I know it is a little bit early to post this subject. This is a typical topic which was repeatedly posted in any year on late Chondritic Forum so i'm doing it right here on SI Forum:
Which albums from which artist(s)/band(s), in any musical genre, do you think are made the difference / liked or loved this year ?
If you'd like, make your own list like a Top (insert any number you want) or something.
Off the top of my head, some of my favorites releases from this year:
GODFLESH "Streetcleaner: Live at Roadburn 2011" 2xLP
CARCASS "Surgical Steel" 2xLP
TESTAMENT "Dark Roots of Thrash" 2xLP
DREAM DEATH "Sominum Excessum" LP
MELVINS "Live at Third Man Records" LP
UNCODIFIED/WERTHAM Vindicta I !!!
Quote from: deathcamp on December 03, 2013, 11:58:11 PM
UNCODIFIED/WERTHAM Vindicta I !!!
I definitely second this choice. I'll have to think about others.
You said 'in any musical genre'.
So, honestly, The Pastels 'Slow Summits'. Their first full album since the 1990s. A band with a great deal of very subtle and understated power I have listened to on-and-off for well over half my life and watched their quiet influence on watered-down versions of their sound from Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips to Belle & Sebastian. Watched them outlive Sonic Youth. Watched them quietly making other Scottish bands such as Primal Scream look ridiculous.
Stephen still with a day job in a great record shop. Katrina the greatest unsung female songwriter alive. 'Yoga' from their third album still one of the best songs ever written. This record with production from John McEntire has the expected Stereolab and Tortoise-influenced horn section and Pet Sounds thing happening but coupled with their unique fucked up and disturbed out of tune playing and singing and with some amazing and very moving lyrics too.
Far removed from PE and noise (except perhaps spiritually) and sure to be ignored by everyone else on this board, but my favourite album of 2013 by a long way.
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual LP
The Body - Christs, Redeemers 2LP
The Body - Master, We Perish 12"
Bone Sickness - Alone in the Grave 12"
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose LP
Iron Lung - White Glove Test LP
Prurient / The Rita - Women Pissing 7"
Sea of Shit 10"
Gary Numan- Splinter
New Model Army- Between Dog And Wolf
What all was released in 2013 - That is the main question! There was bunch of good re-issues. Urashima reissuing Atrax Morgue LP's was great thing as most were better than any actual albums band did!
Long awaited debut, PUCE MARY LP was great. Cold, simple, "mechanical". Maybe different from the tapes, but something I instantly listened multiple times.
"Problem" is, that most often I listen things long after they're released. Still going through random stuff from last.. lets say 30 years. Would be curious to see whole list of what WAS released in 2013?
I think within noise/experimental, there was still lots of goodies. In rock music, highlights were perhaps LP's of THROAT, HEBOSAGIL, but I realize my view may be distorted by small exposure for the stuff. Metal year appeared kind of dry. Don't remember too many absolute highlights beyond the usual stream of stuff. Few praised albums I have yet to buy.
Big names of rock & metal & music in general => not interested.
Rush- Vapor Trails Remixed
OMD- English Electric
Anthrax- Anthems
EDIT: Put a few more goodies on the list.
That which will matter for a long time to come:
Jason Zeh A Vacant Lot To Be In
Tourette Cendrier Du Voyage
Tattered Syntax Nothing All Day Nothing
Altar Of Flies Female
AnXpM/SSP Split
Jason Crumer Gentrification Suite
Dajjal Ur
Vertonen ...HACE...
