Nightsatan - Midnight Laser Warrior (2010)

1. Four Eyed Cyclops

2. Death Chess 2000

3. Karelian Starmaster (Evil Lucifer)

4. Ninja Apocalypse

5. Steel Diamond part 4

6. Stars, Our Destination

7. Shogun Sunrise

Nice! Nice! Nice! Is it clear? Do you like sci-fi movies? do you like the 80´s sci-fi movies? and their soundtracks? well, then you have to listen this album. Synthesizers, electronic drums, analogic sonorities and tones of good taste comform this record. Weird futuristic stuff that you don´t listen everydays. Enjoy it!

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Test - Árabe Macabre (2012)

01. Árabe Macabre (2:01)

02. Andróides (2:27)

03. Celebrar Venha (2:50)

04. Venenom (1:35)

05. Morrer Lentamente (2:22)

06. Du Horror (1:40)

07. Sal da Vida (2:18)

08. Deus II (1:38)

09. Na Pilha (2:10)

10. Abismo (2:49)

Brazilian grindcore, not too much fast or crazy, closer to hardcore and the old school sonorities, sometimes swampy, and with an horrific voice and atmospheres. Short album without pretentions, but very interesting anyway.

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Creature With The Atom Brain - The Birds Fly Low (2012)

1. Hit The Sky
2. Wolf Eye
3. Southern Wind
4. The Beauty Of The Rain
5. Black Rider Run (feat. Mark Lanegan)
6. The Dust Of Time
7. Sayonara
8. Nightlife
9. Break Me Blue
10. Red River
11. Slide
12. R-Frequency (bonus track)
13. The Birds Fly Low (bonus track)

Lovely, charming and delicious piece of rock. I discovered them on tour a few months ago with Mr.Lanegan and they caught my attention inmediatly. Sometimes psychedelic, sometimes stoner, but always rock, made with a huge class. Nothing more to say, enjoy it!

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A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays (2012)

01. Directionless Resurrectionist 03:13
02. Prey Tell of the Church Fate 07:27
03. A Prophet for A Pound of Flesh 10:11
04. The Blight of Gods Acre 06:09
05. Mans Laughter 03:00
06. The Underside of Eden 08:14
07. Gatherer of the Pure 08:20
08. Left Behind as Static 06:43
09. Corvus Corona (Part 1) 03:15
10. Corvus Corona (Part 2) 06:13
11. Dead Love (Bonustrack) 05:47

Fantastic! This is the perfect word to define this new album. Taking as reference some of the black metal patterns they totally redifine the style adding a bunch of prog-circus melodies, enriching the music until they create this wonder. An album that needs to be carefully listened to extract all of its essence. Don´t you miss the video either, simply astonishing!

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Beastmilk - Use Your Deluge EP (2012)

1.- Void Mother

2.- Children Of The Atom Bomb

3.- Forever Animal

4.- Red Majesty

Wonderful EP of these finnish guys. Mat McNerney, the mind behind bands as Dodheimsgard, Code, Void or Hexvessel, offers to us a very remarcable EP of dark post-punk, highly influenced by bands as Misfits, Joy Division, Danzig or even Dead Kennedys. Unexpected surprise. Must listen it!

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Cannabis Corpse - Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise (2011)

1. Visions From The Dank Side

2. Lunatic Of Pot's Creation 

3. Blame It On Bud

4. Chapel Of Bowls 

5. Dead By Bong

6. Immortal Pipes

7. Where The Kind Lives

8. Sworn To The Bag

9. Blaze Of Torment 

10. Gateways To Inhalation

11. Slave To The Chron 

12. Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise 

What can I say? They can be look a non serious band, but they really know who to play death metal, sometimes even better than the other CC. Anyway, this is a very good album full of badass songs!

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713avo Amor - A Veces El Dolor (1993)

1.- A veces el dolor
2.- (Te escribo desde esta) botellita de cielo
3.- Cielo bajo tierra
4.- Limosna para morir
5.- El mar es la manera más arrugada de todos los millones de maneras de corazones
6.- Última nota
7.- La materia no existe
8.- En medio de un mar de penas
9.- Las lágrimas
10.- Lago de ceniceros
11.- Princesa de manos azules
12.- Sombreros llenos de sangre
13.- La chófer del diablo

This is one of those bands that never achieved the success that they deserve. They were in the underground, and they still there. Because they are far from mainstream and far from the sweet melodies of the comercial music. This band probably has the most acid, bitterest and surrealistic lyrics that I´ve ever heard.  Add to this a crazy noise rock and post punk that could remember bands like Fugazi or Slint and you´ll have "713th Love". Sometimes the pain...

