11:37 PM
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Napalm Death - Smear Campaign (2006)

The initial screeches on this record throw me off every single time I put it on. I absolutely adore Barney's voice. I think it's one of the most burly, beefy, visceral vocal deliveries in aggressive music. But those first squeaky screechy sounds, fuck do they put me off. After the first bar or two he's back to his usual awesomeness though, so don't worry dudes (I know you were worrying about it). What makes Barney so awesome is even when he just goes "Oooo!" or "Guhhhh!" it sounds so fucking brutal it makes my vertebrae rattle. And I don't mean brutal in a breakdowns and flatbill caps kind of way. I mean pulling your intestines out of your mouth and shoving them back up your asshole kind of way. Sure this album came out in 2006. Sure you pretend to love Scum. Who cares. I sure as fuck don't.
ASSHOLE.
4:59 PM
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Spazz - Crush, Kill, Destroy (1999)

Remember when we were young and we fed our ADD (This was before ADHD was invented) by listening to blistering 20 second songs and we all had street names like Death Snake, Big Dan, Hellfire, Lil' Smurf, Twin, Nacho, Viper, Mad Dawg, Clown, Loco, or Baby Chico?
LETS FUCKING GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1:29 PM
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Black Flag - In My Head (1985)

My brain is in such a weirdo impenetrable fog right now. This about sums it up. I'm out cold, and I'm never comin' to.
nnnnn
1:15 AM
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Melvins - The Maggot (1999)

Hey dudes. This Melvins album is really heavy.
Heavy.
11:16 PM
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Hooded Menace x Ilsa Split (2011)

It took me so fucking long to find this. So very, very fucking long. Such a pain in the ass I thought I'd go ahead and post it. This is not my rip and there's a little bit of analog grain present, but nothing that distracts from the riffing.
CRUSHES.
2:37 PM
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Cannabis Corpse - Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise (2011)
Hail the leaf.
12:07 AM
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Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever (2011)

Not really sure how I feel about this yet. Figure it out for yourself.
Get it while it's hot. Or at least lukewarm.
Worst album title.
12:15 PM
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Blessed Offal - Blessed Offal (EP) (2011)

Excruciating doom influenced death metal. Slow and pondering megalithic riffs. Excessive volume levels recommended.
SDLASLDKASL.
12:32 AM
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1:34 PM
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Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus (1986)

Lets take a break from all the death and listen to some traditional doom. I'm being very serious when I say that if you don't listen to this band VERY LOUD, you're doing it wrong and should probably just stop doing "it" all together.
Riffs.
7:34 PM
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Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

Tomorrow is the annual ritualistic celebration of my birth. Today/Tonight there is a keg provided at my humble abode should you choose to drop by, and Sabbath will be the only music permitted all night. SUPER FUCKING NAUT. Ur riffin. Ur bluntin.
SUPER FUCKING NAUT.
12:33 AM
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Bone Sickness - Bone Sickness (2011)

Bone Sickness is an awesome fucking band that hails from my neck of the woods. They've honed a primitive and visceral death metal sound that is especially potent on their most recent release, this fucking awesome 7". It's only two songs but it's going to fuck you up man. Featuring ex-members of Funerot and Dead Stare.
BONE SICKNESS.
11:09 PM
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Blaspherian - Infernal Warriors of Death (2011)

If albums had smells, this one would smell fucking awful. A pungent pile of stinky riffs that Incantation probably wrote last decade. Said riffs were buried, then exhumed by Blaspherian in 2011 all stinkified and put on this album for your listening pleasure.
Stinky.
2:27 PM
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Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels (2008)

This album serious sounds like it's lurching back to life from beyond the grave, the ominous and plodding introduction cascading into some truly diabolical riffing. Most have probably already heard this, but the fact that Dead Congregation is playing Rites of Darkness III has got me stoked on this band all over again. The rest of their discography will be posted sooner than later.
Link.
10:55 PM
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Year Of The Goat - Lucem Ferre (2011)

Finally starting to get to the bottom of the giant mound of .RARs and .ZIPs on my desktop that I've accumulated from the various sources I frequent. Some are pretty shitty. This one, however, was a surprise. I'm going to lie I probably downloaded this at least a month ago and with a name like Year of The Goat, I was expecting something much heavier, but this is just as good.
Sweden continues to kill it as far as rock is concerned, this occult rock EP a shiny gem in genre pretty full of idiots making shitmusic. If you're looking for something a bit more mellow, get into it.
Dark Load.