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Saturday, January 7, 2023

DDM's Best of 2022


As for the majority on here, it became a sport to get hold of the newest releases all the time.
I am no different and this resulted in another year of not being able to dig properly through all releases that come out.
Then I have the issue that my taste is broadening quite a bit so multiplying the available great records too.
So it's all luxury issues and I am not complaining, I will try to reduce the number of albums that I buy in the coming years by trying to be more selective. Should be possible, I bought about 500 albums this year. I feel embarrassed.

For the picks, I have tried to make an overall top 10 and honestly, this could be swapped with 10 others from the bands I'll mention below. Nevertheless, the top 10 is a bunch of very strong records that I frequently revisit. I tried to make an overview of the genres that I like the most.

Top 10 2022:

1. Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
This release is doing a lot to me. This is an album you need to take the time to understand to appreciate it. It is dense and multilayered and will reveal more and more over time. Amazing release.

2. Negative Plane - The Pact...
I never heard of the band before but after listening to The Pact... I was hooked on this album and the other two they brought out as well. This type of metal could be considered black, dead, sludge or post-metal. I think it is a journey you start when you put on the album until it ends. It is not the album you put on to chill with having this running in the background.

3. Wormrot - Hiss
Probably the best grindcore release in years. What an amazing talent and I was completely sold when they put out their first preview single: Behind Closed Doors. The album is full of old fashion grindcore but lots of influences are woven throughout the songs.

4. Sadistic Ritual - The Enigma, Boundless
Fantastic thrash/ death album. There was nothing really that could prepare me for the aural assault when I saw the album cover which was kind of weird to me. It's interesting though, but the music is totally ridiculous. It's heavy, brutal, aggressive, fast, and relentless. Great songwriting and some nice touching up with a solo here and there.

5. In Aphelion - Moribund
My first encounter with the band and having guys from Necrophobic in it had to be something I could like. It became even better than just liking. Such a great melodic death/black metal album. Full of fast songs, great riffs, and absolutely amazing songwriting with choruses you can easily sing a long. If you would like to... Majestic. Total surprise to me. I love it!

6. Morbikon - Ov Mournful Twilight
When you press play Morbikon will grab you by your throat from the first second and they will not let go! Another melodic death/ thrash/ black metal release that has the right amount of melody and aggressiveness in it. Here the riffing stands out as well.

7. Vorga - Striving Toward Oblivion
Another melodic and fast-paced release, this time by German band Vorga and another killer release by Kunal Choksi and his fabulous label Transcending Obscurity. This is sci-fi black metal. Whatever that may be. What I do know is that this is a really well-written melodic black metal album with awesome musicianship and great songs.

8. De Profundis - The Corruption of Virtue
I was very impressed with their previous release but this one is even better. That bass! I love when the bass is playing a prominent role on an album with clearly a lot of freedom to play around next to providing a solid rhythm. This is a very good death metal release with the right heaviness and awesome musicians. And another Transcending Obscurity release.

9. Dark Funeral - We Are the Apocalypse
There's not much I can say about the new Dark Funeral. What an awesome release and it is very easy to clearly hear we are dealing with a seasoned band. They sound fresh yet recognizable as the band they are.

10. Wrang - De Vaendrig
Dutch black metal with a ton of influences. I can't put my finger on it why I think this is so good, but I think it is my most spun album this year. It has something that appeals heavily to me. Maybe it is the opening riff that does it for the entire album? Or the rasping vocals in my mother tongue? The songs listen as a story that is being told.


Top 10 Black Metal:

1. Wiegedood - There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
2. Misthyrming - Med Hamri
3. Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
4. Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III The Astral Drain
5. Predatory Light - Death and the Twilight Hours
6. Gleichmacher - Kränkung Fall Verderben
7. Belphegor - The Devils
8. Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
9. The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III Satan in His Original Glory
10. Thundering Hooves - Radiance

The below are also strong releases and I think you won't regret digging them out. Some of them could well be in the black metal top 10 or even in the main top 10.

