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The AV Club's Best Albums of the Decade List
Dimmukane:
dude, this new Girl Talk cd rips
where is the pbr dammit, i'm thirsty
moustache rides
etc
KharBevNor:
The post above me is pretty on track.
Also:
--- Quote from: Be My Head on 19 Nov 2009, 18:51 ---*shuidder* Baroness aren't bad either, but I put them in the same category as indie rock to be quite honest, not what I look for in great metal.
Boris don't play metal.
Neither do Converge.
Neither do Deftones.
The Dillinger Escape Plan is metalcore.
The Mars Volta? Seriously?
Queens of The Stone Age?
--- End quote ---
True on all counts. That's not a value judgement, even though I only like two of these bands. There are many others I disagree with as well. For example, if you're going to put Opeth on a list like this, why the fuck Watershed? And Satan almighty, a Slayer album? This is the 21st century, and Slayer haven't put out anything that was more than mediocre since 1988 on the outside.
Let's try and be positive...at the start of the list I thought it was going to be ok. Dopethrone and The Work Which Transforms God would both make it on to my list. Codex Necro, Phantom Limb and Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope are all good albums but probably not my choices.
I feel a little wary making a list personally, because it's all about personal taste in these things, but if I did it would certainly back up some of Damnable Fiend's, as well as considering such tasty treats as:
Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Agalloch - The Mantle
Ancient Rites - And the Hordes Stood as One (if we're allowed live albums) or Dim Carcosa (if we're not)
The Axis of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From the Transition Hospital
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Carpathian Forest - Morbid Fascination of Death
Dan Swano - Moontower
Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive (controversial, I would imagine)
Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
Drudkh - The Swan Road
Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
Ewigkeit - Radio Ixtlan
Forefather - Ours is the Kingdom
Horna - Sotahuuto
Lumsk - Åsmund Frægdegjevar
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Wyrd - Huldrafolk
I'm noting fairly definite tendencies genre wise. For a list like this to be good it really needs to be compiled from the lists of a few seperate people who have some idea what they're talking about.
Also, final note, I personally think Gallhammer are alright! Not sure why everyone calls them a black metal band though. The makeup maybe?
Damnable Fiend:
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 19 Nov 2009, 21:06 ---
Man I can't even imagine high hipsters.
--- End quote ---
I can't either, really, now I think of it. A hipster is basically an obsessively self-conscious person, right. They like music that makes them look good. That's why there's that joke about hipsters not actually liking music at all. ie. pretty much the opposite of the stoner who stereotypically just likes whatever feels good.
where was I. oh yeah, maybe they're not actually listening to any of these albums on drugs, I don't know. Maybe someday I'll visit the pitchfork offices or some other hipster group (do Pitchfork even count as hipster anymore, or are they too well known for that) that likes stoner music, and find out what's behind this trend.
edit: oh speaking of Dan Swano, I'd put a Nightingale album on there as well, probably Alive Again.
Be My Head:
Eh, Gallhammer aren't that awful I guess. I do like that play some simple beats; whereas you usually hear too much blasting in generic black metal. I just don't think they should be as well known as they are. They sound kind of mediocre, and I think it's because they can't really play their instruments, and not in a good way either.
Also, Diabolical Masquerade is pretty cool. I don't know if I like Death's Design more or less than Nightwork though, but DD is definitely more creative.
KharBevNor:
I would have put Nightwork on there if it had only been written a year or two later :p
Gallhammer are a crossover crust band essentially. Crust is generally a genre (with a few noble exceptions) where I find overall presentation and general attitude to be more important than technical competency, although Gallhammer do drop some real clangers. There also not a band I would mention for a while even if I was specifically talking about black metal from Japan (Hint: Sigh! Abigail!)
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