Albums Of The Year - 10 to 1

 

 10. Läjä Äijälä & Albert Witchfinder - Centuries of Youth

Downbeat power electronic

9. Squid - Bright Green Field

Krautpop post-punk

8. Sonic Demon - Vendetta

Fuzzed out distorted stoner

7. Black Spell - The Purple Skull

Scuzzy occult doom

6. God Is An Astronaut - Ghost Tapes #10

Post-rock played over a sonic soundscape

5. Mother Iron Horse - Under The Blood Moon

Sludge doom, heavy and fuzzed

4. Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

Metal and post-hardcore never sounded so brutal or haunting

3. Fucked Up - Year Of The Horse

An ambitious four 20 min tracks of psychedelic hardcore punk

2. Iron Lizards - Hungry For Action

Rock'n'roll garage punk that makes me want to break things

1. Idles - Crawler

Post-punk masterpiece

That's it. This is what plays through my head when I am trying to survive just existing.

Albums Of The Year - 20 to 11

 

20. Muriel Grossman - Union

Spiritual jazz

19. Kowloon Walled City - Piecework

Sparse post-hardcore

18. Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

Experimental post-punk

17. Jointhugger - Surrounded By Vultures

Psychosonic doom rock

16. Blasting Rod - III

Heavy psych with Brass!

15. Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

Post-punk spoken ranting

14. Rostro Del Sol - S/T

Psych space rock

13. Haaz - Andra

Enthralling noise-rock

12. Part Chimp - Drool

Noise-rock with tunes

11. Melvins - Working With God

You know what is sounds like!

Albums Of The Year - 30 to 21

 

30. Mythic Sunship - Wildfire

Bluesy psychedelic prog 

29. ILL Considered - Liminal Space

Free jazz in a tribal style!

28. Cerce - Cowboy Music

Becca spits out her venom over a post punk hardcore racket.

27. Cha Wa - My People

New Orleans funk

26. Domkraft - Seeds

Groovy freaky sludge

25. 2 Headed Dogs - The Engine Is On

Nebula meets The Hellacopters

24. Leon III - Antlers In Velvet

Psychedelic indie folk

23. Junkbreed - Music For Cool Kids

Punk post-hardcore

22. Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

Sub-Sahara fuzz rock

21. Death From Above 1979 - Is 4 Lovers

Post-punk you can dance to.

No bandcamp link???

Albums Of The Year - 40 to 31

 

40. Chihuahua - Violent Architecture

Noise rock, post punk, no wave

39. Heavy Temple - Lupi Amoris

Stoner/doom riff machines

38. Watchman - Doom Of Babylon

A doom soundtrack for the apocalypse

36. The Lords Of Altamont - Tune In, Turn On, Electrify

Garage psych punk

35. A Better Tomorrow - Spiritual Crossing

Jazz, soul and metal groove

34. Stomatopod - Completing With Hindsight

Noisy post punk mathy rock

33. Dinosaur Jr - Sweep It Into Space

Hey, you either like 'em or don't.

32. Kills Birds - Married

Grungey post-punk

31. 10,000 Years - II

Feral doom/sludge fuzz fest

Albums of the Year - 50 to 41

50. Irreversible Entanglements - Open The Gate

Free jazz groove

49. TV Priest - Uppers

Terse post-punk

48. The Pop Group - Y in Dub

Dennis Bovell remix

47. Monolord - Your Time To Shine

Fuzzed haunting doom

46. Mono - Pilgrimage Of The Soul

Mesmerising post-rock

45. Fere - Visceral

Experimental punk hardcore

 

44. X'ed Out - We All Do Wrong

Noise rock with bursts of brass

43. Duel - In Carne Persona

Heavy psych stoner

42. God Damn - Coward

Hardcore stoner metal

41. Uranus Space Club - Another Planet, Another Love

Funk jazz space rock

Black Spell - The Purple Skull

                           Black Spell play a superb mix of doom-tainted sludge that

threatens to obliterate everything in its path. Despairing, bleak

vocals echo out a litany of fury that are always fighting to be

heard above the fat, heavy guitar tones that are crashing out

gargantuan riffs.

 

This album is made up of  tracks that take you to a dark swamp,

cut your eyes with razors and leave you to slowly sink into the mire.

Passages within the songs do pick up the pace at times before descending

back into the thick, bad-drug vibe that pervades the Black Spell sound.

 

The crowning glory as far as I am concerned, are the outrageously

fuzzed guitar solos that forge the psychedelic with the heavy - kinda

like Vanilla Fudge crossed with Electric Wizard. At times I find this

genre sometimes suffers from a generic template but in my eyes,

Black Spell have produced one of the Doom albums of the year.

Released on Forbidden Place Records.