Aara - Triade II Hemera
Firtan - Marter
Hellevaerder - In de nevel van afgunst
Vital Spirit - Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind
Chaos Invocation - Devil, Stone & Man
Nocturnal Triumph - Nocturnal Triumph
Véhémence - Ordalies
Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
Esoctrilihum - Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh
Ultha - All That Has Never Been True
Denevér - Vámpír
Nordjevel - Gnavhòl
Incandescence - Le coeur de l'homme
Noctem - Credo certe ne cras
Spider God - Fly in the Trap
Theotoxin - Fragment  Totenruhe
Devil Master - Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Wachenfeldt - Faustian Reawakening
In Twilight's Embrace - Lifeblood
Downcross - Hexapoda Triumph
Vukari - Omnes Nihil
Liber Null - For Whom Is the Night
Pure Wrath - Hymn to the Woeful Hearts
Djevel - Naa skrider natten sort

Top 10 Tech/ Melo-death/black:

1. Exocrine - The Hybrid Suns
2. Kvaen - The Great Below
3. Tómarúm - Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
4. Anchillys - Elan Vital
5. Godless Truth - Godless Truth
6. The Spirit - Of Clarity and Galactic Structures
7. Needless - The Cosmic Cauldron
8. Revocation - Netherheaven
9. Inanimate Existence - The Masquerade
10. Allegaeon - Damnum

Great releases in this section:

Ultra Silvam - The Sanctity of Death
Psycroptic - Divine Council
Sacrilegion - From Which Nightmares Crawl
Freedom of Fear - Carpathia
Mimorium - The Route of Haeresis
Epoch of Unlight - At War with the Multiverse
Aronious - Irkalla

Top 10 Death Metal:

01. Immolation - Acts of God
02. Werewolves - From the Cave to the Grave
03. Altars Ablaze - Life Desecration
04. Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
05. Scalpture - Feldwärts
06. Concilivm - A Monument in Darkness
07. The Chasm - The Scars of a Lost Reflective Shadow
08. The Wakedead Gathering - Parallaxiom
09. Sensory Amusia - Breed Death
10. Misgivings - Misgivings

Great releases in this section:

Order ov Riven Cathedrals - Absolute
Corpsegrinder - Corpsegrinder
Black Fucking Cancer - Procreate Inverse
Intolerance - Dark Paths of Humanity
Misery Index - Complete Control
Trenchant - Commandoccult
Cryptic Hatred - Nocturnal Sickness
Post-Mortem - The Monumental Pandemonium
Cosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
Analepsy - Quiescence
Haunter - Discarnate Ails
Purgatory - Apotheosis of Anti Light
Hath - All That Was Promised
Ironmaster - Thy Ancient Fire
Azaab - Summoning the Cataclysm
Viogression - 3rd Stage of Decay
Heaving Earth - Darkness of God
Golgothan Remains - Adorned in Ruin
Inanna - Void of Unending Depths
Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Verberis - Adumbration of the Veiled Logos
Acausal Intrusion - Seeping Evocation
Vånda - Covenant of Death
Fall of Seraphs - From Dust to Creation
Gutvoid - Durance of Lightless Horizons
Strychnos - A Mother's Curse
Veilburner - VLBRNR
Live Burial - Curse of the Forlon
Heads for the Dead - III The Great Conjuration
Sarcasm - Stellar Stream Obscured
Beyond Mortal Dreams - Abomination of the Flames
Inhuman Condition - Fearsick
Reeking Aura - Blood and Bonemeal
Corpsessed - Succumb to Rot
Ripped to Shreds - 劇變 (Jubian)
Wachenfeldt - Faustian Reawakening
Rotten Tomb - Visions of a Dismal Fate
Disinter - Breaker of Bones

Top 10 Grindcore:

1. Kill Division - Peace Through Tyranny
2. Pharmacist - Flourishing Extremities on Unspoiled Mental Grounds
3. Ernia - How to Deal With Life and Fail
4. Defect Designer - Neanderthal
5. Abaddon Incarnate - The Wretched Sermon
6. Teethgrinder - Dystopia
7. Osserp - Els nous cants de la Sibil·la
8. Antigama - Whiteout
9. Wake - Thought Form Descent
10. Sickrecy - Salvation Through Tyranny

