The Non RC Staff 2004 Top 10 list

[J.]

Astrofaes and Enslaved are the only two I haven't heard that I really really want to hear.If you like latter-era Graveland, you should find soething to like in Woodtemple, but I think we've discussed this.

 

[MFJ]

Ive heard piece of one song, and I liked it. If you want the Enslaved at some point, I have it.

 

[J.]

OK, I am prepared now:

1. Isis - Panopticon
2. Hate Forest - Battlefields
3. Graveland - Dawn of Iron Blades
4. Void of Silence - Human Antithesis
5. The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution
6. Bergthron - Faust Fur Faust
7. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm
8. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
9. Stand-Up Guy - In Fixation, Conspire
10. Capricornus - Alone Against All

Capricornus is the big surprise. I started listening to it towards the end of the year after throwing it to the wayside. It's actually a very well executed dirty black metal album. Bergthron also made a late jump.

 

[Krilons Resa]

Good list J-Dawg.

ha

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I hate numbering these lists and I always end up forgetting releases but here's a go at it.

1. Azrael - Into Shadows Act II : Through Horned Shadows Glimpse
2. Hate Forest - Battlefields
3. The Gathering - Sleepy Buildings
4. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
5. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
6. Wyrd - Vargtimmen Pt. II
7. Morgion - Cloaked by Ages, Crowned in Earth
8. Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution into the Continuum
9. Demonoid - Riders of the Apocalypse
10. Xasthur - Telepathic with the Deceased


Since posting this in another thread I've received my Woodtemple albums and discovered Dies Irae new album. Oh well.

 

[Nate The Great]

2. Hate Forest - Battlefields

6. Bergthron - Faust Fur Faust

10. Capricornus - Alone Against All

J., would I like these?

 

[J.]

you'd lke Hate Forest. Don't think youd really care about the others, though

 

[NAD]

Yeah I think you'd dig Hate Forest too, war metal kicks ass.

 

[J.]

Yeah, it is war black metal, but it's dirty as fuck, and thos vocals, oh those vocals are evl sounding. ANd those folk songs between the metal songs are scary

 

[Nate The Great]

Cool. I like evil vocals. Funeral Mist has some nice evil vocals.

 

[Henrik Main]

Cool. I like evil vocals. Funeral Mist has some nice evil vocals.

You should check out Marduk's latest, then.

 

[Nate The Great]

I have heard that the vocals are pure EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL on the new Marduk.

I don't think its available in the US for a while, though.

 

[JayKeeley]

OK, I am prepared now:

1. Isis - Panopticon
2. Hate Forest - Battlefields
3. Graveland - Dawn of Iron Blades

Haha, Graveland made it to #3 in what, 24 hours?

It's my favourite Graveland album, and for some reason, it makes me want to listen to "...En Their Medh Riki Fara..." with all those horses galloping around town.

 

[J.]

It was inevitable it would end up in my top 10. It was just a matter of where. n time, it may drop or rise, though.

Besides, if there's any band that I can be called a fanboy of, it's Graveland (unless you count Arcane Sun), though I don't give a shit about their ideals, posters, shirts, etc.

But I love Graveland's music, and own 15 of their CDs, more than any other band.

 

[Hell Mike]

It's settled. Damnation - Destructo Evangelia is the best album of 2004.

 

[Krilons Resa]

It's settled. Damnation - Destructo Evangelia is the best album of 2004.

That album sucks.

 

[Hell Mike]

Doomcifer

That person is gay.

 

[spaffe]

That album sucks.

If that track availible for download was any indication of the overall album quality, then yes :|

I noticed it got very good reviews at Metal Archvies (if that's good or bad I'l leavel for you decide) as well, but I can't really see what's so good about them, they sounded rather uninspired and generic to my ears and the lyrics were pretty simple and stupid.

 

[Nate The Great]

DO NOT listen to Doomicifer. Damnation is excellent. Easily one of the best BM releases of 2004. It is pretty raw, so maybe that's why Doomcifer doesn't like it. It isn't epic, it isn't beautiful, it isn't sorrowful, its just raw, grim black metal. Awesome, awesome stuff!