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Saturday Night Wrist (2006) – Deftones
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Lyrical metal trip divining its way through inventive twists & shouts in the darkest of pink clouds in a self-medicated ward in the sky.
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Spiderland (1991) – Slint
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Dry up to caustic but full of silver guts bravado and true no-nonsense resuscitation that domestically questions everything that´s drowning in its quarrel-lake.
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The Graduate (1968) – Simon & Garfunkel
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Lukewarm ghostly at its wide-open churchy heart when not abruptly peacocking itself up with old lascivious grown-up lustre from nighttimes gone clandestinely wild.
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Forever Becoming (2019 Remaster) – Pelican
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The nicely hooded underground of a metallurgic engine compiled by four instrumental members who are fast in repeating themselves well in aggressive shoulder-patting patterns.
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Black Frost (2019) – Nailed to Obscurity
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Cool-covered dark matter album that pulsates with rhyming drums while guitars bend long and calm together between clear-gutter vocals in tension-releasing punctuation.
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Bronson (2008) – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Evocative beyond repair dividing itself up with a greased-up tug-of-war between old and classic—both morbidly bound together with techno-dramatic ambiances.
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Unmountable Stairs (2014) – Witchrider
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An indirect-listening that can beautifully rock just so long as one does not pay too much attention. A promising commercial knockoff-band that’s decent.
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Hereditary (Original Soundtrack Album) – Colin Stetson
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Rich and nerve-ended with high contrasts that slow-blend without wood, wind or ecclesiastical resistance underlining sudden silences the way jump-scare noises should.
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Down on the Upside (1996) – Soundgarden
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Taut-tight effort from an established career-place where drums relentlessly support a steel-stringed trampoline for the instrumental human-voice to jump around ranges.
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Vistār (2019)- Amotik
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Bass based arachno-rythmic techno stylings from Berlin that heavily drum the ear as a last vibration-stop coming from the rich underground shaking below.
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Becoming X (1996) – Sneaker Pimps
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Good bad-girl song-set that studiedly teases the strung-out listener with a sensually anaesthetic voice that slides gently while burning with revengeful lyrics.
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Euphoria Morning (1999) – Chris Cornell
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It sifts true, strong emotions through the punitive barriers of commercial expectancy—afloat from the then gouged-out Grounge that originally propelled this fallen angel.
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) – Neutral Milk Hotel
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Upbeat melancholy raft-ride that´s full of genuine quirkiness and maritime-saltiness that feels bittersweet and soberly sad. Trumpeting ever so slightly while floating around.
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Circumambulation (2013) – True Widow
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Deep, directional bass-foundation that hunters & gathers multiple singing flavors while firmly but timidly fermenting basically the same rhythm with the warmest of distortions.
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Black Celebration (1986) – Depeche Mode
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Death is on the air mainlining darkness into the mainstream through a polyphonic set of prodigious sounds and patterns that gracefully stumble out of adolescence.
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Child Soldier: Creator of God (2020) – Greg Puciato
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Transgressive-coersive effort that industrially scatters itself all over the place, deep-synthetizing just about anything standing its way while a versatile Sam Kinison sings.
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Neuroteque (2019) – Juggernaut
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Short-butt, sweet-finger confetti that is sophisticatedly picking and plucking metal-stringed incantations that punch the spreading-ear into transporting rhythms that grow vast.
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Ghosts V: Together (2020) – Nine Inch Nails
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Merely and really the mono-thematic ghost of the former “Ghosts I-IV” (2008) album. Diluted while stringed together by ludicrous cries for emotional positivity.
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Guidance (2016) – Russian Circles
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An instru-metal journey that positively both ascends and descends with heavy ease while knitting mind-deserts that stay tarp-ed under a sepia sky.
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Seventeen Seconds (1980) – The Cure
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Remarkable techno-pop depth coming from an age-old youngblood with a voice that never changed and a background that should have stayed this pure.
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Machine Head – The Blackening (2007)
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2000s Master Of Puppets – hate dripping riff monument and post 90s Metal anthem.
Celebrated likewise by ‚True‘ metalheads and prog snobs. All killer, no filler!
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Forever (2017) – Code Orange
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Take basic hardcore formulas, crush it with industrial creepiness and put it back together. You either love or hate Frankenstein´s vicious monster. So eat shit!
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Dirt (1992) – Alice In Chains
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Down in a hole underneath them bones with your junkhead full of dirt.
Would hate to feel this, but Lane sang it
Melancholic God’s smack.
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The Fat of the Land (1997) – The Prodigy
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The turning point for an underground project that successfully synched itself up to the pre-globalized world chaos around and churned its fears into butter.
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Here Now, There Then (2017) – Dool
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Coronary album skidding straight into the spleen via female vocals that ring torching and down — cusps new dimensions that shift between fresh and nostalgic. Great.
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Born Villain (2012) – Marilyn Manson
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It almost reaches a we-might-have-to-shoot-old-yeller situation. A chorus of mercenary yes-men amplifying one hell of a midlife crisis.
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The High End of the Low (2009) – Marilyn Manson
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Wish good luck to those thinking themselves unbiased enough to see this ordeal through. The equivalent of the Simpsons after Season 10. Needs a Futurama.
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Eat Me, Drink Me (2007) – Marilyn Manson
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Fantastic rock music with ballads that remind of the “Fundamentally Loathsome” days. Subject matter goes down the shit-rabbit hole when ego takes over, though.
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The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) – Marilyn Manson
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The Spooky Kids reanimated and back to their cartoon-interlaced world—only this time laid, with a budget, panache and rap-defying density of words.
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Sound Awake (2009) – Karnivool
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Best Bass tone & sound which ever got held on a CD.
Tool-esque guitars accompanied by interleaved, pummeling drums. Uncompromising airplay allowed.
Loving also.
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Holy Wood (2000)- Marilyn Manson
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Not disposable, but dispersed and gold-rushed. Has a sober motor under its political rib cage but it´s flooded with hubris and bad storms head.
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Quiet World (2015) – Native Construct
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Man nehme ein Zuckerberg’sches Berklee-Studentengenie, weitere Sessionmusiker, hohe Ambitionen sowie nötiges Kleingeld um das untypischste Debüt(!) voller erwachsenem Songwriting und dichter Konzeptstrukturierung aufzunehmen.
