Black Metal.

I think he released this album a year too soon. He should have taken more time to give more focus to the songs and restore some creative energy which has evidently been depleted.
 
For my latest post on the blog, I've done my Top 10 list for black metal in '07. I've got the list here, but on the blog I've got album art as well as a paragraph on each album, written in true Zephyrian style.

http://zephyrusblog.wordpress.com/2008/01/01/top-10-black-metal-albums-of-2007/

10. Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
9. Arkhon Infaustus – Orthodoxyn
8. Black Funeral – Waters of Weeping
7. Alatyr – Alatyr
6. Anaal Nathrakh – Hell Is Empty, And All the Devils Are Here
5. Abigor – Fractal Possession
4. Limbonic Art – Legacy of Evil
3. Watain – Sworn to the Dark
2. Marduk – Rom 5:12
1. Deathspell Omega – Fas-Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
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The new Xasthur is pretty easily the worst of his career. Disappointing considering how solid Subliminal Genocide was from start to finish. People who say that every Xasthur album is the same obviously aren't listening too closely. TWTD and TVTO are the only two that are very similar. The new one has several new elements, and it has taken a slower, doomier direction, but it is wildly inconsistent.
 
I liked Xasthur only in a few things and projects mainly his early work and his stuff with Sunn 0))).

Again the abysmal bitching...
 
I like lists.

heres mine

1. Funeral Winds - Nexion xul
2. Nifelheim - Envoy of Lucifer
3. Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
4. Profanatica- Profanatitas De Domonatia
5. Belenos - Chemins de Souffrance
6. Drudkh - Estrangement
7. Lunar Aurora - Andacht
8. Graveland - Will stronger than death
9. Drowning The Light Of Celtic Blood and Satanic Pride
10.Blood Of Kingu - De Occulta Philosophia
 
I like lists.

heres mine

1. Funeral Winds - Nexion xul
2. Nifelheim - Envoy of Lucifer
3. Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations
4. Profanatica- Profanatitas De Domonatia
5. Belenos - Chemins de Souffrance
6. Drudkh - Estrangement
7. Lunar Aurora - Andacht
8. Graveland - Will stronger than death
9. Drowning The Light Of Celtic Blood and Satanic Pride
10.Blood Of Kingu - De Occulta Philosophia

Profanatica is trash.
 
I think he released this album a year too soon. He should have taken more time to give more focus to the songs and restore some creative energy which has evidently been depleted.

^ For sure.

A friend of mine is freaking mad for lo-fi Black Metal. I was too, when I first heard it, but over time I've found it limited... or perhaps the artists' "usage" of its' style is limited...
 
Not really in much of an order but..

1. Direwolf - Beyond the Lands of Human Existence
2. Dodheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
3. Blut Aus Nord - Odinist
4. Akercocke - Antichrist
5. Drudkh - Estrangement
6. Deathspell Omega – Fas-Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
7. Ne Obliviscaris - The Aurora Veil
8. Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty, And All The Devils Are Here
9. Graveland - Will Stronger Than Death
10. Endstille - Endstilles Reich