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Immortal - Pure Holocaust Immortal - Blizzard Beasts

Ok, let's get this one on the record! I wish I was on here bullshitting with you bastards more but work and life, you know the drill. Many thanks for everyone's posts and humoring my diatribes. EPs/Demos: (no particular order) ESKHATON – Horracle. Brutal black death. Australia. EP Tomb of Annihilation - End of Time. Melodic DM. Richmond VA. EP Malum Mortuus - Ashes of the Traitor's Cross. Black crust thrash. Denver Necroblasphemy - Necroblasphemic Rites (Demo). OSDM grind. Germany Shrouded Infinity - Through Caverns Unknown. DM. USA Deviants - Legion (EP). Death-thrash. Chile Nahasheol – KAAOSOTH. Black dark metal. Netherlands Saudade - From Desire to Demise. Black. UK Devouring Famine - Dirge for the devoured(Demo). Raw black. USA YRR - Sokeiden Valtakunta. Black. Finland Mørkt Tre - Марення Осені. Atmospheric black. Ukraine Abysm Diabolis - Visions from the Haunted Realm. OSDM. Canada. EP QRIXKUOR – Zoetrope. Black atmospheric death. UK. EP Left Cross - Promo 2022. Death. USA Eschatology – Eschatology. Black /Black-n-roll. Sweden/Poland Prehistoric War Cult - Under the Sign of the Red Moon. Fuckin’ war. Germany. Full Lengths: (in no particular order) Concilivm - A Monument in Darkness. DM. Chile. Heavy fisted repeated punches to the gut DM. Primordial Serpent - Kingdom of Darkness and Despair. Black. Canada. Serpentshrine - Allegiance to the Myth. Black. USA Cabinet - Claustrophobic Dysentery. Black death doom. USA. Just the most heavy and nauseating DM you could find in 2022. Axxmaxxius Devastruktor - Blood Seeps into the Black Earth. Death grind. Australia Druids – Shadow Work. Psychedelic Doom. USA. My college self would have blown a gasket discovering this. Many years later this is still jaw-droppingly good despite my love of goat metal. Dinbethes – Balans. Dutch Black. Netherlands. Very cool, atmospheric and somehow sounds original. A black metal stand out this year. Autonoesis - Moon of Foul Magics. Space Black thrash. Canada. Each fret gets a run in this black metal moon shot. Fun for light years. Nexwomb – S/T. Black death. USA. Unrelenting and uncompromising DM. Defiatory – Apokalyps. Thrash. Sweden. Pretty straight forward thrash metal, but thrash will never die. Misþyrming - Með hamri. Black. Iceland. I won’t argue with anyone who makes this AoTY. Its easily that good. Cult of Extinction - Gnosis of the Wicked. Black Death. Germany Ritual Mass - It Ever Turns. War grind. USA Manticore - Endless Scourge of Torment. Brutal black death. USA. A shade less excellent than Persecutory, but right in line with the same punishing black/death assault. Desolate Shrine - Fires of the Dying World. Black death. Finland. Excellent, if not a touch on the depressing side. This one faded some as the year went on tbh. Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh. Death thrash. Chile. Could have cracked the top 10 depending on the day. Lunar Tombfields – The Eternal Harvest. Atmospheric black. France. Mulyfication – Feed. Cavernous DM. Ukraine. Surprisingly lively and fresh considering it is moldy-corpse DM. Satan's Blade - Curse of the Blade. Metal. USA. I love elaborate genre-bending, but this is can only be described as metal. Necromutilator - Oath of Abhorrence. Black death thrash. Italy. Goaty in all the fun ways. Abhorrency – Climax of Disgusting Impurities. War. USA. Cross between Ascended Dead and Profane Order, so yes it is painfully good. Schizophrenia - Recollections of the Insane. Death thrash. Belgium. Back with a new banger! Critical Defiance - No Life Forms. Thrash. Chile. These guys slay! Imprecation - In Nomine Diaboli. OSDM. USA Void Wraith – II. Black. USA. Serpentfyre - Baptism of Shadows. Black. Finland. THOS ÆLLA - Sempiternal Mobocracies. Blackened thrash. USA. Almost too much guitars...but not too much at all. Ares Kingdom - In Darkness at Last. Death thrash. USA. Right up there with Besieged as the best still doing it. Rotborn - On the Perspective of an Imminent Downfall. OSDM. Brazil. It is rotten but really good. Brazilian OSDM and not Sepultura worship. Vessel Of Iniquity - The Path Unseen. Black death noise. UK. Sanity testing extremity that attacks the boundaries of music. Top-10: (order-ish) Thebes - Ziggurat Beyond the Unseen Shroud. Atmospheric black doom. Hits all the right feels for an atmospheric black/doom without getting boring or sad. Desecresy - Unveil in the Abyss. Cavernous DM. Finland. And just like that these guys come roaring and rumbling back with a flawless album. Same sound, but better execution. Blackbraid – Blackbraid I. Black. USA. I don’t do black-folk but this transcends. It also slays. Beyond Mortal Dreams - Abomination of the Flames. DM. Australia. Intense and immersive, this is DM taken to a higher level that most bands only aspire to. Karmanjaka - Gates of Muspel. Melodic progressive black. Sweden. So cool and varied. I feel like a cool person because I like this. Persecutory - Summoning the Lawless Legions. Black death. Turkey. Another band that returned to perfect their sound. Punishing, but layered and deliberate. Perdition Temple - Merciless Upheaval. Black Death. USA. Never heard of these guys but this one is death-fucking-tastic. Reminds me in all the best ways of the Polish style of punishing and exact black death that I love. Golgothan Remains - Adorned in Ruin. Blackened DM. Australia. These goats have evolved into a new disturbingly heavy and complex monstrosity. Besieged - Violence Beyond All Reason. Death thrash. Canada. When you kick out the best death thrash in recent memory you deserve your spot, even if countless bands have tried the same style. Greatness is greatness. Spectral Souls - Towards Extinction. DM. Peru. I don’t gaf, I kept hitting play on this and it never disappointed. Just a fun, raucous, barely contained and at times out of control extravaganza of metal enthusiasm.

