Drop your golden nuggets here. Keep the recos sparse. Lets limit this tourney to a max 32 album slow burn. Mayhaps we can really slow burn this bish and do bracket A & bracket B seperate at the onset to limit it to 16 albums a thread. Said entrants will be represented by a jewtube link so everyone can enjoy the offering and judge accordingly. Week 1 Top 16 Bracket A Week 2 Top 16 Bracket B Week 3 Top 16 Week 4 Top 8 Week 5 Final Four Round Robin Death Match
Ludicra - The Tenant Vaura - Selenelion Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X Triptykon - Melana Chasmata Ihsahn - Arktis. Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers Sleep - The Sciences Nasheim - Jord och aska Murkrat - Drudging the Mire Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier Ne Obliviscarus - Portal of I My Dying Bride - A Map of all our Failures Agalloch - Faustian Echoes Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn Katatonia - Dead End Kings Enslaved - In Times Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones Empyrium - The Turn of the Tides David Bowie - Blackstar Dark Tranquillity - Atoma On Thorns I Lay - Aegean Sorrow Amorphis - Queen of Time Primus - The Desaturating Seven Agalloch - The Serpent & the Sphere (nobody will nominate this one but me) These are all 4 out of 5 Stars albums from the last decade for me. I don't wanna do YooToob links except for maybe the Top 5. Maybe later.
I'll do the links when the time comes. Can ye condense that to a handful of your absolute favorites? Unless we want to change the tourney to "Nad's fave album of the decade chosen by RC." Two that come straight to my mind. Minenwerfer-Alpenpasse Macabre Omen- Gods of War - At War
Yeah I'll distill that down to 5 or so when I do links later. Consider that list a draft, or maybe if any album gets nominated twice/thrice then it gets into the main tournament?
South Winds from Ihsahn - Arktis. Stagnant Pond from Ludicra - The Tenant I Hate Halloween from Acid Witch - Evil Sound Screamers Giza Butler from Sleep - The Sciences Atoma from Dark Tranquillity - Atoma There's my #1 song from each of these #1 albums. Ulver - Messe I.X - VI.X Nasheim - Jord och aska Full on album albums that need to be experienced as a whole, never in parts. EDIT: How in the fuck I forgot Dordeduh is beyond me but it's already in here now. A+++ album
summoning - old mornings dawn atlantean kodex - the white goddess tribulation - the children of the night vemod - venter på stormene burzum - belus hällas - excerpts from a future past
I'll keep it to albums on the heavy side of the spectrum as I assume that's all we're dealing with here. Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want Arch/Matheos - Sympathetic Resonance Leprous - Bilateral https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkhC1vIMEqXAkErXb2NUj-oxZrUSys5oC Vaura - Selenelion Between The Buried and Me - Parralax II: Future Sequence Zebulon Pike - Nostalgia For The Unreal Cleric - Retrocausal Car Bomb - Meta Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation SWANS - The Seer Vektor - Outer Isolation Gaza - No Absolutes In Human Suffering https://gazamusic.bandcamp.com/ Wreckmeister Harmonies - Night of Your Ascension Hangman's Chair - Hope/Dope/Rope I also agree with NAD's Ihsahn - Arktis. suggestion.
i very nearly posted arch/matheos but deleted it to not overwhelm the thread with too many things but consider the nomination seconded, it's really good not to derail the thread but did you ever get into the second one doomcifer? it didn't really stick for me
No. Admittedly, I have never given it the attention it properly deserves but the times that I have listened to it, it hasn't stuck for me either.
1349 - Massive Cauldron of Chaos Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator Cannabis Corpse - From Wisdom to Baked Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity Ghoul - Dungeon Bastards Ofermod - Thaumiel Origin - Omnipresent Pathology - The Time of Great Purification Taake - Noregs Vaapen
Just a couple off the top of my head Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III - Saturnian Poetry Blood Incantation - Starspawn Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane
This shit is hard, I think I need a reference library not to miss any obvious ones but an album that comes to mind that I think has not been mentioned is mgla - with hearts toward none also this, darkened nocturn slaughtercult - mardom: and this, Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Dang this thread is already pretty stellar. What I don't know already, I will soon. Officially seconding Vemod - Venter på stormene because that album is incredible. It's almost painfully good. Re: Swans: The Seer is my least favoUrite of their new era, haha. I know I'm in the minority with that, but think that To Be Kind blows it away. To clarify more specifically, there are some stellar moments on The Seer, but as a whole I find it too disjointed when compared to what I know the band can do. I also recognize that even attempting to mold an opinion on The Seer requires 500 listens minimum. Give me 5+ more years. "It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined. But it’s unfinished, like the songs themselves." --Michael Gira on The Seer hahahahaha this summarizes my feelings exactly.
Wrathprayer -The Sun of Moloch Zemial-Nykta Sacriphyx-The Western Front Seconding MGLA & Blood Incantation Veto against Summoning. (Wouldnt be fair to the other albums. Like Mike Tyson fighting Screech.
well if y'all are doin macabre omen and zemial then it wouldn't be right not to include disharmony - goddamn the sun