Another one of those generic bashing my top artists journals, sorry for puitting you to sleep...

Anyway

1. The Gathering- Your first albums sucked, hard..except one song. You guys aren't amazing musicians either just Anneke and the backing band:) and PLEASE don't EVER do an acoustic version of In motion #2 again.

2. Kari Rueslåtten- You might have a great voice but use a little more versatility hah? and you pretty much suck at your lower register. Plus stop writing lyrics about your boyfriend not loving you, maybe he thinks your ugly and doesn't like your singing, I don't blame him either.

3. Opeth- BLOWPETH is more like it. Stupid pretensious wankers putting nintendo noises in your music, that's not Progressive Mikael, just fucking ghey

4. Porcupine Tree- LAME, your music sounds the same, well most of it. Steven Wilson can't sing for shit either. What a dickhead.

5. Draconian- OHMYGOSH LOOK AT HOW DEEP WE ARE WRITING LYRICS ABOUT SORROW AND CRYING ABOUT PAIN...blah, work on your lyrics and Lisa PLEASE stop singing so high, makes me ears bleed. Death, come near me? are you guys trying to turn into an emo band now?

6. The 3rd and the Mortal- Could a band be this boring?? I think so. Holy shit Memoirs sucked, crap vocals+wannabe avantgarde bullshit=WANK.

7. Madder Mortem- Oh no here we have another female fronted metal act, what makes you stand out above the rest? NOTHING plus the singer sounds like a man/dragqueen or there's something stuck in her throat and looks like Micheal Jackon in most photos.

8. My Dying Bride- BORING. You're shit. Just another stupid doom metal band with depressive lyrics and slow as fuck drumming *yawn*, Aaron belongs in a fucking institute. LOL I almost forgot one of the most horrid names for a band ever.

9. Tristania- *OK GUYS, LETS PUT A GOTH BITCH WITH RIDICULOUSLY BIG TITS INFRONT AND MAKE IT SERIOUS* bascially sums them up. Crappy gothic band, soon enough they'll be along side My chemical romance wearing eyeliner and tight pants trying to emphasise the penis they don't have(yes, Mary included).

10. Dreams of Sanity- Pathetic, your first 2 albums put me to sleep. Without Sandra's non boring voice this band would've been a complete turd. Also the cheese factor couldn't been any higher.

1. Artist – Album – my score.

2. average total score: 85%

total things with score 100% : 47 times
total things with score between 90 - 99%: 58 times
total things with score between 80 - 89%: 134 times

