Best Albums of 2011: January-June

So it's been 6 months now. Which to all you stupid people, that's half a year. Since I decided to be a plagiarist, I copied most metal sites out there and decided to choose a few records of 2011 that just so happen to be amazing. You, the person reading this. (if you continue to read this, of course) either care about my opinion or not. So, here they are. My best albums of 2011 so far.

INDIAN- Guiltless


 This album over all is amazing. It has more than I could ever ask for in a doomy sludgy metal band. What with how it drones you into the music. It's just an album you cannot afford NOT to listen to. The album art is sick. The songs are sick. The dudes are sick. What more could any of you obviously want? If you really want your moneys worth, buy this. You wont ever regret it.

Exhumed- All Guts No Glory

"Exhumed? Those Death Grind legends? What? New album? Well is it amazing?" OF COURSE IT'S AMAZING! IT'S FUCKING EXHUMED GUYS! I have five simple words to say guys.....
Best album of 2011?

Morbid Angel- Illud Divinum Insanus

Just kidding!!!!!! That album fucking sucks.

Northless- Clandestine Abuse


This album may not be my number one this year so far, but damn. It's up there. with killer sludge tracks that make me want to bash my face into a sledgehammer, this album was over all great. I give the dudes in the band props for making an album this awesome.

Baring Teeth- Atrophy
This has got to be my favorite willowtip release of all time. Baring Teeth's debut album Atrophy is and album I've been looking for since the dawn of my metal head existence. If this is only the beginning of Baring Teeth, I wonder what will come next....

Weekend Nachos- Worthless


With a band name that awesome you know damn well it'd be a good album. Weekend Nachos' 2011 release Worthless is worthy of all the credit I can give. I've listened to the album far too many times to count. I blame my obsession over relapse bands for my love for Weekend Nachos. Oh I also blame them. For making kick-ass music. And because I need someone else to blame.

Neuraxis- Asylon
Ever listened to Neuraxis? The feeling is like cramming my head into a microwave filled with zombie flesh eating Koalas. Amazing. But highly brutal. Melodic Death Metal band Neuraxis obviously know how to put out one hell of an album.
















Well everyone, there you go. I hope you all go out and purchase these releases rather than download. It's a shame no one knows how to support a label these days. Speaking of which. Thank all the labels (Relapse, Halo of Flies, Willowtip, Prosthetic) for giving all the bands listed an oppourtunity to put these out. And of course, don't forget to thank all the bands (INDIAN, Exhumed, Northless, Weekend Nachos, Neuraxis, Baring Teeth) for putting out such amazing albums.
Thanks all! The next time we'll see one of these will be in January. Until then keep supporting the site!


                                                                        -David

Album Review: INDIAN's Guiltless

On April 12th, those Doomy-ass dudes INDIAN released their new album "Guitless". On April 15th, this Doomy-ass dudes- liking dude bought it on Limited Edition Vinyl at Inherent Records in Cleveland, TN (thanks to Logan Chitwood for loaning this poor little man the cash to buy it. Your welcome for paying you the next day).This is an album I've been dying to review, and wow. All I can actually say is wow.

The album opens up with the instant face crusher No Grace, that, like expected, turns into a doomy, grinding, destructive killer. It begins with a decent paced intro and verse, till' it just pulls down to the slow, catchy doom riffs I love INDIAN for. As the song shifts to a rhythmic outtro, it has a somewhat sketchy riff playing untill the song fades, beginning track two. Track two is The Fate Before The Fate, which opens up as a beautiful masterpiece that just spreads the atmosphere of the song around you. 4:53 minutes pass, and we hit the title track, GUILTLESS. with the instantly crushing piece of action, it opens up where it should have. It has straight-forward heavy riffs and lots of slow doom for you kiddies to enjoy.  You can just feel the anger in the song pierce your ears and slash ten-thousand chains across your instantly morbid looking face. It's quite the miasma, my friends.

We hit the next track, Guilty (what a twist!) as it opens up with a strange screetchy sound and hits the malignant vocals of Dylan O' Toole and Will Lindsay.  As you hear them scream "Guilty" and "Guiltless" over and over again, you just have a sinking feeling, like your getting sucked into an abysall of the anguished song. It holds enough power for those who really get into the music (and for those who really get into the amphetamines. Ha!). The next song, The End of Truth, begins as you hear a distorted whisper sweeping through your ears, as the intro gets near, and attacks you like an untamed beast craving your tender flesh. With more powerful vocals, intense atmosphere, catchy riffs, and drums your little chopstick- box hitting friends would just love to air-drum to, INDIAN once again rips apart my face in this song. We hit track six, Supplicants, which starts off as a beautiful disaster of acoustic melody, distorted withering sounds in the background, and an intense feeling to leave you with along the way of it's departure. The album closes with the 9 minute doomsterpiece, Banality, which, needless to say, builds up the whole album's benefits and multiplies them by an infinite supply of numbers.  You literally cannot do nothing but listen once you reach the song.  It's just amazing, overall. It leaves you with echoes of screams and slowed riffs, which give you the sense of an apparition creeping up on you and slithering up your back.
To conclude this. The album is overall something I can definitely listen to every day, leaving me with a piece of the album I find new everytime I listen.

Metal in Ruins rates the album a 9 out of 10 stars

Without Further or DUE: Guiltless, BTBAM, Red Fang, and more!

Indian's new album came out today! YES!!!!! anywho, check out the other great albums that came out so far...

Annihilation Time - II (Tankcrimes)
A.N.S./Ramming Speed - A.N.S./Ramming Speed Split (Tankcrimes)
Believer - Transhuman (Metal Blade)
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP (Metal Blade)
Capsule - No Ghost (Rorschach)
Conflicted - Never Be Tamed (Nightmare)
Cypherseer - Origins (Nightmare)
Flame - March Into Firelands (Hells Headbangers)
Indian - Guiltless (Relapse)
Kicker - Innit (Tankcrimes)
Last Chance To Reason - Level 2 (Prosthetic)
Pentagram - Last Rites (Metal Blade)
Ravencult - Morbid Blood (Hells Headbangers)
Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Relapse)
Summon The Crows - One More For The Gallows (Southern Lord)
Too Late The Hero - Statement Of Purpose (Rethink/The End)
Victims - A Dissident (Tankcrimes)
Winter - Into Darkness Re-Release (Southern Lord)