TOO SOON? SATAN ROSENBLOOM’S BEST OF 2011… SO FAR
Take this with a salt factory’s worth of grains of salt, because there are probably about fifty albums I have stored on my hard drive, waiting to evaluate, and there are many dozens of worthy contenders that I may never hear until it’s too late. But here are 40 albums from the first half of 2011 that’ve knocked my moocow slippers off so far:
American Heritage – Sedentary (Translation Loss)
Aosoth – III – (Agonia Records)
Baring Teeth – Atrophy (Willowtip)
Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Sect(s) (Debemur Morti Productions)
Cruxifiction – The Coming (De Tenebrarum Principio)
Dark Castle – Surrender To All Life Beyond Form (Profound Lore)
Denial Fiend – Horror Holocaust (Ibex Moon)
Disma – Towards the Megalith (Profound Lore)
Dornenreich – Flammentriebe (Prophecy Productions)
Drugs of Faith – Corroded (Selfmadegod)
Ed Gein – Bad Luck (Black Market Activities)
Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory (Relapse)
Flourishing – The Sum of All Fossils (The Path Less Traveled)
Fyrnask – Bluostar (Temple of Torturous)
Gigan – Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes (Willowtip)
Goreaphobia – Apocalyptic Necromancy (Dark Descent)
Graf Orlock – Doombox EP (Vitriol)
Grayceon – All We Destroy (Profound Lore)
Haeresiarchs of Dis – In Obsecration of the Seven Darks (Moribund)
Hate Eternal – Phoenix Amongst the Ashes (Metal Blade)
Helm’s Alee – Weatherhead (Hydra Head)
Indian – Guiltless (Relapse)
Infestus – E x i s t (Debemur Morti Productions)
Liturgy – Aesthetica (Thrill Jockey)
Nader Sadek – In the Flesh (Season of Mist)
Obsequiae – Suspended in the Brume of Eos (Bindrune)
Obscura – Omnivium (Relapse)
Pale Chalice – Afflicting the Dichotomy of Trepid Creation (Flenser)
Planks – The Darkest of Grays/Solicit to Fall (Southern Lord)
Pyrrhon – An Excellent Servant But a Terrible Master (Selfmadegod)
Revocation – Chaos of Forms (Relapse)
Seidr – For Winter FIre (Flenser)
Shraphead – Blind and Seduced (Metalville)
Svart Crown – Witnessing the Fall (Listenable)
Today is the Day – Pain is a Warning (Black Market Activities)
Tombs – Path of Totality (Relapse)
True Widow – As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth (Kemado)
Vastum – Carnal Law (20 Buck Spin)
Whitehorse – Progression (At a Loss Recordings)
Witchrist – Beheaded Ouroboros (Invictus Productions)
-SR