3. AC/DC - Highway to hell (lp) - 75%
4. ACDC If you want blood (lp) - 75%
5. ACDC live at donington (dvd) - 75%
6. ACDC Razor Edge (lp) - 75%
7. After Forever Mea Culpa - 85%
8. Aguynguerran – Perverting The Nazarene Cult - 90%
9. Alien Ant Farm ANThology (nostalgie) - 90%
10. Ancient Rites - And The Hordes Stood As One – 90%
11. Annihilator – Alice In Hell (lp) – 90%
12. Anthrax The Greater Of Two Evils – 80%
13. Arch Enemy Doomsay Machine – 80%
14. Arch Enemy Live Apocalypse (dvd) – 80%
15. Arch Enemy Rise Of The Tirans – 80%
16. Arch Enemy Wages Of Sin – 90%
17. Bathory - Destroyer Of The World (lp) - 80%
18. Bathory – In Memory Of Quorthon (1966 – 2004) (2cd/1dvd) – 100%
19. Bathory - Blood Fire Death (lp) – 95%
20. Beyond Fear Beyond Fear – 85%
21. The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma – 80%
22. Black Sabbath Heaven And Hell (lp) – 85%
23. Bullet for My Valentine The Poison (why the fuck do I have this) – 40% (because it has some good parts)
24. CDC – Defy The Odds – 85%
25. Champion Different Directions : the last show. – 100%
26. Children of Bodom Are You Death Yet – 55%
27. Children Of Bodom Follow The Reaper(picture lp) – 65%
28. Children Of Bodom Hate Crew Deathroll – 55%
29. Children Of bodom Hatebreeder (picture lp) – 75%
30. Children Of Bodom In Your Face (DVD) – 50%
31. Children Of bodom Something Wild (picture lp) – 95%
32. Children Of bodom Tokyo Warhearts(picture lp) – 85%
33. Children Of Bodom Trashed, lost & Strungout – 55%
34. Children Of Bodom Trashed, lost & Strungout (DVD single) –55%
35. Coal Chamber Coal Chamber (+DVD) - 75%
36. Cradle of Filth Damnation And A Day - 60%
37. Cradle Of Filth Nymphetamine – 60%
38. Crimson Falls The True Face Of Human Nature – 85%
39. Dark Angel - Leave Scars – 85%
40. Dark Angel – Time Does Not Heal – 85%
41. Dark Angel – We Have Arrived (lp)
42. Dagoba What hell is about – 75%
43. Death Angel Archives and Arthifacts (3CD) – 90%
44. Death Angel Art Of Dying – 85%
45. Death Angel Killing Season – 85%
46. Deathstars Synthetic Generation – 80%
47. Deathstars Synthetic Generation (single) – 55%
48. Demons & Wizards The Crimson King – 75%
49. Destruction - Sentence Of Death – 90%
50. Destruction Releases From Agony (lp) – 90%
51. Destruction - Cracked Brain – 90%
52. DevilDriver Devildriver – 75%
53. Devildriver Fury of Our Makers Hands – 80%
54. Devildriver The Last Kind Words –80%
55. Dimmu Borgir Death Cult Armegeddon – 65%
56. Dimmu Borgir In Sorte Diaboli – 75%
57. Dimmu Borgir Stormblast – 80%
58. Dio – Rock N roll children – 80%
59. Dio – The Last In Line – 80%
60. Disturbed Believe – 80%
61. Disturbed Ten Thousand Fist (special limited edition) – 75%
62. Disturbed The Sickness – 90%
63. Ektomorf Instinct – 70%
64. Ektomorf Live and raw (dvd/cd) – 70%
65. Eminem Marshall Matters – 90%
66. Eminem The Eminem Show – 85%
67. Epica The Phantom Agony – 75%
68. Epica We Will Take You With Us(dvd) – 75%
69. Exodus - Good Friendly Violent Fun – 85%
70. Exodus - Plaisures Of The Flesh – 80%
71. Evergrey the inner circle – 75%
72. Fear Factory Archetype - 75%
73. Flip Kowlier Ocharme Ik – 85%
74. Flip Kowlier In De Fik – 85%
75. Flip Kowlier Donderdagnacht – 85%
76. Forbidden Forbidden Evil (lp) – 90%
77. Forbidden Twisted Into Form – 80%
78. Gorillaz Gorillaz - 90%
79. Grandmaster Melle Mel Step Off (single lp) – 85%
80. Guns N' Roses Appetite for destruction (lp) – 85%
81. Guns N Roses Nightrain (lp) – 85%
82. Guns N Roses paradise city – 85%
83. Guns N Roses Patience (lp) – 85%
84. Guns N’ Roses Aint It Fun – 80%
85. Guns N’ Roses Knocking On Heavens Door – 100%
86. Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion 1 – 85%
