2019 Year End Favorites
Core Advisors
Martin Beckmann, Pal Belis, Joe Eldridge,
Jetro Suo, Clint Willis
Martin Beckmann, Pal Belis, Joe Eldridge,
Jetro Suo, Clint Willis
Guest Contributors
Jason Gardner (Temptation's Wings)
Jason Gardner (Temptation's Wings)
Martin Beckmann
1. Big/Brave - A Gaze Among Them
2. Ithaca - Language of Injury
3. Desperate Living - New Concrete
4. Greet Death - New Hell
5. Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
6. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
7. Chat Pile - This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please
8. Inter Arma - Sulphur English
9. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue
10. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
11. Pelican - Nightime Stories
12. Mizmor - Cairn
13. Torche - Admission
14. Lightning Bolt- Sonic Citadel
15. Cloud Rat - Pollinator
16. Judiciary - Surface Noise
17. Purkinje Shift- Threads
18. Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
19. Creeping Death - Wretched Illusions
20. Fawn Limbs - Harm Remissions
21. Have a Nice Life - Sea of Worry
22. Helms Alee - Noctilica
Fargo local faves
El Supremo - Clarity Thru Distortion
Phobophilic - Undimensioned Identies
Wild Amphora - L'Appel Du Vide
Triple Deke - 5 minute Major
Pål Bellis (alpha order)
1782
Arrowhead
Black Road
Burning Gloom
Descarado
Double Horse
Druids
Earth Eater
Faerie Ring
Goatess
Golden Core
Green Lung
Irata
Iron Crown
Leather Lung
Mammoth Storm
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
Marijannah
Monolord
Mournful Cries
Navajo Witch
Obiisss
Pelican
Red Eye
Sabba
SÂVER
Silver Devil
Slomatics
Superlynx
Temple of the Fuzz Witch
The Great Machine
Toothless Cage
Torche
Weird-Tales
Year of the Cobra
Arrowhead
Black Road
Burning Gloom
Descarado
Double Horse
Druids
Earth Eater
Faerie Ring
Goatess
Golden Core
Green Lung
Irata
Iron Crown
Leather Lung
Mammoth Storm
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard
Marijannah
Monolord
Mournful Cries
Navajo Witch
Obiisss
Pelican
Red Eye
Sabba
SÂVER
Silver Devil
Slomatics
Superlynx
Temple of the Fuzz Witch
The Great Machine
Toothless Cage
Torche
Weird-Tales
Year of the Cobra
Joe Eldridge (alpha order)
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Clavicvla - Sepulchral Blessing
Darkthrone - Old Star
Devourment - Obscene Majesty
Enforced - At the Walls
Funereal Presence - Achiatius
Gatekeeper - Deserted
Glacial Tomb - Glacial Tomb
Grand Magus - Wolf God
High Command - Beyond the Wall of Desolation
Lord Mantis - Universal Death Church
Magic Circle - Departed Souls
MIzmor - Cairn
Nightfucker - Nightfucker
No One KNows What the Dead Think - Self-titled
Nusquama - Horizon Ontheemt
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Jason Gardner (alpha order)
Amon Amarth - Berzerker
Bask - III
Bewitcher - Under the Witching Cross
Grand Magus - Wolf God
Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave
Iron Savior - Kill Or Get Killed
Lord Dying - Mysterium Tremendum
Horseburner - The Thief
Howling Giant - Space Between Worlds
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Special mention EPs
Exmortus - Legions of the Undead
Visigoth - Bells of Awakening
Bask - III
Bewitcher - Under the Witching Cross
Grand Magus - Wolf God
Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave
Iron Savior - Kill Or Get Killed
Lord Dying - Mysterium Tremendum
Horseburner - The Thief
Howling Giant - Space Between Worlds
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
Special mention EPs
Exmortus - Legions of the Undead
Visigoth - Bells of Awakening
Jetro Suo (alpha order)
Baest - Venenum
Earth - Full Upon Her Burning Lips
Howiewonder - Float
Kaleidobolt - Bitter
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
Mastiff - Plague
Mental Cruelty - Inferis
Monkey3 - Sphere
Noisem - Cease to Exist
PH - Osiris Hayden
Sâver - They Came With Sunlight
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Whitechapel - The Valley
Clint Willis
Howiewonder - Float
