JohanV

listening to loudwires 50 best thrash albums
47. Spectrum of death (1989) - morbid saint 
I'm kicking myself for not getting around to this album sooner. it's one of the best death/thrash albums I've heard even if it is technically just a re-released demo. 

Couple of Death Metal releases to keep an eye on:
Grotesqueries - Vile Crematory
June 30th
 
Apparition - Fear The Apparition!
Summer release
 
Hallucinate - Bowels of the Earth
August 4th
 
Sepulchral Curse - Abhorrent Dimensions
TBD release
 

Ebony Pendant - S/T
Out now
 

Wish there were more USBM bands in this raw but melodic vein so maybe we'd have a chance to see them play live at some point, unlike most of my favorite Finnish bands who don't seem motivated to cross the Atlantic due to what I can only imagine is an overall lack of interest by mainstream American metalheads. Not that I predict I'll be attending too many more live shows in my old age since babysitting has become a major issue. But a man can dream, that boy won't be 9 forever.
This newest 58 minute, $5 gem from Seattle's Ebony Pendant goes straight onto my top black metal albums of 2023 list, making it the 35th entry. Now that this year is half over I'll have to sit down go through it all and make my mid-year preview list.

Nuclear Assault - The Plague, 1987
 
Nuclear Assault - Brain Death, 1986
 
Nuclear Assault- Out of Order. 1991
 

Encryptment - Dödens födsel
 

PROFANE ORDER - One Nightmare unto Another (2023) NWN! Productions
Brutal!
 

Gosudar/Malignant Altar - Split 2022, Russia/Houston TX. It seems that Malignant Altar has broken up last year.
 
Gosudar - Morbid Despotic Ritual, Russian death 2021
 

Can't help but love this release!
Faithxtractor - Contempt for a Failed Dimension
 

Can't help but love this release!
Faithxtractor - Contempt for a Failed Dimension
 

Majesties are unashamed 90's melodeath worship and I'm all for it. Not only nostalgic but those hooks and songs are legit!

MAJESTIES - Vast Reaches Unclaimed
 

...And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs
https://andoceans.bandcamp.com/album/as-in-gardens-so-in-tombs

Killer single from Finland's Proscription. Black death
The Great Deceiver | Proscription (bandcamp.com)

Phobophilic - Enveloping Absurdity
Sacrilegion - From Which Nightmares Crawl
 
Walg - III
 
 

Sick list Johan - lots of good ones. Also, I have listened to or am aware of most of them so that's always nice!

To whom it may concern below is my blurred view on what is best of 2022 - this list if more material listened too would be likely little different:
Album #1: Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain Album #2: Negative Plane - The Pact... Album #3: In Aphelion - Moribund Album #4: Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion Album #5: De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue Album #6: Sadistic Ritual - The Enigma, Boundless Album #7: The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III Satan in His Original Glory Album #8: Spider God - Fly in the Trap Album #9: Immolation - Acts of God Album #10: Wormrot - Hiss Album #11: The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow Album #12: Revocation - Netherheaven Album #13: Theotoxin - Fragment Totenruhe Album #14: Wrang - De vaendrig Album #15: Misthyrming - Med Hamri Album #16: Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road Album #17: Veilburner - VLBRNR Album #18: Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration Album #19: Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos Album #20: Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration HM: Werewolves, Hath, Thundering Hooves, Inanna, Altars, Golgothan Remains, Decapitated, Concilivm, Cryptic Hatred, Ripped to Shreds

To whom it may concern below is my blurred view on what is best of 2022 - this list if more material listened too would be likely little different:
Album #1: Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain Album #2: Negative Plane - The Pact... Album #3: In Aphelion - Moribund Album #4: Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion Album #5: De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue Album #6: Sadistic Ritual - The Enigma, Boundless Album #7: The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III Satan in His Original Glory Album #8: Spider God - Fly in the Trap Album #9: Immolation - Acts of God Album #10: Wormrot - Hiss Album #11: The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow Album #12: Revocation - Netherheaven Album #13: Theotoxin - Fragment Totenruhe Album #14: Wrang - De vaendrig Album #15: Misthyrming - Med Hamri Album #16: Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road Album #17: Veilburner - VLBRNR Album #18: Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration Album #19: Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos Album #20: Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration HM: Werewolves, Hath, Thundering Hooves, Inanna, Altars, Golgothan Remains, Decapitated, Concilivm, Cryptic Hatred, Ripped to Shreds

To whom it may concern below is my blurred view on what is best of 2022 - this list if more material listened too would be likely little different:
Album #1: Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain Album #2: Negative Plane - The Pact... Album #3: In Aphelion - Moribund Album #4: Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion Album #5: De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue Album #6: Sadistic Ritual - The Enigma, Boundless Album #7: The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III Satan in His Original Glory Album #8: Spider God - Fly in the Trap Album #9: Immolation - Acts of God Album #10: Wormrot - Hiss Album #11: The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow Album #12: Revocation - Netherheaven Album #13: Theotoxin - Fragment Totenruhe Album #14: Wrang - De vaendrig Album #15: Misthyrming - Med Hamri Album #16: Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road Album #17: Veilburner - VLBRNR Album #18: Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration Album #19: Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos Album #20: Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration HM: Werewolves, Hath, Thundering Hooves, Inanna, Altars, Golgothan Remains, Decapitated, Concilivm, Cryptic Hatred, Ripped to Shreds

Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (2019)
 

I drink way too much coffee since long time - inherited from the time I have been working nightshift I guess. I still can't start up the day without 2x cups cups of coffee made from frseshly grinded beans. I have tried drinking a lot more tea during a period last year but apparently I can't handle tea, I was awake during some nights with some serious stomach pains. Since then I quit tea again and I never had i anymore. So got to stick to coffee drinking all day.

it's my own fault I keep telling myself don't buy more albums intel you hear all of the others but then I see something on amazon like. here is that really cool old album you want but there's only like 5 left so you better hurry up and buy it before it's gone, and I fall for it every. single. time.

New Rudra! One of those astoundingly good metal bands that no one has ever heard of. You could write a thesis on these guys.
Eight Mahavidyas | RUDRA | Awakening Records (bandcamp.com)

Hate Forest - Innermost (BM, Ukraine)
Don't finalize those year end lists just yet. New Hate Forest full length just dropped out of nowhere.

Furia - Martwa Polska Jesień
 

Furia - Martwa Polska Jesień