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NPR: The Best Metal Albums of 2011 (by Lars Gotrich)
Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
I made it my personal goal to listen to more death metal in 2011. We all have our blind spots and this was a gaping wide hole in my horn-raising knowledge. I’m happy to report that I spent a massive amount of time and cash on these filthy sounds, and particularly fell hard for such harbingers of death like the Nuclear War Now! and Hells Headbangers labels. Strangely, when it came time to rank my 25 favorite metal albums of the year, that investment only landed one album in my top ten: Ulcerate’s The Destroyers of All, maybe the most inside-out album of the bunch. What can I say? I’m a creature of doomed and blackened habit.
You can listen to the top ten of those picks below and let Google guide the rest. As always, I couldn’t possibly hear every metal record released in 2011 (though I damn sure tried), which is why reading other year-end lists (and your comments) makes for good filling-in of the gaps.
10. 40 Watt Sun – The Inside Room
Sad bastards have a place in heavy music — Harvey Milk, Mournful Congregation, and Loss, to name a few — after all, what’s more depressing than a bunch of grizzly dudes strumming slow and low at full volume? But sadness can be pretty, too, and former Warning member Patrick Walker gets that. The songs on 40 Watt Sun‘s debut, The Inside Room, are bleak and beautiful, full of melancholic melodies, a funereal pace and Walker’s desperate yearning.
9. Krallice – Diotima
As always, Krallice continues to be very good at what it does, that being mind-melding, long-form discourses through the polymath-metal-cal strata. Eight months after Diotima‘s release, I’m still finding new layers and new riffs that sharply counterpoint a frankly unbeatable rhythm section on the band’s third album. Krallice gets the hipster tag sometimes, but Diotima is not so-called highbrow black metal. It’s total sense-obliteration
Continue reading: The Best Metal Albums Of 2011 : All Songs Considered Blog : NPR
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Hammers of Misfortune Confirmed For Roadburn 2012
Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
We’re excited to announce that Hammers of Misfortune have been confirmed for the Thursday Roadburn date, Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland. Led by the driven, outspoken John Cobbett (also of Ludicra fame), San Francisco, CA-based progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune borrow elements from ...read more
Album of the day: Hammers Of Misfortune – 17th Street
Posted on Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: 17th Street is the fifth studio album released by visionary, San Francisco, CA-based progressive metal band Hammers of Misfortune. I have to be honest: reducing their genre to “progressive” feels disingenuous. Hammers of Misfortune are Hammers of Misfortune, full stop. They borrow elements from ...read more
Hammers of Misfortune: New Track Available For Streaming at Pitchfork
Posted on Monday, September 26th, 2011
San Francisco’s Hammers of Misfortune have posted the title track from their forthcoming album 17th Street online now at Pitchfork.Listen HERE. “Led by John Cobbett (ex-Ludicra, Slough Feg), the retooled band’s fifth studio album 17th Street, out October 25 courtesy of Metal Blade, is a song cycle about “loss and ...read more
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