Kingdom of Noise

After spending most days listening to sludge, doom, black metal and variations thereof, the exuberance of a band like 96 is a welcome k...

It never ceases to amaze me how much metal talent there is between these Canadian borders. From the Diminished Fifth roster in the East...

From the first time I heard BURN from Toronto's Titan I knew it was going to be my Album of the Year. Sometimes when you hear an alb...

No album had the kind of widespread impact on the metal community as Pallbearer's Sorrow & Extinction . Fawned over by critics a...

The circustances regarding the release of Woods 5 are most tragic. Mastermind and frontman David Gold was killed in a traffic accident ...

In 2011, Krallice took home top honours of my AOTY list with their album Diotima . Krallice came right back with their self-released Yea...

One of my biggest regrets in life was not going to see Bison BC play a living room show on my 30th birthday. Okay, maybe not but that wo...

Whenever I listen to Ash Borer there is only one thing I want to do, and that is nothing. I just want to be. And let the sound wash over...

It's fucking High On Fire. Theses guys could put out an album of themselves chewing their Corn Flakes and it would be awesome. It...

I really should not have to explain why Cattle Decapitation's Monolith of Inhumanity is worthy of making #8 on this list. Monolith ...

This San Francisco group came out of virtually nowhere to captivate me almost beyond words. I tried to put my thoughts about Bosse-De-Na...

I'm not sure what more I can say about Vilipend's full length debut, Inamorata . I reviewed the album here . (Probably my be...

At first I thought Winnipeg was an unlikely place to find an atmospheric black metal band. But upon further reflection it actually could...

There's just something about OM that appeals to me on a deep level. Since their debut, Variations on a Theme they've kept me en...

Adam Bartlett and his company, Gilead Media have been unearthing some of underground metal's best bands and bringing them to the...

Few albums released in 2012 were as sonically crushing as Black Sheep Wall's No Matter Where It Ends . Downright filthy tone and v...

Paroxsihzem's self-titled debut tops the list of Grade "A" releases from Dark Descent in 2012. This heavily blackened de...

Gaza's No Absolutes in Human Suffering is like a two-fisted slam to the sternum. It will take your breath away by force and bring...

I don't expect to take any heat for putting Pilgrim's Misery Wizard so high on my list but, I don't recall seeing it on an...

Everyone's favourite party thrashers Municipal Waste brought the fun to 2012 with The Fatal Feast . A (loose) concept album about a...

Yet another debut full length makes the list in the form of Empyrean from Mutilation Rites. This is one seriously vicious album of de...

Amenra's Mass V is a dark and atmospheric piece of music. The haunting vocals will rip your heart out of your chest. To really un...

 2012 saw not one, but two releases from Italy's psychedelic doomsters Ufomammut. Opus Primum and Opus Alter make up ORO, a spraw...

Like Horisont, this was another one of those releases in which I had heard some trusted sources raving about it and gave it a shot. I ...

I listen to a lot of music. Not enough, but a lot. But inevitably there is going to be a huge number of albums that for one reason or anot...

It's Cannibal fucking Corpse. Justification done. Fine, I'll write more. No one reading this can deny that Cannibal Corpse are...

I told you Witchcraft weren't my highest ranking Swedish retro-rockers this year! Horisont are a band I was unaware of prior to th...

My relationship with Meshuggah is on again, off again.  I loved Chaosphere , but couldn't even make it through obZen . Other album...

I don't think anyone was more surprised that I liked Helvetios more than me. Let alone that it would end up in my Top 25. In gene...

Two tracks. Too good. Reverence to Stone from doomsters Samothrace is an incredibly powerful and transformative album. It's hea...