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Immolation - Acts of God (2022) Number eight on my end of year list that if I am being honest, the boredom of being unable to do much of anything with COVID has led me to do an end of y

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the usual churn of blasting fury you'd expect from BM.

Only when I eat too much spicy food.

NP: Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis  ...I have seen a bunch of "good but not great" or "more of the same thing from Ulcerate" reviews of this album on year-end lists, and the only thing I can think is that people were in such a hurry to figure out what they liked the best that they didn't give this the energy it deserves. It's not their most accessible album, but maybe their best, and certainly a step forward in terms of song-craft and production.

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Only when I eat too much spicy food.

NP: Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis  ...I have seen a bunch of "good but not great" or "more of the same thing from Ulcerate" reviews of this album on year-end lists, and the only thing I can think is that people were in such a hurry to figure out what they liked the best that they didn't give this the energy it deserves. It's not their most accessible album, but maybe their best, and certainly a step forward in terms of song-craft and production.

It was my AOTY.  For me there's no better example of a band at the top of their game.

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I generally can't choose, but if I had a gun to my head this year, I'd say Gorguts. Both phenomenal recordings.

 

The difference between those two releases for me (my struggle with the Gorguts single song format aside) was that whilst both where sprawling pieces of death metal - and one of the brilliant things about "Pleiade's Dust" was that at its core it was still a death metal record - the Ulcerate offering was cutting.  Wounding.  Memorable for the jarring nature of the riffs and percussion to the point were I can mentally hear most of the songs in my head as I type this.

I accept Gorguts make you work harder to unlock the true mastery (if I am honest I am still discovering) but Ulcerate absolutely nailed it from start to finish.

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I accept Gorguts make you work harder to unlock the true mastery (if I am honest I am still discovering) but Ulcerate absolutely nailed it from start to finish.

I wouldn't have put it in these terms, but if I did, I'd say my impressions are reversed. I love the Ulcerate album but I've found it less approachable (by no means a bad thing IMO); Pleiades' Dust grabbed me from the very first listen, it was exactly what I was hoping for after Colored Sands. Their live show was also superb.

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'World Coming Down' was, for me, was the start of Type O Negative's decline into parody and, unfortunately, death. But the final song from 'World Coming Down' is an amazing track and needs to be heard by everyone everywhere. 

If, for some reason, you don't like the Beatles and Type O Negative, at least listen to the last five minutes of this. The song 'I Want You (She's So Heavy) was one of my favourites when I was 8 years old and playing the Abby Road tape at my parent's country estate. 

 

No way dude, World Coming Down is Type O at the top of their game. No fucking around with radio hits or gimmicks, just pure doom and gloom.

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