Swans - White Light From the Mouth of Infinity

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Vomit The Soul - Apostles Of Inexpression (2009)

Full Length, Unique Leader Records
July 28th, 2009



Region: Italy
Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Catchy/impressive slams and pinched harmonics.

1	Prototypes of Values' Incarnation		3:25
2	Self Perception Veil		5:07
3	Extirpated From Absurdity		4:44
4	Overcrowd		3:51
5	Apostles of Inexpression		5:13
6	Unrecognized Elements Presence		4:31
7	Decay of an Inviolable Dogma		3:52
8	Inconsistent Delta		4:40

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Wormed - Planisphaerium (2003)

Full Length, Macabre Mementos
2003



Region: Spain
Genre: Brutal Death Metal

Brutal death metal done differently, for real.

1	Tunnel of Ions		3:29
2	Geodesic Dome		3:39
3	Voxel Mitosis		3:56
4	Fragments		0:14
5	Ylem		3:36
6	Planisphærium		4:03
7	Pulses in Rhombus Forms		3:04
8	Dehydrating		3:09

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Deep Red - Prophetic Luster (2001)

Full Length, Blunt Force Records
2001



Region: Finland
Genre: Brutal Death Metal

1	Hi-Speed Confusion		3:08
2	Multiple Errors		3:03
3	Dismissed From Life		4:01
4	Luster		1:55
5	In Cold Blood		3:02
6	A Song For The Lovers		4:41
7	A Relentless Path		3:21
8	Homogenous World		4:07
9	All Will See Rebirth		3:25

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Skagos - Ást (2009)

Full Length, Eternal Warfare
March 31st, 2009

Region: Canada
Genre: Atmospheric Black Metal

Truly beautiful, passionate and awe inspiring. Listen to it.

1	Colossal Spell		3:25
2	The Drums Pound Every Night in a Glorious Celebration of Life		14:50
3	Blossoms Will Sprout From the Carcass		11:16
4	...With a Warm Recollection		4:48
5	Caliginosity		10:09
6	A Night That Ends, As All Nights End, When the Sun Rises		10:52

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Year Of No Light - Nord (2006)

Full Length, Radar Storm Records
2006



Region: France
Genre: Atmospheric Sludge

1	Sélénite		5:04
2	L’angoisse du veilleur de nuit d’autoroute les soirs d’alarme à accident		3:02
3	Traversée		9:00
4	Librium		2:15
5	Les mains de l'empereur		9:57
6	Tu as fait de moi un homme meilleur		4:40
7	Somnambule		8:37
8	Prosodia		2:34
9	Par économie pendant la crise on éteint la lumière au bout du tunnel		5:36
10	La bouche de Vitus Bering		7:40

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Time To Burn - Is.Land (2007)

Full Length, Basement Apes
October 2007

Region: France
Genre: Atmospheric Sludge

Time to Burn are fairly unknown and very unactive presently but their only full-length Is.Land is unlike much in the blend of genres it hovers around. A highly recommended overlooked record that is only comparable to maybe Tesa due to it's perfect genre straddling and hypnotic atmosphere.

1	Is		2:25
2	Nayeli		5:17
3	Emma Peel		7:15
4	Tormenta		4:42
5	.		2:24
6	Isle of Men		2:51
7	Tsering Lhamo		6:40
8	Sang		2:43
9	Gream		4:17
10	Land		5:20

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Tunturia - Maps (2007)

Full Length, Valkyre Records
May 3rd, 2007



Region: Canada
Genre: Post-Rock

More good stuff from Canada and a new album on the way.

1	Panic Attack		5:20
2	Echoes of an Unmoved Mover		6:35
3	Silence Is Constant		2:18
4	Cast Shadows on Clouds		8:09
5	October 4 1957 (Prologue)		3:03
6	Satellites		7:32
7	Tunturia		4:49
8	These Are the Words		5:48
9	Robots Building Robots Building a Nation		3:38
10	Lost, in the Hidden Forest		8:45

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Overmars - Affliction, Endocrine... Vertigo

Sludge from France. Great stuff.

