SurgicalBrute

2006 Turned into a much bigger year than I expected, so here's another top 20 Repugnant - Epitome of Darkness Drawn and Quartered - Hail Infernal Darkness Dismember - The God That Never Was Necrophobic - Hrimthursum Negative Plane - Et in Saecula Saeculorum Bestial Holocaust - Final Extermination Lathspell - Versus Ecclesia Proclamation - Advent of the Black Omen Coffins - The Other Side of Blasphemy West Wall - Blitzkrieg Symphony #1 Horna - Ääniä yössä Incantation - Primordial Domination Azarath - Diabolic Impious Evil Yaotl Mictlan - Guerreros de la tierra de los Muertos Antaeus - Blood Libels Wolf - The Black Flame Hellish Crossfire - Slaves of the Burning Pentagram Sorcier des Glaces - Moonrise in Total Darkness Force of Darkness - Force of Darkness The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure

I generally despise Ryan Reynolds...dude plays basically one character, over and over...himself. I can't deny really liking the Deadpool films though, and he was absolutely born to play that role, but they were lucky to get that second film to turn out as well as it did. Reynolds basically had the director from the first film booted off the second because of differing ideas. Disney being absolute control freaks who continually run franchises face-first into mountains + lead actor who thinks his shit doesn't stink = disaster waiting to happen

My lists aren't ordered by preference...that's just how they come up as I write things down. I don't think I could ever really rank my albums from most favorite to less favorite. I had a few more that ended up on your list in my consideration pile. Stuff like Stormcrow and Flame could have very easily made my list on any given day. Horna I like, and "Envaatnags..." is a really good album, but they have so many that are just as good, figured I'd just sideline them this time around for something else. Azaghal was another one, but I'm kind of realizing that, while they're always solid, they rarely make it up into "must listen to" territory for me. The stronger the year, they more likely they are to get bumped As for Evilfeast, he's only got the five releases, but I don't think he's ever done a bad album. They'll all most likely end up on my lists as the right year rolls around

2005 Too many good albums came out in 2005. Ended up going with my top 20 Evilfeast - Funeral Sorcery Slugathor - Circle of Death Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness Taake - Hordalands doedskvad Ondskapt - Dödens evangelium Mortem - De Natura Daemonum Tundra - Ansia Coffins - Mortuary in Darkness Baptism - Morbid Wings of Sathanas Satanic Warmaster - Carelian Satanist Madness Kroda - До небокраю життя... Mael Mórdha - Cluain Tarḃ Spearhead - Deathless Steel Command Drastus - Roars from the Old Serpent's Paradise Craft - Fuck the Universe Adorior - Author of Incest Sargeist - Disciple of the Heinous Path Heol Telwen - An Deiz Ruz Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal Macabre Omen - The Ancient Returns

Sorry for the late reply... ...because those labels are run by sketchballs. So stuff on labels like Werwolf, Purity Through Fire, Drakkar, etc. which tend to sign a lot of those bands doesn't show up on Bandcamp unless the band has their own separate page They were doing that long before being purchased by Epic Games

Well, it doesn't help that Bandcamp has kicked most of labels that sign a lot of Finnish black metal bands off of their website.

Think I'm going to have to break my self-imposed rule of only doing ten for 2005. Just waaaay too many awesome albums released that year

Damn...that was fast. They already dropped a new demo and an EP this year

Okay...all caught up 2004 Armagedda - Ond Spiritism: Djæfvvlens Skalder Anno Serpenti MMIV Evilfeast - Mysteries of the Nocturnal Forest Kill - Horned Holocaust Satan's Host - Burning the Born Again... (A New Philosophy) Wolf - Evil Star Behexen - By the Blessing of Satan Church of Misery - The Second Coming Drowning the Light - Drowned Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell The Chasm - The Spell of Retribution

Okay, for the record, I personally think that's a oversimplification for why violence exists, but for arguments sake, let's say that's true. Man is inherently violent, and we will enact that violence in some way at some point. There's still no evidence to suggest violent art enables this behavior. Everything we've ever studied on the subject says the exact opposite. So what exactly are we meant to be calling out regarding art? If anything, the ability to express these feelings in art, and the ability to engage with these feelings while viewing art, probably serves as a safe way to reduce those impulses...acting as a pressure release

This...particularly when studies into this have continually shown our behavior isn't determined solely by the content we view

So you believe that man, even in a day and age of relative civility, is completely incapable of overcoming his baser instincts? So what's your take on the various studies done towards video games, movies, and television that have repeatedly shown there is no direct causation between viewing violent art and becoming violent?

