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the best rekkids of 2011
2001 fucking blew ass. While many mellowed out, I felt more and more like DESTROYING EVERYTHING. . .and my choices this year reflect that. It was a disappointing year in many many many ways. . . .but musically, we made out okay I think (even with the sheer amount of disappointing music there was from unexpected sources).

This took really fucking long, because my computer kept taking a shit. . . .so. . . . I'm just posting it now so I can get to the new years releases. .. not that I've heard any of them yet.

40. Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
bloody valentines, mary chains and 80s Al B Sure break beats (no, seriously, listen to the last track). . .it's all here.


39. Ulcerate - Destroyers of All
the "i see what you did there" album of the year. It's not the kind of thing I ever thought I'd hear, and it's kind of still sinking in even now.

38. Elitist - Fear in a Handful of Dust
Season of Mist had a pretty high profile release this year…

Tak sobie wstępnie zaklepię miejsce na jakiegoś tam rodzaju podsumowanko. Na razie systematcznie spoko albumy będę dodawał a potem może coś więcej (choć pewnie nie bo nie będzie mi się chciało ). Nom.

Autopsy - Macabre Eternal

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BassDrumBone - The Other Parade [avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, jazz blues, new orleans]

http://www.amazonka.pl/photo/th/e-/the-other-parade_bassdrumbone-99902277286_CF223_300.jpg

Blood Ceremony - Living With the Ancients

http://www.massmovement.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/blood-ceremony.jpg

Giles Corey - Giles Corey [lo-fi, psychedelic folk, slowcore]

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CunninLynguists - Oneirology

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d39CvUnQH2I/TZFE-ChjvEI/AAAAAAAAAaM/RFg8kZ6zoV8/s320/1297800135_cunninlynguists-oneirology.jpg

Dark Buddha Rising - Abyssolute Transfinite

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As with just about every year, there were way too many albums I loved for me to keep the list small. I thoroughly enjoyed everything on here, and it took some effort to arrange them all in a specific order. Also, the order doesn't directly reflect my ratings in the other journal, as my opinion on albums change over time.

Full Lengths

51. Kauan - Kuu...
50. Shroud Eater - Thundernoise
49. Ash Borer - Ash Borer
48. Ghostlimb - Infrastructure
47. Moving Mountains - Waves
46. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
45. Arizmenda - Without Circumference Nor Center
44. Weekend Nachos - Worthless
43. Primordial - Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
42. Defeater - Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
41. Æthenor - En Form For Blå
40. La Dispute - Wildlife
39. Circle of Ouroborus - Eleven Fingers
38. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
37. Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
36. Rwake - Rest
35. Raein - Sulla linea d'orizzonte tra questa mia vita e quella di tutti
34. Wormrot - Dirge
33. Noisear - Subvert the Dominant Paradigm
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40. Ampere - Like Wolves

39. Gigan - Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes

38. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations

37. Gridlink - Orphan

36. Decapitated - Carnival is Forever

35. Seven That Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock: AUM

34. Meek Is Murder - Algorithms

33. Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

32. In Solitude - The World. The Flesh. The Devil.

31. Cyclo - Id

30. Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos

29. Weekend Nachos - Worthless

28. Solstafir - Svartir Sandar

27. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

26. Textures - Dualism

25. Kangding Ray - OR

24. Hands - Give me Rest

23. Ulver - Wars of the Roses

22. Touché Amoré - Parting the Sea between Brightness and Me

21. Helms Alee - Weatherhead

20. Ghostlimb - Infrastructure

19. Lifelover - Sjukdom

18. Shabazz Palaces - Black Up

17. Mirel Wagner - Mirel Wagner

16. Airs - Gloomlights

15. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss beyond this World

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(Re-edited because sleep continues to evade me)

The Pendulum Still Sways for You (9.5/10)
Nightwish – Imaginearum

Don’t Tread the Path of the Enlightened (9/10)
Ava Inferi – Onyx
Blut Aus Nord – 777- The Desanctification
Subrosa – No Help for the Mighty Ones

Earth Below and Reeling (8/10)
Argus – Boldy Stride the Doomed
Dark Castle – Surrender to All Life beyond Reality
Draconian – A Rose for the Apocalypse
Midnight – Satantic Royalty
Opeth – Heritage
Orchid – Capricorn
Premonition 13 - 13
Vektor – Outer Isolation
Xerath - II

We are the Floor you Dance Upon (7/10)
Ancient VVisdom – A Godlike Inferno
Blood Ceremony – Living with the Ancients
Globus – Break Free From this World
Hammers of Misfortune – 17th Street
The Heavy Eyes – Heavy Eyes
Mournful Congregation – The Book of Kings
The Project Hate – Bleeding the New Apocalypse
Ravencult – Morbid Blood
Riot – Immortal Soul
Rwake – Rest
Thy Catafalque – Rengeteg
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