1. Obsolete
2. This Is Rape
3. Destroy All Dreamers, Pt. I
4. Deux Mesures De Solitude
5. Buccolision (bis) / The Mistaken One pt. II (Geography is Just a Symptom)
6. Destroy All Dreamers, Pt. II
7. A Spermwhale's Quest
8. Destroy All Dreamers, Pt. III
9. En Memoire des Faibles qui Ont Survecu a Darwin
10. Destroy All Dreamers, Pt. IV
11. From Love to Exhausting - The Story of This Intangible Thing Between Us
12. Destroy All Dreamers, Pt. V

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Portishead - Dummy

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Lento - Earthen (2007)

Full Length, Supernatural Cat
November 2007

Region: Italy
Genre: Atmospheric Sludge

1	Hadrons		5:15
2	Need		5:50
3	Subterrestrial		3:15
4	Currents		5:18
5	Emersion of the islands		6:48
6	Earth		4:53
7	Leave		9:53

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Tides - Resurface (2005)

Full Length, Teenage Disco Bloodbath
February 25th, 2005

Region: USA
Genre: Atmospheric Sludge/Post-Metal


Fantastic progressive styled riffs and waves of reverb.

1	Resurface		11:54
2	By the Droves		3:55
3	Aurora		10:53
4	Sirens Fade		5:29
5	Wash Away		11:11
6	The Other Shore		5:09

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Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

As if this one needs any selling, but if you insist: 40 minutes of Progressive Death Metal with Dan Swano and a guest appearance by Mikael Akerfeldt (Opeth). Many listens are recommended.

1. Crimson

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The Mars Volta - De-loused In The Comatorium

Prog Rock.

1. Son Et Lumiere
2. Inertiatic ESP
3. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
4. Tira Me A Las Arañas
5. Drunkship Of Lanterns
6. Eriatarka
7. Cicatriz ESP
8. This Apparatus Must be Unearthed
9. Televators
10. Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt

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Pin-up Went Down - 2 Unlimited

Avant-garde Metal with smexy female vocals and a beatbox song.

1. Intrusion
2. Esthete Piggie
3. Nearly Dead Bat Make up
4. Cadavre Exquis
5. Pussy Worship
6. Get Ready To Sweep
7. Yo-Yo Yes Then No
8. Only Some Shitty Chemical Stuff
9. Human Beat Box Deluxe
10. Feat.Me/Feat.Us
11. Be My Idol Then My Fall
12. Serie Z I
13. Serie Z II

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Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

Genre: Avant-Garde Black Metal

What a strange masterpiece of an album.

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Devin Townsend Project - Ki

Mellow...

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Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Boring Post Rock. :D

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Gigan - The Order of the False Eye (2008)

Full Length, Napalm Records
July 22nd, 2008

Region: USA
Genre: Technical Death Metal

Gorguts worship by members of Hate Eternal har har har.

1	Undead Auditory Emanations		3:40
2	Occult Rites of the Uumpluuy		4:15
3	Still Image Symphony		4:24
4	Imprisoned Within Duality		4:28
5	Hiding Behind the House of Mirrors		8:06
6	Chrysalis		3:22
7	Interstellar Inversion of Consciousness		4:12
8	Space Coffin Hallucinations		6:07

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Led Astray - In Ways Unforeseen (2009)

Full Length, Self Released
March 27th, 2009



Region: Netherlands
Genre: Technical Death Metal

Technical death metal without the wank, amazing first album by these guys.

1	No Second Thoughts		3:47
2	In Ways Unforeseen		4:29
3	Those Are The Ones		5:21
4	Be The Seeker		3:18
5	Re-Connect		3:25
6	Blocked		5:29
7	Earth Tones		4:13
8	Moral Perception		3:39
9	Time For All To See		5:07

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A Storm Of Light

Region: USA
Genre: Atmospheric Sludge/Doom Metal

A Storm Of Light - And We Wept The Black Ocean Within (2008)

Full Length, Neurot Records
2008

1	Adrift (The Albatross I)		1:47
2	Vast and Endless		7:27
3	Black Ocean		9:11
4	Thunderhead		7:53
5	Undertow (The Albatross II)		3:16
6	Mass		8:05
7	Leaden Tide		7:50
8	Breach (The Albatross III)		2:06
9	Descent		5:00
10	Iron Heart		10:20

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A Storm of Light/Nadja - Primitive North (2009)

Split Album, Robotic Empire
March 3rd, 2009



Tracks 1, 2, 5 by A Storm of Light
Tracks 3,4 by Nadja

1	A Storm of Light - Brother		9:39
2	A Storm of Light - Sister		9:56
3	Nadja - I Make From Your Eyes the Sun		22:52
4	A Storm of Light - Brother (Nadja Remix)		11:46
5	Nadja - I Make From Your Eyes the Sun (A Storm of Light Remix)		11:53

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah

Traditional religious music from India.

