45 A.D. - 2010 Demo (2010)

Do you like Skitsystem? Coldworker? Then get into Richmond's 45 A.D.! Features members from other bands including Neckbrace.

Artist: 45 A.D.
Album: 2010 Demo
Year: 2010
Genre: D-beat, blackened crust?
Quality: 320 kbps (very high)

1. Capitals Of Man - 3:10
2. A Fiery Gift - 1:54
3. Ballet De La Mort - 2:58
4. Prescription Subserviance - 2:52
5. Tragedy Of Words - 1:49
6. Shadows Of The Enemy - 4:25

39.3 MB

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Enslaved - Frost (1994)

Artist: Enslaved
Album: Frost
Year: 1994
Genre: Black and/or viking metal
Quality: 320kbps

1. Frost
2. Loke
3. Fenris
4. Svarte Vidder (Black Mountain Plateaus)
5. Yggdrasil
6. Jotunblod (Blood of Jotun)
7. Gylfaginning (The Tricking Of Gylfi)
8. Wotan
9. Isöders Dronning (Queen Of The Ice Desolates)

115 MB

From the icy, chilling intro instrumental through stories about Nordic mythological creatures and characters and cold mountaintops, this is a must-have through-and-through. Yggdrasil (ig-dra-sil) is about a gigantic tree at the center of Norse mythology, also known as Odin's horse. Gylfaginning is about a king who is tricked by the Norse gods, and I think is about the creation and destruction of the world that the gods created. It even says "VIKING METAL" on the back of the inside booklet. Fast as hell at times, melodic at others, not the cleaned-up progressive metal sound their newer fans are used to. The drummer, Trym, joined Emperor after this album.

"Frost"



"Loke"



"Svarte Vidder"



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Immortal - All Shall Fall (2009)

Artist: Immortal
Album: All Shall Fall
Year: 2009
Genre: Blackened death metal
Quality: 320kbps(very high)

1. All Shall Fall
2. The Rise Of Darkness
3. Hordes To War
4. Norden On Fire
5. Arctic Swarm
6. Mount North
7. Unearthly Kingdom

92.4MB

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Behemoth - Evangelion (2009)

This is coming out over a month before its street date, so understand the quality may be sub par and the ending sounds like it might have been cut off sooner than it is supposed to. I will certainly be buying this when it comes out August 11! If you liked Behemoth's previous two albums, you will most likely love this one too. It's right up the same alley with intense (tastefully) triggered drumming, demonic vocals and church-crushing guitar blasts.

Artist: Behemoth
Album: Evangelion
Year: 2009
Genre: Blackened death metal
Quality: VBR (high)

1. Daimonos - 5:15
2. Shemhamforash - 3:56
3. Ov Fire And The Void - 4:27
4. Transmigrating Beyond Realms Ov Amenti - 3:27
5. He Who Breeds Pestilence - 5:41
6. The Seed Ov I - 4:58
7. Alas, The Lord Is Upon Me - 3:15
8. Defiling Morality Of Black God - 2:49
9. Lucifer - 8:06

65.2MB

Behemoth's Myspace with a preview of a new song.

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Absu - Tara (2001)

Artist: Absu
Album: Tara
Year: 2001
Genre: Black metal
Quality: 320 kbps (very high)

1. Tara - 01:56
2. Pillars Of Mercy - 04:22
3. A Shield With An Iron Face - 03:22
4. Manannán - 06:40
5. The Cognate House Of Courtly Witches Lies West Of County Meath - 04:19
6. She Cries The Quiet Lake - 04:11
7. Yrp Lluyddawe - 01:51
8. From Ancient Times (Starless Skies Burn To Ash) - 03:54
9. Four Crossed Wands (Spell 181) - 04:47
10. Vorago (Spell 182) - 05:46
11. Bron (Of the Waves) - 01:32
12. Stone Of Destiny (...For Magh Slécht And Ard Righ) - 07:47
13. Tara (Recapitulation) - 01:46

117.82 MB

"Pillars Of Mercy"



"Four Crossed Wands (Spell 181)" (that is the fruitiest image I have seen put to a black metal song in a long time)



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Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter (1999)

This album marked a big change in the direction for Immortal compared to their earlier albums as it had a "cleaner" sound and more a thrash one as well compared to the straight up lo-fi black metal they had been doing up to the previous album, "Blizzard Beasts." It was well-received by both old fans and critics alike and their next albums had similar sounds. They also have another one coming out later this year!

