El Ten Eleven - Every Direction Is North (2007)

Two-piece uplifting post-rock that would make a great Sims soundtrack. What makes it more impressive is that one member uses a guitar/bass doubleneck and another drums and plays keys. Lot of looping and cool effects.

As an aside, it is interesting to note that a ton of marijuana, sold as green manure because of its nutrient content, was only $5.50 in 1917

Garden of Shadows - Oracle Moon (2000)

Atmospheric melodic death metal. FFO early Opeth.

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Celestial Bloodshed - Cursed, Scarred, and Forever Possessed (2008)

Grim and frostbitten epic True Norwegian Black Metal™. Your perfect companion in the bitter cold outdoors. Fantastic record from start to finish and rich in riffsosphere. Vocalist Steingrim Torson was allegedly accidentally shot by his best friend.

As the cursed words of blasphemy are spoken

Your soul rage and your heart burns with hate

Desire, contempt, fire, pain and utter disgust for god and his creation.

Liu Fang - Le Son de Soie (Silk Sound) (2006)

Graceful sounds and masterful compositions from China by pipa virtuoso Liu Fang. Majestic, ancient and shredful.

If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

Voqkrre - Malveillance (2008)

Voqkrre is obscure, depressive, and most importantly, riffy black metal from the murky depths of France. There's some serious entrancing bleak riffs going on in this little demo. Can't go wrong with a band name that sounds like you're choking on your own vomit.

1. Nokturn (Errance dans un cimetiere ... Entre les tombes ...)
2. Malveillance
3. La Cave aux Rats Necrophages

Malice

Skepticism - Farmakon (2003)

Crushing funeral doom excellence. 

1. The Raven And The Backward Funeral
2. Shred Of Light, Pinch Of Endless
3. Farmakon Process
4. Untitled
5. Nowhere
6. Nothing

Completely torn. All ingredients included. The process soon complete.

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase (2005)

The Campfire Headphase is the third full-length by Boards of Canada. This album makes use of lo-fi acoustics and reduces the focus on synthesization featured on previous records. Michael Sandison, one of the two members, says about the album "we were picturing this character losing his mind at the campfire and compressing weeks of events into a few hours, in that time-stretching way that acid fucks with your perception."

woah

Mushroom Lab - Good Trip (2006)

Good vibe psychill that plays with dub, ambient, tribal beats and other cool things. Album title's pretty self-descriptive.

1. Flute Story
2. Dream Traveller (The Forgotten Path)
3. Space Trip
4. L-Injection
5. Morph Trap
6. Another Ambient Dub
7. East Model
8. Luna
9. Issues
10. Night Vibe (Outbeat)

Another ambient dub

Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (2001)

Comic book and anti-folk artist Jeffrey Lewis' debut. Laid back, lyrically focused and memorable folk tunes from a relateable worldview.

If it's anti-folk, is it still folk?

Blasphemous Crucifixion - Crude Burial (2009)

Unholy raw black metal. Simple riffs, blasphemy and a handful of punk'd up tracks. What's not to love? Underrated gem that I'm glad I have in my life, and you should too.

 

Lord of worms and flies.

Behexen - By the Blessing of Satan (2004)

Excellent raging trve Finnish black metal.

 

The sign of black pentagram 
burned deep in my heart

Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower (2005)

A relaxing dosage of psych folk. Primarily instrumental and acoustic but sometimes resorts to gentle vocals, background ambiance and electric freakouts. Also includes a sweet cover of Gary Higgins' Thicker Than a Smokey. One of the first albums I heard from SOOA's flawless discography.

Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, and fear of ourselves.

Sunn O))) - Live Paris (2006)

O))) nerds this is for you. Audio recording of Sunn O)) complimented by Malefic of Xasthur live in Paris, Point Ephémère, 17.2.2006. Malefic sounds like a dementor sucking your soul into riffgantic monoliths, slowly... #nowblazingto

To stop means simply to die

Interkosmos - Интеркосмос (2009)

Aka Hypnotizer. Spaced out, mellow, transcendental psychedelic rock with occasional hypnotic vocals. Far out trip material. Interkosmos is Dave Schmidt and Pablo Carneval, both of legendary Electric Moon, plus Sergio Ceballos. Among the best psychedelic music can offer.

Lift off

Astra - The Weirding (2009)

Flawless forestal progressive rock. Highly recommended.

I'd attach a joint too if I could

Wigrid - Hoffnungstod (2002)

Raw atmospheric Burzumesque black metal from Germany with sorrowful, droning dsbm elements.

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Boris - Feedbacker (2003)

One of eclectics Boris' best outputs. Self-descriptive Feedbacker (aka Boris at Last) is a 42-minute journey divided into 5 parts. Beautifully flowed album with a lot to hear in. There's mandatory crushing drones and slow riffery, psychedelic-tinged doom, noise and occasional vocal and stoner work. Given the guitar tones of this album, this is some shit to get lost in.

Crisis leaves beautiful remains 
Yesterday appeared in a dream 
Touched the dazzling omen

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (2006)

Holy shit, what can I say about this? In 2006 Cult of Luna released this monumental post-metal/atmospheric sludge metal album. This might very well be my favourite post-metal album, let alone being among the best metal albums of all time in my book. It's the kind of album that when I feel like listening to a particular song off it, I can't help but continue all of it, though I usually always start it from the start. A deep, self-contemplative emotional trip parallel to a religious experience which I highly recommend to everyone to experience, whether you like metal or not.

I was spoiled enough to witness them resurrect this masterpiece to life at Roadburn 2016. It was the very first band at the four-day festival - after finishing the set, I was so shaken, and thinking "Now what? I could go home happy now." It was life-shattering to say the least.

According to guitarist Erik Olofsson, SATH is about "Male loneliness - I was very inspired by a book by J.M. Coetzee [Life & Times of Michael K] about a man in South Africa with a hare lip. [The character] escapes from everything and lives off the earth eating only pumpkings. Johannes Persson [guitar, vocals, lyrics] had similar ideas for the lyrics about loneliness, it has a countryside vibe to it." The latter is further highlighted by banjo in some moments. If you missed it in the first paragraph, I highly recommend this.

Let me dream if only for tonight, that we leave together in the first morning light. 
 Alone and forgotten. I bow my head in shame. 
 Before you all answers reveal. So I sink my sorrows in the sea.

Drudkh - Anti-Urban (2007)

This little EP by Ukrainian black metal cult leaders Drudkh consists of two tracks. The first being Fallen Into Oblivion, a slow-paced instrumental. The second, which highlights this release for me is riff-laden Ashes. It's more upbeat compared to the former. Atmospheric, simple, sorrowful and raw.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

Healer - HigherGrounds (2004)

Lovingly pinched from Ektoplazm:

'HigherGrounds is the second full-length release by Healer, the downtempo and ambient project of Swedish producer Michael Andresen. Originally released in 2004, this lightly mixed album is an elegant example of soothing melodic downtempo filled with evolving soundscapes and deep, luxurious rhythms.'

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