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Live Through This (1994) – Hole
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Female perspective for angry teenage output and the start of a legitimate life long rebellion hopefully used to make an album once all grown up.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) – Black Sabbath
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As satanic-ginger as it gets, a musical royal-ass worthwhile kissing with abandon. Ferrying-guitar paragraph-paragliding with Ozzy Osbourne´s idiosyncratic lovable luckluster-finesse.
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The Mire (2018) – Conjurer
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Holy Roar Records hottest newcomers show on their debut how Blackened Sludge sounds like.
Berserking sound paired with ball-sweating grooves break Hardcores standard 2018.
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Dog Fashion Disco – Experiments In Embryos (2018)
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90’s unknown Patton-influenced band still plays riffy alternative Hardrock.
Igniting songs with catchy vocals, raw sounding guitar-bass power and other weird instrument performances.
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Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It (2018) – Rolo Tomassi
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Synthesizer-Intro, ein Popsong – dann bricht die Hölle in sich zusammen.
Dieses seltsam balancierte, exorzierende Album „dämon“striert die feinsten Sternstunden des heutigen Jazz-, Mathcores.
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‚Atom Heart Mother Suite‘ (1970) Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
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Kernerinnerung von damaliger Schulzeit, Musikunterricht. Ich hörte ein Schnipsel dieses Meisterwerks der Hochphase psychedelischer Musik. Band, Orchester, U-Bahngeräusche.
Diese Kombination hinterließ einen drogenfreien Nostalgietrip.
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Between The Buried And Me – Automata I & II (2018)
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Despite short running time(s), Automata shows excellent entangled songwriting AND massive variety (in unvisited areas). Incredible how this post-2000’s Progmetal monolith is growing adult.
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A Patient Man (2018) – Cult Leader
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Unrest-causing guitar noises, juicy bass and sludgy grunting make this chunks better half sounds like a sporty slaughterhouse massacre.
Peppery goulash with foul spots.
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Stranger Fruit (2018) – Zeal & Ardor
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No mix would be more comical than cold Black Metal, Blues and warm gospel vocals.
2018 is a year for bizarre genre-mixes and subgenres.
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The Mire (2018) – Conjurer
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Holy Roar Records heißeste Newcomer des Jahres zeigen auf ihrem Debüt wie Blackened Sludge zu klingen hat.
Wahnsinnige Tobsuchtsanfälle und schweißtreibende Grooves brechen Hardcore-Standards.
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Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018) – Deafheaven
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Strong return of hipsterish Post-Black metal band full of emotions.
Passive aggressive vocals, tremulous rage and randomly outstanding sad as joyful guitar solo-doodling.
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Liquid Anatomy (2018) – Alkaloid
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Good ole german Tech-Death musicians.
With ‘Dream Theater’-guitars, Death Metal-grooves and ‘Ghost’-vocals they created a genre bending, strange, but fresh mosaic.
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Savages (2018) – The Dali Thundering Concept
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Mean vocals begin this brutal album – add grim downtuned guitars/ blistering drums in unconventional time signatures and unexpected mood shifts.
Djent 2018 sounds like this!
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Don‘t Touch The Outside (2018) – Thomas Giles
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BTBAM‘s Tommy presents again solid grooving synth rock on album 4.
His urge for simple songwriting is perceptible and works wonderful with the special guests.
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Esoteric Malacology (2018) – Slugdge
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Progressive Death Metal with complex riffing, “sludgy“ drums and vocals from deep, high growls to partially cleans.
Popular metal song-puns as song titles.
Entertaining.
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The Fragile (1999) – Nine Inch Nails
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It lacks a solid sound-slate design like the one “The Downward Spiral” has giving it a decentralized feeling somewhat affecting the old attention-span.
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Prequelle (2018) – Ghost
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Satan hat sich die Tanzschuhe angezogen und schmeißt eine wilde 80er-Party.
Tanzen sowie headbangen erlaubt, denn es erwarten einen harte Riffs und groovige Synthieteppiche.
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Where Owls Know My Name (2018) – Rivers Of Nihil
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Leave your prejudices at home, metalheads!
‘WOKMN’ fuses harsh brutality, chilling saxy (!) parts in unimaginable wonderful/ cringy harmony.
Hipsters Death Metal-Tasting 2018!
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Trident Wolf Eclipse (2018) – Watain
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Übliches rohe, wütende Exempel meiner liebsten Black Metal-Kapelle. Kürzere On-point-Songs welche allein durch Bespielen einen Kirchenbrand verursachen können.
Dämonenbeschwörung in Ton festgehalten.
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The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012) – Between The Buried And Me
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Eine Astralreise durch eine futuristische Galaxie.
Als geistiger Zeuge, zerstreut sich unsere Hörkapazität ins Schwarze Loch, aus dem wir klüger und stärker wieder zusammengesetzt zurückkehren.
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Yellow & Green (2012) – Baroness
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It doesn´t grab one by the neck with intricate fancy like the previous albums but it does make the cut into their swan lake discography
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Purple (2015) – Baroness
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Too much self-complacent singing and riffing around—sluggish and resigned at times when Wanderlust is expected. Decent background music but nothing like albums past.
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Low (1977) – David Bowie
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Poly-syncratic avant-garde mindfuck simmering ahead of its time with high-functioning, cutting-edge madness that is never boring to the sound or vision.
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Pretty Hate Machine (1989) – Nine Inch Nails
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A much less hermetic alternative when walking down the yellow big synth-road of the late eighties industrial-music industry in search for angry dancing.
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Liquid Anatomy (2018) – Alkaloid
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Hochkarätige deutsche Tech-Death-Musiker kreieren genreüberkreuzend etwas ganz Frisches.
Ghost-Vocals, Dream Theater-Gitarrenparts und Death Metal-Rhythmen verschmelzen zu nie da gewesenem Mosaik.
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An American Prayer (1978) – Jim Morrison & The Doors
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The post-humorous poetic postures of a self-slained sage who´s
echoing inflamed-intimacy is being carried on the shoulders of his true soul mates.
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Morrison Hotel (1970) – The Doors
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Waiting for the Sun two times again while bar-diving savagely in the spirit of exploring the raw confines of the soul, mind and body.
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Smells Like Children (1995) – Marilyn Manson
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Sociopathic Extended-Play filler, mined-fuck with a couple of razor-sharp song-hooks giving a fake sense of familiarity and safety to dumb trespassers.