Artist: Immortal
Album: At The Heart Of Winter
Year: 1999
Genre: Thrashy, epic black metal
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

96.5 MB

1. Withstand The Fall Of Time - 08:30
2. Solarfall - 06:02
3. Tragedies Blows At Horizon - 08:56
4. Where Dark And Light Don't Differ - 06:45
5. At The Heart Of Winter - 08:00
6. Years Of Silent Sorrow - 07:54

"At The Heart Of Winter"



"Withstand The Fall Of time"



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Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods (1991)

Artist: Bathory
Album: Twilight Of The Gods
Year: 1991
Genre: Black metal / "Viking metal"
Quality: 192kbps (high)

78.6 MB

1. Prologue - Twilight Of The Gods - Epilogue - 14:02
2. Through Blood By Thunder – 6:15
3. Blood And Iron – 10:25
4. Under The Runes – 5:59
5. To Enter Your Mountain – 7:37
6. Bond Of Blood – 7:35
7. Hammerheart - 4:57

If you're not used to long songs or intros, give them a little time... it's worth it, and the opening guitar parts are all extremely beautiful.

"Through Blood By Thunder"



"Twilight Of The Gods"



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Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane (1995)

ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL. I only have the original CD with eight tracks so I don't have the reissue tracks from the later releases but am working on purchasing or just downloading them later and putting them up if anyone wants them. This is ripped from my own CD so there is a SLIGHT possibility there will be a pop or skip, if you find one PLEASE let me know so I can upload a clean track as this isn't a hard album to find online.

Dissection is a fun band to read about, mostly due to their goofy former lead singer Jon Nödtveidt, who shot himself in the name of Satan inside a lit circle of candles on August 16, 2006.

Artist: Dissection
Album: Storm Of The Light's Bane
Year: 1995
Genre: Black/death metal
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

98.48 MB

1. At The Fathomless Depths – 1:56
2. Night's Blood – 6:41
3. Unhallowed – 7:28
4. Where Dead Angels Lie – 5:53
5. Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane – 4:51
6. Thorns Of Crimson Death – 8:06
7. Soulreaper – 6:56
8. No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep – 1:26

"Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane"



"Thorns Of Crimson Death" (ignore the cheesy slideshow)



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Sigh - Hangman's Hymn (2007)

Japan's Sigh started as a black metal band; one of the first few in Japan, as most at the time were coming out of places like Norway and Sweden. They went in a more thrash and death metal sound through the 90's and into the 2000's they adopted a far more experimental sound, now often being labeled as "avant-garde." Their singer, Mirai Kawashima, has described the style of the music as a "German thrash-metal-meets-symphonies" style. The band added a second vocalist and saxophonist, Dr. Mikannibal, a female recruit. Samples from "Me-Devil" were used in the trailer for the documentary "Global Metal." Released on The End Records.

Artist: Sigh
Album: Hangman's Hymn
Year: 2007
Genre: Blackened thrash meets symphonics?
Quality: 320kbps (very high)

Act I

1. Introitus/Kyrie
2. Inked In Blood
3. Me-Devil

Act II

4. Dies Iræ/The Master Malice
5. The Memories As A Sinner
6. Death With Dishonor
7. In Devil's Arms

Act III

8. Overture/Rex Tremendæ/I Saw The World's End
9. Salvation In Flame/Confutatis
10. Hangman's Hymn/In Paradisum/Das Ende

93.2 MB

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Listen to "Inked In Blood," my personal favorite track from this record here.



Sigh on MySpace

Enslaved - Vertebrae (2008)

Progressive "Viking" black metal based in Bergen, Norway.

Artist: Enslaved
Album: Vertebrae
Year: 2008
Genre: Progressive black metal
Quality: VBR

1. Clouds
2. To The Coast
3. Ground
4. Vertebrae
5. New Dawn
6. Reflection
7. Center
8. The Watcher

77.35 MB

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Preview the opening track on Youtube: