New Mustasch album. First proper song seemed a bit metal and over-produced but now it seems to be getting more rocky.

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Also heard the new Gorgoroth album, Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt which marks the return of Pest on vocals and surprisingly the album sounded quite cool on first listen. Have to check it out some more. Pretty good sound as well - so those of you who'd normally abstain because of the poor production can take a shot at this.

Man, Gorgoroth with catchy riffs and grooves and a clean production. Who would have thunk it. But yeah, I'm liking this quite a bit.

Still tripping on the new Immortal, Marduk, Ancestors, Count Raven and A Storm of Light albums. And then, Anneke and Danny Cavanagh put out a live, acoustic album called In Parallels which is sublime. Completely awesome stuff with the two doing songs from Anathema, The Gathering, Anneke's solo stuff and a couple of covers. I loved this.

The new Sacrifice is quite smashing. I'd say it's easily their best. The core vocals irked me slightly but nothing that would significantly alter my perception of the album. Good stuff. Thanks GK for the heads up on this.

All Shall Fall is rocking my playlist. I concur with most of what's been said about it in here. I'm just surprised that I like it as much as I do considering that I was never a big fan of anything Immortal did on or after Blizzard Beast.

The new Hypocrisy fucking surprised me. The last I heard from them was Virus and that was such a fucking turd that I didn't even bother with Catch 22 V. 2.0. This will definitely get more playtime in the near future.

Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
Fuck, this is brilliant! Very uncompromising old school extreme metal with lots of Hellhammer, early Asphyx and Pestilence references. Again, props to GK for the recco.

Now listening to the fucking brilliant Chalice of Ages by DeatheVokation. 2 years down the line, this album still kicks insane amounts of ass. Has held up beautifully. If Goregiastic weren't such assholes, I'd own a copy of this :(

Haha. Chorgiastic continue to send me ludicrous too good to be true offers. Buy 3 CDs get 30% off and two free CDs! etc. I gotta admire their strategy - they don't loot huge chunks of money from you (unless you are *cough* sodom hussain) but operate on a principle of baby steps: looting a little from LOT of people. Goregiastic are the biggest thieves i've encountered in 5+ years of buying online.

The new Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt is not at all what I was expecting. Thrash riffs, melody and some pretty decent songs. I'm liking this one. Anneke and Danny Cavanagh's In Parallels just gets better with every listen. Give me a proper full length already.

Finally got round to listening to Merauder's God is I in its entirety and while it starts off well by about half way through the songs all start to sound the same and the constant street/ gangsta references get tiresome. Yes, they've been around for ever in the whole NYHC scene but I could never take them seriously and this new album isn't really any different. Big fat grooves, a thick guitar sound but the songs don't even come close to the new Earth Crisis.

Also heard this interesting 2 man band Necro Deathmort - This Beat Is Necrotronic and the band tries to mix trip hop with lumbering sludgy doom metal and the results are not too bad. Some of it sounds a bit dull and the band comes across like a less extreme version of P.H.O.B.O.S but overall interesting debut doing something that is quite new and different.

Been listening to alarmingly less music over the past few days (two full days in the middle with nothing heard at all), so today is the catching up day and to finish some long pending side-work.

Re-listening to the Cable, lengthy album but still keeps up the quality.

The new Count Raven is still a kick ass album.

Throttlerod's Pig Charmer is fantastic. Heavy down tuned rock with a strong 90s metal and Southern flavour. Simple rocking music with thick guitars and nicely done occasional calm bits.

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That's Sandia Man's two song demo. Groovy, catchy, heavy shit.

The first song Sandia, reminds me of E.Wizard, Church of Misery and of course Sleep. We need more choruses like this in music. Skin of the Fathers has sort of a Brant Bjork s t y l e vocal line during the verse (what with such heavy delay too), and a slightly more epic chorus riff this time. Nice bass sound and a cool vibe overall. Recommended.

Edit: The new Serpent Throne. More of the same, aka zomg toadlly rawking yawlls!!!111

Edit 2: Checked out this awesomely funky and psych band with a hot female vocalist: www.myspace.com/cosmicmountain - just listen to the bass, damn.

Just got into Crippled Black Phoenix - dark, western, meandering instrumentals basically (and some vocal stuff too). Very engaging. They have a double album out now, check it out fo' sure.

^^ Got damn boring after the initial few listens. 200 Tons of Bad Luck is a bit better than the debut but not by much.

Tripped out on Danzig's IV after years. Turns out I've lost my CD but damn this is one fine album from Evil Elvis and the boys.

I'm listening to the new double album and pretty much liking. I have not heard their previous albums so no idea how they compare.

FAITH NO MORE - the real thing

Can't wait to get this on CD!

Infected Mushroom - Legend of The Black Shawarma

This is one of the best albums I've heard in all my life...NOT!!! This is the sort of dhik-chak music which came with my UT2004 game disk - alright as something in the distant backdrop when you're engaged with playing deathmatch or getting a blowjob or something like that, but pay the slightest bit of attention and you realize how utterly mediocre and unmemorable this whole album is.

Ancestors - Of Sound Mind

Didn't hear this in ideal conditions...most of it while hanging on to the foot-board of an ultra-crowded bus. But this is damn fine stuff. Some of the keyboard and guitar solos have a hypnotic quality to them, and at the end of the album you feel too sated to listen to anything else for a while.

Got to Guilt Machine and found it plain...bad. Prog for the sake of prog and way too keyboard heavy for the kind of songs on here. Some terrible vocals too. Will spin it some more though.

And Ancestors was fucking brilliant.

^^ Whats guilt machine?

The new Converge - Axe to Fall is blowing me away with every listen. Chaotic punky and angry as fuck hardcore. This is awesome. Also, totally tripping on A Storm of Light - Forgive us Our Trespasses which is some high quality doom/sludge/post whatever. The band has the ability to go from Isis to Candlemass in the space of 2 songs and great stuff overall.

Guilt Machine is Arjen Lucassen's latest band/project with some alt rock vocalist. I thought both the vocals and the songs were really fucking good - though like a lot of Arjen's work, the keyboards are very upfront in the mix