87. Hellyeah Hellyeah – 55%
88. HYADES And The Worse is yet to come – 95%
89. Iced Earth Alive in Athens – 100%
90. Iced Earth Alive In Athens (dvd) – 90%
91. Iced Earth Burnt Offerings – 85%
92. Iced Earth Dark Genesis (5 cd box dink) – 90%
93. Iced Earth Days Of Purgatory (limited Box) – 85%
94. Iced Earth Enter the Realms Of The Gods (limited LP miniature) – 85%
95. Iced Earth Framing Armageddon – 90%
96. Iced Earth Gettysburgh (1863) (dvd) – 70%
97. Iced Earth Iced earth – 85%
98. Iced Earth I walk among you – 90%
99. Iced Earth Night Of The stormrider – 100%
100. Iced Earth Overture Of The Wicked Something Wicked Part 1 – 90%
101. Iced Earth Something wicked this way comes (limited LP miniature) – 100%
102. Iced Earth The Blessed And The Damned – 95%
103. Iced Earth The Crucible Of Man Something Wicked Part 2 – 80%
104. Iced Earth The Dark Saga – 85%
105. Iced Earth The Horror Show – 85%
106. Iced Earth The Melachony – 85%
107. In Extremo 7 – 75%
108. In Flames Clayman – 80%
109. In Flames Colony – 80%
110. In flames Come Clarity (+DVD) – 75%
111. In Flames Lised & Abused: In Live We Trust (2DVD/2CD box) – 90%
112. In flames Reroute to Remain – 75%
113. In flames Sountrack To Your Escape – 85%
114. In flames The Jester Race – 85%
115. In flames The Quiet Place – 65%
116. In flames The Tokyo Showdown – 65%
117. In flames Trigger – 65%
118. In Flames Trigger (lp + dvd) – 65%
119. Iron Maiden 7th son of a 7th son lp – 85%
120. Iron maiden A Matter Of Life And Death (+DVD) – 80%
121. Iron Maiden Brave New World – 80%
122. Iron Maiden Can I play with madness (lp) – 80%
123. Iron maiden Dance Of Death – 80%
124. Iron Maiden Death On The Road (dvd) – 80%
125. Iron Maiden Edward The Great – 80%
126. Iron Maiden Fear Of The Dark – 85%
127. Iron Maiden Flight OF The Icarus (lp) – 90%
128. Iron Maiden Flight OF The Icarus(picture lp) – 90%
129. Iron Maiden Iron Maiden – 100%
130. Iron Maiden Iron Maiden (lp) – 100%
131. Iron Maiden Killers (lp) – 100%
132. Iron Maiden Live After Death lp – 100%
133. Iron Maiden Maiden Japan EP (lp) – 100%
134. Iron Maiden No Prayer For The Dying lp – 80%
135. Iron Maiden Part 1: The Early Days (dvd) – 100%
136. Iron Maiden Part 2: Live After Death (dvd) – 100%
137. Iron Maiden Pïece of Mind – 85%
138. Iron Maiden Powerslave – 90%
139. Iron Maiden Powerslave 12” picture lp remasterd – 90%
140. Iron Maiden Rainmaker (dvd-single) – 75%
141. Iron maiden Reincarnation of Benjamin creeg – 75%
142. Iron Maiden Rock In Rio (dvd) – 95%
143. Iron Maiden Somewhere in time (cd) – 90%
144. Iron Maiden somewhere in time lp – 90%
145. Iron Maiden Stranger In A strange land lp – 100%
146. Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast – 100%
147. Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast (dvd) – 80%
148. Iron Maiden The Trooper (Picture lp) – 85%
149. Iron Maiden The Trooper (7" blue lp) – 85%
150. Iron Maiden Two Minutes To Midnight (14” single/tour 1985 lp) 80%
151. Iron Maiden Virtual XI – 80%
152. Iron Maiden Woman In uniform/drifter(live)/Phantom Of The Opera(live) Special Live Ep. (I know, strange thing, but that is the real name of it =/) – 100%
153. Iron Maiden X –Factor – 80%
154. Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien – 80%
155. Jimi Hendrix Greatest Hits – 80%
156. Judas Priest Angel of retribution – 80%
157. Judas Priest Britisch steel lp – 90%
158. Judas Priest Defenders Of The Faith lp – 100%
159. Judas Priest Demolition – 80%
160. Judas Priest Electric Eye (dvd) – 100%
161. Judas Priest Jugalator – 75% (and not because of the ripper >=( )
162. Judas Priest killing machine lp - ...
163. Judas Priest Live In London (dvd) - ...
164. Judas Priest Locked In lp - ....
