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returntothepit >> discuss >> Best Metal of 2011 - Challenge Accepted by demondave on Dec 31,2011 12:28pm
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toggletoggle post by demondave at Dec 31,2011 12:28pm edited Dec 31,2011 12:35pm
this is connected to Slag's thread {2011} Best Albums of - in no particular order

http://www.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=74420

The lists were great, so I decided to turn it into a listening guide. Usually I catch lists at the end of the year and I haven't checked out even a quarter of them. My commute comes to almost 4 hours a day on train and subway, so that opens a lot of time.

I was going to listen to as many as I could in December.






toggletoggle post by demondave at Dec 31,2011 12:30pm


Dec 2
Argus - Boldy Stride the Doomed
Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore
Midnight - Satanic Royalty

Dec 4
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult

Dec 5
Ramlord - Stench of Fallacy
Abysmal Darkening - No Light Behind

Dec 6
Disma - Toward the Megalist
Crowbar - Sever the Wicked Hand
Entrails - the Tomb Awaits
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Deception

Dec 7
Ash Borer - Self Titled
Brutal Truth - End Times
Archgoat - Heavenly Vulva

Dec 8
Invidious - EP
Necrovorous - Funeral for the Sane
Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

Dec 9
Omegas - Blasts of Lunacy
Saturnalia Temple - Aion of Drakon
Tombs - Path of Totality
Vanhelgd - Church of Death

Dec 10
Vomitory - Opus Mortus VIII
Alghazanth - Vinum Intus'

Dec 11
Venom - Fallen Angels
Cianide - Gods of Death
Chthonic - Takasago Army
Cryptborn - Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead
Funerary Bell - Circle within Circle

Dec 12
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
Absu - Abzu

Dec 13
Vektor - Outer Isolation
Condenados - A Painful Journey into Nihil
Demonical - Death Infernal
Wormrot - Dirge
Nekrofilth - Worship Destruction

Dec 14
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
Azarath - Blasphemer's Maledictions
Aosoth - III

Dec 15
Exhumed - All Guts No Glory
Blessed Offal - S/T
Blut Aus Nord - 777(sects)
Bones - S/T

Dec 16
Bloodfreak - Mindscraper
Desecresy - Arches of Entropy
Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients
Bastard Priest - Ghouls of the Endless Night
Serpent Ascending - The Enigma Unsettled

Dec 17
Morne - Asylum
Vastum - Carnal Law Demo

Dec 18
Burzum - Fallen
Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command
Crucified Mortals - S/T

Dec 19
Burzum - From the Depths of Darkness
Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
Beyond Creation - the Aura
Haemorrhage - Hospital Carnage
Maruta - Forward into Regression
Neige Et Noirceur - Hymnes de la Montagne Noir
Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift

Dec 20
Cellgraft / Drainland split
Dolorvorte - Dolorvotre
Demonaz - March of the Norse
Ravencult - Morbid Blood
Hate Eternal - Phoenix Amongst the Ashes
Deceased - Surreal Overdose

Dec 21
Ghamorean - Terra Ruina
Virus - The Agent that Shapes the Desert

Dec 22
Krisiun - The Great Execution
Inquisition - Ominus Doctins of the Perpetual
Blasphemophager - The III Command
Warbringer - Worlds Torn Assunder
Embrace of Thorns - Praying for Absolution
Immolation - Providence

Dec 23
Pathology - Awaken to the Suffering
Sabbat - Sabbatrinity
Fortresse - Crepuscule D'Octobre

Dec 24
Creeping - Order of Snakes

Dec 25
Gorgasm - Orgy of Murder
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Marduk - Iron Dawn

Dec 26
The Carrier - Blind to What is Right
Panopticon - Social Disservices

Dec 27
Necrophagia - Deathrip 69
Harm - Demonic Alliance
Origin - Entity
Skeleton Witch - Forever Abomination
Anvil - Juggernaut of Justice

Dec 28
Nunslaughter / nekrofilth split
Machetazo / Marrow split
Broken gravestones - Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Obscura - Omnivium
The Axis of Perdition - Tenements (Of the Anointed Flesh)

Dec 29
All Pigs Must Die - God is War
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Decapitated - Carnival is Forever
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Apocalypse Command - Damnation Scythes of Invincible Abomination

Dec 30
Northless - Clandestine Abuse
Batillus - Furnace
The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
Heresiarch - Hammer of Intransigence
Morbus 666 - Mortuus Cultus




toggletoggle post by demondave at Dec 31,2011 12:32pm



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Dec 31,2011 12:33pm
ha! I need 99% of those.



toggletoggle post by ThirdKnuckle  at Jan 1,2012 8:13pm
Marduk on Christmas Day



toggletoggle post by boblovesmusic   at Jan 1,2012 8:36pm
the_reverend said[orig][quote]
ha! I need 99% of those.



toggletoggle post by demondave at Jan 2,2012 8:53pm edited Jan 3,2012 10:45pm
Here are my top twenty for the year. They are not specifically in order. It was hard to thin it down to twenty, and I could picture it changing if it did it a week later or earlier, but I felt like putting this together. This is mostly due to other peoples suggestions from Slag's thread. For example, I enjoyed everything on Kevord's list, and with more time, more of those would end up on my list.

