim tormentor Inferno |
| Gris Neurasthénie |
| Haapoja Mullan Keskeltä |
| Hadez Morituri Te Salutant |
| Hadez Doomsday: The Death Rides |
| Hadez Even If You Die a Thousand Times |
| Hail of Bullets III: The Rommel Chronicles |
| Hail of Bullets On Divine Winds |
| Hallowed Butchery Deathsongs... |
| Head of the Demon Head of the Demon |
| Head of the Demon Sathanas Trismegistos |
| Head of the Demon Deadly Black Doom |
| Hereje Burn! |
| Great start, very entertaining and juicy warm fuzz. |
| Heresiarch Incursions |
| Heresiarch Death Ordinance |
| Heresiarch Edifice |
| Heretic Cult Redeemer Kelevsma |
| Heretic Cult Redeemer Flagellum Universalis |
| Hermodr The Sea of Dragons |
| Hermodr Midnight Eclipse |
| Hermodr Hädanfärd |
| Hermodr The Darkness of December |
| Hermodr Vinter |
| Hermodr Frozen silence |
| Nice and soothing atmosphere, very repetitive, atmospheric stuff. |
| Hermodr Relighting |
| One of Hermodr's more diverse and varied works. Really enjoyable. |
| Hermodr Tidens Tand |
| Hermodr The snow |
| Very beautiful, melancholic, riffs that go well with the repetitive approach |
| Hermodr Where All the Rivers Meet |
| Hermodr Som eld |
| Nicely and carefully crafted , a really enjoyable and sweet piece of music |
| Hermodr Guardian |
| Hermodr Fördärv |
| Hermodr To Be Alone |
| Hermodr Skogsljud |
| Hertless Lifeless |
| Hertless 00 |
| Hertless Winterit |
| Hidden Dagger Demo II |
| Hidden Dagger Zilver in de ogen |
| Extremely raw, very hard to describe, extremely unsettling, the fuzziness is absolutely insane, quite a ride. |
| High on Fire Snakes for the Divine |
| This might get 'the worst soundoff prize' despite the massive competition but: to me part of this sounds like Maiden meets Kreator which is not bad per se but is below what hof offers in general. Also gets slower than the hof norm at times, interesting, not necessarily working well though. |
| High on Fire Luminiferous |
| Very enjoyable listen, flows very well, vocals sound as great as usual for hof. |
| Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed |
| Hooded Menace Darkness Drips Forth |
| Horizon Of The Mute Horizon of the Mute |
| Horizon Of The Mute Trobar Clus |
| Horizon Of The Mute Voidscope |
| Horizon Of The Mute Devious |
| Their(his) least atmospheric/trance inducing, very enjoyable nonetheless |
| Howls of Ebb Vigils of the 3rd Eye |
| Hyatari They Will Surface |
| Hyatari The Light Carriers |
| Hypervenom Hypervenom |
| Ifrinn Caledonian Black Magick |
| Really like this: mystical, original, melodic and dark. |
| Immolation Dawn of Possession |
| Imperceptum Entity of Undead Stars |
| Imperceptum Aeons of Saturnine Desolation |
| Imperceptum The Eternal Path to Nothingness |
| Imperceptum Heart Of Darkness |
| Imperial Triumphant Abominamentvm |
| Imperial Triumphant Goliath |
| Impetuous Ritual Blight Upon Martyred Sentience |
| Impetuous Ritual Unholy Congregation of Hypocritical Ambivalence |
| Impetuous Ritual Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis |
| Impure Worship Impure Worship |
| inExordium inExordium |
| Infernal Torment Man's True Nature |
| Irkallian Oracle Apollyon |
| Isengard Vinterskugge |
| Isengard Høstmørke |
| Iskandr Euprosopon |
| Iskandr Vergezicht |
| Nice, soothing atmospheric black metal but I like their previous works more. |
| Iskandr Spiritus Sylvestris |
| Jacc Melancholic Bliss |
| Very unexpected. Excellent flows, very diverse, Raw and atmospheric at the same time. |
| Jacc Cathartic Sorrow |
| Raw black metal with a melancholic vibe and lots of interesting twists |
| Jacc Mors Omnibus |
| Raw atmospheric goodness kept interesting all way through |
| Karpackonaut Light as a Particle |
| Karpackonaut Torn from Orbit |
| I love this stuff. So immersive, so fresh, a really great spend time |
| Kenaz Résurgence nordique |
| Kenaz Volonté de fer ancestrale |
| Kenaz Nord hostile |
| Kerry King From Hell I Rise |
| Khorada Salt |
| Koldbrann Vertigo |
| Koldbrann Nekrotisk Inkvisition |
| Koldbrann Moribund |
| Krisiun AssasiNation |
| Krisiun Bloodshed |
| Krisiun Works of Carnage |
| Krypts Cadaver Circulation |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion |
| L'Acephale Malefeasance |
| Le Culte du Crane Le Culte du Crane |
| Light of the Morning Star Charnel Noir |
| Lluvia Enigma |
| Lonndom Hågkomster från nordliga nejder & Norrskensritual |
| Lonndom Viddernas Tolv Kapitel |
| Lord Vicar The Black Powder |
Vibes come from all over the place, we need to start with Reverend bizarre, let's continue with the Ramesses crushiness , the eeriness Alice in Chains puts to the table and the vocals that have an Ozzy vibe. Despite all these this is very unique and really special. Heaviest trad doom I have heard. Yet, so full of emotions, I almost cried once I first listened the opening track, but of course I didn't because I am tough metalhead Coming back to the vocals, there are some amazing vocal parts in but also some that feel a bit cringy. Maybe it's as well due to the lyrics that are a bit hit and miss for me. |
| Lord Vicar The Demon of Freedom |
| Nice, slow and melodic. The lord was showing class from its first step. |
| Lvthn Eradication of Nescience |
| Lycus Tempest |
| Lycus Chasms |
| Malignant Altar Retribution of Jealous Gods |
| Malignant Altar Realms of Exquisite Morbidity |
| The start I expected from this band. Now I expect the sophomore album to be one of the top ones in this style. |
| Malokarpatan Nordkarpatenland |
| Malokarpatan Krupinské Ohne |
| Malphas (UK) Ignis |
| Mammoth Grinder Rage and Ruin |
| Mammoth Grinder Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge Split LP |
| Mammoth Grinder Underworlds |
| Medico Peste ב :The Black Bile |
| Metallica Master of Puppets |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Middian Age Eternal |
| Midnight Odyssey Shards of Silver Fade |