Thursday, January 20, 2022

DDM's Best of 2021


Ophidian I - Desolate
Malformity - Monumental Ruin
Diskord - Degenerations
Stortregn - Impermanence
Eximperitus - Šahrartu
Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst
Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
Crypts of Despair - All Light Swallowed
Acausal Intrusion - Nulitas
Unflesh - Inhumation
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Nightmare Withdrawals
Leiþa - Sisyphus
Cognizance - Upheaval
Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
Craven Idol - Forked Tongues
Diabolizer - Khalkedonian Death
Schavot - Galgenbrok
Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
First Fragment - Gloire éternelle
Wesenwille - II A Material God
Imperialist - Zenith

EP:

Obvurt - The Beginning
Unfathomable Ruination - Decennium Ruinae
Nordjevel - Fenriir
Exhumed - Worming
Witch Vomit - Abhorrent Rapture

Honourable mentions:

Benothing - Temporal Bliss Surrealms
Funeral Mist - Deiform
Huronian - As Cold as a Stranger Sunset
Mefitis - Offscourings
Kjeld - Ôfstân
Gosudar - Morbid Despotic Ritual
Intonate - Severed Within
Alustrium - A Monument to Silence
Archspire - Bleed the Future
Inferi - Vile Genesis
Infidel Reich - N.W.O. - New World Outrage
Anakim - The Elysian Void
Sunless - Ylem
Svneatr - Chinook
Ferriterium - Calvaire
Atvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless
Replicant - Malignant Reality

Friday, January 17, 2020

DDM's Best of 2019

Again a year passed.

Picking a list of albums is still hard because of the many good to great releases that came out this year. And it was a lot again that were worth listening.
Over the years I have become more appreciative about other genres. Black metal and more progressive metal gained my interest where brutal slamming death metal disappeared to the background more and more. Still liking some!
It has enriched the variety of music to enjoy but it made it harder to pick a best of list. There is also no time to listen to all thoroughly as I did decades ago.

Some releases just do it for me by the sheer energy they produce with great riffs, like Sammath, Venereal Baptism, Teitanblood, Profane Order, Eggs of Gomorrh.
This same energy level is what I love in grindcore. The love for grindcore goes back to the days of Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration.
Black metal I really started digging since a couple of years. There are some really good quality black metal bands that know how to pay their gear and know how to write good songs. Typical for black are the vocals, I got used to them and believe they fit the style for what it is. The other typical aspect is the atmosphere they build in the songs. Like clean singing, if it is well done and sparsly used it will add a lot to the experience when listening an album.

The below lists are the ones that stood out after brief scanning of the albums initially and which I remembered to go back to and they were given good amount of attention.
The lists are too long. I can't decide what album is best so I left them all in before deciding who would make the cut.
All albums mentioned below I bought on cd and ripped them to listen when on the road.

Some surprises I found were not in your lists: (Vltimas, Cleric, Reckless Manslaughter, Consumed by Vultures, Ripped to Shreds, Obscure Infinity, Dawn of Disease, Lord Gore, Infernal Conjuration, Festerday, Entrapment, Carnal Tomb, Abnormality)

I hope people like it, pick some from it, buy it and hope to enjoy them as I did.

Best overall:

Musmahhu - Reign of the Odious
Venom Prison - Samsara
Baest - Venenum
Gomorrah - Gomorrah
Orphalis - The Approaching Darkness
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Vitriol - To Bathe from the Throat of Cowardice
Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound
Vltimas - Something Wicked Marches In
Vanum - Ageless Fire
Wretched Fate - Fleshletting
Deus Mortem - Kosmocide
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia

Death Metal:

