Battlelore - ... Where The Shadows Lie

 

Genre: Power/Epic/Death
Country: Finland
Year: 2002

1. Swordmaster
2. The Grey Wizard
3. Raging Goblin
4. Journey To Undying Lands
5. Shadowgate
6. Fangorn
7. The Green Maid
8. Khazad-Dum Pt.1 (Ages Of Mithril)
9. Ride With The Dragons
10. Feast For The Wanderer

Debut album by Battlelore. Epic music with intense vocals mixed with clean female singing wound up in the fantastic world of Tolkien. They play their own fun flavor of metal, mixing death, epic, power metal and symphonic together to make a unique sound all their own.

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The Berzerker - Dissimulate

 

Genre: Industrial/Death/Grindcore
Country: Australia
Year: 2002

1. Disregard 2. Failure
3. The Principles And Practices Of Embalming
4. No One Wins
5. Death Reveals
6. Compromise
7. Betrayal
8. Last Mistake
9. Painless
10. Pure Hatred
11. Paradox
12. Abandonment
13. Untitled
14. Corporal Jigsore Quandary (Carcass cover)

2nd album by The Berzerker. Where the first album was certainly raw and abrasive, mainly due to as much financial restraints as malicious intent, this release is a more calculated yet vicious feral attack. Pounding industrial drums and exciting riffs build up a wall that just blows you away without compromises.

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Lake Of Tears - The Neonai

 

Genre: Progr.Rock/Gothic
Country: Sweden
Year: 2002

1. Intro
2. Return Of Ravens
3. The Shadowshires
4. Solitude
5. Leave A Room
6. Sorcerers
7. Can Die No More
8. Nathalie And The Fireflies
9. Let Us Go As They Do
10. Down The Nile
11. Outro

5th album by Lake Of Tears. After the group split up, around 2000, to honor the contract with Black Mark they released this album, which was finished off by the band leader Daniel Brennare with little help of various other musicians. Half of the tracks on here fall under the category of modern and groovy psychedelic goth music. 

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Morgue - The Process To Define The Shape Of Self-Loathing

Genre: Grindcore/Industrial
Country: France
Year: 2002

1. Homesick
2. My Life Is Sicker Than Your Band
3. Kerri Lenardic
4. There Is No End of the Harvest
5. In-Between Storms
6. (Pig) In Human Form
7. Heart Shape Substance
8. 1909
9. Meridian / Untitled

2nd album by Morgue. Chaotic grindcore in blastbeating tempos, blended with industrial moments producing chaotic noise! Angry, aggressive and brutal as fuck, with distorted, yelling and screaming vocals.

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Mistress - Mistress

Genre: Sludge/Grindcore
Country: England
Year: 2002


1. Bludgeon
2. God of Rock
3. Goatboy
4. Necronaut
5. Stunt Cock
6. 5th in Line
7. D.V.D.A.
8. Rebecca
9. Lord Worm

Debut album by Mistress, featuring Migg (Anaal Nathrakh, ex-Fukpig, etc.), Misery (Fukpig, Kroh, etc.), Dirty (Kroh, etc.), Drunken (Fukpig, etc.) and Dave Cunt (Benediction, Anaal Nathrakh, etc.). The lads successfully blend sludge/rock with grindcore, with a unique style, that will eventually evolve in their next records.

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Krux - Krux

Genre: Doom/Heavy
Country: Sweden
Year: 2002


1. Black Room
2. Krux
3. Nimis
4. Sibiria
5. Omfalos
6. Enigma EZB
7. Pococàtepetl
8. Evel Rifaz
9. Lunochod (I - VII)

Debut album by Krux, featuring Leif Edling (Candlemass, Avatarium), Mats Leven (Aeonsgate, Candlemass), Jorgen Sandstrom (ex-Entombed) and Peter Sjrnvind (Ex-Entombed). What we have here is nothing more and nothing less than a near-perfect doom metal album, with very heavy riffs, keyboards and a less operatic vocal approach compared to Candlemass.

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Nonexist - Deus Deceptor

Genre: Mel.Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2002

1. Entrance (instrumental)
2. The Devil Incarnate
3. Faith
4. Eaten Alive
5. Ataraxia (instrumental)
6. A Halo Askew
7. Phantoms
8. Ebony Tower
9. Nowhere (instrumental)
10. Delirious Tongues
11. Idols & Fiends
12. Divided We Fall

Debut album by Nonexist. The band features Johan Liiva (Hearse, ex-Arch Enemy), Johan Reinholdz (Andromeda) and Matte Modin (ex-Dark Funeral, ex-Defleshed). This album can be sometimes thrashy, sometimes crushingly heavy and other times beautifully melodic. Each song is crafted with great care and intensity that will make mel.death fans rejoice!