Ulaan Passerine S/T
Francisco Meirino & Kiko C. Esseiva Focus On Nothing On Focus
V/A Tapeworks VI
Bölzer Aura
Kinit Her The Poet & The Blue Flower
Seitz Versus Gendreau Seitz Versus Gendreau
Blodvite Falskt Spektrum
Hheva Her Frozen Heart Bore The Weight Of A Thousand Stars
That which undoubtedly mattered at the time:
Merkstave S/T
Steven R. Smith/Ulaan Khol Ending/Returning
Orquere Movements
Amph Hudson
RLW Fall Seliger Geister
Claudio Rocchetti The Fall Of Chrome
Jaakko Vanhala Here Be Lions
Militaris-tic Curse Of Weapons
TREE Tree
Blodvite/Altar Of Flies/Elisha Morningstar/Sewer Election Spring Tour 2013
Abandoned Asylum - Derelicts Of Distant Hope cd
Altar Of Flies - Female lp
Anemone Tube - The Transfiguration Of The Image tape
Aphonic Threnody - First Funeral cd
Aun - Alpha Heaven cd
Budrūs - Canine Visions IX cd
Caul - The Long Dust cd
Control - Transgression cd
Corrections House - Last City Zero cd
Deos - Fortitude.Pain.Suffering net release
En Nihil - The Approaching Dark cd
Everlasting - March Of Time cd
HellLight - No God Above, No Devil Below cd
Human Larvae - Womb Worship cd
Iron Fist Of The Sun - Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand cd
Killing Joke - MMXII cd
Monolithe - IV cd
Moss - Horrible Night cd
Neronoia - Sapore Di Luce E Di Pietra cd
Netherworld - Alchemy Of Ice cd
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away cd
Prurient - Through The Window cd
Prurient & The Rita - Women Pissing 7"
Shift / hh - Full Weight Of The Opposition 10"
Skull:Axis - The Transparent Society cd
Slogun - I Will Bury You lp
Steel Hook Prostheses - The Empirics Guild cd
The Rita / Caligula031 - Self Shop tape
The Vomit Arsonist - An Occasion For Death cd
Theologian - Some Things Have To Be Endured cd
Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality Of Death (Programme A) cd
Trepaneringsritualen - The Totality Of Death (Programme b) cd
Troum - Mare Morphosis cd
Uncodified & Wertham - Vindicta I cd
V.A. - Hour Of The Wolf cd
V.A. - Epicurean Escapism II cd+dvd
Bizarre Uproar - Perverse Bizarre Humiliation
Drug Age - Dyslexic Action
Encephalophonic - Regressed Progress
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions
Mania / Hal Hutchinson - Wreckage
Pain Nail - Magneettinen Kohtalo
Pogrom - Degančios Suros
Ultimastanza - A Jewel In A Dunghill
Unclean - Manhood
Budrūs - Canine Visions IX
Clandestine Blaze - Harmony Of Struggle
Horna - Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa
Sargeist - The Rebirth Of A Cursed Existence
Art Abscons - Vita Abscondi Tape
Human Larvae - Womb Worship CD
In Death It Ends - Occvlt machine LP
Set - Upheaval of unholy darkness LP
Stav - Meditate to kill LP
V.A. Epicurean Escapism II CD/DVD
Andrew Chalk | Mutsu no Hana
Raymond Dijkstra | De Schaal
Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram | Electronic Music
.es | Void
Le Fruit Vert | Passiflore
Fushitsusha | 名前を つけないで ほしい 名前を つけて しまうと 全てで なくなって しまうから / まだ 温かいうちの この今に すべての謎を 注ぎ込こもう
Robert Haigh | Darkling Streams
Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi | Now while it's still warm let us pour in all the mystery
Keiko Higuchi | Ephemeral as Petals
Edward Ka-Spel | One Last Pose Before the Ruin
Lethe | Catastrophe Point #9 & #10
Nivritti Marga | Nivritti Marga
Daniel Menche | Vilke
Muslimgauze | Al Jar Zia Audio
Nohome | Nohome
Overhang Party | Complete Studio Recordings
Eliane Radigue | psi 847
Sachiko | Loka in the Black Ship
Suishou No Fune & Numinous Eye | Black Flowers of the Forest in the Cosmos
Dobrinka Tabakova | String Paths
Masayoshi Urabe + Rinji Fukuoka | Barcelona Express
Concert of the year: François Bayle + Adrian Moore @ Akousma Montreal
Biggest musical losses of the year: Bernard Parmegiani, Zbigniew Karkowski
Quote from: spiritassembly on December 24, 2013, 06:58:24 PMIancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram | Electronic Music
Good to know. I looked at the Discogs page and can't believe how many releases after 2008, which is when I lost track of what he was doing.
Quote from: spiritassembly on December 24, 2013, 06:58:24 PMConcert of the year: François Bayle + Adrian Moore @ Akousma Montreal
I'd love to hear a review of this. Was it an art installation or purely a performance?
CALIGULA031 - Odessa
POGROM - Degancios suros
HERUKRAT - Anna Karina
UNCODIFIED, WERTHAM - Vindicta I
MACHIMSO - Severe Disconnect
LIGATURE IMPRESSION - Demonstration
CLIMAX DENIAL - Tantra I
UNDER NYLON - Cowen
Sick Seed - Helsingin synagogat 7" - first time i listened to this it was a revelation!