Dictated - Phobos
Embludgeonment - Barn Burner
Hour of Penance - Misotheism
Prostitute Disfigurement - Prostitute Disfigurement
Hate - Auric Gates of Veles
Bodyfarm - Dreadlord
Gods Forsaken - Smells of Death
Sammath - Across the Rhine Is Only Death
Venereal Baptism - Repugnant Coronation of the Beast
Sinners Bleed - Absolution
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Obscure Infinity - Into the Vortex of Obscurity
Khnvm - Foretold Monuments of Flesh
Consumed by Vultures - Pseudobiblion
Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Teufelsbücher
Ceremony of Silence - Oútis
Vacivus - Annihilism
Horrific Demise - Excruciating Extermination
Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites
Corpseflesh - Rearranged with a 12 Gauge
Mortuary - The Autophagous Reign
Endseeker - The Harvest
Firespawn - Abominate
Order ov Riven Cathedrals - Thermonuclear Sculptures Blackness
Appalling - Inverted Realm
Repugnance - Shrouds of Deceit
Bleeding Utopia - Where the Light Comes to Die
Misery Index - Rituals of Power
Abnormality - Sociopathic Constructs
Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave
Goatburner - Extreme Conditions
Disentomb - The Decaying Light
Ad Patres - A Brief Introduction to Human Experiments
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Hideous Divinity - Simulacrum
Disinfect - Abaddon
Omophagia - 646965
Festerday - Iihtallan
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk
Black Flame - Necrogenesis Chants from the Grave
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Sentient Horror - Morbid Realms
Reckless Manslaughter - Caverns of Perdition
Ravenous Death - Chapters of an Evil Transition
Obturate - The Bleeding Mask of Dread
Entrails - Rise of the Reaper
Lord Gore - Scalpels for Blind Surgeons
Electrocution - Psychonolatry
Infernal Conjuration - Infernale Metallum Mortis
Carnal Tomb - Abhorrent Veneration

Black Metal:

Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
Funereal Presence - Achatius
Mortem - Ravnsvart
Akasha - Canticles Of The Sepulchral Deity
Sinmara – Hvísl Stjarnanna
False - Portent
Calyx - Vientos arcaicos
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Abduction - All Pain as Penance
1349 - The Infernal Pathway
Svartgren - Divlja vatra
Funeral Storm - Arcane Mysteries
Aoratos - Gods Without Name
Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation
Shrine of Insanabilis - Vast Vortex Litanies
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Mardom
Qayin Regis - Doctrine
Grafvitnir - Venenum Scorpionis
Mgla - Age of Excuse
Tongue - What Do We Know of Horror
Mayhem - Daemon
Abbath - Outstrider
Ænigmatum - Ænigmatum
Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
Det Eviga Leendet - Lenience
Wallfahrer - Rattenritual
Vukari - Aevum
Verheerer - Monolith
Véhémence - Par le sang versé
Perverticon - Wounds of Divinity
Nordjevel - Necrogenesis

Technical Thrash/ Death Metal:

Blackwater Burial - The Prison of Belief
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
Essence Of Datum - Spellcrying Machine
Equipoise - Demiurgus
Flub - Flub
Freedom of Fear - Nocturnal Gates
Vale of Pnath - Accursed
Contrarian - Their Worm Never Dies
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Rings Of Saturn - Gidim
Allegaeon - Apoptosis
Demiurgon - The Oblivious Lure
Cognizance - Malignant Dominion
Hannes Grossmann - Apophenia
Crepuscle - Heavenly Skies
Desecravity - Anathema
Singularity - Place of Chains
Continuum - Designed Obsolescence
Hiss from the Moat - The Harrier
Catalyst - The Great Purpose of the Lords
Inanimate Existence - Clockwork
Controversial - Revelation
Fields of Elysium - In Ancient Contemplation
Eschaton - Death Obsession

Progressive Death/ Black:

Raptvre - Monuments of Bitterness
A Novelist - Folie
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Nucleus - Entity
Immanifest - Macrobial
Phlebotomized - Deformation of Humanity
Vircolac - Masque
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
Shabti - Trembling and Shorn
Hath - Of Rot and Ruin
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
Shadow of Intent - Melancholy
Kull - Exile
Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia

Grindcore:

Exhumed - Horror
Unsu - Darkest in the Sun
Phobia - Generation Coward
Besta - Eterno Rancor
No One Knows What The Dead Think - No One Knows What The Dead Think
Distaste - Deibel
Theories - Vessel
Keitzer - Where The Light Ends
Birdflesh - Extreme Graveyard Tornado

Thrash:

Urn - Iron Will of Power
Legion of the Damned - Slaves of the Shadow Realm
Inculter - Fatal Visions
Overkill - The Wings of War
Sadistic Ritual - Visionaire of Death
Critical Defiance - Misconception
Invicta - Halls of Extinction
Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn
Insanity Alert - 666-Pack
The Bleeding - Morbid Prophecy
Ultra Silvam - The Spearwound Salvation
Barbarian - To No God Shall I Kneel
Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
FreaKings - Rise of Violence
Bloodthirst - I Am Part of That Power Which Eternally Wills Evil and Eternally Works Wrong

EP:

Rotten Pope - The Aufhocker
Fleshmeadow - Daymares
Man Must Die - Gagging Order
Vader - Thy Messenger
Wormed - Metaportal
Noisem - Cease to Exist
Ogarya - Inclination
Ripper - Sensory Stagnation
Suffering Hour - Dwell
Xantam - Altered State
Ripped to Shreds - 魔經 - Demon Scriptures
Oniricous - La maldición
Eggs Of Gomorrh - Outpregnate
Critic - Éveil de l'esprit
Hate Manifesto - Herald of Triumph
Mother's Tomb - Absent Not Dead
Ingested - Call of the Void

Honorable mentions:

Organectomy - Existential Disconnect
Superstition - The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation
Sun Worship - Emanations of Desolation
Cirith Gorgor - Sovereign
Sorcery - Necessary Excess of Violence
Prolapsed - The Condemned
Concrete Winds - Primitive Force
Iron Flesh - Forged Faith Bleeding
Defecrator - Abortion of Humanity
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation
Beheaded - Only Death Can Save You
Pathology - Reborn to Kill
Paroxysmal Butchering - Amygdala
Antropomorphia - Merciless Savagery
Parental Advisory - Aetas Anthropophagorum
Oblivion - Oblivion
Nihility - Thus Spoke the Antichrist
Entrapment - Imminent Violent Death
Cosmic Putrefaction - At the Threshold of the Greatest Chasm

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

DDM's Best of 2018


This year I have been going through some real life issues and I am pretty sure that I have overcome them in the end.

My mind has not been fully set to listening metal in general but it kept me going at the same time.
Metal has always been a lifesaver for me from my teenage years onwards and this year has proven similar.

I didn't care too much for a true and thorough analysis what should be the AOTY or even top 10.

I love different styles and my top 10 is a little mix, but CG don't worry it isn't all black dude. 😊

There were tremendous amounts of great releases and I have not heard them all properly.

Following is an attempt to list top 10 and further some great releases (Some worthy of top 10) split per genre.

Top 10:

1. Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
2. Unbirth - Fleshforged Columns of Deceit
3. Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth
4. Pestilent Reign - Pyres
5. Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
6. Serocs - The Phobos/ Deimos Suite
7. The Order of Apollyon - Moriah
8. Temple - Design in Creation
9. Mass Infection - Shadows Became Flesh
10. Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure

Technical Death Metal:

Æpoch - Awakening Inception
The Aftermath - Vermine
The Beast of Nod - Vampira Disciple of Chaos
Alterbeast - Feast
Anachronism - Orogeny
Antiverse - Under the Regolith
Arsis - Visitant
Beyond Creation - Algorythm
Gorod - Æthra
House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion
Inferi - Revenant
Revocation - The Outer Ones
Stortregn - Emptiness Fills the Void
Spectral - Neural Correlates of Hate
Advent of Bedlam - Human Portal Phenomenon
Gortuary - Divine Indigenous Sacrament
Enblood - Cast to Exile
Aethereus - Absentia
Ahtme - Sewerborn
Obscura - Diluvian
Centaurus-A - Means of Escape
Aparia - Beyond The Walls Of Man
Portal - ION
Augury - Illusive Golden Age
Soreption - Monument of the End

Death Metal/ OSDM:

Abysmal Torment - The Misanthrope
De Profundis - The Blinding Light of Faith
Outer Heaven - Realms of Eternal Decay
Deicide - Overtures of Blasphemy
Flesh Hoarder - Homicidal Necrophile
Binah - Phobiate
Shed the Skin - We of Scorn
Undersave - Sadistic Iterations... Tales of Mental Rearrangement
The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
Abolishment of Flesh - The Inhuman Condition
FaithXtractor - Proverbial Lambs to the Ultimate Slaughter
Obscenity - Summoning the Circle
Deadborn - Dogma Anti God
Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
Construct of Lethe - Exiler
Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Infuriate - Infuriate
Coffin Birth - The Serpent Insignia
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
Baest - Danse Macabre
Torture Rack - Malefic Humiliation ??
Aborted Fetus - The Ancient Spirits of Decay
Blood of the Wolf - Album I + II
Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
Organic - Carved in Flesh
Storm upon the Masses - The Ones Who Came Back
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
Wombbath - The Great Desolation
Wombripper - From the Depths of Flesh
Boethiah - Invocation of the Xenolith
Lecherous Nocturne - Occultaclysmic
Immense - Slaughter of Brutality
Oxygen Destroyer - Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death
Eskhaton - Omegalitheos
Cancer - Shadow Gripped
Deceased - Ghostly White
Veld - S.I.N.
Scorched - Ecliptic Butchery
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos
Chapel of Disease - ...and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye
Nahum - Within Destruction
Fleshworks - Engine of Perdition
Hellish God - The Evil Emanations
Nachash - Phantasmal Triunity
Ulthar - Cosmovore
Depravity - Evil Upheaval

Grindcore:

Aborted - Terrorvision
Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind of Horror
Axis of Despair - Contempt for Man
Cripple Bastards - La fine cresce da dentro
Scumpulse - Rotten
Pink Mass - Necrosexual
Wake - Misery Rites
Treasonist - Treasonist
Human Cull - Revenant
Lifetaker - Thanatos
Kataplexis - Kataplexis
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage

Black Metal:

Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Adzalaan - Into Vermilion Mirrors
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Imperialist - Cipher
Lucifer's Child - The Order
Marduk - Viktoria
Mare - Ebony Tower
Order ov Riven Cathedrals - Gobekli Tepe
Outre - Hollow Earth
Svartidaudi - Revelations of the Red Sword
Mutilation Rites - Chasm
Totenmesse - To
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
Ascension - Under Ether
Stark Denial - Covenant of Black
Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil
Malichor - Nightmares and Abominations
Eskhaton - Omegalitheos
Anicon - Entropy Mantra

Thrash Metal:

Antipeewee - Infected by Evil
Degrave - Degrave
Final Breath - Of Death and Sin
Inquisitor - Stigmata Me, I'm in Misery
Rapture - Paroxysm of Hatred
Crisix - Against the Odds
Vomitor - Pestilent Death

EP:

Cast the Stone - Empyrean Atrophy
Unanimated - Annihilation
Dischordia - Binge/Purge
Quantum Hierarchy - Neutron Breed
Rotten Sound - Suffer to Abuse
Vimana - The Collapse
Demonbreed - Hunting Heretics
Benighted - Dogs Always Bite Harder than Their Master
Dominant - The Summoning

Saturday, January 20, 2018

DDM's Best of 2017

Last year I have been away for work frequently.
I found it very hard to keep track of all releases and still I have procured a lot of albums.
My picks are based on multiple listens from the ones that I could. Surely I missed some gems.

My taste for metal is changing. You see I made a black metal pick as well. There are some really good ones in there.
Also, more complex experimental I can dig, bands like Dodecahedron, Ulsect, Pyrrhon, Cormorath etc.

Below is a top 10 as I thought it was appropriate, but could have been totally different if I had more time.