1	Shamas-ud-doha, Badar-ud-doja		11:04
2	Allah, Mohammed, Char, Yaar		11:29
3	Kali Kali Zulfon Ke Phande Nah Dalo		11:46
4	Meri Ankhon Ko Bakhshe Hain Aansoo		10:55
5	Nit Khair Mansan Sohnia Main Teri		11:52
6	Kehna Ghalat Ghalat To Chhupana Sahi Sahi		13:59

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Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paix

Slightly proggy psychedelic folk from france. For fans of Hawkwind and good music in general.

1	Roc alpin		3:04
2	Jusqu'à ce que la force de t'aimer me manque		2:57
3	Paix		15:37
4	Un jour... la mort		24:33

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Koenjihyakkei - Nivraym (Remaster) [FLAC]

Japanese zeuhl. Loads of fun.

1	Nivraym		5:39
2	Becttem Pollt		5:20
3	Lussesoggi Zomn		10:26
4	Vissqauell		5:30
5	Mederro Passquirr		6:22
6	Axall Hasck		6:34
7	Maschtervoz		4:10
8	Gassttrumm		9:24
9	Vallczeremdoss		4:49

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Burst - Lazarus Bird

Progressive Metalcore from Sweden.

1. I Hold Vertigo
2. I Exterminate The I
3. We Are Dust
4. Momentum
5. Cripple God
6. Nineteenhundred
7. (We Watched) The Silver Rain
8. City Cloaked

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The Fall Of Every Season - From Below

One of my favorite debut albums, and my favorite doom metal album. Three heavy, yet beautiful tracks broken apart by two acoustic melodies. "Drops of autumn fell on trembling leaves, red from summer's departure, weak from lack of light."

1. From Below
2. Sisyphean
3. The Triumphant Beast
4. Escape Of The Dove
5. Her Withering Petals

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Ufomammut - Idolum (2008)

Pizzabox cover!

Psychedelic Doom Stoner Sludge (Add Space in there for kicks! Seriously...this is hard to genre-a-lize)

Heavy as a motherfucker.

1. Stigma

2. Stardog

3. Hellectric

4. Ammonia

5. Nero

6. Destroyer

7. Void

8. Elephantom

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Encircling Sea - I

Tough album to describe. A mixture of sludge, post-rock, black metal and even some doom elements. Put together so nicely though into one complete song that clocks in at over 40 minutes. Highly recommended.

1. I

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De La Mancha - Atlas

Indie Rock from Sweden. Really beautiful album, with lots of emotion projected from the instruments and vocals.

1. Newfoundland
2. Release All Light
3. Lotus Seven
4. And Rainy Days
5. The Kimono
6. Superstoned
7. So Let's Blow Up Our Heads And Leave
8. Being A Hero Is Easy
9. Sleep

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Tesa - HeartBeatsFromTheSky (2008)

Full-length, Old Skool Kids Records

August 5th, 2008

Region: Latvia

Genre: Post-Rock/Post-Metal

Great full length by Tesa, some heavy points and others more melodic.

1 I 3:29

2 II 3:01

3 III 4:28

4 IV 6:37

5 V 7:27

6 VI 7:06

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Amenra - Mass IIII (2008)

Full-length, Hypertension Records

May 2008

Region: Belgium

Genre: Atmospheric Sludge

"The soundtrack to a misanthrope's hate and agony", as someone described the band. Massive stuff as the title implies. Now with the LP version of Terziele (extended).

1	Silver Needle / Golden Nail		8:24
2	Le Gardien Des Rêves		4:26
3	De Dodenakker		10:01
4	Terziele		2:46
5	Razoreater		6:49
6	Aorte Nous Sommes Du Même Sang		9:01
7	Thurifer Et Clamor Ad Te Veniat		6:43

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The World Comes To An End In The End Of A Journey (6-Way Split)

Since most splits are two bands of similar genres, but rarely the same, I'll spare the genre names and just say, if you like Depressive Black Metal or Shoegaze, you owe it to yourself to listen to this split.