165. Judas Priest Point of entry lp - ...
166. Judas Priest Priest...Live! – 100%
167. Judas Priest Priest…Live! Lp – 100%
168. Judas Priest Ram In Down lp - ....
169. Judas Priest Rocka Rolla (lp) – 75%
170. Judas Priest Sad Wings OF Destiny (lp) – 85%
171. Judas Priest Screaming For Vengeance lp – 100%
172. Judas Priest Sin after sin (lp) – 80%
173. Judas Priest Stained Glass lp -...
174. Judas Priest United (lp) – 80%
175. Judas Priest unleashed in the east lp – 85%
176. Kataklysm In Arms Of Devastation – 80%
177. Killswitch Engage Alive or just breathing – 100%
178. Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies – 80%
179. Killswitch Engage Set This World Ablaze (dvd) – 85%
180. KISS Alive II lp – 75%
181. Kiss Dirty lvin Sure Know Something (lp) – 100%
182. Kiss Dynasty lp - ...
183. Kiss Love Gun lp – 75%
184. Kiss Music From The Elder lp – 60%
185. Kiss Psycho Circus – 75%
186. Kiss Symphony (dvd) – 90%
187. KoЯn Freak On a leash – 80%
188. Korn Issues – 85%
189. Korn Korn – 80%
190. Korn Live (dvd) – 80%
191. Korn See You On The Other Side – 80%
192. korn Take A Look In The Mirror – 80%
193. korn Twisted Transistor – 80%
194. Korn Untouchables – 80%
195. Lamb of God As the palace burns (lp) – 90%
196. Lamb Of God Ashes of the Wake – 90%
197. Lamb Of God Walk With Me In Hell (dvd) – 90%
198. Legion of the Damned Sons Of The Jackal – 75%
199. Liar Deathrow Earth – 75%
200. Liferuiner – Taking Back The Nightlife
201. Limp Bizkit Results Very Mary – 70%
202. limp bizkit significant Other – 85%
203. limp bizkit The Chocolate Starfish and the hotdog flavored water – 80%
204. Linkin Park Crawling (dvd) – 100%
205. Linkin Park Hybryd Theory – 100%
206. Linkin Park Live in Texas – 100%
207. Linkin Park Meteora – 95%
208. Linkin Park Minutes to Midnight (limited edition) – 85%
209. Lordi Hard Rock Hallelouja - 40%
210. Howard Shore 3CD BOX – 100%
211. Lord Of The Rings Return Of The King – 100%
212. Machine Head Burn My Eyes – 85%
213. Machine Head Hellalive – 80%
214. Machine Head Trough The Ashes Of Empires (limited) – 80%
215. Machine Head Elegies (dvd) – 80%
216. Madball Look My Way – 95%
217. Megadeth Countdown To Extinction – 85%
218. Megadeth Peace Cells… But Who’s Buying lp – 100%
219. Megadeth The System Has Failed – 80%
220. Megadeth Warchest (4CD/1DVD) – 100%
221. Metallica S&M (DVD) – 85%
222. Metallica ...And Justice For All – 100%
223. Metallica Creeping Death lp – 100%
224. Metallica Death Magnetic – 85%
225. Metallica Harvester Of Sorrow lp – 100%
226. Metallica Jump In The Fire (Lp) – 100%
227. Metallica Kill Em All – 100%
228. Metallica Live bootleg (Cassette) – 75%
229. Metallica Live Shit (2DVD/3CD) – 100%
230. Metallica Load – 80%
231. Metallica Master Of Puppets (Japanese) – 100%
232. Metallica Master Of Puppets lp – 100%
233. Metallica Nothing Else Matters (lp) – 100%
234. Metallica Ride The Lighting lp – 100%
235. Metallica Ride The Lightning (cassette) – 100%
236. Metallica Some Kind Of Monster – 70%
237. Metallica Some Kind Of Monster (dvd) – 85%
238. Metallica St.Anger – 20%
239. Metallica The Black Album lp – 70%
240. Michael Jackson Invincible – 55%
241. Miles Away rewind, repeat – 95%
242. Moby Hotel – 70%
243. Moosorrow Kivenkantaja – 90%
244. Morda Azerion – 90%
245. Morda My Will Supreme – 85%
246. Mötley Crüe – Dr. Feelgood – 100%
247. Motley Crue – Girls Girls Girls – 100%
248. Motley Cure – Shout At The Devil – 100%
249. Motörhead Dantes XI – 80%
250. Motorhead motorhead lp – 85%
251. Motorhead Orgasmatros – 85%
252. Motorhead Overkill lp – 85%
253. Motorhead recorded live lp – 85%
254. Mushroomhead Volume 1 (dvd) – 75%
255. Mushroomhead XX – 75%
