Skogen - I Doden

Genre: Black
Country: Sweden
Year: 2014


1. Vargher
2. I Döden
3. När Himlen Svartnar
4. Solarvore
5. Livets Ruin
6. Griftenatt
7. Midvintergraven
8. Svartskogen
9. Sleep

4th album by Skogen. A totally atmospheric release with long songs (most of the songs last around 7 minutes), with black and clean vocals and mostly mid-paced rhythms. A great, epic work, full of melodies, that will perfectly accompany this year's winter!

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Slow Mover - Move Slower

Genre: Stoner/Sludge/Hardcore
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014


1. Home
2. Crane Collapse
3. SFCA
4. Chainsaw Crew
5. Spirit Monster
6. Bomb Shelter Eviction
7. I Am (Also) A Dog

Debut album by Slow Mover. The group offers us a great blend of stoner/sludge with a lot of elements of punk/hardcore. Variety in tempos, nice guitarwork and great vocal attack! For sure a promising debut and a guitar-driven release that brings in my mind Red Fang in a more hardcore-ish mood.

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Dawn Of A Dark Age - The Six Elements, vol.1 Earth

Genre: Black
Country: Italy
Year: 2014


1. Cold Winter
2. The Last Prayer
3. Raped Earth
4. Eurynomos Army
5. Dawn Of A Dark Age
6. Outro n. 1

Debut album by Dawn Of A Dark Age. The italian duo delivers a pretty interesting version of black metal, pessimistic, dark, atmospheric. Music instruments such as saxophones, piano, keyboards, clarinet are present, giving that way a more avant-garde and folk feeling. Pretty ambitious release and promising, too.

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Misfits - Earth A.D. (The Cvlt Nation Sessions)

Genre: Crust/Punk/Hardcore
Country: Various
Year: 2014

1. Earth A.D. (Woes)
2. Queen Wasp (Drug Lust)
3. Devilock (Xaphan)
4. Death Comes Ripping (Kata Sarka)
5. Green Hell (We Are The Damned)
6. Wolfs Blood (Volatile Substance)
7. Demonomania (Flesh Temple)
8. Bloodfeast (Baptists)
9. Hellhound (Disfits)
10. Die Die My Darling (Disfits)

A compilation formed by Cvlt Nation and that contains covers of the Misfits' Earth A.D. album. The groups managed to deliver their own version of this album and you are going find a lot of interesting versions and different genres here.  

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Kataxnia - Kataxnia

Genre: Crust/Hardcore/Punk
Country: Greece
Year: 2014

1. Nekrovatontas
2. Epikindinoi Filoi
3. Epilogos Se Oti Oneireutikes
4. H Anatrixilia Tis Prodosias
5. Foni Braxni
6. Sto Perasma Tou Xronou
7. Skia Sto Selinofos
8. Ksepsixame

Debut album by Kataxnia. This release is a DIY production and managed to grab great reviews and totally positive comments. Dark and melancholic atmosphere, highly energetic riffing and great performance from all the members. For sure one of the best releases of the genre for this year!

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Tankard - R.I.B.

Genre: Thrash
Country: Germany
Year: 2014

1. War Cry
2. Fooled By Your Guts
3. R.I.B. (Rest In Beer)
4. Riders Of The Doom
5. Hope Can't Die
6. No One Hit Wonder
7. Breakfast For Champions
8. Enemy Of Order
9. Clockwise To Deadline
10. The Party Ain't Over 'Til We Say So

16th album by Tankard. Having the heavy metal touch their latest releases have, the party boys make their sound even more addictive. Darker than ever, they offer 40 minutes of melodic thrash pleasure. The production is clean and clear. 

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Sodom & Hirax - Split 7''

Genre: Thrash
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014



Sodom:
1. Water Boarding

Hirax:
2. Hellion Rising

2-song split 'ep by Hirax and Sodom. Only 1000 numbered 7 inch vinyl copies made for the 30th anniversary of SPV. Sodom's track can be found in the limited edition of 'Epitome of Torture' album. Hirax's song released in 2013 as a single. 

