Kriegis PhilBM - The Black Legions and Necrolords of Torture and Grim Times

First full length by raw Birmingham bm outfit Kriegis PhilBM. Quite possibly the grimmest shit ever. Siegin riff after siegin riff.

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Defeatist - Sharp Blade Sinks Deep Into Dull Minds

Fast as shit NY grind in the vein of Discordance Axis except crustier. Produced by Colin Marston (Byla, Krallice, etc. etc.). If "Maruta" don't make you mosh your keyboard, nothin will. Yeah. This shit rules.

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Totalt Jävla Mörker - Totalt Jävla Mörker

Swedish grind-influenced crust that fucking rips. Totalt Javla Morker (Total Fucking Darkness) riffs and changes time signatures like a mad cunt.

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Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Horizons

This is a project headed by Trey Spruance (ex-Mr. Bungle) that is probably better than Mr. Bungle all-around :X This album combines Morricone-esque movie soundtracky stuff with a variety of genres, including classical, electronica, Middle-Eastern folk, grind, surf, doom, and rockabilly, and each genre is done in top form. Where this differs from Mr. Bungle is that most of this is instrumental (some grushin' vox on the grind tracks) and the genre-meshing is done more smoothly than Bungle's.

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Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle

This is easily the best album to come out of the Chapel Hill indie scene, easily the best album of the lesser known 90's grungy indie albums, and one of the best albums of the 90's in general. Tracks range from short and catchy singles to fuzzed-out punk songs all with varying degrees of Youth-inspired noisy guitar layering and emotional songwriting. Superchunk can go eat a big ol dick. jk ily2 superchunk

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Byla - Viscera

Hellish, noisy black-metalish drone collaboration between ambient project Byla (Colin Marston from Krallice/Behold The Arctopus and Kevin Hufnagel) and Jarboe, former Swans vocalist and collaborator on the completely terrible Neurosis & Jarboe album. Pretty much hated this album the first time I heard it because it wasn't a carbon copy of Byla's ambient debut, but I have yet to find an album with walls of sound this terrifying and monstrous, yet be able to slowly evolve into something almost angelic. This album could undoubtedly have been made without Jarboe though, who kind of either just makes retarded orgasm noises that fade in the mix thankfully or does these okay bm vox. Oh yeah, and there's two kickass acoustic tracks on here that show off how fucking awesome Kevin Hufnagel is.

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Lugubrum - De Vette Cuecken

Belgian black metal with weird tempo shifts and Gorguts-ish guitar noises. Also, they call themselves farmer black metal. Also, they are tagged brown metal on last.fm. Also, that rat thing is sucking its own dick.

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Wold - Screech Owl

go to sputnikmusic.com and rate this album a 3.5 or higher even if you think its made of shlongs

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