Terrorizer’s Secret History Of… Death Metal – The 40 Death Metal Records You Must Hear

I was rather late off the mark on this one, as it was a while before I got around to ordering this particular Secret History from Terrorizer. Flicking through the issue there is the ever-present Top 40. So, for your delectation and debate, here is, The Death Toll.

1. Morbid Angel – Altars Of Madness [Earache 1989]
2. Entombed – Left Hand Path [Earache 1990]
3. Autopsy – Mental Funeral [Peaceville 1991]
4. Repulsion – Horrified [Necrosis 1989]
5. Death – Leprosy [Combat 1989]
6. Carcass – Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious [Earache 1991]
7. Suffocation – Effigy Of The Forgotten [Roadrunner 1991]
8. Deicide – Deicide [Roadrunner 1990]
9. At The Gates – Slaughter Of The Soul [ Earache 1995]
10. Bolt Thrower – Realm Of Chaos [Earache 1989]
11. Possessed – Seven Churches [Combat 1985]
12. Atheist – Unquestionable Presence [Active 1991]
13. Obituary – Cause Of Death [1990]
14. Sepultura – Arise [Roadrunner 1991]
15. Death Strike – Fuckin’ Death [Nuclear Blast 1991]
16. Incantation – Onward To Golgotha [Relapse 1992]
17. Ripping Corpse – Dreaming With The Dead [Maze 1994]
18. Massacre – From Beyond [Earache 1991]
19. Cryptopsy – None So Vile [Wrong Again 1996]
20. Vader – De Profundis [Conquest 1995]
21. Dismember – Like An Ever Flowing Stream [Nuclear Blast 1991]
22. Cannibal Corpse – Tomb Of The Mutilated [Metal Blade 1992]
23. Master – Master [Nuclear Blast 1990]
24. Nocturnus – The Key [Earache 1990]
25. Behemoth – Demigod [Regain 2004]
26. Gorguts – Obscura [Olympic 1998]
27. Disincarnate – Dreams Of A Carrion Kind [Roadrunner 1993]
28. Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines [Relapse 2002]
29. Pestilence – Testimony Of The Ancients [Roadrunner 1991]
30. Hate Eternal – King Of All Kings [Earache 2002]
31. Decapitated – Winds Of Creation [Earache 2000]
32. In Flames – The Jester Race [Wrong Again 1996]
33. Demilich – Nespithe [Necropolis 1993]
34. Necrophagia – Season Of The Dead [New Renaissance 1987]
35. Grave – Into The Grave [Century Media 1991]
36. Merciless – The Awakening [Deathlike Silence 1990]
37. Dying Fetus – Destroy The Opposition [Relapse 2000]
38. Demigod – Slumber Of Sullen Eyes [Drowned 1992]
39. Devourment – Butcher The Weak [Self-Released 2005]
40. Order From Chaos – Stillbirth Machine [Decapitated 1993]

Terrorizer – All The Nines – August 2010

Another magazine whose subscription I have let run out is Terrorizer. My intention is to now buy just the specials and the issues containing the Writers/Readers polls, as the international subscription to Canada is a bit pricey and with so many of the extreme magazines now  seeming to run the same bands and features every month, it makes more sense just to pick up a monthly copy of Decibel.

So, here is the Album Of The Month* and a list of albums that got 9 or above in Terrorizer’s August 2010 Issue (199):

• Winterfylleth – The Mercian Sphere [Candlelight]* – http://open.spotify.com/album/5pTIHz2ACqxuOQ9cT3veck
• Ufomammut – Eve [Supernatural Cat] –
• Various Artists – This Comp Kills Fascists Vol 2 [Relapse]

Decibel – August 2010 – All The Nines

I’ve just been going through this month’s copy of Decibel, my last one through the mail, as my subscription has just run out and I will probably just pick it up from a local newsstand. Here’s a run down of this months new albums that score 9 or more in the review section:

• Decrepit Birth – Polarity [Nuclear Blast]
• Coliseum – House With A Curse [Temporary Residence]
• Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth [Evilive/The End]
• Fistula – Goat [Crucial Blast] – http://open.spotify.com/album/0ajv8XGXN5g3e0mqAPDaUg
• Khoma – A Final Storm [Selective Notes/Razzia] – http://open.spotify.com/album/44ynXO8PH6WvIxwoRMlZX8
• Thou – Summit [Gilead Media]

Sadly only a couple of these have turned up on Spotify, so far. I’ve just been checking out Kohma’s, A Final Storm, which is excellent.

Rocksound – July 2010 – All The Nines

As another issue (137) of Rocksound lands in the mailbox,  it’s time to see which of the new albums reviewed in this issue get a score of 9 or above:

• Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise (Atlantic)
• Devil Sold His Soul – Blessed & Cursed (Century Media) – http://open.spotify.com/album/6c2Y19Ur1miqU4khkFScrI
• Parkway Drive – Deep Blue (Epitaph) – http://open.spotify.com/album/7tIkp4pbeKvrNOYGEQriZP
• Out Of Sight – Where Do We Go From Here (Slam Dunk) – http://open.spotify.com/album/5DHvAn2OJgd3U0WSQEdZN2

Four very different albums by four very different bands. My favourite? Well that’s got to be Blessed & Cured by Devil Sold His Soul. Well, they are from the South East of England, my old stomping ground. Check ‘em out.

My Top Ten Favourite Debut Albums

Here is my current list of top 10 favourite albums, but, as I listen to so much music, this could change in the next….hour…minute.

• The Alarm – Declaration
• Angel Witch – Angel Witch
• Armoury Show – Waiting For The Floods
• Billy Talent – Billy Talent
• Delphic – Acolyte
• Enter Shikari – Take To The Skies
• Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
• Marillion – Script For A Jesters Tear
• The Sisters Of Mercy – First And Last And Always
• Suede – Suede

Decibel: The Top 5 Swedish Black Metal Albums

There I was, looking for a Top/Best of list to post on the blog today, and when I looked in the mailbox things got a whole lot easier when I discovered that my, just delivered, Decibel issue 69 contained a Top 5 Swedish Black Metal Albums list. So here is is:

1. Bathory – Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (1987, Black Mark) 
   http://open.spotify.com/album/450O7sJi2GTzmLqHS03T88
2. Marduk – Opus Nocturne (1994, Osmose) 
   http://open.spotify.com/album/3WzQRdfVSIZSHHCfPms7yp
3. Watain – Sworn to the Dark (2007, Anja Offensive)
   http://open.spotify.com/album/2u7QjILVE7YyD5oe0ZJj1i
4. Satanic Slaughter – Satanic Slaughter (1995, Necropolis)
5. Setherial – Nord (1995, Napalm)
   http://open.spotify.com/album/3tW5MRw33vfQ19FV0HJZoU

I managed to find all the above, except Satanic Slaughter’s debut, on Spotify.

Albums Of The Month – June 2010

I was looking through my June issues for the music magazines that I subscribe to, at the moment (Revolver / Rock Sound / Terrorizer), and thought it would be fun to post a list of the albums from their June reviews that either got the top spot* or scored 9+. Here is the resulting list (where possible I have hyperlinked to the album on Spotify).

• Revolver
  • Watain – Lawless Darkness*
  • Abscess – Dawn Of Inhumanity
  • Bestial Mockery – Christcrushing Hammerchainsaw
  • Laethora – The Light In Which We All Burn
  • Nachtmystium – Addicts: Black Meddle Part II
• Rock Sound
  • The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang*
  • Blacklist Royals – Semper Liberi
  • Against Me! – White Crosses
  • Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
  • Off With Their Heads – In Desolation
  • Kingdom Of Sorrow – Behind The Blackest Tears
  • Lavotchkin – Widow Country
  • Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder
  • This Is Hell – Weight Of The World
• Terrorizer
  • Watain – Lawless Darkness*
  • Mike Patton – Mondo Cane
  • Ondskapt – Arisen From The Ashes
  • Twilight – Monument To Time End

The Agony Of A Best Of List

It’s Thursday, and that’s the day it’s customary to do a “Best Of List” on the blog.

