no country for old wainds
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1. harvey milk – a small turn of human kindness
2. blood revolt – indoctrine
3. weapon – from the devil’s tomb
4. hour of 13 – the ritualist
5. demontage – the principal extinction
6. ares kingdom – incendiary
7. stargazer – a great work of ages
8. procession – destroyers of the faith
9. ghost tower – curse of the black blood
10. briton rites – for mircalla
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lutomysl – lutomysl
the wizar’d – pathways into darkness
stench – in putrescence
darkthrone – circle of wagons
temnozor – Урочища снов
not the deepest year but a killer top ten. the harvey milk is the most crushing, purging album of the decade, period, whatever you may think about their other stuff. i won't go on about it again but it would've been my AOTD until 'peasant' came along, and yeah it's metal despite their absence from MA.
2 and 3 are both from sacramentary abolishment alumni, seemingly everything those guys touch turns to fucking gold. blood revolt is basically axis of advance with unhinged doom(?) vocals and jarringly urban lyrics; it's absolutely wild, gorgeous chaos and i love it. a misunderstood masterpiece which belongs in the 'outsider metal' thread. the appeal of weapon is more obvious, surprised nobody's listed them yet aside from tech in his HM's, they were very hyped around here circa 2010 and unlike most flavor of the month bands they deserved it. so great.
phil karlson makes the list twice with the pair of minor modern doom classics (there's also the seamount album which i don't give much of a shit about, hell of a productive year though), even if neither is quite as good as the ho13 debut. the ares kingdom is a riff salad but a great one, and the demontage is as well but a little more eccentric. both crazy pleasurable listens.
stargazer are the best modern progressive death metal band, truly 'cosmic' in a way most of these trendy pretenders couldn't hope to be. procession are chilean so obviously they're reliably high quality, especially if you like your doom slow and intense. also i found out recently one of the dudes on this album is the new scald vocalist! the ghost tower is hard to find now, i feel like i own it somewhere but i haven't been able to find it, so that ranking is based on memory--it was my number one back in 2010, sucker as i am for ambitious, atmospheric trad with some arch-era FW and mercyful fate leanings, but i also remember it not being super consistent, so i might have more of a lukewarm demon bitch kinda reaction to it now.
the lutomysl is a little too derivative to make the list but i've been spinning it regularly as background music for reading, just really damn solid impassioned melancholy BM with tons of hooks. the temnozor is nokturnal mortum if they were more drunk and sad and russian (read: drunk). the wizar'd have that early doom thing going on, pagan altar and witchfinder general and so on, not really on that level but still very cool. stench is the tribulation guys trying their hand at old school sunlight DM with an at the gates twist, i'm not sure it quite brings the songs but obviously i bash the bishop to anything with a whiff of alf. and the darkthrone is probably the best of their 2010s stuff, not just 'cause it has those killer USPM choruses.
2. blood revolt – indoctrine
3. weapon – from the devil’s tomb
4. hour of 13 – the ritualist
5. demontage – the principal extinction
6. ares kingdom – incendiary
7. stargazer – a great work of ages
8. procession – destroyers of the faith
9. ghost tower – curse of the black blood
10. briton rites – for mircalla
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lutomysl – lutomysl
the wizar’d – pathways into darkness
stench – in putrescence
darkthrone – circle of wagons
temnozor – Урочища снов
not the deepest year but a killer top ten. the harvey milk is the most crushing, purging album of the decade, period, whatever you may think about their other stuff. i won't go on about it again but it would've been my AOTD until 'peasant' came along, and yeah it's metal despite their absence from MA.
2 and 3 are both from sacramentary abolishment alumni, seemingly everything those guys touch turns to fucking gold. blood revolt is basically axis of advance with unhinged doom(?) vocals and jarringly urban lyrics; it's absolutely wild, gorgeous chaos and i love it. a misunderstood masterpiece which belongs in the 'outsider metal' thread. the appeal of weapon is more obvious, surprised nobody's listed them yet aside from tech in his HM's, they were very hyped around here circa 2010 and unlike most flavor of the month bands they deserved it. so great.
phil karlson makes the list twice with the pair of minor modern doom classics (there's also the seamount album which i don't give much of a shit about, hell of a productive year though), even if neither is quite as good as the ho13 debut. the ares kingdom is a riff salad but a great one, and the demontage is as well but a little more eccentric. both crazy pleasurable listens.
stargazer are the best modern progressive death metal band, truly 'cosmic' in a way most of these trendy pretenders couldn't hope to be. procession are chilean so obviously they're reliably high quality, especially if you like your doom slow and intense. also i found out recently one of the dudes on this album is the new scald vocalist! the ghost tower is hard to find now, i feel like i own it somewhere but i haven't been able to find it, so that ranking is based on memory--it was my number one back in 2010, sucker as i am for ambitious, atmospheric trad with some arch-era FW and mercyful fate leanings, but i also remember it not being super consistent, so i might have more of a lukewarm demon bitch kinda reaction to it now.
the lutomysl is a little too derivative to make the list but i've been spinning it regularly as background music for reading, just really damn solid impassioned melancholy BM with tons of hooks. the temnozor is nokturnal mortum if they were more drunk and sad and russian (read: drunk). the wizar'd have that early doom thing going on, pagan altar and witchfinder general and so on, not really on that level but still very cool. stench is the tribulation guys trying their hand at old school sunlight DM with an at the gates twist, i'm not sure it quite brings the songs but obviously i bash the bishop to anything with a whiff of alf. and the darkthrone is probably the best of their 2010s stuff, not just 'cause it has those killer USPM choruses.
