Amsvartner - The Trollish Mirror EP

I randomly bought this off of Amazon for less than
one dollar one say day, and I was quite pleasantly
surprised when I received it. Basically, this is a Black Metal
CD, but with much more accelerated musicianship, which is
impressive, seeing as how the musician's were averaging about
the age of 16 (I believe) when this was recorded back in 1996-97's
So yeah, it's good, and the first song always gets stuck in my head..

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Mayhem - Live In Leipzig

This is probably one of the most infamous black metal cd's
of all time, solely because it features one of the most infamous
black metal vocalist's of all time, this being one of the very
few recordings featuring Dead on vocals before he blew his brains
out with a shotgun.... but that's another story, look it
up on Wikipedia or something. Anyway, this is a recording of
a live show Mayhem did in Leipzig, Germany circa 1990.
It's definitely very raw, but features a wonderful collection
of Mayhem's early (and best) songs.

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Misery Index - Retailiate

Death metal/Grindcore. This band features some
ex-members of Dying Fetus, and rip's through these songs
in a similar ultra-fast and punishing way.

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Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols (In Conspiracy with Satan)

This CD is just ridiculously awesome. It's so intense and
evil, especially the absolutely terrifying and insane (and often distorted)
vocals. This cd was written mostly by members of the band
other than Infernus, who is the usual composer, which definitely makes
it a tad bit different then most of their other music, but still as equally
great. You definitely want to hear this

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Protestant - The Hate, The Hollow

Raging, Crusty Hardcore/Punk from Milwaukee, WI.
One of the best bands in the state right now, and their
guitarist always does really amazing artwork for the band, and
other bands related, like Northless.

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Neurosis - Times of Grace

Heavy as fuck Sludge/Post-metal. One of the pioneers
of this style of music, and they do it beautifully. Also, I guess
if you play this cd at the exact same time as the Tribes of Neurot
cd released at the same time, they sync up, which is cool I guess,
if you can figure out how to do that....

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Veil of Maya - All Things Set Aside

This is Veil of Maya's first CD, and it is their best by a long shot.
It's much rawer, and real sounding, and I liked this vocalist better,
and its actually a Death Metal cd, not the trend-y metal they're
playing now.

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