256. My Dying Bride Like Gods Of The Sun – 75%
257. My Dying Bride The Anti Dullivian Chronicles – 80%
258. Nevermore This Godless Endeavor – 75%
259. Nightwish 1997 – 2001 – 100%
260. Nightwish Century Child – 70%
261. Nightwish End Of An Era (dvd) – 79.9999% =P (to many songs from century child and once)
262. Nightwish End Of Innocence (dvd) – 80%
263. Nightwish Oceanborn – 100%
264. Nightwish once – 70%
265. Nightwish Wishmaster – 100%
266. No Recess Time Will Tell – 80%
267. Nuclear Assault Handle With Care lp – 100%
268. nuclear assault – Surive lp – 100%
269. One Man Army and the Undead Quartet 21th century killing machine – 80%
270. One Man Army And The Undead Quartet Error In Evolution – 80%
271. Overkill - The Killing Road – 80%
272. Overkill – Fuck You – 85%
273. Overkill – necroshine – 80%
274. Overkill – Bloodletting – 85%
275. Overkill - Relix IV – 80%
276. Overkill – Under The Influence (lp) – 95%
277. Overkill – Taking Over (lp) – 95%
278. Overkill – The Years Of Decay (lp) – 95%
279. Ostrogoth Full Moon’s Eyes lp – 85%
280. Pantera Cowboys From Hell – 85%
281. Pantera Official live – 85%
282. Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power – 85%
283. Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb – 95%
284. Queen The Greatest Hits – 70%
285. Rammstein Live Aus Berlin – 85%
286. Rammstein Mutter – 79.99%
287. Rammstein Völkerball (dvd+cd) – 95%
288. Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium – 90%
289. Rhapsody Best Of Box – 75%
290. Rhapsody Symphony of the enchanched lands – 75%
291. Rise and Fall – Hellmouth – 80%
292. Rob Zombie HellBilly Deluxe – 80%
293. Sadus Chronicles Of Chaos – 100%
294. Sadus Out For Blood – 80%
295. Saxon The Eagle Has Landed – 80%
296. Scar Symmetry Pitch Black Proces – 80%
297. Sepultura ROOTS – 80%
298. Shadows Fall Fall Out From the War – 80%
299. Slayer Seasons In The Abbys – 80%
300. Slayer Soundtrack Of The apocalypse – 100%
301. Slipknot Before I Forget (lp) - 65%
302. Slipknot Disasterpieces (dvd) – 65%
303. Slipknot Iowa lp – 65%
304. Slipknot Slipknot – 75%
305. Slipknot Vol 3 – 55%
306. Soilwork Figure Number Five – 90%
307. Soilwork Natural Born Chaos – 90%
308. Soilwork Stabbing The Drama – 90%
309. Soilwork Sworn To A Great Devide – 95%
310. Spoil Engine Skinnerbox V.07 – 90%
311. Sons of Jonathas The Death Dealer – 95%
312. Static-X Start A War – 80%
313. Static-X Beneath Between and Beyond – 80%
314. Static-X Cannibal – 90%
315. Static-X Cannibal Killers Live – 90%
316. Static-X Machine – 90%
317. Static-X shadow zone – 80%
318. Strapping Young Lad Alien – 75%
319. Stone Sour come (what)ever may – 70%
320. Stone Sour Stone Sour – 70%
321. Submission – Failure to perfection – 70%
322. Suicidal Tendencies – Join The Army – 80%
323. Suicidal Tendencies – The Art Of Rebellion – 90%
324. Sum 41 All Killer No Filler – 70%
325. Sum 41 Does This Look Infected? – 60%
326. System of a Down chop suey – 80%
327. system of a down toxicity – 75%
328. Tankard - The Beauty And The Beer – 90%
329. Tankard - Disco Destroyer – 80%
330. Testament Legacy - 90%
331. The Matrix Reloaded - ...
332. 't Hof van Commerce Ezoa en niet anders – 80%
333. t hof van commerce herman – 90%
334. Threat Signal Under Reprisal – 80%
335. Tool 10 000 days – 85%
336. Venom - Black metal – 80%
337. Venom - MMV (4cd box) – 100%
338. Van Halen Van Halen (lp) – 90%
339. Van Halen Women and Children First (lp) 90%
340. Warbringer War Without End – 85%
341. Within Temptation ice queen – 70%
342. Within Temptation Mother Earth Tour (dvd) – 70%
343. within temptation running up that hill – 70%
344. within temptation The Silent Force – 70%
345. Wheatus Wheatus – 50%

