Best Death Metal Album of 2008

"Apocalyptic Feasting" by Brain Drill

*****

This is truly a "must-have" for death metal fans and fans of technical metal drumming.  Why?  Well, because of Marco Pitruzzella.  This release is PACKED with gravity blasts, crazy fills, and insane speed.  I also recommend looking him up on youtue. Guitar work is also excellent and in perfect harmony with the drumming--which is the real reason to acquire this album.  Even though it is tough to be innovative in death metal, I believe they have done it.  There are a lot of interesting pieces that cause me to go back while listening to certain songs. Lyrics and vocals are the last and least to mention; it is death metal, and there is nothing new in the way of vocal styling/lyrical content, they do, however, work.  Five stars *****. Go buy.

Moss-"The Tormented"

This 2002 release (and 2006 re release) is Moss' demo cd, and a departure from earlier material.  The first thing that must be said about this tape is the case.  Yes, the case which it is held in. The case is made out of scrap metal shards, nails, and bolts, welded together to make the monstrosity seen above.  Inside the box is the tape and a rolled up paper with band logo, lineup, and recording info. One may purchase the tape through APOP records for $23 US.  APOP give this disclaimer; "[We are] not responsible for any injury that may be incurred from the handling of this release." 

This demo was recorded using a 4 track tape recorder and 3 microphones at St. Deny's Community Hall August 12, 2002 (I'm assuming in England somewhere.) 

This really does sound like it was recorded on three microphones. One can tell that this is no studio album by listening to about five seconds, but I must say that they did clean it up quite a bit in mixing.  Drums (especially snare) do sound muffled and there is much feedback from the guitar, but this is still one of my favorite Moss albums.  This is true doom, and if you want to hear the founding piece of work for one of the most important doom bands ever, listen.  Moss no doubt intended to have the live sound for this demo.  This is what this genre is based on--heavily distorted, downtuned guitars, harsh forbidding drum sounds, and grotesque vocal work. 

The Goal Of This Project...

First and foremost, this is really the best way for me to organize all of my albums in one place by genre and alphabetically.  Right now I have cds spilling out of cases and a lot of music on my computer. So, this is the first step in getting them all together with the ultimate goal being putting everything on the computer (or portable hard drive) and having everything backed up on cd.  

Secondly, with having all of my music in one spot I will have the opportunity to take a look at all of my albums and find those most important to me that I want to share with readers.  I intend to spotlight new albums that drop that I like and bring back old favorites that I keep listening to.

In conclusion, be you a fan of death and black metal or doom or hardcore, I hope that you enjoy this journey through my music collection.  Also, if you are interested in sharing, I can provide my soulseek tag and share whatever you like.

MY MUSIC COLLECTION

BLACK METAL

1349- "Beyond the Apocalypse," "Hellfire," "Liberation"

Arckanum- "Antikosmos," "Fran Marder," "Kampen," "Kostogher"

Avsky- "Malignant," "Mass Destruction"

Belphegor- "The Last Supper," "Blutsabbath," "Necrodaemon Terrorsathan," "Lucifer Incestus," "Pestapokalypse VI," "Bondage Goat Zombie"

Blasphemy- "Fallen Angel of Doom"

Book of Black Earth- "I, II, III"

Cradle of Filth-"Dusk..And Her Embrace," "Cruelty and the Beast," "Midian," "Damnation and a Day," "Nymphetamine," "Thornography," "Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder"

Crebain- "Crebain/Leviathan Split," "Night of Stormcrow"

Draugwath- "Dwellers of the Cursed Forest"

Drudkh- "Krov u nashykh Krynytsyakh (Blood in Our Wells)"

Emperor- "In The Nightside Eclipse," "Prometheus-The Discipline of Fire & Demise"

Funeral Winds- "Godslayer Xul," "Koude Haat," "Nexion Xul," "Resurrection of the Five Winds"

Glorior Belli- "Manifesting the Raging Beast," "O Laudate Dominus"

Gorgoroth-  "Ad Majorem Satanhas," "Destroyer," "Pentagram"

Katharsis- "666," "The Red Eye of Wrath," "World Without End," "Krucifixxion"

Klage- "Dystopias Wiege"

L'Acephale- "Mord Und Totschlag"

Limbonic Art- "The Ultimate Death Worship"

