Morlok - The End Times

Recent excursions into soft grunge and so called pastel goth have left me clamboring for some blazing raw experimental Czech black metal, and hot damn do Morlok deliver! Distraught melodies, sizzlingly off-kilter drum programming and an overall alien industrial vibe that never forgoes the outright thrashiness that defines the awesomeness that IS Czech black metal!! Fuck, they even throw in a bit of unclean "When Johnny comes Stomping Home" folk jazz on some of these cuts. More fun than an extraterrestrial nocturnal snipe hunt and definitely for fans of Blacklodge, Mysticum, Meatballs and dat Sabbatic Goat.

The End Times

Alien Crucifixion - Relics of a Dark Star

Raped by Xenu, Enslaved by Reptoids...no not the latest Gloria Estefan album, just some maniacal grindcore from where else but Roswell, NM. And you know it's pretty good too. Good for those late night X-Files marathons where you just want to mute the sound and revel in some Agent Scully. You might be able to get a little Wizard of Oz/DSoftheM type of thing going on tooo.

Relix

Agent Steel - Order of the Illuminati

This is a ripper. Prog-thrash with an excruciatingly heavy production. Brucie Boy's soooaaaarring vox and lyrical themes are out of this world, literally. Cosmic flights of fancy that by this time were Agent Steel's niche...their ace in the hole. Order of the Illuminati is a total win, I could listen to a song like Insurrection or Human Bullet a 100x over and not tire of it...a true testament to how amazing this band really is.

Order

Agent Steel - Omega Conspiracy

The Agent Steel boyz dropped Cyris somewhere over Alpha Centauri and picked up top-notch vocalist Bruce Hall along the way.

Conspiracy

Sound Barrier - Speed Of Light

Fly me off into space with this one baby, from L.A. sleazy, progressive....and hey, the world's first all-black hard rock band signed to a major label!

Speed Of Light

Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

I don't think an album title has ever described it's music soo perfectly. Let wildman Cyris take you on an epic journey cross hither & yon.

Unstoppable

Pestilence - Spheres

One of the most polarizing death metal albums ever made...but don't be swayed by the naysayers, personally this is my favorite of theirs. And of course we all know golden boy went on to Kraut tech-deathsters Obscura. Newer Pestilence blows balls...Older Pestilence is cool but doesn't really do it for me...Spheres is oh so weird and juuuuust right.

Spheres

Paralysis - Architecture Of The Imagination

Dark, progressive and technical as hell...Paralysis certainly went out on a high note.

Architecture Of The Imagination

Paralysis - Visions

The Dutch were very very good at technothrash. Paralysis is just one of many...Mystrez --- Imperium --- Osiris --- Rhadamantys --- I could go on (and I will, don't worry). Their debut ep Arctic Sleep was a stunner and Visions ain't no slouch. Same vocalist, so you know there is some obtuse caterwaulin' goin' down. The song "Escape From Yesterday" absolutely has to be heard to be believed.

Visions

Pure Class

FYDWAFVFS

Sortilege - Metamorphose

Some more AMAZING cover artwork and AMAZING tunes courtesy of French bastards Sortilege. Metamorphose was their debut album from way back in 1984 and is nothing but pure class through and through...stinging powerful vox and riffs to bang your head for days. Probably the best French export since Courvoisier.

Metamorphose

Graal - Sigullum Naturae

Slovenian Beefheart Pychedelic Death Metal Cabaret...this is amazing.

Sigullum Naturae

Voivod - Killing Technology

or this one goddammit...they're gonna doit to you to you to you to you to you to you to you to you  to you to you to you to you to you to you to you TOO YOUUUU!!!

Killing Technology

Hyperspeed

FUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

Suuri Shamaani - Mysteerien Maailma

Mo Finnish madness minimalism, this time from Beherit mainman Nuclear Holocausto. Even drone afficianados might hate this, but then again folks who are into drone hate just about everything so this might get a pass.

Mysterious Mailman

Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces

Ferocious...puzzling...spacey....all worthy adjectives to describe this incredibly obscure '97 German tech death/jazz dream. This is some unsettling shit all built around Cynic/Atheist style guitar acrobatics with an atonal avant-garde edge that places it on the weirder side of Pestilence's oft-maligned (but incredible nonetheless) Spheres. This is somehow even more "out-there" than any of those bands...if you don't believe, make sure to check out the incredibly fucked and un-fuckable with 10 minute closer "Yellow Puzzle"...it is fantastic, and addicting with half-sung vocals incoherently riding over unintelligible death growls, clean guitar passages and jazz bass fucking with your mind...ridiculous abstract/poetic lyrics about nature. I can't say enough good things about this demo....the only thing this band released by the way. Some members would go on to play with Necrophagist right around the release of Onset of Putrefaction...but I prefer Puzzled to anything by them. A technical masterpiece abstracted and reassembled by psychos. I can't recommend this enough!!

Puzzled Into Various Spaces

ALF Projekt - Melmac Rock

You had your brain blown by RALF Projekt, now how bout a little ALF Projekt?!!...maaaan that Gordon Shumway could blow, but we all know he was just trying to impress that nosy bitch Raquel.

Melmac Rock

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SKULL AND BONES

More green-screen grossness from these Brazilian badasses. You can actually buy a full-length from these guys...me?, I'm not that brave.

FADADES

Now THIS is a band that should have been on Metal Enterprises!