280 and counting... Hundreds of CDs left to rip :)

1349 - 1349
Accept - Restless and Wild
Accept - Staying a Life
AC/DC - '74 Jailbreak
AC/DC - Back in Black
AC/DC - Ballbreaker
AC/DC - Black Ice
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
AC/DC - Fly On The Wall
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC - High Voltage
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - Live
AC/DC - Powerage
AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Aerosmith - Pandora's Box
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Aeternus - Shadows of Old
Agalloch - The Demonstration Archive
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
Amon Amarth - Versus the World (bonus disc)
Amorphis - Black Winter Day
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Amorphis - Tuonela
Anathema - Alternative 4
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Anathema - Eternity
Anathema - Judgement
Anathema - Pentecost III
Anathema - Serenades
Anathema - The Crestfallen EP
Angra - Angels Cry
Angra - Fireworks
Angra - Freedom Call
Angra - Holy Land
Angra - Holy Live
Annihilator - Alice in Hell
Apotheosis - Farthest From the Sun
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy - Black Earth
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy - Burning Japan Live 1999
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Artillery - Terror Squad
Assassin - The Upcoming Terror
Athena - A New Religion
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Belenos - Spicilège
Bewitched - At The Gates Of Hell
Bewitched - Encyclopedia Of Evil
Bewitched - Rise Of The Antichrist
Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
Black Label Society - Hangover Music, Volume VI
Black Label Society - Mafia
Black Label Society - Sonic Brew
Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death
Black Label Society - The Blessed Hellride
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Black Sabbath - Reunion
Blaze - Blood & Belief
Blaze - Silicon Messiah
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Blood Red Throne - A Taste For Blood
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Brainstorm - Metus Mortis
Cacophony - Go Off!
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Carnal Forge - Firedemon
Carnal Forge - Please... Die!
Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium
Cathedral - Hopkins (The Witchfinder General)
Cathedral - In Memorium
Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice
Cathedral - Statik Majik
Cathedral - Supernatural Birth Machine
Cathedral - The Carnival Bizarre
Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror
Ceremonial Oath - Carpet
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Clarke, Gilby - Pawn Shop Guitars
Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation
Corporation 187 - Perfection in Pain
Corporation 187 - Subliminal Fear
Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - From the Cradle to Enslave E.P.
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cultus Sanguine - The Sum of All Fears
The Cure - Concert The Cure Live
Cyclone Temple - I Hate Therefore I Am
Cynic - Focus (Remastered)
Damageplan - New Found Power
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Dark Angel - Leave Scars
Dark Angel - Time Does Not Heal
Dark Tranquillity - Character
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer - Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Dawn - Naer Solen Gar Niper For Evogher
Dawn of Relic - One Night In Carcosa
Dearly Beheaded - Dearly Beheaded
Death - Human
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Death - Live in Eindhoven '98
Death - Live In L.A. (Death & Raw)
Death - Symbolic
Deep Purple - Abandon
Deep Purple - Burn
Deep Purple - Deep Purple in Rock: Anniversary Edition
Deep Purple - Machine Head: 25th Anniversary Edition (disc 2: Remastered)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan: The Remastered Edition (disc 1: Made in Japan)
Deep Purple - Made in Japan: The Remastered Edition (disc 2: The Encores)
Deep Purple - Purpendicular
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Defiance - Void Terra Firma
Deicide - In Torment In Hell
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Deicide - Serpents Of The Light
Deicide - When Satan Lives
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards
Destiny's End - Breathe Deep the Dark
Destruction - Mad Butcher (EP) & Eternal Devastation
Destruction - Metal Discharge CD1
Destruction - Metal Discharge CD2
Destruction - Sentence Of Death (EP) & Infernal Overkill
Destruction - The Antichrist
Desultory - Bitterness
Det Hedenske Folk
Devastation - Signs Of Life
Dew-Scented - Impact
Dew-Scented - Inwards
Diabolical Masquerade - The Phantom Lodge
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Dio - Holy Diver
DIRTY DEEDS - Danger Of Infection
Dismember - Death Metal
Dissection - Live Legacy
Dissection - The Somberlain
Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
Domine - Dragonlord (Tales Of The Noble Steel)
Domine - Stormbringer Ruler
Dominion - Interface
Down - NOLA
Down - Over The Under
Dream Evil - Dragonslayer
Dream Evil - Evilized
Emperor - Emperor - Wrath Of The Tyrant
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - IX Equilibrium
Engrave - The Rebirth
Enslaved - Blodhemn
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Enthralled - Anthropomorphous
Entombed - Clandestine
Entombed - DCLXVI - To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
Entombed - Hollowman
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Entombed - Uprising
Entombed - Wolverine Blues
Eucharist - A Velvet Creation
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican
Exhorder - The Law
Falkenbach - Heralding: The Fireblade
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Forest of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust EP
Forest Stream - Tears of Mortal Solitude
Forlorn - The Crystal Palace
Frontline - Against The World
Gamma Ray - Blast From the Past (disc 1)
Gamma Ray - Blast From the Past (disc 2)
Gamma Ray - Majestic
Gamma Ray - No World Order
Gehennah - Decibel Rebel
Gehennah - King of the Sidewalk
Gorefest - Erase
Gothic - B.c.f.e.a
Grave Digger - Knights of the Cross
Grave Digger - Tunes of War
Grip Inc. - Nemesis
Grip Inc. - Power of Inner Strength
Guns N' Roses - "The Spaghetti Incident?"
Halford - Crucible
Halford - Live Insurrection (disc 1)
Halford - Live Insurrection (disc 2)
HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
HammerFall - Legacy of Kings (Bonus CD)
H-Bomb - Attaque
Heavens Gate - Planet e.
Helloween - Live in the U.K.
Helloween - The Dark Ride
Jimi Hendrix - South Saturn Delta
Holy Terror - Mind Wars
Holy Terror - Terror and Submission
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens (disc 1)
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens (disc 2)
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens (disc 3: Bonus disc)
Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory (disc 1)
Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory (disc 2)
Iced Earth - Horror Show (disc 1)
Iced Earth - Iced Earth
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden (disc 2: Gettysburg (1863))
Iced Earth - The Melancholy E.P.
Imagika - And So It Burns
Immortal - At the Heart of Winter
Immortal - Battles in the North
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
In Aeternum - Forever blasphemy
Infernö - Downtown Hades
In Flames - Clayman
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - The Tokyo Showdown: Live in Japan 2000
In Flames - Whoracle
Insomnium - In the Halls of Awaiting
Insomnium - Since the Day It All Came Down
Iron Angel - Hellish Crossfire
Iron Angel - Winds Of War +4
Joy Division - The Best of Joy Division
Joy Division - The Complete BBC Recordings
Malmsteen, Yngwie J.'s Rising Force - Alchemy
Megadeth - United Abominations
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Mithotyn - Gathered Around The Oaken Table
Mithotyn - In The Sign Of The Ravens
Mithotyn - King of the distant forest
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
The Old Dead Tree - The Water Fields
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Opeth - Watershed
Paul Gilbert - King Of Clubs
Primal Fear - Primal Fear
Rainbow - On Stage
Sentenced - Frozen
Soulfly - Conquer
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
The Crown - Crowned in Terror
The Crown - Crowned Unholy
The Crown - Deathrace King
The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed
The Haunted - Live Rounds in Tokyo
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
The Haunted - The Haunted
The Haunted - The Haunted Made Me Do It
Trust - Répression
Trust - Répression dans l'Hexagone - Tournée Trust 1980
Various Artists - Thorns Vs Emperor
Various Artists - Darkthrone Holy Darkthrone
Various Artists - Humanary Stew A Tribute to Alice Cooper
Yngwie Malmsteen - Perpetual Flame

Update 22.11.08

Name bekannt:

The Wounded - Hail to the King (Dez 2008)
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm (Dez 2008)
Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer (Dez 2008)
Deathstars - Night Electric Night (Feb 2009)
Vreid - Milorg (Jan 2009)
Anathema - Horizons (Feb 2009)
Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten (Apr 2009)
Dornenreich - Flammentriebe (???)
Weena Morloch - Amok (???)
The Kovenant - Aria Galactica (???)
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (???)
Devin Townsend - Ki (???)

Name noch unbekannt:

Agalloch - ???
Marilyn Manson - ???
Rammstein - ???
Static-X - ???
Anaal Nathrakh - ???
Katatonia - ???
DevilDriver - ???
Imperium Dekadenz - ???
Isis - ???
Gorgoroth - ???

One thing that sometimes catches my interest when listening to a song for the first time is a fleeting sense of heightened clarity and intent brought forward by the vocalist. This is usually manifested in a combination of concise lyrics and some unquantifiable sense that the vocalist really fucking means it. It's usually during (the nearest equivalent to) the song's chorus, and though rarely lasting more than a few seconds, these hooks are often a driving motivator for me to listen to the song repeatedly.

Here are a few of my favourites, off hand:

Cathedral – “All Your Sins”. This cover of the Pentagram track can be found on the ‘In Memoriam’ EP. Anyone familiar with this release will possibly share the sentiment that it’s a moderately gruelling listen, and best listened to in small chunks. The track starts off inoffensively with a stoner intro and some retarded groove, and things don’t get interesting until the growled “chorus”. The final, post-guitarsolo chorus is where Lee Dorrian truly shines though. His belching of
“YOU CAN NEVUR WIN. PRAAY. FOR AWWL YOR SINS.” is delivered with the undulating, sarcastic and twisted contortions that characterised Cathedral’s recent albums, yet filtered through this wretched snarl, like a fucked-up death row dog trying to molest the wardens. It’s positively unstable sounding, a dribbling manic depressive trying to fight off force-fed sedatives. Sort of like Tyler Durden’s ‘You dunno where I’ve been’ scene but with popped eyes and a massive, self medicated grin. It leads nicely into Ebony Tears, which sounds like a bitter satire of the death-doom that would arise in later years.


Esoteric – “The Blood of the Eyes”. Let me begin by stating as fact that the first four minutes of this 12’36” beast are among the most transcendental I’ve ever cummed across. It’s fucking visionary stuff, mindblowing. The sort of icy, hypercognitive supreme clarity that drowning in meltwater would bring. It’s the single most epic piece of musicianship I’ve ever heard, without exaggeration, and I’m not even much of a fan of this crazy band. Compositionally speaking, it’s got everything at once, the intro kicks off with the main slow, wavering, reverb-drenched riff and sympathising synth melody/drift, soon accompanied with some soft drumming, creating a soft, dreamy and deep atmosphere. The vocals and ‘heavy’ guitars kick in like a glacial avalanche, an unstoppable force. The whole passage in question is underscored by a godly, astral-flotation guitar solo, slow and molten, which morphs seamlessly from the intro. And holy fuck, this is unbelievably awesome… it takes the guy a full thirty seconds to finish the first line ‘I haven’t seen myself for ages’. It’s delivered in a belching, stargazing, all-devouring roar… there’s nothing sinister or scary about this two minutes of music, the guy just sounds like he’s acquired all the knowledge in the universe, and every emotion ever felt by anyone is entering and exploding his skull in bullet-time, nothing more.
“This empty shell cares no longer for life.
Slowly replacing the flesh with steel,
So that I may carry on...
Unfettered by this mortality.
The air no longer carries favour,
The water that passes these lips
Keeps only this mortal shell alive”
I cannot help but be physically affected by this track every time I hear it, the opening is inspirational and crushing and heartstopping. The only way I can safely listen to this is on earphones when I’m sitting alone in a comfortable place, and in a neutral state of mind. Why the fuck do we even choose to stay alive?




