Wednesday, December 11, 2013

TOP ALBUMS: YEAR 2013



1. UNTITLED by GRAVE UPHEAVA
     Full Length. Nuclear War Now Productions
 Suffocating, Confrontational, Pan-dimensional. Needs multiple listens to grow on you.

2. INTO THE KINGDOM OF GRAVES by TYRANTS BLOOD
     Full Length, Self Released 
Brutal, bestial and everything that is synonymous with extremity.

3.  THE UNHOLY COMMUNION by VERMINOUS
Full Length, Xtreem Music 
Dark, Furious, Blistering. Swedish Death Metal tangled with tints of USDM.

4. SATANAE TENEBRIS INFINITA by IMPRECATION 
Full Length, Dark Descent Records 
Blackened Death Metal Veterans strike  with their first ever full length that slays and desecrates holiness.

5. BELOW by LANTERN
Full Length, Dark Descent Records
Primitive, Dark, Withered and Haunting.. Death Metal with substance

6.  FATAL POWER OF DEATH by BEYOND 
Full Length, Iron Bonehead Productions 
 Filthy, dark Metal of Death from German Abyss, impressive and destructive

7. ANTI-COSMIC TYRANNY by A.M.S.G
Full Length, Profound Lore Records 
Weird and Bizarre but goes uncannily smooth 

8. GRAVE EKSTASIS by IRKALLIAN ORACLE 
Full Length, Bolvark
Chaotic and torturous occult black/death metal done with maximum atmosphere

. 9.LOGOS by ANTEDILUVIAN
Full Length, Nuclear War Now Productions 
Their best work. If you liked 'Through the Cervix of Hawaah', Chances are you would find it more claustrophobic and nauseating 

10.OBSCURE VERSES FOR THE MULTIVERSE by INQUISITION 
Full Length, Season of Mist Records
 Come and share the secrets of creation through trance of Dagon and Incubus's tyrant symphony cult.

11. KAPALGNOSIS by ORATOR
Full Length, Armee De La Mort Records
Kliffotic destruction through sonic deathrashing tandava. Fast, barbaric and blasting euphoria. 

12. AURA by BOLZER
EP, IronBonehead Productions 
Primal Death Attack from Swiss Alpine Grave. First Wave induced and refreshing bolting frenzy.

13. MAN, GOD, GIANT by KATECHON
Full Length, Nuclear War Now Productions


Bestial black metal belted harshly with rotten punk aesthetics.

14. BLACK DEATH HORIZON by OBLITERATION 
Full Length, Indie Recordings
Old School death Metal done in traditional way in vein of Autopsy, Obituary, Master or Deceased.

15. ANTINUMEROLOGY  by MITOCHONDRION
EP, Dark Descent Records
Creepy, Ferocious, Mind numbing and consistent as ever.

16. MUERTE DE CRISTO EN GOLGOTA by MORBOSIDAD
Full Length, Nuclear War Now Productions
Trade mark Morboso Metal at its shining peak.

17. UNENDING DEGRADATION by KRYPTS
Full Length, Dark Descent Records
Finest work by one of the finest bands from Finland.

18. THE IMPIOUS CRUSADE by IMPIETY
EP, Hells Headbangers Productions
Impiety goes wicked and wilder every passing day. Untamed and lawless bestiality.

19. THE HEADLESS RITUAL by AUTOPSY
Full Length, Peacville Records
Yet another sledgestrike from the veterans.

20. PATRICIDAL LUST by VASTUM
Full Length, 20 Buck Spin
Crustrodden, doom-laden filthy death metal perfection

21. THE MALFICE by PENTAGRAM CHILE
Full Length, Cyclone Empire
Overlooked album of the year


22. BLIND SERVANTS/BACK FROM THE DEPTH by ATOMIC AGGRESSOR / DEATH YELL 
Split, Hells Headbangers Records 
Old school madness preserved in two songs each from both the bands, nonetheless great music.

23. SWARMING DARKNESS by SLUTVOMIT
Full Length, Invictus Productions
Black thrash/speed metal delivered with authentic 80s aesthetics. 


24. WARBORNE ASSAULT by NUCLEAR WINTER
EP, Wartorn Records
 Violent thrash Metal performed with rabid speed, aggression and much attack.


25. NEXULZIFER by NEXUL
Demo, Hells Headbangers Productions
Reverbed, echoed, buried under thick distortion. Black Death Metal recommended for Archgoat, Beherit and Blasphemy fans.

26.  TOWARDS ESCHATON by CRAVEN IDOL
Full Length, Dark Descent Records
Bestial black thrash metal perfection. 

27. SEPULCHRAL RUINS BENEATH THE TEMPLE by SHEOL
EP, Iron Bonehead Productions
Dark Occult Death Metal Catacomb Art.

28. BLOODTHIRSTY EYES by WITCHBURNER
Full Length, High Roller Records
Pulverizing German Thrash Madness

29. ALL UPROARIOUS DARKNESS by VASAELETH 
EP, Profound Lore Records
Death Metal perfumed with cryptic stench of death and decay

30. DEVOURED BY SERPENTS by ANCIENT CRYPTS
Demo, Iron Bonehead Productions


Extremely Heavy Death Metal inspired by Chile Deathult as well as acts like Incantation and Asphyx.

31. SULPHUR BLESSING by SACROCURSE
Demo, Iron Bonehead Productions
Black/death metal in vein of Black Witchery, Manticore or  Blasphemy.
RBC Way. No Alien Influences.


Other Honorable Mentions

Vexovoid - Portal 
The Witchhunt - Master
Evil Prevails - Convulse
Poisoned Void - Vorum
Septentrional Theophany - Antediluvian 
Target Earth - Voivod
Condemnation - Temple Nightside 
I - Ogdru Jahad
Throne Of Demonic Proselytism - Demonomancy
Multiversal Holocaust - Zom