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01) Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness 02) Leviathan - The Tenth Sub-level of Suicide 03) Vintersorg - Visions from the Spiral Generator 04) Impaled - Mondo Medicale 05) Abdullah - Graveyard Poetry 06) Disgorge - Consume the Forsaken 07) Myrkskog - Superior Massacre 08) Scholomance - The...

Even though their most recent two albums were vast improvements, Lost Soul's Ubermensch: The Death of God was pretty good. As was Insision's Beneath the Folds of Flesh.

Some of the idiosyncrasies of the request are beyond my abilities to match but if you're looking for illuminati/alien/conspiracy theory stuff, you'll want to check out Embryonic Devourment, pretty much an Icke-themed band. Their last album was called The Reptilian Agenda...

Mainly what I remember about 2014 is being utterly blown away by Domains and Emptiness. Looking at a list I made for another forum, there's very little I still listen to regularly. The Satanist and Oi Magoi were really good, though. Old Wainds and Horrendous put out good stuff too. For some...

01) Emperor - IX Equilibrium 02) Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst 03) Immortal - At the Heart of Winter 04) Opeth - Still Life 05) Immolation - Failures for Gods 06) Nocturnus - Ethereal Tomb 07) Abigor - Channeling the Quintessence of Satan 08) Behemoth - Satanica 09) Satyricon - Rebel...

This year just happened to come up on another forum so I already had a list ready to go. I guess because of the 10 year thing. It was a surprisingly good year, if in quality not quantity. 01) Spite Extreme Wing - Vltra 02) Opeth - Watershed 03) Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels 04)...

This year is ludicrous. Right around this time I was making the time honored metalhead transition between hard rock and "the heavy shit," sort of moving from stuff like KISS, AC/DC, Rush, etc., to Maiden, Priest, and Metallica -- then bam, having my mind fucking blown when Reign in Blood...

Emo bands are low hanging fruit but there's one called The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die. Years ago there was a local band called Package.

Witchrist There is -- or was -- an Italian black metal band called Art Inferno, which ranks up there. I always thought Dawn was a silly name for extreme metal, black or otherwise. The Norwegian black metal band Hat, which, yes I get it, not an English word, but it looks ridiculous and makes...

Atlanta's always had a pretty decent scene, nothing really mindblowing but a lot of a solid bands plugging away in relative obscurity. Can't say I've ever known any of them personally but thanks to the long running college radio show WREKage I've been exposed to a great deal of the city's (and...

Man, Finndeath is its own kickass universe. Most of the above are at least somewhat familiar to me but it's always fun to go back and have a themed listening session. One that I really like is Coprophilia's '91 demo. Definitely has the blend of churning death metal and folky melodies that would...

Weird year. On the one hand, it was an easy list to make because there's a small group of albums that are among my favorites of all time, dark horses in a lot of cases -- and then a steep dropoff into oblivion; on the other, many of my favorite bands of the day, especially my beloved...

Left off some obvious classics in favor of newer favorites for the sake of breaking up the ol' list-making monotony. Either way I probably listen to stuff like Colored Sands, Sinister Ceremonies, and Nothing but the Whole just as much as, if not more than, I listen to Obscura, Altars of Madness...

1. Enslaved - Mardraum: Beyond the Within 2. Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe 3. Destroyer666 - Phoenix Rising 4. Borknagar - Quintessence 5. Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance 6. Mayhem - Grand Declaration of War 7. Immolation - Close to a World Below 8. Morbid Angel - Gateways to...

Oracle Moon is really impressive; kind of got overlooked at the time but the consensus seems to have righted itself. 2000 was an utterly ridiculous year. Not only was the music brilliant, but on a personal level I was two or three years into getting myself reacquainted with metal after having...