| Midnight Odyssey Ashes From a Terrestrial Fall |
| Midnight Odyssey Echoes Of A Celestial Ruin |
| Synth all the way, enjoyable for what it is but probably the one I like least from MO |
| Midnight Odyssey Biolume Part 3 - A Fullmoon Madness |
| Mion's Hill Torture |
| Mion's Hill Black Death |
| Mizmor Untitled Winter |
| this announces Yodh is onwards to drop upon this grim world. The form is closer to funeral doom but the feeling is the same |
| Mizmor Mishlei |
| cool compilation with stuff from one of the EPs and 3 splits. Works very well as a cohesive ansemble as the songs were written (or at least put out) in just 3 years. |
| Mode of egress Mode of Egress |
| Monolord No Comfort |
| Monolord Rust |
| Moonspell Hermitage |
| Always loved the subtlety of Moonspell's work which is very much present here. I am missing though their trademark theatrics. |
| Moonspell The Antidote |
| Moonspell Irreligious |
| Morbus Chron Splendour of Disease (Demo) |
| Morbus Chron Sleepers in the Rift |
| Mordaehoth Bloedwraak - Verdoem al 't christelijk leven |
| Mordaehoth Eens weer prevaleert het heidens hart |
| Mork Katedralen |
| Great quality black metal with delicious riffing all across |
| Mork Eremittens Dal |
| Mork Dypet |
| This is more of the same for me but lacking the inspiration seen in some of the previous releases |
| Moros Weapon |
| Mosaic (DE) Harvest |
| Mosaic (DE) Secret Ambrosian Fire |
| My Dying Bride Towards the Sinister |
| Great thrashy banger. Hard to recognize MdB at this point but very enjoyable nonetheless. |
| My Dying Bride Symphonaire Infernus Et Spera Empyrium |
| Amazing production for a 1991 demo. Very profound , heavy and mixing slow and relentless parts with grace. The violin gives a wonderful vibe full of emotion. |
| My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans |
| Very interesting and creative, a true behemoth that is standing tall under a gloomy and dark atmosphere. |
| My Dying Bride I Am the Bloody Earth |
| Some great mix of clashing doom, sweet guitar leads and soothing violins. It even has some good thrashy parts but the industrial and electronic bits don't work so well though. |
| My Dying Bride The Angel and the Dark River |
| Very sorrowful and melancholic with deep but uneventful vocals that developed a lot in the future albums. |
| My Dying Bride The Light at the End of the World |
| Riffing and drumming are superb but I would have one a better working atmosphere. |
| My Dying Bride The Voice of the Wretched |
| I like a lot the musianship and the song selection whilst the mixing is not too good imho. Guitars and drums are too thin, vocals are too loud and the way the croud noises are captured do not blend well. |
| My Dying Bride Songs of Darkness, Words of Light |
| Interesting flows, very atmospheric and unitary. Manages to take me a bit out my comfort zone. |
| Mysticisme Répandre |
| Napalm Death Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism |
| Napalm Death Words from the Exit Wound |
| Napalm Death Diatribes |
| Napalm Death The Code Is Red...Long Live the Code |
| Napalm Death Enemy of the Music Business |
| Napalm Death Inside the Torn Apart |
| Napalm Death Fear, Emptiness, Despair |
| Napalm Death Scum |
| Napalm Death Leaders Not Followers |
| Napalm Death Mass Appeal Madness EP |
| Napalm Death Greed Killing |
| Napalm Death Mentally Murdered |
| Napalm Death Punishment in Capitals |
| Napalm Death Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs |
| Napalm Death Leaders Not Followers: Part 2 |
| Narjahanam Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham |
| Narjahanam Undama Tath'hur Al Shams Mn Al Gharb |
| Necrot Lifeless Birth |
| Negative Plane The Pact |
| I hope this will grow on me on time. As of now although very good it is less valuable then their previous work |
| Negura Bunget Zîrnindu-să |
| Negura Bunget Maiastru Sfetnic |
| Negura Bunget Virstele Pamintului |
| Negura Bunget ZI |
| Negura Bunget OM |
| Negura Bunget Tău |
| Negura Bunget Inarborat Kosmos |
| Negura Bunget Sala Molksa |
| Negura Bunget Maiestrit |
| Negura Bunget Zău |
| Had no hopes to see the final one after what happened happened. So happy it did, their most atmospheric one imho with the crushingly delicious vocals. |
| Nekromantheon Divinity of Death |
| Nex Carnis Obscure Visions of Dark |
| Nocternity Onyx |
| Obliteration Cenotaph Obscure |
| Odraza Esperalem Tkane |
| Odraza Rzeczom |
| Om Variations on a Theme |
| Om Pilgrimage |
| Om God Is Good |
| Orgy of Carrion Everlasting Blood Of Night |
| Orgy of Carrion Obscured Ceremonies Under Hell Moon |
| Orgy of Carrion Blood Washed Away the Grave Purity |
| Orgy of Carrion Everlasting Blood of Night MMXVIII |
| Orgy of Carrion Thine Origin... Incest and Death |
| Orgy of Carrion Rusted Gateways |
| Ossements Ossements |
| The album has 2 layers, one is s very catchy psychedelic black metal whilst the other is a fat, abrasive and somewhat washed out death metal. Works very well together |
| Ossements Ossements II |
| Woow, this keeps you on your toes the whole time, very surprising, experimental. A real ride, very much enjoyed it |
| Ossuarium Living Tomb |
| Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us |
| Paradise Lost In Requiem |
| Paradise Lost Paradise Lost |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing |
| Paradise Lost Host |
| Paradise Lost One Second |
| Paradise Lost Icon |
| Paradise Lost Believe In Nothing (Remixed/Remastered) |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Illusion 25 |
| Paradise Lost B-Sides & Rarities |
| Paramaecium Within the Ancient Forest |
| Paramaecium Echoes from the Ground |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Wald |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kristall und Isa |
| Paysage d'Hiver Kerker |
| Paysage d'Hiver Einsamkeit |
| Pentacle Spectre of the Eight Ropes |