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Muknal - Muknal (2012) EP

1.- Cruciation 6:28

2.- Rotten Genesis 6:10

3.- Eidolon 4:41

Outstanding and very short EP from these extrem guys. It sounds old school, chaotic, dark, lysergic and dirty. Muknal drinks directly from the sound of Incantation, Teitanblood, and that kind of rotten stuff. If you like this kind of bands you will enjoy this album as a possessed. Highly recommended!

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Young And In The Way - V.Eternal Depression (2011)EP

1. Descending the White Mountain

2. Times Are Cold

3. The Great Blue Norther

4. Oceans of Eternal Depression
5. The Gathering

Atmospheric and blackened, very blackened hardcore, full of bad vibes, intensity, and rage. When they become slow and atmospherics they remind me a little to Corrupted, other times they become faster and its sound it´s closer to the black metal feelings. Anyway, you must listen it!

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Teething - S/T (2012)

1.-Hell Song

2.-Fuck This Face

3.-Broken Teeth

4.-1996

5.-Self-Extintion

New release from Tupatutupa Records. Powerful, furious and outstanding hardcore/grindcore from Madrid. Short but intense, direct to the bone!

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Pigs - You Ruin Everything (2012)

1. Give It

2. Whitewash

3. Massive Operator Error

4. Drained

5. Outburst Calendar

6. Contrition Dilemma

7. Scrum

8. Small c Celebrity

9. Mashantucket

10. At Least It’s An Ethos

Sublime cover-art that fits perfectly with the music of these guys. Featuring members of Unsane and Player´s Club, you can make an idea of what to expect about this album. Not bad at all.

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King Crimson - The Power To Believe (2003)

1. The Power to Believe I: A Cappella (0:44)
2. Level Five (7:17)
3. Eyes Wide Open (4:08)
4. Elektrik (7:59)
5. Facts of Life (6:44)
6. The Power to Believe II: Power Circle (7:43)
7. Dangerous Curves (6:42)
8. Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With (3:17)
9. The Power to Believe III (4:09)
10. The Power to Believe IV: Coda (2:29)

King Crimson is one of those bands that doesn´t need introduction. With more than 40 years creating music and countless albums, this is the band that has been able to achieve the succes and the respect of all kind of musicians and fans of metal, rock, jazz, etc. All of this leading by its brain, Mr.Robert Fripp, the perfect experimenter. Because this is of what this album goes, of experimentation and evolution in music. Here there are no boundaries nor limits, just what Mr.Fripp is capable to imagine. This is not an easy listening album, King Crimson never was. This is just another step forward in its music. A little-known gem inside its discography. Enjoy these geniuses!

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Aspid - Extravasation (1992)[remastered 2007]

01. Intro / Интро
02. It Came (Aspid) / Он Пришел (Аспид)
03. Towards One Goal / К Цели Одной
04. Give Me (Play For A Ballet) / Дай Мне (Пьеса Для Балета)
05. Hey, You! / Эй, Ты!
06. Where The Night / Там, Где Ночь...
07. Comatose State / Коматозное Состояние
08. Extravasation / Кровоизлияние

Unfairly unknown russian band from the 90´s, wich played a technical thrash metal with complex and intricate guitar riffs, surely will delight the fans of bands like Coroner, Deathrow, Watchtower and the current heirs of that kind of sounds, Vektor. This is the reissue of 2007. An uknown jewel of technical thrash metal.

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Ancestors - In Dreams And Time (2012)

1.- Whispers 9:10

2.- The Last Return 6:15

3.- Corryvreckan 12:08

4.- On The Wind 9:31 

5.- Running In Circles 9:44

6.- First Light 19:19

Monumental new album of Ancestors. The perfect culmination to its career so far. This "In Dreams And Time" is more progressive and epic than ever, and displays some of their influences widely, Pink Floyd would be a good example this. From the cover art untill the last second of the magnificent "First Light" we are in front of an outstanding piece of music, that surely will be between the best albums of this 2012. Enjoy it!

