Dystopia - The Aftermath (1999)


Black friday inspired post.

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John Lee Hooker - Don't Look Back (1997)


This album was a collaboration between John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison. Despite it being a little bit more laid back than I tend to take my blues, it won a Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues category in 1998. This is the perfect companion for your holiday travels. Drive safely, folks.

Boom Boom.

BONUS CONTENT: THE VERY BEST OF JOHN LEE HOOKER.

Uncle Acid and The Dead Beats - Blood Lust (2011)




Blood Lust.

Bedheaded - Ominous Bloodline (2005)


First things first, I found out about this album via Illogical Contraption, and if you don't frequent that ridiculous cesspool you probably should. Anyway, I'm really picky about my brutal death metal. I won't just sit here and listen to any ol' slam (Attn Japanese wiggers: This is not a slam album), but this album appeals to me for some weird reason despite horrible clickety clackity of the drums. Really the only reason I even listened to it was because they didn't go with a shitty name they picked out of an anatomy textbook. Despite this less than glowing review, this record has had my speakers going hammer on the way to and from work for the past week or so.

Bammer bammer bammer.

Hate Eternal - Phoenix From The Ashes (2011)


This one will definitely be on any sort of "annual top list" that ends up getting posted around here. Furious and unforgiving.

Side note: I really dislike Hate Eternal's choices in album artwork almost every time.

Rutan.

**EDIT: LINK FIXED**

Funerus - Reduced To Sludge (2011)


John McEntee Rules

Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man (2002)


This is one of the first, if not the actual first, death metal albums I ever heard. Travis Ryan's vocals are still a biological marvel to me and the amount of times I have seen that man intentionally vomit makes my head spin.

Vegetarians.

Neurosis - Souls At Zero (1992)


The turning point.
EDIT: I THINK I JUST HEARD A SAXOPHONE ON 'STERILE VISION'.

Zero.

Orchid - Capricorn (2011)


Yes. I am completely okay with any and all Sabbath worship. Just so happens this band does a sensationally good job at it. I think Doomantia said it best: "... While other Sabbathians such as Witchcraft come across as sounding like 'camp-fire' doom-rock, Orchid are the total opposite."

If you like Black Sabbath a lot you will like this band. A lot. In fact the third track Black Funeral literally sounds like a bizarro Sabbath song.

Camp Fire.

Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996)


Slit Your Guts.

Truckfighters - Phi (2007)

I showed someone this band and they got really excited. Great fuzzed out rock from Sweden. Their album Gravity X is also worth noting and I probably would have got more cred points if I posted that one instead.

Phi.

Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go (1997)


Someone mentioned this band today, so naturally all I've been listening to is this album. Here you go.

Manchu.

Immolation - Providence (2011)


New Immolation EP brought to you by Scion A/V oddly enough. Why Scion dabbles in death metal I have not a clue, but cool I guess, or whatever. It's being distributed for free tomorrow, but here it is a day early. I'm not going to describe the music because you know what Immolation sounds like.

Providence

Entrails - The Tomb Awaits (2011)


A beautiful and sensuous classical guitar intro leads into some seriously beefy death metal. I literally sat and thought about it for a few minutes, which word would I use to describe this sound? Beefy is what I came up with. An old school sound without sounding like they're playing tabs they got off the internet.

Here's a review from their Last.fm shoutbox:

"New album very old! thank you!!!!!"

BEEFY.

Ghost - Opus Eponymous (2010)


I've been listening to really shitty music lately, so I'll just post this instead for those that have somehow missed it. Evil Lucifer loving music from Sweden.

Human Sacrifice.