| Perihelion Gnosis Syzygial Summoning |
| Shows massive potential, tackling speed changes and sound levels with amazing ability. Really top notch death doom with brilliant production. I am not so into the vocals though, a bit subdued and strange but still, they fit. |
| Pestilence Hadeon |
| Pestilence Doctrine |
| Pestilence Obsideo |
| Pestilence Exitivm |
| Clearly much better than expected, sounds quite fresh and original, keeps me engaged all throughout. |
| Pestilength Basom Gryphos |
| A very nice output, excellent production with magnificent layers and drumming. |
| Pestilength Solar Clorex |
| Phantom Winter Into Dark Science |
| Phantom Winter CVLT |
| Phantom Winter Her Cold Materials |
| Pilgrim Misery Wizard |
| Sweet sweet trad doom. Great riffage paired with beautiful chanting vocals. |
| Pilgrim II: Void Worship |
| Such an exciting approach to doom, very special atmosphere and set pieces. |
| Pillorian Obsidian Arc |
| Portal ION |
| Portal Vexovoid |
| Primordial Exile Amongst the Ruins |
| Primordial Where Greater Men Have Fallen |
| Primordial Storm Before Calm |
| Primordial A Journey's End |
| Primordial How It Ends |
| Process of Guilt Renounce |
| Process of Guilt Erosion |
| Process of Guilt Black Earth |
| Quercus Postvorta |
| Quercus Sfumato |
| Quercus Verferum |
| Ramesses Misanthropic Alchemy |
| Ramesses Take the Curse |
| Ramesses Possessed by the Rise of Magik |
| Ramihrdus Solitude |
| Ramihrdus Midsummer's Twilight |
| Reverend Bizarre Harbinger of Metal |
| great trad doom , a bit less inspired songwriting though than the usual reverend norm |
| Reverend Bizarre Thulsa Doom |
| Short and sweet, warm, easy going trad doom - at least for ears used to extreme metal. Vocals and overall atmosphere are excellent, as usual for this great band. |
| Reverend Bizarre The Goddess of Doom |
| Well well well... What a combination!!! The first song is a funny as hell "Christina Ricci"callouts but at the same time catchy, uplifting, doomy , what can I say more? Well, it also has the list of top tier doom bands, coming in out of nowhere but super interesting. Second is an excellent , original Dunkelheit cover, do I really need to say more? |
| Reverend Bizarre Slice of Doom |
| Soothing and also catchy. Very airy stuff with some unique synths in the background. This is trad doom with funeral, stoner and drone flavours but still so cohesive and good. Vocals are top notch for sure. |
| Reverend Bizarre Magick with Tears |
| Very solid trad doom with an interesting buzzing production in both the guitars and bass. These guys clearly had a hard time in doing anything wrong. Released after the band disbanded it contains the demo versions of songs from the debut album. |
| Reverend Bizarre Slice of Doom 2022 |
| Ride for Revenge The King of Snakes |
| Ride for Revenge Wisdom of the Few |
| Ride for Revenge Enter the Gauntlet |
| Ride for Revenge Born Alive Abortion |
| Rituals of the Dead Hand Blood Oath |
| Rituals of the Dead Hand With Hoof and Horn |
| Almost trance inducing, very nice mixing of tempos, really enjoyable overall. |
| Rituals of the Dead Hand The Wretched and the Vile |
| Rorcal Világvége - Live in Geneva |
| Good stuff. One extra collaboration song but overall does not sound way too different from the studio version. |
| Rorcal Vilagvege |
| Very intense and menacing, crushing and full of emotions. |
| Rorcal Silence |
| Ruin Mechanisms of Bloodshed |
| Salvaticus Ordo Naturalis |
| Salvaticus Hidden Manna |
| Sanguine Relic Sanguine Relic |
| Sanguine Relic III - The Vampyre Weeps in Secrecy of the Night |
| Sanguine Relic Bitter Reflection in Luminous Shadows |
| Sanguine Relic Divine Stygianism: The Bliss in Torment |
| Sanguine Relic The Essence of Eternity's Despair |
| Sannhet Known Flood |
| Sannhet So Numb |
| Sapaudia Sainte Nuit |
| Sarcoughagus Invoking Paranoia |
| Sarke Aruagint |
| Pure quality, only missing out in the memorable peaks category |
| Sarke Viige Urh |
| Very diverse, mixing well slow and fast parts, enjoyable all across |
| Sarke Gastwerso |
| Much more atmospheric than the norm, very different but very good as these guys keep delivering |
| Sarke Allsighr |
| Lost of atmosphere, easy to get drawn to but would have hoped for more catchy riffs |
| Sarkom Aggravation Of Mind |
| Sea Mosquito Fire, Magic & Venom |
| Very hypnotic, dwelling around black metal atmosphere, a real journey that drops into mad dissonance at some point. Closes amazingly with some great sax work. |
| Seep Souvenirs of a Necrosadist |
| Sektarism Fils de Dieu |
| Selbst Relatos de Angustia |
| Selbst Selbst |
| Septicflesh Modern Primitive |
| Good stuff, trademark sound for now although I feel their albums before this are better |
| Septicflesh Codex Omega |
| Septicflesh Esoptron |
| Septicflesh Revolution DNA |
| Septicflesh Reconstruction |
| Done with a full blown orchestra this is probably their most extreme take in this and the furthest away from metal. |
| Septicflesh The Eldest Cosmonaut |
| Septicflesh Temple of the Lost Race |
| Shaarimoth Temple of the Adversarial Fire |
| Shades of Deep Water Deluge towards Its Close |
| Shades of Deep Water Cold Heart |
| Shrine Of Insanabilis Vast Vortex Litanies |
| Atmospheric, dissonant, greatly composed and delivered. A very exciting listen. |
| Shrine Of Insanabilis Tombs Opened by Fervent Tongues... |
| Short and sweet, dissonant, atmospheric, very well produced. |
| Shrine of Orpheus Λυκόφως |
| Shroud Eater ThunderNoise |
| Shroud Eater Strike the Sun |
| Skaphe Skáphe² |
| Skaphe Skáphe³ |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| Slayer Seasons in the Abyss |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Sleep Volume One |
| Socram lycan Asellus Australis |
| Sol (DK) I Am Infinity |
| Sol (DK) Fall Rain Fall |
| Sol (DK) Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms |
| Solemn they await Sanctuary in the Depths |
| Sombres Forets La Mort du Soleil |
| Soulburn The Suffocating Darkness |
| Soulburn Earthless Pagan Spirit |
| Soulburn Feeding on Angels |
| Spectral Lore I |
| Spectral Lore II |
| Spectral Lore Sentinel |
| Stabat Mater Treason By The Son Of Man |
| Superb fuzz and reverb, really top notch doom and a great comeback! |
| Strigoi Viscera |
| I had no clue Greg had such a voice. Dark, heavy af stuff |
| Strigoi Abandon All Faith |
| Crushing, inspired, tough listen in a good way. Excellent production of a very promising debut. |
| Sunn O))) Pyroclasts |
| Sunn O))) Kannon |
| Sunn O))) Life Metal |
| Svoid Neptunian |
| Tabernakel Pfade |
| Teeth (USA-CA) Unremittance |
| Teeth (USA-CA) The Curse of Entropy |
| Teeth (USA-CA) Finite |
| Pounding slowly in a drenched atmosphere. Great stuff |
| Teitanblood Seven Chalices |
| Teitanblood The Baneful Choir |
| Tempestuous fall The Stars Would Not Awake You |
| Thallmoth FALAK |
| Thantifaxath Thantifaxath |
| The Ash Eaters Ruining You |
| The Body Christs, Redeemers |
| The Body The Body |
| The Body I Shall Die Here |
| The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer |
| The Body I’ve Seen All I Need To See |
| Not an easy listen. Very gritty, abrasive and distorted. Extremely distorted even. The vocals are the same as usual (great and unique that is) but are a bit lower in the mix and also seem a bit like a sample, always the same. Songwriting is very creative and inspired despite the massive repetition. Electronic elements are tastefully used and are generally bringing melody and undertones that make the songs feel complete. |
| The Crevices Below Below the Crevices |
| The Deathtrip Demon Solar Totem |
| The Funeral Orchestra Negative Evocation Rites |
| The Funeral Orchestra Apocalyptic Plague Ritual MMXX |
| The Funeral Orchestra Slow Shalt be the Whole of the Law |
| The Funeral Orchestra Funeral Death - Apocalyptic Plague Ritual II |
| Good stuff but it seems that nothing can match the debut in terms of songwriting quality |
| The Great Old Ones EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy |
| The Great Old Ones Cosmicism |
| The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults - The Blazing Gospels of Heinrich... |
| The Ruins of Beverast Takitum Tootem! |
| The Ruins of Beverast Enchanted By Gravemould |
| The Wounded Kings The Shadow Over Atlantis |
| This is pure atmosphere, very nicely crafted with warm tones and guitar flows. |
| The Wounded Kings In the Chapel of the Black Hand |
| Female lead vocals and the much more crushing production were the novelties whilst the sheer quality of doom metal was the constant. |
| The Wounded Kings Consolamentum |
| Dread and despair in a nicely wrapped box that get crashed once in a while at very well timed moments topped by some rare light of the tunnel glimpses. |
| The Wounded Kings Curse of Chains |
| Trance inducing one 15 minutes song. Love the vibe it gives and the warm whilst menacing tone. |
| The Wounded Kings Visions in Bone |
| Crushing trad doom with well crafted, surprising folky and even bluesy moments. |
| Thou Summit |
| Thou Tyrant |
| Thou Peasant |
| Throane Plus une Main à Mordre |
| Tiknazirin Ecclesia Sodomiticum |
| Tiknazirin St. Lucifer |
| Tiknazirin Religio Adversus Deus |
| Tome of the Unreplenished Earthbound |
| Very nice flowing, very enjoyable both in the background or in an attentive listening |
| Towards the hell Eternal Darkness |
| Trap Them Sleepwell Deconstructor |
| Trap Them Seizures In Barren Praise |
| Trap Them Crown Feral |
| Trapped Within Burning Machinery The Putrid Stench of Decaying Self |
| Turin horse Apotheosis |
| As intense as Trap Them and YAITW, solid, well constructed stuff. |
| Turin horse Antipas |
| A vicious, very dinamic and interesting attack on the senses. |
| Uir Tein-Éigin |
| Uir Óenach Tailten |
| Ulcerate Of Fracture and Failure |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten People of the Monolith |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X) |
| Undergang Til Doden Os Skiller |
| Undergang Levende forrådnelse ... Live i USA |
| Undergang De syv stadier af fordærv |
| Unholy (FIN) Rapture |
| The beauty and charm of the 90s are flowing through every ebb and flow on this one. |
| Urfaust Teufelsgeist |
| Urfaust Empty Space Meditation |
| Urfaust Apparitions |
| Urfaust The Constellatory Practice |
| Usnea Usnea |
| Usnea Portals Into Futility |
| Ustalost Before The Glinting Spell Unvests |
| Atmosphere reeks of old and mystique. In the being of early Septicflesh |
| Vallendusk Homeward Path |
| Vallendusk Fortress of Primal Grace |
| Vallendusk Heralds of Strife |
| No shocker here, another great blast of atmosphere on display. |
| Vallenfyre Fear Those Who Fear Him |
| This is deliciously bleak, dark and slowly pounding. Great find |
| Vallenfyre A Fragile King |
| This is proper death doom that needs repeated listens to fully sink in |
| Vallenfyre Splinters |
| This is surprisingly heavy and dark. Very high quality stuff |
| Venomous Concept Poisoned Apple |
| Venomous Concept Politics Versus The Erection |
| Venomous Concept Kick Me Silly - VC III |
| Venomous Concept The Good Ship Lollipop |
| Got milder , the guys are getting old but they still know what they are doing. Very enjoyable |
| VIII Drakon |
| Virgin's Vomit Ancient Witchcraft |
| I thought this has Barney Greenway on vocals. Nuff said. |
| Visceral Mass Visceral Mass |
| Void of melancholy Void of melancholy |
| First of all this is unique. Second of all this is timeless. Third of all just go ahead and listen, I cannot properly convey this into words. |
| Vollmond Mystiker Kapitel VI |
Very good atmospheric black metal in the vein
of Urfaust and Dolorian. |
| Warcrab Scars of Aeons |