Anyone who is interested should also look at Autothrall's list on From the Dustbin Returned.

http://autothrall.blogspot.com/2012/01/aut...hralls-top-metal-albums-eps-of.html

And Conversationist's list

http://www.examiner.com/metal-music-in-houston/best-metal-of-2011






Midnight - Satanic Royalty

Midnight never really thrilled me before. I saw them with Nunslaughter and they were pretty good live, but I never really got into them. Kevord had this at the top of the list and it surprised the hell out of me.

This is black thrash speed with a vibe that I haven't gotten since early venom.


Leviathan - True Traitor True Whore

I don't know too much about the assault charges and the story with his ex girlfriend, but it apparently resulted in this. I've ignored Leviathan for the last few years, but Wrest being unhinged is the secret.


Ash Borer - Self Titled

Really impressive black with drone prehaps "post-"whatever. Black Metal soundscapes are a plus for me.


Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

Autopsy are on top of their game. It is a little cleaner than their other recordings, and people have critiqued it for being long (as in it could be trimmed down to give more of a punch) but I have noticed that people disagree on what the throw away tracks would be. Thoroughly enjoyable to me.


Burzum - Fallen

Just amazing. And this isn't coming from Varg worship. I had this on with a nice pair of headphones while laying on a couch at 2am. The dual guitar work just mesmerized me. The vocals are awesome - the use of the rasp and the spoken voice. Check this out.


Ravencult - Morbid Blood

This is not reinventing the black metal wheel, but it completely rips from beginning to end. Get this


Deceased - Surreal Overdose

After all these years who would have thought a band could still release something this good. I was completely surprised.



Batillus - Furnace

Blackened Doom, but I feel a sludgy vein inside. At first I expected very little from it, but I got hit by the end of the 1st song. The distorted vocals and infections base line hooked me, and I can't shake this buzzoven feeling.



Heresiarch - Hammer of Intransigence

Black Death in that war kult arena with a big Revenge influence with the pick slides and drumming. There is more variety in tempo, and I noticed that some reviews act as if this is a solid brick without variation. I don't see that at all.


Cianide - Gods of Death

Straight up Death Metal that just sounds good. A solid album with a great biting guitar sound. It is not innovating or retro, but I keep going back to it again and again and I think anyone else will too.


Dolorvotre - Dolorvotre

So many people on this board cringe at the Black Twilight Circle, but that tour up here was great. I got to see the Dolovotre lineup in Providence. Keep in mind that I liked the Les Légions Noires scene, and this tape carries the same vibe with the low fi nature contributing to the overall sound.


Necros Christos - Doom of the Occult

More bands should take advantage of soundscapes. There are a ton of intros and instrumentals between the black death tracks to create a solid LP.


Funerary Bell - Circle within Circle

This was different, I'll give it that. Black but really and atmospheric death metal lp, that is heavy on the double bass and in a hypnotic slow to mid gait.


Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift

There are a ton of old shool death metal worshiping bands that have hit lately. Expecially empulating the Swedish sound (Entombed, Dismember, Grave Carnage). Really good stuff too, like Disma and Entrails. I liked Morbus Chron the best. They are slightly different though. Kind of like Repugnant. It has all of the influences of that scene without being an outright imitation.


Vektor - Outer Isolation

Vektor have had a buzz going on for a while, but this is the lP that brings it all together. Sounds great with solid writing, it is crazy future voivod thrash combined with the lead singer of Sadus hitting the high notes. (any old schoolers that have chemical illusions would recognize it right away)


Zygoatsis - Satanic Kultus Unholy Deception

Bestial war kult with a punishing lp. Yeah, I eat this stuff up.


Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

Really haunting guitar work. I definitely recommend giving this a chance. The dark tremolo guitar work has a surfer psychedelic tone to it, but please understand that it totally works. I know that description sounds awful but it makes good Black Metal and its so worth the time



Exhumed - All Guts No Glory

A marriage of Slaughtercult vibe with Anatomy is Destiny production.


Morne - Asylum

This sudgy doom death lp grew on me. It will be perfect for a long midnight drive.


