Fairly recent "Absolutely Essential" albums

[jageorge72]

Anyone discover any album released in the past few years you would consider absolutely essential? Really good, original music seems hard to come by anymore. Recommendations? Thanks!

 

[Helm]

here's a few that immediately come to mind

Maudlin of the Well - Bath & Leaving Your Body Map
Confessor - Unravelled
Forsaken - Dominaeon
Negura Bunget - OM
The Gates of Slumber - Suffer No Guilt
Dolorian - Voidwards
The Vision Bleak - Carpathia: A Dramatic Poem
Manilla Road - Spiral Castle

I think most of these will stand the test of time.

 

[skeptik]

For Death Metal:

Drowned - Viscera Terrae (2006)
Necros Christos - Triune Impurity Rites (2007)
Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages (2007)
Dead Congregation - Graves Of The Archangels (2008)

 

[Cheiron]

Hammers of Misfortune - The Locust Wars
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia

 

[Zealotry]

Just since 2000

Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription & The Conductor's Departure
The Angels of Light - How I Loved You, Everything Is Good Here & We Are Him
Blind Guardian - A Night At the Opera, Live & A Twist In the Myth
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
The Chasm - Procession to the Infraworld & Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
Deathevokation - The Chalice of Ages
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice & Kenose
Deceased - As the Weird Travel On
Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate
Hammers of Misfortune - The Bastard & The August Engine
Immolation - Close To A World Below, Unholy Cult & Shadows In the Light
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Leviathan - Tentacles of Whorror
TLW Slough-Feg - Down Among the Dead Men
Mastodon - Remission
Negura Bunget - OM
Nile - In Their Darknened Shrines
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Pharaoh - The Longest Night
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia & Fear of a Blank Planet
Portal - Outre
Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame, Storm Before Calm, The Gathering Wilderness & To the Nameless Dead
Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape & Hangman's Hymn
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - ALL
Solefald - Pills Against the Ageless Ills & In Harmonia Universali
Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
Virus - Carheart
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

 

[BenMech]

i don't disagree with your list Zealotry

 

[Zealotry]

Oh yah, and the last 3 Blind Guardian releases [including the Live 2cd]. Can't go wrong with those... unless you're a stuffy purist type.