| very engaging, vocals are top notch, riffs are excellent and the tempo changes are very well timed and work very well |
| Warcrab The Howling Silence |
| Wederganger Halfvergaan ontwaakt |
| White Nights Solanaceae |
| Such an interesting , buzzing, mind numbing, subtle and refreshing piece of work. Quite hyped about what's next with this band. |
| Windhand Live Elsewhere |
| excellent stuff, sounding very very well, gives a great feeling of listening to something quite awesome. Full, fat, lazy bass rules. |
| Windhand Miscellaneous Demos & Alternate Mixes |
| A mixed bag , some songs are so gritty and well sounding that you cannot stop relistening to them whilst other are subdued by a less articulate production. The only common denominator might be the top notch songwriting, well above demo level standards. |
| Witchcult 71 Blessings in black |
| Woebegone Obscured The Forestroamer |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Thrice Woven |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Celestite |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Primordial Arcana |
| Sounds fresh, sounds like a big band (and saying this as a compliment) I wish I could immerse myself better into it but I somewhat feel I am not getting the full concept and magic. Not yet. |
| Yautja Songs of Descent |
| Yellow Eyes Silence Threads the Evening's Cloth |
| Yellow Eyes Immersion Trench Reverie |
| Yellow Eyes Rare Field Ceiling |
| Ygg The Last Scald |
| Yith Immemorial |
| Yith Passage |
| All instruments are subdued into a state of unexpected calmness. A walk into the Black Metal lonely spaces. |
| YOB Our Raw Heart |
| YOB The Unreal Never Lived |
| YOB Catharsis |
| YOB The Great Cessation |
| YOB The Illusion Of Motion |
| YOB Elaborations Of Carbon |
| Young and in the Way Ride Off And Die |
| Zhrine Unortheta |
| Zimorog Winter Horns |
| Zimorog The Theory of Theory |
| Zimorog Tales from the Old Ones |
| Zolle Porkestra |
| Instrumental work that works so well, very interesting and catchy stuff. |
| 3.0 good |
| Abruptum Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectere Me |
| Abruptum The Evil E.P. |
| Atonal to the extreme, hundreds of bands trying to do this nowadays but this remains a staple |
| Abruptum Orchestra Of Dark |
| This is so grim and seems so analog that it somehow feels from another era |
| Abruptum Evil Genius |
| I am not really digging the 'songwritting' here but the atmosphere is indeed creepy and evil |
| Abruptum Apostoli Infernum |
| Short and sweet but nothing to write home about. Doesn't hold up well in repeat listens. |
| Addaura Burning for the Ancient |
| Aevangelist De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis |
| Aevangelist Omniquity |
| Aevangelist Matricide in the Temple of Omega |
| Aevangelist Nightmarecatcher |
| Aevangelist Dream an Evil Dream II |
| Aevangelist Heralds of Nightmare Descending |
| Aevangelist Veneration of Profane Antiquity |
| Aevangelist Enthrall to the Void of Bliss |
| Aevangelist Writhes in the Murk |
| Aevangelist Omen Ex Simulacra |
| Agalloch The Grey |
| The Odal remix made this their weekest release for me. Quite enjoyable nonetheless |
| Alder Glade Lunar majesty |
| Nice flowing atmospheric black metal. Enjoyable but somewhat not shining in a sea of similar releases |
| Alice in Chains Dirt |
| Alkerdeel Slonk |
| Good catchy stuff, quite unpredictable, not super fond of the overall atmosphere though, seems a bit disjointed. |
| Antediluvian Under Wing of Asael |
| Filthy banger for sure but I would have liked it to be somewhat more eventful |
| Aosoth Aosoth |
| Aosoth V: The Inside Scriptures |
| Aosoth III - Violence & Variation |
| Aosoth IV: An Arrow in Heart |
| Aosoth Ashes of Angels |
| Arckanum Sviga Læ |
| Arcturus Disguised Masters |
| I love the parts where I recongnize 'my' Arcturus but the ones that go 'too' electronic don't work for me |
| Arkheth 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew |
| Armagedda Svindeldjup Ättestup |
| Armagedda Only True Believers |
| Armagedda Ond Spiritism: Djæfvulens Skalder |
| Armagedda The Final War Approaching |
| Ascia Vol. II |
| Ash Borer Ash Borer |
| Ash Borer The Irrepassable Gate |
| Ash Borer Cold of Ages |
| Avsky Sjukdom Och Död |
| I like the songwriting on display but the vocals are strangely broken on this release |
| Azzaya Thy Satanick Ascension |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Blood Incantation Live Vitrification |
| Blood Incantation Interdimensional Extinction |
| Blut Aus Nord What Once Was... Liber II |
| Some cosmic vibes circling around a not so creative output from the masters. |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry |
This does not flow exceptionally well
for me. I have mixed feelings on the
drum sound and the harsh vocals do not
blend well enough whilst the cleans are
great. |
| Blut Aus Nord 777 - Sect(s) |
| Probably the one album that is most alike DsO. BAU's better ones though are the ones that sound like themselves. r |
| Blut Aus Nord Odinist: The Destruction of Reason by Illumination |
| Not sure what is with this one. I am not really feeling this, feels thin and uninspired. |
| Blut Aus Nord MoRT |
| Really weird and interesting, but would not pick this up too often. |
| Bolt Thrower Those Once Loyal |
| Brown Jenkins Welcome the Bitterness |
| Brutal Truth Perpetual Conversion |
| The tehno and industrial experimentation don't work in this otherwise excelent slab of grindcore |
| Burzum Hlidskjalf |
| Burzum Thulê |
| Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain |
| Cannibal Corpse Live Cannibalism |
| Cardinals Folly Such Power Is Dangerous! |
| Good doom, hits all the right spots but fails to shine in any of them. |
| Cardinals Folly Our Cult Continues! |
| Good doom, nice atmosphere, worth several listens. |
| Cardinals Folly Holocaust of Ecstasy & Freedom |
| Freestyle, light doom with quite an interesting take on the traditional ways. |
