GRINDERMAN – “Grinderman 2” – Seedy, psychedelic-blues punk from Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos. This their second album is more like a blanket of noise, more psychedelic/drone feel to it, it still has Mr. Cave’s dark vocals, but with a much noisier background. Best songs are “Evil,” “Kitchenette,” “Worm Tamer” and “Heathen Child.”
SWANS – “My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky.” Experimental noise rock from legendary avant-garde artist Michael Gira. On his first album in 13 years, the music is a hallucinatory vision on a wall of sound pummeling on a seasick rhythm, an it closes on a note of starkly beutiful music. “Folk Noise.”
UNEARTHLY TRANCE – “V” – Sludge/doom metal from Brooklyn NY. It’s like “an electric, urban funeral drone that summons great evil,” it has a black metal vibe mixed with a sludgy doom sound and great ambient/drone passages. Like the soundtrack of your soul’s descent into the pits of hell, pure evil.
NEUROSIS – “Live At Roadburn 2007” – Experimental/doom metal from Oakland, this album was recorded live at The Roadburn Festival in Tilburg-Netherlands. The album is a pitch black piece of music, which drives the listener into the ground and crushes it’s surroundings. A bleak and agonizing display of ferocity with explosive riffs and roaring voices, ambient soundscapes, the perfect soundtrack to the apocalyptic end of the world.
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – “No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family” – Venice Beach skate punks re-recorded tracks from their old lp “Join The Army” and Mike Muir’s (vocalist) other band, No Mercy.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES – “L’Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante” – Schizophrenic experimental/noise from the Netherlands.
DEATH ANGEL – “Relentless Retribution” – Legendary thrash metal from the Bay Area.
MINISTRY – “Mixxxes Of The Mole” – Track by track remix of 2004 lp “House Of The Mole,” “Trance-metal.”
BXI – 4 song Ep collaboration between Boris – Japanese psychedelic/doom rock band and Ian Astbury – Lead singer of The Cult.
RIOTGOD – “Riotgod” – Metal from 2 members of Monster Magnet.
KNIGHTS OF THE ABYSS – “The Culling Of Wolves” – Death metal from the rascist state (Arizona).
THE ETERNAL SUFFERING – “Miasma” – Blackened death metal from Greece.
DEMIURG – “Slakthus Gamleby” Progressive old school death metal from Sweden.
THE SWORD – “Warp Riders” – Sludge/stoner metal from Texas.
ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN – “Hawk” – Alt-rock from Scottish singer Isobel and multi-band vocalist and solo artist Mr. Lanegan.
DALE WATSON – “Carryin’ On” – Alt-country singer from Texas.
MOGWAI – “Special Moves” – Live concert from Scottish post-rock/shoegaze band.
CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE – “The Well” Legendary blues harp player since 1967, the “White Bluesman.”
KATAKLYSM – “Heavens Venom” – Canadian death metal.
MALEVOLENT CREATION – “Invidioud Dominion” One of the original death metal bands from the Florida scene.
CITY OF FIRE – “City Of Fire” – Fear Factory “lite” featuring Burton C. bell and Byron Stroud.
ION DISSONANCE – “Cursed” Mathcore metal from Canada.
“I walk into the water, To wash the blood from my feet, My path is ever holding, My shadows claimed release”