Uncodified & Wertham - Vindicta I CD - raw yet artfully composed. music to gnash teeth to
Function - Incubation 2xLP - pure techno
Kerridge - A Fallen Empire 2xLP - I feel like anyone who enjoys dark ambient/industrial could dig at least parts of this album
Roly Porter - Life Cycle of a Massive Star LP - brilliant, fucking brilliant
Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls 2xLP - favorite of the year
Dajjal "Ur" (tape, Influencing Machine Records)
Amph/Arv & Miljö (12", Järtecknet)
Lustmord "The Word As Power" (2LP, Blackest Ever Black)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds "Push The Sky Away" (LP + 7", Bad Seed Ltd.)
"The Curfew Recordings" (CD, Harbinger Sound)
Secret Apex (tape, Salamanauhat)
Altar Of Flies "Female" (LP, Peripheral Records)
Ke/Hil "Lessons In Brotherly Hate" (tape, Zaetraom)
Trepaneringsritualen "Konung Dómaldr Vid Upsala Hängd" (tape, Merzbild)
Bestial Mouths (LP, Clan Destine Records)
Crime & The City Solution "American Twilight" (LP, Mute)
Drug Age "Dyslexic Action" (4 tape, Second Sleep)
Distel "Puur" (LP + 7", Enfant Terrible)
V/A "Hour Of The Wolf" (CD, Freak Animal Records)
Plus a couple of retrospective releases worth mentioning:
Lustmord "Things That Were" (3LP, Vinyl-on-Demand)
Un-Kommuniti "Black Dwarf Wreckordings '83-'85" (4LP + 7", Vinyl-on-Demand)
Le Syndicat "30 Years Of Excess" (6 tape, Influencing Machine Records)
Quote from: Zeno Marx on December 24, 2013, 08:07:03 PM
Quote from: spiritassembly on December 24, 2013, 06:58:24 PMIancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram | Electronic Music
Good to know. I looked at the Discogs page and can't believe how many releases after 2008, which is when I lost track of what he was doing.
Quote from: spiritassembly on December 24, 2013, 06:58:24 PMConcert of the year: François Bayle + Adrian Moore @ Akousma Montreal
I'd love to hear a review of this. Was it an art installation or purely a performance?
Performance is kind of relative, as the music with these sort of people is always prerecorded, basically multitrack playback with real-time multichannel mixing.
Akousma is an annual festival here, sort of the under-publicised, under-attended (not many more than about 50 people for this concert, a third of whom seemed to be involved with the fest, including Luc Ferrari's widow Brunhild who presented some pieces of her late husband's on another evening), more unruly baby brother of the better-known MUTEK and Elektra festivals, but focused entirely on acousmatic music in more or less the academic tradition, though barbarians have been slipping through the gates in recent years (Daniel Menche and Francisco Lopez last year, for example). There's a more detailed history at http://www.akousma.ca/en/about/ .
The festival is held at Usine C, which is an old factory that has been converted into a high-tech theatre. Perfect venue for this type of sound as the power of the sound system is immense and the reproduction absolutely pristine. This concert was, apart from the first of Bayle's pieces, entirely octophonic. Earlier in the evening there was a presentation of Francis Dhomont's radio documentary and interview with Bayle, which is essential listening and is hopefully circulating online someplace for the interested.
I wasn't previously familiar with Adrian Moore, who is from England and looks like a more mild-mannered Philip Best, but the three pieces he presented were (though very obviously owing a huge debt to GRM in general and Bayle and Parmegiani in particular) really powerful. The usual hyperactive high-end broken up by some astoundingly deep drones and pulses, allowing itself to build up into regular rhythms quite often, and building up into some really intense peaks, the drop-off from which really did induce vertigo a few times.
Bayle did one stereo piece, Les Couleurs de la nuit, which has evolved a bit since it's original version in the early-mid 80's (you can find the 1982 version on CD from Sub Rosa), and a newer octophonic piece I wasn't familiar with, Univers nerveux, dedicated to the memory of Stockhausen. While Les Couleurs is an old favourite and really came to life at rich volume, this second piece just ripped spacetime completely apart and made it abundantly clear that this kind of reproduction is really essential to be able to completely take this music in. So much detail, with an absolutely meticulous attention to the movement of each of hundreds of individual sounds through space and time, such total mastery of the compositional arc.
It's sobering to see the champions of this highly disciplined approach to music and sound gradually dying out (the recent loss of Parmegiani being a case in point... these people aren't getting any younger). But inspiring to see a man in his 80's still pushing forward into new territory, not content to settle into a "style" (this, as far as I am concerned, is the terminal point for any type of music that wants to remain 'living' - as soon as something like that can be pinned on you you're already in danger of becoming a living fossil) and phone it in. In performance Bayle has the same sort of expression of intense, introspective concentration that seems to be common to people who approach what they do with this particular type of rigour and focus. Just at the point of boiling over or exploding but always keeping control, obviously in a mental space far removed from, and seemingly unconscious of, the audience and venue.
