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Category Archives: music
>Utopia: A world run by artists
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Last night was free from nightmares.
I dreamt the world was run by artists.
Dedicated, devoted… to the death.
I dreamt the world was run by artists.
Dedicated, devoted… to the death.
>Roadburn 2011
>The festival of all festivals – Roadburn – is only a few days away!
Until then, rest your eyes on some mighty fine art and worship the manifesto:
This is a gathering of like minded bands and fans from around the world, joined together by a love of music. This is a celebration of tube-driven distortion and crackling electric guitars, a raising of musical consciousness and brotherly and sisterly love, a communion with THEE MIGHTY RIFF, a time and place to get high en mass and bask in the heaviness.
This is what it’s all about.
>Album of the year?
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>Hollow victories in the cup of salvation
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You would give anything for the cup of salvation
You would trade every truth for hollow victories
Every empire will fall, every monument crumble
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out
Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out
>The best albums of 2010
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I’m getting old. It’s either that, or music is getting boring. Just like last year I feel I haven’t been catching up with what the hell is going on in this shithole filled with music. In my mind, the very best albums of 2010 were all black metal albums: Lawless Darkness, Paracletus, Stained Glass Revelations, Belus and Ominous Doctrines of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm.
Last year I was complaining about how shitty the rap scene really is. Same thing this year. Until yesterday I had only one rap record on the list, but then Master Skråd posted a video with one helluva good dude named Roc Marciano. I haven’t even heard his name before, but Marcberg is insanely good! This is like the perfect blend of Raekwon, Mobb Deep and Madlib. I’ve only listened to the album six times (since yesterday…), but it feels like a true rap classic already. We’ll see about that in a year or two.
Still, lots of really good releases, of course. Here’s the stuff I’ve enjoyed during the year, stuff that’s definitely worthy of your attention. Hopefully you’ll discover something new.
Click on the band name for GaySpace.
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| Arckanum – Sviga Lae |
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| Autopsy – The Tomb Within |
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| Bloody Phoenix – Death To Everyone |
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| Bombs of Hades – Chambers of Abominations |
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| Bonnie Prince Billy – The Wonder Show of The World |
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| Burzum – Belus |
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| Celph Titled & Buckwild – Nineteen Ninety Now |
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| Circle – Rautatie |
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| Counterblast – Faceless |
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| Deathspell Omega – Paracletus |
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| Electric Wizard – Black Masses |
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| Ghost – Opus Eponymous |
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| Grand Magus – Hammer of The North |
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| High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine |
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| Hofmästarn med Roffe Ruff – Panterparken FREE DOWNLOAD HERE! |
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| Hour of 13 – The Ritualist |
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| Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm |
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| Interment – Into The Crypts of Blasphemy |
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| Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier |
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| Massgrav / Blood I Bleed – SPLIT |
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| Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder |
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| Modorra – The Putrid |
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| Motorpsycho – Heavy Metal Fruit |
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| Nominon – Monumentomb |
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| Okkultokrati – No Light For Mass |
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| PP7 Gaftzeb And The Tormentors of 1984 – Preaching The Gospel To The Non-Believers |
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| Profanatica – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God |
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| Pyramido / Suma – SPLIT |
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| Ramesses – Take The Curse |
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| Roc Marciano – Marcberg |
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| Stench – In Putrescence |
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| Suma – Ashes |
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| Svarte Greiner – Penpals Forever (And Ever) |
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| Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky |
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| Tid – Giv Akt FREE DOWNLOAD HERE! |
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| Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones |
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| Ufomammut – Eve |
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| U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night |
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| Watain – Lawless Darkness |
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| White Hills – White Hills |
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| Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers |
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| Ättestupa – Begraven Mot Norr |
>You breed… Like rats!
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Roadburn – the best festival I’ve ever been to – just announced that Godflesh are set to perform the legendary Streetcleaner album in its entirety! That sure deserves a whole bunch of exclamation marks!
This is one of the heaviest, dirtiest albums ever to grace this wicked Earth, and to be able to witness this at Roadburn is nothing but amazing. Streetcleaner was released in 1989, but still crushes most of what you’d call heavy these days. In a way, these recordings preceded the whole drone/sludge genre, and did so 22 years ago. Exclamation mark!
If you find it strange having a band playing the record just as it is when you might as well sit at home listening, you probably won’t ever understand the magick that occurs during a mighty fine concert – and Roadburn always delivers amazing gigs.
Compare listening to Through Silver In Blood at home with the onslaught that follows below:
Now worship Godflesh.
You breed – Like Rats
Breeding – Stylized – Deformity – Don’t look back
Breeding – Fade out – Lies – Deformity
Breed – Like Rats
You were dead from the beginning
Breeding – Stylized – Deformity – Don’t look back
Breeding – Fade out – Lies – Deformity
Breed – Like Rats
You were dead from the beginning
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