| Caveman Cult Blood and Extinction |
| Caveman Cult Savage War is Destiny |
| Celestial Sanctuary Soul Diminished |
| Ceremented Chaos Mongering Degradation |
| Ultra beefy, a bass that is crushing any wall and absolutely demented vocals. |
| Coffin Mulch Septic Funeral |
| Doom death with good production and good arrangements and hooks. Vocals are some of the lowest guturrals in the game. |
| Conan Battle in the Swamp |
| Excelent stuff but the production is underwhelming. |
| Corrupted Garten Der Unbewusstheit |
| Corrupted Felicific Algorithim |
| Count Raven Demo '89 |
| Well, first demo is normally having quite some flaws. This one too, annoying production and lyrics mainly. Greatness was yet to come but showing signs already, creative stuff. |
| Crypt Dagger From Below |
| This would probably work so well live. Really engaging riffs (hard to listen standing), varied in structure and neat sounding although at first glimpse this seems run to the mill speed black. |
| Cultes Des Ghoules Eyes of Satan |
| Darkspace Dark Space II |
| Intense, repetitive, truly frightening, there are some truly bone chilling moments in here. |
| Darkspace Dark Space III |
| Yeap, I feel this one is one is not as inspired as their others. Nonetheless, this is still a good spacial ride. |
| Darkthrone Land of Frost |
| Daudi Landvættir |
| Despite the short length it has lots of variation: doom , ambient, black and some sort of a viking like take on Uriah Heep. |
| Daudi Hel's Gate |
| I think they hurried a bit with this second one, a step down in quality versus the debut, especially on the vocal side. |
| Dead Congregation Graves of the Archangels |
| Dead Congregation Promulgation of the Fall |
| Dearly Beheaded Chamber of One |
| Death Carrier The Drone Sessions |
| Death Carrier Portal |
| Death Carrier From Nowhere To Nowhere |
| Death Carrier The Drone Sessions II |
| Death Fortress Pulling Ancient Stone |
| Deathspell Omega Disciples of the Ultimate Void |
| Dhyana Dhyana |
| Die Kunst Der Finsternis Das Geheimnis des Vampirs |
| Die Kunst Der Finsternis Alter Schwarz Metall (demo) |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Requiem for the Forest |
| Disharmonic Orchestra Successive Substitution |
| Disma Towards the Megalith |
| Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane |
| Doombringer Walpurgis Fires |
Very catchy. Best sounding drumming.
Underwhelmed by the vocals though. |
| DorDeDuh Valea Omului |
| DorDeDuh Har |
| Enjoyable but not at the level of awesomeness I would have expected. |
| Draug (USA-MS) Draug |
| Raw, fuzzed out death metal with insane drumming. Many nice hooks and solid riffing beneath the madness. |
| Draug (USA-MS) Ephemeral Utopia |
| A bit of a run to the mill cavernous death metal. Enjoyable but miles away from the quality of their LPs. |
| Dream Unending Tide Turns Eternal |
| Electric Wizard Pre-Electric Wizard 1989–1994 |
| Electric Wizard Supercoven |
| Electric Wizard Radio 1 Session 1/05 |
| Short and sweet. I am still amazed BBC was into such music back in the day! |
| Emptiness Guilty to Exist |
| Emptiness Vide |
| Mind numbing and soothing stuff at the same time. Did not fully click with me but I must say this is again a very unexpected work from Emptiness. |
| Enthroned Sovereigns |
| Enthroned Armoured Bestial Hell |
| Enthroned Cold Black Suns |
| Enthroned Obsidium |
| Enthroned Pentagrammaton |
| Enthroned Tetra Karcist |
| Enthroned XES Haereticum |
| Enthroned Carnage In World's Beyond |
| Enthroned The Apocalypse Manifesto |
| Enthroned Towards the Skullthrone of Satan |
| Enthroned Prophecies of Pagan Fire |
| Esoteric The Maniacal Vale |
| Esoteric Paragon of Dissonance |
| Esoteric Esoteric Emotions - The Death of Ignorance |
| Esoteric A Pyrrhic Existence |
| Esoteric Subconscious Dissolution Into the... |
| Esoteric Metamorphogenesis |
| Esoteric Epistemological Despondency |
| Esoteric The Pernicious Enigma |
| Falls of Rauros Believe in No Coming Shore |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Falls of Rauros Vigilance Perennial |
| Falls of Rauros The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood |
| Falls of Rauros Hail Wind and Hewn Oak |
| Fear Factory Demanufacture |
| Fiur Verse |
| Quite interesting, easy one to take in, would probably rate it higher if it stired even more away from the norm |
| Fluids Ignorance Exalted |
| Fluids Exploitative Practices |
| Forn Rites of Despair |
| Good atmosphere, very good balancing of melody and aggression but this could have been so much more than that with a better songwriting. |
| Forn The Departure of Consciousness |
| Good doom with some interesting dissonance interwined. Snail paced with a good raw punch and massive barrages of riffs. Still, I had trouble in fully embracing it and in maintaining the engagement throughout. |
| Fossilization He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten |
| Fried Fruits Amazonanas |
| Very nice , soothing and beautiful, truly enjoyed it. |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams |
| Funebrarum Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods |
| Funeral As The Light Does The Shadow |
| Funeral In Fields of Pestilent Grief |
| Funeral To Mourn Is A Virtue |
| Genune Inert & Unerring |
| Nice atmospheric black metal, really enjoyable. I would have hoped for more hooks though. |
| Gorgon (FRA1) The Jackal Pact |
| Gorgoroth Destroyer |
| Gorgoroth Instinctus Bestialis |
| Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt |
| Gorgoroth Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam |
| Gorgoroth Twilight of the Idols |
| Gorgoroth Incipit Satan |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Gorgoroth Pentagram |
| Gorgoroth Antichrist |
| Gosudar Morbid Despotic Ritual |
| Grand Belial's Key Judeobeast Assassination |