Antichrist - Forbidden World

Last minutle LP that I came across from an Autothrall review. He decribes it as "taking everything I so loved about the early, aggressive thrash from both the Bay Area and German scenes, mashing it up, adding a relish of kinetic, blackened vitriol and then feeding it to me all over again." So true.



Here are others that could easily be in my top 20.

Disma - Toward the Megalist
Mitochondrion - Parasignosis
Vomitory - Opus Mortus VIII
Absu - Abzu
Nekrofilth - Worship Destruction
Blut Aus Nord - 777(sects)
Blood Ceremony - Living with the Ancients
Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
Sabbat - Sabbatrinity
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Marduk - Iron Dawn
Benighted - Asylum Cave
Gridlink - Orphan
Entrails - the Tomb Awaits
Origin - Entity
Portrait - Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae
Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

The last Inquisition would be on here but it actually came out in 2010.




toggletoggle post by ark at Jan 3,2012 8:50am
A++ thread



toggletoggle post by arilliusbm  at Jan 3,2012 8:55am
Nice work, demondave. I'm real out of the loop with new stuff



toggletoggle post by AndrewBastard  at Jan 3,2012 8:58am
^&^ same here but Daves list is pretty on point..

That Disma and BAN would def but in my top 10...



toggletoggle post by Manowarrior at Jan 3,2012 9:49am
Mostly hipster bullshit.

Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots.



toggletoggle post by Randy_Marsh at Jan 3,2012 10:07am edited Jan 3,2012 10:07am
Im interested in that morbus chron, ill check it out later today



toggletoggle post by KEVORD  at Jan 3,2012 10:11am
Will the big boys table have copies of Mental Kingdom the rare Autopsy album?



toggletoggle post by Randy_Marsh at Jan 3,2012 10:16am
Origin isnt that good.



toggletoggle post by Voice of reason at Jan 3,2012 10:17am
Manowarrior said[orig][quote]
Mostly hipster bullshit.

Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots.


So what are your top of 2011? If you answer "nothing it's all hipster" then you fail.



toggletoggle post by Manowarrior at Jan 3,2012 12:47pm
Voice%20of%20reason said[orig][quote]
Manowarrior said[orig][quote]
Mostly hipster bullshit.

Start listening to metal, or keep sitting at the kids' table, faggots.


So what are your top of 2011? If you answer "nothing it's all hipster" then you fail.



Other thread. Learn to read, faggot.




toggletoggle post by arktouros at Jan 3,2012 12:50pm
Manowarrior said[orig][quote]
Portrait and In Solitude put out decent albums. In Solitude are a little suspect, but they at least play real metal.

Manilla Road's newest is stellar. Argus is pretty decent.

Autopsy was disappointing and shitty despite all the hip young types being all about it. Listen to Mental Kingdom, faggots. This new shit sucked.

Deceased and Disma rendered all other death metal releases from 2011 irrelevant, but I still deleted them after two listens and never bought them, as all of those dudes are clearly past their creative peaks. Not bad, just old and weak sounding.


You sound interesting, do you want to go out for coffee sometime?



toggletoggle post by Manowarrior at Jan 3,2012 12:54pm
arktouros said[orig][quote]
Manowarrior said[orig][quote]
Portrait and In Solitude put out decent albums. In Solitude are a little suspect, but they at least play real metal.

Manilla Road's newest is stellar. Argus is pretty decent.

Autopsy was disappointing and shitty despite all the hip young types being all about it. Listen to Mental Kingdom, faggots. This new shit sucked.

Deceased and Disma rendered all other death metal releases from 2011 irrelevant, but I still deleted them after two listens and never bought them, as all of those dudes are clearly past their creative peaks. Not bad, just old and weak sounding.


You sound interesting, do you want to go out for coffee sometime?



Just keep in mind I don't put out on the first date.



toggletoggle post by amorok666 at Jan 3,2012 3:15pm
Just keep in mind you're a total poser.



toggletoggle post by nekronaut  at Jan 3,2012 3:18pm
That Negative Plane is FUCKING KILLER!



toggletoggle post by Yeti at Jan 3,2012 3:19pm
i think that Exhumed album is meh at best. it has a few good tracks, but overall it's a letdown.



toggletoggle post by Manowarrior at Jan 3,2012 4:18pm
amorok666 said[orig][quote]
Just keep in mind you're a total poser.


Just keep an open mind. I just ain't like the dudes that you normally date.



toggletoggle post by amorok666 at Jan 3,2012 5:45pm
dude only mental kingdom is so real



toggletoggle post by Manowarrior at Jan 3,2012 6:02pm
amorok666 said[orig][quote]
FAGGOT


Yes, we know.



toggletoggle post by CurlyRed at Jan 3,2012 9:25pm
That Cianide cd is wikkked good...



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jan 9,2012 10:33am
that cianide CD is great.



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