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Sky Bvrial (LP)

CONCILIUM
Nauseating black metal riffs, beastial drumming, gut churning voices and high on atmosphere, Concilium created a monster of an album. Read more

Evenfall Of The Apocalypse (LP)

ASCENDED DEAD
Vicious sounding semi chaotic death metal that barely sounds controlled. An excellent release and another one of my favorites for the year. Read more

Iniquitous Barbarie Synthesis (LP)

IMPETUOUS RITUAL
Otherworldy metal that shares members of Portal and Grave Upheaval. This is a kind of ritual inducing black metal that you can easily get lost in. Read more

Black Flame Eternal (LP)

CLOAK
This band plays a great mixture of black, goth and synth metal that is easy to digest and leaves you feeling satisfied. Don’t get me wrong, there is genuine darkness, aggression and sincerity of all things metal to be found on this album, as well as cohesion and strong song composition without scarfing the flame of metal. Two horns up! Read more

Upal (LP)

KOSTNATENI
Unique avant-garde black metal with twist and turns, brutal and beautiful, conventions that have been broken are to be found in these tracks that make up Upal. Top tier multifaceted musicianship abounds and another great album for my best of the year list. Read more

Purge (LP)

GODFLESH
Pioneering industrial metal icons are back with a new album, buy this, ok. Read more

Alfold (LP)

THY CATAFALQUE
An ever evolving music project, Thy Catafalque’s approach to making metal that reaches beyond easy genre defining boundaries, and succeeds on this particular album. Most musicians have a hard time combing such desperate elements like folk, electronic and metal into a recipe that works. If you’re looking for a metal album to help cleanse palate, that still has enough aggression and metal to be metal. Look no further. Read more

Caverns Of Occult Hatred (LP)

VILE RITUAL
Guitars that feel suffocating, guttural vocals, thick drums buried in some kind of sludge while being projected from a cave...it’s that good. Read more

All Hell’s Breaking Loose (LP)

RAVEN
NWOBH rockers Raven {5 Decades and 15 albums!} created one enjoyable album. Hints of thrash and a dash of speed metal make this one ferocious rocking album. Our amps go to 11. Read more

P.R.I.S.M. (LP)

SUTEKH HEXEN & FUNERARY CALL
Serious sonic atmosphere nightmare inducing spectrums of black metal that is expressed in a massive cocoon of experimental miasma and mystical passages. Powerful and ritualistic, this is an impressive collaboration and an album that is hypnotically stunning. I am simply blown away by P.R.I.S.M and this also goes into my best of the year list. Read more

Trisect Joy Of Pierced Hearts (LP)

LUCIFIXION
This is an excellent slab of Black Metal that delivers all the goods and then some. Read more

Being (LP)

BAABA MAAL
Yet another album that is going on my best of the year list. Incredible Senegalese musician that delivers us a fusion of both familiar music and unfamiliar, mixed in elements of groove, pop and desert rock that has helped open new musical ideas and possiblities. This music speaks to ones heart as well as ones ears. It is transformative and healing as well as something that you can simply enjoy for the infectious bass lines and subwoofer shaking rhythms. Read more

Water Witches (CD)

Rainforest Spiritual
One of Dominick Fernow’s many many experimental projects. Similar to his main alias, Prurient, the RSE makes gritty industrial-noise themed around jungles and witchcraft. It’s equally spooky as it is intense. This box set contains the band’s first several EPs that were initially only released on cassette. It was very exciting to see that it got a proper CD release complete with excellent packaging. It’s everything a Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement fan could ask for. Read more

Chronology (CD)

Chapterhouse
A wonderful collection of (almost) everything Chapterhouse put out in their short tenure. This thing packs in both their studio albums, their 3 EPs, various demos, and a variety of songs from miscellaneous releases. It’s everything a Chapterhouse fan could ask for. Read more

Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (CD)

Pauline Oliveros
An insanely dense collection of Pauline’s weird computer music compositions. Consisting of 11 discs worth of material, it’s everything a Pauline Oliveros fan could ask for. Read more

Meteora20 (Other)

Linkin Park
Celebrating the 20th birthday of this classic. There’s multiple versions of this release but if you’re gonna pick one, I’d go big and get the super deluxe version; 5 LPs, 4 CDs, 4 DVDs, a 40 page book, and copious other little goodies. It’s everything a Linkin Park fan could ask for. Read more

Space, Energy & Light (Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88) (CD)

Various
A phenomenal collection of primitive electronica and new age deep cuts from some criminally underrated artists. Once again Soul Jazz has outdone themselves. Read more

10,000 Gecs (CD)

100 Gecs
The long awaited follow-up to one of the goofiest duos in modern pop. Their first album is an absolute banger and one of the prime examples of hyperpop. While this one is a bit on the rockier side, it’s still completely bonkers! They’re also an insanely killer band to see live! Read more

31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (CD)

La Monte Young
I am THRILLED that this got a proper release. In the world of drone music, La Monte Young is THE guy. Back in the 60’s, his whole thing was studying “sustained notes” and incorporating that into his pieces. This particular album- colloquially known as "The Black Album"- is one of Young’s earliest releases with an initial pressing of 1000 LP copies in 1969. It’s been bootlegged copious amounts of times over the years with varying degrees of sound quality. But at long last, there’s finally an official release on both CD and LP that sounds excellent. Any fan of drone NEEDS to own this one in their collection. Here’s a tip: if you own the vinyl copy, try adjusting the speed while listening. Read more

Songs of Pain (LP)

Daniel Johnston
Daniel’s first ever album finally pressed on wax! May he rest in peace. Read more