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Kadavar - Kadavar (2012)

1 All Our Thoughts
2. Black Sun
3 Forgotten Past 
4 Goddess Of Dawn
5 Creature of the Demon
6 Purple Sage

In spite of its questionable vintage look, they are a current band! And what a band! they now how to sound like 70´s, and they do it more than well. Rock, some of traditional doom and psychedelia, following the stream of bands like Graveyard or Witchcraft with the best quality possible. A safe bet if you like that kind of delights. Enjoy it!

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Sigh - In Somniphobia (2012)

01. Purgatorium (4:48)
02. The Transfiguration Fear (4:51)
03. Opening Theme: Lucid Nightmare (1:58)
04. Somniphobia (7:34)
05. L’excommunication a Minuit (5:38)
06. Amnesia (8:10)
07. Far Beneath The In-Between (7:10)
08. Amongst The Phantoms (9:31)
09. Ending Theme: Continuum (1:42)
10. Fall To The Thrall (5:17)
11. Equale (8:00)

The best cover art of this year so far. Fantastic as the album as well. It´s been a long time since they started playing black metal. They have evolved until their current sound, wich is a mix of progressive, avant-garde and some of that black metal of the beginning. Crazy work with a lot of changes and countless shades. This is the kind of albums that needs more than three or four listenings to get into it, but it´s worth to try it.  

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Zeppheroin - The Atrocity Exhibition (2011)

1.- Day of nine dogs

2.- Life is pain

3.- Stoned angel

4.- Lenon mantra

5.- Junkyard god

6.- Neon gunshot

7.- The overloaded man

8.- Retro jesus

9.- Dead inside

Tony Maim, the man behind Black Insect Laughter blog, is also behind this record:

"From a template of Punk, the sonic sensibilities of Post-rock, a smattering of Electronica and an unhealthy obsession with distorted guitars, Zeppheroin have produced an album with a disregard for modern production techniques, going for the mind melting “Raw Power” needle-in-the-red style that has distressed so many lovers of sterile digital music. With a cleanish singing/shouting style that delivers the themed lyrics dealing with loss, religion, self awareness and governments in a sneer of despair, this 30 minute album delivers a sonic assault on the world we live in."

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Horn Of The Rhino - Grengus (2012)

1.-Under The Hoof

2.-Pile Of Severed Heads

3.-Grengus

4.-Drowned In Gold

5-.Waste For Ghouls

6.-Awaken Horror Of Tuul

7.-Brought Back

8.-To Ride The Leviathan

Here it is! the brand new album of these guys from Bilbo, and one of the most anticipated of this year. As it was expected they doesn´t disappoint, they have made again a colossal work, following his particular point of view of what heavy music is. The album sounds fat, powerful and with an outstanding production. Its distinctive sound is the house brand. Enormous! 

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Hogjaw - Sons Of Western Skies (2012)

1.- Spoonfed

2.- Hells Half Home Of Mine

3.- Road Of Fools

4.- Six Shots

5.- Everyone´s Giong Fishing

6.- Look To The Sky

7.- Mainstream Trucker (18 Wheeler Remix)

8.- MIdnight Run To Cleator

9.- Dirty Woman

10.- The Sum Of All Things

They´re back again! The chiefs of the new southern sound, introduces to us his third album, wich follows the steps of their lasts two works. It means, very good riff and solo guitars, fantastic vocals (a couple of songs are sung by his drummer) and the gorgeous southern feelin the wrap all the album. Also there is some new ingredients, as the funky song "everyone´s going fishing", and with some other elements that enrich the music. Highly recommended, again.

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October File - Holy Armour From The Jaws Of God (2007)

1. Munitions Crusade
2. In My Magnificent Circus
3. High Octane Climate Changer
4. Another Day
5. Hallowed Be Thy Army
6. Friendly Fire
7. Blood and Sweat
8. Sun That Never Sets
9. Religion?
10. So Poor

I think the we can see this band and this album as the perfect mix of the trully post-hardcore sound, some of metal, and noise rock. In fact one of the best albums that I´ve heard with that kind of ingredients. His music is intense, furious, contundent and direct. A good example of this, is the brutal "high octane climate changer", mind blowing! Plus a social and political lyrics and of course the awesome cover art. Highly recommended!

