Godkiller - The End of the World

An absolute monster of an album....Monaco's finest...after that fine ass Princess Grace of course.

Blood Storm - Ancient Wraith of KU

Just what is a KU and what stirs it's ancient wrath you may ask??

"The Ku are those entities that have died violent deaths. The Ku's hieroglyphs have many meanings, the foremost of which is Black Magick. As an ideograph, the Ku is at least 3,000 years old, and the cult enshrines a system analogous to the voodoo mysteries of the 256 venoms used obstensively for acquiring great wealth and for vengeance. The basic concept is preserved in the Yi king where it appears as the 18th hexagram. Now the two elemental trigrams that comprise the hexagram are those of Earth and Air. Now the superpositioning of the Earth trigram above that of the Air suggests suffocation or choking, and the spirit/entity of the Ku are the vehicles of the Ophidian venoms which devour or suffocate the living on Earth in violent deaths. That whole thing of Ophidian venoms devouring is the 256 venoms, that's their virus, yo see its another stage of virus through occultism. In popular belief the Ku is a malignant honer of the dark and snatches souls from the dead. The Ku is in connection to the cult of the black snake, also known as the mystery of zombieism, which is like Haitian voodoo. Hence the sorcerer extracts the venoms from the Ophidian current and manifests from its extraterrestrial origin to descend and eat the brains of men. So that's the virus it's transmitting. That's a basic structure of what the Ku actually is."

So there

Ku Ku Ka Chu

Forest Swords - Engravings

Drone-step, Glorious Drone-step. Forest Swords aka Matthew Barnes scrapes it down to the bare necessities and is all the better for doing so. F'ing masterpiece. As comfortable at a ravedown or with any and all the forest people...or perhaps here? Minus that rubbish music of course.

Psychologically Trancing

Snowfall

Shark Attack

Yeah, this is more like it! This new material is sounding much closer to the Road's patented epic psychedelic doom-crunch than the dreadful Playground of the Damned...I'm really looking forward to this one, 2013 is off to a great start with the new Manilla Road and that AWESOME new Voivod!!!

Sveta Istina Vjestica - Witches In The Air

Suck on this one...French avant black/grind dealing with such hard-hitting issues as "witches, death and madness"... free download baby so don't mess around.

Hunting For Witches

Future Tense - Condemned to the Gallow Ep

Some super sweet Dutch heavyness from '84 w/ one of my favorite logos ever. Evil Attack!!

Condemned

Galgeras - Reliekrover

Leave me alooooooooone

Reliekrover

Archaicus - Beneath The Horizon

Otherworldly death metal with an agonizingly cryptic atmosphere. If this doesn’t make you want to reach for the liquid Drain-O and take a swig, you might be too happy of a person.

Beneath The Horizon

Varvar - Zverinaja Bezdna Ubjot Vas

Dungeoness power thrash hell from the deep depths of Russia...I mean just check out that artwork, holy shit on a stick!!!

Zverninaja Bezdna Ubjot Vas

Schismatic - Circle Of Evolution

Feral primeval athropormorphic death metal that will leave you in a bloody heap...Schismatic just drips with atmosphere...riffs of destruction seethe and hiss like billous fluids pussing from a stuck hog. You really can't expect any less from a Polish death metal band circa '93, now can you?

Circle Of Evilution

Ixion - In Hoc Signs Vinces

Bestial French black metal from 1986! Holy shit, this is so intense and crazy especially for the mid 80's when all was cool!!

In Hoc Signs Vinces

Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

or this one.

13 Candles

RetroSatan - Grito Mortal

Out of this world old-school Argentinian speed metal from '87. Occult atmosphere absolutely pours out of this release...just listen to the trak Esperando El Final...specifically the break at 2:30 in will make you shudder. Love it.
PS if anyone has the full rip of this album let me know, cuz I could only find about half the trax from it.

Grito Mortal

Masacre - Cancer De Nuestros Dias Colombia Imperio Del Terror

The finest of old school Columbian death metal.

CDNDCIDT

Tenebrarum - Blood & Tears

Here's some weird old funky Columbian gothic death doom from '95. Pretty wicked stuff.

Blood & Tears

Beherit - Electric Doom Synthesis

Nuclear Holocausto Vengeance's second stab at dark ambient (after the somewhat forgettable and unpronounceable H418ov21.C), and what an improvement! Somehow Mr. Vengeance managed to incorporate that lunar black metal feel from Drawing Down The Moon with dance beats and trip hop and form them into songs (and I do mean fully differentiated songs) that are, for the most part, totally outside of the black metal genre. AND this came out in 1995! Definitely ahead of it's time and an album that I think has aged particularly well.

EDS

Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa - The Drum Battle At JATP

Two legends do battle...the victor? I'll let you be the judge.

The Drum Battle

Graveland Anno 2012

Check out these new pictures of Rob Darken acting a nut. That guy sure knows how to have a good time...what's he battling there, some kind of mythical antelope? Damn I'd love to do some shrooms with that guy, talk about a hoot!

 

 

Pyogenesis - Ignis Creatio

Gargantuan atmospheric death metal...rockin' when it wants to, soulful when needs be, and epic fuckin' always.

Ignis Creatio