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Mastic Scum - Scar

Genre: Grindcore/Death/Crossover
Country: Austria
Year: 2002

1. Face 2 Face
2. Distance To The Truth
3. Re-Progression
4. The Daily Grind
5. To Die Is Not Enough
6. One-Track Minded
7. Turn Inside Out
8. Liar
9. Self-Respect
10. Kiss Or Kill
11. Generation-X
12. Eyesolation

2nd album by Mastic Scum, that came 3 years after their debut. The songs are thick in sound but go from groovy hardcore riffs to blasts to rock n roll parts. It stands at a higher lever compared to 'Zero'. Though this is not visible in the maybe faster tempo, that possibly has been reduced,  but the higher quality of the sound, which seems to be more mature than ever and these songs get even more impressive if the speed increases.

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Destroyer 666 - Cold Steel ... For An Iron Age

Genre: Thrash/Black
Country: Australia
Year: 2002

1. Black City - Black Fire
2. Clenched Fist
3. Cold Steel...
4. Sons Of Perdition
5. Raped
6. The Calling
7. Savage Pitch
8. Witch Hunter
9. Shadow

3rd album by Destroyer 666. On this one the band left out their past epic tendencies in favor of full on thrashy attack with razor edged thrash/death riffs with the occasional black-ish metal tremolo riffs. It's an actually well-produced collection of brilliant riff after brilliant riff, underscored by great drumwork and packed into distinctive songs.

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Lock Up - Hate Breeds Suffering

Genre: Grindcore/Death
Country: England
Year: 2002

1. Feeding On The Opiate
2. Castrate The Wreckage
3. Violent Reprisal
4. Detestation
5. Retrogression
6. Slaughterous Ways
7. Dead Sea Scroll Deception
8. Hate Breeds Suffering
9. Catharsis 10. The Jesus Virus
11. Broken World
12. Horns Of Venus
13. High Tide In A Sea Of Blood
14. Cascade Leviathan
15. Fake Somebody / Real Nobody
16. The Sixth Extinction

2nd album by Lock Up. Tomas Lindberg replaced Peter Tagtgren and the whole lineup seems more tight than their debut. A killer homage to old school grindcore/death. The production is clean, but always with a foot in the past.

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Vomitory - Blood Rapture

Genre: Death
Country: Sweden
Year: 2002

1. Chaos Fury
2. Hollow Retribution
3. Blessed And Forsaken
4. Madness Prevails
5. Redeemed In Flames
6. Nailed, Quartered, Consumed
7. Eternity Appears
8. Rotting Hill
9. Blood Rapture

4th album by Vomitory and my favorite one. Heavy, grinding guitars, brutal vocals, almost “bullet-fast” speeding drums and a rough bass, create cadences of extreme ferocity, as well as a rapturous environment of obscene atrocity. The sound and production are simply crushing. Riffs, riffs, riffs!!!

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Woods Of Ypres - Against The Seasons: Cold Winter Songs From The Dead Summer Heat 'Ep

Genre: Black/Doom
Country: Canada
Year: 2002



1. The Shams Of Optimism
2. Crossing The 45th Parallel
3. The Sea Of Immeasureable Loss
4. A Meeting Place And Time
5. Awaiting The Inevitable

Great first 'Ep by Woods Of Ypres. The band's music is based on raw black metal mixed with some dark melodies that create a very doomish atmosphere. The music is going from raw guitars and blast beats to slow-paced melodic dark passages. The result is something pretty varied and interesting.

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3 Inches Of Blood - Battlecry Under A Wintersun

Genre: Heavy/Power/Thrash
Country: Canada
Year: 2002

1. Ride Darkhorse, Ride
2. Destroy The Orcs
3. Headwaters Of The River Of Blood
4. Heir To The Chaos Throne
5. Skeletal Onslaught
6. Journey To The Promised Land
7. Lady Deathwish
8. Curse Of The Lighthouse Keeper
9. Blazing Fires Of Evermore
10. Hall Of Heroes
11. Balls Of Ice

Debut album by 3 Inches Of Blood. The band plays a beautiful blend of NWOBHM, power and thrash metal with enough old school vibes and enough modern aspects to please everyone. The guitar riffing is a bit lacking in the technical department, but still maintains the overall energy and effect. They employ the use of two vocalists, one does the typical high pitched NWOBHM style singing and the other one just shrieks, while gang vocals are psresent too.

