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Terrorizer: The Heaviest Albums Ever – The Albums Kerrang! Forgot
Posted on Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Our friends over at Kerrang! have done an actually rather splendid feature on the 50 heaviest records of all time. We put our heads together do our own top 20, and highlight a few they might have missed.
20. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
With the cover art a painting by serial killer John Wayne Gacy and songs about drugs, murder, blasphemy and getting wasted, Acid Bath’s raw, rumbling industrial sludge on 1994 album ‘When The Kite String Pops’ is ferocious and flanked by gruff yowls that make it an explosive listening experience.
19. King Crimson – Red
The album that shut the door on 70′s progressive rock and arguably gave birth to nasty, dissonant metal. And ‘Starless’ is an utterly seismic experience.
18. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumpice
Taking black metal to even more twisted levels of devastation and evil, the sheer chaotic insanity behind Deathspell’s finest hour is designed to fuck the mind and warp the soul.
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Los Angeles Music – West Coast Sound: Five Bands Bringing Rock Back To Metal
Posted on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Trademarks such as death-growl vocals and vicious blast beat drumming have caused the term “heavy metal” to be associated in 2011 with the most guttural sounds that can be produced by mankind. It’s very easy to forget that prior to the mid-1980s emergence of subgenres like death metal, black metal, ...read more
Los Angeles Music – West Coast Sound: The Five Slowest Metal Bands
Posted on Thursday, August 4th, 2011
The words “heavy metal” to most people conjure up visions of blazing-fast guitars, rapid double-bass drumming, and whiplash-inducing headbanging. The bands below, however, are the antithesis. In fact, there’s a growing substrata of groups that are defying metal stereotypes, slowing their music to a molasses pace, incorporating slow-motion riffs, and ...read more
Lurker’s Guide To: Progressive Rock
Posted on Monday, July 18th, 2011
Antiquated connotations surround the term, yet the words themselves suggest an inexorable march towards attaining some sort of artistic recognition for a style of music regularly associated with troublesome teenagers. Through pomp, pretence and prodigious talent, the pioneers of this maligned strain of rock achieved incredible heights of creativity. But ...read more
Stereogum: Haunting The Chapel’s Top 26 Metal Albums Of 2011 So Far
Posted on Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
“Before the quibbling starts: I didn’t include YOB’s Atma because it isn’t out until August. It would be way up there. I’ve also been listening to Dragged Into Sunlight’s Hatred For Mankind quite a bit, but since it has an original release date of ’09 before Prosthetic’s 2011 reissue, I ...read more
Metal Blog – NME.COM: The Twenty Heaviest (Metal) Records Of All Time by John Doran
Posted on Thursday, May 19th, 2011
This blog has been written to upset you. “OMFG! He’s compiled a list of the world’s heaviest albums and not included ‘Necrotic Wolf Enslavement’ by Crepuscular Molestation Cauldron!”, “No ‘Massive Fucking Apocalypse’ by Cataclysmic Death Flange – no credibility!” Don’t worry that the concept of heaviness in any kind of ...read more
Ufomammut’s Eve: Album of 2010 According To Roadburn.com Readers
Posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
In the beginning of December 2010 we asked you, our beloved Roadburn readers, to list your Top 10 Roadburn-flavored albums of 2010. By Christmas Eve we had received 110 lists. Thanks to everyone who took the time to send us their list! This is how we compiled the rankings: the ...read more
Lurker: 2010 in Funeral Doom
Posted on Monday, December 20th, 2010
Two years ago, it looked as if funeral doom was going to be the new DSBM. In the early noughties, with the arrival of cheap and easy home recording software, solitary dudes around the world had begun to ape and (very occasionally) trump the big names in both of these ...read more
Swedish Comp: Wolf People's Tom Watt unearths Swedish Psych, Prog, Folk and Jazz
Posted on Friday, November 5th, 2010
To honour their upcoming gig with Dungen (November 16th, o2 Academy Islington, London), Wolf People got their very own Tom Watt to put together a few of his favourite Swedish psych-prog-folk-jazz tracks. “Hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we do. There is something about music from this ...read more
A Fist in the Face of God presents… Fenriz: Trapped Under Vice, Vol. V
Posted on Saturday, October 16th, 2010
The latest in the Trapped Under Vice mix series from Darkthone’s Fenriz a.k.a. DJ V.K.O.M., is here. And it’s about as speed metal as you will find anywhere. Fenriz told me, “These are mostly speed metal tracks, and I use that term in the simplest sense, to mean fast heavy ...read more
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