Best Of 2010

Darkthrone-Circle The Wagons

Autopsy-The Tomb Within

Ghost-Opus Eponymous

The Crystal Caravan-Against The Tide

Détente-Decline

Black Breath-Heavy Breathing

Acid Witch-Stoned

Bombs Of Hades-Chambers Of Abominations

Hogjaw-Ironwood

Asteroid-II

Horn Of The Rhino-Weight Of The Coronation

Dishammer-Under The Sign Of The D-beat Mark

The Soulbreaker Company-Ítaca

There are a lot of albums that I have to listen yet, but this a good example of what is the best of 2010 for me.

I also want to say thank you, to all the people that follow and make a comments in the blog. It keeps it alive!

Hoping for a better 2011, I salute you all!

Rory Gallagher - Live In Madrid (1975) CD+DVD

01 - Messin' With The Kid (6:57)
02 - Tattoo'd Lady (8:48 )
03 - Garbage Man (11:22)
04 - Cradle Rock (7:23)
05 - Young fashioned ways (7:36)
06 - A million maile away (9:48 )
07 - Walk On Hot Coals (9:03)

Jimi Hendrix was once asked: "what is it like being the greatest living guitarist?" and he looked up and said "I don´t know, ask Rory Gallagher that question sir". One of the best guitar players ever, unfairly forgotten. Here is my little tribute to him and his music. I love his wild style and the way he sang and play rock. The show was recorded on 7th march ´75, in the Teatro Monumental, in Madrid. The video and sound is very good.

myspace

*Links in comments

Unsane - Coextinction Recordings 1 (2010)

1.- Pidgeon 4:33

2.-Grind 3:48

3.- No Dice 2:49

Three new songs from the masters of heaviness and crushing rythms. We want more!

myspace

*Link in comments

Procession - Destroyers Of The Faith (2010)

1. Hyperion 1:54
2. Destroyers Of The Faith 7:52
3. The Road To The Gravegarden 10:50
4. Chants Of The Nameless 9:46
5. Tomb Of Doom 8:27
6. White Coffin 7:25

Enormous epic doom from Chile.  If his Ep "the cult of disease"  was a very good work, wait to hear this one. Crushing guitars, well builded songs, the voices very much in keeping with that kind of music and a perfect production. One of the bests albums of the year. This is epic. Muy grande!

myspace

*Link in comments

Peter Broderick - How They Are (2010)

01 - Sideline
02 - Human Eyeballs On Toast
03 - Guilt's Tune
04 - When I'm Gone
05 - With A Key
06 - Pulling The Rain
07 - Hello To Nils 

 Quiet and smooth new work by this multi-instrumentalist, mixing the contemporary piano pieces, with an acoustic and folky tunes. Pleasant voice and evocative soundscapes. Music for relaxing in the shelter of home.

myspace

*Link in comments

Possessed By Paul James - Feed The Family (2010)

1. Four Men From the Row (03:13)
2. Old Man Souls (02:16)
3. Feed the Family (02:07)
4. When It Breaks (03:38)
5. Oh To Rhythm (02:32)
6. Shoulda’ Known Better (03:40)
7. Older In My Body (04:06)
8. Take Off Your Mask (04:20)
9. Fathers and Sons (02:48)
10. We Welcome You Home (04:33)
11. Texas Rose (03:27)
12. Color of My Bloody Nose [Explicit] (04:51)

Ooooh yeah! The third album of Jon Konrad Wert (aka PBPJ). Here there isn´t a bad song, there is no place for mediocrity. It´s the way he plays (whatever, guitar, banjo...) and sings the songs, so passionate, intense, with his crazy attitude and his old school spirit, which makes his music so special. I hope you enjoy it as much as I´m doing.

myspace

*Link in comments

Grinderman - Grinderman 2 (2010)

01 - Mickey Mouse And The Goodbye Man
02 - Worm Tamer
03 - Heathen Child
04 - When My Baby Comes
05 - What I Know
06 - Evil
07 - Kitchenette
08 - Palaces Of Montezuma
09 - Bellringer Blues

There are people who do what they do is good. This is the case of Nick Cave. Second album with Grinderman, and a second chance to listen  this gentleman perfoming the songs with his habitual viscerality and savoir-faire. Highlights "evil" and "palaces of montezuma". Not for beginners.

myspace

*Link in comments

Jon Foreman - The Fall EP (2007)

1.- The Cure For Pain

2.- Southbound Train

3.- Lord Save Me From Myself

4.- Equally Skilled

5.- The Moon Is A Magnet

6.- My Love Goes Free

The first Ep of his solo adventure. Really inspired beautiful work of folk acoustic music, despite the ultrareligious lyrics (please don´t pay too much attention). For those moments...

myspace

*Link in comments

Détente - Decline (2010)

1. In God We Trust 02:50
2. Predator 02:54
3. Kill Rush 03:28
4. Degradation Machine 04:42
5. Decline 02:45
6. Ashes 02:56
7. Genocide 02:34
8. This is Not Freedom 12:58

24 years after their first album the underground legends of thrash are back. Listening this album it seems as if time had not passed for them. Keeping the rage, the feeling and the strengh of the beginnings, with a new female vocalist, the band offers once again an other work of sublime thrash metal. Old school!

myspace

*Link in comments

John Zorn - Filmworks XXI: Belle De Nature -The New Rijksmuseum (2008)

Belle De Nature
1. Masque en Sole

2. Rose

3. L'Air et les Songes

4. Fouet d'Épines

5. Elle Vient

6. Orties Cuisantes

7. Belle de Nature
8. Storage

The New Rijksmuseum

9. Conservation

10. Rendering

11. Meeting

12. Restoration

13. Construction

14. Architecture

15. Design

16. Planning

17. Completion

This the 21st part of the filmworks series, that Mr. Zorn started in 1997. Two different parts, probably Belle De Nature (an erotic short film) is one of the most inspired and brilliant soundtrack of the whole series, with highlighting amazing moments such "orties cuisantes" where Marc Ribot give us an astonishing guitar solo of an impressive deepness and beauty. The second part is the soundtrack for the documentary about the dutch museum´s restoration, composed for harpischord, vibraphone, piano and percussion. A delightful work.

 

myspace

*Link in comments

Tyrant Of Death - The Forthcoming (2010)

01. The Forthcoming
02. Korona
03. Cold Steel
04. Mechanical Ancestors
05. Final Legacy
06. Ω
07. Mechanical Intervals
08. Apex
09. Dislocated
10. Awaken

Take the darkest old Fear Factory times, something of Meshuggah´s sound and add an electronic-apocalyptic atmospheres... the spawn that you´ll obtain is this powerful album. Perfectly executed, and well combinated all the styles that are mixed here. Becareful, it really hooks you! 

myspace

*Link in comments