Marduk- "Deathmarch Tour," "Fuck Me Jesus," "Hearse," "Heaven Shall Burn...When We Are Gathered," "La Grande Danse Macabre," "Nightwing," "Panzer Division Marduk," "Plague Angel," "Rom 5:12," "World Funeral"

Mayhem- "Chimera," "Dawn of the Black Hearts," "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas," "Deathcrush," "Grand Declaration of War," "Live in Marseille," "Mediolanum Capta Est," "Ordo Ad Chao," "Out From the Dark," "U.S. Legions," "Wolf's Lair Abyss," 

Mord- "Unholy Inquisition"

Nargaroth- "Black Metal Ist Krieg," "Geliebte Des Regens," "Herbstleyd," "Prosatanica Shooting Angels"

Nastrond- "Age of Fire," "Toteslaut"

Old Man's Child- "In Defiance of Existence," "Vermin"

Semargl- "Attack on God"

Silberbach- "Inferno"

Striborg- "Autumnal Melancholy," "Foreboding Silence"

Urgehal- "Arma Christi," "Atom Kinder," "Goatcraft Torment," "Massive Terrestrial Strike," "Through Thick Fog Til Death"

DEATH METAL

Abominable Putridity- "In the End of Human Existence"

Aborted- "The Archaic Abattoir," "Engineering the Dead," "Goremageddon," "Slaughter & Apparatus," "Strychnine.213"

Abysmal Torment- "Epoch of Methodic Carnage," "Incised Wound Suicide"

Angelcorpse- "Exterminate," "The Inexorable," "Iron, Blood & Blasphemy," "Of Lucifer and Lightning"

Artery Eruption- "Reduced to a Limbless Sex Slave," "Gouging Out the Eyes of Mutilated Infants"

Avulsed- "Goresplattered Suicide"

Bane of Existence- "Humanity's Splintered Salvation"

Being Killed- "Massacre of the Living"

Brain Drill- "Apocalyptic Feasting," "The Parasites"

Caedere- "Mass Emission"

Cannibal Corpse- "The Bleeding," "Bloodthirst," "Butchered at Birth," "Eaten Back to Life," "Gallery of Suicide," "Gore Obsessed," "Kill," "Tomb of the Mutilated," "Vile," "The Wretched Spawn,"  "15 Year Killing Spree Boxed Set"

Cattle Decapitation- "To Serve Man," "Humanure," "Karma.Bloody.Karma."

Cephalic Carnage- "Xenosapien" 

Cephalotripsy- "Uterovaginal Insertion of Extirpated Anomalies"

Coffins- "Buried Death," "Mortuary in Darkness," "Sacrifice to Evil Spirit"

Course of Extinction- "Demo"

Cryptopsy- "Blasphemy Made Flesh," "None So Vile," "Whisper Supremacy," "And Then You'll Beg," "None So Live," "Once Was Not"

Decapitated- "Winds of Creation," "Nihility," "Organic Hallucinosis"

Decaying Form- "Chronicles of Decimation"

Decrepit Birth- "...And Time Begins"

Deeds of Flesh- "Mark of the Legion," "Reduced to Ashes," "Crown of Souls"

Deicide- "Deicide," "Legion," "Serpents of the Light," "When Satan Lives," "Insineratehymn," "In Torment in Hell," "Scars of the Crucifix," "The Stench of Redemption," "Til Death Do Us Part"

Dying Fetus- "War of Attrition"

Element- "Aeons Past"

Faeces Eruption- "Discography"

Grave- "As Rapture Comes," "Back From the Grave," "Soulless," "Hating Life"

Hate Eternal- "Conquering the Throne," "King of All Kings," "I, Monarch"

Implosive Disgorgence- "Demo"

Incantation- "Blasphemy," "Primordial Domination," 

Incinerate- "Anatomize"

Iniquity- "Five Across the Eyes," "Grime"

Intestinal Disgorge- "Drowned in Rectal Sludge"

Ivebeenshot- "Demo"

Kataklysm- "Serenity in Fire"

Masonic- "Demo"

Mucopus- "Mulch"

Necrophagist- "Epitaph," "Onset of Putrefaction"

Necrotic Disgorgement- "Suffocated in Shrinkwrap" 

Nile- "Black Seeds of Vengeance," "In Their Darkened Shrines," "Annihilation of the Wicked," "Ithylphalic"

Odious Mortem- "Devouring the Prophecy" 

Origin- "Origin," "Echoes of Decimation," "Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas"

Panzer Christ- "Batallion Beast"

Pencil Lead Syringe- "Suffocated and Embalmed"

Pustulated- "Inherited Cryptorchidism"

Skinless- "Progression Towards Evil," "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead"

Soilent Green- "A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down"

Suffocation- "Breeding the Spawn," "Pierced From Within," "Effigy of the Forgotten," "Souls to Deny"

Terminally Your Aborted Ghost- "Slowly Peeling the Flesh From the Inside of a Folded Hand"

Torsofuck- "Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy"

Vital Remains- "Dechristianize"

Vomit Remnants- Supreme Entity

XXX Maniak- "Harvesting the Cunt Nectar" 

DOOM/SLUDGE/DRONE

Asunder- "A Clarion Call"

Atavist- "12012291920/1414101 (Collaboration with Nadja)," "Alchemic Resurrection," "Atavist," "II: Points At Infinity (Collaboration with Nadja)," "II:Ruined"

Blue Sabbath Black Cheer- "Boutranger Moor," "For the Sickly Weakling," "Split w/Teeth Collection"

Buried At Sea- "Demo," "Migration," "She Lived For Others But Died for Us."

Devoid of All Mercy- "Your Children Left With the Stranger"

Electric Wizard- "Dopethrone," "Let Us Prey," "Supercoven," "Thy Grief Eternal," "Witchcult Today"

Evoken- "Antithesis of Light," "A Caress of the Void," "Quietus

Eyehategod- "Dopesick," "In the Name of Suffering," "Southern Discomfort," "Take As Needed for Pain"

Graves at Sea- "Documents of Grief," "Split w/Asunder"

Moloch- "Moloch 10""

Monarch- "Dawn of the Catalyst," "Dead Men Tell No Tales," "Die Tonight," "Speak of the Sea"

Moss- "Cthonic Rites," "Protected by the Ejaculation of Wolves," "Sub Templum," "Tape of Doom," "The Tormented," "Split w/Torture Wheel"

Noothgrush- "Erode the Person," "Failing Early, Failing Often"

Sunn O)))- "Altar," "Black One," "Domkirke"

Toadliquor- "The Hortators's Lament"

Torture Wheel- "Crushed Under...," 

Wormphlegm- "Tomb of the Ancient King"

Worship- "Dooom," "Last CD Before Doomsday," "Split w/Ghast

HARDCORE

4 In Tha Chamber- "Existence..."

25 Ta Life- "Best Of Friends-Enemies," "Friendship, Loyalty, Commitment," "Haterz Be Damned"

36 Deadly Fists- "Discography"

100 Demons- "100 Demons," "In the Eyes of the Lord"

Age of Disgrace- "Those Who Persist"

All Out War- "Condemned to Suffer," "For Those Who Were Crucified"

Back of Tha Neck- "Fight Everyone"

Bad Luck 13: Riot Extravaganza- "We Kill Children," "Bats on the Dancefloor," "With Friends Like These...Who Needs Enemies?"

Betrayal- "The People's Fallacy"

Bitter End- "Bitter End"

Blood For Blood- "Livin' In Exile," "Outlaw Anthems," "Revenge on Society," "Serenity," "Spit My Last Breath," "Wasted Youth Brew," 

Blood In/Blood Out- "Hopeless and the Heartless," "Respect Our Loyalty"

Born From Pain- "Reclaiming the Crown," "In Love With the End," "War," "Sands of Time"

Bracewar- "Demo + 7"," "Juggernaut"

Built Upon Frustration- "The Book of Mourning," "Resurrected," "Low Life Crew"

Bulldoze- "Beatdown"

Buried Alive- "Last Rites," "Death to Your Perfect World"

The Carrier- "No Love Can Save Me," "One Year Later"

CDC- "discography"

Ceremony- "Scared People," "Still Nothing Moves You," "Violence Violence"

Clenched Fist- "Welcome to Memphis"

Clobberin' Time- "Dawn of a Dying Race"

Cold As Life- "Declination of Independence," "Born to Land Hard"

Colin of Arabia- "Illegal Exhibitions of Speed"

Countime- "Broken, Blinded, Betrayed"

Crowd Deterrent- "Blood & Family," "Revenge on the Scene," "SOSF Life"

Crown of Thornz- "Train Yard Blues"

Cursed- "I," "II," "III"

Dead And Buried- "Demo," "The Company I Keep"