That's because we've been socialized over who knows how long into the view point that as a society we should protect women, and that's fine, but it's a socialization issue. In reality, the slaughter of any innocent human life is problematic, and I don't really think you (in the general sense) can make an argument about one depiction being worse than another that goes beyond a simple "this bothers me more on a personal level", and have it hold up to any real scrutiny. As for this part of your comment...that's an absolutely massive slippery slope you're standing on. We've seen time and time again, in various art forms that their is no direct causation between art and real world violence (I'll also add, there seems to be some evidence that it isn't a direct cause of misogyny either). That being said, there is some acknowledged indication that it can create a temporary increase in aggression within the brain, but this increase is no different than what you would see in an athlete during a competition. So if we're following this idea that even minor examples should be discouraged...that doesn't stop at pictures you don't like. That goes for your music, your TV, your books, your lyrics, your movies, etc. That's a point of view I can't get behind

Fleshcrawl - Made of Flesh

Does it though? I mean, I find albums that use that kind of art a bit uncomfortable to look at myself, but I can see how the band may look at it as some kind of weird brand imaging thing. I don't think it necessarily says anything about the band themselves as far as them having weird issues with women. It is an interesting question though. Murder and even torture are also real things. What makes this any more problematic than some band cover with a dude getting strung up on meat hooks or the like? I'd say it depends a lot on the depiction...not little kids obviously, but Pearl Jams "Jeremy" video came very close to this sort of thing Venom Prison - Animus cover art...Castrator - No Victim cover art...no one really batted an eyelash about it

Orange Goblin - Thieving From the House of God

Sleep I like...High on Fire does nothing for me Nothing like that...As I'm sure you've seen by now, it's just to keep down of forum clutter and minimize thread doubling. Honestly, it's pretty lax around here. I think most of us tend to forget these genre specific threads even exist since we tend to wander off subject quite a bit in the general metal thread

Hey man...don't get bogged down on semantics. What FA and Relentless are saying is that there's both a Stoner metal thread and a Doom metal thread. You are welcome to use either one to talk about stoner doom bands, but we don't need a totally separate thread for "stoner doom" since it falls between either of those categories.

I think Tara is the only Absu album I own, but never really clicked with me all that much. Maybe I'll get back around to it someday and give it another go. ChaosMancer - Procreation Of The Unholy (South American death metal has really been hitting just right the last few weeks)

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2003 Armagedda - Only True Believers Verminous - Impious Sacrilege Nocternity - Onyx Slugathor - Unleashing the Slugathron Abigail - Forever Street Metal Bitch Sargeist - Satanic Black Devotion Funeral Mist - Salvation Darkspace - Dark Space I Torturer - The Flames of Purification Faustcoven - The Halo of Burning Wings

No...trust me, it's not under explored. It was just a bad year for metal 2002 Inquisition - Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan Sadistik Exekution - Fukk Unlord - Lord of Beneath Wolf - Black Wings Taake - Over Bjoergvin graater himmerik Kaamos – S/T Baptism - The Beherial Midnight Suidakra - Emprise to Avalon Craft - Terror Propaganda (Second Black Metal Attack) Sadism - Summon

I started with maybe 15 for 2001...by comparison, for 2000 and 2002 I started with roughly 40 for each year

Azarath - Demon Seed

2001 - overall, absolute dogshit year for metal Armagedda - The Final War Approaching Blood Storm - Ancient Wraith of Ku Church of Misery - Master of Brutality Deteriorot - In Ancient Beliefs Horna - Sudentaival Vomitory - Revelation Nausea Arkona - Zeta Reticuli: A Tale About Hatred and Total Enslavement Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Follow the Calls for Battle Azarath - Demon Seed Satanic Warmaster - Strength & Honour