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi (2020)

Marduk - Those of the Unlight Enslaved - Yggdrasill

01 Worm - Bluenothing (20 Buck Spin) 02 Immolation - Acts Of God (Nuclear Blast) 03 The Chasm - The Scars Of A Lost Reflective Shadow (Luxinframundis/VIC) 04 Hearse - Traipse Across The Empty Graves (Sinistrari) 05 Old Sorcery - Dragon Citadel Elegies (Essential Purification/Dungeons Deep) 06 Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant (Peaceville) 07 Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead! (Universal/Tradecraft) 08 Corpsegrinder - Corpsegrinder (Perseverance) 09 Spectrum Mortis – Bit Meseri - The Incantation (Listenable) 10 Vacuous – Dreams Of Dysphoria (Me Saco Un Ojo/Dark Descent)

Mork - Katedralen (2021)

Yeah! I should do an Immortal discog run through soon.

Absolutely same. They're like chips, I can never have just one. And he's now more of a forgetful Zoidberg than a vegetarian orca these days

Winter - Into Darkness (1990)

https://untappd.com/b/equilibrium-brewery-spring-eggsperiment/4287063 Yeah...it was actually an Easter release...hence the chocolate eggs, but it was this or the eggnog IPA https://untappd.com/b/evil-twin-brewing-eggnog-ipa/2407013 ...on a side note, just found out Evan Williams makes eggnog, and I need to track that down next year if the world doesn't explode

We're in more progressive times. Besides, it's always breakfast somewhere. Myself - about 4 fingers of Redemption High Rye Bourbon. Been a tough week.