Thank you for taking the time. Sounds like a fantastic experience worthy of Bayle's work. Reproduction is certainly key to the electro-acoustic field. I have fantasies of a room full of B&W 801 and 802s with Son Vitesse-Lumière at volume.
David Bowie - The Next Day
FFH - Make Them Understand
Samaan Fieck - Vlad Nab Lol
Function - Incubation
Heinz Hopf - Gothenburg
Iron Lung - White Glove Test
Pissed Jeans - Honeys
Pleasure Bros. - S/T
Puce Mary - Success
James Rushford and Joe Talia - Manhunter
Bizarre Uproar - Perverse Bizarre Humiliation
Quote from: Zeno Marx on December 27, 2013, 09:56:52 PM
Thank you for taking the time. Sounds like a fantastic experience worthy of Bayle's work. Reproduction is certainly key to the electro-acoustic field. I have fantasies of a room full of B&W 801 and 802s with Son Vitesse-Lumière at volume.
You're very welcome. It was an experience I won't forget anytime soon.
These lists are vaguely in order... and subject to change at any time, given that there are still some 2013 releases I haven't listened to (Cirrhus LP will almost certainly make this list) & others I'm sure I forgot to include.
This list does not include reissues, compilations or promos for releases that won't see full release until 2014.
Black/Death/Doom Metal:
Sect Pig Slave Destroyed MLP
Cosmic Church Ylistis 2xLP
Wulkanaz Paúrpura Fræovíbôkôs LP
Sacriphyx The Western Front LP
Radioactive Vomit / Column of Heaven Streams of Disease / Aubade 7"
Antediluvian λόγος 2xLP
Grave Upheaval s/t 2xLP
Prosanctus Inferi Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night LP
Irkallian Oracle Grave Ekstasis CS
Merkstave s/t LP
Ildjarn / Hate Forest Those Once Mighty Fallen 2xLP
Bölzer Aura 12"
Verglas Excommunion 7"
Zemial Nykta DLP
Grave Miasma Odori Sepulcrorum 2xLP
Inquisition Obscure Verses for the Multiverse 2xLP
Fell Voices Regnum Saturni 2xLP
The Ruins of Beverast Blood Vaults 2xLP
Ill Omen Remnant Spheres of Spiritual Equilibrium CS
Mitochondrion Antinumerology 7"
Vasaeleth All Up[roarious Darkness MLP
Circle of Ouroborus The Final Egg LP
Cultes des Ghoules Henbane 2xLP
Clandestine Blaze Harmony of Struggle LP
Noise/Power Electronics/Industrial/Experimental:
Iron Fist of the Sun Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand LP
The Rita / Prurient Women Pissing 7"
Pharmakon Abandon LP
Nyodene D Atop Masada CS
Deterge Deutsche Physik CS box
Slogun I Will Bury You LP
The Rita Escorting 3xLP
The Rita / Caligula 031 Self Shop CS
Machsimo Severe Disconnect CS
Bizarre Uproar Perverse Bizarre Humiliation CS
Pain Nail Magneettinen Kohtalo CS
Âmes Sanglantes Man And His Becoming CS
Coloniser Macaulayism CS
FFH Make Them Understand LP
Will Over Matter Phenomenal Highways LP
Hardcore/Punk/Grind/Crust/Noise Rock:
Brainbombs Disposal of a Dead Body 2xLP
Rectal Hygienics Cold Meat b/w Hoard of Violence 7"
The Body Master, We Perish MLP
The Body Christs, Redeemers DLP
Full of Hell ‎Rudiments of Mutilation LP
Iron Lung White Glove Test LP
Nails Abandon All Life LP
Primitive Man Scorn LP
Other:
Dead Can Dance In Concert 3xLP
Hexvessel Iron Marsh MLP
Romannis Mötte Kozmische LP
Crypt Vapor Panic Night CS
Quote from: spiritassembly on December 27, 2013, 05:18:53 PM
Bayle did one stereo piece, Les Couleurs de la nuit, which has evolved a bit since it's original version in the early-mid 80's (you can find the 1982 version on CD from Sub Rosa), and a newer octophonic piece I wasn't familiar with, Univers nerveux, dedicated to the memory of Stockhausen. While Les Couleurs is an old favourite and really came to life at rich volume, this second piece just ripped spacetime completely apart and made it abundantly clear that this kind of reproduction is really essential to be able to completely take this music in. So much detail, with an absolutely meticulous attention to the movement of each of hundreds of individual sounds through space and time, such total mastery of the compositional arc.
