Favorites of 2011

In no particular order...


Favorite Releases:

Cold Cave-Cherish The Light Years
(Gothy synth pop FFO: The Cure, New Order, Depeche Mode)

Raspberry Bulbs-Nature Tries Again
(Blackened punk with post-punk influences FFO: Bone Awl, Akitsa, Circle Of Ourobrus)

Column Of Heaven-Ecstatically Embracing all that we Habitually Suppress
(Orthodox powerviolence FFO: The Endless Blockade, Iron Lung, Man Is The Bastard)

Fleshtemple-Secret Chiefs
(Evil, fast, pissed, hardcore FFO: Gehenna, Darkthrone, Pulling Teeth)

Prurient-Bermuda Drain
(Synth driven ambient power electronics FFO: Navicon Torture Technologies, Burning Star Core, Genocide Organ)

Prurient-Despiritualized
(Synthy industrial/power electronics FFO: Genocide Organ, Navicon Torture Tehnologies, The Bastard Noise)

Dead Language-s/t
(Blazing fast, tight as fuck powerviolence FFO: Iron Lung, No Comment, The Endless Blockade)

Brutal Supremacy (Iron Lung, Mind Eraser, Hatred Surge, Scapegoat-split)
(Some of the best in today's powerviolence on one record FFO: The Endless Blockade, Soul Swallower, Insect Warfare)

Soul Swallower-Devoured
(Unreal sounding weird, nasty, pv influenced hardcore FFO: Mind Eraser, Iron Lung, Double Negative)

Druglord-s/t
(Stoner/doom with what sounds like late 80's/early 90's northwest influences FFO: Electric Wizard, The Melvins, Tad)

Alberich-Psychology Of Love
(Synthy industrial FFO: Prurient, Genocide Organ, Ramleh)

Genocide Organ-:Under-Kontrakt:
(Death industrial FFO: Throbbing Gristle, MB, Navicon Torture Technologies)

Departure Chandelier-The Black Crest of Death, The Gold Wreath of War
(Droning ethereal black metal FFO: Akitsa, Ash Pool, Bone Awl)

Pig Heart Transplant/The Endless Blockade-split
(Excellent split of heavy, throbbing noise riffage and powerviolence FFO: early Swans, Iron Lung, The Bastard Noise)

Soft Kill-An Open Door
(Old school style goth/post-punk FFO: The Cure, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen)

Joshua Norton Cabal/Disgust-split
(Noise/power electronics split FFO: The Bastard Noise, Deathpile, Macronympha)


Favorite re-issues:

Jesuit-Discography
(90's metallic hardcore FFO: Converge, early Cave In, and being sodomized by Brett Mathews)

Circle Of Ouroborus-Unituli
(Blackened post-punk FFO: Raspberry Bulbs, Joy Division, Akitsa)


Favorite sets:

Neurosis @ MDF
Iron Lung @ BFD
Jucifer @ Strange Matter
Jucifer @ Symphonic


Upcoming releases that I’m looking forward to getting my hands on in 2012:

New Pig Heart Transplant
New Walls
New Godflesh
New Swans
New Iron Lung
New Pharaoh