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I think I just died with this album. A fortified candidate for my metal album of the year. Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (atmospheric sludge metal / progressive metal) Closed curtains refuse to let the daylight penetrate through, the slight beams of light wander...

If someone can tell me why I had my hopes up for this in the first place, please do tell. Maybe it was the album art? Trivium - In Waves Generally the most descriptive term most people who rate albums on a frequent basis are able to find for Trivium and the whole genre of metalcore is...

Two People In A Room - Two People In A Room Two People In A Room is a Berlin-based ambient/drone duo formed by Michelle Hughes & René Margraff in September 2009. I had never heard of them until this album, which captured a certain day of my life instantly. Ambient music needs to be very...

Yes, they are not identical - thus, the quotation marks around the word identical in my previous post. A new interface is not a new need for consumers. In Internet products, the surface is just rather a supporting element in the product. Facebook's interface is nothing spectacular but it...

Except that Facebook actually brought something new to the users in comparison to Myspace whereas Google+ is already identified as an 'identical product' to Facebook. Internet innovations are not about replacing, which Google+, Diaspora, MyCube and all these other start-ups are trying to...

I'm having second thoughts about the album of the year. Fair To Midland just struck me with a slam straight to the head. Maybe I should just wait for the year to end. Fair To Midland - Arrows And Anchors (alternative rock / progressive metal / avant-garde metal People have always carved...

Heh, the album bounced up to my aoty materials right away. Been listening to it non-stop. I'm not really into symphonic metal but judging by your posts here, it seems like you have great taste in music, so I might as well give the album a spin!

The album of the year has been released. *shels - Plains Of The Purple Buffalo (post-rock / shoegaze / atmospheric sludge metal) In the legend of the White Buffalo Woman the Sioux people of the North American plains explain what material desire may cause you. In this myth, two brave...

I seriously can't get into Septic Flesh. I even understood perfectly that the new album sounds great but I just can't swallow it whole. Also, the same thing is happening to me with Welcome To My DNA. Far Away has actually grown to be one of my favorite Blackfield songs already and the album's...

I'm currently listening to this disc and I can definitely identify with you as a major fan and with the fucking awful bit as well. The sound on the album is so basic and boring that all the songs blend together into a mass of musical butter that you can't exactly swallow.

New In Flames held up to my expectations because they weren't too high to begin with. Sounds Of A Playground Fading is a decent effort and a better try-out in the mainstream metal direction than the last release, which was a huge disappointment. Liberation was the only song from this year's...

I promised myself not to watch anymore HBO series, and here I am, hooked completely to this one.

A Perfect Circle - Imagine Thrice - The Earth Isn't Humming Johnny Cash - Hurt Good covers are hard to make because they require mastering the original song to the point where the band can add something of their own to it. There are covers that have been made by replicating the original...

There's the word 'ambient' in the title and the thread was already on the sixth page and there is no mention of Shpongle yet. I'm flabbergasted. Simon Postford is a modern day musical genius. Shpongle has been providing great psybient since 1998 starting with their incredulous debut album, Are...

I've been surprised how many great releases there have been this year when compared to the lackluster last year. Cave In made a huge comeback with White Silence with the album being so far the most positive surprise of 2011 and it definitely presented an even more fortified version of an...