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Agalloch - The Mantle

Genre: Black/Folk/Doom
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2002

1. A Celebration For The Death Of Man...
2. In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion
3. Odal
4. I Am The Wooden Doors
5. The Lodge
6. You Were But A Ghost In My Arms
7. The Hawthorne Passage
8. ...And The Great Cold Death Of The Earth
9. A Desolation Song

2nd album by Agalloch, a really great atmospheric masterpiece. The sound is very unique, mixing folk, doom, black and atmospheric into something ungodly. The vocals range from clean to a black metal style screech and everything in between. Most of the songs are mid paced or slower with a almost doom undercurrent included.

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Forgardur Helvitis - Gerningavedur

Genre: Grindcore/Black
Country: Iceland
Year: 2002

1. Án þess að Depla Auga
2. Baráttusöngur
3. Legsteinn Grafar Minnar
4. Ferðasýn
5. Í Forgarðinum
6. Mannfagnaður
7. Fjandafæla
8. Krossfest Börn
9. Gerningaveður
10. Óskhyggja
11. Gelding óskhyggjunnar
12. Vítahringur ömurleikans
13. Ljósbrjótur
14. Guð er Stærsta Lygi í Heimi
15. Vængbrotnir Englar
16. Tormentor
17. Játning 18. Þar Sem Hamingjan Ræður Ríkjum 19. Skuggahiminn
20. Eðlislægur Fasismi 21. (Heljarslóð poem) 22. Heljarslóð 23. Undir Útfarartungli
24. - untitled track -

After some demos and splits, Forgardur Helvitis released their debut album. The album hits all the expected notes: the blastbeats are on point, the riffs have a distinctive Scandinavian air and the vocals are impassioned. The songs are short, heavy, loud and fast, almost grindcore, but with guitars and vocals reminiscent of a rudimentary black metal, even more full of anti-religious lyrics and D.I.Y. attitude.

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Pigsty - The Return

Genre: Grindcore/Death
Country: Czech Rep.
Year: 2002

1. The Return
2. Deviant In Your Bath
3. Flesh Ripper
4. Thief Of Ganja
5. Pathological Disfigurement
6. Blow Job
7. Sewing Machine
8. Madmower
9. Kf*wq#$gbf&#@xxx
10. Faget John
11. Ganja
12. Three Little Pigs
13. Cut-Throat
14. Who Will Fuck Your Fat Ass
15. Bullets For Words
16. Delirium Tremens 17. Bulls On Parade

Debut album by Pigsty. The songs are violent and engaging. These Czech lunatics approach their songs with a totally juvenile behaviour and lot of humour, but create something so weird, eerie and utterly brutal. Hyper speed drums blast away while the guitarist duo of Burmann and Otyn come up with blazingly fast riffs.

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Ludicra - Hollow Psalms

Genre: Black
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2002


1. Tomorrow Held In Scorn
2. Hollow Promise
3. The Final Lamentation
4. Userpent
5. Heaped Upon Impassive Floors
6. Damn The Night
7. Tragedia
8. Awake To Grey

Debut album by Ludicra. While their influences (Darkthrone, Dissection, Satyricon) shine through in their music, their sound is defiantly unique. The album is progressive in the sense that strange things always happen in each track. Shanaman’s screams are some of the best that any female metal vocalist has to offer.There’s a certain power to the drummer’s performance, too, as he fluidly shifts between styles.

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Birdflesh - Night Of The Ultimate Mosh

Genre: Grindcore
Country: Sweden
Year: 2002

1. Coffinfucker
2. Master Of Violence
3. Gore In Gore Out
4. Arabian Psycho
5. Night Of The Ultimate Mosh
6. The Rolling Massgrave
7. Above, Where Are You?
8. Catmouth
9. Gut To Kill
10. Bloodshed Attack
11. Eternal Emotions
12. Slaughter Of Flies
13. Bowelthrasher
14. Kid Of The Brown Vomit
15. The Evil Pig
16. Everything Is Shit 17. Dance On The Frozen Desert 18. Crowes In The Nose
19. Death And Insanity 20. Carmolesting Dead 21. Suicide Maniac 22. Victim Of The Grind

2nd album by Birdflesh. 22 tracks and 27 minutes of insanity. Really fast grindcore with seriously disturbed and equally as funny lyrics. With mostly grind and some death and thrash riffs this delivers in all the right ways. For vocals it's got screams, some pitch shifted growls, and nice growling.

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