soundweave: Top 2008 #s 1-10

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Top 2008 #s 1-10

Yound Widows - Old Wounds
I can't even begin to explain why I love this noise so much... but I can tell you it's fucking brilliant. The perfect blend of heavy and noisy. Just listen.

I can't even begin to explain why I love this noise so much... but I can tell you it's fucking brilliant. The perfect blend of heavy and noisy. Just listen.

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From: Louisville, Kentucky. Genre: noise-rock, post-hardcore
LIYL: The Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Breather Resist, Fight Amp, AmRep bands
Website : Myspace : Label

Mouth Of The Architect - Quietly
Incredibly powerful music! One of the heaviest cds ever made. The heights they reach are orgasmic. The buildup and climax of the title track is simply mind-blowing. This cd should be held in the same regard as Oceanic or Dopethrone as a pinnacle of heavy music

Incredibly powerful music! One of the heaviest cds ever made. The heights they reach are orgasmic. The buildup and climax of the title track is simply mind-blowing. This cd should be held in the same regard as Oceanic or Dopethrone as a pinnacle of heavy music

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From: Hell, Ohio. Genre: Post-Sludge
LIYL: Neurosis, Minsk, ISIS, Cult of Luna, Corrupted, Rosetta, Year of No Light, Thou
Website : Myspace : Label

Grails - Take Refuge In Clean Living
Brilliant EP containing 2 of their best tracks yet. Especially Take Refuge. Holy Shit. Now come to Toronto for fucks sake!

Brilliant EP containing 2 of their best tracks yet. Especially Take Refuge. Holy Shit. Now come to Toronto for fucks sake!

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From: Portland, Oregon. Genre: experimental, psychedelic
LIYL: Priestbird, Ghost, Bardo Pond, Faust, Ash Ra Tempel, Tulsa Drone, James Blackshaw, Silver Apples
Website : Myspace : Label

Torche - Meanderthal
Torche have become one of the catchiest metal bands without sacrificing the heavy one bit. Incredible live band too. They should be headlining shows because if I was in a band I wouldn't want Torche opening and completely stealing the show.

Torche have become one of the catchiest metal bands without sacrificing the heavy one bit. Incredible live band too. They should be headlining shows because if I was in a band I wouldn't want Torche opening and completely stealing the show.

Download: rapidshare
From: Miami, Florida. Genre: stoner rock/metal
LIYL: Floor, Big Business, Queens of the Stone Age, Melvins, Baroness
Website : Myspace : Label

Bison BC - Quiet Earth
This year's Red Album. Epic, ass-kicking metal from start to extremely satisfying finish.

This year's Red Album. Epic, ass-kicking metal from start to extremely satisfying finish.

Download: sendspace
From: Vancouver BC. Genre: stoner-metal
LIYL: High on Fire, Baroness, Saviours, Mastodon, Motorhead, Kylesa
Website : Myspace : Label

Pocahaunted - Chains/Island Diamonds/Mirror Mics
Think of the Simpsons when Lisa is writing Homer's food critique and has to come up with a word for Homer's drooling. Transcendent. These 3 albums were my nightly soundtrack for most of last year. I'd fall asleep and wake up to Pocahaunted. Groin-grabbingly transcendent.

Think of the Simpsons when Lisa is writing Homer's food critique and has to come up with a word for Homer's drooling. Transcendent. These 3 albums were my nightly soundtrack for most of last year. I'd fall asleep and wake up to Pocahaunted. Groin-grabbingly transcendent.

Download CHAINS: megaupload
From: Eagle Rock, California. Genre: psych-drone, tribal drone
LIYL: Grouper, Religious Knives, Robedoor, Inca Ore, Mouthus, Double Leopards, Lichens, Sunn O)))
Website : Myspace : Label

The Drift - Memory Drawings

The Silent Ballet said it best: Memory Drawings is The Drift’s masterful exploration of the sensations that memory evokes on us; it’s an ever-expanding sea of trumpet melodies and jazzy drumbeats of a powerful simplicity that match (or even out-match) Do Make Say Think’s folk intuition for music that sounds vibrant, alive, and profound. The conceptual and physical elements of the album mesh flawlessly, resembling a living work of art that transforms and evolves with every additional listen.(David Murrieta)

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From: San Francisco. Genre: dub-jazz-rock
LIYL: Tarentel, Do Make Say Think, Miles Davis, Triosk, Bluebridge Quartet, Jaga Jazzist
Website : Myspace : Label

Circle - Hollywood
Surely their catchiest and most accessible album ever. It may be shocking to some long-time Circle fans but I loved it. Increidbly diverse cd that ranges from krautrock to metal; fun to fucked-up. Only a truly insane band could come up with a track like Mad Man. And Sacrifice is the best Iron Maiden song they never wrote.

Surely their catchiest and most accessible album ever. It may be shocking to some long-time Circle fans but I loved it. Increidbly diverse cd that ranges from krautrock to metal; fun to fucked-up. Only a truly insane band could come up with a track like Mad Man. And Sacrifice is the best Iron Maiden song they never wrote.

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From: Finland. Genre: psychedelic, krautrock, metal
LIYL: Pharaoh Overlord, Faust, Can, Neu!, Judas Priest, Acid Mothers Temple, Hawkwind, Hammers of Misfortune, Kyuss
Website : Myspace : Label

Earthless - Live at Roadburn
This is extreme rock. Imagine taking the solo from a classic rock song like Dazed & Confused and stretching it out to 20 minutes and that'll give you an idea what's on this cd. 80 minutes of blazing, incredibly dynamic guitar noodling over one of the tightest rhytm sections in rock. Definatly not for most (sane) people.