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The Great Misdirect (2009) – Between The Buried And Me
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Meist überschauter Rubin im Bandkatalog mit ungewöhnlichem Songverlauf, der mittelmäßig beginnt und mit jedem Song zum 18-minütigen Finale an Magie aufbaut.
Ein Prog-Sommeralbum.
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…And Justice for All (1988) – Metallica
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A Pandora´s box full of vitriolic virtuosity opened wide by the bitterness of Death (both intimate and universal) pestering the minds of grieving young men.
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Master of Puppets (1986) – Metallica
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Cliff Burton and the Orions erect a detail-dense gothic cathedral made out of nerve cords they strum further into sublimity. These kids can rock.
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The Ocean – Phanerozoic I (2018)
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Ihre Alben sind wie ein fieser Drogentrip bei dem du Zeuge der Entstehung der Erde bist.
Phanerozoic gleicht einer Kernschmelze aus Angst und geysirdampfartigen Schweißausbrüchen.
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Let It Bleed (1969) – The Rolling Stones
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A fine album about violence, anxiety and fear that somehow feels very relaxing to listen to. Perfect tunes from what is basically an American band.
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The Soft Parade (1969) – The Doors
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Passive-aggressive instrumentation that looks after a wrapped-in-gauze Morrison by sidetracking him when playing with fire. Slightly dislocated but still coordinated Door´s disc.
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Strange Days (1967) – The Doors
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It´s only natural to love this album two times and get lost in grateful admiration thrice by each one of its ten lizard-hole tracks.
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The Mountain (2013) – Haken
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Ist dieser Aufstieg eine Sisyphusarbeit für den Hörer oder mehr?
Sehr viele Genre-Ausflüge werden beim Aufstieg mitgenommen, bis zum bitteren Ende seines vorherigen Ich’s.
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Dissociation (2016) – The Dillinger Escape Plan
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Farewellalbum der Noise-Legenden, mit all ihren Einflüssen in unkonventionelle Songstrukturen gepackt, lässt den gläsernen Tunnel implodierend zerbrechen nachdem man die katatonische Finsternis erreicht hat.
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Alaska (2005) – Between The Buried And Me
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So kalt klingend wie der Staat selber zeichnet dieses dritte Album eine erste Skizze einer gehaltvoll tieferen Band mit längeren Songs und technisch versierteren Cleanparts.
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10.000 Days (2006) – Tool
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Brutales Riffing in unkonventionellen Rhythmen und ellenlang aufbauende sowie abbauende Strukturepen, wie eine hochhausartige Lasagne, vertrösten endlos trotz Mythos eines potenziellen Nachfolgern nach 10.000 Tagen.
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Appetite For Destruction (1987) – Guns ‚n‘ Roses
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Jeder hat dieses Album was im Geburtsjahr rauskam und sich eine Bindung einredet.
Gunners ultrarohes, schweißtriefendes Debüt war es meinerseits, welche sämtliche Hardrock-Pforten öffneten.
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‚Outshined‘ (1991) Bad Motorfinger – Soundgarden
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10-Jähriger wird unerwartet beim Road Rash spielen mit diesem infektiösen Groove konfrontiert…
„Looking Californa and feeling Minnesota“, heute noch die originellste und zusagendste Lyricline.
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‚The Real Thing‘ (1989) The Real Thing – Faith No More
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Schmelztiegel von Metal, Funk, RnB.
4 Segmente: Instrumental smooth bis Mosh.
Lyrisch definierter Drogentrip, genauso am intensivsten wie beim ersten Mal.
All-time-favorite #1.
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Colors (2007) – Between The Buried And Me
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Dieser riesige Eisberg erscheint erst nach mehrmalig wiederholtem Erkunden. Schicht um Schicht tiefer in ein Atlantis welches äußerlich in Vantablack schimmert, doch innen regenbogenartig glänzt.
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The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) – Pink Floyd
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Nach der Mondlandung die nächste weltweit bewegende Entdeckung.
Wissenschaft und Kunst vereint. Erforschung und Aufeinandertreffen ambienter Klänge.
Blaupause jeglicher Soundmischer sowie Erschaffer atmosphärischer Entspannungsmusik/Soundlandschaften.
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Vulgar Display of Power (1992) – Pantera
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There is nothing vulgar whatsoever about this accomplished Heavy Metal album that conveys hollow-filling lyricism preciously percolated through loss, disappointment and (ultimately) constructive anger.
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Errorzone (2018) – Vein
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Metallic hardcore answer to The Prodigy.
A feast for 2000s young stressed, amphetamine-doped Nu Metal clubbing generation.
Rebelliously fresh sound of Metals punky subgenre.
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Reverence (2018) – Parkway Drive
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Due to no significant memory of their last album the audible bigger value in sound and metal(core)-hymns is present and pleasant.
That’s ‚absolute power‘!
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Antichrist Superstar (1996) – Marilyn Manson
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Conquering self-pity with heart, mind and complacent malice. A premonition revenge story by a brilliant tributist who brought hell to those who doubted him.
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Automata I & II (2018) – Between The Buried And Me
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Konzeptionelles Doppelalbum der Progmetal-Speerspitzenreiter.
Trotz kurzer Albumlänge(n) zeigt Automata exzellentes, ineinanderverstricketes Songwriting und allerlei Abwechslung (in bisher noch unbesuchten Arealen).
Glanzleistung einer erwachsenen Band.d
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Don‘t Touch The Outside (2018) – Thomas Giles
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BTBAM‘s Tommy präsentiert auf viertem Album eine übersichtliche Palette an alternativem Synthrock.
Seine eigen(en) verspielten Songwritingmerkmale verbindet er mit den besonderen Stilen der etwaigen Gastauftritte.
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Absolution (2003) – Muse
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‚Ok Computer’ 2.0.
Auch dieses dritte Bandalbum gleicht einem Eisbergkoloss der bei Erstläufen zuerst die Hits aufweist, man jedoch nach tieferem Eintauchen vor Eleganz erstarrt.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan – One Of Us Is The Killer (2013)
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5. Album dieser extremen (Live)Band zeigt weder Songwritingmakel noch Altersschwäche.
Chaotisches Instrumentgeficke vs. anzügliche Ambientparts.
Ein Killerclown mit Überdosis Cannabis.
Sex, Math, out of control.