Thanks, a very intriguing "gig" description! I got the Bayle box early this year and even if have been familiar with many of the included pieces, been returning to the box constantly (esp. ~10 first discs), so inspiring stuff.
Regarding the 2013 favorites, lots of stuff still to be heard but Rashad Becker's Traditional Music is probably my #1. Kassel Jaeger's work has been maybe the greatest new discovery. This year didn't listen and buy that much contemporary noises, Vanhala's Lions is an excellent work (perhaps would have been even stronger in its original form? Secret Apex tape is still in the listening queue), as is Amph side of the split with Arv & Miljö. Out of archival releases Solaris soundtrack reissue and Rozmann's Images 3LP were probably my personal highlights. During 2013 spent a lot of time (as well as €€€) with classic (free) jazz, works by Frank Wright, Don Cherry and Alice Coltrane have been particular delights. Although did some quite maniacal and nerdy record hunting, did also my first Bandcamp purchases as well as took a streaming subscription (mainly for office listening).
Edit: need to add also Helm - Silencer, Ranger - Knights of Darkness and Jakob Ullmann - Fremde Zeit Addendum 4.
If we're talking about the year in noise:
My favourite CD was Jaakko Vanhala's 'Here Be Lion's'.
The Wolf Eyes album was good and the various side projects had a strong year in my eyes too (Nate Young solo, Henry & Hazel Slaughter)
Puce Mary's 'Success' lp was excellent.
Kevin Drumm's 'Humid Weather' getting a vinyl press was great - up there with his strongest work.
Skullflower reissues were great to have at last and it was amazing to listen to those records again in a fully mastered form.
Should probably mention Stefan J's 'Eaten Away By Shadow's' CD as well as it seems like a lot of folk slept on that and it was very good.
Pharmakon's 'Abandon' lp was killer. Good to see a noise / PE artist make a semi-breakthrough into the world of 'indie / alternative' music too and without doing a 'Zola Jesus'.
Alberich 'Machine Gun Nest' collection.
Russell Haswell '8 Track' 7" on Ideal.
I did also enjoy the Iron Fist Of The Sun album on Cold Spring.
AX 'Metal Forest' CD comp on Cold Spring.
Cremation Lily 7" on Harbinger Sound and pretty much everything else I heard.
Didn't see much live noise this year, but what I did see was of good quality. Highlights were Kevin Drumm and Russell Haswell at the Mego alldayer in Bexhill. Haswell annihilating an odd crowd of South London Goldsmiths wankers and uptight improv fannies on a Friday night in a Peckham car park. Wolf Eyes at Corsica Studios. Noise fest in Kortrijk, especially Jaakko Vanhala, Grunt and Tommi K.
Adrian Rew - Slot Machine Music CDr (Ergot)
Work/Death - Phone About To Ring LP (Type)
Idea Fire Company - Postcards LP (Swill Radio)
Joseph Hammer & Jason Crumer – Show Em The Door CD (Accidie) (technically released in 2012 but fuck it)
Dave Phillips - Abgrund LP (Second Sleep) (same here, december 2012)
G*Park – Sub 2xCD (23five)
Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs 2xCD (Erstwhile)
Altar Of Flies - Rabbit Hole LP (Järtecknet)
Good Area - Dilettante & No Intention - Debris Music CS (Vitrine)
Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs LP (Harbinger Sound)
Honorable mentions, late late purchases (still need to listen more): Spoils & Relics - Sins Of Omission LP (Harbinger Sound), Astor - Inland LP (Kye), Family Underground - The Dark Light Years LP (Into The Lunar Night).
Reissue of the year: Peter Jefferies - The Last Great Challenge In A Dull World LP (De Stijl)
I don't really pay attention to dates and from what I've bought/traded not everything was released this year and alot of things are still in the "want list", but for me the '13s highlights were Secret Apex Tape, Pharmakon "Abandon" LP, The Rita "Escorting" Box LP and Deterge "Gestation" box.
Not too sure if ALL these were released in 2013 but they were new to me..
Re/releases..
SPLINTERED x2cd...Much needed collection of this underrated uk noise rock act. I'm not sure this has left the top of my CD player. Whenever I file it I end up digging it back out again a day or so later.
small crule party cd boxset..another fine and needed archive set. Like the splintered cd lots of repeated listens.