Ethereal Beauty
1. The Sun Shines Tomorrow
2. There's A Grey Cloud Above Us
Shyy
3. The White Sheet Faces The Dark
4. As I Fly
Heretoir
5. Trummerwelten
6. Herbstwind
Soliness
7. Longing For...
8. Skygaze
Dernier Martyr
9. Follow The River, Towards The Sea...
10. 937 KM
11. Tortured By Time
Dopamine
12. Melting

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Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (2008)

Full Length, Enemies List Home Recordings
2008



Holy fucking shit, 40000!!! Shoegaze for the hipster in us all.

CD-1: The Plow That Broke The Plains
1. A Quick One Before The Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5. Telefony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out In The Sun
7. There Is No Food

CD-2: The Future
1. Waiting For Black Metal Records To Come In The Mail
2. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000!
3. The Future
4. Deep, Deep
5. I Don't Love
6. Earthmover

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World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland

Glitch/Post Rock

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A Silver Mt. Zion - Born Into Trouble as the Sparks Fly Upward

Lets have a parade.

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Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

Melancholy. Neo-folk Metal from Germany.

1. When Shadows Grow Longer
2. The Blue Mists Of Night
3. Mourners
4. An Ode To Melancholy
5. Lover's Grief
6. The Ensemble Of Silence

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Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris

My favorite jazz artist.

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She - Coloris

Don't let the Electrodance.com tag fool you. This is actually fun music. you nig...

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The Avalanches - Since I Left You

You crazy in the coconut.

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Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone

Necessary Post-Rock album. Easily one of the best post-rock bands of this decade.

1. The Birth And Death Of The Day
2. Welcome, Ghosts
3. It's Natural To Be Afraid
4. What Do You Go Home To?
5. Catastrophe And The Cure
6. So Long, Lonesome

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Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Trip Hop

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Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech (1998)

Genre: Progressive Metal

One of my favorite albums of all time. Devin Townsend's magnum opus. Must be heard before you die.

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夢中夢 (Muchuumu) - イリヤ - il y a (2008)

Genre: Avant-Garde Post-Rock

Excellent Post-Rock with Japan with Electronica/Glitch elements and beautiful Opera-ish vocals. There's even some BM sounding vocals and drums buried in the mix.

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Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine

One of the more progressive doom acts in the scene...a mixture of musical elements from folk metal to death metal to ambient. Difficult to place into one genre.

1. The August Engine, Part 1
2. Rainfall
3. A Room And A Riddle
4. The August Engine, Part 2
5. Insect
6. Doomed Parade
7. The Trial And The Grave

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Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

Singer/Songwriter

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Iniquity - Serenadium (1996)

Full-length, Emanzipation Production

1996

Region: Denmark

Genre: Technical Death Metal

Criminally underrated European technical death metal band. This is one of my absolute favorite death metal records, it is extremely well written and has a huge low end. Any fan of death metal should have this in their collection. Two links in 320.

1	Tranquil Seizure		6:20
2	Prophecy of the Dying Watcher		4:26
3	Serenadium		4:41
4	Spectral Scent		6:25
5	Mockery Retained to Obturate		4:28
6	Encysed and Dormant		5:47
7	Son of Cosmos		3:38
8	Retorn		5:35

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Mare - Mare EP (2004)

EP, Hydra Head Records

October 5th, 2004

Region: Canada (Ontario)

Genre: Atmospheric Sludge

Mare released this originally as a demo and then split up due to an apparent lack of motivation. Nonetheless it's a great sludge gem.

1 Anisette 4:39

2 They Sent You 5:49

3 Tropics 2:56

4 Palaces 6:53

5 Sun for Miles 4:21

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Nafrat - Through Imminent Visions (2008)

Brutal Death Metal

Amazing debut album from Singapore.

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Men in Search of the Perfect Weapon - S/T (2005)

Full Length, Vendetta / Modus Operandi
2005

Region: Germany
Genre: Sludge/Doom Metal

Immense and only album by these Sludge beasts.

1	Hatred		4:51
2	Spirit Disease		8:00
3	Downward Spiral		5:55
4	Saguaro		2:54
5	Fall for Your Creation		8:00
6	The Last Nail		3:26
7	Atacama Rain		27.25

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