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Ghost Reveries (2005) – Opeth
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Séance of summoning growls, loungy vibes and enough distortion to repel ghosts.
Last undisputed creation of this disputed band before entire fanbases were torn apart.
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Pig Destroyer – Head Cage (2018)
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Addition of bassist brings a gigantic benefit to this brutal sounding album. Tongue clicking riff orgies motivate my ass to move/ headbang wherever I am.
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Errorzone (2018) – Vein
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Hardcore-Antwort auf The Prodigy.
Freudenfest für den gestressten Amphetamin-gestillten jugendlichen Nu Metal-clubgänger der 2000er Generation.
Rebellion vom Untergrund des punky Metal-Subgenres.
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Heavy Yoke (2018) – Azusa
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Erste Hälfte dieses Debüts versetzt in Aberglauben während es den krassesten Shit auf hohem Niveau mischt.
Leider können Azusa auf zweiter Hälfte nicht vollends mithalten.
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Reverence (2018) – Parkway Drive
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Aufgrund keinem Hängenbleiben letzter Platte freut es mich wieder, dass sie hier großen Wert auf Metal(core)-Hymnen und Sound gesetzt haben.
So klingt absolute Power.
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S.C.I.E.N.C.E (1997) – Incubus
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Illegitimate wonder child of a threesome between Deftones, Sepultura and early Radiohead during an amphetamine party.
Perfect for weird first dates or exciting bike trips.
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Electric Ladyland (1968) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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The man obviously knows what he´s doing by performing open-cock surgery to himself. An entire album recorded “in the zone” with no spared expense.
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The Red Album (2007) – Baroness
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Mesmerizingly aggressive pineal gland-wise with a beginning that is gradual and all-embracing — ka-blooms inventive sinewaves that increase consistently all the way through.
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Blue Record (2009) – Baroness
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Baroness: the Claude Debussy of the modern school of stoner metal proving itself once again with sub-aquatic riffs from a progressive civilization gone under.
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Trident Wolf Eclipse (2018) – Watain
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Raw, raging Slayer-like deliverance. The foot almost everytime on the fiery accelerator and focus on shorter songs demonstrate their roots in modern sound garment.
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Angel Dust (1992) – Faith No More
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Deeper into the colorful swamp of mythical creatures thanks to Patton‘s range from siren to wendigo and metal based guitar players Martin’s unfortunately last contribution.
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Machine Head – The Blackening (2007)
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2000s Master Of Puppets – hasstriefendes Riffmonument und modernes Post-90s Metalanthem, was sowohl von Truemetalheads bis hin zu Progsnobs gefeiert wird.
All Killer, no Filler.
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Diary of a Madman (1981) – Ozzy Osbourne
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Certain Rhodes you take U-turn you into an instant believer. The power of a missed presence and its missed chances sounds strong and latent.
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Nola (1995) – Down
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Down´s “New Orleans, Louisiana” album is a motherfucker and let me tell you why: Phill Anselmo, Pepper Keenan, Kirk Windstein, Jimmy Bower and Todd Strange.
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Astro Creep 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (1995) – White Zombie
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Temptation-laden roller-coaster ride for grownups full of big-titted spooky hoots, chunky scoops of industrial-refinery riffs and B-movie references all over.
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Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (2018) – Deafheaven
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Die hipsterigen Post-Black Metaller kommen mit diesem starken Stück voll Emotion zurück.
Verträumtes Gitarrengenudel mit unerwartend stimmungsbrechenden Soli, zitternde Wutanfälle und passiv aggressive Vocals.
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I: Voice (2019) – Warforged
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Combine Black Tongue’s dissonant brutality, Opeth’s eerie songwriting-structures and blasting Tech-Death madness – Be consumed by this lingering darkness monolith beyond casual listeners imagination.
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The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Startdust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) – David Bowie
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It has the moxie/mojo of five Dominican Republics arching backwards while juggling leper-chainsaws on Guiness posters in wet-woven shit-hole London pubs.
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Korn (1994) – Korn
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Hearing a grown man sing in tongues, scream and sob with sincerity for the world to judge is as rare as a happy Radiohead song.
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I Loved You At Your Darkest (2018) – Behemoth
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A diabolical Metal sacrament full of distorted guitars, vile drumming, children choirs, horns etc..
Continue of the ritual which began masterfully with 2014‘s The Satanist.
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Piece of Mind (1983) – Iron Maiden
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Swift, centrifugal riffs that are in no hurry to finalize long-trotting sound-grids. A high-flying Bruce Dickinson swishes spreadeagled between instrumental Sun-silences.
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Portrait of an American Family (1994) – Marilyn Manson
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Creatively indestructible diamond-in-the-rough lecture that needs no polishing. The roots of an escalating discontent that aimed for, reached and passed the stars.
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Eat The Elephant (2018) – A Perfect Circle
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Keenan´s super band strikes back!
This dark arena-rock lullaby sings you with its pensive, poppy singalong-hymns and humming guitar riffs/ soli into sleep.
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Savages (2018) – The Dali Thundering Concept
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Ultraböse Vocals beginnen diesen brutalen Albumdurchlauf, dazu tiefe Gitarren sowie ballernde Drums in unkonventionellen Taktarten.
Gelegentlich gänzlich unerwartete Instrumente und Stimmungen.
So klingt Djent 2018!
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Letters From The Colony – Vignette (2018)
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Icy ‘shuggah guitar cascades, threshing drums, in between gorgeous clean parts are blowing a colorful autumn breeze in this golden swedish sunrise.
Extreme strong debut!
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Unloved (2018) – Frontierer
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Stell dir eine massive Autokarambolage voller zerquetschtem Metall, ohrenbetäubend hysterischem Gekreische und harscher Gewalt vor.
Frontierer zeigt dies live wie auf Platte mit chaotischer Berechnung.
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Technical Ecstasy (1976) – Black Sabbath
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The sweet smell of decomposing fruits and flowers by the droning can-opener-crackling sound of tin-robot pornography underway in industrially-lit primary colors.
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Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958) – Frank Sinatra
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Class-act whining coming straight from the Chairman´s sick-with-solitude vocal tract—a sound that is being perfectly escorted by a somberly enabling ensemble.
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Iowa (2001) – Slipknot
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What started as gimmick became the sophisticated, disturbing teenage/ nerd anthem.