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Tangerine Dream - One Night In Space EP (2007)

1.- One Night In Space 6:56

2.- It Could Here It When The Moon Collapsed On Broadway 5:19

A long time ago has passed since they created their masterpieces, but although they are not the same members, they still having something interesting to offer. Two short songs of soft space-electronic music with that touch of sci-fi atmosphere.

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Proclamation - Nether Tombs Of Abaddon (2012)

1. Communion Of Putresence (Intro) 2:16
2. Atonement Cenotaph 2:38
3. Regurgitated Bibles 3:46
4. Christ Death Ceremony 3:03
5. Psalms Of Mortification 2:41
6. Nether Tombs Of Abaddon 3:39
7. Entrails Of The Nazarene 2:44
8. Hatred Sacramente 3:08
9. Ascension of the Avernal Demigods 3:30
10. Under The Sempiternal Abhorrence 3:17

New album of these blackers from Madrid. They play a very dirty and chaotic black metal in style of bands as Blasphemy, Beherit or Teitanblood. If you like that kind of extrem sound you´re gonna enjoy this album. 

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John Zorn - Mount Analogue (2012)

1.- Mount Analogue (Feat. Cyro Baptista, Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, Tim Keiper, Brian Marsella & Kenny Wollesen) 38:21

Mr.Zorn is back with this one-song album, full oriental soundscapes, contemporany music passages and the experimentation that always goes with him. This is performed by Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits quartet: Shanir Blumenkranz, Tim Keiper, and Brian Marsella, with Kenny Wollesen on vibes and chimes.This work is close to the Film Works series. As always, a pleasure.

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Liquid Stranger - Cryogenic Encounters (2012)

01 – Beacon
02 – Burst
03 – Zeal
04 – Cryo
05 – Frostbite
06 – Magenta
07 – Organism
08 – Minimum
09 – The Other Dreamers
10 – Far and Beyond
11 – Fragments
12 – Ectoplasm
13 – Velour

I´m an uninitiated on this kind of music, but when I saw this awesome cover art I had to listen this album, and I liked it a lot. Very atmospheric, quiet and relaxing. Electronic sounds to have a break of distortion and and metallic sonorities. Nice! 

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Albatros - Ursus (2011)

1.Ursus (5:41)
2.El Camino De Swann (4:42)
3.Loki (5:31)
4.La Ciénaga (7:25)
5.Rey Lombriz (3:21)
6.Icaro (10:34)
7.Planeta Prohibido (8:36)

Third album of these catalans, more progressive than their two last albums, and with a fantastic voices that remember a lot the vocal lines of the legends of the andalusian rock Triana. An album that hooks you since the first listening. Enjoy it!  

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Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral (2012)

01. The Gravedigger’s Song
02. Bleeding Muddy Water
03. Gray Goes Black
04. St Louis Elegy
05. Riot In My House
06. Ode To Sad Disco
07. Phantasmagoria Blues
08. Quiver Syndrome
09. Harborview Hospital
10. Leviathan
11. Deep Black Vanishing Train
12. Tiny Grain Of Truth

Yeah! One of the most anticipated albums for this 2012 is already here. And I have to say that at first listening it sounds a little bit..."dark wave"? Listening songs as "ode to sad disco", "harborview hospital" or "gray goes black" it looks like if you were listening Peter Murphy, or bands as Trembling Blue Stars. This is not bad, because the voice of mr.Lanegan still being here. His immense voice and highlights as "st louis elegy", "phantasmagoria blues" or "deep black vanishing train" make this album, once again, a jewel, and surely, from now on, one of the best albums of this year. I let you proudly with Mark Lanegan and his band. 

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Kilju - Cosmic Satan EP (2012)

01. Cold Served Goddamn Revenge 02:54
02. Ultimate Spuge 03:14
03. Serpents 04:38
04. Hellforce (The Suffering) 03:48
05. End Ov Elite 02:07
06. Glory Ov Cosmic Satan 04:59

From the cold Finland an excellent work of black/death/punk. You know, nothing new but...

Super enjoyable album! Ugh!

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Buckethead - Electric Sea (2012)

01.Electric Sea
02.Beyond the Knowing
03. Swomee Swan
04.Point Doom
05.El Indio
06.La Wally
07. La Gavotte
08.Bachethead
09.Yokohama
10 .Gateless Gate
11.The Homing Beacon

The guitar hero known as Buckethead, introduces to us a diferent work. This is not the typical guitar-virtuoso album. Obviously, behind the guitars, there is an outstanding work, but I feel this work much more experimental than another thing. Quite and atmospheric in general, combinig acoustic with electric guitars. Nice surprise.

