Your Top 10 post-metal/sludge/doom albums!!!
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Topic: Your Top 10 post-metal/sludge/doom albums!!!
Posted By: superprog
Subject: Your Top 10 post-metal/sludge/doom albums!!!
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 06:32
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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 By: Apsalar
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 07:33
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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. |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:06
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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 By: laplace
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 05:22
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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. :( |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date 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. |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:21
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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" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 23:03
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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 By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 00:27
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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. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:04
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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) |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 02:59
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 03:48
^It's a top ten list you fool |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: July 12 2008 at 04:07
sure, but the top 10 are included in the top 20. 
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Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 01:57
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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.................... |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:08
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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! |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:20
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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. |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 14 2008 at 02:25
hey, Memento Mori is a-okay with me, especially the excellent "Rhymes of Lunacy"! 
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Posted By: manucho111
Date 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 |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: July 27 2008 at 13:10
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: July 27 2008 at 17:28
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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 By: keiser willhelm
Date 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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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 27 2008 at 18:06
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1. Isis - Panopticon
2. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
3. Omega Massif - Geisterstadt
4. Dirge - Wings Of Lead Over Dormant Seas
5. Cult of Luna - Salvation
6. Giant Squid - Metridium Fields
7. Kongh - Counting Heartbeats
8. Irepress - Samus Octology
9. The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are The Bonds
10. *shels - Sea Of The Dying Dhow
Honorable Mentions:
Ocoai - Breatherman
Latitudes - Bleak Epiphanies In Slow Motion
Ufomammut - Idolum
Tides - Resurface
Meniscus - Absence of I
Tomydeepestego - Odyssea
The Ocean - Precambrian
Conifer - Conifer
Eroica - Hisen the Architect
Humanfly - II
Grayceon - Grayceon -------------  |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: July 27 2008 at 18:26
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woops this demands a list! (1. dont think this counts because its not really metal or post or sludge or anything really but since they're in the genre i have to list them. Choirs of the eye and Dowsing Anemone are forever number one(s)) 1. Mare EP 2. Isis - Oceanic - it gets sketchy here. bands will leave and drop but this is what i think i like most. right now. maybe. 3. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In the Lions Skull (nobody mentions them but this CD is very good) 4.Rosetta - Wake/Lift 5.Unearthly trance - Trident (Ian check these guys out. omega massiff meets black metal) 6.Isis - Sgnl >05 7. Isis - Celestial (sludgiest album they've done aside from maybe mosquito control) 8.SUN O))) / Boris - Alter 9.Boris - Amplifier Worship. 10.Minsk - Ritual Fires of Abandonment. A Swarm of the Sun isnt on the list and i dont know if they will be but fans of this (these) genres should check them out. i need to listen to them more to figure out how i really feel about them but i liked my first listen or two. PS - Jody's list is really good and ill add on Mouth of the Architect to his honorables.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: July 27 2008 at 22:26
Jody, you epidomize cool for me  -------------
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TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 03:17
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What took me so long to check out *shels!? They are great! ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 05:17
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if anyone hasnt checked out the Boris / Sun o))) split "Alter" it is very good. for anyone who's posted in this thread.
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Posted By: GSDIZ.COM
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 08:33
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i like the metal.. i listing my top 100 in winamp..) -------------------------------- |
Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 15:56
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Not a genre I know that much about, but I have been checking some of it out because of Daniel O'Sullivan's (Guapo) collaborations with members of Sunn o))) on projects like Aethenor. I like what I've heard of Sunn 0))) so far, but it seems to be more about sound and texture than anything else (not necessarily a bad thing).
I'm not sure if they fit into the genres being discussed on this thread, but I've been hugely impressed by OM. All 3 of their albums are excellent, and Pilgrimage is nigh well perfect. It just shows that Ruins isn't the only bass/drums duo out there. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 16:08
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I just got Om's Conference of the Birds. was that a good choice? it was chep at least
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 16:14
Well I like it, so it must have been a good choice
 !There's actually not that much to choose between the 3 albums, so if you like one of them you'll like the others as well. Pilgrimage is probably the best produced and has a slightly greater dynamic range, which is why I like it best, but I sometimes get the impression that the 2 of them just play continuously in a cave somewhere and once in a while somebody goes in and records another 35 minutes worth of their ever evolving riff. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Katatonic
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 04:58
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Well It took Me ages, but hear it is in order. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day Katatonia - Dance Of December Souls Paradise lost - Draconian Times Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion Paradise Lost - Gothic Black sabbath - Master Of Reality Paradise lost - In Requiem Virgin Black - Requiem - mezzo forte Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came Daylight Dies - Lost To The Living |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 13:42
havnt listened to the song but it seems like an odd choice for a sludge doom post metal top ten list... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Katatonic
Date Posted: July 31 2008 at 03:20
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Yeah, i don't really like much post-metal sludge stuff so mine was more of a doom metal post, oh well. |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: August 01 2008 at 22:51
not sure how that's odd, Sabbath is about as Doom Metal as is gets, |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: August 06 2008 at 02:23
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Hey I got a twenty eight minute song by Sunn o))) and Boris and was EXTREMELY impressed, I'm gonna get Altar as soon as I can! What other bands do the whole Drone/Doom thing, but stay away from complete ambiance. I mean I love space and ambiance, but Sunn o))) by themselves didn't impress me too much. Recommendations? -------------
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: August 06 2008 at 12:36
Rosetta is one of my favorites, definitely. TGS is incredible, with or without the 2nd disc playing. I don't think Wake/Lift is as well-developed as the first, but still good. I really really really really want to see them live... I know they'd just be punishingly loud and awesome.
Seriously though... badass reverb-worshipping post-sludge-metal + dark ambience + lyrics based on Arthur C. Clarke stories = a tough combination to beat. ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 02:54
Asva - Futurists Against The Ocean (dooom-drone but w more variety and even some female vocals hehe)
Black Shape of Nexus (great ambient drone-sludge/doom from Germany) http://www.myspace.com/sadhusonofabitch - http://www.myspace.com/sadhusonofabitch
Hyatari - The Light Carriers (Godflesh goes minimal drone-sludge!!!)
Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness (shoegazin' dooooom?)
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Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 08:29
I really like Nadja's studio albums. Lots and lots of layers, noise and heaviness.
I saw them live with Grails a couple months ago and they were actually really disappointing. For as heavy as their records are, I expected a plenty-loud live performance, walls of amps and the like. But they showed up with nothing but two guitars and a folding table full of loopers and effects and relied on the pretty weak PA system as their amplification, so the show turned out to be less than impressive.
Still, their albums are nice to crank on the home stereo and fill the house with somehow calming noise.  ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: August 13 2008 at 12:41
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wot? a PA system for dooooooom? wussies!!!! hehehe anyways now listening to Pale Horse's 'Gee That Ain't Swell' from 2002-2003. Very interesting (& under appreciated) UK sludge band, though this album was in Terrorizer mag's top 40 of 2003. sludge with strong Slint overtones, so it's got more peaks n turns & the almost pristine production keeps the sound different......... love it!!! |