blou52
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Last Active 03-04-22 6:25 am
Joined 08-23-18

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04.28.20 The oldest album reviews ♦04.20.20 1666 ratings: my musical evolution
12.01.19 Black Folk metal ranked07.27.19 Best metal album of each year
07.03.19 How do you guys listen to your music?06.26.19 Competition to choose my avatar
06.26.19 Sputnik user avatars05.06.19 Best albums I've discovered through Spu

Competition to choose my avatar

So after starting my list asking about users avatars, I was given the idea to hold a contest for users to decide on my avatar. So if you want to compete in deciding my avatar all you’ll have to do is recommend me one album I haven’t already heard. I recommend looking at my ratings for what I like and what I’ve already heard. I’ll listen to each of the albums I’m recommended and will update the list with the albums as they’re chosen. I’ll use the avatar until at least this Christmas. Rules are below
1Dissection
Storm of the Light's Bane

If you win, the avatar you choose for me can’t be: total shitpost stuff, hate speech, or another well known users avatar.
2Slayer
Reign in Blood

One album per person. If you have more then one idea, try choosing what you think is best.
3The Black Dahlia Murder
Nocturnal

I guess I’ll hold this contest until next Wednesday, so a week from now. After that, I’ll work on or finish up listening to the albums I’ve been recommended.
4Flourishing
The Sum of All Fossils

@Bedex

progressive death is usually hit or miss with me, but this hit hard. Fans of post-The Erosion Of Sanity era Gorguts and Ulcerate owe it to themselves to jam this. I recommend Gigan as something similar to this.
5Deceased
Luck of the Corpse

@budgie

death metal with a thrash touch. If im remembering right, that photo was a picture of a movie played on VHS. Like it's literally a photo of a TV screen.
6High on Fire
Luminiferous

@Papa Universe

I definitely see the sleep influence, but it's much quicker and along the lines of sludge rather than doom. It’s got something for doom and heavy metal fans alike
7Bleach03
Kibakuzai

@JohnnyoftheWell

(like Melt-banana but if they were hardcore punk instead of whatever they are now. Some of those screams, like on track 2, were awesome
8Vomir
Claustration

@YakNips

Okay, I know I said I'd listen to every album here, but this was a 5 hour long noise album that I couldn't even find the last 2 hours of. Sorry, but I couldn't last more than a few minutes of each track
9The Goslings
Grandeur of Hair

@Tyler.

This was pretty interesting. It seems like they were influenced by SunnO))) and Boris at the same time. Still, it didn’t have enough variation to me
10Disillusion
Back to Times of Splendor

@Kaiwaz

Those last three tracks were great. The length was part of what gave them their impact
11Reverend Bizarre
In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

@SlothcoreSam

This had some great parts, but it suffered the same fate as many doom album. It just went on too long
12Mgla
Exercises in Futility

@Arditi

Some of the riffs on here was amazing. I'm definitely glad this was recommended and I finally checked it out after hearing about it for so long
13The Last Things
Circles and Butterflies

@Source

I'm not surprised Atheist had the guitarist on this play with them live. The playing was pretty good on this, especially on the more metal first half
14John Fahey
Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)

@J() Alexander

This was better than I had expected. The first half was better, it just seemed more spiritual and non-western than the second. I actually got a few chills in the beginning. That's very uncommon, but I might have just been cold
15Queens of the Stone Age
...Like Clockwork

@neekafat

The first song on the album has a wicked tone. Smooth Sailing sounds like that one Lowes commercial at first, but that part at like 3:50 is wicked.
16Nasty Savage
Penetration Point

@SlicePaperMoog

This album slays. It has a great combination of speed and technicality for thrash. Too bad this is basically forgotten nowadays
17Tash Sultana
Flow State

@ramon.

this was not my style at all. Every song seemed too similar to me and blended together
18Venenum
Trance of Death

@dedex

This had some great parts in it. There was a lot more progressive death metal parts than I was expecting with this art, although that's not a bad thing.
19Ne Obliviscaris
Portal of I

@Sheumke

I actually heard this once before a while ago. Some prog metal guy I knew told me to check it out. The parts where this is death metal is where it shines the brightest IMO. I could do without the clean vocals though.
20Anna von Hausswolff
Dead Magic

@Dewinged

This album was recorded in a church, and it shows. The instruments have that distant, reverberating feeling throughout the whole album
21Massive Attack
Mezzanine

@Trifolium

I’m going to be honest here, this couldn’t keep my attention. It was super minimalist and seemed to rely on an atmosphere that i couldn’t get into.
22Thy Darkened Shade
Liber Lvcifer I: Khem Sedjet

@Egarran

Okay, i’m pretty sure I heard this back in 2015 or something, but I didn’t remember it at all. I’m surprised this isn't more popular, it's good stuff for sure
23Dragged Into Sunlight
Hatred For Mankind

@PunchforPunch

This album cover legitimately scared me when I first saw it. It just evokes a sense that I shouldn’t feel. There were some weird, long samples in this, but it fit the music well.
24Butthole Surfers
Locust Abortion Technician

@SharkTooth

I can see where the “noise rock” tag comes from. There were some good songs like Human Cannonball, but then something like U.S.S.A. starts up
25Sithu Aye
Senpai EP II: The Noticing

@Meridiu5

This was going to be lower rated, but there's literally a 20 minute manga video to go along with the album. I never would have guessed it existed, but it really made the experience
26Nekrogoblikon
Stench

@metalhead2425

This had some bangers and a few songs I listened to in high school, so it had a bit of nostalgia. Pretty fun
27Blood Incantation
Starspawn

@Morningrise767

This is like the spiritual successor to Timeghoul. This was a fantastic album. I saw these guys live recently, and I can't believe I wasn’t a fan at the time.
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