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Atanamar's Favorite Albums of 2020
Anarkhon - Phantasmagorical Personification Of The Death TempleAnarkhon@bandcampAtaraxy - Revelations of the EtherealAtaraxy@bandcampCarcass - DespicableCarcass@bandcampCryptic Shift - Visitations From...
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Atanamar's Favorite Albums of 2021
Shit year, rad music. Alphabetically:Ænigmatum - DeconsecrateAltered Dead - Returned To LifeAtvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking EndlessCannibal Corpse - Violence UnimaginedDeath Toll 80k - The Future Is...
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Atanamar's Favorite Albums of 2022
As The World Dies - AgonistAssumption - Hadean TidesAutonoesis - Moon of Foul MagicsBarn - HabitatBrain Famine - Die in the VortexCosmic Putrefaction - Crepuscular Dirge For The Blessed OnesDaeva -...
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Year of the Knife - No Love Lost
A chonky, sludgy, grinding core wrapped in rasping rage. Stomps and thrashes with delightful savagery. Evokes fond memories of Landmine Marathon.No Love Lost by Year Of The Knife
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Claustrum - Claustrum
Marauding, mid-paced death with sinister leads dished out old-school Immolation-style. Rides with Krypts-kicking doom vibes, but ultimately crushes in a admirable array of tempos. Riffs mostly cleave...
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Bandit - Siege of Self
Someone's been huffing Human Remains and I'm here for it. Grinds viscera with a whipsaw but rocks a carnival irreverence for melody. Not overly dense in tone or production, but brimming with punk piss...
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Seraphic Entombment - Sickness Particles Gleam
You worship distortion. I worship distortion. We can be friends. Sometimes you just want to sit and soak up the guitar tone. Sustain, sustain. This is death metal, obviously. It goes slow and it goes...
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Atanamar's Favorite Albums of 2023
Nwûl tash.Dzwol shâsotkun.Shâsotjontû châtsatul nu tyûk.Tyûkjontû châtsatul nu midwan.Midwanjontû châtsatul nu asha.Ashajontû kotswinot itsu nuyak.Wonoksh Qyâsik nun.Afterbirth - In But Not Of Ahab -...
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Martikor - Acedia
Agony, we know you. Martikor know you too. They're skewered in the same sludge-blackened-death-doomed-dissonant-melodic hell where we reside, thrive, rage. Pleasure and pain, riffs and screams, torment...
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Atanamar's Favorite Albums of 2024
This year's host of hungry ghosts, alphabetically:Aequorea - DepartureApparition - Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil StateCabinet - Hydrolysated OrdinationCiverous - Maze EnvyConcrete Winds -...
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Crown of Madness - Memories Fragmented
wrings impossible melody from acrid dissonance, dipping and diving in oft unexpected directions abrupt turns to thrashy decoupage both astound and resound with the neck drums ooze analog humanity...
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Consumption - Catharsis
Synthesizes the scent of exhumed corpse, exquisite carcass, or even your oldest arch enemy. This is a fucking jaunty journey into death via melodic gouts of purulence and mincing bowel erosion. I...
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Theophonos - Banishment
Floating in the void which binds are vibes conveyed by a very few albums. In particular, those are a trio of long-plays released by Enslaved between 2000 and 2003. Your mileage may vary, and my...
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Onirophagus - Revelations From The Void
Brews up my favorite flavors of death/doom admixture. Compiles tomes and tombs of treacherous methodology. Collects compendia of morose melodies that ride the blighted, bellowing maelstrom. Rages in...
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Lavandula - Fuck Beauty... ...Embrace Death
I've had Thomas G Warrior on the brain lately, fishing for anything that might scratch that intolerable Celtic Frost itch. Lavandula don't even touch the tip of that iceberg, but the pathological...
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Ancient Tome - The Implications of Ascendancy
Lashing icewinds rule the swards of my bitter winter, but the clean guitars at the start of this unassuming EP walk through zephyrous, vernal fields. Gorgeous, reverberant stuff. You might incorrectly...
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Můra - Needle Cathedral
Throw a cowcatcher on your tank. Strap a snowplow on your jank-ass jalopy. Just fucking bulldoze everything, let the doomed-death ride. You'll have to excuse my enthusiasm; Needle Cathedral gives...
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Mourir - Insolence
I scream, you scream, we all scream for core-tinted black metal. Still black as fuck, but it burns with a bit more humanist verve when you've got Plebeian Grandstand in your pedigree. This searing,...
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Chaos Inception - Vengeance Evangel
Some death metal conceptual constructs can only be facilitated by an outrageous rhythm section. Vengeance Evangel is a vulgar display of such powers. Guitar acrobatics of a certain ilk (think "Unholy...
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Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness
My platonic ideal of extreme music is a calculus of density, intensity, speed, chaos, precision, and skill. Pissgrave fuck this equation sideways with an overwhelming dose of entropy. When the...
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Délirant - Thoughteater
I am drawn irresistibly to music that evokes "evil", quite often to the detriment of my ears and sanity. Malevolent intentions rarely bear pleasurable fruit. Délirant do achieve a delicious,...
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Impurity - The Eternal Sleep
HM-2 pedals, de-tuned guitars, and bouncy riffs do not a death metal masterpiece make. Impurity, however, leverage those base tools of the old-school to create something worthy. Although I cherish...
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Exterior Palnet - Haragma II
Album-as-experience, a cracking, finely crafted danse macabre. Well honed movements and forms, of both clear provenance and sui generis searings. Its central pillar is a chiming, upper-register black...
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Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant: Slotstuk
Few albums so diverse can lay claim to a coherent, creative whole. Beyond the vacuous descriptor of "avant-garde*", Grey Aura ground their sound in black metal, perhaps. Perhaps. But only in as much...
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Light Dweller - The Subjugate
Light Dweller hawk eccentric, esoteric, sludgy-progressive-death that is unexpected in entirely welcomed ways. Perhaps that mythical beast known as "atmospheric death metal"? Warning: here be...
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