Captivitating Trash with masturbating Pinocchio-SM masks. Death Metal never was closer to mainstream.
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The Wall (1979) – Pink Floyd
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Maternal hub of all solipsistic concept albums having a strong autobiographical-novel taste of pathos. Having a big ego is not always a bad thing.
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Night Sister EP (2019) – Circuit Of Suns
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Short, crazy rollercoaster ride of complex structured grooves, Mathcore-madness and soothing synth-interludes in between.
A schizophrenic side dish inspired by greater genre colleagues.
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When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) – Billie Eilish
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2010’s pop-mainstream album that seems inexplicably ground breaking.
I duh-nno…
Minimalist music, quiet but clear voice.
A cranky all-rounder BUT strange trendsetter.
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Ventura (2019) Anderson .Paak
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Back to head-bobbing smooth grooves with versatile vocalists.
Biggest achievement is the souly, funky flow without fulfilling a big progressive grow.
Basic, still sic.
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Sundowning (2019) – Sleep Token
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Mix Djent, Pop & Nu Metal, cover it with cult masked apparel and let it grow.
This sweetened hot experiment breathes alternativeness and polarizes.
Worship.
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Salutogenesis (2019) – Soulsplitter
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Behind the deceptive cover lies an astonishing hike between theatrical progrock, -metal masterclass and mediterranean instrumentally-glorifying landscapes.
A modernized ‘ELP gone heavy’ concept album.
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Dirt (1992) – Alice In Chains
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Down in a hole underneath them bones with your junkhead full of dirt.
Would hate to feel this, but Lane sang it
Melancholic God’s smack.
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Nevermind (1994) – Nirvana
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Come as you are and stay away from the territorial pissings that will drain you. Well-bred album even in his youth on a plain.
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The Artist In The Ambulance (2003) Thrice – Island Records
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Post-Hardcore/ Emocore in their early pop-punkish „We‘re like Rise Against, but more society outsiders“ days.
Essential record for the, shortly later crumbling, scene.
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Scott 4 (1969) – Scott Walker
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Boyish sounding mature-troubadour voice, that´s like mixing Beck Hansen with Chet Baker wrapped in strong, paradoxically manly French-flair. An Ingmar Bergman-Western soundtrack.
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Letters From The Colony (22.02.2019) Mergener Hof, Trier Decapitated Tour 2019
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3. Support und Hauptgrund für mein Kommen.
In euphorischer Freude wurde das meisterhafte Album gespielt, anschließend gemeinsames Trinken/ Quatschen mit den sympathischsten Schweden der Galaxie.
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Waiting for the Sun (1968) – The Doors
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Ceremonial sound-potion for trance-transitioning between ghosts in pursuit of sacred inner-galactic truth. That and happy-sounding tunes with deep, philosophical fine-print.
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Louder than Love (1989) – Soundgarden
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The unmistakable push of pure life is loud, raw and true through the close-chambered vocal channels of a talent not yet spent and buried.
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Let it Be (1970) – The Beatles
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Here´s where you write. Delete this text to set the Word Count to back to zero but do make sure you stay between the signs.
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Abbey Road (1969) – The Beatles
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There´s definitely something in the Death-mythological way this spooked album moves you and makes you come back for more of this beloved British benchmark.
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Mordial (2019) – Car Bomb
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Fusing Deftones-y chilling parts with ‘shuggah precise heaviness and NY-Hardcore into constantly improoving complexity grooving.
Full-Disco album for extremely fucked up progheads.
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Beneath The Mind (2018) – Ayahuasca
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Welcome to the jungle 2018!
With tribal drums, didgeridoo etc. this exotic Köln based collective invites to stormy jungle moshing with this metallic culture trademark.
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Disco Volante (1995) – Mr. Bungle
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Patton and his weirdos create a bizarre soundscape of Metal, Jazz & Lynchesque black hole sceneries which swims nerve-racking against all shapes of mainstream.
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Heavy Yoke (2018) – Azusa
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The first half was absolutely amazing, surprisingly fresh mixtures of sounds crawled into my ears.
Unfortunately, the second half can’t hold up with the beginning.
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A Throne Of Ash (2019) This Gift Is A Curse – Season Of Mist
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An erupting loud and disturbingly dissonant stew of Black Metal, Hardcore and Sludge.
The perfect sound for a blistering road trip through hell’s darkest places.
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Yellow Submarine (1969) – The Beatles
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Beatle-order by diminishing personal liking: John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and MacCartney, the Sting of the fame-tatooed quartet that shared the glitch.
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Sombre Dessein (2019) – Herod
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Anwärter auf Jahresthron voll wunderbarer Kraft eines stehenden Doppler-Effekt-Riffs und hünenartigen Vocals, welche lyrische Fußstapfen in den ziegelroten Untergang darstellen. „It’s going dooooown!“
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Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son (1988) – Iron Maiden
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Die goldenen 80er: Neun Jahre, 7 Klassikeralben, endloses Touren.
Ein letztes Mal beste Mischung aus harter Catchyness und ausatmender Epik.
Heimliche Geburt des Progressive Metal.
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Periphery IV: Hail Stan (2019) Periphery
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Pepper and sugar equally measured.
On one hand Djent’s most bloodcurdling brutality.
On the other sprinkled with karaoke enthusiastic cheesy stadium-pop.
Strongest work yet.
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Rareform (2008) After The Burial – Sumerian Records
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Pleasantly paced cut-throat album with a 2010‘s djenty Deathcore time stamp.
Hooking melodies layered with majestic breakdown chugging grooves release deepest pit-summoning desires.
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Strategy and Violence (2014) IXION – Self Produced
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Death T(h)rash one-man-project, grunting Mustaine-like vocals, stereotypical guitars and blasphemous, poorly written midi-drums.
All covered in plastic sound… it‘s 2014, man.
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Glimpse (2019) – Kenta Shimakawa
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Japanese youngster Kenta created a colorful and punching blend of metal and jazz, (syn)cop(at)ing with weird rhythmical structures and lotsa guest instruments/ effects.
So fresh!
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Empath (2019) – Devin Townsend
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Devin´s „higher, faster…“ approach of making colorful world music with a Disney touch.
Prestigiously blending new and old elements make it an unfiltered Devin album.
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‚The Four Horsemen‘ (1983) Metallica – Kill‘em All
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Prototyp des obligatorischen zweitplatzierten Titeltracks bei noch kommenden 80er-Meisterwerken und alle Trademarks mit Auditionscharakter präsentiert.
