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.