1. Immolation - Atonement
2. Cytotoxin - Gammageddon
3. Phrenelith - Desolate Endscape
4. Ensnared - Dysangelium
5. Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi
6. Horrified - Allure of the Fallen
7. Broken Hope - Mutilated and Assimilated
8. Sutrah - Dunes
9. Spectrum of Delusion - Esoteric Entity
10. Archspire - Relentless Mutation

The following releases really stood out for me/ were doubts for top 10 in any order:

Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X)
Degial - Predator Reign
Trepid Elucidation - Upcoming Reality
The King Is Blind - We Are the Parasite, We Are the Cancer
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic Iridescence
Gorephilia - Severed Monolith
Grotesque - Feedback Loop
Integral - Resilience
Inverted Matter - Detach 
Subservience - Forest of the Impaled
Cryptic Fog - Staring Through the Veil
Necrot - Blood Offerings
Ogarya - Ubiquity
Creeping Fear - Onward to Apocalypse 
Vampire - With Primeval Force
Cut Up - Wherever They May Rot
Beneath - Ephemeris
Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
Incantation - Profane Nexus
The Monolith Deathcult - Versus 1
Narcotic Wasteland - Delirium Tremens
Necrovorous - Plains of Decay
Contaminated - Final Man

EP:

Slave One - An Abstract and Metaphysical Approach to Deceit
Hateful Transgression - Meaningless
Sheidim - Infamata
Gorod - Kiss the Freak
Sinsaenum - Ashes
Seprevation - Echoes of Mercy
Inhumation - Ontogenesis

Black (Death) Metal Best:

Kadaverdisciplin - Death Supremacy
Aosoth - V: The Inside Scriptures
Woe - Hope Attrition
Bestia Arcana - Holókauston
Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus
Theotoxin - Atramentvm
Cult of the Horns - Chapter I - Domination
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Finisterre
Selbst - Selbst
Tehom - The Merciless Light

Thrash Best:

Vexovoid - Call Of The Starforger
Condor - Unstoppable Power
Craven Idol - The Shackles of Mammon
Slaegt - Domus Mysterium

Technical Death Metal Best:

Decrescent - Blackened Bequest
Order ov Riven Cathedrals - The Discontinuity's Interlude
A Flourishing Scourge - A Flourishing Scourge
Virulent Depravity - Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
Profanity - The Art of Sickness
Beyond Grace - Seekers
Exocrine - Ascension
Shadow of Intent - Reclaimer
Phobiatic - Phobiatic
Discordance - In The Shadow Of Leaves

Honourable Mentions:

Kalopsia - Angelplague
Oblivion - The Path Towards...
Analepsy - Atrocities from Beyond
Blood Freak - Total Destruction of the Human Form
Azarath - In Extremis
Handsome Prick - Anonymityville
Wrath of Belial - Bloodstained Rebellion
Enfold Darkness - Adversary Omnipotent
Origin - Unparalleled Universe
Afterbirth - The Time Traveler's Dilemma
Gutslit - Amputheatre
Hour of Penance - Cast the First Stone
Hideous Divinity - Adveniens
Impetuous Ritual - Blight upon Martyred Sentience
Brute - Henchmen
Anasarca - Survival Mode

Disappointments:

Morbid Angel - Perhaps expectation level set too high.
God Dethroned - Still ok, but missing the bite.
The Kennedy Veil - Guess needs more listens. First attempts not grabbing me.

Who said death metal is dead???

Thursday, January 5, 2017

DDM's Best of 2016


Top 10 Overall

1. Virvum - Illuminance
2. Crator - The Ones Who Create : The Ones Who Destroy
3. Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
4. First Fragment - Dasein
5. Afterburner - Tomb of Kings
6. Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude
7. Deviant Process - Paroxysm
8. Vektor - Terminal Redux
9. Cortexiphan - Iniquitous
10. Dehumanized - Beyond The Mind

Top 15 Technical (Brutal) Death Metal

Polyptych - Defying the Metastasis
Katalepsy - Gravenous Hour
Vale of Pnath - II
Orphalis - The Birth of Infinity
Nucleus - Sentient
Onomasy - Ashes And Dust
Towering Abomination - Towering Abomination
Xenomorphic Contamination - Colonized from the Inside
Infinite Density - Recollapse of the Universe
Wormed - Krigshu
Duality - Elektron
Banisher - Oniric Delusions
Fractured Insanity - Man Made Hell
Murder Made God - Enslaved
Spawning Abhorrence - The Sleepless One

