Logan's Year in review: 100% Hipster-free METAL!!!

[GarageMetal468]

yay Chicago represent!

I've been meaning to check out Cianide's material, I enjoyed them at MDF this year.

[larvtard]

23.
Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent


How to describe it? Hmm.... well it's got a grindy vibe/feel, but it's not straight-up grind. It's very much death metal, but too punky to be straight-up death metal. So...what is it? It's not... *gasp*... death-grind, is it? I thought I hated death-grind. But I definitely do not hate this. On the contrary, this album is the tits. Bit of a disconnect there, I'd say?
Really cool riffage here.

Brethren of the Pentagram
The Embodiment of Paradox and Chaos

[mankvill]

>hipster-free
>Cianide and Lock Up

[larvtard]

Originally Posted by mankvill

>hipster-free
>Cianide and Lock Up

<It was a joke
<...Cianide and Lock Up aren't hipster

[BloodoftheKings]

Why is every thread in the Album Reviews just arguments about hipster metal lately?

[Maiden33]

I guarantee my album thread should be 100% devoid of any "hipster" discussion.

[larvtard]

22.
Tombs - Path of Totality


When I first heard this, I LOVED it. Actually before a few days ago, it was still in my top ten. But my most recent listen proved to be too much. Still, this album is really interesting. It's very much black metal - but not traditionally. It's really sludgy, too. Could it be... *gasp*... blackened sludge?!
They creep in a lot of melody, as well. Not so much where it becomes expected, but, you know. It's welcomed

Vermillion
Passageways

[makethemsuffer12]

Originally Posted by Maiden33

I guarantee my album thread should be 100% devoid of any "hipster" discussion.

[hb420]

Originally Posted by larvtard

22.
Tombs - Path of Totality


When I first heard this, I LOVED it. Actually before a few days ago, it was still in my top ten. But my most recent listen proved to be too much. Still, this album is really interesting. It's very much black metal - but not traditionally. It's really sludgy, too. Could it be... *gasp*... blackened sludge?!
They creep in a lot of melody, as well. Not so much where it becomes expected, but, you know. It's welcomed

Vermillion
Passageways

Nice pick, and the same thing happened to me as well. While I loved it at first, it grew off me pretty quickly.

[larvtard]

I could just wait until tomorrow to do my next entry, but I'm guessing nobody really cares about Tombs anyway.

21.
Black Cobra - Invernal


Funny story about this one. A few weeks ago I was high as fuck. So I turned this album on. And I started crying. It was BY FAR the greatest piece of music I had ever heard in my life. I knew I would NEVER hear anything quite like this again.

...And now it's my #21

It's still an amazing record, though. I fucking worship these guys' guitar tone. Black Cobra's a sludge metal two-piece, a drummer and a guitarist/vocalist, which doesn't really make sense to me, because the sound is so bassy. Either way, the guitar tone is so badass - so sexy, so absolutely orgasmic. I can't stand it. There's actually some memorable songs, too

Beyond
Abyss