Mayhem – “Completion In Science Of Agony (Pt. I Of II)” This is the longest track on Grand Declaration of War, Mayhem’s opinion-polarizing 2000 excursion, and like most of the rest of the album it’s reasonably experimental. As far as I’m concerned, what makes this track stand out in a negative sense is, paradoxically for this context, the vocals. The first half is lead by some old school heavy metal vocals that sound typically annoying. Too much vibrato, balls in a clamp, you know the score. The second half of the track is Maniac’s pathetic choking-duck/steel scraping on rough concrete vocals, not much better. The reason I mention this track here is for a brief ‘diamond in the shitheap’ that crops up right at the halfway mark, in the form of a serpentine remark “The suffering of a thousand voices”. There’s some phase effect or something going on with this utterance, it sounds sort of evil in any case. It’s hard to describe why this one whispered line is effective, perhaps it’s solely because the rest of the track sucks so much. It’s very misanthropic and sincere sounding, I guess the nearest comparison in contemporary popular culture would be the Joker’s ubiquitous “Why so seriouss?” quip, it sounds pretty similar. The track itself ends with Maniac’s ducky rasping of ‘yesss yess yess!’, followed by some offended robot-voice chirping out ‘Pain…’. I reckon the stroke of vocal win in the middle of this track is nothing but a fluke, unless like an idiot savant I’m missing some all-encompassing, avant-garde deeper meaning that lies behind Mayhem’s motivations. Doubtful though. One of the later tracks on here (To Daimonion (Pt. II of III)) is nothing but four and a half minutes of silence that follow someone (probably Keanu Reeves) saying in a bored voice
“I remember the future
A new beginning of time”
…shithead.





Agalloch – “A Poem By Yeats”

‘A girl arose that had red mournful lips
And seemed the greatness of the world in tears,
Doomed like Odysseus and the labouring ships
And proud as Priam murdered with his peers;’

This is a passage from W.B. Yeats’ excellent existentialist romantic poem ‘The Sorrow of Love’ that forms the lyrical fodder for this Agalloch track from their 2001 EP Of Stone, Wind and Pillor. The whole track is very relaxed and pastoral sounding, discounting the four minutes of silence that conceal the useless ‘hidden track’. It continues from the droning atmospheres of the previous track, and descends further into a somniferous paste of folky warmth. The first stanza is sung, in the traditional sense, over some warmbience and tasteful piano, but the track really comes into fruition on the second stanza which is spoken word, presumably by John Haughm. There’s something timeless about this great adaptation, and it holds some nostalgic sway for me on a personal level - it reminds me of late afternoons that I spent cycling on Louth’s country roads last summer. It’s great to see recognition of this Irish literary great in one of my favourite styles of music, and the second stanza especially captures the autumnal sombreness that is concurrently the focus of this poem and this EP as a whole. I could also mention Agalloch’s profoundly moving track ‘Tomorrow Will Never Come’ but after some (google-centric) research I found that the vocals here are pulled directly from some interviews with a real-life schizophrenic youth, which basically discounts a lot of the wonder in a compositional sense. It’s still a trippy listen though, and recommended.



My Dying Bride – “The Cry of Mankind”

The siren-like quality of those opening six notes doesn’t let up for the entire 12+ minutes of this song, giving even goregrind a run for its money in terms of repetitiveness. This doesn’t detract from the balmy greatness of the vocals though. The lyrics are very concise and massively effective, a morose sonnet that is delivered gently by a Stainthorpe that sounds more genuinely depressed here on The Angel and the Dark River than on MDB’s later stuff. It’s most potent on the last line, which is exhaled more than sung. The corresponding lyrics are ‘This is a weary hour’ but we hear ‘thisih… weary…’. In lesser hands, such withdrawn aspirations would sound contrived and naff but here it’s actually damned effective, and it succumbs nicely to an extended outro that serves as a trippy dessert to the self-loathing Gothicism that characterises the body of the song.

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