Lunes 29 Dic 2008, 18:13
The Best 20 (first place was obvious this year):
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Steve Roach - A Deeper Silence
Lustmord - Other
Methadrone - Sterility
Rome - Masse Mensch Material
Resurrection - Mistaken For Dead
Hail of Bullets - …of Frost And War
Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - React
Facebreaker - Dead Rotten And Hungry
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Virus - The Black Flux
Dead Congregation - Graves of The Archangels
Phobia - 22 Acts Of Random Violence
Harold Budd & Clive Wright - A Song For Lost Blossoms
Kill The Client - Cleptocracy
Lull - Like A Slow River
P.H.O.B.O.S. - Anaedipal
Fuck The Facts - Disgorge Mexico
Atomine Elektrine - The Deep Invisible
Isole - Bliss of Solitude
Very good:
Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
Agoraphobic Nosebleed & Insect Warfare - split
Alio Die & Martina Galvagni - Eleusian Lullaby
Atrium Carceri - Souyuan
Aura Noir - Hades Rise
Benediction - Killing Music
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Bruno Sanfilippo & Mathias Grassow - Ambessence: Piano & Drones
Coffins - Buried Death
Coil - The New Backwards
Criminal Element - Guilty As Charged
Death In June - The Rule Of Thirds
Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
Disfear - Live The Storm
Enhrare - The Man Closing Up
Exit Wounds - s/t
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Hecq - Night Falls
Hooded Menace - Fulfill The Curse
Hour of Penance - The Vile Conception
Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox
Gortuary - Manic Thoughts of Perverse Mutilation
Grey Force Wakeford - Marble Heart
Insect Warfare & Flagitious Idiosyncrasy In The Dilapidation - Split
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - Farscape
Lair of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master
Lunatic Soul - Lunatic Soul
Machetazo - Mundo Cripta
Malignant Tumour - In Full Swing
Maruta - In Narcosis
Mathias Grassow & Thomas Weiss - Quiet Calling
Meshuggah - Obzen
Misery Index - Traitors
Moss - Sub Templum
Mothlite - The Flax of Reverie
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
Necrovation - Breed Dreadness Blood
Nordvargr - Interstellar
Nordvargr - Pyrrhula
Nurse With Wound - Huffin Rag Blues
Putrevore - Morphed From Deathbreath
Raison D'etre - The Luminous Experience
Rapoon - The Library of The Dead
Retaliation - The Cost Of Redemption
Robert Rich & Faryus - Zerkalo
Rotten Sound - Cycles
Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf & Mark Seelig - Nada Terma
The Endless Blockade - Primitive
The Triple Tree - Ghosts
Thom Brennan - Stories From The Forest
Venomous Concept - Poisoned Apple
Wolfbrigade - Comalive
Good:
Abnormyndeffect - Betwin
Agalloch - The White
Agathocles - Grind Is Protest
Alio Die - Aura Seminalis
Alio Die - Tempus Rei
Amenra - Mass IIII
Arcana - Raspail
Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
Ataraxie - Anhédonie
Atavist & Nadja - II: Points At Infinity
Autechre - Quaristice
Beyond Sensory Experience - No Lights In Our Eyes
Birds of Prey - Sulfur And Semen
Blindead - Autoscopia: Murder In Phazes
Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
Brave - Monuments
Caina - Temporary Antennae
Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated
Canvas Solaris - The Atomized Dream
Catastrophic - Pathology Of Murder
Cerebral Turbulency - Segregace
Coldworker - Rotting Paradise
Cripple Bastards - Variante Alla Morte
Crypticus - They Called Me Mad
Dark Empire - Humanity Dethroned
Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine
Death Angel - Killing Season
Demiurg - The Hate Chamber
Deranged - The Redlight Murder Case
Dismember - Dismember
Doom:Vs - Dead Words Speak
Dysentery - From Past Suffering Comes New Flesh
Dystopia - Dystopia
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull
Empusae - The Hatred Of Trees
End of Green - Sick's Sense
Evocation - Dead Calm Chaos
Extreme Noise Terror - Law Of Retaliation
Faryus - Lucid Dreams
Flesh - Worship The Soul Of Disgust
Foundation Hope - Our God Is A Consuming Fire
Foundation Hope - Tunes For The Wounded
Funeral - As The Light Does The Shadow
God Is An Astronaut - s/t
Gronibard - We Are French Fukk You
Guillotine - Blood Money
Half Makeshift - Omen
Halo Manash - Am Kha Astrie
Hate Eternal - Fury and Flames
Hateful Abandon - Famine (or Into The Bellies Of Worms)
Illdisposed - The Prestige
Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
Jeff Pearce - Rainshadow Sky
Jeffrey Koepper - Sequentaria
John Zorn - The Dreamers
Klaus Schulze - Virtual Outback
Lacus Somniorum - Tideshaper
Lantlos - Lantlos
Lao Che - Gospel
Leng Tche & Fuck The Facts - split
Madrugada - Madrugada
Mathias Grassow & Jiri Mazanek - Inner Path (Vnitrni Cesta)
Misanthrope - IrremeDiable
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Nadja & Atavist & Satori - Infernal Procession… And Then Everything Dies
Nahvalr - Nahvalr
Neronoia - Il Rumore Delle Cose
No Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Nordvargr - Helvete
Nordvargr & Drakh & Klier - The Less You Know The Better
Nortt - Galgenfrist
Olhon - Underwater Passage
Oophoi - An Aerial View
Origin - Antithesis
Paganus - Paganus
Pantheist - Journey Through Lands Unknown
Pentemple - O))) Presents…
Pete Namlook - Subharmonic Atoms
Rapoon & Census Of Hallucinations - Industrial Exchange
Septic Flesh - Communion
Serge Blenner - Musique De Chamber
Skepticism - Alloy
Sludge - Lava
Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction
Steve Roach - Landmass
Steve Roach & Erik Wollo - Stream Of Thought
Sutcliffe Jugend - Pigdaddy
Swallow The Sun - Plague of Butterflies
The Butterfly Effect - Final Conversation Of Kings
The Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Thorium - Feral Creation
Tim Story & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Inlandish
Trap Them - Seizures In Barren Praise
TROUM - (Ful)Fill The Narcistic Wound
Decrepitaph - Condemned Cathedra
Unburied - Slut Decapitator
Unleashed - Hammer Battalion
Vir Unis & Disturbed Earth - Drawn From The Well
Wildildlife - Peas Feast
the Wounded Kings - Embrace of The Narrow House
and two brilliant Relapse compilations "This Compilation Kills Fascists Vol.1"; (with new killing tracks of Brutal Truth among others i "Slimewave - Goregrind Series"
I'll stay silent about bad albums and disappointments, let them be…
Best gigs: Esoteric, Carcass,, Current 93,, Neurosis,, Sol Invictus,, Suffocation,, Napalm Death,, Immolation,, Entombed,, Anathema,, Brutal Truth,, Nocturnus,, Hail of Bullets, Obituary,, Electric Wizard,, General Surgery, Inhumate,, Goatwhore,, Rotten Sound,, Dismember,, Taint,, Sanitys Dawn,, Beheaded,, Inveracity,, Defeated Sanity Municipal Waste,…
For next year I wish you (and myself) as much time for good music as this year.
All the best!