Diario

Album List + Possible reviews & ratings (in progress).
by INROK | My personal blog: http://inrok.blogspot.fi/

Note: Sorry for my imperfect English. I'm from Finland for fuck sake ;D Also I'm no writer either. The main purpose of this journal is to keep track on this years releases. Recommendations are always welcome. All ratings/reviews are just my personal opinions, nothing serious and obviously ratings will most likely change with more plays. /// Antti / INROK



Rated/Reviewed:

–––Loved it / Best of 2013–––


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Black Crucifixion – Coronation Of King Darkness | black/doom metal, FIN.
This sound like Black Crucifixion - Nothing else. What they've created over the past 20+ years of doing music on/off, can now be heard on this masterpiece of an album. Old school riffs, doom passages and some vocal work (similar to 'My Dying Bride'), and this dark melancholic atmosphere through the album. …

Corpus Mortale - FleshCraft
The Custodian - Necessary Wasted Time
Cult of Luna - Vertikal
Hanging Garden - At Every Door
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Fractal Gates - Beyond the Self
Redwood Hill - Descender
Ghost - Infestissumam
The Fall of Every Season - Amends
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
Torture Killer - Phobia
Six Feet Under - Unborn
Jungle Rot - Terror Regime
Satan - Life Sentence
Alice in Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (and Other Stories)
Hacride - Back To Where You've Never Been
Havok - Unnatural Selection
Evile - Skull
Dead Can Dance - In Concert
Palms - Palms

2013 Ratings.

Ratings are for albuns released in 2013 only.
Please note that this ratings are based in my personal feelings and tastes, it's only my opinion.


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Amorphis - Circle (Modern Rock / Melodic Metal)
Dark Tranquillity - Construct (Melodic Death Metal)
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi (Melodic Death Metal)
Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell (Power Metal)



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Audrey Horne - Youngblood (Hard Rock / Post-Grunge)
Cult of Luna - Vertikal (Atmospheric / Post-Metal)
Divinity Compromised - A World Torn (Symphonic Progressive Metal)
Factory of Dreams - Some Kind of Poetic Destruction (Symphonic Progressive Metal / Gothic Metal)
Hate - Solarflesh (Death Metal)
Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure (Melodic Death Metal)
Immolation - Kingdom Of Conspiracy (Death Metal)
In Vain - Ænigma (Progressive Death / Black Metal)
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane (Symphonic / Industrial Black / Death Metal)
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Want to hear:
A Life Divided - The Great Escape (Gothic/Electro/Pop) 18.01.13
Batillus - Concrete Sustain (Doom/Industrial) 19.03.13
Dawn of Ashes - Anathema (Industrial) 09.04.13
Hail of Bullets - n.n. (Death Metal) Late 2013
Hatesphere - n.n. (Death/Thrash)
Maroon - n.n. (Post-Thrash/Metalcore)
Neaera - Ours Is The Strom (Melodic Death/Deathcore) 05.03.13
Paganizer - World Lobotomy (Death Metal)
President Evil - Back from Hell's Holiday (Stoner Metal) 08.02.13
Satyricon - n.n. (Black Metal) September 2013
Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues (Stoner Rock/Metal)
Torture Killer - Phobia (Death Metal)
Undertow - In Deepest Silence (Sludge/Alternative) Summer 2013
Volbeat - Outlaw Genlemen & Shady Ladies (Elvis Metal) April 2013
Witchburner - Bloodthirsty Eyes (Thrash Metal)

Have heard:
Corpus Mortale - FleshCraft (Brutal Death) 9-10/10
Frankenbok - Cheers, Beers & Beards (Groove Metal) 6-7/10
Lothorian - Welldweller (Doom/Sludge) 8-9/10

Personal Memo and list of Albums I've heard and rated so far in the year
(To be updated until the year is over)


Top Albums of 2012 so far..

Agalloch - Faustian Echoes EP (10/10)
Anathema - Weather Systems (10/10)
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction (10/10)
Arctic Plateau - The Enemy Inside (10/10)
Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest and the Blackbird(10/10)
Lethian Dreams - Season of Raven Words (10/10)
Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light (10/10)
Borknagar - Urd (10/10)
Líam - MMIX (10/10)
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light Pt 2 (9.6/10)
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'Âme (9.6/10)
Drudkh - Eternal Turn Of The Wheel (9/10)

Others:

A Cloud Forest - October's Overture (9/10)
Al-Namrood - Kitab Al-Awthan (7.9/10)
Azaghal - Nemesis (9.8/10)
Burzum - Umskiptar (4.5/10)
Candlemass - Psalms for the Dead (7/10)
Cannibal Corpse - Torture (7/10)
Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever (8.9/10)
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Highlights of 2012 according to me in alphabetic ascending order.

Abominable Putridity
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The Anomalies of Artificial Origin Brutal Death Metal
Good groove and awesome slams.
Begging for Incest
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Orgasmic Selfmutilation Slamming Death Metal
Sick slams, sick vocals and sick name.
Chordotomy
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The Precious Ideal Slamming Brutal Death Metal
Germany deliver again. Great varied slam!
Dyscarnate
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And So It Came To Pass Death Metal
Second full-length. This trio delivers in the veins of Malevolent Creation!
GO-ZEN
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Hitoshizuku Goregrind
Groovy goregrind!
Hour of Penance
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2012 released/listed albums by INROK

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★★★★★ The Best of 2012



#1 (AOTY?)
Anaal Nathrakh − Vanitas 10/10 (black metal / grindcore)

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• Another intense display of THE END of this world by this U.K. based duo. The mix of brutal black metal and skull crushing grindcore is very well balanced on this album.
What I've always loved about Anaal Nathrakh is how their furious tracks can, and of then are also melodic (or catchy) at the same time. For example; that melodic ("Satanarchrist") riff of "A Metaphor for the Dead" is a perfect way leave the listener wandering in the wasteland of nothingness, after the storm of chaos and destruction.

Has all the ingredients for my Album of the Year #1 spot!

#2
Blut aus Nord − 777 - Cosmosophy 10/10 (atmospheric/ambient (post-)black metal)

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Monthly Top Lists of 2012

January:

Top 10 Bands:
1 Dream Theater 398 plays
2 Pain of Salvation 190 plays
3 Mastodon 169 plays
4 Evergrey 81 plays
5 Megadeth 68 plays
6 Rotten Sound 64 plays
7 Vallenfyre 62 plays
8 Tesla 54 plays
9 Primordial 41 plays
10 Dark Tranquillity 39 plays

Top 10 Albums:
1 Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane 102 plays
2 Dream Theater - Live Scenes From New York 100 plays
3 Dream Theater - Once in a Livetime 99 plays
4 Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I 87 plays
5 Evergrey - Glorious Collision 81 plays
6 Rotten Sound - Cursed 64 plays
7 Vallenfyre - A Fragile King 62 plays
8 Tesla - The Great Radio Controversy 54 plays
9 Mastodon - Blood Mountain 42 plays
10 Primordial - Storm Before Calm 41 plays

Top 10 Songs:
1 Dream Theater - Learning to Live 11 plays
2 Evergrey - Leave It Behind Us 10 plays
3 Pain of Salvation - Reconciliation 9 plays
3 Pain of Salvation - Ending Theme 9 plays
3 Dream Theater - Just Let Me Breathe 9 plays
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