The German shepards... Music for sick queers Lp /7" ...sleazy ms20 men.
loads of soundtrack re issues this year..too many to mention.
cabaret volitare boxset...nicely executed . I do already own most of the lps and I have to confess I did have a " do I need this moment" still a nice Xmas present to myself.
http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/117850
New..
The shift/hh 10" ...The music jumps of of the speakers with force like no other record I own. Not sure who cut the record but his knows his stuff!!!
Pan records still intrigues me however not ALL is to my liking...some hits and misses for me this year..
Alter of flies has put some damn good records this year and I shall look forward to see what next year brings for him.
It would be Impossible not to mention Jaakko Vanhala. A humble , gentle giant of a man who probable doesn't realise how great he is. If 2013 was owned by anyone then it was him.
Mania / Hal Hutchinson - Wreckage CD
Psychic Rally - Transmission 104.5 1989 - 1995 10CD Box Set
Macronympha - Studio 95 CD
Aaron Dilloway - Modern Jester CD
Peenemünde - II CD
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions CD
Concrete Mascara / Umpio - Concrete Vs Umpio Vs Mascara CD
Bizarre Uproar - Unsafe And Insane CD
Pharmakon - Abandon
personal faves:
Negative Climax (any)
Puce Mary LP
The rita: Escorting Boxset
Drug age: Dyslexic Action
Bizarre uproar: Perverse Bizarre Humiliation
Trepaneringsritualen: any
Candor chasma/Deison: collaboration cd
Quote from: tiny_tove on December 29, 2013, 07:04:02 PM
Trepaneringsritualen: any
Ah yes, the two CD's, totality of death! Great, but also reissues... But not ancient stuff.
Sulphur Aeon - Swallowed by the Ocean's Tide
Beyond - Fatal Power of Death
Ogdru Jahad - I
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Bölzer - Aura
Pain Nail - Magneettinen Kohtalo
The Vomit Arsonist - An Occasion for Death
Satan - Life Sentence
Demonomancy - Throne Of Demonic Proselytism
Prosanctus Inferi - Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night
Cauchemar - Tenebrario
Acherontas - Amenti
Krypts - Unending Degradation
Steel Hook Prostheses - The Empirics Guild
Cult of Fire - मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान LP
Veneror - Percussimus Foedus Cum Morte LP
Lycus - Tempest LP
Secret Apex tape
Trepanation - Hideous Black Abyss
Bones - demo (Belgian Death Metal band)
Nyodene D - Atop Masada
Satanachist - Crown of the Black Sun & split with Spear of Longinus
Pentacle/Mortem 7"
Nexul - Nexulzifer 7"
Necroblood - Second Blood 7"
Ashencult/Mephorash - Opus Serpens 10"
Some others right now come to mind, but might just not make the above list: Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds, Creamface - Cum On Clothes (best lyrics for 2013 definitely are for Dip for Snacks), Clandestine Blaze - Harmony of Struggle, She'ol - Sepulchral Ruins Below The Temple and some other stuff which I'm most probably forgetting right now.
Quote from: Ashmonger on December 30, 2013, 01:24:00 AM
Nexul - Nexulzifer 7"
Forgot about this one... definitely one of my most-spun records this year.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on December 29, 2013, 07:22:52 PM
Quote from: tiny_tove on December 29, 2013, 07:04:02 PM
Trepaneringsritualen: any
Ah yes, the two CD's, totality of death! Great, but also reissues... But not ancient stuff.
I love both the obscure/ritualistic stuff and the more aggressive/vocal oriented stuff... TRP adds a personal touch to the best of the 90's atmospheres (early cmi/tesco).. we want more!
those reissues are essentials, so is the excellent 10"
2013 was all about re-issues again, but i won´t bother to list that. To many. But here is what i remember. No particular order.
