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Alternatingly pastoral and vicious, a beautiful and violent picture is painted, dare I say the best active Irish band.
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
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The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
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Insanely dense and a virtual smorgasbord of riffs.  A phenomenal band releases their most accomplished and impressive work.  Album of the year by a mile.
General Surgery - Corpus in Extremis: Analysing Necroticism
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The undisputed kings of Swedish gore-grind deliver another punishingly depraved slab of unendingly enjoyable Carcass worship, nearly surpassing their muse in intensity.
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
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The much-anticipated return of Tägtgren’s death machine doesn’t disappoint.  Surprisingly vicious.
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
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Otherworldly in its density and intensity.  Trance-inducingly mind-blowing disharmonic guitar lines mesmerize, and Lev Weinstein is one of the most incredible drummers on the planet.
Old Man’s Child - Slaves of the World
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An album I felt a lot of people slept on, Galder writes some of the most rhythmically impressive and engaging black metal around.
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising!
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Unquestionably the finest pure metal band in America .  Scalzi is a genius.
Portal - Swarth
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By far one of the most intriguing bands on Planet Earth, the Australians really hit their stride here.  At once suffocating and terrifying.  The true future of evil.
Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures
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Old school Swedish Death Metal done better than a lot of the bands back then did it.  I’ve always been a sucker for Rogga Johansson’s work, and this album is among his finest.
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
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Unfairly criticized, this album is simply beautiful.  A masterwork in USBM.
2009
J. A. Burt
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Absu - Absu
Beherit - Engram
Cobalt - Gin
God Dethroned - Passiondale
Manegarm - Nattväsen
Varathron - Stygian Forces of Scorn
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2009
2009
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Chris: 2009 2010 2011 2012
Roswell47: 2010 2011 2012
Phil A. Wickstrand: 2010 2011 2012
Garett: 2010 2011 2012
Greg: 2010 2011
Lynora: 2009 2010
The Stream: 2009 2010
Deathstalker: 2009
Ilmarinen:  2008
Matt:  2008  2009
Kesh:  2009
Dinah:  2009
Phil A.:  2009