Kaleidobolt - Bitter
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Yn Ol I Annwn
Mastiff - Plague
Mental Cruelty - Inferis
Monkey3 - Sphere
Noisem - Cease to Exist
PH - Osiris Hayden
Sâver - They Came With Sunlight
Waste of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis
Whitechapel - The Valley
Clint Willis
1 HORSEHUNTER - HORSEHUNTER
2 SAVER - THEY CAME WITH THE SUNLIGHT
3 HOLY SERPENT - ENDLESS
4 GALE - GALE
5 BLACK SMOKE - HOLY REPTILIAN MOTHER
6 CIKADA - LAMPLIGHTER
7 BEASTWARS – IV
8 YATRA - DEATH RITUAL
9 THE MOTH GATHERER - ESOTERIC OPPRESSION
10 DROID - HYPERREALITY
11 QUALLUS - QUALLUS
12 OPIUM LORD - VORE
13 MORTIER - TRAUMA
14 LOTEK CRUISER – LOTEK CRUISER
15 MEMORIAM – REQUIEM FOR MANKIND
16 NAGA - VOID CULT RISING
17 SOLACE - THE BRINK
18 TOMB MOLD - PLANETARY CLAIRVOYANCE
19 NIGHTFUCKER – NIGHTFUCKER
20 COMACOZER - MYDRIASIS
21 SOUL OF ANUBIS - THE LAST JOURNEY
22 TEL - LOWLIFE
23 UN / COLTSBLOOD SPLIT
24 WOORMS - SLAKE
25 LEECHFEAST - VILLAGE CREEP EP
26 FANGE - PUNIR
27 CHROME GHOST - THE DIVING BELL
28 MENTAL CAVITY - NEURO SIEGE
29 LEGBA – HELL
30 BRUME - RABBITS
31 FIREBREATHER - UNDER A BLOOD MOON
32 MINENFELD - THE GREAT ADVENTURE
33 LOCHNESS – BLACK SMOKERS
34 GATECREEPER – DESERTED
35 CRYPT SERMON - THE RUINS OF FADING LIGHT
36 SLEEPING GIANT - SLEEPING GIANT
37 ENDLESS FLOODS - CIRCLE THE GOLD
38 SLOMATICS – CANYONS
39 INTER ARMA - SULPHUR ENGLISH
40 NIXA - OPUS TIERRA
41 CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN - TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE VANISHING AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE
42 ONHOU - ENDLING
43 PELICAN - NIGHTTIME STORIES
44 ALCEST - SPIRITUAL INSTINCT
45 MAGIC CIRCLE - DEPARTED SOULS
46 HIPPIE DEATH CULT - 111
47 LEFT TO STARVE - NIKADA SE NISAM BOJAO ZMIJA
48 CREEP DIETS - CREEP DIETS
49 BODY VOID - YOU WILL KNOW THE FEAR YOU FORCED UPON US
50 DISROTTED - CRYOGENICS
51 TORT - VOID ADDICTION
52 LAIR - LAIR
53 FAT - GRANUM
54 GORM - GORM
55 SLOW - IV - DANTALION
56 UNGRAVEN - LANGUAGE OF LONGING
57 MUNT - TOWARDS EXTINCTION
58 CARCINOID - METASTATIC DECLINATION
59 METH FETISH - METH FETISH
60 GREEN LUNG - WOODLAND RITES
2 SAVER - THEY CAME WITH THE SUNLIGHT
3 HOLY SERPENT - ENDLESS
4 GALE - GALE
5 BLACK SMOKE - HOLY REPTILIAN MOTHER
6 CIKADA - LAMPLIGHTER
7 BEASTWARS – IV
8 YATRA - DEATH RITUAL
9 THE MOTH GATHERER - ESOTERIC OPPRESSION
10 DROID - HYPERREALITY
11 QUALLUS - QUALLUS
12 OPIUM LORD - VORE
13 MORTIER - TRAUMA
14 LOTEK CRUISER – LOTEK CRUISER
15 MEMORIAM – REQUIEM FOR MANKIND
16 NAGA - VOID CULT RISING
17 SOLACE - THE BRINK
18 TOMB MOLD - PLANETARY CLAIRVOYANCE
19 NIGHTFUCKER – NIGHTFUCKER
20 COMACOZER - MYDRIASIS
21 SOUL OF ANUBIS - THE LAST JOURNEY
22 TEL - LOWLIFE
23 UN / COLTSBLOOD SPLIT
24 WOORMS - SLAKE
25 LEECHFEAST - VILLAGE CREEP EP
26 FANGE - PUNIR
27 CHROME GHOST - THE DIVING BELL
28 MENTAL CAVITY - NEURO SIEGE
29 LEGBA – HELL
30 BRUME - RABBITS
31 FIREBREATHER - UNDER A BLOOD MOON
32 MINENFELD - THE GREAT ADVENTURE
33 LOCHNESS – BLACK SMOKERS
34 GATECREEPER – DESERTED
35 CRYPT SERMON - THE RUINS OF FADING LIGHT
36 SLEEPING GIANT - SLEEPING GIANT
37 ENDLESS FLOODS - CIRCLE THE GOLD
38 SLOMATICS – CANYONS
39 INTER ARMA - SULPHUR ENGLISH
40 NIXA - OPUS TIERRA
41 CHAINED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN - TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE VANISHING AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE
42 ONHOU - ENDLING
43 PELICAN - NIGHTTIME STORIES
44 ALCEST - SPIRITUAL INSTINCT
45 MAGIC CIRCLE - DEPARTED SOULS
46 HIPPIE DEATH CULT - 111
47 LEFT TO STARVE - NIKADA SE NISAM BOJAO ZMIJA
48 CREEP DIETS - CREEP DIETS
49 BODY VOID - YOU WILL KNOW THE FEAR YOU FORCED UPON US
50 DISROTTED - CRYOGENICS
51 TORT - VOID ADDICTION
52 LAIR - LAIR
53 FAT - GRANUM
54 GORM - GORM
55 SLOW - IV - DANTALION
56 UNGRAVEN - LANGUAGE OF LONGING
57 MUNT - TOWARDS EXTINCTION
58 CARCINOID - METASTATIC DECLINATION
59 METH FETISH - METH FETISH
60 GREEN LUNG - WOODLAND RITES