NEW MUSIC

TWILIGHT – “Monument To Time End.”  The best black metal album ever recorded. Twilight (shit for name,) is and always will be Blake Judd (Nachtmystium), Jef Whitehead (Leviathan) and Neil Jameson (Krieg). This time the other band members are Aaron Turner (Isis), Sanford Parker (Minsk), Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth) and Robert Lowe (Lichens). They are evil sounding and very heavy – epic at times. Aaron Turner’s progressive style has been a very big influence bringing massive riffs, shoe-gazing psychedelia, and sinister atmosphere. To sum it up, it is a fusion of the dreamlike sounds of post-rock and the evil apocalyptic power of black metal. All Hail The Dark Lord!

REVOLTING COCKS – “Got Cock?”  The bastard lovechild of Al Jourgensen is back with more industrial metal.

MONO – “Holy Ground: NYC Live.” Japanese instrumental post-rockers live with the 24 Wordless Member Orchestra. A classical/post-rock hybrid, cinematic music.

1349 – “Demonoir.” Norwegian black metal with no keyboards!

BALZAC – “The Birth of Hatred.” Japanese horror punk band, includes both albums “Hatred” and “The Birth of Evil.”

KMFDM – “Krieg.”  Self-proclaimed fathers of industrial rock are back with a remix lp of last years “Blitz.”

MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT – “The Violence Beneath.” Atmospheric post-metal from Ohio.

WARBEAST – “Krush the Enemy.” Thrash/death metal from Texas.

THE ABOMINABLE IRON SLOTH – “The ID Will Overcome.” Hardcore/sludge metal from California.

UNLEASHED – “As Yggdrasil Trembles.” Veteran Swedish death metal.

THE ORDER OF APOLLYON – “The Flesh.” Black/death metal from the UK.

BLASPHEMER – “On the Inexistence of God.” Death metal from Milan, Italy.

CATHEDRAL – “The Guessing Game.” Classic British doom/stoner metal.

SICK OF IT ALL – “Based on a True Story.” Legendary NYHC band is back!

KAYO DOT – “Coyote.” Experimental metal from NY.

CHILD ABUSE –  “Cut & Run.” NY grindcore, brutal, complex and demonic vocal fits.

OOMPH – “Truth or Dare.” German Neue Deutsche Harte band.

COATHANGER ABORTION – “Dying Breed.” Death metal/grindcore from Tennessee.

TARD – “Disgorging Guttural Regurgitations.” Canadian brutal death metal.

ATROCIOUS ABNORMALITY – “Echos of the Rotting.” Brutal death metal from North Carolina.

COFFINWORM – “When All Became None.” Doom/black metal from Indianapolis.

LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS – “Agri-dustrial.” Hillbilly southern gothic punk rock  blues.

LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR – “Evil Power.” Thrash/sludge/doom metal from Chicago.

:WUMPSCUT – “Siamese.” Rudolf Ratzinger’s industrial/darkwave/ebm music project from Bavaria, Germany.

X-MARKS THE PEDWALK – “Inner Zone Journey.” Sevren Ni-Arb’s influential industrial/ebm project from Germany.

NEGURA BUNGET – “Virstele Pamantului.” Romanian black metal.

BISON B.C. – “Dark Ages.” Stoner metal from Vancouver, B.C.

THE OCEAN – “Heliocentric.” Experimental metal band from Germany, self-described sound “ambient soundtrack doomrock.”

WOE OF TYRANTS – “Threnody.” Progressive death metal from Ohio.

NEW MUSIC

TRIPTYKON – “Eparistera Daimones” released in the U.S. 3/23/10. Thomas Gabriel Fischer, the man behind such legendary bands  as Celtic Frost, Hellhammer and Apollyon Sun, is back with his new band. Members include Norman Lonhard on drums, V.Satura on guitars and vocals and Vanja Slajh on bass. An Avant-garde style of metal that will satisfy fans of the last album from Celtic Frost  – “Monotheist”, that was released in 2006 (in my opinion one of the best metal albums of all time.)  This album should have been called “Monotheist II” because it is a continuation of a very dark and experimental journey into the deepest parts of hell. Do not download this, buy it, the album artwork is by the great H.R. Giger.

BURZUM – “Belus.” Fresh out of jail in 2009 for murder and burning churches, Varg Vikernes is back with his style of Black metal/Dark ambient.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – “Option Paralysis.” Spazz/Metal veterans are sounding more like NIN and Faith No More with each new album, not a bad thing at all.

VIRGIN SNATCH – “Act of Grace.” Thrash metal from Poland, pretty good.

MANOREXIA – “The Mesopelagic Waters.” JG Thirlwell’s (Foetus) experimental instrumental project.

BARREN EARTH – “Curse of the Red River.” Melodic death metal from Finland which includes members of AMORPHIS, SWALLOW THE SUN, MOONSORROW and KREATOR.

OV HELL – “Underworld Regime.” Norwegian black metal featuring Shagrath from Dimmu Borgir and King Ov Hell from Gorgoroth.

THE BREATHING PROCESS – “Odyssey.” (Un)Dead-Symphonic blackened death metal from Connecticut.

HAWKWIND – “At the BBC 1972.” English psychedelic space rock band formed in 1969.

GALLHAMMER – “Gloomy.” Japanese all female exteme metal band, mixing doom metal and crust punk.

AT THE GATES – “Purgatory.” Unleashed live @ Wacken-Sweden’s legendary melodic death metal band live at Germany’s Wacken festival.

MISERY INDEX – “Pulling out the Nails.” Death metal/grindcore from Baltimore for fans of Dying Fetus.

SNOG – “Last of the Great Romantics.” Industrial/ambient/experimental band from Australian artist David Thrussell.

IN VAIN – “Mantra.” Norwegian progressive blackened death metal.

VIVE LE VILE EVIL – “Vile Evils.” Industrial/rock group from former members of Pop Will Eat Itself, Graham Crabb and Adam Mole.

ACID KING – “Early Years.” Stoner/doom metal from San Francisco,this album contains their first two releases which both are out of print.

MERZBOW – “13 Japanese Birds in a Bay.” Masami Akita is Tokyo’s king of noise and dark ambient.

GORGOROTH – “Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt.” Norwegian black metal, not very original.

HELLOWEEN – “Unarmed Best of 25th Anniversary.” 80’s German speed metal band re-recorded 10 of their best songs in different musical style.

HOODED MENACE – “Never Cross the Dead.” Death/doom metal from Finland.

CULTED – “Of Death and Ritual.” Blackened psychedelic doom metal from Sweden.

BRUTAL TRUTH – “Evolution in One Take: For Grind Freaks Only! Vol.2” Experimental grindcore metal from NYC.

CATHEDRAL – “Guessing Game.” Legendary English doom metal band.

NECROMANDUS – “Orexis of Death and Live.” UK’s 1970’s metal band, considered the “second Sabbath” but with a more progressive edge.

MAMMOTH GRINDER – “Extinction of Humanity.” Death metal/hardcore/punk band from Texas.

DEMONICA – “Demonstrous.” American/Danish brutal old school thrash metal.