New Lamp of Murmuur "Saturnian Bloodstorm" https://lampofmurmuur.bandcamp.com/album/saturnian-bloodstorm?from=feedfan-ravensixk

Suppression - The Sorrow of Soul Through Flesh - boys weren't tardy to the school of Obituary (see what I did there). You could have easily convinced me this was an Obituary album I had never heard.

My mo moves by itself just like ol' Zoidy NP: That Black Sabbath video posted a few days ago,.

DISCONFECT - Less Future FERAL STATE - Feral State

Vomitrot - Rotten Vomit, deathgrind Sweden, looks like I missed this wonderfully disgusting slab of filth back in April, but fortunately I've caught it in time to get it on my list. Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge For the Blessed Ones, Italian death

Windhand - Eternal Return, 2018 Richmond, VA

Very cool list, Hungus. And a lot of which missed out on. Looking forward to exploring these choice cuts.

This about sums up your list. It's a cracker. Plenty there I don't/won't like but plenty that I do and a good few I haven't heard and I'm going to line up right now. Thanks.

Jungle Rot - Fueled by Hate

Honestly...probably better get that recipe for myself as well one of these days before it gets lost to time If you can find it in your area though, this stuff is the tits. Wife gets me a bottle every year

It was your profile pic for almost 2 years. Didn't realize it was your dingus! Looked weird.

May need a recipe for this... if nothing else, it'll at least tide me over til Christmas comes back around.

I kind of can't help it with them. Too many good albums. I might go a few months here and there without listening to them, but then some dolphin-shaped cucumber inevitably posts something from Kerrang magazine and I'm right back at it.

Haven't gotten that far yet. Thanks for the warning.

I'd settle

Piołun - Rzeki Goryczy

How about Jim Beam? Haven't seen them in awhile, but my sister-in-law used to get chocolates for Christmas that were shaped like little liquor bottles with actual liquor injected into the center..Jim Beam being one of the flavors

And so is that one sir. I see you're on a Rush binge lately. At least I'm not the only one that does that.

Vampyric Winter - My Last Vampyric Winter Among These Ruins

Holy shit that new Lamp of Murmuur track is aping Immortal haaaaard! The clean arpeggiated part is basically plagiarism, lol. I dig it though, sounds better than anything Immortal has done in..... 24 years?

Absolutely...totally improves the reaction time

This album is super good. NP: Rush - Power Windows

Litterally got up to pour a bourbon. Should have stuck with gaseous imaginary animals I guess.

Too late

If you can have eggs at dinner, of course you can have stout for breakfast. Egg stout. Wait, no, that sounds awful. I'm having a Leffe brown ale, which isn't McChouffe, but doesn't suck, and it has the tiniest bit of rye whiskey in for flavor. Solid.

You snooze, you lose 😁

Fuckin hell Surge. Literally beat me by seconds...

Burzum/Uruk-Hai - Unreleased Material 1988 - 1994

OBITUARY - Dying Of Everything

KONTATTO - Fino Alla Fine KONTATTO - Disillusione

G.B.H - City Baby attacked by Rats (1982)

Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary (2016)

AC/DC - BiB

Not one of my top 3 but I keep going back to it for some reason....Destruction - Diabolical

Sacred Reich - Independent

It all depends how keen you are. According to what I can find the Redemption website says that high rye is 96 Proof, which for rough calculations is 2x ABV (it's actually closer to 1.8) and therefore 48%, that stuff is special order and not many places here advertise it or price it. With the stuff Dan sells at 84 Proof (about 42%) you can automatically expect it to be over $100 because of our cost of ABV and the 'prestige' label 40%+ comes with. There is however one place in Australia that will import a Redemption High Rye at 57.2%, its the 10 year old shit, and they'll do it for the bargain basement price of $399.99 a bottle. It's so good you don't even get a discount for bulk orders because the case price will still cost you $400 a bottle.