| Enjoyable listen but nothing more, well executed but lacking that one amazing breakthrough to make it great. |
| Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities |
| Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum |
| Gravenchalice Samael |
| Gzr Plastic Planet |
| Hadit With Joy And Ardour Through... |
| Heavy, pounding, great mix of vocals, very interesting. |
| Hermodr War Spirit |
| Repetitive, harsh vocals, melancholic, good, enjoyable stuff. |
| Hollow Woods Cold Winds Cleave the Earth |
| Horizon Of The Mute Chiliad Rite |
| Horizon Of The Mute Sole Dogma |
| Host IX |
| This is not even close to Host the album in terms of quality. Enjoyable nonetheless |
| Hypocrisy Abducted |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immolation Majesty and Decay |
| Immortal Northern Chaos Gods |
| Immortal Damned In Black |
| Impaled Nazarene Suomi Finland Perkele |
| Impaled Nazarene Absence of War Does Not Mean Peace |
| Impaled Nazarene Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz |
| Impaled Nazarene Eight Headed Serpent |
| Impaled Nazarene Vigorous And Liberating Death |
| Impaled Nazarene Road to the Octagon |
| Impaled Nazarene Manifest |
| Impaled Nazarene Pro Patria Finlandia |
| Impaled Nazarene All That You Fear |
| Impaled Nazarene Nihil |
| Impaled Nazarene Rapture |
| Impaled Nazarene Latex Cult |
| Impaled Nazarene Ugra-Karma |
| In Crucem Agere Calling the Void |
| In the Woods... Strange in Stereo |
| In the Woods... Cease the Day |
| In the Woods... Pure |
| In the Woods... Omnio |
| In the Woods... Heart of the Ages |
| Incantation Mortal Throne of Nazarene |
| Incantation Onward to Golgotha |
| Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One |
| Isengard Vårjevndøgn |
| Jarhead Fertilizer Product of My Environment |
| Kortirion Beneath a Stelliferous Empyrean |
So refreshing, nothing forced - silently
powerful, soul enriching |
| Kortirion Éalú |
| Mellow black metal, some catchy stuff and really relaxing |
| Kraken Duumvirate The Stars Below, the Seas Above |
| Nice flowing, at times even soothing. Not rated higher as the vocals are not at all to my liking and the electronic effects were not fitting in well for me. |
| Kreator Renewal |
| Kreator Cause for Conflict |
| Krisiun Scourge of the Enthroned |
| Krisiun Forged in Fury |
| Krolok Flying Above Ancient Ruins |
| Lair of the Minotaur Carnage |
| Lair of the Minotaur The Ultimate Destroyer |
| Lvthn Adversarialism |
| Lykhaeon Opprobrium |
| Mammoth Grinder Cosmic Crypt |
| Mare Cognitum Phobos Monolith |
| Mare Cognitum Luminiferous Aether |
| Mare Cognitum Solar Paroxysm |
| In your face, reliable but somewhat predictable atmospheric black metal. |
| Mare Cognitum The Sea Which Has Become Known |
| Mare Cognitum An Extraconscious Lucidity |
| Massacre Resurgence |
| Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Youthanasia |
| Mesarthim The Density Parameter |
| Mesarthim The Degenerate Era |
| Mesarthim Ghost Condensate |
| Mesarthim .- -... ... . -. -.-. . |
| Mesarthim Isolate |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Mizmor מזמור |
| oh boy, the production here is harsher than most raw black metal. A bit of a torture to get through the ear piercing soundscape and vocals and the quite acclaimed 'II' with its extensive slow, atmospheric intro. But as per the rating, I somehow still quite like it, probably because how extreme, original and well written it is. |
| Moonspell The Butterfly Effect |
| Moonspell 1755 |
| Moonspell Alpha Noir |
| Moonspell Darkness and Hope |
| Moonspell Sin/Pecado |
| Morbid Winds The Black Corridors... |
catchy stuff, warm tones, a bit underwhelmed by
the vocals that are not doing it for me |
| Mortuary Drape Secret Sudaria |
| Good stuff,catchy and headbangable, a tad generic though for such a cvlt band and also a bit too polished in terms of production |
| Mortuary Spawn Spawned from the Mortuary |
| My Dying Bride The Thrash of Naked Limbs |
| Despite the name this is not thrashy at all, it's even ambient for quite a while. Heavy doom with vocals a bit alike Barney Greenway. |
| My Dying Bride God is Alone |
| Intense , fierce, chunky and choppy. Really fun and primal, the raw gem was popping up. |
| My Dying Bride 34.788%... Complete |
| Toned down, going through the same industrial feel era as Paradise Lost, Septicflesh and Moonspell but all those albums fail to impress both soundwise and songwriting wise. Don't get me wrong, this is still enjoyable but under MdB standards. One thing that many reviewers negatively mentioned is the disappearance of heavy riffs, not sure how come, they are definitely still there although indeed not as frequent as on other albums. |
| My Dying Bride Meisterwerk I |
| Mixed bag here, some demo, new mixes and other stuff. Some superb moments are going against some not so interesting demo versions.r |
| My Dying Bride Meisterwerk II |
| Only works well for fans, would recommend tons of other MdB releases to the casual listeners. |
| My Dying Bride For Lies I Sire |
| Failing to deliver the atmosphere it aims to, still enjoyable though. |
| My Dying Bride Evinta |
| I must admit I wouldn't have had the same level of patience with this if it was not MdB. Honestly not bad at all, classical music mixed with ambient, beautiful and relaxing most of the time. |
| My Dying Bride Peaceville Presents... My Dying Bride |
| I don't think I ever got into a band through a compilation but this surely is a good one. |
| Napalm Death Harmony Corruption |
| Necromantia Scarlet Evil, Witching Black |
| Abundance of Blackened thrash riffs keeps you entertained but it gets old a bit faster than expected. Atmosphere and keys are also not as spectacular as expected from such a cvlt band. |
| Nirvana Incesticide |
| Nirvana Bleach |
| Nocternity En Oria |
| Nostalghia (MEX) Lifeless |
