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Monolith
In Mourning
Impressive catchy songwriting with a lot of progressive hooks and breaks, and a special shout out to the sublime vocal(mix), massive amounts of care went in to each song and you hear the dedication. A melodic death/black band as there are few. In my opinion, they make Opeth look like pussies.
Black Metal Death Metal Melodic Metal Metal Progressive Metal
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Drawing Circles
Textures
By far my favorite 'math-metal' record ever. The sheer intensity and skewed groovy flow with awesome hardcore vocals is amazing. It's recorded, written and listens like a jigsaw puzzle that can dazzle a man.
Metal Progressive Metal
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Aesthethica
Liturgy
Liturgy was (afaik) one of the first bands to brazenly expand the borders of brutal black metal and doing so by making it an exercise in Swans-like texturing and mathematical hypnotizing riffing. It's a record that will disturb you, and won't let you relax, but it is a masterpiece for it.
Black Metal Metal Progressive Metal
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Winter Thrice
Borknagar
I want to like this, since I always said there wasn't a Borknagar record that I don't love. But alas, here we are. Extra sad is that Garm (Ulver) is on in the vocals, so the dissapointment is bigger. The main problem is a lack of coherence in the vocals and all-over feel of the album.
Black Metal Folk Metal Metal Progressive Metal
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Death’s Design
Diabolical Masquerade
61 tracks in 43 minutes. That's an achievement. And making it work like one big epic whole is an even bigger achievement. This album is highly underrated as it portraits masterful skill in storytelling through all kinds of dark metal. Truly an awe-inspiring endeavor.
Black Metal Metal Progressive Metal
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The Ruiner
Made Out Of Babies
I find it hard to keep interested in hearing this chaotic marriage of post-metal and shrieking from our favorite crazy wife Julie Christmas. It's a blend of things better taken apart, and done better by others.
Metal Progressive Metal
Empricism
Borknagar
Black Metal Metal Progressive Metal
Alaska
Between The Buried And Me
Metal Progressive Metal