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Seven That Spells - Future Retro Spam (2010)

1.- Olympus 8:44

2.- G 8:24

3.- Terminus East 5:03

4.- The Abondoned World Of Automata 14:30

5.- Death Star Narcolepsy 9:42

6.- Quetzalcoaltl 3:06

Crazy work of psychedilc rock and jazz -jam spirit. If I had to describe this album in one work I´d say acid! Besides they incorporate a saxo, wich is always a very interesting thing and gives to the music that touch...

Delicious piece of music!

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The attack to Megaupload

As you know, I had all my links at Megaupload, so they are all dead. Despite this treacherous attack to want I understand that is our freedom, I can say only that this blog will continue ahead. I will find other servers, and the music will keep going around for everyone. From my indignation, a warm regards.

Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid (2011)

01. Getting Paid
02. Lock Jaw Night Vision
03. Static Lovers
04. The Heat, The Drought, The Thirst, and The Insanity
05. Time Masters
06. Guajira
07. Everlasting Beacon of Light
08. Crushin’ It!
09. Mega Slap

Although this sounds odd at first listening, it is a really light album, I mean, easy to listen it.  A diferent proposal, sometimes psychedelic, sometimes progressive, sometimes funky and always very enjoyable. All yours.

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Gillian Welch - Hell Among The Yearlings (1998)

01. Caleb Meyer
02. Good Til Now
03. The Devil Had A Hold Of Me
04. My Morphine
05. One Morning
06. Miner's Refrain
07. Honey Now
08. I'm Not Afraid To Die
09. Rock Of Ages
10. Whiskey Girl
11. Winter's Come and Gone 

One of the best female voices of the american folk/country music. A quiet work with a bunch of great songs. Enjoy it.

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Nekromantheon - Rise, Vulcan Spectre (2012)

01. Cast Down To The Void 04:16
02. Blood Wisdom 02:52
03. Embrace the Oracle 03:51
04. Coven of the Minotaur 04:04
05. The Usurper Command 04:37
06. Rise, Vulcan Spectre 03:58
07. Twelve Depths of Hades 03:49
08. Raised by Dogs 04:39

Second full-lenght of these thrashers. Following the line of their past works, we can find here an old school thrash or a blackened thrash, as you prefer. A kind of mix between the classics of the genre, Venom, Slayer, Sodom, the later Darkthrone... As many times I said, although it is nothing new, it stills being worthy. Enjoy it.

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Teitanblood - Purging Tongues EP (2011)

1.- Purging Tongues 15:11

Apocalyptic new EP from one of the best bands of the underground. Dirty production, twisted music, and sermons that announce the end of the world. Certainly this is not for everyone. Awesome cover art by the way, and very good song. Teitanblood does not disappoint.

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Karfagen - Lost Symphony (2011)

01. Entering the Space Gates (1:27)
02. Salvatore & His Leather Jackets (2:26)
03. Orgaria (scene 1) (1:07)
04. The Cosmic Frog & the Beast (6:47)
05. The China Wizard (3:43)
06. Sylph (4:29)
07. Daydream (2:59)
08. Orgaria (scene 2) (0:56)
09. Journey Through The Looking Glass (18:20)
10. Symphony of Sound (19:24)
11. Afterwords (2:24)

Amazing trip through the progressive soundscapes of these guys. A huge instrumental work of symphonic and progressive rock with a lot of guest musicians that enrich his music by using differents instruments. Here we can find both Pink Floyd as King Crimson just to name the most famous, but there are a lot of nuances to be discovered. Enjoy it!

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War Master - Pyramid Of The Necropolis (2011)

01. Mass Cremation
02. Into the Abysmal Fire
03. Cult of Greed
04. Ritualistic Carnage
05. Pyramid of the Necropolis
06. Circuit Death
07. Sadistic Force
08. Monolith

We´re gonna start the new year with some of old school death metal. The Bolt Thrower fans really will enjoy this work, because War Master have his reference in them. This means a death metal with fat and powerful sound, mainly mid times and a deep gutural voice. You know what you get here!

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