Again, not really a great year for music but still way better than 2011. But that is setting the bar awfully low. 2012 was a pretty awesome year, but I'm just going to skip it and go to current events. Because who reads this shit anyway?

So far the contenders (it's actually plural this time) are:

Sulphur Aeon - Swallowed By The Ocean's Tide

Aosoth - IV - Arrow In Heart

Warbeast - Destroy

So far edge goes to Sulphur Aeon for an album that sounds like the soundtrack to the awakening of Cthulhu. It's going to be real hard…

Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition for Sheep'N'Guns.

http://vibedeck.com/scd/sheepnguns

2011 was a shitty year for metal/hard music. Probably because just about everyone who knows how to make good music released their works the previous year.

2011 we got such gems as Morbid Angel's Illud Divinum Insanus, In Flames' Sounds of a Playground Fading (oh for fuck's sake…), and more.

Replace "gems" with "steaming pile of elephant shit" of course.

SCD however took the direction they started out on with Inventory of Fixtures (which itself was one of the best things I've heard come out of Europe) and added in even more of the…

http://www.last.fm/event/1948218+Honda+Civic+Tour+2011

I applaud the organizers of the event for going with a name that warns everyone beforehand how shitty it's bound to be.

The new Atheist and Deathspell Omega albums are painfully awesome.

Reviews will be made of one or maybe both on my dA account someday. I don't know when, that place is starting to bore me with everyone I know leaving and the mods being fucking imbeciles.

Deathspell Omega

Atheist

Both arriving November 9th.

My decade. It has been made.

And Rotten Sound coming to Cleveland next year in February will make my next decade. Life is fucking awesome right now.

Rotten Sound. In Cleveland. 2/212011.

Why did I ever stop listening to Teitanblood?!

I now own

Immolation - Majesty And Decay
Hour Of Penance - Paradogma
Rotten Sound - Napalm

And because Willotip records rule I got them all for under $40.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4/SortVinter187/Win/win_button.jpg

The new Ash Pool - For Which He Plies The Lash is good stuff too.

2009 was an awesome year for music. 2010 is already looking just as good. Now how about something new from Deathspell Omega and Pitbulls In The Nursery? Oh that would make my decade.

I just realized I have 206 pages of banned tracks.

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Right so just about everyone knows about the band Mayhem right? It’s hard not to have, first vocalist blew his brains out, and their session bassist stabbed their guitarist to death. Rock on boys.

Well offstage antics aside, Mayhem is actually a band worth some time looking into. Since Deathcrush and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas created the blueprints for turning thrash metal into black metal the band has been like a damned musical merry-go-round – going from traditional black metal to progressive and avant-garde metal – but with very questionable success.

How do I put this… Well it’s not as…