We're only two months and four days into the new year, but I'm already confident that 2010 will be no less excellent a music year than 2009. Chances are my "best of 2010" list in December will be just as long as the one I just posted a couple of months ago.
We've already had little previews of the new albums from Deftones here and The Dillinger Escape Plan here, and a bit of High On Fire here and here. Khoma also have a track from their upcoming album here, check it out.
2010 is also shaping up to be quite an interesting black metal year. After initially being a bit dubious about the new album from Ihsahn, it's growing on me slowly but surely. Spastic nutcase metal with freeform jazz saxophones is the new law, and On The Shores is its enforcer.
(mp3) Ihsahn - On the shores
Available on After (2010)
Then there's Burzum's first album since Varg Vikernes got released from prison. At first the album felt like one long anticlimax - the dude gets to record his first metal album in 16 years, and this is all he can come up with? But just like the Ihsahn album it needed some time. It's no Filosofem, far from it, but there's a lot more going on here than you can take in on the first listen.
(mp3) Burzum - Sverddans
Available on Belus (2010)
There's also the new album by Ov Hell, featuring songs Ov Hell had originally written for his previous band Gorgoroth, then for his new band God Seed. After that fell apart he recording the songs with a handful of black metal celebrities and released them under his own name. I like the album quite a bit although the production is bit too squeaky clean. I didn't care for last year's Ghaal & Ov Hell-less Gorgoroth album, and The Underworld Regime blows it completely out of the water in my book. In my sad, lonely little book.
(mp3) Ov Hell - Devil's harlot
Available on The Underworld Regime (2010)
Lastly, we have Darkthrone. Oh, Darkthrone... How much more ass could you possibly kick? After the transformation from pure Norwegian black metal into some sort of drunken punk heavy metal, my appreciation for them has only grown. This is their best album post-change of direction.
(mp3) Darkthrone - I am the working class
Available on Circle The Wagons (2010)
3 comments:
...just black metal-året ser ju just nu oförskämt bra ut. Personligen ser jag fram mot Watains släpp i juni. Ska bli spännande att se om de klarar att upprepa succén från Sworn To The Dark!
Förresten - High On Fireplattan landade i brevlådan tidigare i veckan... och visst, den håller vad aptitretarna lovar. I alla fall än så länge.
Lyssning rekommenderas!
2010 will also be a great year because of the re-release of Blackwater Park with 5.1 sound!
Everything else is just secondary ;-)
Well, it´s not but just to emphasize how much I´m looking forward to that album...
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