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As the year and the decennium is coming to an end (and no, we are not getting into the discussion if the decennium includes 2010 as well) we at Roadburn HQ thought it would be a nice idea to let our readers, visitors, friends, acquaintances and people who just passed by accidentally put together a Roadburn Top 10 of the Decade, replete with stoner, doom, drone, heavy ‘70s, psychedelica, post rock and spacerock delights.
How does this work? Please put your top 10 of Roadburn-related albums in the comments and we’ll do the math just before Christmas. Your last chance to send in your lists will be Thursday, December 24th, and we’ll announce the definite list between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Starting off with our own lists:
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Jurgen – Roadburn
Neurosis – Given to the Rising (2LP)
For me their return to form after my 90s favourites Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver in Blood.
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters (2LP)
Dark, warm and textured, black metal does not get any better than this for me. Is it true BM? Who cares!
Sunn o))) – Black One (2LP)
After a few Whites, Black One got to me more with it’s more diverse mixture of black, ambient and drones. Maybe Monoliths and Dimensions will top this one in time but for now this is the one that made feedback a proper artform.
Serena Maneesh – Serena Maneesh (2LP)
At the time My Bloody Valentine was a thing of the past but these Norwegians were the closest thing to pre-Loveless MBV you could get.
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (2LP)
Most bands deliver their best goods at the beginning of their career but for me WT is just as good or even better than Come my Fanatics or Dopethrone. The resurrection of the Wizard!
High on Fire – Death is his communion (LP)
HoF are true descendants of Motorhead and this album is where they show it best. Agression coupled with melody makes a mean potion in the hands of Matt Pike and co.
Various – John Barleycorn Reborn (2CD)
The odd one out in this list. JBR compiles dark and somethimes heavy psychedelic UK folk songs made by mostly unknown contemporary bands.
Down – Over The Under (2LP)
They know their craft and they do it well. Nuff said.
Jesu – Jesu 2LP
Envision shoegaze and dark pounding psychedelica meeting on the dissection table. Leave it to Justin Broadrick to find another niche of his own.
The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand (2LP)
Where My Bloody Valentine and Neurosis finally meet. Haunting and mesmerizing music, with a sad story behind it to boot.
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses in the Sky
Leslie – Roadburn
A Silver Mt. Zion – Horses in the Sky
Difficult to choose just one by this thankfully prolific bunch. They kicked off the decade with what is now an eerily prescient declaration, “Let’s kill first the bankers, with their professional demeanor” and then went on to write the liner notes to the entire decade.
The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree
Feel-good hit of the decade refrain: “I am gonna make it through this year, if it kills me!”
Rasputina – Oh Perilous World
I dream of the day that Melora C. manages to drag her cello over to these shores.
Celtic Frost – Monotheist
Too scary to play at home. Actually, the gig in San Francisco was a strong contender for best of the decade, except the overall vibe of the night left me pining for Dutch audiences. Social encounters included a teen Goatwhore groupie in Sarah Palin glasses droning about how “killer” they are, and a guy with eroded teeth pestering me for my email so we could “make mad bux sellin’ old punk flyers an’ shit in like Holland, and Germany, man, Germany” backed by the claim he had hung out at the Verbal Abuse house in the old days. I declined the offer.
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
The more than a decade-long affair was withering on the vine in 2004 and by 2006 the thrill was officially gone. “It’s not you, it’s me.” Then suddenly in 2008 it was time to dust off the old psychonaut suit and enjoy
the return of the sparks.
CocoRosie – Noah’s Ark
Light the candles, fill the tub with bubbles and trip away.
Low – The Great Destroyer
The VPRO documentary on the band was deeply disturbing and added an extra dimension to the already uneasy listening Low provides.
Marissa Nadler – Songs III: Bird on the Water
As my friend said after seeing her in concert, “I wanted to take her home and build her a little dandelion-filled graveyard out back to haunt.”
DoMakeSayThink - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
Tis the season to break this one out again. It’s like icicles and hot cocoa all in one. I can’t think of any other record that alternates between sparkling chills and comforting warmth with similar grace and charm.
Firewater – The Golden Hour
The soundtrack to the only blog I followed from start to finish during this decade. Observations by Tod A. include “most of Calcutta ain’t much worse than the Lower East Side on any given Sunday morning following a
Lower East Side Saturday night. You would just have to add a few cows to the picture.” [source: http://postcards.blogs.com/postcards_from_the_other_/]
Bonus
Best gig of the decade: Neil Young, Antwerp’s Stadsschouwburg, 11 February 2008. There he was, all by himself on stage in that big theatre during the acoustic half of the gig, singing “Ambulance Blues.” Beautiful.
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Drew – Roadburn
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
35007 - Phase V
The Heads – Everybody Know We Got Nowhere
Entombed – Uprising
Boris – Flood
Pharaoh Overlord – The Battle of the Axehammer
Church of Misery – Master of Brutality
Agents of Oblivion – Agents of Oblivion
Graveyard – Graveyard
Gorilla – Maximum Riff Mania
Walter – Roadburn
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky
OM – Conference of the Birds
The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere
Celtic Frost - Monothiest
Down – Over the Under
35007 – Liquid
Neurosis – Givin to the Rising
Witchcraft - S/T
The Hidden Hand - Mother, Teacher, Destroyer
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1 Wolves in the throne room :Black Cascade
2 Sunn o))) Black Album
3 Boris; Flood
4 gravetemple The Demos Cd
5 Nachtmystium:assasins
6 burial chamber trio lp
7Anaal Nahtrakh:The Codex Necro
8 transitional:Stomach of the sun
9 Wicked King Wicker :wicked king Wicker
10 Yob: The Great cessation
Have A Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
Impure Wilhelmina – I Can’t Believe I was Born In July
White Hills – Heads On Fire
U.S.Christmas – Eat The Low Dogs
Cult Of Luna – Somewhere Along The Highway
Electric Wizard – Whitchcult Today
Gnaw Their Tongues – For All Slaves… A Song of False Hope
Converge – No Heroes
Kehlvin – The Mountain Daylight Time
AmenRa – Mass III
Best gigs
Iggy +The Stooges Live in lokeren 2006( best gig of all time!)
Sunn o))) in 4ad..2007
Burial chamber trio in Brussels 2006?
Sunn o))) in AB..2009
KTL in AB 2007
Wolves in the throne room Antwerp.;2008
Boris:Brussels 2007
New york dolls.;Tiny club in Gent 2007
Mark stewart and the maffia 2006
Nin.all
1. Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3. Corrosion Of Conformity – America’s Volume Dealer
4. Crowbar – Sonic Excess In It’s Purest Form
5. Clutch – Pure Rock Fury
6. Acid King – III
7. Eyehategod – Confederacy Of Ruined Lives
8. Scissorfight – Mantrapping For Sport and Profit
9. Unida – The Great Divide
10. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
1 – Queens of the stone age – songs for the deaf
2 – Electric wizzard – witchcult today
3 – Kyuss – Blues for the red sun
4 – Kyuss – Welcome to sky valley
5 – Electric wizzard – Dopethrone
6 – Boris & Michio Kurihara – Rainbow
7 – Agalloch – Ashes against the grain
8 – Neurosis – given tot he rising
9 – Queens of the stone age – QOSA
10 – Greymachine – Disconnected
I know, I know. A lot of the same bands but those are legendary for a reason.
Best ‘roadburnisch’ albums of 2009 (next to greymachine)Dälek – guttertactics, OM – god is good, Sólfastir – Köld, maudlin of the well – Part the second, Natural snowbuildings – Shadow kingdom, YOB – The great cessation.
1. High on Fire – Surrounded by Thieves
2. Unearthly Trance – In the Red
3. Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
4. YOB – The Illusion of Motion
5. Howlin Rain – Magnificent Fiend
6. Electric Wizard – Let Us Prey
7. Om – Conference of the Birds
8. Fatso Jetson – Live
9. U.S. Christmas – Eat the Low Dogs
10. Enslaved – Vertebrae
Neurosis – Given To The Rising
Wolves In The Throne Room – 2 Hunters
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Mastodon – Leviathan
Motorpsycho – Little Luicid Moments
Isis – Panopticon
35007 – Liquid
The Devil’s Blood – Come, Reap (EP)
Earthless – Live Roadburn
U.S. Christmas – Eat The Low Dogs
1. Monkey3 – 39 laps
2. 35007 – Liquid
3. Grails – Burning Off Impurities
4. Nadja – Touched
5. 5ive – Hesperus
6. Sophia – People Are Like Seasons
7. Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
8. Motorpsycho & Jaga Jazzist Horns – In the Fishtank 10
9. Byla – Byla
This is really hard. This is the first list I can think off, and it looks as if my taste limits itself mostly to the Roadburn-ish. This isn’t exactly true, but this decennia is a difficult time for music. No real developments have taken place. Only small ones which build on top of, or extend pop-culture from history. And these times I do listen to mostly psychedelic stuff.
1 Colour Haze: Self Titled (Basically in a tie with ‘All’, but the rules say one album per band and Self Titled wins the coin toss)
2 Howlin’ Rain: Magnificent Fiend
3 Yob: Illusion of Motion (Tempted to go with the awesome Great Cessation rather than risk splitting the Yob vote, but I have to be honest as day that I think Illusion is a tiny bit better.)
4 Farflung: Wound in Eternity
5 Solace: Further (Thought about putting A.D. down just in case they sneak it out this month…)
6 Ufomammut: Snailking
7 Electric Wizard: Witchcult Today
8 Roadsaw: See you in Hell
9 Dead Man: Euphoria
10 Mammatus: Self Titled
Honorable Mentions to: Signs of Infinite Power, Conference of the Birds, and Mother Teach Destroyer.
1. Earthless – Rythms From A Cosmic Sky (sums up about all the 70′s psych albums i’m not allowed to put here
2. Motorpsycho – Little Lucid Moments
3. Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday
4. Witchcraft – Witchcraft
5. Saviours – Accelerated Living
6. Baby Woodrose… Blows Your Mind
7. Graveyard – Graveyard
8. Five Horse Johnson – The Last Men On Earth
9. OM – Pilgrimage
10. Harvey Milk – Life… the Best Game In Town
(11. High On Fire – Death Is This Communion)
did you guys read the rules?
1. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
2. Electric Wizard: Witchcult Today
3. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
4. YOB – The Great Cessation
5. High on Fire – Death is this Communion
1.the Sword-age of winter
2.Witchcraft-S.T
3.Graveyard-S.T
4.Burning Saviours-Nymphs & Weavers
5.Down-Over the under
6.Dead Man-Euphoria
7.Dozer-in the tail of a comet
8.Oresund space collective-it’s all about delay
9.Solace-further
10.josiah-Into the outside
Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage
Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti…
Gadget – the Funeral March
Grave – Back From the Grave
Graveyard – s/t
Katatonia – Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Mayhem – Grand Declaration of War
Minus The Bear – Planet Of Ice
Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters
@jversmis: Not completely. I just started off in a 321GO manner, summing my favorites from this decade. Luckily they’re all Roadburn related (a rule I missed).
01. High on Fire – Surrounded by Thieves
02. Black Cobra – Bestial
03. Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore – Black Earth
04. Fantomas – Suspended Animation
05. Mastodon – Remission
06. Doomriders – Black Thunder
07. Church of Misery – The Second Coming
08. Om – Conference of the Birds AND Orthodox – Amanecer en Puerta Oscura
09. Zu – Igneo
10. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Only classics!
Best gig ever: Celtic Frost in 2006
Second: Black Cobra in de Batcave
1.Deathspell Omega-Fas-ite maledicti,in ignem aeturnum
2.Dead Man-Dead Man
3.Celtic Frost-Monotheist
4.The one-I master
5.Killing Joke-Killing Joke
6.Suffocation-Blood Oath
7.A forest of stars-the corpse of rebirth
8.Q.O.T.Stone Age-Songs for the deaf
9.Earth-the bees made honey in..
10.the dillinger escape plan-ire works
Faith no more this summer blew awy half the rockstars (bags for puking are under you seats) I ve seen performing in 15 years.
no particular order:
1. NEUROSIS – A SUN THAT NEVER SETS
2. ISIS – OCEANIC
3. KATATONIA – THE GREAT COLD DISTANCE
4. CROWBAR – LIFESBLOOD FOR THE DOWNTRODDEN
5. CULT OF LUNA – SALVATION
6. UNION OF URANUS – TO THE BEARER OF TRUTH
7. MASTODON – LEVIATHAN
8. WOLVES IN A THRONE ROOM – TWO HUNTERS
9. MY DYING BRIDE – SONGS OF DARKNESS WORDS OF LIGHT
10. TOOL – LATERALUS
1. Acid King – III
2. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
3. Church of misery – Houses of the Unholy
4. Melvins – A Senile Animal
5. The Atomic Bitchwax – II
6. Dixie Witch – Smoke & Mirrors
7. The Hidden Hand – Divine Propaganda
8. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth
9. Brant Bjork – Punk Rock guilt
10. Left Lane Cruiser – Bring yo’ ass to the table
Warhorse – As heaven turns to ash
High on Fire – Death is this Communion
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
Acid King – III
Burning Witch – Crippled Lucifer
OM – Variations on a theme
Mastodon – Leviathan
Ramesses – Misanthropic Alchemy
Unearthly Trance – In the Red
Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage
1- OM – Conference of the Birds
2- Neurosis – Given to the Rising
3- Current93 – Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
4- Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
5- Neurosis & Jarboe – Neurosis & Jarboe
6- Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth
7- Amen Ra – Mass IIII
8- Khanate – Khanate
9- Sleep – Dopesmoker
10 – Master Musicians of Bukakke – Totem One
1. Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Midnight Radio
2. Jamie Saft: Black Shabbis
3. SunO))) + Boris: Altar
4. Earth: Hex
5. Probot: ST
6. Lustmord: Other
7. Om: Variations on a theme
8. Quest for Fire: ST
9. Reverend Bizarre: Death is Glory… Now
10. Pontiak: Maker
+ definitely worth mentioning: Dead Child, Arbouretum, My Dying Bride, The Sword, Tweakbird, Witch, Heavy Hands, Church of Misery, Graveyard, Dungen, Gnaw their Tongues, Witchcraft, Creature with the Atom Brain, Lord Vicar, Trouble, Nadja, Nortt, US Christmas, … let’s do a top 100 of the decade next time
1. Enslaved: RUUN
2. Wolves in the Throne Room: Black Cascade
3. Lurker of Chalice – S/T
4. Trinacria – Travel Now Journey Infinity
5. Ulver – Shadows of the Sun
6. Shrinebuilder – S/T
7. Enslaved – Monumension
8. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind
9. A Storm of Light – Forgive Us Our Trespasses
10. Witchcraft – S/T
Oh sorry I missed the “Roadburn-related” rule…
I’ll post again later.
RECORDS
1. The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
2. Tool – Lateralus
3. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
4. Yawning Man – Rock Formations
5. OM – Pigrimage
6. SunnO))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
7. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
8. (the) Melvins – (A) Senile Animal
9. Enslaved – Vertebrae
10. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
I’m not sure if TMV counts as “Roadburn related” but it’s definitely my favorite band of the decade.
GIG
Yawning Man @ D’n Hemel, Zichem, Belgium. Their first European tour in 2003 (give or take a few years) .
1 – Godspeed you Black Emperor! – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
2 – Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3 – Natural Snow Buildings – Dance of the Moon and the Sun
4 – Sleep – Dopesmoker
5 – Om – Conference of the Birds
6 – Venetian Snares – Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
7 – Coil – Ape of Naples
8 – Electric Masada – At the Mountains of Madness
9 – Dälek – Absence
10 – The Black Angels – Passover
at 11 would be: Supersilent – 6 or Bohren – Black Earth
1. monotheist – celtic frost
2. sunno – monoliths and dimensions
3. neurosis – given to the rising
4. mayhem – ordo ad chao
5. grails – doomsdayers holiday
6. darkthrone – the cult is alive
7. melvins – naked with boots
8. motorhead -kiss of death
9. hidden hand – the resurrection of whiskey foote
10. blut aus nord – memoria vetusta II, in dialog with the stars
1- GOATSNAKE “Flower of Disease”
2- EYEHATEGOD “Confederacy of Ruined Lives”
3- BURIED AT SEA “Migration”
4- NADJA “Touched”
5- THE BLACK ANGELS “Directions to See a Ghost”
6- GRAILS “Burning Off Impurities”
7- HARVEY MILK “Special Wishes”
8- COALESCE “Revolution in Just Listening”
9- COLOUR HAZE “Tempel”
10- KARMA TO BURN “Almost Heathen”
I’ll have three outsiders!
MIDDIAN “Age Eternal”
ISIS “Celestial”
TYPE O NEGATIVE “Dead Again/October Rust”
This took too long and will probally get adjusted at some point…
1. Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics
2. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
3. Melvins – A Senile Animal
4. Yob – Elaborations of Carbon
5. Shrinebuiler – S/T
6. QotSA – Songs For The Deaf
7. Floor – Dove
8. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
9. Church Of Misery – Master Of Brutality
10. Kylesa – Static Tensions
Best Gig of the decade: Farflung in the Batcave, Roadburn 09!
1.neurosis – the eye of every storm
2.isis – oceanic
3.celtic frost – monotheist
4.enslaved – isa
5.jesu – s/t
6.sunn O))) & boris – altar
7.red sparowes – every red heart…
8.altar of plagues – white tomb (will destroy in 2010!)
9.cult of luna – salvation
10.pelican – the fire in our throats will beckon the thaw
gig of the decade – neurosis @ roadburn 2007
it was a decade of post-metal
1. Hosannas from the basement of hell – Killing Joke
2. In the Rectory of the bizarre Reverand/Return to the Rectory – Reverand Bizarre
3. Witchcult today – Electric Wizard
4. Conference of the birds – Om
5. Telestic Disfracture – 5ive
6. A sun that never sets – Neurosis
7. Snailking – Ufomammut
8. Lucidogen – Young Gods
9. Hostile Ambient Takeover – Melvins
10.Gentlemans Pistols – Gentlemans Pistols
The ones which just got away, any of which should be in the top ten too
The Garden of Unearthly Delights – Cathedral
The Supernatural Parlour Collection – Amber Asylum
Here come the waterworks – Big Business
Brant Bjork & the Operators – Brant Bjork & the Operators
Robot Hive – Clutch
Monotheist – Celtic Frost
Madre de dios – Dozer
Gig of the decade
Goatsnake/Orange Goblin/Sunn00)) Bradford Rios
1. 35007 – into the void we travelled
2. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
3. Lowrider – ode to io
4. Colour Haze – Tempel
5. Acid King – III
6. Beaver – Mobile
7. OM – Conference Of The Birds
8. Sleep – Dopesmoker
9. Isis – Panopticon
10. Spirit Caravan – The Last Embrace
1. Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
2. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
3. Om – Conference of the Birds
4. Melvins – Senile Animal
5. High on Fire – Death is this Communion
6. Big Business – Here comes the Waterworks
7. Shrinebuilder – S/T
8. Celtic Frost – Monotheist
9. Kylesa – Static Tensions
10.Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
Damn sorry, I played too fast and did not read the “Roadburn related” rule too…All Apologize!
1. Reverend Bizarre – ‘II: Crush the Insects’
2. Brant Bjork & the Bros. – ‘Somera Sol’
3. Sunn O))) – ‘White 2′
4. Orange Goblin – ‘Coup de Grace’
5. Electric Wizard – ‘Witchcult Today
6. Witchcraft – ‘Firewood’
7. Warhorse – ‘As Heaven turns to Ash’
8. Cathedral – ‘Endtyme’
9. OM – ‘Conference of the Birds’
10. Place of Skulls – ‘With Vision’
There are still much more albums, so this is a more or less random ranking, which certainly shows some favorites of mine…But needless to mention.
Really looking forward to Roadburn 2010!
1. ISIS – Oceanic
2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift yr. skinny fists like antennas to heaven
3. Neurosis – The eye of every storm
4. Red Sparowes – At the soundless dawn
5. The Samuel Jackson Five – Easily misunderstood
6. Swans – Soundtracks for the blind
7. Knut – Terraformer
8. Cult of Luna – Salvation
9. Swans – Soundtracks for the blind
10. Clutch – Blast tyrant
1. Baroness-Red Album
2. Mastodon-Leviathan
3. Neurosis-given to the rising
4. Boris-Smile
5. Om-Pilgrimage
6. Isis-Oceanic
7. Gomer Pyle-Idiots Savants
8. WITTR-Two Hunters
9. Big Business-here come the waterworks
10.Lento-Earthen
Sorry for the double post, but best show was definitely Gomer Pyle at OJC Jonosh! 2009
An attempt to follow the rules this time!
1 – Queens of the stone age – songs for the deaf
2 – Electric wizzard – witchcult today
3 – Kyuss – Blues for the red sun
4 – Boris & Michio Kurihara – Rainbow
5 – Agalloch – Ashes against the grain
6 – Neurosis – given tot he rising
7 – Dälek – Gutter tactics
8 – Greymachine – Disconnected
9 – Wolves in the throne room – 2 hunters
10 – Om – God is good
1. Down – II A Bustle in Your Hedgerow…
2. Solace – Further
3. Church Of Misery – Master Of Brutality
4. Warhorse – As Heavens Turn To Ash
5. Colour Haze – All
6. Alabama Thunderpussy – Open Fire
7. Brant Bjork & The Bros – Saved By Magic
8. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
9. Mastodon – Leviathan
10. Opeth – Damnation
Best gig – Neil Young – BDO Adelaide 2009
1. Electric Wizard , Witchcult Today
2.. 35007, Liquid
3. The Heads At Last! Another Amazing Adventure To Open Your Mind…
4. Los Natas, El Universo Perdido De Los Natas
5. Ufomammut Snailking
6. Farflung, A Wound In Eternity
7. Earthless, Live At Roadburn
8. Spirit Caravan, Last Embrace
9. Sons Of Otis Songs for Worship
10. Orange Goblin, The Big Black
1. Emperor – Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise
2. YOB – Catharsis
3. Weakling – Dead as Dreams
4. Genghis Tron – Dead Mountain Mouth
5. Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro
6. Om – Conference of the Birds
7. Asunder – A Clarion Call
8. Samothrace – Life’s Trade
9. Gorgoroth – Insipit Satan
10. Cult of Luna – The Beyond
1. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash…
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3. Sleep – Dopesmoker
4. Corrupted – El Mundo Frio
5. Goatsnake – Flower of Disease
6. Reverend Bizarre – In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
7. Cathedral – The Garden of Unearthly Delights
8. Unearthly Trance – Season of Séance, Science of Silence
9. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings
10. Godflesh – Hymns
Cool lists so far. I’m about a 50/50 stoner-doom/black metal guy, so I cut out all black metal faves to adhere to the “Roadburn” rule, but I see one of the Roadburn folks has WitTR on his list! Oh well, without further ado, my favorite doom/stoner/proggy things of this decade, limited to an album an artist:
1. High on Fire-Surrounded by Thieves
2. Zombi-Surface to Air
3. Isis-Oceanic
4. ASVA-What You Don’t Know is Frontier
5. Killing Joke-s/t (2003)
6. Enslaved-Below the Lights
7. Keelhaul-Subject to Change without Notice
8. Cobalt-Eater of Birds
9. Warhorse-As Heaven Turns to Ash
10. Mastodon-Crack the Skye
1. Earthless – Rhyhms Of A Cosmic Sky
2. Colour Haze – S/T
3. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
4. 35007 – Liquid
5. OM – Variations On A Theme
6. Acid King – III
7. Spirit Caravan – The Last Embrace
8. Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease
9. Baby Woodrose – Dropout!
10.Shrinebuilder – S/T
1. Godspeed you Black Emperor – Lift your skinny fists (…)
2. Neurosis – A sun that never sets
3. Shrinebuilder – S/T
4. Mastodon – Leviathan
5. Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
6. Tool – Lateralus
7. Emperor – Prometheus
8. Nachtmystium – Black Meddle pt 1
9. The Angelic Process – Weighing Souls with Sand
10. Pelican – What we all come to need
Best gig: Emperor – Astoria London – 2006
Hard to list just ten… Really looking forward to roadburn 2010!
Damn we love lists!
Thanks for all the contributions so far!
And we’re afraid that Kyuss, Sleep, Swans, though great bands with great albums, will not be counted as – well – they were releases way before the 21st century began.
1. Queens of the stone age – Songs for the deaf
2. Isis – Panopticon
3. Down – A bustle in your hedgerow
4. Mastodon – Leviathan
5. Probot – s/t
6. Neurosis – A sun that never sets
7. Crowbar – Sonic excess in its purest form
8. Jesu – Jesu
9. Sleep – Dopesmoker
10.Clutch – Blast tyrant
Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
Guapo – Five Suns
Grails – Black Tar Prophecies
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Sunset Mission
Oxbow – An Evil Heat
Fantômas – Delirium Cordia
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of Natural History
Alexander Tucker – Old Fog
Battle Of Mice – A Day Of Nights
Eyvind Kang – Athlantis
Tarantula Hawk
I’ve been only at Roadburn 2009, so I don’t know exactly RB-related bands…
If you asked for a Top 20, Kylesa, Karma To Burn, Meshuggah, Caribou, Yakuza, Earth, OM, Year Of No Light, Maserati… would have entered the list. Next decade maybe !
Anyway, that’s my Top 11 ! Can’t erase one of them
Double post, sorry, also missed the “no EPs” as well as “numbering the entries”. Feel free to delete the previous post by me.
1. Toner Low – II (2009)
2. Ufomammut – Snailking (2004)
3. Dungen – Ta Det Lugnt (2004)
4. Reverend Bizarre – II: Crush The Insects (2005)
5. Warhorse – As Heavens Turn to Ash… (2001)
6. Church of Misery – Houses of the Unholy (2009)
7. Clutch – Robot Hive / Exodus (2004)
8. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
9. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R (2000)
10. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth (2008)
and dammit:
11. Baby Woodrose – Money For Soul (2003)
12. Black Cobra – Bestial (2006)
Apparently also this is out?:
Unida – Great Divide (200? not officially released)
If not, replaces 9. QotSA.
1. harvey milk – special wishes
2. goatsnake – flower of disease
3. melvins – hostile ambient takeover
4. pj harvey – uh huh her
5. hellacopters – high visibility
6. high on fire – blessed black wings
7. electric wizard – dopethrone
8. nick cave & bad seeds – abattoir blues / lyre of orpheus
9. queens of the stone age – rated r
10. sleep – dopesmoker
1. Sleep – Dopesmoker (2003)
2. Pelican – What We All Come to Need (2009)
3. 5ive – Hesperus (2008)
4. The machine – Solar corona (2009)
5. Zone six – Live at Psychedelic Network Festival Würzburg featuring Ax Genrich on Guitar. (2007)
6. Eyehategod – Confederacy of Ruined Lives
7. Ancestors – Neptune with fire (2008)
8. Om – Variations on a Theme (2005)
9. Swamp sessions vol.1 ( http://www.swamp-room.de/swamp-session/swamp-session.htm )
10. Bong – Bethmoora (2008)
some hard choices there, roughly wat i play most in the last year.
1. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
2. Reverend Bizarre – In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend (2002)
3. Warning – Watching From a Distance (2006)
4. Ufomammut – Snailking (2004)
5. Fu Manchu – California Crossing (2001)
6. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R (2000)
7. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash (2001)
8. Bongzilla – Gateway (2002)
9. Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound – Ekranoplan (2007)
10. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth (2008)
Seeing those great playlists, and seeing one Dutch band is coming back often, may be considering a 35007 reunion show would not be a stupid idea?? Huh? Come on guys! You succeeded with Goatsnake…;)
Torche – Meanderthal
The Brought Low – Right On Time
Karma To Burn – Almost Heathen
Clutch – Blast Tyrant
Melvins – (a)Senile Animal
Dixie Witch – Into The Sun
Brant Bjork – Keep Your Cool (had to choose 1)
Gentlemans Pistols – s/t
Earthless – Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky
Truckfighters – Gravity X
Honourable mentions to Scissorfight, Fu Manchu, Taint, Sasquatch, Monster Magnet, My Sleeping Karma and Beehoover.
Enslaved – Vertebrae
Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along the Highway
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Baroness – Red Album
Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner
Envy – Insomniac Doze
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Deathspell Omega – Kenose
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Leviathan – Tentacles of Whorror
1. Nomensno – One
(Dark as hell, don’t you dare delete this)
2. Melvins – Hostile Ambient Takeover
3. Warhorse – As heaven turns to ash
4. Neurosis – A sun that never sets
5. Brant Bjork – Punk rock guilt
6. Clutch – Pure rock fury
7. Black Mountain – In the future
8. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
9. Solace – Further
10. Dark Buddha Rising – Ritual IX
1-Death Row-Alive in Death
2-Pagan Altar-Lords of Hypocrisy
3-Angel Witch-Sinister History
4-The Gates of Slumber-Conqueror
5-The Lamp of Thoth-Portents, Omens and Dooms
6-Hellhammer-Demon Entrails
7-Shrinebuilder-S/T
8-Wino-Punctuated Equilibrium
9-Astra-S/T
10-Witchcraft-S/T
Gig of the decade
Doom or Be Doomed Fest @ The Sidebar,Baltimore, MD 4-13 to 4-15-07
1. Spiritual Beggars – On Fire (2002)
2. Dixie Witch – Smoke And Mirrors (2006)
3. Abramis Brama – Rubicon (2005)
4. Blind Dog – The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog (2000)
5. Grand Magus – Grand Magus (2001)
6. Alabama Thunderpussy – Constellation (2000)
7. Artimus Pyledriver – Artimus Pyledriver (2005)
8. Clutch – Pure Rock Fury (2001)
9. Five Horse Johnson – The Last Men On Earth (2003)
10. Spice And The RJ Band – Shave Your Fear (2009)
1. Warhorse – As Heavens Turn To Ash
2. Electric Wizard – Come My Fanatics
3. Yob – Demos
4. Los Natas – Toba Trance I & II
5. Ufomammut – Snailking
6. Church Of Misery – Master Of Brutality
7. Solace – Further
8. 35007 – Phase V
9. Witchcraft – Witchcraft
10. Earthride – Vampire Circus
Best Gig – Church Of Misery @ Roadburn 2009
01. Witchcraft – Witchcraft (2004)
02. Diagonal – Diagonal (2008)
03. Circulus – The Lick On The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent (2005)
04. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth (2008)
05. Black Bonzo – Sound Of The Apocalypse (2007)
06. Dead Man – Euphoria (2008)
07. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
08. Blood Ceremony – Blood Ceremony (2008)
09. Danava – UnonoU (2008)
10. Clutch – Blast Tyrant (2004)
1 mastodon – leviathan
2 down – over the under
3 ufomammut – idolum
4 zu – carboniferous
5 kylesa – static tensions
6 om – pilgrimage
7 earth – the bee made honey…
8 neurosis – given to the risin
9 celtic frost – monotheist
10 sunn o))) – black one
Due to personal circumstances a 35007 reunion is out of the question.
1. Enslaved – Below The Lights
2. Agalloch – The Mantle
3. Negura Bunget – Om
4. Candlemass – King Of The Grey Islands
5. Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
6. Novembers Doom – The Knowing
7. Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us
8. Primordial – To The Nameless Dead
9. Reverend Bizarre – In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend
10. Type O Negative – Life Is Killing Me
The best gig : Enslaved – European Tour 2008
1. Reverend Bizarre – In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
2. Warning – Watching from a Distance
3. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
4. Circle – Sunrise
5. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth
6. Dark Buddha Rising – Enthemorphosis
7. Witchcraft – Witchcraft
8. Graveyard – Graveyard
9. Witch – Witch
10. Dolorian – Dolorian
and the best gig of the decade: Saint Vitus in Roadburn 2009!
1 Firebird – Grand Union
2 Wino – Punctuated Equilibrium
3 Cathedral – The Garden of unearthly delights
4 Om – Conference of the birds
5 High on Fire – Death is this communion
6 The hidden Hand – Mother teacher destroyer
7 Electric Wizard – Let us prey
8 Astra – The weirding
9 Down – Over the under
10 Brant Bjork – Keep your cool
Best gig: Firebird, Magnolia (Milano) 2009
1. High On Fire – Surrounded By Thieves
2. The Gates of Slumber – Hymns of Blood And Thunder
3. Nachtmystium – Assassins
4. Sloth – The Voice Of God
5. Warhorse – As Heaven Turns To Ash
6. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
7. Indian – Slights And Abuse/The Sycophant
8. Unearthly Trance – Electrocution
9. Zoroaster – Dog Magic
10.Jex Thoth – S/T
1. Isis- Oceanic
2. Celtic Frost- Monotheist
3. The Hope Blister- Underarms & Sideways
4. Cult of Luna- Salvation
5. Earth- Hex
6. Tim Hecker- Harmony in ultraviolet
7. Black Shape Of Nexus- Dto.
8. Leech- The Stolen View
9. Old Man Gloom- Zozobra
10.Switchblade- 2006
1. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
2. Brant Bjork – Jalamanta (it was re-released, after all. if that doesn’t count, go for Saved By Magic).
3. Astrosoniq – Speeder People
4. Monster Magnet – Monolithic Baby!
5. Colour Haze – S/T
6. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
7. Nebula – Atomic Ritual
8. The Brought Low – Right On Time
9. Hermano – Dare I Say
10. Five Horse Johnson – The No. 6 Dance
2001 – A Sun That Never Sets – Neurosis
2004 – Leviathan – Mastodon
2008 – Seizures in Barren Praise – Trap Them
2004 – You Fail Me – Converge
2007 – World Extermination – Insect Warfare
2007 – The Narcotic Stroy – Oxbow
2006 – Diadem of 12 Stars – Wolves in the Throne Room
2005 – Black One – Sunn O)))
2001 – Tomahawk – Tomahawk
2008 – Massive Conspiracy Against All Life – Leviathan
1. Sleep – Dopesmoker (2003)
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
3. Colour Haze – Los Sounds de Krauts (2003)
4. Isis – Panopticon (2004)
5. Jex Thoth – Jex Thoth (2008)
6. Place of Skulls – With Vision (2003)
7. YOB – The Great Cessation (2009)
8. Spirit Caravan – Elusive Truth (2001)
9. Acid King – III (2007)
10. Ufomammut – Lucifer Songs (2005)
1 Mastodon-Leviathan
2 Electric Wizard-Dopethrone
3 High on Fire-Blessed Black Wings
4 Baroness- Red Album
5 Witchcraft-Firewood
6 Bongzilla-Amerijuanican
7 Entombed-Inferno
8 Black Mountain-In the Future
9 Zeke-’Til the Living End
10 Corrosion of Conformity-America’s Volume Dealer
1. Earthless – Rhythms from the Cosmic Sky
2. Cathedral – the Garden of Unearthly Delights
3. Capricorns – Ruder forms survive
4. Orange Goblin – the Big Black
5. Poseidotica – Intramundo
6. High on Fire – the Art of Self Defence
7. 5ive – 5ive
8. the Sword – Age of Winters
9. Spiritual Beggars – On Fire
10. Ufomammut – Snailking
1 celtic frost – monotheist
2 anathema – a natural disaster
3 krux – krux
4 astrosoniq – soundgrenade
5 hermano – dare i say
6 probot – probot
7 dead soul tribe – dead soul tribe
8 apollyon sun – sub
9 kiss – sonic boom
10 monster magnet – monolithic
1. goatsnake- flower of disease [2001]
2. riverside- out of myself [2004]
3. kalmah- black waltz [2006]
4. disillusion- gloria [2006]
5. vinterorg- visions from the spiral generator [2002]
6. devin townsend- terria [2001]
7. moonsorrow- verisakeet [2004]
8. madder mortem- deadlands [2002]
9. communic- payment of existence [2008]
10. catamenia- winternight tragedies [2005]
[redoing the list to be roadburn relevant]
1. goatsnake- flower of disease [2001]
2. milligram- this is class war [2002]
3. morgion- cloaked in ages, crowned in earth [2004]
4. electric wizard- witchcult today [2007]
5. mar de grises- the tatterdemalion express [2004]
6. shape of despair- illusion’s play [2004]
7. the prophecy- into the light [2009]
8. swallow the sun- the morning never came [2003]
9. tacit fury- the invented pain [2005]
10. 5ive- the telestic disfracture [2001]
a. milligram almost had a reunion in boston this year, but then cancelled.
b. current boston band Gozu made a cool ep a couple years ago, reminiscent of a badass version of QotSA.
c. it’s absurd that no one has mentioned morgion so far.
d. a Long Winter’s Stare reunion would be cool, but I don’t know if they ever used to play live.
1. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
2. Colour Haze – Colour Haze
3. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
4. OM – Pilgrimage
5. Ufomammut – Snailking
6. Graveyard – Graveyard
7. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind
8. Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
9. Reverend Bizarre – In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
10. US Christmas – Eat the Low Dogs
1, Neurosis: A sun that never sets
2. Isis: Panopticon
3. Jesu: Silver
4. Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
5. Earthtone 9: Arc Tan Gent
6. Soilent Green:INEVITABLE COLLASE IN THE PRESENCE OF CONVICTION
7. Killing Joke: Hosannas from the basements of hell
8. Queens Of The Stone Age: Songs for the deaf
9. The Heads: Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere
10. Clutch: Pure Rock Fury
1.Pagan Altar – Lords of Hypocrisy
2.Pentagram – Sub-Basement
3.High On Fire – The Art of Self Defense
4.Comets On Fire – Avatar
5.The Hidden Hand – Mother Teacher Destroyer
6.Slough Feg – Traveller (could’ve picked any of their albums)
7.Bedemon – Child of Darkness
8.Paul Chain – Park of Reason
9.Against Nature – The Anxiety of Influence
10.Electric Wizard – Let Us Prey
1. Zeke – death alley
2. Wolves in the throneroom – black cascade
3. Mastodon – blood mountain
4. Sunn o))) – black one
5. The mars volta – de-loused in the comatorium
6. The bronx – 1st
7. Dillinger Escape Plan – miss machine
8. Khanate – self titled
9. Yob – the great cessation
10. Sigur ros – takk
Also great: graves at sea (split w/asunder) and (forgive me) interpol (turn on the bright lights)…
Biggest Live impression would be Sunn o)))’s ‘Moog ceremony’ at the AB in Brussels.
1. Clutch – Robot Hive / Exodus
2. Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
3. Earth – Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
4. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
5. Capricorns – Ruder Forms Survive
6. Neurosis – In The Eye Of Every Storm
7. Peter Gabriel – Up
8. Tool – Lateralus
9. Dark Buddha Rising – Ritual IX
10. Fu Manchu – California Crossing
1. Chimaira – Chimaira
2. Devildriver – The Last Kind Words
3. Children Of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
4. August Burns Red – Constellations
5. Airbourne – Runnin’ Wild
6. Unearth – III: In the Eyes of Fire
7. Children Of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
8. Trivium – Ascendancy
9. In Flames – Clayman
10. Slowmotion Apocalypse – Obsidian
1. Nine Black Alps – Everything is
2. Fu Manchu – California Crossing
3. Metallica – Death Magnetic
4. Clutch – Robot Hive / Exodus
5. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
6. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
7. Om – Conference Of The Birds
8. Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
9. Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease
10. The Sword – Age of Winters
1. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the deaf
2. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
3. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
4. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings
5. Unida – El Coyote
6. Tool – Lateralus
7. (hed)p.e. – Back 2 Base X
8. Torche – Meanderthal
9. Suicidal Tendencies – Year of the Cyco
10. Monkey3 – Monkey3
I’m a little out of subject but that’s my top list of best french metal scene of the decade. If you have time just check this awesome bands :
Hacride – Lazarus
Gojira – The way of all flesh
Psykup – L’ombre et la proie
Benighted – Identisick
Manimal – Eros et Thanatos
Gojira – From Mars to Sirius
No return – Machinery
Big Royal Kunamaka Orchestra – Tales from the dead (not only metal but…)
Hypno5e – Des deux l’une est l’autre
Black Bomb Ä – Human circus
Added some descriptions to my choices above (Jurgen)
1 Earth – The bees made honey in the…
2 Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3 Pentagram – First Daze Here
4 Reverend Bizarre – III So long suckers
5 Baby Woodrose – Blows Your Mind
6 Wolves In the Throne Room – Two Hunters
7 Acid King – III
8 Orange Sunshine – Homo Erectus
9 Taake – …Doedskvad
10 Motorpsycho – Little Lucid Moments
Gig of the decade. Pentagram at Hole In The Sky 2009.
1. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
2. Bohren & Der Club of Gore – Sunset Mission
3. Cult of Luna – Salvation
4. Zozobra – Bird of Prey
5. Earth – Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method
6. AmenRa – Mass III
7. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum – Of Natural History
8. Orthrelm – OV
9. Sleep – Dopesmoker
10. Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters
1. Neurosis – ‘A Sun That Never Sets’ (2001)
2. Celtic Frost – ‘Monotheist’ (2006)
3. Trap Them – ‘Seizures In Barren Praise’ (2008)
4. The Angels Of Light – ‘We Are Him’ (2007)
5. Scott Kelly – ‘The Wake’ (2008)
6. Pyramids – ‘Pyramids’ (2008)
7. Primordial – ‘The Gathering Wilderness’ (2005)
8. The Angelic Process – ‘Weighing Souls With Sand’ (2007)
9. Isis – ‘Oceanic’ (2002)
10. Ulver – ‘Shadows Of The Sun’ (2007)
Gig of the decade:
Neurosis @ Roadburn 2009
It’s cruelty to have only one Neurosis album in there.
…and just for fun, my B list:
11. Jesu – ‘Heart Ache’ (2004)
12. Mayhem – ‘Ordo Ad Chao’ (2007)
13. Gnaw – ‘This Face’ (2009)
14. Doomriders – ‘Black Thunder’ (2005)
15. Godflesh – ‘Hymns’ (2001)
16. Sunn O))) – ‘Black One’ (2005)
17. Anaal Nathrakh – ‘The Codex Necro’ (2000)
18. Converge – ‘Jane Doe’ (2001)
19. William Elliott Whitmore – ‘Hymns For The Hopeless’ (2003)
20. Watain – ‘Sworn To The Dark’ (2007)
Second gig of the decade:
Celtic Frost @ Tuska 2006
Dalek – Abandonned Language
Sunn O))) – Black One
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters
Blut Aus Nord – Odinist
Neurosis – A sun that never sets
Time To Burn – Is.land
Foals – ANtidotes
Woven hands – Mosaic
Amenra – Mass IIII
Isis – Celestial
And best album of the last century, Filosofem, by burzum.
Cheers
1. Celtic Frost – Monotheist (2007)
2. Cult Of Luna – Salvation (2004)
3. Mastodon – Crack The Skye (2009)
4. Electric Wizard – Dopesmoker (2000)
5. Down – III Over The Under (2007)
6. Clutch – Blast Tyrant (2004)
7. Orange Goblin – Coup de Grâce (2002)
8. Baroness – The Red Album (2007)
9. Candlemass – Death Magic Doom (2009)
10. Capricorns – Ruder Forms Survive – (2005)
1. Agalloch – The Mantle
2. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle part 1
3. Knife – Silent Shout
4. Mastodon – Leviathan
5. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
6. Opeth – Blackwater Park
7. Isis – In the Absence of Truth
8. Antony and the Johnsons – I am a Bird Now
9. Angelic Process – Weighing Souls With Sand
10. Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
1 Dead Meadow Oldgrowth
2 Queens of The Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
3 Opeth Blackwater Park
4 Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus
5 Neurosis The Eye Of Every Storm
6 Isis In the Absence of Truth
7 Electric Wizard Witchcult Today
8 Enslaved Vertaebrae
9 High On Fire Death is this Communion
10 Mono Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Best Gig Neurosis Roadburn 2009
1. Tool – “Lateralus”
2. Enslaved – “Below the Lights”
3. Queens of the Stone Age – “Rated R” (2000)
4. Agalloch – “The Mantle”
5. Wolves in the Throne Room – “Two Hunters”
6. Primordial – “To The Nameless Dead”
7. Sunn O))) & Boris – Altar (2006)
8. Emperor – “Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise”
9. Melvins – “(A) Senile Animal”
10. Isis – “Panopticon”
Evoken – Antithesis of Light
Morgion – Cloaked by Ages, crowned in Earth
Sunn O))) – 00 void
Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
Asunder – A Clarion Call
Fleshpress – III:The art of losing all
Mournful Congregation – The Monad Of Creation
Khanate – S/T
Shining III: Angst – Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie
Skepticism – Farmakon
Dead Meadow – Dead Meadow
Acid King – III
Earthless – Rythms From A Cosmic Sky
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings
Oneida – rated 0
Colour Haze – Tempel
QotSA – Era Vulgaris
Lightning Bolt – Hypermagic Mountain
Ufomammut – Idolum
The Sword – Age of Winters
Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease – 2000
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone – 2000
Orange Goblin – The Big Black – 2000
Ufomammut – Idolum – 2008
Church Of Misery – Master Of Brutality – 2001
Sleep – Dopesmoker – 2003
High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings – 2005
35007 – Liquid – 2002
Earthless – Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky – 2007
Pearls & Brass – The Indian Tower – 2006
1. OM – Conference of the Birds
2. High on Fire – Art of Self Defense
3. Colour Haze – All
4. Witch – Witch
5. Queens of the Stone Age – Rated R
6. High on Fire – Surrounded By Thieves
7. OM – Variations of a Theme
8. Yob – The Illusion of Motion
9. Iota – Tales
10. Acid King – III
1 Grunt – Seer of Decay
(Easy decision. Despite albums harsh power electronics there is certain dark and sick groove caught on the record which is seldom heard in this genre. Made a huge impact when heard first time and definitely my dearest album this decade.)
2 Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3 Reverend Bizarre – In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
4 Bohren & der Club of Gore – Black Earth
5 Sunn O))) – Black One
6 Dälek – From Filthy Tongue of Gods and
Griots
7 Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine – Rampton
8 STROM.ec – Divine Legions Beyond Psyche
9 Ulver – Perdition City
10 Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You
01. Fantomas – Delirium Cordia
02. Tomahawk – Tomahawk
03. The Mars Volta – Frances the Mute
04. Oxbow – The Narcotic Story
05. Dälek – Absence
06. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
07. Tool – Lateralus
08. Guapo – Five Suns
09. Ulver – Perdition City
10. OM – Conference of the Birds
Tool – Lateralus [2001]
Neurosis – The eye of every storm [2004]
Colour Haze – S/T [2004]
Mastodon – Crack the skye (2009]
Electric Wyzard – Withcult today [2007]
AmenRa – Mass III [2006]
Isis – In the absence of truth [2006]
Cult Of Luna – Eternal Kingdom [2008]
QOTSA – Songs for the deaf [2002]
Monkey3 – 39 laps [2006]
Best gig … hum … Tool, Olympia [2002]
Converge – Jane Doe
impure Wilhelmina – I can’t Believe I was Born in July
Defeater – Travels
Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys’ Vulgar Hits!
Machinehead – The Blackening
Lamb Of God – Sacrement
Kickback – No Surrender
Hatebreed – Perseverance
In Flames – Clayman
Metallica – Death Magnetic
01.Goblin Cock – Come With Me If You Want To Live! 2009
02.Killing Joke – Killing Joke 2003
03.Orange Goblin – Coupe De Grace 2002
04.Kalas – Kalas 2006
05.Priestess – Hello Master 2005
06.Goatsnake – Flower Of Disease 2000
07.Kylesa- Time Will Fuse It’s Worth 2006
08.Corrosion Of Conformity – In The Arms Of God 2005
09.Russian Circles – Harper Lewis 2008
10.Lowrider – Ode To Io 2000
Isis-panopticon
Enslaved-Isa
Wolves in the throne room-two hunters
Therion-Gothic Kabbalah
Shining- V-Halmstad
Primordial- To the nameless dead
Negura bunget- OM
Moonsorrow- V:Havietty
Agalloch- Ashes against the grain
Tool- 10.000 days
1. Asva – What You Don’t Know Is Frontier
2. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
3. Isis – Oceanic
4. Cave In – Jupiter
5. Celtic Frost – Monothiest
6. Reverend Bizarre – In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend
7. Jesu – Jesu
8. Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters
9. Fugazi – The Arguement
10. Goatsnake – Flower of Disease
01. Mastodon – Leviathan
02. Gojira – From Mars To Sirius
03. Genghis Tron – Board Up The House
04. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
05. Fantômas – The Director’s Cut
06. Down – Down II
07. The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
08. Kylesa – Static Tensions
09. Torche – In Return*
10. The Haunted – The Dead Eye
*OK, I know there are only six songs but for me it is a true album with a unique sound and spirit! Don’t delete it please.
Good luck for all the maths!
01. Hiretsukan – End States
02. Neurosis – Given to the Rising
03. Cult of Luna – Salvation
04. Mastodon – Remission
05. AmenRa – Mass IIII
06. Dozer – Through the Eyes of Heathens
07. Keelhaul – II
08. Poison the Well – You come before you
09. Acid King – III
10. Omega Massif – Geisterstadt
Ha!
Neurosis – Given to the Rising
Jesu – Self-titled
Jakob – Semaphore
Nadja – Touched
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Pelican – Self-titled
Rosetta – Wake/Lift
U.S. Christmas – Eat the Low Dogs
Cult of Luna – The Beyond
Grand Magus – Self-titled
1.Opeth~Watershed
2.King Hobo~King Hobo
3.Black Crowes~Warpaint
4.Down~Over The Under
5.Queens of the Stone Age~Songs For the Deaf
6.System Of A Down~Toxicity
7.Metallica~Death Magnetic
8.Johnny Cash~American Recordings III;Solitary Man
9.Robert Plant/Alison Krauss~Raising Sand
10.The Answer~Rise
Best gig;
The Black Crowes, 3 nights in a row in Paradiso….
1 Lowrider – Ode to IO
2 Truckfighters – Gravity X
3 Earthless – Sonic Prayer
4 Ahkmed – Chixulub
5 Colour Haze – Tempel
6 Karma to Burn – Almost Heathen
7 The Atomic Bitchwax – sft
8 Clutch – Blast Tyrant
9 Nebula – To the Center
10 AC/DC – Black Ice
Best Gig: Stoned From The Underground 2006
Opeth – Blackwater Park (2001)
Negura Bunget – Om (2006)
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
Opeth – Deliverance (2002)
Enslaved – Isa (2004)
Agalloch – The Mantle (2002)
Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines (2002)
Mastodon – Leviathan (2004)
Shining – IV – The Eerie Cold (2005)
Marduk – Rom 5:12 (2007)
(So many albums left on the side…)
1 YOB – Elaboration Of Carbon
2 Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3 Causa Sui – Causa Sui
4 OM – Variation On A Theme
5 Infected Mushroom – Classical Mushroom
6 Bongzilla – Apogee
7 Colour Haze – CO2
8 Isis – Oceanic
9 Hallucinogen – In Dub
10 Fluidage – Harvester
Top ten albums 2000-09:
1. Tool, Lateralus
2. Isis, Panopticon
3. Mastodon, Blood Mountain
4. At The Drive-in, Relationship Of Command
5. Johnny Cash, Unearthed
6. Neurosis, Given To Rising
7. The Mars Volta, Bedlam In Goliath
8. Gojira, From Mars To Sirius
9. Envy, A Dead Sinking Story
10. Opeth, Ghost Reveries
Top 3 concerts 2000-09:
1. Mono @ Café Mono in Oslo
2. Sunn 0))) og Earth @ Blå in Oslo
3. Neurosis @ Roadburn
Top 15 records in 2009:
1. Converge, Axe To Fall
2. Mastodon, Crack The Skye
3. Kylesa, Static Tensions
4. Cult Of Luna, Fire Was Born
5. Doomriders, Darkness Come Alive
6. Saviours, Accelerated Living
7. Shrinebuilder, Shrinebuilder
8. Slayer, World Painted Blood
7. Mono, Hymn To The Immortal Wind
6. Sunn 0))), Monoliths & Dimensions
5. Russian Circles, Geneva
4. Isis, Wavering Radiant
3. Pelican, What We All Come To Need
2. Zu, Carboniferous
1. Motorpsycho, Child Of The Future
Even 50 won’t be enough…
Knut – challenger
Mastodon – remission
Shora – shaping the random
Godflesh – hymns
Breach – kollapse
Cult Of Luna – s/t
Oxbow – the narcotic story
Wovenhand – consider the birds
Rabih Abouh-Khalil – between dusk and dawn
Yacopsae – einstweilige vernichtung
1. Brant Bjork – Saved By Magic
2. Clutch – Robot Hive/Exodus
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – Rated R
4. Che – Sounds Of Liberation
5. Five Horse Johnson – No. 6 Dance
6. Fu Manchu – California Crossing
7. Audioslave – Audioslave
8. The Atomic Bitchwax – The Atomic Bitchwax
9. Various Artists – Sucking the 70s
10. Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
1.Breach – Kollapse (2001)
2.Cult of Luna – Salvation (2004)
3.16 Horsepower – Folklore (2002)
4.Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the deaf (2002)
5.Burst – Prey on life (2003)
6.Isis – Panopticon (2004)
7.Torche – Meanderthal (2008)
8.Celtic Frost – Monotheist (2006)
9.Wolves In The Throne Room – Two Hunters (2007)
10.Tool – Lateralus (2001)
Concert: Cult of Luna – Trier 16.10.2004
1. Enslaved – “Monumension” (2001)
2. Opeth – “Ghost Reveries” (2005)
3. Electric Wizard – “Dopethrone” (2000)
4. Ulver – “Perdition City” (2000)
5. Esoteric – “The Maniacal Vale” (2008)
6. Agalloch – “Ashes Against the Grain” (2006)
7. Tool – “Lateralus” (2001)
8. Boris – “Feedbacker” (2003)
9. Isis – “Panopticon” (2004)
10. Queens of the Stone Age – “Songs for the Deaf” (2000)
0. neurosis – sun that never sets
0. brant bjork – jalamata
0. unida – coping with the urban coyote
0. boris – amplifier worship
0. isis -panopticon
0. tool – lateralus
these are in no particular order, all have stood the test of time and i consider to be classic.
best show was tool @ 1st coachella. it was a mind blowing experience.
1 In flames – Soundtrack to your escape
2 August burns red – messenger
3 Mistaken Element – Mind over matter
4 Hacride – Lazarus
5 Trepalium – XIII
6 Gojira – the way of all flesh
7 Hacride – Amoeba
8 Karma to Burn – Almost Heathen
9 Down – Over the Under
10 Children of bodom – are you dead yet
01 Church Of Misery – Master of Brutality
02 High on Fire – The Art of Self Defense
03 Yob – Catharsis
04 The Hidden Hand – Mother * Teacher * Destroyer
05 Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
06 Bongzilla – Gateway
07 Om – Variations on a Theme
08 Witchcraft – S/T
09 Moss – Cthonic Rites
10 Eyehategod – Confederacy of Ruined Lives
Best gig: when Church of Misery played their first show EVER outside Japan – that was at Rosi’s, Berlin, Germany, 28th September 2005.