Top 5 Progressive Death Metal/ Thrash

Gomorrah - The Haruspex
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis
Ripper - Experiment of Existence
Mithras - On Strange Loops
Inanimate Existence - Calling From A Dream

Top 25 Death Metal

Neurogenic - Ouroboric Stagnation
Omophagia - In The Name Of Chaos
Oncology - Infinite Regress
Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void of Power
God Enslavement - Consuming The Divine
Face Of Oblivion - Cataclysmic Desolation
Dehuman Reign - Ascending from Below
Dawn of Demise - The Suffering
Dawn of Disease - Worship the Grave
Blood Incantation - Starspawn
Blasphemer - Ritual Theophagy
Abhorrent Aggression - You Only Die Once
Sinsaenum - Echoes of the Tortured
Hellspawn - There Has Never Been a Son of Me
Sin of God - Aenigmata
Deceptionist - Initializing Irreversible Process
Age Of Agony - For The Forgotten
Angerseed - The Proclamation
Gatecreeper - Sonoran Depravation
Panic Disorder - Daimonion
Rebaelliun - The Hell's Decrees
Volturyon - Cleansed By Carnage
Carnophage - Monument
Shed The Skin - Harrowing Faith
Omnihility - Dominion of Misery

Top 5 Black/ Death Metal

Gloria Morti - Kuebiko
Ragnarok - Psychopathology
Noctem - Haeresis
Auroch - Mute Books
Denouncement Pyre - Black Sun Unbound

Top 5 Grind/ Death Metal

Asphalt Graves - The New Primitive
Embalmer - Emanations from the Crypt
Wormrot - Voices
Captain Cleanoff - Rising Terror
Gadget - The Great Destroyer

Saturday, January 2, 2016

DDM's Best of 2015

Top 10


1. Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers
2. Inverted - The Age of Harvest
3. Lost Soul - Atlantis... The New Beginning
4. Bloody Brotherhood - Ritual of Blood
5. Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
6. A Loathing Requiem - Acolytes Eternal
7. Wombbath - Downfall Rising
8. Horrendous - Anareta 
9. Veld - Daemonic The Art Of Dantalian
10. Theories - Regression

Top 11 - 40


Recueil Morbide - Morbid Collection
The Order of Apollyon - The Sword and the Dagger 
Sepiroth - Uninvolved
Gorelust - We Are the Undead
Heaving Earth - Denouncing the Holy Throne
I Chaos - Masterbleeder 
Kronos - Arisen New Era
Raising The Veil - Bosonic Quantvm Phenomena
Abhira - Itihasa Purushartas
Bodyfarm - Battle Breed
Crocell - Prophet's Breath
Revolting - Visages of the Unspeakable
Micawber - The Gods of Outer Hell
Necrowretch - With Serpents Scourge
Overtorture - A Trail of Death
Discreation - Procreation Of The Wretched
Obscure Infinity - Perpetual Descending Into Nothingness
Castrensis - Hierarchies
Apophys - Prime Incursion
Antropofago - Aera Dementiæ
Bleeding Gods - Shepherd Of Souls
Burst Bowel - Repelled Gift
Cut Up - Forensic Nightmares
Demiurgon - Above The Unworthy
Embrional - The Devil Inside
Inhuman Depravity - Nocturnal Carnage by the Unholy Desecrator
Morbid Vomit - Return To The Crypts
Necrosy - Perdition
Suppuration - Devouring Your Prayers
Obscure Infinity - Perpetual Descending Into Nothingness
George Kollias - Invictus
Ingested - The Architect of Extinction
Perdition Temple - The Tempter's Victorious
Sarpentra - Supernova
Genital Grinder - Abduction
Malevolent Creation - Dead Man's Path
Mass Burial - Soul's Necrosis
Mörbid Vomit - Doctrine of Violence
Vulnus - Vessels of Throe
Firespawn - Shadow Realms