So, searching for inspiration I asked my wife for a suggestion as to what I should do, “What about your favourite guitar solos”, she said. “Hey, what a great idea”, was my response. I then suggested that it would not include tracks that were essentially just solos from start to finish, like “Eruption”, for instance. It had to be essentially a list of songs which contained solos that made my hair stand on end.

Anyway, in the course of reacquainting myself with various solos from some of my favourite guitarists, I noticed one of the cats, the evil Gigi, was responding to certain things I was listening to. Well, in-between thinking up acts of unspeakable evil to perform during the course of the day, no doubt.

However, my scientific studies were somewhat scuppered when she failed to respond later in the testing by basically falling asleep, a slumber from which no amount of Whitehouse’s “Total Sex” was able to wake her.

Anyway, here’s what has caused a ‘positive’ response thus far:

• Iron Maiden – The Ides Of March/Wrathchild
• Pantera – Fucking Hostile
• Morbid Angel – Blessed Are The Sick – Leading The Rats

http://open.spotify.com/user/toxicmusic79/playlist/7MeSzlTnErp5GRgqeP1lZx

Oh well, back to my list of 10 songs containing favourite guitar solos then, although for the first one I have to take Gigi’s lead:

• Iron Maiden – The Ides Of March/Wrathchild
• UFO – Rock Bottom (live)
• Thin Lizzy – Still In Love With You (live)
• Arch Enemy – The Last Enemy
• Lamb Of God – Set To Fail
• Pantera – Domination
• Rainbow – Stargazer
• Ozzy Osbourne – Mr Crowley
• Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name
• Judas Priest – Painkiller

http://open.spotify.com/user/toxicmusic79/playlist/0hcWWR4tvhAVDNSAFD4NIr

My Top 5 Favourite ‘Rain’ Songs

For the past week the weather has been really nice here in Dartmouth, NS, but last night the heavens opened and it’s only just starting to clear up now. So, I thought it only fitting to do a rain related post. Yes, here are my favourite ‘rain’ songs:

• Rain – Madonna
  

 

• Rain – The Cult
  

 

• Rain – Trivium
  

 

• Rain – Steerpike (Sussex band)
  No video for this on YouTube, well they were a local Sussex (UK) band from the early 90’s http://www.garenewing.co.uk/home/music/steerpike/steerpikecure.php

 

• Rain – Creed
  

Classic Rock – 1990

Following on from last weeks post about my favourite metal albums from 1990,  I thought I would dig out  my little  black book of music lists and look up one I had written down for Classic Rock albums from 1990. This list was originally published as part of a series of ‘specials’ published by Classic Rock magazine, each one covering years from the 70s, 80s and 90s. So here is the list from 1990:

• Alice In Chains – Facelift
• Black Crowes – Shake Your Money Maker
• Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge
• Fugazi – Repeater
• Heart – Brigade
• Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual
• Jellyfish – Bellybutton
• Judas Priest – Painkiller
• The La’s – The La’s
• Mark Lanegan – The Winding Sheet
• Living Colour – Time’s Up
• Mother Love Bone – Apple
• Megadeth – Rust In Peace
• Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
• The Replacements – All Shook Down
• Slayer – Seasons In The Abyss
• Sonic Youth – Goo
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Ragged Glory
• Warrior Soul – Last Decade, Dead Century
• Winger – In The Heart Of The Young

Here’s what’s on Spotify – http://open.spotify.com/user/toxicmusic79/playlist/6MGM5Ph7dBhg0xRsC80UxI

“I’m the wooo-ooolf”