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>Roadburn 2011

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>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.

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>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.

Arckanum – Sviga Lae
Autopsy – The Tomb Within
Bloody Phoenix – Death To Everyone
Bombs of Hades – Chambers of Abominations
Bonnie Prince Billy – The Wonder Show of The World
Burzum – Belus
Celph Titled & Buckwild – Nineteen Ninety Now
Circle – Rautatie
Counterblast – Faceless
Deathspell Omega – Paracletus
Electric Wizard – Black Masses
Ghost – Opus Eponymous
Grand Magus – Hammer of The North
High On Fire – Snakes For The Divine
Hofmästarn med Roffe Ruff – Panterparken
FREE DOWNLOAD HERE!
Hour of 13 – The Ritualist
Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Interment – Into The Crypts of Blasphemy
Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier
Massgrav / Blood I Bleed – SPLIT
Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder
Modorra – The Putrid
Motorpsycho – Heavy Metal Fruit
Nominon – Monumentomb
Okkultokrati – No Light For Mass
PP7 Gaftzeb And The Tormentors of 1984 – Preaching The Gospel To The Non-Believers
Profanatica – Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
Pyramido / Suma – SPLIT
Ramesses – Take The Curse
Roc Marciano – Marcberg
Stench – In Putrescence
Suma – Ashes

Svarte Greiner – Penpals Forever (And Ever)
Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Tid – Giv Akt
FREE DOWNLOAD HERE!
Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones
Ufomammut – Eve
U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night
Watain – Lawless Darkness
White Hills – White Hills
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers
Ättestupa – Begraven Mot Norr

music, philosophy

>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

Bonus goodness:

music, politics

>Sewer election – This fear is only the beginning

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The car is on fire, and there’s no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows

The government is corrupt
And we’re on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn

We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death

The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles

It went like this:

The buildings tumbled in on themselves
Mothers clutching babies
Picked through the rubble
And pulled out their hair

The skyline was beautiful on fire
All twisted metal stretching upwards
Everything washed in a thin orange haze

I said, “Kiss me, you’re beautiful –
These are truly the last days”

You grabbed my hand
And we fell into it
Like a daydream
Or a fever

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down
For sure it’s the valley of death

I open up my wallet
And it’s full of blood

This fear is only the beginning
…
There is a sorrow to be desired
To be sorrows desire

What they say is true
It is a dirty blue
This color around you
You’re curled up warm
In your own little corners of Sodom
Did you agree to believe
This fall has no bottom
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Fear not the faces of brothers