(1) Clurch – Pure Rock Fury
(2) Down – II
(3) Enslaved – Runn
(4) Eartless – Live At Roadburn
(5) Gojira – From Mars to Sirus
(6) Fu Manchu – California Crossing
(7) Katatonia- Viva Emptiness
(8) High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings
(9) Lesbian – Power Hor
(10) Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster – II
Best Gig
Clutch – London Garage 2002
1. Sunn O))) & Boris – Altar
2. Genghis Tron – Board Up The House
3. Om – Pilgrimage
4. Motorpsycho – Black Hole/Blank Canvas
5. Enablers – Output Negative Space
6. Shining – GrindStone
7. Baroness – The Red Album
8. Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
9. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
10. Kylesa – Static Tensions
Best gig: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band (april 08, Doornroosje Nijmegen)
Very,Very difficult:
1. Warning-Watching From A Distance
2. Witchcraft-S/T
3. Spirit Caravan-The Last Embrace
4. Rush-Vapor Trails
5. Terra Firma-Harms Way
6. Tool-Lateralus
7. Voivod-Katorz
8. Jex Thoth-S/T-Totem
9. Neil Young-Greendale
10.Tom Waits-Real Gone
and many others…
Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon
Autopsy – Mental Funeral
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Babylon Whores – Deggael
Tiamat – Wildhoney
High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings
Motörhead – Sacrifice
Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
Witchfinder General – Death Penalty
Reverend Bizarre – II: Crush the Insects
1. Neurosis – Given to the rising
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3. High on Fire – Blessed black wings
4. Shrinebuilder – St
5. Electric Wizard – Witchcult today
6. Russian Circles – Enter
7. YOB – The unreal never lived
8. Wolves in the Throne Room – 2 Hunters
9. Mastodon – Leviathan
10. Bongzilla – Getaway
1. Circle – Prospekt
2. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
3. Earthless – Rythms from a cosmic sky
4. Neurosis – sun that never sets
5. Grails – Black Tar Prophecies
6. Om – Conference of the Birds
7. Ufomammut – Snailking
8. YOB – Catharsis
9. Torche – s/t
10. Pelican – Austalasia
Best gigs: Earthless at roadburn or Sleep at ATP
1. Isis – In the absence of truth (2006)
2. Cult of Luna – Eternal Kingdom (2008)
3. Tool – Lateralus (2001)
4. Opeth – Deliverance (2002)
5. Colour Haze – Tempel (2006)
6. Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors (2002)
7. Ulver – Svidd Neger (2003)
8. Ufomammut – Idolum (2008)
9. Neurosis – A sun that never sets (2001)
10. Motorpsycho – Little lucid moments (2008)
1) Q.O.T.S.A.: Songs For The Deaf (after this album the whole world wanted to sound like Josh & co. and in 2009 actually almost every successful rock-band does!)
2)Enslaved: Vertebrae
3)Mark Lanegan: Bubblegum
4)The Devil’s Blood: The Time Of No Time Evermore
5)Clutch: From Beale Street To Oblivion
6)Gorefest: La Muerte
7)Celtic Frost: Monotheïst
8)Astrosoniq: Son of A.P. Lady
9)Negura Bunget: OM
10)Brant Bjork & the Operators: S/T
TOP 10 [2000-2009]
1. Celtic Frost – Monotheist LP
Tom G’s epitaph for Celtic Frost. Spine chilling and grandiose.
2. Hammers Of Misfortune – The August Engine LP
Not-so-classic metal with unequalled epic grandeur. Throw high la mano cornuta!
3. Circle – Tulikoira LP
So damn freaky it hurts.
4. High On Fire – Blessed Black Wings LP
Matt Pike at his grittiest. Title track is this decade’s South of Heaven, hands down.
5. Hour Of 13 – Hour Of 13 CD (put this out on vinyl, ferchrissakes!)
They have the tunes, they have the riffs. Classic doom doesn’t get any better than this.
6. Earth – Hibernaculum LP
The ideal soundtrack to gloomy Sunday afternoons.
7. Mastodon – Leviathan LP
Beats this year’s Crack The Skye by just an inch. Maybe even less.
8. Blood Ceremony – Blood Ceremony LP
Satan’s female-fronted lounge band. Succumb to the flute, succumb!
9. Earthride – Vampire Circus Pic Disc
Sherm’s crewe. The first 3 tracks form the grooviest triumvirate this side of doom.
10. Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle pt. 1 LP
The saviours of black metal. Not for purists!
TOP 3 GIGS [2000-2009]
Mastodon bludgeoning 250 lucky punters at the Sojo in Leuven 2004
Dream Of An Opium Eater make movie magic at Wacken Open Air 2008
Goosebumps of the decade: chanting the Angel Witch chorus at Roadburn 2009
Electric Wizard – Witchcult today (2007)
Breach – Kollapse (2001)
Cavity – On the lam (2001)
Earth – The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull (2007)
Melvins – Nude with boots (2008)
Keelhaul – Triumphant Return to Obscurity (2009)
Yob – The unreal never lived (2005)
Black Cobra – Feather and stone (2007)
Earthless – Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky (2007)
Ufomammut – Godlike snake (2000)
Black Sabbath in Athens 2005
1. Down – Over The Under
2. Arcturus – The Sham Mirrors
3. Head Control System – Murder Nature
4. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
5. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
6. Masters Of Reality – Deep In The Hole
7. Secret Chiefs 3 – Book M
8. Frantic Bleep – The Sense Apparatus
9. Unexpect – In A Flesh Aquarium
10. Cephalic Carnage – Anomalies
1. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
2. Neurosis – The Eye Of Every Storm
3. Om – Conference Of The Birds
4. Earthless – Rhythms From a Cosmic Sky
5. Isis – Oceanic
6. Boris – Boris At Last -Feedbacker-
7. Grails – Burning Off Impurities
8. Pelican – Australasia
9. Mastodon – Remission
10. Baroness – Red Album
1. Tool-Lateralus
2. Colour Haze-Temple
3. QOTSA-Rated X
4. Brant Bjork-Jalamanta
5. 35007-Liquid
6. Dead Weathers-Horehound
7. Down-NOLA
8. Electric Wizard-Dopethrone
9. Melvins/Lustmord-Pigs of the Roman empire
10.Sun0)))/Boris-Altar
1. CLUTCH – BLAST TYRANT
2. ELECTRIC WIZARD – DOPETHRONE
3. OM – CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
4. GOATSNAKE – FLOWER OF DISEASE
5. DOWN – DOWN II
6. HIGH ON FIRE – BLESSED BLACK WINGS
7. SLEEP – DOPESMOKER
8. ORANGE GOBLIN – THIEVING FROM THE HOUSE OF GOD
9. MELVINS – (A) SENIAL ANIMAL
10. CHE – SOUNDS OF LIBERATION
Gigs / Events of the Decade – Monster Magnet (’04) and Black Sabbath (’05) at Donington Park, England & Roadburn 2009!!!
1 Isis – Oceanic (2002)
2 Cult of Luna – Cult of Luna (2001)
3 Neurosis – A Sun that never Sets (2001)
4 Ringworm – Birth is Pain (2001)
5 Mastodon – Remission (2002)
6 Leviathan – Tenth sub level of Suicide (2003)
7 Tool – Lateralus (2001)
8 Burnt by the Sun – Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution (2002)
9 Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless (2000)
10 Modern Life is War – Witness (2005)
01. Steroid Maximus – Ectopia (2003)
02. Archive – Controlling Crowds I-III (2009)
03. Jesu – s/t
04. Low – Things We Lost In The Fire
05. Firewater – Man on the burning Tightrope
06. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
07. Sigur Ros – ()
08. Shining – V – Halmstad
09. Deathspell Omega – Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
10. The Angels of Light – We Are Him
Best Gig:
Steroid Maximus – Paris, 2003 @Centre Pompidou.
1. Shora – Malval
2. Breach – Kollapse
3. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
4. Isis – Oceanic
5. Ulver – Perdition City
6. Earth – Hex (or: printing in the infernal method)
7. Mothlite – The Flax Of Reverie
8. Bohren und Der Club Of Gore – Sunset Mission
9. Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday
10. Planes Mistaken For Stars – Up in Them Guts
Oh i forgot this one:
Chris Cornell-Scream (2009)
I just dig the song part of me a lot hihi.
1- Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been 2001
2- Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm 2004
3- Shining – V : Halmstad 2007
4- The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works 2007
5- Alec Empire – Intelligence and Sacrifice 2001
6- Ulver – Blood Inside 2005
7- Taake – Hordalands Doedskvad 2005
8- Aphex Twin – Drukqs 2001
9- Red Sparowes – Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun 2006
10- Enslaved – Vertebrae 2008
Looks good
Damn, I forgot Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age!
If it isn’t too late, I’d like to put it on the 10th position instead of Enslaved!
