I've switched up my top five favorite band list since I last posted (yet again!), so here is my new one:
5. Wolves In The Throne Room
- One of my furry friends got me into this band. They're ambient black metal and sound pretty good to me. Also for some reason the blast beats on the drums in most of their songs is what got me hooked and a lot of their songs are 10+ minutes.
Songs: I Will Lay Down My Bones Among The Rocks and Roots, Cleansing, Wanderer Through The Sea of Fog, Crystal Ammunition, Ex Cathedra, Behold The Vastness and Sorrow, Ahrimanic Trance.
4. Rotting Christ.
- These guys just make some amazing music. I like their gothic and dark sound on a lot of their songs, although it's a shame their newest Album, Aealo, has strayed away from that sound.
Songs: Among Two Storms, Art of Sin, If It Ends Tomorrow, You Are I, Fateless, You My Cross, Athanati Este, Keravnos Kivernitos, Enuma Elish, Victoriatus, Transform All Suffering Into Plagues, Nemecic, Helios Hyperion, Under The Name of Legion, Demonon Vrosis, dub-sag-ta-ke, Snowing Still, The First Field of the Battle, Non Serviam, Morality of a Dark Age.
3. Animals As Leaders.
- I don't know I just found their song "CAFO" on Fur Affinity Forums's metal thread, and I liked it. I decided to check out more of their songs, and I liked what I heard, so I decided to get the whole album on my iPod. All of their songs are instrumental but they are all just so creative and great to listen to.
Songs: Tempting Time, Soraya, Thoroughly At Home, On Impulse, Behaving Badly, The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing, CAFO, Inamorata, Point To Point, Song Of Solomon
2. Meshuggah.
- This is one of the most technical and unique bands I've heard as of yet. Usually I'm not a big fan of technical metal as its complex time signatures and instrument-playing confuse me and lose my interest, but not these guys; I just like how they sound using this.
Songs: Shed, Autonomy Lost/Imprint of the Un-Saved/Disenchantment, The Paradoxial Spiral/Re-Inanimate/Entrapment, Personae Non Gratae/Dehumanization/Sum, Concatenation, Elastic, The Mouth Licking What You've Bled, New Millennium Cyanide Christ, Sublevels, Closed Eye Visuals, Nebulous (re-mastered), Perpetual Black Second, Rational Gaze (re-mastered), Spasm (re-mastered), Stengah, Straws Pulled At Random (re-mastered).
1. Xasthur
- I found this band on a post on Fur Affintiy Forums's metal thread in the form of the band's song "Screaming At Forgotten Fears" and I loved it. I then decided to check out more from the band, then wound up downloading all seven of their full-length albums (80+ songs) and listened to them all, liking mostly all of them. They are also probably the darkest band I've ever heard.
Songs: Screaming At Forgotten Fears, Dreams Blacker Than Death, Legion of Sin and Necromancy, Legacy of Human Irrelevance, This Abyss Holds The Mirror, Apparitional Void of Failure, A Gate Through Bloodstained Mirrors, Slaughtered Useless Beings In A Nihilistic Dream, Abysmal Depths Are Flooded, Sigils Made Of Flesh And Trees, The Only Blood That Pours Is Yours, Walker of Dissonant Worlds, etc.