Death Before Dishonor- "Count Me In," "Friends.Family.Forever," "True Til Death"

Disciple A.D.- "Imitation of Love"

Disembodied- "The Confession," "Diablerie," "Existence In Suicide," "Heretic," "If God Only Knew The Rest Of Us Were Dead"

Dogz of War- "Won't Stay Down"

Donnybrook- "Lions In This Game"

Embraced By Hatred- "Down to Concrete," "Real Recognize Real"

End of Humanity- "Unfinished Business"

Enemy Ground- "Demo," "Insufficient Evidence"

Fatality- "N.Y. State Of Mind"

Fight Like Hell- "Hard As Wolves"

Figure Four- "Suffering the Loss"

First Blood- "Demo," "Kilafornia"

Flawless Victory- "La Familia"

Full Blown Chaos- "Wake the Demons," "Prophet of Hostility"

Harms Way- "Demo," "Imprisoned"

Hatebreed- "Satisfaction is the Death of Desire," "Perseverance," "Rise of Brutality," "Supremacy"

Icepick- "Violent Epiphany" 

Immoral Squad- "Discography"

In Blood We Trust- "Curb Games," "On Thin Ice"

Irate- "Bronx Unity," "New York Metal"

Ironbound NYC- "With a Brick"

Last to Remain- "Demo"

Lose None- "Warrior Blood"

Madball- "Legacy"

Most Precious Blood- "Our Lady of Annihilation," "Nothing in Vain"

Narrows- "Narrows"

Necktie- "Demo"

No Retreat- "Pray for Peace," "Rise of the Underdog"

On A Warpath- "On A Warpath"

Out To Win- "Persist & Destroy"

Palehorse- "Secrets Within Secrets," "Amongst the Flock"

Path to Misery- "Demo '07," "Demo '08," "Path to Misery"

Punishment- "Where Love Is Dead And Hope Never Lived," "Broken But Not Dead"

Redline- "A Portrait of a Mirror Image," "Moments of Truth"

Remembering Never- "Women And Children Die First"

Repercussion- "And The Winner Is..."

Scheduled Beating- "Demo 2004"

Settle the Score- "Royal Flush," "Five Knuckle Philosophy"

Shattered Realm- "Broken Ties...Spoken Lies," "From the Dead End Blocks Where Life Means Nothing"

Shockwave-  "Omega Supreme,"  "The Ultimate Doom"

Sick of It All- "Death to Tyrants"

Since the Flood- "Valor and Vengeance"

Steel Trap- "Cold. Broke. Dead.," "Demo," "Split w/Trash Talk"

Stout- "Demo '06," "Sleep Bitch," "Stout"

Subzero- "Necropolis," "Happiness Without Peace," "The Suffering of Man"

Suffocate Faster- "Only Time Will Tell," "Don't Kill the Messenger"

Suffokate- "Oakland"

Swear to God- "The Best Of... 2002-2006"

Sworn Enemy- "Integrity. Defines. Strength.," "As Real As It Gets," "Beginning of the End"

Taste the Steel- "Demo," "Blind Society"

Terror- "One With the Underdogs," "Always the Hard Way," "Lowest of the Low"

Terror Ave.- "Crown Holders"

The Warriors- "War Is Hell"

Those Forsaken- "Demo"

Trapped Under Ice- "Demo," "Stay Cold"

Trash Talk- "Plagues," "Split w/Steel Trap," "Trash Talk," "Walking Disease"

Turmoil- "Anchor," "The Process Of..."

Unit 731- "Demo"

Until the End- "Blood In the Ink"

Unreal City- "Ephemeral Subsistence"

Verse- "Aggression"

Vow Of Hatred- "Demo 2008"

Walls of Jericho- "All Hail The Dead"

Weekend Nachos- "Punish & Destroy," "This Comp. Kills Fascists '08" "Torture EP"

Wisdom In Chains- "Class War," "Die Young"

Years Spent Cold- "Retribution"

METAL/METALCORE

The Acacia Strain- "3750," "The Dead Walk," "Continent"

The Agony Scene- "The Agony Scene," "The Darkest Red"

Akercocke- "Antichrist," "The Goat of Mendes," "Words That Go Unspoken"

All Shall Perish- "Awaken the Dreamers," "Price of Existece," "Hate, Malice, Revenge"

Animosity- "Empires," "Shut It Down," "Animal"

Arsis- "A Celebration of Guilt," "Diamond for Disease," "United in Regret"

As Blood Runs Black- "Allegiance"

At the Gates- "Slaughter of the Soul"

Beneath the Massacre- "Dystopia," "Evidence of Inequity," "Mechanics of Dysfunction"

Between the Buried & Me- "Colors,"

The Black Dahlia Murder- "Miasma," "Nocturnal," "Unhallowed," "What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse"

Bleeding Through- "Declaration," "Dust to Ashes," "Portrait of a Goddess"

Bongzilla- "Amerijuanican," 

Book of Black Earth- "The Feast"

Break Your Face- "Amongst the Champions"

Brujeria- "Matando Gueros," "Brujerizmo," "Raza Odiada," "Mextremist"

Caliban- "A Small Boy and a Grey Heaven," "Vent," "Shadow Hearts"

Cannae- "Horror"

Carnal Forge- "Please...Die," "Aren't You Dead Yet?"

The Classic Struggle- "Feel Like Hell," "Bring Back the Glory," "Demo '02," "Demo '03"

Converge- "Caring and Killing," "Deeper the Wound," "Petitioning the Empty Sky," "Unloved and Weeded Out," "When Forever Comes Crashing," "Jane Doe," "You Fail Me"

The Crown- "Deathrace King," "Crowned in Terror," "Possessed 13"

Deadwater Drowning- "Deadwater Drowning"

Despised Icon- "The Healing Process," "Consumed by Your Poison," "The Ills of Modern Man"

Ed Gein- "It's a Shame That a Family Can Be Torn Apart By Something As Simple As a Pack of Wild Dogs"

Elysia- "Demo"

FlatV5- "Demo"

For the Fallen Dreams- "Demo 2004," "Changes"

Found Dead Hanging- "Demo"

Fragments of Unbecoming- "Skywards-A Sylphe's Ascension"

From a Second Story Window- "Not One Word Has Been Omitted" 

Glass Casket- "We Are Gathered Here Today"

Heaven Shall Burn- "Asunder," "Whatever It May Take," "In Battle..."

Himsa- "Courting Tragedy and Disaster," "Hail Horror"

If Hope Dies- "The Ground is Rushing Up to Meet Us," "Life In Ruin"

In Thy Dreams- "The Highest Beauty"

Into the Moat- "The Design" 

Kalmah- "Swamplord," "They Will Return," "Swampsong," "The Black Waltz"

Knights of the Abyss- "Demo"

Martyr A.D.- "On Earth As It Is In Hell," "The Human Condition in 12 Fractions"

Masonic- "2007 Demo"

Municipal Waste- "The Art of Partying," "Split w/Crucial Unit," "Hazardous Mutation," "Municipal Waste (EP)," "Tango & Thrash," "Waste 'em All"

My Bitter End- "The Renovation," "A Thin Line Between Heaven and Here" 

The Number 12 Looks Like You- "Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.," "Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses"

Paria- "Misanthropos"

Pig Destroyer- "38 Counts of Battery," "Natasha," "Phantom Limb,"

Prayer for Cleansing- "Rain in Endless Fall"

Premonitions of War- "Left in Kowloon," "True Face of Panic"

Psyopus- "Ideas of Reference"

The Red Chord- "Fused Together in Revolving Doors," "Clients," "Prey for Eyes"

The Red Death- "External Frames of Reference"

Slayer- "Christ Illusion," "Diabolus in Musica," "Divine Intervention," "God Hates Us All," "Hell Awaits," "Live Undead," "Reign in Blood," "Seasons in the Abyss," "Show No Mercy," "South of Heaven," "Undisputed Attitude"

Through the Eyes of the Dead- "Bloodlust," "Malice," "The Scars of Ages," "split w/The Knife Trade"

Today Is The Day- "Axis of Eden," "Kiss the Pig," "Temple of the Morning Star," "Sadness Will Prevail," "In The Eyes of God"

Unearthly Trance- "Electrocution," "Season of Seance, Science of Silence," "The Trident"

Vehemence- "Helping the World to See"

Waking the Cadaver- "Demo," "Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler" 

White Chapel- "Somatic Defilement," "This is Exile"

Winds of Plague- "Decimate the Weak," "A Cold Day In Hell"

Zao- "Parade of Chaos," "Where Blood & Fire Bring Rest," "Liberate Te Ex Infernis," "Funeral of God," "Self-Titled," "Fear is What Keeps Us Here"