This is extreme rock. Imagine taking the solo from a classic rock song like Dazed & Confused and stretching it out to 20 minutes and that'll give you an idea what's on this cd. 80 minutes of blazing, incredibly dynamic guitar noodling over one of the tightest rhytm sections in rock. Definatly not for most (sane) people.

Download: megaupload
From: San Diego. Genre: heavy psych, instrumental/jam metal
LIYL: Hendrix, Acid Mothers Temple, Mammatus, Kyuss, Blue Cheer, Zeppelin, Ash Ra Tempel, Iota, La Ira De Dios, Ancestors, Tee Pee Records roster, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Boris
Website : Myspace : Label

U.S. Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs
Take Acid Mothers Temple's swirling, noisy psychdelia, slow it down, add paranoia, insanity, desperation, a psychotic frontman, and a strange heaviness that sounds like nothing else I've heard. It all equals one hell of a mind-fucking album.

Take Acid Mothers Temple's swirling, noisy psychdelia, slow it down, add paranoia, insanity, desperation, a psychotic frontman, and a strange heaviness that sounds like nothing else I've heard. It all equals one hell of a mind-fucking album.

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From: Marion, North Carolina. Genre: psych, space rock
LIYL: Acid Mothers Temple, Hawkwind, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Comets on Fire, Up-Tight, Danava, Crystal Castles
Website : Myspace : Label

14 comments:

is this your life?January 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM
No Lifelover makes me a sad unicorn, but it's another excellend Soundweave list.

Here's what I settled on for the year, although I wasn't really huge on too much that came out.
01. Lifelover - Konkurs
02. Gloomy Grim - Under the Spell of the Unlight
03. Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterheart
04. Mercy Arms - Mercy Arms
05. Zeigeist - The Jade Motel
06. Cynic - Traced in Air
07. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
08. Septic Flesh - Communion
09. Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
10. MC Chris - MC Chris is Dead
11. Hail of Bullets - ...Of Frost and War
12. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
13. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
14. October Falls - The Womb of Primordial Nature
15. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
16. Lukestar - Lake Toba
17. Satyricon - The Age of Nero
18. Dornenreich - In Luft Geritzt
19. Darkthrone - Dark Thrones and Black Flags
20. Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
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soundweaveJanuary 25, 2009 at 6:20 AM
A lot more metal on your list. I'll check out Lifelover. Also didn't know October Falls released a new one so I'll have to find that too. Cheers!
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UnknownJanuary 25, 2009 at 7:09 AM
I made my top for 2008 too. Because soundweave help me to find awesome band hop this will help too in return :
1. Adebisi Shank - This is the album of a band called Adebisi Shank
2. Jex Thoth - Totem
3. Black Mountain - In The Future
4. Colour Haze - All
5. Ufomammut - Idolum
6. The Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
7. Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
8. US Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs
9. Bokor - Vermin Soul
10. The Kills - Midnight Boom
11. The Haunted - Versus
12. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
13. Ultra Vomit - Objectif : Thunes
14. Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On
15. Ez3kiel - Battlefield
16. The Winchester Club - Britannia Triumphant
17. Gojira - The Way of all Flesh
18. Earthless - Live at Roadburn
19. Thursday & Envy - Split
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is this your life?January 25, 2009 at 1:43 PM
Yeah, definitely more metal, much of it probably not to your taste, either. I will say that Lifelover should be right up your alley - romantic, demented black metal. You would probably dig the Mar De Grises, too - trippy, proggy death/doom.
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is this your life?January 25, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Here's the Mar de Grises for ya. If you don't want the link in the comments (or if you want more links), just let me know.

http://rapidshare.com/files/138851615/Mar_de_Grises_-_2008_-_Draining_the_waterheart.rar
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maareJanuary 25, 2009 at 3:16 PM
finally! soundweave is proven source of good music. keep up the great work.
My list
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soundweaveJanuary 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM
Thanks for the Mar De Grise link Unicorn. It sounds pretty good from what I've heard so far. Got the Lifelover album too and after just 1 listen I can say it's pretty damn good and I think I'll like it even more the second time. Cheers!
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is this your life?January 28, 2009 at 5:57 AM
Glad I could give you some joy in return for all the fantastic stuff you've turned me on to!
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Sonicly SpeakingJanuary 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM
Always love your year end stuff.

Here's the new Beware of Safety!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZT3ULUTF
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XanaFebruary 3, 2009 at 2:35 PM
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I love your blog and i downloaded almost everyhting =) it's great, keep up the good work.

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The Dim CollectiveFebruary 12, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Dude wheres Intronaut - Prehistoricisms

a AMAZING album your insane for not putting it on here ;)
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voigtApril 1, 2009 at 5:16 PM
is this blog dead?
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the hatApril 2, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Yeah, is this blog dead? That's a question that has been on my mind for awhile.
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IhrielAugust 2, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Hmmm... Thanks a lot for U.S Christmas! Pretty Great.

Here´s my top 10

1. pg.lost- It's Not Me, It's You
2. Bohren & Der Club of Gore- Dolores
3. Shugo Tokumaru- Exit
4. Burst- Lazarus Bird
5. Bar Kokhba- Lucifer: Book of Angels vol. 10
6. Have a Nice Life- Deathconsciousness
7. Esbjorn Svensson Trio- Leucocyte
8. Peter Broderick- Float
9. Earthless- Live At Roadburn
10. Neil On Impression- L'Oceano delle Onde Che Restano Onde Per Sempre
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