Rumpole
Dust and Bones
No has listened to the Ravensire and Witch Cross album? Pretty impressive on few listens. I lost that Pale Divine album in the mail so never got to hear that one.
What's good black/death metal? Don't recommend me gay shit, must be old school vein not brutal, tech or whatever.
Ravensire is pretty cool, nothing terribly original, but fun nonetheless. Witch Cross rules, but came out in 84.
I didn't get too many full lengths this year, but these ones stood out...
Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God
Christian Mistress - Possession
Iron Dogs - Cold Bitch
Demona - Metal Through The Time
Vestal Claret - Bloodbath
Reino Ermitano - Veneracion Del Fuego
Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction
My favourite releases this year were definitely non-albums releases. There were some amazing demos, splits and reissues. In no particular order...
Speedwolf/Nekrofilth - Breakin' Down/Shock Troopers
Graven Rite - The Summoner's Pit Demo
Convent Guilt - Demo
Albatross/Vestal Claret - The Kissing Flies/Black Priest
Lord Vicar/Revelation - Lord Vicar/Revelation
Deathhammer/Nosferatu - Deathhammer/Nosferatu (The Nosferatu tracks absolutely blow away anything I heard all year. A lesson in real HEAVY METAL).
Johnny Touch/Stryker - Possessed By The Heavy Metal Embrace
Marquis de Sade - Somewhere Up In The Mountains
Brocas Helm - Demonstration Of Might
Assailant - First Offense
Stormtrooper - Armies Of The Night
Vein - Crux Calvaria
Walpurgis Night/Attic - Walpurgis Night/Attic
Warlord - Anthology
Altar Of Oblivion - Salvation
Borrowed Time/Wytch Hazel - Black Olympia/The Truth
Procession - Death And Judgement
Disappointments...
Fall Of The Idols - Solemn Verses
Ketzer - Endzeit Metropolis
Arkham Witch - Legions Of The Deep