Verständlich dass Mustaine dieses Juwel mit Megadeth nochmal rausbrachte.
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Fear Inoculum – Tool (2018)
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Monumental ringing intro of this (over-)long awaited atmosphere monolith brings elitists on seats edge while sober listeners are excited for every further step. Divisive.
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You Won’t Get What You Want (2018) – Daughters
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A gloomy, chaotic noisy face blows its cathartic fog in your head, which uncontrollably breaks through walls.
Ambitious structures channelize lowest physical self-destructive tendencies.
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We Have To Go Back | The Lost Concera (2019) – Michael Giacchino
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Gentle multi-layered goosebump-kaleidoscope full of mood-fluctuating topics – Sent back into this parallel life in which we loved to fight, love and suffer.
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The Liberation (2019) Disillusion
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Back to old Thrash-Death ‚Splendor’-territory with great sense for melodies.
This symphonic journey of a legendary german underground-band demands good home sound!
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Moving Backwards (2019) – Wheel
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A new band releases a better Tool album, than Tool itself. What?!
Moving backwards into the thicker ocean of atmospheric, hard hitting soundscapes and bangers.
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Year Zero (2007) – Nine Inch Nails
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Beats, Bass & Drums in rocky finesse, without obligatory hit single – but definitely one of the better works of (clean) Trent‘s recent electro-sterile discography.
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The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos (2018) – Sulphur Aeon
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Rückkehr der Cthulhu anbetenden Death Metal-Kapelle und vertonter Naturkatastrophen.
Fäulnis triefende Tentakeln umwickeln Zuhörer in den Abgrund wo Gitarren Blitze und Drums Donner erzeugen.
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Song For The Firing Squad (2019) SeeYouSpaceCowboy…
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This body assaulting album melts faces with its blasting, slamming brutality, while smiling.
Pure frantic Mathcore-nostalgia back to MySpace days and campus partying nights.
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Macro (2019) – Jinjer
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Solid results of extreme touring cycles show stellar chemistry and brutal grooves.
But somehow I miss the specific raw sound and crazy experimentality of predecessors.
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Shout at the Devil (1983) – Mötley Crüe
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Feel-good Hair Metal front that is well produced and full of practical ideas but its Umlaut-heart is really in the pursuit of pussy.
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Freak Show (1997) – Silverchair
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Power-upgrade to a genre that was and keeps being lifted by an open gush-gust of rocking air from silver-fox of a chair.
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Coma Ecliptic (2015) – Between The Buried And Me
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Zweite Schnittstelle in Bandkarriere markiert dessen Progrock-Opera, welches die Komplexität und Härte etwas zurückschraubt und Fokus auf Erzählung des Konzepts legt.
Melancholische Koma-Traumwanderung.
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In Rainbows (2007) – Radiohead
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10 Jahre später nach ‚Ok, Computer‘, andere Stimmungen, gleiches Niveau.
Dunkle Wolken weinen während darüber thronende Regenbogen wachsen und mit der Zeit mehr Farben zeigen.
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Pelagial (2012) – The Ocean
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Conceptual music journey down the ocean’s pelagic layers.
Superficial bright, dreamy harmonies followed by dark and brute sound cascades accompany you to their doomy bottom.
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Garden of Storms (2019) – In Mourning
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Diverse, healthy scandinavian sound/style, like oldschool Opeth with some finnish Melodeath and pinches of doom fortitude.
Grows with time and maybe during swedish sunsets.
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From Mars To Sirius (2005) – Gojira
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Geburt des aktivistischen Bandmaskottchens, welches seit jeher metaphorisch für den grünen Punkt der Metalszene sowie für eine kolossale Bewegung von Sound, Dichte und Qualität steht.
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Back To Times Of Splendor (2004) – Disillusion
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Deutschland: Tiefe Gewässer, ‚Loch Ness‘-artiger Schatten…?
Laut Facebook-Definition „Metal maybe“ entweder parodistischer Natur oder es besteht „Schubladenangst“.
Brutal, symphonisch, theatralisch und unbeschreiblich mehr.
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Invaders Must Die (2009) – The Prodigy
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Zurück auf dem Thron des stadionfreundlichen Electro-Rocks schweißt diese bunte Mischung aus Musik-trifft-Metamphetamin sich aggressiv in die Gehörgänge poppiger Clubgänger sowie Metalheads.
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Bloody Kisses (1993) – Type O Negative
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Brings consensual sex back to Catholic Vampirism for a moment. An early sign of hope from an impressive guy who died God-fearing and ashamed.
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No Tourists (2018) – The Prodigy
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“Boom boom tap, boom boom tap
Boom boom tap, boom boom tap
Tick tick bang, tick tick bang
Tick tick bang”
“No tourists.” “Fuck you!”
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The Return of Bruno (1987) – Bruce Willis
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An album title that brings at least two questions to mind with a cover photo showing a two-faced Bruce Willis that we still trust.
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The Doors (1967) – The Doors
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The doors of perception being set on fire, kicked-in and entered. There’s worlds of dare inside. You can now kiss the old-you goodbye.
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Trama! (2014) – Juggernaut
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The Italian mob martian-marching towards an omni-phoebian FF8500-sunset, hexadecimally trance-dancing together with every goddamn culture in the world in absolute merriment.
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The Body Cosmic (2019) Iapetus
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A cosmic-expanding godspeed ride through dense Progressive Death Metal streams.
A beautiful sight, thy cascades, supernovas and black holes showing niche music’s full extend.
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Radio Silence (2015) – Exovex
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Breezy Prog-Rock especially FFO Porcupine Tree.
Floydish solo, clean-parts and light/ heavy riffing, swinging you out of your orbit into beautiful night sky.
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Open Hearts And Clear Minds (2002) The First Step – Livewire Records
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This demo/ bootleg collection scores with punky hardcore-standards and this ‚stomping feet in face‘-feeling, which takes you mentally (retarded) back into 80‘s anarchy.
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You Know What They Mean (2019) Bent Knee
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Schwer verdaulich für Neuhörer dank vieler knallbunter Elemente und quietschigen Vocals. Gerade aber diese Vielschichtigkeit macht es umso belohnender, wenn man drin ist.
Bestes Bandalbum!
