Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Top 13 of '13 (so far...a mid years fart to giving a shit)

As I sit here drinking a friends homebrew I'm reminded of the amazing efforts produced thus far by this years metal offerings. This year is all but half way over and there has been an outstanding number of stand out releases so far. Although I have quite the back log of albums in wait, the following list is of my favorite so far over the first 6 months... i hope you enjoy (and purchase) these albums! 













Sunday, April 7, 2013

Gukurahundi- An Apparition In Nocturnal Splendor (2013)


Gukurahundi
'An Apparition In Nocturnal Splendor'
Year: 2013
Genre: Blackened Death Metal

1. An Apparition In Nocturnal Splendor
2. Dethroned
3. The Anarchist 
4. Sombre Dreams To Gaze Upon
5. The Carcass Of Christ


All links supplied by the band, please take the time to give them a 'like' on Facebook. These guys sound fucking incredible and deserve a listen!!!

Monday, March 4, 2013

Sore Implanted- Promo 2013


Sore Implanted
Promo 2013
From- Germany
Genre- Death Metal

So these guys just dropped me an email containing 2 vicious tracks that really grabbed my attention right away. Sore Implanted hails from Germany and plays an aggressive semi-slamming style of brutal death metal with a grinding edge. This is a promising demo that is worth your time. Check it out and give these guys a 'like' on Facebook.

(link posted with the bands permission)

Friday, March 1, 2013

Gukurahundi

Gukurahundi
Genre- Black Metal


These guys just uploaded 2 songs from their upcoming free EP titled 'An Apparition In Nocturnal Splendor'. Check these 2 songs out now, I really think these guys are going to make some noise this year. I'll try to post the Apparition EP when its available.


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Forced- Accursed Share (2012)



Forced
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Title: Accursed Share
Release Date: June, 2012

Track Listing:
1. Accursed Share
2. At Empire's End
3. Lost Life
4. Devours Everything 
5. Partitioning the Sensible

"Our sound can be described as a riff heavy doom-laden blend of black metal and really fucking pissed off hardcore, with a tendency from time to time to drop tempo into slower paced death metal.  We hail from Brooklyn NY and all grew up in and around the NYHC scene playing in bands and going to shows.  While our sound is as metal as it comes, we carry our selves like the hardcore bands we grew up digging, that is DIY and pissed as fuck!  FFO:  craft, converge, hooded menace, vastum, mamothgrinder, deathwish bands, etc"



Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Munk's Top 66(6) of 2012, Part 4, 29-1 (been super lazy edition)

Here we are about to wrap up the first full month of 2013 and my fat ass is still dwelling in the past choking on every one else's grimy blogging dust. Alright, no news flash! I'm a lazy piece of shit, but if JGD can get back into the swing of things I guess I could at least give my much shittier blog the good old didn't-make-it-though-2-weeks-of-college try. Its quite sad because I really thought I had my shit together there for a minute. Before I can even pretend to begin posting new shit I felt obligated to finish the massive undertaking I set out on about a month ago. Note to self, don't ever try to compile a list of your 66 favorite albums for this (or any) blog ever again. Here is the 'lazy edition' of the second half of my Top 66(6) of 2012 list. This, by the way, is the final nail in 2012's coffin. This is me dotting the i's and crossing the inverted t's on what was the most shitty year ov my puny life. Personal life, handcuffs and all the other whiney bullshit aside, 2012 was an absolutely amazing year for music, fuck what you say. If I had the patience and time this list could have easily been twice as long and I still wouldnt have mentioned every good album that was spun in my pathetic one bedroom dumpster of an apartment during the last year. Comment this list if you'd like but honestly I dont give a fuck if you didn't think Kentucky was the shit... I may have spun 'The Chills' in its entirety much more than I did 'Kentucky' but honestly I listened to 'Bodies Under The Falls' like a professional fucking mad man.. Far too many times for me to count honestly during the last half of the past year and that was reason enough for me to give it the top spot. More vomits soon, hopefully... 


1. Panopticon- Kentucky
Genre- Atmospheric Folk Black Metal


2. Horrendous- The Chills
Genre- Death Metal


3. Indesinence- Vessels of Light and Decay
Genre- Doom/Death


4. Mutilation Rites- Devoid/I Am Legion
Genre- Blackened 


5. Enabler- All Hail The Void
Genre- Hardcore/Thrash


6. Troglodyte- Don't Go In To The Woods
Genre- Death Metal


7. Drawn and Quartered- Feeding Hells Furnace
Genre- Death Metal


8. Cannibal Corpse- Torture 
Genre- Death Metal


9. Necrovation
Genre- Death Metal


10. Horrizon- Time For Revenge
Genre- Epic Death Metal


11. Angel Witch- As Above So Below
Genre- Heavy Metal


12. Maveth- Coils of the Black Earth
Genre- Blackened Death


13. Homewrecker- Worms and Dirt
Genre- Hardcore


14. Necroven- Worship of Humiliation 
Genre- Death Metal


15. Evoken- Atra Mors
Genre- Doom/Death


16. Entrapment- The Obscurity Within
Genre- Death Metal


17. Cattle Decapitation- Monolith of Inhumanity 
Genre- Tech Death/Grind


18. Putrevore- Macabre Kingdom
Genre- Death/Grind



19. Kalopsia
Genre- Death Metal



20. Murder Construct- Results
Genre- Death/Grind



21. Wodensthrone- Curse
Genre- Folk Black Metal



22. Unleashed- Odalheim
Genre- Death Metal



23. Deathspell Omega- Drought 
Genre- Blackened Death Metal



24. Binah- Hallucinating In Resurecture 
Genre- Death Metal/Doom



25. Krallice- Years Past Matter
Genre- Atmospheric Black Metal



26. Serpentine Path
Genre- Death Metal/Doom



27. Skogen- Eld
Genre- Folk Black Metal


28. Ragnarok- Malediction 
Genre- Blackened Death Metal



29. Dying Fetus- Reign Supreme 
Genre- Tech Brutal Death Metal





Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Munk's Top 66(6) of 2012, Part 3, 39-30



30. Agalloch- Faustian Echoes  
Release Date- June 26th 2012
Genre- Atmospheric Folk/Black Metal
From- Oregon, USA
Label- Dammerung Arts



31. Rings of Saturn- Dingir 
Release Date- October 28th 2012
Genre- Technical Death Metal
From- CA, USA
Label- Unique Leader Records



32. Urlog- Vernichtung
Release Date- February 2012
Genre- Black Metal
From- Germany
Label- Sturmglanz Black Metal Manufaktur



33. Windfaerer- Solar
Release Date- July 10th 2012
Genre- Black Metal
From- NJ, USA
Label- none



34. Agruss- Morok 
Release Date- April 26th 2012
Genre- Black/Death Metal
From- Ukraine 
Label- Code666 Records



35. Sepulcral- Anthropophagy of Doom
Release Date- April 2012
Genre- Death/Doom
From- Italy 
Label- Razorback Records



36. Somrak- The Blackwinged Serpent Crowned  
Release Date- ??? 2012
Genre- Black Metal
From- Slovenia 
Label- Necroterror Records



37. Winterfylleth- The Threnody of Triumph 
Release Date- Sept 10th 2012
Genre- Folk/Black Metal
From- Manchester, UK
Label- Candlelight Records



38. Asphyx- Deathhammer
Release Date- Feb 27th 2012
Genre- Death/Doom
From- Netherlands
Label- Century Media



39. Cryptopsy- Cryptopsy 
Release Date- Sept 11th 2012
Genre- Technical Death Metal
From- Canada
Label- Century Media