Rashad Becker-Traditional Music Of Notional Species Vol. I LP
James Rushford & Joe Talia-Manhunter LP
Graham Lambkin / Jason Lescalleet - Photographs 2xCD
Sewer Election / Frederikke Hoffmeier - Aska LP
Bellows-Reelin' LP
Giuseppe Ielasi, Kassel Jaeger - Parallel / Grayscale LP
Giuseppe Ielasi-Rhetorical Islands CD
Joachim Nordwall-Soul Music LP
Earl Sweatshirt-Doris CD
A$AP Rocky-Long.Live.A$AP CD
Kurt Vile-Wakin On A Pretty Daze 2xLP
Bill Callahan - Dream River LP
Basia Bulat - Tall Tall Shadow LP
Drake-Nothing was the same (Deluxe edetion) CD
Ossler-Stas LP
Håkan-Hellström-Det kommer aldrig va över för mig LP
Haim-Days are gone 2xLP
Kanye West-Yeezus LP
The Weeknd-Kiss Land CD
The National-Trouble Will Find Me CD
Best label: Musica Moderna
Arrowwood - Beautiful Grave
Bad Influence - Preaching to the Perverted
Clock DVA - Post-Sign
Christoph Heemann - Time and Again
Dajjal - Ur
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose
Haus Arafna - All I Can Give
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Lotus Fucker - Forever My Fighting Spirit
Lustmord - The Word As Power
Sacrilege NY - Thoughts are the Dreams Til Their Effects are Tried
considered:
Autopsy - The Headless Ritual
Brume - In Heaven
G*Park – Sub
Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum
Krypts - Unending Degradation
Sea Bastard - Scabrous
Sete Star Sept - Visceral Tavern
haven't heard yet:
Brainbombs - Disposal of a Dead Body
Fire + Ice - Fractured Man
Fushitsusha - Mada atatakaiuchino Konoimani Subetenonazowo sosogikomou
Fushitsusha - Namaewo Tsukenaide Hoshii Namaewotsuketeshimauto Subetede Nakunatte Shimaukara
Slogun - I Will Bury You
Sturmpercht - Alpengluhen
Sturmpercht - Bergentruckt
The Rita - Escorting 3LP
Vastum - Patricidal Lust
Bastard Noise/Lack of Interest
Late entry:
WEREWOLF JERUSALEM - Curse of the Crimson Altar
RAMRAIDING THEE ABYSS -- GREY WOLVES / WERTHAM /SURVIVAL INSTINCT LP
Haus Arafna "All I Can Give" 7" EP
Trepaneringsritualen – Judas Goat 7" EP
Altar of Flies - Rabbit Hole - LP
Iron Fist of he Sun - Sulphur Bloodlines 12" - nobody's mentioned this, but I thought it was far better than "Who will wash my right hand".
Croatian Amor - Mercure 7"
FFH - Make Them Understand L.P.
Pogrom - Degancios Suros Tape - for some reason I've been playing this a fair bit. Much morseso than "Multicultural Degeneration".
Bruce Gilbert and BAW - Diluvial CD - some quite excellent dark ambience on this.
That's probably the top five, though it's worth mentioning the 2013 releases by Pain Nail, Ke/Hil, The Rita/ Purient, Trepaneringsritualen, and - for another mood - Darkwood, as the next five...
Lebensfaden - DESNOS
Parijna - The Age Of Scentless Imperilment
Artist: Deterge - Live & Recordings (you may not know of this project or you may know everything about it but after you see it live you will not forget what you have witnessed.)
Metal : Nyogthaeblisz - from split with Goatpenis & Live
Album: The Vomit Arsonist - An Occasion For Death (Malignant) (American pure death industrial)
Tape: Mania - Grim Conditions (Freak Animal) most frequently listened to
Pieces (White Centipede Noise)
Strangled Cop Summer Scum 2013 (Self-Released)
Vinyl: The Rita - Escorting (& favorite collaboration being the collab with Concern)
Compilation: Summer Scum 2013 (easy answer, I would assume this tape is overlooked and it's an incredibly good listen)
Reissue / Retrospective : Le Syndicat – 30 Years Of Excess (Influencing Machine)
Live: Death In June, Cut Hands , Vasculae (from recent westcoast tour) Ahlzagailzehguh (from summer scum, absolutely mind blowing after watching live actions for 3 days in a row: control, focus & precision and loud volume)
Label: Skeleton Dust
Wasn't supposed to make a list but since I already had pretty much complete list on my computer, I thought why not to publish it.
Noise album of 2013:
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions
The sound quality, the mixing, the compositions. Everything flows in perfectly and the puzzle is complete. There's nothing to add. Jaakko Vanhala hasn't been praised for nothing. He's truly a master of harsh noise!
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/vanhalanoise)
Bandcamp (http://www.salamanauhat.bandcamp.com/album/here-be-lions)
Noise EP of 2013:
Secret Apex - Secret Apex
Just couple months after the monumental "Here Be Lions" album Vanhala offered us another groundbreaking masterpiece by the name of Secret Apex. The apex might be secret but Vanhala's outstanding skill to create simply some of the best noise of all time is definitely not a secret. This man rules!
