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The digital Gods Agoraphobic Nosebleed have done it again with the company of powerviolence band Apartment 213.

Read about it here:
http://surreal-goryfication.blogspot.se/2012/08/band-agoraphobic-nosebleed-apartment.html

I tried my best to add some commentary this year. It's not much, but at least there's something about every release. Writing an in-depth analysis on 95, or even 30, releases is not my idea of a good time.

Some of the releases can be downloaded legally for free from Bandcamp. I will not check which ones specifically, but thedowngoing, USKO and Dark Cloak should be there. Some others, like FALSE LIGHT, Syntax and Water Torture, can be downloaded for free from Grindcore Karaoke. I just revealed 1/3 of my EP list... oh well.

Honorable mentions: A Place to Bury Strangers, Alcest, Alkerdeel, Arkhamin Kirjasto, Baroness, Bastard Deceiver, Bosse-de-Nage, Cattle Decapitation, Coffins, Deftones, Desecresy, Dysrhythmia, Flourishing, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Goatwhore, Horrendous, Kendrick Lamar, Meshuggah, Necro Deathmort, Nihill, Nile, Noisear, Pharaoh Overlord, Plague Widow, Protestant, Tame Impala, Torch Runner, Tragedy, War From a Harlots Mouth, Wrathprayer

Top 5 splits

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(Note: apologies for this being posted here a week later than it was posted on my blog. Life has got rather busy of late)

So, a return to my traditional Tuesday Tens after the end of year break for rounding up 2011. My girlfriend set me a challenge for two Tuesday Tens last week, and it seemed like an interesting idea. So here is the first part of it, and it will likely be the shortest Spotify Playlist I will ever post.

Oh yes. So this week is short songs – agreed to be less than one minute in duration, and also to be actual songs (as opposed to intro tracks or interludes). Which did, admittedly cut down my choice from the 783 tracks of 0:59 or less in duration by an awful lot, and also reduced the number of genres involved. And with one exception, these songs are also played rather fast. Well, you’ve got to cram as much as you can in, in such a short song, I guess…Next week, of course, we go to the other extreme.

Obviously, blink and you might miss this lot – on Spotify this lasts just 364 seconds…

Zugegeben, jede Menge essentieller Alben fehlen, aber die habe ich einfach noch nicht gehört. Vielleicht pass ich die Liste in ein paar Wochen nochmal an, mal schauen!

01. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
02. Primordial - Redemption At The Puritans Hand
03. Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
04. Amebix - Sonic Mass
05. Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
06. The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
07. Dornenreich - Flammentriebe
08. All Pigs Must Die - God Is War
09. Alpinist/Masakari - Split
10. Ramin Djawadi - Game Of Thrones OST
11. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
12. Ed Gein - Bad Luck
13. Ära Krâ - Ferne Tage
14. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
15. Agnostic Front - My Life, My Way
16. All Shall Perish - This Is Where It Ends
17. Tormented/Bombs of Hades - Split
18. 5 Bugs - Vora City
19. Within The Ruins - Omen EP
20. 3 Inches of Blood - Anthems For The Victorious EP
21. Alestorm - Back Through Time
22. Night Hag - Gilded Age
23. Absu - Abzu
24. Apart - Only Revolutions
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1. Ulver - The Norwegian National Opera
2. Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
3. Wormfood - Posthume
4. Sólstafir - Svartir sandar
5. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Make A Joyful Noise
6. Tsjuder - Legion Helvete
6 bis. Kwoon - The Guillotine show
7. Draugen - Among the Lonely Shades
8. Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
9. OVERCOLORED - CORVUS CORONE CORNIX
10. Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminescent Orchestrii - EP 2011
11. Anathema - Falling Deeper
12. The Afternoon Gentlemen - Pissedography
13. Djerv - Djerv
14. Gallhammer - The End
15. Helrunar - Sól
16. Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs
17. Dornenreich - Flammentriebe
18. Battle of Britain Memorial - The aftermath of your bright beings
19. Monkey3 - Beyond the Black Sky
20. Gridlink - Orphan
21. Ulver - Wars of the Roses


See also my list on RYM : 2011