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Cross Examination - Dawn Of The Dude 'Ep

Genre: Thrash/Crossover
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014


1. Wake Up Call (intro)
2. Opposite Day
3. Ritual Snackrifice
4. Hail To The Jeef
5. Subterranean Thrash Assault
6. The Blutocalypse
7. The Dawn Of The Dude

This is the 2nd 'ep by Cross Examination. 6 years after their devastating debut album 'Menace II Sobriety', these guys are back and ready to rumble!! 7 new songs clocking around 13 minutes of shredding crossover/thrash, spitting lyrics around, thrashing with some spoken samples thrown in to take a breath! A pleasant surprise that came out of nowhere!

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Pripjat - Sons Of Tschernobyl

Genre: Thrash
Country: Germany
Year: 2014

1. Nuclear Chainsaw
2. Liquidators
3. Acid Rain
4. Born To Hate
5. Snitches Get Stitches
6. Red Disease
7. Destruction Manifesto
8. Toxic
9. Sons Of Tchernobyl
10. Ликвидаторы

Debut album by Pripjat. The quartet managed to combine the structure of Kreator and the playing of Slayer and the result is 40 minutes of a thrash holocaust that requires repeats! Aggressive and fast tempos, clever solos, yelling vocals and lyrics about nuclear destruction and post-apocalyptic situations!

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Abaddon Incarnate - Pessimist

Genre: Grindcore
Country: Ireland
Year: 2014

1. Pessimist
2. Aborted Genesis
3. Yester Hara
4. Warping The Necro Spawn
5. Broken Spectre
6. Fear
7. Impaled Upon Your Zodiac
8. Prison Of Introspection
9. Nameless Grave
10. Morbid Epiphany
11. Solstice Of Homicide
12. Undead Outcasts
13. Funeral Hag
14. Summoning Famine-Inherit An Empty World

5th album by Abaddon Incarnate, 5 years after their last one. This long-run group, formed back in 1994, is offering us 36 minutes of brutal grindcore with a lot of death/black elements. Raw and rough production, chaotic rhythms and some punk/hardcore moments, too. 

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Saor - Aura

Genre: Atm.Black/Folk
Country: Scotland
Year: 2014



1. Children Of The Mist
2. Aura
3. The Awakening
4. Farewell
5. Pillars Of The Earth

2nd album by Saor, following the successful debut 'Roots'. Andy Marshall, the man behind this group, is offering us melodic yet aggressive and brutal black metal of high quality. Brilliant use of folk instruments without being cheesy or mainstream.

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Master's Hammer - Vagus Vetus

Genre: Exp.Black
Country: Czech Rep.
Year: 2014

1. αιολος I.
2. Xmz
3. Panuška
4. V Aiolských Harfách
5. Chrchel
6. Receptura
7. Špacírka
8. Na Kanibalských Jatkách
9. Beedi
0. Zvířecí Zvuky
11. Prďák
12. Pod Vrstvou Prachu
13. Nengemengelengem
14. αιολος II.

6th album by the lunatics Master's Hammer. In their own words: 'An imaginary old wanderer (vagus vetus) squeezes through an alien labyrinth and nothing good is expecting him. Disgusted by progress and modernity of all kinds, he enjoys listening to aeolian harps and sounds of postmortal flatulence. He finds his consolation in hedonic experiences of natural origin. The phraseology of extreme metal, though already pity and worn-out, is here good enough to express the urgency of these topics'. 

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Mayhem - Esoteric warfare

Genre: Black
Country: Norway
Year: 2014

1. Watcher
2. Psywar
3. Trinity
4. Pandaemon
5. Mylab
6. Six Seconds
7. Throne Of Time
8. Corpse Of Care
9. Posthuman
10. Aion Suntalia

5th full-length album by Mayhem, 7 years after their last one, 'Ordo Ad Chao'. The beast is back, fast and furious! High-speed tempos, great drumming and hellish vocals. This album is a fantastic display of progressive black metal, that will satisfy all the fans of the extreme black metal genre.

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Misery Index - The Killing Gods

Genre: Grindcore/Death
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2014

1. Urfaust
2. The Calling
3. The Oath
4. Conjuring The Cull
5. The Harrowing
6. The Killing Gods
7. Cross To Bear
8. Gallows Humor
9. The Weakener
10. Sentinels
11. Colony Collapse
12. Heretic

5th album by Misery Index, 4 years after their last one. More melodies thrown in, and besides the well known death and grindcore elements, some thrashier moments can be found too. Personally, i dig it more, compared to 'Heirs to Thievery'. As the years pass by, the group matures and gets tightier and tightier.

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