In Mourning - Shrouded Divine (2008)

4/5
Progressive Death Metal
Sweden
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1. "The Shrouded Divine" -7:11
2. "Amnesia" -3:35
3. "In The Failing Hour" -4:22
4. "By Others Considered" -6:24
5. "Grind Denial"-4:28
6. "The Art Of A Mourning Kind" -5:29
7. "The Black Lodge" -8:13
8. "Past October Skies" -6:33

Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard (2001)

4/5
Grindcore
USA (Virginia)
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1. "Jennifer" - 1:21
2. "Cheerleader Corpses" - 0:35
3. "Scatology Homework" - 0:49
4. "Trojan Whore" - 1:35
5. "Ghost of a Bullet" - 0:20
6. "Heart and Crossbones" - 0:48
7. "Strangled with a Halo" - 1:25
8. "Intimate Slavery" - 1:05
9. "Mapplethorpe Grey" - 1:21
10. "Evacuating Heaven" - 0:16
11. "Tickets to the Car Crash" - 0:39
12. "Naked Trees" - 1:46
13. "Sheet Metal Girl" - 1:09
14. "Preacher Crawling" - 1:29
15. "Pornographic Memory" - 0:57
16. "Murder Blossom" - 0:18
17. "Body Scout" - 1:01
18. "Snuff Film at Eleven" - 1:10
19. "Hyperviolet" - 3:28
20. "Starbelly" - 5:03
21. "Junkyard God" - 1:59
22. "Piss Angel" - 7:57

Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars (2006)

4/5
Atmospheric Black Metal
USA (Olympia, Washington)
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1. Queen of the Borrowed Light - 12:58
2. Face in a Night Time Mirror part I - 13:21
3. Face in a Night Time Mirror part II - 13:58
4. (A Shimmering Radiance) Diadem of 12 Stars - 20:22

Boris - Flood (2000)

4/5
Sludge Metal, Psychedelic Rock
Japan
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1. "Flood I" – 14:42
2. "Flood II" – 13:35
3. "Flood III" – 20:38
4. "Flood IV" – 21:35

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992)

4/5
Black Metal
Norway
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1. "Kathaarian Life Code" – 10:39
2. "In the Shadow of the Horns" – 7:02
3. "Paragon Belial" – 5:25
4. "Where Cold Winds Blow" – 7:26
5. "A Blaze in the Northern Sky" – 4:58
6. "The Pagan Winter" – 6:35

One of my favourite black metal albums ever, along with Two Hunters (also on this blog). This gets my vote for Darkthrone's crowning black metal achievement. The atmosphere alone is worth checking this out.

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (2006)

4/5
Indie Rock, Folk
USA (Portland, Oregon)
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1. "The Crane Wife 3" – 4:18
2. "The Island": – 12:26
3. "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)" – 4:18
4. "O Valencia!" – 3:47
5. "The Perfect Crime #2" – 5:33
6. "When the War Came" – 5:06
7. "Shankill Butchers" – 4:39
8. "Summersong" – 3:31
9. "The Crane Wife 1 & 2" – 11:19
10. "Sons & Daughters" – 5:13

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989)

3.5/5
Death Metal
USA (Tampa, Florida)
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1. "Immortal Rites" – 4:04
2. "Suffocation" – 3:15
3. "Visions from the Dark Side" – 4:10
4. "Maze of Torment" – 4:25
5. "Lord of All Fevers & Plague" – 3:28
6. "Chapel of Ghouls" – 4:58
7. "Bleed for the Devil" – 2:23
8. "Damnation" – 4:10
9. "Blasphemy" – 3:31
10. "Evil Spells" – 4:13

The End - Elementary (2007)

4/5
Math Rock, Alternative Metal
Canada
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1. "Dangerous" - 6:08
2. "The Never Ever Aftermath" - 4:45
3. "Animals" - 3:26
4. "The Moth and I" - 5:29
5. "Throwing Stones" - 3:29
6. "My Abyss" - 4:50
7. "Awake?" - 3:43
8. "A Fell Wind" - 4:02
9. "In Distress" - 5:54
10. "And Always..." - 9:18

Burial - Untrue (2007)

4/5
Dubstep
England
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1. "(untitled)" - 0:46
2. "Archangel" - 3:58
3. "Near Dark" - 3:54
4. "Ghost Hardware" - 4:53
5. "Endorphin" - 2:57
6. "Etched Headplate" - 5:59
7. "In McDonalds" - 2:07
8. "Untrue" - 6:16
9. "Shell of Light" - 4:40
10. "Dog Shelter" - 2:59
11. "Homeless" - 5:20
12. "UK" - 1:40
13. "Raver" - 4:59

Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger (1994)

4/5
Raw Black Metal
Norway
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1. "Transilvanian Hunger" – 6:10
2. "Over fjell og gjennom torner" – 2:29
3. "Skald av Satans sol" – 4:29
4. "Slottet i det fjerne" – 4:45
5. "Graven tåkeheimens saler" – 4:59
6. "I en hall med flesk og mjød" – 5:13
7. "As flittermice as Satans spys" – 5:56
8. "En ås i dype skogen" (– 5:03

Ihsahn - angL (2008)

3.5/5
Extreme Progressive Metal
Norway
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1. "Misanthrope" - 4:58
2. "Scarab" - 5:17
3. "Unhealer" - 6:17
4. "Emancipation" - 5:27
5. "Malediction" - 4:19
6. "Alchemist" - 4:19
7. "Elevator" - 5:07
8. "Threnody" - 5:08
9. "Monolith" - 6:27