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Topic: Your Top 10 post-metal/sludge/doom albums!!!
Posted: July 10 2008 at 06:32

oh no after some time away i'm just so damn back into this stuff, and extreme metal in general hahaha.........but here's my top 10 in no particular order

Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm

Boris - At Last Feedbacker

Isis - Panopticon

Sunn O))) - White 1

Pelican - Australasia

Moss - Cthonic Rites

Jesu - s/t

Khanate - Things Viral

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum

of course if i had my way there'd be more Neurosis and Isis works in there but pickin out my favs from each band (of whom i do own quite some of their works hehehe.........)

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Posted: July 10 2008 at 07:33

I really struggle putting together top lists, but I'll give this whirl. BTW, great to see some love for Moss. Heard their new album?

in no particular order.

Boris - Amplifier Worship
Moss - Cthonic Rites
Corrupted - Le Mundo Frio
Harvey Milk - courtesy & godwill towards men
Grief - Come to Grief
Isis - Panopticon
Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain

h'mmm couldn't decide on the last two so I'll leave it there. Also if I had my way I'd have listed all corrupted's full releases.

Edited by Black Velvet - July 10 2008 at 07:38

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:06

hahaha this thread will separate the real tr00 consumers from the myspace crowd bwagagagahahaha..............

i've heard the new Moss (on myspace where else ahahah) and it sounds great! as usual...........reviews say its quite diff but can't tell that much as yet hehehe............!! i'll be gettin it!

yeah, Neurosis' Through Silver In Blood is serious power prog-sludge, long drawn-out epics of serious rage n' torment........

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:22

I used to love this stuff but I've grown away from it; I can't even make a top ten list out of the music I've kept unless I expand to stoner and funeral:

first I agree with Black Velvet-
Boris - Amplifier Worship

then random things:
Asunder - A Clarion Call
Hyponic - The Noise of Time
Melvins - Bullhead
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis
Isis - Mosquito Control EP
Zeni Geva - Vast Impotenz
Mare - Mare (EP?)

and, um
Various Artists - Church of the Flagellation =P

there was a time when I listened exclusively to this heavy stuff but it zaps me too quickly, now. :(

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:10

I've been the same with metal in general, though doom/sludge has been the one style that has held a lasting impression. I tend to have an affinity towards noise/metal hybrids, which reminds me of an album I should have included in my list: Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys Environment by Burmese mainly for the title, but the music ain't so bad.

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:21

Oh my, I'll be back later with something definitive to say.

just a quick note, though. Laplace I agree with you on that Mare EP. Not a lot of folks know about that one, but it's quite excellent... it'll definitely end up in my list.

Also, someone please send me a copy of every album mentioned in this thread

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Posted: July 11 2008 at 23:03

Great thread!

Cult of Luna-Somewhere along the highway

Pelican- The fire in our throats will beckon the thaw

Isis-Panopticon

*shels-Sea of dying Dhow

Omega Massif-Geisterstadt

Isis- Oceanic

Conifer-s/t

Cult of Luna-Salvation

Neurosis-Through silver and blood

Callisto-Noir

Except for SAtH (top five greatest albums of all time), these are in no order. I'm really not into the whole drone doom bands, or any of that super sludge stuff. As you can tell I'm into more of the *cough* mainstream stuff

. MotA's quietly is rising fast though.

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Posted: July 12 2008 at 00:27

Ah yes, that Mare EP was pretty good. I would have liked to hear more from them.

My list is only going to have post-metal in it but here it is (no order):

Isis - In the Absence of Truth

Isis - Panopticon

Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats...

Pelican - City of Echoes

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway

Cult of Luna - Salvation

Actually that's all I can think of at the moment.

I assume we're talking about post-metal bands that lean toward sludgy/doomy music, so I omitted a few favorites that I would call "post-metal" that don't lean in that direction.

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Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:04

post-metal, sludge and doom is a lot of ground to cover....I'll just go with my general top 10 Doom albums:

1) Cathedral - "Forest of Equilibrium"
2) Unholy - "From the Shadows"
3) Thergothon - "Streams from the Heavens"
4) Candlemass - "Ancient Dreams"
5) Grief - "Miserably Ever After"
6) Katatonia - "Dance of December Souls"
7) Saint Vitus - "S/T"
8) Disembowelment - "Transcendence Into the Perephrial"
9) Winter - "Into Darkness"
10) Corrupted/Noothgrush - "split" (CD version w/ 2 bonus trx)

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Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:59

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Posted: July 12 2008 at 03:48

^It's a top ten list you fool

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Posted: July 12 2008 at 04:07

sure, but the top 10 are included in the top 20. Geek

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Posted: July 14 2008 at 01:57

ah yes there are diffs bet post metal, sludge and dooooom, oh most definitely. but what i love abt all these is the common worship of the long riff, the heaviness and low-end............

oh dear, i had no space for Ocean's Here Where Nothing Grows from 2005........marvellous prime(val) dooooooooooooooom....................

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Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:08

hey, superprog Im glad you like Things Viral...the sonic quality of that album is supreme, it's got such a natural organic sound,

good to also see another fan of the psychedelic sounds of Esoteric, can't wait to hear their new album!

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Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:20

I would recommend the Candlemass albums with Messiah Marcolin on vocals.

Also what about the last 2 (of 4) albums by Hexenhaus (Swedish) and Memento Mori is also extremely recommended, all 4 albums.

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Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:25

hey, Memento Mori is a-okay with me, especially the excellent "Rhymes of Lunacy"! Cool

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Posted: July 26 2008 at 21:12

Sorry for being such a fanboy Tongue

Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood
Neurosis - Souls at Zero
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Isis - Panopticon
Isis - Oceanic
Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Rosetta - The Galilean Sateillites

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Posted: July 27 2008 at 13:10

The MARE ep is one of my favorites of any genre, let alone the sludge/doom/post/metal group.
i like the Sun O))) Boris split - Alter, most of ISIS's stuff, oceanic and Sgnl >05 being my favorite, Omega Massif and Dirge.
Also, a band i think gets too little recognition, Rosetta. They have made two of my favorite post metal discs, Galilean Satellites and Wake/Lift. incredible listen each, i feel like they play the style of post Isis should have evolved into. space metal in the extreme.

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Posted: July 27 2008 at 17:28

Rosseta is metal for astronauts! I like both Wake/Lift, and the Galillean satelittes, but the vocals get in the way of the music sometimes and just obscures the whole mood. Do you actually go through the effort of trying to play both discsc of GS at the same time, becasue that is the main reason why I stay away from that album.

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Posted: July 27 2008 at 17:53

hardly ever. ive done it and its cool, especially the strange acoustics you get having them come out of different speakers/players but its not ALL that. its impressive but i didnt think it lived up to the hype. def. really cool and worth doing but you dont need to. i like the vocals, sometimes (well a lot of the time) i like it better than Aaron Turner's. Tongue

he gets a little too monotonous sometimes with his grunting shouts.

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superprog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 07 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1354	Topic: Your Top 10 post-metal/sludge/doom albums!!! Posted: July 10 2008 at 06:32
	oh no after some time away i'm just so damn back into this stuff, and extreme metal in general hahaha.........but here's my top 10 in no particular order Neurosis - The Eye Of Every Storm Boris - At Last Feedbacker Isis - Panopticon Sunn O))) - White 1 Pelican - Australasia Moss - Cthonic Rites Jesu - s/t Khanate - Things Viral Electric Wizard - Dopethrone Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum of course if i had my way there'd be more Neurosis and Isis works in there but pickin out my favs from each band (of whom i do own quite some of their works hehehe.........)

Apsalar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2006 Location: gansu Status: Offline Points: 2888	Posted: July 10 2008 at 07:33
	I really struggle putting together top lists, but I'll give this whirl. BTW, great to see some love for Moss. Heard their new album? in no particular order. Boris - Amplifier Worship Moss - Cthonic Rites Corrupted - Le Mundo Frio Harvey Milk - courtesy & godwill towards men Grief - Come to Grief Isis - Panopticon Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain h'mmm couldn't decide on the last two so I'll leave it there. Also if I had my way I'd have listed all corrupted's full releases. Edited by Black Velvet - July 10 2008 at 07:38

superprog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 07 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1354	Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:06
	hahaha this thread will separate the real tr00 consumers from the myspace crowd bwagagagahahaha.............. i've heard the new Moss (on myspace where else ahahah) and it sounds great! as usual...........reviews say its quite diff but can't tell that much as yet hehehe............!! i'll be gettin it! yeah, Neurosis' Through Silver In Blood is serious power prog-sludge, long drawn-out epics of serious rage n' torment........

laplace Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: October 06 2005 Location: popupControl(); Status: Offline Points: 7606	Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:22
	I used to love this stuff but I've grown away from it; I can't even make a top ten list out of the music I've kept unless I expand to stoner and funeral: first I agree with Black Velvet- Boris - Amplifier Worship then random things: Asunder - A Clarion Call Hyponic - The Noise of Time Melvins - Bullhead Sleep - Dopesmoker Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis Isis - Mosquito Control EP Zeni Geva - Vast Impotenz Mare - Mare (EP?) and, um Various Artists - Church of the Flagellation =P there was a time when I listened exclusively to this heavy stuff but it zaps me too quickly, now. :(

Apsalar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 06 2006 Location: gansu Status: Offline Points: 2888	Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:10
	I've been the same with metal in general, though doom/sludge has been the one style that has held a lasting impression. I tend to have an affinity towards noise/metal hybrids, which reminds me of an album I should have included in my list: Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys Environment by Burmese mainly for the title, but the music ain't so bad.

GoldenSpiral Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3839	Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:21
	Oh my, I'll be back later with something definitive to say. just a quick note, though. Laplace I agree with you on that Mare EP. Not a lot of folks know about that one, but it's quite excellent... it'll definitely end up in my list. Also, someone please send me a copy of every album mentioned in this thread
	http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon

Dim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 17 2007 Location: Austin TX Status: Offline Points: 6890	Posted: July 11 2008 at 23:03
	Great thread! Cult of Luna-Somewhere along the highway Pelican- The fire in our throats will beckon the thaw Isis-Panopticon shels-Sea of dying Dhow Omega Massif-Geisterstadt Isis- Oceanic Conifer-s/t Cult of Luna-Salvation Neurosis-Through silver and blood Callisto-Noir Except for SAtH (top five greatest albums of all time), these are in no order. I'm really not into the whole drone doom bands, or any of that super sludge stuff. As you can tell I'm into more of the cough* mainstream stuff. MotA's quietly is rising fast though.


Moatilliatta Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: December 01 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3083	Posted: July 12 2008 at 00:27
	Ah yes, that Mare EP was pretty good. I would have liked to hear more from them. My list is only going to have post-metal in it but here it is (no order): Isis - In the Absence of Truth Isis - Panopticon Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats... Pelican - City of Echoes Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway Cult of Luna - Salvation Actually that's all I can think of at the moment. I assume we're talking about post-metal bands that lean toward sludgy/doomy music, so I omitted a few favorites that I would call "post-metal" that don't lean in that direction.
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mithrandir Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 25 2006 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 933	Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:04
	post-metal, sludge and doom is a lot of ground to cover....I'll just go with my general top 10 Doom albums: 1) Cathedral - "Forest of Equilibrium" 2) Unholy - "From the Shadows" 3) Thergothon - "Streams from the Heavens" 4) Candlemass - "Ancient Dreams" 5) Grief - "Miserably Ever After" 6) Katatonia - "Dance of December Souls" 7) Saint Vitus - "S/T" 8) Disembowelment - "Transcendence Into the Perephrial" 9) Winter - "Into Darkness" 10) Corrupted/Noothgrush - "split" (CD version w/ 2 bonus trx)

MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 20521	Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:59
	Edited by MikeEnRegalia - July 12 2008 at 03:05

Petrovsk Mizinski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210	Posted: July 12 2008 at 03:48
	^It's a top ten list you fool

MikeEnRegalia Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 20521	Posted: July 12 2008 at 04:07
	sure, but the top 10 are included in the top 20. Edited by MikeEnRegalia - July 12 2008 at 04:07

superprog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 07 2006 Status: Offline Points: 1354	Posted: July 14 2008 at 01:57
	ah yes there are diffs bet post metal, sludge and dooooom, oh most definitely. but what i love abt all these is the common worship of the long riff, the heaviness and low-end............ oh dear, i had no space for Ocean's Here Where Nothing Grows from 2005........marvellous prime(val) dooooooooooooooom....................

mithrandir Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 25 2006 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 933	Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:08
	hey, superprog Im glad you like Things Viral...the sonic quality of that album is supreme, it's got such a natural organic sound, good to also see another fan of the psychedelic sounds of Esoteric, can't wait to hear their new album!

npjnpj Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 05 2007 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 2720	Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:20
	I would recommend the Candlemass albums with Messiah Marcolin on vocals. Also what about the last 2 (of 4) albums by Hexenhaus (Swedish) and Memento Mori is also extremely recommended, all 4 albums.

mithrandir Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 25 2006 Location: New Mexico Status: Offline Points: 933	Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:25
	hey, Memento Mori is a-okay with me, especially the excellent "Rhymes of Lunacy"!

manucho111 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: June 19 2008 Location: New York Status: Offline Points: 5	Posted: July 26 2008 at 21:12
	Sorry for being such a fanboy Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood Neurosis - Souls at Zero Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway Cult of Luna - Salvation Isis - Panopticon Isis - Oceanic Minsk - The Ritual Fires of Abandonment Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom Rosetta - The Galilean Sateillites

keiser willhelm Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1697	Posted: July 27 2008 at 13:10
	The MARE ep is one of my favorites of any genre, let alone the sludge/doom/post/metal group. i like the Sun O))) Boris split - Alter, most of ISIS's stuff, oceanic and Sgnl >05 being my favorite, Omega Massif and Dirge. Also, a band i think gets too little recognition, Rosetta. They have made two of my favorite post metal discs, Galilean Satellites and Wake/Lift. incredible listen each, i feel like they play the style of post Isis should have evolved into. space metal in the extreme. Edited by keiser willhelm - July 27 2008 at 18:24
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Dim Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: April 17 2007 Location: Austin TX Status: Offline Points: 6890	Posted: July 27 2008 at 17:28
	Rosseta is metal for astronauts! I like both Wake/Lift, and the Galillean satelittes, but the vocals get in the way of the music sometimes and just obscures the whole mood. Do you actually go through the effort of trying to play both discsc of GS at the same time, becasue that is the main reason why I stay away from that album.


keiser willhelm Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: September 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1697	Posted: July 27 2008 at 17:53
	hardly ever. ive done it and its cool, especially the strange acoustics you get having them come out of different speakers/players but its not ALL that. its impressive but i didnt think it lived up to the hype. def. really cool and worth doing but you dont need to. i like the vocals, sometimes (well a lot of the time) i like it better than Aaron Turner's. he gets a little too monotonous sometimes with his grunting shouts.
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