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Posts about the music I like.

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Sten's Album of the Month - April 2020 - Oranssi Pazuzu

Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi Genre: Psychedelic Black Metal Hometown: Tampere, Finland Track Listing: 1. Ilmestys 2. Tyhjyyden sakramentti 3. Uusi teknokratia 4. Oikeamielisten sali 5. Kuulen ääniä maan alta 6. Taivaan portti This band always seems to be getting a ton of love, and I get why. They'

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Sten's Album of the Month - March 2020

Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness of Being Genre: Sludge Metal / Post-metal Hometown: Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA Track Listing: 1. Procession of the

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Sten's Album of the Month - February 2020

Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions Genre: Progressive Metal Hometown: Los Angeles, CA, USA Track Listing: 1. Procurement of the Victuals 2. Cubensis 3. The Cull

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Sten's Album of the Month - January 2020 - Leeched

Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Leeched - To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse Genre: Hardcore Home Town: Manchester, UK Track Listing: 1. The Hound's Jaw 2. The

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My Top 20 Albums of 2019

Yeah yeah I know it's already February. What can I say? Life gets busy. This year I decided to try out a slightly different format with my post. When I was compiling my shortlist it came out to exactly twenty albums, so I decided to just list all

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Featured Album - September 2019 - Chelsea Wolfe

Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence Genre: Folk / Experimental From: California, USA Track Listing: 1. The Mother Road 2. American Darkness 3. Birth of Violence 4. Deranged for Rock & Roll 5. Be All Things 6. Erde 7. When Anger Turns to Honey 8. Dirt Universe 9. Little Grave 10.

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Featured Album - August 2019 - Russian Circles

Russian Circles - Blood Year Genre: Post-Metal / Instrumental

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Featured Album - July 2019 - Wear Your Wounds

Wear Your Wounds - Rust on the Gates of Heaven Genre: Post-Rock / Metal Origin: Essex, Massachusetts, USA Track Listing: 1. Mercifully 2. Rust on the Gates of Heaven 3. Paper Panther 4. Tomorrow's Sorrow 5. Brittle Pillar 6. Truth is a Lonely Word 7. Rainbow Fades 8. Love

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Featured Album - June 2019 - Jambinai

Jambinai - ONDA Genre: Experimental / Post-Rock / Korean Folk Origin: Seoul, South Korea Track Listing: 1. Sawtooth 2. Square Wave 3. Event Horizon 4. Sun, Tears, Red 5. In the Woods 6. Small Consolation 7. ONDA Prelude 8. ONDA Jambinai is another recently discovered band for me. Like Big Brave last

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Featured Album - May 2019 - Big Brave

This album has everything I want from an experimental album. Heavy distortion, while still being super chill and laid back; paired with haunting vocals. I hadn't heard of Big Brave before this but I'm definitely a fan now. Being Canadian is always a bonus as well.

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Featured Album - April 2019 - Suldusk

Suldusk - Lunar Falls Genre: Dark Folk / Atmospheric Black Metal Origin: Melbourne, Australia Track Listing: 1. Eleos 2. Solus Ipse 3. The Elm 4. Aphasia 5. Three Rivers 6. Autumnal Resolve 7. Catacombs 8. Nazaré 9. Drogue 10. Sovran Shrines This is a one-woman project I stumbled upon recently which

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Featured Album - March 2019 - Devin Townsend

Devin Townsend - Empath Genre: Metal Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Track Listing: 1. Castaway 2. Genesis 3. Spirits Will Collide 4. Evermore 5. Sprite 6. Hear Me (ft. Chad Kroeger) 7. Why? 8. Borderlands 9. Requiem 10. Singularity I've loved almost everything Devin has put out for

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Featured Album - February 2019 - Ithaca

Ithaca - The Language of Injury Genre: Hardcore Origin: London, UK Track Listing: 1. New Covenant 2. Impulse Crush 3. Secretspace 4. Slow Negative Order 5. (No Translation) 6. The Language of Injury 7. CLSR 8. Youth vs Wisdom 9. Gilt 10. Better Abuse I think I said this sometime

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Featured Album - January 2019 - MONO

MONO - Nowhere Now Here Genre: Instrumental Post-Rock/Post-Metal Origin: Tokyo, Japan Track Listing: 1. God Bless 2. After You Comes the Flood 3. Breathe 4. Nowhere, Now Here 5. Far and Further 6. Sorrow 7. Parting 8. Meet Us Where the Night Ends 9. Funeral Song 10. Vanishing, Vanishing

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My Top 12 Albums of 2018

Turns out having a toddler running around the house makes it hard to get things done when you want to. Here's my (over two weeks late) list of favourite albums that came out in 2018. 12. Khemmis - Desolation Genre: Doom Metal Origin: Denver, Colorado, USA Track Listing:

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Featured Album - November 2018 - Azusa

Azusa - Heavy Yoke Genre: Metal Based In: Oslo, Norway / Philadelphia, USA / Drama, Greece Track Listing: 1. Interstellar Islands 2. Heart of Stone 3. Heavy Yoke 4. Fine Lines 5. Lost in the Ether 6. Spellbinder 7. Programmed to Distress 8. Eternal Echo 9. Iniquitous Spiritual Praxis 10. Succumb to

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Featured Album - October 2018 - Daughters

Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want Genre: Noise Rock Based In: Providence, Rhode Island, USA Track Listing: 1. City Song 2. Long Road, No Turns 3. Satan in the Wait 4. The Flammable Man 5. The Lords Song 6. Less Sex 7. Daughter 8. The Reason

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Featured Album - September 2018 - Mirrors For Psychic Warfare

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare - I See What I Became Genre: Experimental Based In: USA Track Listing: 1. Animal Coffins 2. Tomb Puncher 3. Body Ash 4. Flat Rats in the Alley 5. Thing of Knives 6. Crooked Teeth 7. Death Cart 8. Coward Heat I'm late again

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Featured Album - August 2018 - KEN Mode

KEN Mode - Loved Genre: Noise Rock/Metal Based In: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Track Listing: 1. Doesn't Feel Pain Like He Should 2. The Illusion Of Dignity 3. Feathers & Lips 4. Learning To Be Too Cold 5. Not Soulmates 6. Very Small Men 7. This Is A

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Featured Album - July 2018 - Secret Cutter

Secret Cutter - Quantum Eraser Genre: Sludge/Grind Based In: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA Track Listing: 1. Introduction 2. Trampled by Light 3. Bended Knee 4. 4 1/2 5. Transient 6. Vow of Obedience 7. Mantis 8. Doormat 9. Delayed Choice 10. Avalanche 11. Oblivion Secret Cutter is a band

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Featured Album - June 2018 - Zeal & Ardor

Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit Genre: Black Metal/Soul/Spirituals Based In: New York City, USA Track Listing: 1. Intro 2. Gravedigger's Chant 3. Servants 4. Don't You Dare 5. Fire of Motion 6. The Hermit 7. Row Row 8. Ship on Fire 9. Waste

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Featured Album - May 2018 - Baptists

As an attempt to write more on this blog, I'm going to start a new (hopefully) regularly occurring series featuring an album I like which was released in the previous month. These won't really be "reviews" so much as just trying to get the

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My Top 12 Albums of 2017

Another year has gone by and that means another list to write. This year was different in that there weren't a whole lot of albums from favourite bands of mine, but I also started using Spotify and discovered a lot of great bands that I'd never

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My Top Albums of 2016

Sadly a whole year has gone by and I never got around to writing another blog post. It's about time to write another list of my favourite albums. This year I decided there's no need to stick to top ten and just list all of my

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My Top 10 Albums of 2015

I'm going to start of this post with a language warning. This post may contain some "bad" words, which is not usual for things I write, but this post is an exception since it's titles of things made by other people. For the past