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Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere ★★★★☆
Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum ★★★★★
Atriarch - An Unending Pathway ★★★☆☆
Avichi - Catharsis Absolute ★★★★☆

Barghest - The Virtuous Purge ★★★★★
Behemoth - The Satanist ★★★★☆
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime ★★★★☆
Black Autumn - Losing The Sun ★★★★☆
Black Moth - Condemned To Hope ★★★☆☆
Bloodthirst - Chalice of Contempt ★★★★★
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry ★★★★★

Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII ★★★★★
Conan - Blood Eagle ★★★☆☆

Dead…

H O N O R A B L E … (In alphabetical order)

Aeternus – …And The Seventh His Soul Detesteth (NOR) | melodic black/death metal
Ajuna – Prisoner of the Sun (DK) | post-black metal
Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory and Injury (IR) | post-black metal
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Try not to destroy everything you love (NL) | depressive post-black metal
Ash Borer – Bloodlands (EP) (USA) | atmospheric black metal
Blut aus Nord – What Once Was… Liber III (EP) (FRA) | experimental black metal
Burzum – Sôl austan, Mâni vestan (NOR) | pagan…

Honorable mentions:

* Full of Hell - Rudiments of Mutilation
* Rotten Sound - Species At War EP
* All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature
* Dead in the Dirt - The Blind Hole.

T O P 1 0 :

10) Unkind – Pelon Juuret (Finland)
Dark Finnish crust! d-beat hardcore crossed with a highly creative touch of atmospherics. These guys get better with every release.

9) Haapoja - Haapoja (Finland)
The groovy riffs and scratchy screams gives this band a very personal sound. Impossible to describe properly, but try imagine avant-garde black metal mind combined with…

I've surely missed many great releases, so i may update this for a while still. Anyways, here's a little recap from 2013 death metal goodies.

Honorable mentions;
* Carcass - Surgical Steel (UK) * Tormented - Death Awaits (Sweden) * Six Feet Under - Unborn (USA) * Tribulation - The Formulas of Death (Sweden). * Atomwinter - Atomic Death Metal (Germany). * Deathchain - Ritual Death Metal (Finland)

Top 10:

10) Immolation - Kingdom Of Conspiracy (USA)
In your face, death metal, from US.

9) Svart Crown - Profane (France)
Blackened death metal, with some minor similarities to Ulcerate's sound!…

Album List + Possible reviews & ratings (in progress).
by INROK | My personal blog: http://inrok.blogspot.fi/

Note: Sorry for my imperfect English. I'm from Finland for fuck sake ;D Also I'm no writer either. The main purpose of this journal is to keep track on this years releases. Recommendations are always welcome. All ratings/reviews are just my personal opinions, nothing serious and obviously ratings will most likely change with more plays. /// Antti / INROK

Rated/Reviewed:

–––Loved it / Best of 2013–––

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Black Crucifixion – Coronation of King Darkness | black/doom metal, FIN.
This sound like Black Crucifixion -…

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★★★★★ The Best of 2012

#1 (AOTY?)
Anaal Nathrakh − Vanitas 10/10 (black metal / grindcore)

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• Another intense display of THE END of this world by this U.K. based duo. The mix of brutal black metal and skull crushing grindcore is very well balanced on this album.
What I've always loved about Anaal Nathrakh is how their furious tracks can, and of then are also melodic (or catchy) at the same time. For example; that melodic ("Satanarchrist") riff of "A Metaphor for the Dead" is a perfect way leave the listener wandering…

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2011 in music, by INROK (Still updating!)
Feel free to comment &/or recommend (any kind of) music.

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★★★★★ Best of 2011

#1 Moonsorrow - Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa
★★★★★
Blackened folk/pagan metal from Finland.

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"Nothing bad to say. Love every song and the cinematics are very nice too!"
• Listen: Moonsorrow - Hävitetty / Muinaiset @ Youtube.com

#2 Blut aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification
★★★★★
Avant-garde/Post-black metal, from France.

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"Haunting, atmospheric, dark, FRESH…. Just awesome album all around. (HAD to buy the Vinyl version!)"

#3 Ulcerate - The Destroyers of All
★★★★★
Progressive/technical…