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Heaven & Hell (1979) – Black Sabbath
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A hungover but not less able Black Sabbath playing with the official replacement in Ozzy Osbourne´s presumably wishful funeral without anger or Schadenfreude (again, presumably.)
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“White Album” (1968) – The Beatles
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A clown car-supernova filled with brilliant ideas silhouetting unusually shifting times. This is what happens when you give recreational drugs to the right people.
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Sol Invictus (2015) – Faith No More
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Comeback-Album einer Genre brechenden Band eines Sängers mit unzähligen Nebenprojekten.
Sichere Mischung 90er Glanztaten und wahnsinniger Diversität ohne großartige Schwächen.
Kein zweites Chinese Democracy.
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The Ruiner (2008) Made Out Of Babies
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Mother of daddy issues with the most engaging female vocals I‘ve ever heard.
Grungy, sludgy, noisy stew with spicy chunks of thick flesh and bones.
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On Our Way To Hell/Return Of The Hellhorde Split (2004) Nunslaughter/Victimizer
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Döm döm, crash, retch, crarararrrrghsh…
Crappy recorded, rumpus sounds straight from the beer consuming, low-level rehearsing underground, for smallest amounts of (trve?) individualists.
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A Throne Of Ash (2019) This Gift Is A Curse – Season Of Mist
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Der perfekte Mix für einen Roadtrip durch das schwärzeste Chaos der Unterwelt ist dieser eruptierend laute sowie verstörend dissonante Eintopf aus Black, Hardcore und Sludge.
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Garden of Storms (2019) – In Mourning
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Diverse, healthy scandinavian sound/style, like oldschool Opeth with some finnish Melodeath and pinches of doom fortitude.
Grows with time and maybe during swedish sunsets.
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The Book Of Knots – Traineater (2007) Anti- Records
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This sound shaped post-industrial love letter showcases many acknowledged musicians within their strange fetishes.
Hardly accessible but rich ecstasy for open minded music geeks.
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From These Wounds (2006) Funeral – Tabu Records
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Sells exactly what it looks like.
Real Heavy Gothic/Doom Metal perfect as cremation of anger and depressive mourning.
Makes emo-trend look like kindergarten.
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Deadborn Nemesis (2015) Moridigan – Kernkraftritter Records
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Mostly Death Metal behaves classic like bread with the upper side falling to the floor.
No big expectations nor surprises, just honest, midtier techy shredding.
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Rebel Meets Rebel (2006) – Rebel Meets Rebel
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A great amalgamation of geographically compatible musical styles and characters bolo-tied together by lust of freedom and charm. A damn shame not to continue.
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American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002) Johnny Cash – American Recordings
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Here comes and goes the man in black; last defender of a dying pop-culture genre.
Mixed bag of cover interpretations as most complete swansong.
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Breeding Death EP (2000) Bloodbath – Century Media Records
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Cult Death Metal supergroup with Mikael, one of the most unique voices.
3 groovy classics are signaling to move your head, feet, and bloody guts.
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In Cauda Venenum (2019) – Opeth
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Less gimmicky than ‚Sorceress‘, but combining its riffs with ‚Heritage’s strangeness and ‚PC‘s growing concept writing.
Elegantly fleeting journey through their Post-Growl artsy work.
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Beat (1996) – Bowery Electric
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Beating up song conventions, cutting their bowels open and re-animating curiosity within a single spark to start this nitrous techno-stoner highway-wagon ride.
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Union (2019) Ihlo
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Big overarching melodies on stuttering djent-riffs under an ambient dystopian sky.
Good nurturing soil for catchy songwriting.
Left ambitiously curious for further dreaming sequences.
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The Downward Spiral (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
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90´s “The Wall” thanks to a rare glitch in the mainstream that let him do this to us.
One hell of a cry for help.
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Pelagial (2012) – The Ocean
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Musikalische Reise durch pelagiale Schichten des Ozeans. Die Meeresoberfläche zeigt noch helle, verträumte Harmonie während immer tiefer gehend düstere, brachiale Klangkaskaden entbrechen.
Sagenhaft umgesetztes Konzept.
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Ride the Lightning (1984) – Metallica
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From electric blue to Sabbath-black, this rabid factory-machine stainlessly steals the motor-breath out of you while chromatically ascending your will to live.
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Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It (2018) – Rolo Tomassi
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Synthesizer-intro, a pop tune – then hell breaks loose.
‚Rituals’ directly demonstrates finest Jazz-, Mathcore moments nowadays.
A strange balanced album, equal to an exorcism.
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Relentless (1992) – Bill Hicks
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Beautifully ballsy Bill Hicks lectures us on having nothing but actual hicks to represent us when the flying saucers come size us up and conquer.
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Hidden History of the Human Race (2019) – Blood Incantation
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This spacey journey soaked up good ole’ Florida Death with a thick straw.
Classic genre-showcase shredding, which pleasantly progresses into atmospheric floating at moments.
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Kill ´Em All (1983) – Metallica
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Masterful rite-of-passage stroke of brilliance by the four young-horsemen of the Apocalypse carrying all the piss, jizz and vinegar in the world.
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#DRWN (2018) – Darwin
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0:00: Sofort zündet erster Song wie eine Kettenreaktion von China Böllern.
Fett klingende Grooves, satter Sound, einen authentischen Shouter.
Erneuter Stolz auf die Kölner Musikszene.
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The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos (2018) – Sulphur Aeon
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Return of the german, Cthulhu worshipping Death institution.
Rot dripping tentacles wraps listeners in the catastrophic sounding abyss where guitars/ drums create lightning and thunder.
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Free Ride (2007) Causa Sui
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Be guided by psyche swinging rainbows and laid-back mirages that jam. You’ll hear this island of free birds.
Mind to bring some hallucinogenic plants.
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Czarna Ewangelia (2018) – Czort
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Averagely executed, pure Black Metal from Poland, which moves, mostly in moderate tempo, like a tank over a graveyard.
Nothing really outstanding, nothing bad either.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You (2019) – Wild Gods
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Damn hot comeback after a hellish creative break it seems.
Genre-bending Mathcore, Screamo, Fusion Jazz elements flow seamlessly into dynamic ebb and flow vibes.
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Disco Volante (1995) – Mr. Bungle
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Der bizarre Hybrid aus Metal, Jazz, Filmmusik schwimmt unkonventionell gegen jedmögliche Mainstreamformen.