1- V Halmstad – Shining
2- The Eye of Every Storm – Neurosis
3- White Pony – Deftones
4- Vertebrae – Enslaved
5- Nord – Year of No Light
6- Everything you ever wanted to know about silence – Glassjaw
7- Taake – Taake
8- Every red heart shines toward the red sun – Red Sparrowes
9- The Way of all flesh – Gojira
10- Toxicity – System of a Down
best gig: Neurosis – Hellfest 2007
mastodon leviathan
om conference of the birds
electric wizard dopethrone
down over the under
80′s matchbox b line disaster horse of the dog
the sword age of winters
saviours crucifire
electric wizard dopethrone
sunn o ))) & boris altar
grails doomsdayer’s holiday
Shit I put Dopethrone twice I wonder why
mastodon leviathan
om conference of the birds
electric wizard dopethrone
down over the under
80’s matchbox b line disaster horse of the dog
the sword age of winters
saviours crucifire
queens of the stone age lullabies to paralyze
sunn o ))) & boris altar
grails doomsdayer’s holiday
So here is my top 10 of the decade:
1. Asva – What you don’t know is frontier
2. Isis – Panopticon
3. Earthless – Rythms from a Cosmic Sky
4. Goodspeed you! Black Emperor – Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
5. Los Natas – Corsario Negro
6. Witch – Witch
7. Quotsa – Rated R
8. Church of Misery – Houses of the Unholy
9. Boris – Feedbacker
10. Black Angels – Directions to see a ghost
1. Sunn 0))) — Monoliths & Dimensions (2009)
2. Neurosis — A Sun That Never Sets (2001)
3. Khanate — Khanate (2001)
4. Sleep — Dopesmoker (2003)
5. Corrupted — Se hace por los suenos asesinos (2004)
6. Electric Wizard — Dopethrone (2000)
7. Mono & World’s End Girlfriend — Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain (2006)
8. Nadja — Corrasion (2003)
9. High on Fire — Blessed Black Wings (2005)
10. Earth — The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull (2008)
-Neurosis – Given to the Rising
-Isis – Oceanic
-Sunn O))) & Boris – Altar
-Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
-Long Distance Calling – Avoid the Light
-The Atlas Moth – A Glorified Piece of Blue Sky
-Mastodon – Blood Mountain
-Baroness – Red Album
-Cult of Luna – The Beyond
-Tomahawk – Mit Gas
Neurosis Given to the rising
Eye Hate God Confederacy of ruined lives
Electric Wizard Witchcraft today
YOB The unreal never lived
Om Pilgramage
High on Fire Death is this communion
Mastodon Crack the skye
Neurosis A sun that never sets
Wolves in the Throne Room 2 hunters
Red Sparowes At the soundless dawn
[1] across tundras – Lonesome Wails From the Weeping Willow (is it really out now?
)
[2] kylesa – Static Tensions
[2] across tundras – Dark Songs of the Prairie [2006]
[3] across tundras – Lonesome Wails From The Weeping Willow/Western Sky Ride [2008] (points split)
[x] neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
[x] neurosis – Given to the Rising
[x] electric wizard (the wizaard…) – Dopethrone
[x] tool – 10,000 Days
[x] cult of luna – Somewhere Along the Highway
[x] isis – Oceanic
sorry forget the []s.
rank just top down…too much scotch!
1 – …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Worlds Apart (for me, it’s psychedelic.)
2. Tool – Lateralus
3. Neurosis – The Eye Of Every Storm
4. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
5. ISIS – In The Absence Of Truth (hard decision)
6. Amplifier – Amplifier (Airborne! What the f…?)
7. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs for The Deaf
8. The Mars Volta – De-Loused In The Comatorium
9. Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love Of Shared Disasters
10. Melechesh – Emissaries
1. Sunn o))) – Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Boris – Amplifier Worship
3. Cult of luna – Salvation
4. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
5. Sunn o))) – Black One
6. Isis – Panopticon
7. Om – Variations On A Theme
8. Pharaoh Overlord – PO4
9. Neurosis – A Sun That Never Sets
10. Ufomammut – Idolum
1. Isis – Panopticon
2. Neurosis – The Eye of Every Storm
3. Pelican – Ephemeral
4. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs for The Deaf
5. Bohren & der Club of Gore – Black Earth
6. Torche – In Return
7. Rosetta – The Galilean Satellites
8. Old Man Gloom – Christmas
9. Fall of Efrafa – Owsla
10. Mouth of the Architect – Quietly
1. Subarachnoid Space – The Red Veil
2. Yob – Ctharsis
3. Eagle Twin – The Unkindness of Crows
4. Capricorns – Ruder forms survive
5. Unearthly Trance – Execution
6. Kylesa – Static Tensions
7. High on Fire – The Art of Self Defense
8. Bloody Panda – Summon
9. Rose Kemp – Unholy Majesty
10. Iota – Tales
1. Mastodon – Leviathan
2. Neurosis – Given To The Rising
3. Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
4. Clutch – Blast Tyrant
5. Brant Bjork & The Bros – Saved By Magic
6. Amenra – Mass IV
7. Isis – Celestial
8. Church Of Misery – Master Of Brutality
9. Lento – Earthen
10. Sourvein – Will To Mangle
My list:
CORE “THE HUSTLE IS ON”
QOTSA “RATED R”
UNIDA “COPING…”
NEBULA “TO THE CENTER”
SPIRIT CARAVAN “JUG FULLA SUN”
ON TRIAL “NEW DAY RISING”
THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX “I”
COLT 38 “S/T”
THAT’S ALL FOLKS “SOMA…”
GOATSNAKE “I”
1. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command (2000)
2. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (2002)
3. Isis – Panopticon (2004)
4. Kylesa – Static Tensions (2009)
5. Battle of Mice – A Day of Nights (2006)
6. Shora – Malval (2005)
7. Gojira – From Mars to Sirius (2005)
8. Tool – Lateralus (2001)
9. Ulver – Shadows of the Sun (2007)
10. Oxbow – The Narcotic Story (2007)
1.Isis-Panopticon
2.Breach-Kollapse
3.Converge-You Fail Me
4.Neurosis-Given to The Rising
5.Ufomammuth-Snailking
6.Pelican-The Fire of Our Throath Will Beckon the Taw
7.Cult Of Luna-Somewhere Along The Highway
8.Jesu-Conqueror
9.Nadja _When I See The Sun ALways Shines on TV
10.Red Sparowes-At Soundless Dawn
1. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
2. Bongzilla – Gateway
3. Earth – Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method
4. Queens Of The Stone Age – R
5. YOB – The Illusion Of Motion
6. Church Of Misery – Houses of the Unholy
7. Boris – Pink
8. Brant Bjork And The Operators – S/T
9. Acid King – Busse Woods
10. Fu Manchu – We Must Obey
Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
Queen Elephantine – Surya
Sourvein – Salvation
Electric Wizard – Let us prey
Burning Witch – Rift canyon dreams
Bongzilla – Gateway
Sleep – Sleep’s holy mountain
Iron Monkey – our problem
Bongripper – Great Barrier Reefer
Teeth of lions rule the divine – Rampton
Grand Magus – Monument
Mastodon – Leviathan
Isis – Panopticon
Neurosis – The Eyes Of Every Storm
Ulver – Shadows Of The Sun
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Madder Mortem – Deadlands
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
Cult Of Luna – Eternal Kingdom
U.S. Christmas – Eat The Low Dogs
1-wolves in a throne room – two hunters
2-Yob – the unreal never lived
3-electric wizard – come my fanatics
4-xasthur – subliminal genocide
5-tragedy – vengeance
6-torche – in return
7-abandon – in reality we suffer
8-laudanum – the coronation
9-jesu – jesu
10-kyuss – …and the circus leaves town
1. Tool – Lateralus
2. Om – Conference of the Birds
3. High on Fire – Blessed Black Wings
4. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone
5. Ufommamut – Idolum
6. Shrinebuilder – Shrinebuilder
7. Jesu – Jesu
8. Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
9. Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love Of Shared Disasters
10. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity
1. Tool-Lateralus
2. Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf
3. Isis-Oceanic
4. Nebula-Charged
5. Dozer-Through The Eyes Of Heathens
6. Nightstalker-Just A Burn
7. Spiritual Beggars-Ad Astra
8. Krux-Krux
9. Melvins-A Senile Animal
10. Los Natas-Corsario Negro
1.Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today
2.Bardo Pond – Ticket Crystals
3.Colour Haze – All
4.Karma To Burn – Almost Heathen
5.Los Natas – Munchen Sessions
6.Earth – Hibernaculum
7.Probot – Probot
8.Witchcraft – s/t
9.Acid King – III
10.Grand Magus – Iron Will
Oh darn, [2.Bardo Pond] should have been “on the ellipse” not ticket crytals…
gloomy sunday- beyond good and evil
lazarus blackstar-funeral voyer
graves at sea, asunder split
high on fire-death is this comunion
graveyard-s/t
brain doner-drained boner
church of misery-second coming
witchcraft-the alcamist
trouble-simple mind condition
fu manchu-we must obey
1. Ufomammut – Snailking (2004)
2. Celtic Frost – Monotheist (2006)
3. Tool – Lateralus (2001)
4. Wolves in the Throne – Two Hunters (2007)
5. Om – Conference of the Birds (2006)
6. Electric Wizard – Dopethrone (2000)
7. Earthless – Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky (2007)
8. Mammatus – The Coast Explodes (2007)
9. Yob – The Illusion of Motion (2004)
10. 5ive – Hesperus (2008)
Best gig of the decade : St Vitus, Hellfest 2009