| Soothing and beautiful. I get Evilfeast and Hermodr vibes from it. |
| Nyss Dépayser |
| Obituary Obituary |
| Obituary Darkest Day |
| Obituary Frozen in Time |
| Obituary Xecutioner's Return |
| Obituary Back from the Dead |
| Opium Warlords Nembutal |
| Although mostly drone it has enough variation from all points of view to be appealing for trad doom aficionados (what a word, lol). Still, very much of an aquired taste.r |
| Pakkt To Brocken Heights Where Witches Dance |
| Panopticon ...And Again into the Light |
| Panopticon Panopticon |
| Panopticon Autumn Eternal |
| Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| Panopticon Roads to the North |
| Panopticon Kentucky |
| Panopticon Social Disservices |
| Panopticon Collapse |
| Papangu Holoceno |
| Paradise Lost Tragic Idol |
| Paysage d'Hiver Im Traum |
| Nice ambient, with several layers flowing in paralel. |
| Paysage d'Hiver Schwarzä Feus & Schwarzäs Isä |
| Quite dinamic ambiental stuff, keeping me on my toes although I know by now what is coming. |
| Phrenelith Chimaera |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape |
| Posehn Grandpa Metal |
| Purple Hill Witch Alchemy |
| Straight up trad doom with good riffs and decent production. |
| Quercus Heart With Bread |
| Ride for Revenge Sinking The Song |
| Ride for Revenge Ageless Powers Arise |
| Ride for Revenge Under the Eye |
| Ride for Revenge Thy Horrendous Yearning |
| Rippikoulu Musta Seremonia |
| Rorcal La Femme sans Tete |
| Drone and noise stuff, the build-up did not do too much for me, second part is pretty nice (in a dirgey, sorrowful way, of course) |
| Rorcal Myrra, Mordvynn, Marayaa |
| Strong, powerful, enjoyable but not super inspired and the vocals are not top level unlike most Rorcal outputs. |
| Rorcal Heliogabalus |
| Extremely intense and quite honestly one of the most tormenting soundscapes one can experience. The ritualistic parts are very creepy. As all in all not that much is happening, most of the feeling is coming from the atmosphere. Like the horror movies that are terrifying without being gruesome, just playing with your mind. |
| Rothadas Kopár Hant... Az Alvilág Felé |
| Sacramentum Far Away from the Sun |
| Sarcoughagus Delusions of the Sick |
| Satan's Almighty Penis Into the Cunt of Chaos |
| Satan's Almighty Penis Pulsing Feral Spire |
| Sepultura Quadra |
| Sepultura Machine Messiah |
| Sepultura The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart |
| Sepultura A-Lex |
| Sepultura Roorback |
| Sepultura Against |
| Sepultura Morbid Visions |
| Sepultura Kairos |
| Sepultura Nation |
| Sepultura Dante XXI |
| Sepultura Roots |
| Sepultura Schizophrenia |
| Sepultura Bestial Devastation |
| Shape of Despair Alone in the Mist (demo) |
| Slayer Repentless |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Slayer Hell Awaits |
| Slugdge Born of Slime |
| Slugdge Gastronomicon |
| Slugdge Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Sol (DK) And the Mouth of Time Is Open |
| Sol (DK) Where Suns Come to Die |
| Sol (DK) The Storm Bells Chime |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing |
| Spectral Voice Necrotic Doom |
| Stangarigel Na Severe Srdca |
| Suffocation Effigy of the Forgotten |
| Sunn O))) The Grimmrobe Demos (Demo) |
| Svartidaudi Revelations of the Red Sword |
| Svartidaudi Flesh Cathedral |
| Svoid Storming Voices of Inner Devotion |
| Pretty nice but surely regret the change of direction versus the debut |
| Sweven (SWE) The Eternal Resonance |
| Tomb Mold Primordial Malignity |
| Triptykon Melana Chasmata |
| Triptykon Eparistera Daimones |
| Turin horse Prohodna |
| Enjoyable for sure but I wish it would have more tempo variation.r |
| Ulcerate The Coming of Genocide |
| Unanimated Ancient God of Evil |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Wake Up in the Night of Walpurgis |
| Unaussprechlichen Kulten Teufelsbücher |
| Unholy (FIN) Gracefallen |
| Misses the coldness and the incredible weirdness of their previous works, enjoyable nonetheless. |
| Urfaust Urvaterlicher Sagen |
| Soothing and dark, meandering vocals in synergy with the atmospheric instrumentation that flows like a slow dirge. |
| Venomous Concept Retroactive Abortion |
| Villagers of Ioannina City Riza |
| Very interesting blend of stoner, folk and traditional Greek music interwined with a number of unexpected instruments that made room...well.. unexpectedly... Cannot focus on anything else whilst listening to this. |
| Warloghe Three Angled Void |
| Entertaining, some excellent riffs, interesting atmosphere and quite a lot of diversity. |
| Watain Lawless Darkness |
| We ride pale horses The idea of hope remains, but the hope itself is g |
| Interesting, varied stuff. Starting off with a banger that sits between trad doom and hardcore but changing the scenery to softer stoner aways whilst the sludge parts cannot be tossed away either. |
| Weakling Dead as Dreams |
| Widergang Paranoia |
| Interesting mix of dissonance, melody and agrressivenes, this shows potential for a strong future. |
| Woebegone Obscured Deathstination |
| Woebegone Obscured Marrow of Dreams |
| Woebegone Obscured Deathscape MMXIV |
| Wokeh Where Ancients Tread |
| Very interesting mix of trad/stoner doom with a mix of vocals that I did not see coming: hardcore and death stylings. |
| Woods of Ypres Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth |
| Woods of Ypres Woods III: Deepest Roots and Darkest Blu |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light |
| Woods of Ypres Woods 4: The Green Album |
| Wrathprayer The Sun of Moloch: The Sublimation of Sulphur's... |
| Wulkanaz Wulkanaz |
| Wulkanaz HaglaNaudizEisaz |
| Wulkanaz Paralys |
| Yautja The Lurch |
| This is giving me Imperial triumphant and Trap them vibes whilst being less creative and inspired. |
| Zimorog Hate Kills, Use It Well |
| Zimorog Wolfpact |
| Zimorog The Art of Black |