Patton und seine Weirdo-Band kreieren düsterste Soundsphären mit Lynch-esque schwarzen Löchern.
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Dog Fashion Disco – Experiments In Embryos (2018)
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90’s zu Unrecht unbekannte Patton-beeinflusste Alternativeband spielt auch 2018 noch derben Riffrock.
Songs zünden dank eingängigen Vocalphrases, roher Gitarre-Bass-Power und skurrilen Trompeten.
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Applause Of A Distant Crowd (2018) – VOLA
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Diese sanft klingende, aber innovativ hartmelodische Band schafft auf zweitem Album weitere eingängige Hitsongs sowie imposante Riffstrukturen.
‚Whaler‘ uberrascht mit dem härtesten Riffumschwung des Jahres!
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Ok Computer (1997) – Radiohead
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Ohne dieses Album würde Rock, Alternative bis hin zu Progressive der 2000er ziemlich alt/ anders aussehen.
Vertonte Melancholie und superintelligenter Lyrizismus mit gigantisch intrumentalem Spektrum.
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Esoteric Malacology (2018) – Slugdge
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Progressiver Death Metal aus komplexen Riffmustern, organisch „sludgigen“ Drums und Vocalreichweiten von tiefen, hohen Growls bis teils Cleangesang.
Songtitel als Wortspiele bekannter Metalsongs.
Sehr unterhaltsam.
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Head Cage (2018) – Pig Destroyer
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Addierung des Bassisten macht einen gewaltigen Soundunterschied für dieses brachiale Album. Besonders die Riff-(parts) sind zum Zunge schnalzen. Ideal für headbang-springendes Wohnzimmer-moshing.
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Powerslave (1984) – Iron Maiden
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Könige der Albencover in oriantalischer Hitze und ägyptischer Mythologie. Angebeteter Eddie fliegt und lässt Klingen aufblitzen. Bestes Solo im Titeltrack und progressive Schiffsreise im Closer.
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Everything That Is You (2019) – Thrailkill
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Instrumentale Supernova die mit ihren regenbogenfarbenen Strahlen jede noch so dunkle Sphären erhellt und harmonisch reflektiert. Virtuose Gitarre mit Feeling ohne viel aufgesetzt übertechnisches Machogeshredde.
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Songs For The Deaf (2002) Queens Of The Stone Age
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Wo Kyuss’s „…Sky Valley“ tagsüber qualmend den Highway gen Erlösung fuhr, nimmt dieser radiofreundliche Cocktail aus Bier, Mojito, Gras, Amphetaminen die Gegenspur zur nächtlichen Apokalypse.
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Practice What You Preach (1989) – Testament
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It boggles the mind that these gentlemen continue to be perceived as lesser than Anthrax. Trash-talking Testament should be a Thrash-preacher´s pet peeve.
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Black Gives Way To Blue (2009) – Alice In Chains
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Neuer Sänger mit natürlich origineller Stimmfarbe. Neue Motivation aus der Trauer, den drogenversifften Mammutspuren und dem Grunge herauszutreten. Eine cleane Band. Ein hammergeiles Hardrock Album.
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Altars Of Madness (1989) – Morbid Angel
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80er Metal Nachwirkungen, originelles Cover, Solo an Solo, fanatischer Okkultismus – Diese Death Metal-Blaupause mit ihrem Florida-Sound bahnt unendlich viele Wege für kommende Großtaten.
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A Patient Man (2018) – Cult Leader
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Mit Unruhe verursachenden Gitarrenkrächzen, saftigem Bass und sludgigem Gekeife klingt die bessere Hälfte der Scheibe wie ein hochsportliches Massaker im Schlachthaus. Ein halbstark pfeffriges Gulasch.
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Crack The Skye (2009) – Mastodon
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Element Wind ist das Mantra von Mastodons Magnum Opus, was den Tod der Schwester des Drummers behandelt. Mein persönliches Gateway-Album in den Prog Metal.
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Revolver (1966) – The Beatles
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A warm revolver loaded with intense imagination that makes you happy every time you pick it up. It contains Mccartney´s arguably best song: Elenor Rigby.
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Angel Dust (1992) – Faith No More
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Tiefer in den bunten Sumpf voller vielseitiger Kreaturen der Nacht. Patton mal Sirene, mal Wendigo. Und dank leider letztem (elementarem) Mitwirken Metalgitarrist Jim Martins Swansong.
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Lost Highway (1997) – Trent Reznor
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A floating crime scene playlist congealed together by counterclockwise suspense fueling a colorful film noir that is both cosmically weird and dearest to the deranged.
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The Outer Ones (2018) – Revocation
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Death Thrash Metal soup with blackened flesh and Lovecraft inspired lyric. Jazz influenced chords over groovy breaks to finest soloing annihilation. Typical killing spree material.
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Letters From The Colony – Vignette (2018)
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Eiskalte Gitarren und stürmische Drums in knochenharter Brillianz. Zwischendurch wehen abstrakt schöne Cleanpassagen eine letzte bunte Herbstbrise in diesen frühwinterlichen, schwedischen Sonnenaufgang. Extrem starkes Debütalbum!
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Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018) – Artic Monkeys
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A post-mortem Bowie knife conniving new generations with tender tantrums for their own wonderful good. A brilliant, dry-clean barbiturate that melts stone-glass ” :
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The Real Thing (1989) – Faith No More
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Neben Anselmos Pantera-Einstieg hob auch ein gewisser Patton eine Band auf komplett anderes Level. Funk und Rap fusioniert mit Metal passierte bereits vor RATM.
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Blizzard of Ozz (1980) – Ozzy Osbourne
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The Blizzard of Randy Rhodes and the Chris Farley of Heavy Metal (or vice-versa) making the stuff Tenacious D’s wet-dreams are made of.
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Piano Concerto No.23 in A, K.488 – Allegro in A (1786) – Wofgang Amadeus Mozart/Horowitz/Giulini
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Rides a hair or two faster than usual but does not in any way feel carousel-led or gone astray in repetitive dactyl derision. Cool.
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Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest (2018)
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Kinderchor eröffnet dieses teuflische Sakrament. Durchs Höllentor vollführen verzerrte Gitarren, dämonisches Getrommel, weiterer Chorgesang, Hörner thematisch jenes Ritual, welches mit The Satanist 2014 meisterhaft begann.