Best albums of 09 thus far?

[droidspawn]

Great year for music all around and still 5 months to go!





Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Devourment - Unleash the Carnivore

Goatwhore - Carving out the Eyes of God

Suffocation - Blood Oath

Behemoth - Evangelion

Clutch - Strange Cousins From the West

Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion

Lamb of God - Wrath

The Mars Volta - Octahedron

Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Isis - Wavering Radiant

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man]

Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

Caina - self titled EP

Dalek - Gutter Tactics

[cl8on]

Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness

Mortuus Infradaemoni - Imis Avernis

Mournful Congregation - The June Frost

Longing for Dawn - Between Elation and Despair

Katharsis - Fourth Reich

Moss - Tombs of the Blind Drugged

Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

Drudkh - Microcosmos

Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds

Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds

[djonni greazo]

Death:

1. Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

2. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence

3. Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque

4. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

5. Slugathor - Echoes form Beneath

6. Azarath - Praise the Beast

7. Devourment - Unleash the Carnivore

8. Teitanblood - Seven Chalices

9. Embrace of Thorns - Atonement Ritual

10. either Gwynbleid, Tribulation, Cattle Decapitation or Diocletian



Black:

1. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

2. Sun of the Blind - Skullreader

3. Pest - Tenebris Obortis

4. End - III

5. Arckanum - PPPPPPPPPPP

6. Drudkh - Microcosmos

7. Empty - The House of Funerary Hymns

8. Skagos - Ast

9. Geist - Galeere

10. either Altar of Plagues, Melkor, Fen, Foscor, Ride for Revenge, The Stone or Malkuth... plus many more



other (metal mostly):

1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

2. Isis - Wavering Radiant

3. Solstafir - Kold

4. The Gathering - The West Pole

5. Tombs - Winter Hours

6. Maudlin of the Well - Part the Second

7. Mumakil - Behold the Failure

8. Hacride - Lazarus

9. Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist

10. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions

[Inverted Crosses And Gorebongs]

[quote name="cl8on"]Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness

Mortuus Infradaemoni - Imis Avernis

Mournful Congregation - The June Frost

Longing for Dawn - Between Elation and Despair

Katharsis - Fourth Reich

Moss - Tombs of the Blind Drugged

Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

Drudkh - Microcosmos

Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds

Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds[/quote]





How does the new Katharsis compare to their previous efforts?

[rhino]

goatwhore - carving out the eyes of god

wolves in the throne room - black cascade

drudkh - microcosmos

isis - wavering radiant

kreator - hordes of chaos

mastodon - crack the skye

kylesa - static tensions

heaven and hell - the devil you know

dredg - the pariah..

[droidspawn]

did you get the new clutch yet ryan?

[rhino]

[quote name="jorsh"]did you get the new clutch yet ryan?[/quote]



i am only a fan of impetus/pitchfork, and transnational speedway..., ive gave them all many listens, because it seems like i should like the other cd's, i just dont, they just dont click with me for some reason

[droidspawn]

[rhino]

i wonder if arkaea leaked yet



out in a few days



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[jawn galliano]

not a single mention for beherit - engram :(

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man]

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]not a single mention for beherit - engram :([/quote]

that's because it's horrible

[jawn galliano]

if by horrible you mean better than any other black metal album released thus far in 2009, then yes, i agree

[Teresa]

I don't even know what came out.

[Redd]

[quote name="Teresa"]I don't even know what came out.[/quote]



Same, other than Blut aus Nord. I'm sure there was something released this year that I'm forgetting about..

[cl8on]

[quote name="shitty the sandwitch"]How does the new Katharsis compare to their previous efforts?[/quote]



It's most excellent and about what one would expect from the band - not overly dissimilar. Their first three albums feel a little more consistent, but Fourth Reich is definitely worthy of your time.

[shadowalk]

The new Suffocation, Mastodon and Blood Red Throne records are the ones that have tickled my balls lately.



Actually, that new Blood Red Throne record is really growing on me...sure it's no Altered Genesis but damn it's such a headbanger!

[djonni greazo]

[quote name="Famous Mortimer"]if by horrible you mean better than any other black metal album released thus far in 2009, then yes, i agree[/quote]



naaah. Pest (the german one), Arckanum and End realeased better old-school BM albums this year. and Ride for Revenge's take on the "Drawing Down the Moon" aesthetic was far better (filthy, doomy, but a bit too monotonous).

[-M-]

Funeral Mist - Maranatha

Antigama - Warning

Beherit - Engram

Samael - Above



I didn't like new Funeral Mist and Samael at first, I had to listen to those 3-4 times to like it.

[Inverted Crosses And Gorebongs]

[quote name="cl8on"]
[quote name="shitty the sandwitch"]How does the new Katharsis compare to their previous efforts?[/quote]



It's most excellent and about what one would expect from the band - not overly dissimilar. Their first three albums feel a little more consistent, but Fourth Reich is definitely worthy of your time.[/quote]





Cool. I do need to purchase this album once I have spending money again.



Also, Stormy is correct. The new Beherit rules.

[Bathsalt Zombie]

The Gathering - The West Pole

Devin Townsend Project - Ki

Behemoth - Evangelion

Shining - Klagopsalmer

[Teresa]

The Gathering has new shit? well i'll be

[Bathsalt Zombie]

yeah, with Silje from Octavia Sperati