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/vanhalanoise)
Bandcamp (http://www.salamanauhat.bandcamp.com/album/secret-apex)
Black metal album of 2013:
Carpe Noctem - In Terra Profugus
Speechless...
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/carpenoctemiceland)
Bandcamp (http://www.carpenoctem.bandcamp.com/album/in-terra-profugus)
Black metal EP of 2013:
Devouring Star - Demo 2013
As a huge fan of recent DsO albums, I can't but praise this recording. It might sound a tad too similar but since the material of this quality is so hard to find, I don't mind a few copycats. As long as they are making good job, I can't see no harm in it. Asked about physical release and the band told me there might be one in the future so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Promising band nevertheless!
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/DevouringStar)
Bandcamp (http://www.devouringstar.bandcamp.com)
Death metal album of 2013:
Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
For me personally this is what perfect death metal album sounds like. Fine mixture between black and death metal with slight touch of noise and even some proge and jazz thrown in the mix. All that combined with smooth track flow and the feeling of unity and I think we have ourselves a masterpiece!
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AbyssalUK)
Bandcamp (http://www.abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/album/novit-enim-dominus-qui-sunt-eius)
Death metal EP of 2013:
Bölzer - Aura
Wow, what a surprise... Anyway, judging by their demo and this new EP, their debut is going to KILL!
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/B%C3%96LZER/108657105834227)
Bandcamp (http://www.http://ironboneheadproductions.bandcamp.com/album/b-lzer-aura)
2nd place:
Noise:
Amph - Polar / Mongol or Pogrom - Degancios Suros (simply too hard to decide)
LR - The Fragility Of Happiness
BM:
Cultes Des Ghoules - Henbane with Clandestine Blaze - Harmony Of Struggle and Celestial Bloodshed - Omega close behind
Ondfødt - I (seriously, check this band out! Here's their Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/Ondfodt666))
DM:
Irkallian Oracle - Grave Ekstasis with Portal - Vexovoid close behind (this album felt somehow too short)
Mitochondrion - Antinumerology or Malthusian - Demo MMXIII (simply too hard to decide)
Honorably mentions have been mentioned multiple times in this thread so no need to list them...
Didn't listen a lot of other genres in the past year so decided to leave them out of my list. In 2012 we had GY!BE and Swans so it's hard to compete with that. This year we're going to get a new ASMZ album but I already listened the leaked version and it didn't sound that amazing to be honest. On the other hand, I'm glad they included one track from the incredibly hard to find 2x7" tour EP.
lp/12"
sewer election / frederikke hoffmeier - aska (ideal) — static coat of dirt on a bank of melting snow. the most frequently played record.
lettera 22 - physical point (holidays) — sublime as always. dope cover/insert artwork. italians do it better.
altar of flies - rabbit hole (järtecknet) — rubber industrial monster on spring-loaded legs. järtecknet = label of the year (again), all releases were extremely not bad.
damien dubrovnik - first burning attraction (alter) — bitches brew.
london sound survey - these are the good times (vittelli) — unprocessed street rawness.
astor - inland (kye) — solo works for prepared toolbox. i was much more enthusiastic about lambkin's kye imprint back in 2011/12. but can't say anything bad about astor's 2nd take. sounds dry, but in a good way.
abdulla rashim / svreca - bondegatan (semantica) — 'industrial techno' at its best.
tape
áspa - 1 (self-released) — budapest internal affairs. i'm happy like a little girl to have a copy.
blodvite - falskt spektrum (järtecknet) — viktor's proper magnetisk bandmanipulation. love the start.
lr - the fragility of happiness (posh isolation) — a supplement for d.dubrovnik lp.
cremation lily t-shirt (strange rules) — pretty nice t-shirt.
va venice of the north (unik eld) — group portrait of stockholm underground youth.
cd
ethnic minority music of southern china (sublime frequencies) — 'cause i'm a fan of laurent jeanneau's kink
gong cd-r label. i just love it.
motion picture
"leviathan" by lucien castaing-taylor / verena paravel (2012 release, actually)
"a field in england" by ben wheatley
Quote from: Scat-O-Logy on January 16, 2014, 02:19:58 AM
Noise album of 2013:
Jaakko Vanhala - Here Be Lions
The sound quality, the mixing, the compositions. Everything flows in perfectly and the puzzle is complete. There's nothing to add. Jaakko Vanhala hasn't been praised for nothing. He's truly a master of harsh noise!
Truly excellent.
Clock DVA - Post-Sign
Would have definitely been on the top list if I'd remembered it was from 2013. I thought it was a year older.