i went to see Six Feet Under at the Key Club maybe in 02 or 03 and Behemoth was opening. It was when Zos Kia Cultus came out. I had no clue who they were and they came out in the make up and i chuckled to myself and then after a minute i was blown away. Nergal has the best stage presence of any front man I've seen, especially with a guitar in his hands. they are truly epic live... oh yeah, six feet under, fucking bored the shit out of me.

Saw the Whore last night with Muni Waste, cauldron, and phobia. Muni Waste is a bad version of D.R.I. (maybe a good version depending on your age)... but more of the been there, done that..The goatwhore killed it. Singer wore his massive New Orleans S&M leather bondage gloves but with rivets instead of the spikes. Super cool, accessible, humble, and ballz out blitzkrieg Metal!


Picked up WPB and "snuff" worries me. Tom keeps chanting over and over and over, "Go murder....Go kill.....Go murder....go kill..." It is like the serial killer "voices in my head" commercialized. You'd think a band that witnessed the Dimebag slaying would be a lil' more responsible. Do I sound like Tipper Gore?!

You're right, Slayer should have lyrics like "let's chill....high five....it's cool brah....we can work it out"

Picked this up today....great stuff!

My top 50 of 2009, in order:

1. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
2. The Ruins Of Beverast - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite
3. Kylesa - Static Tensions
4. Drudkh - Microcosmos
5. Cobalt - Gin
6. The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
7. Fen - The Malediction Fields
8. Wodensthrone - Loss
9. Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
10. Yob - The Great Cessation
11. Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
12. Absu - s/t
13. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
14. Shrinebuilder - s/t
15. Tombs - Winter Hours
16. Beherit - Engram
17. Goatwhore - Carving out the Eyes of God
18. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
19. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
20. Baroness - Blue Record
21. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
22. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
23. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans
24. Behemoth - Evangelion
25. Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
26. Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
27. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
28. Panopticon - Collapse
29. Pelican - What We All Come To Need
30. Coalesce - Ox
31. Destroyer 666 - Defiance
32. Funeral Mist - Maranatha
33. The Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore
34. Marduk - Wormwood
35. Nazxul - Iconoclast
36. Hacride - Lazarus
37. Merrimack - Grey Rigorism
38. Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone
39. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
40. ISIS - Wavering Radiant (I thought for sure this would be top 10. I like it, but it's not great)
41. Suffocation - Blood Oath
42. Amesoeurs - s/t
43. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
44. Razor of Occam - Homage to Martyrs
45. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
46. Azarath - Praise The Beast
47. Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen
48. Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
49. Wyrd - Kalivagi
50. Todeskult - Apathy

Nice list Brooks55 !
You migth want to check out Malfeitor's Incubus, I think you'll dig it.
I got Katatonia's Night Is The New Day, yesterday. They are good as ever !

rockert, I felt a little like you on those Snuff lyrics.
First time in 30 years of metal for me that I felt uneasy like that. Weird.

TOP 50!? Damn, I'm pretty picky, I'm lucky if I feel I can have a top 10 in 1 year.

Nesfath, maybe we are just getting old... (or Slayer has kissed the ring of the illuminatus)

thanks for the list! I like Ahab too

You might of missed the Hatebreed release "For the Lions"

Complete cover album with Black Flag, Misfits, Cro-Mags, Bad Brains, Metallica, Slayer...Sepultura

good shite!


any upcoming metal releases to look out for?