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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 3837815" data-attributes="member: 21833">THREADCROMANCY!I went shopping in the past few weeks.FINALLY got my posterior around to picking up some Burzum stuff.  Hvis Lyset Tar Oss and Filosofem are both good (excluding a certain 20 min+ instrumental on Filosofem) but his last album, Hiljdskaf, is his peak.  I never thought pure keyboards could sound so bleak, empty and dark.  The man is a psycho and a racist, but he's also a musical genius.Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia.  Get this album.  NOW.  It freaking rocks.  "One Dead Nation Under a Dead God" is on a recent ep of Blackmetalradio.com if you're curious.I also bagged Arch Enemy and Nile's latest albums.  Rise of the Tyrant is a real return to form for the Swedish beasts, easily ranks up there with Wages of Sin.  The only issue is they don't really do anything new here.  You know what you're in for on an Arch Enemy album, but hey, if it ain't broke...Nile may be the only band I love as much as Emperor and Sunn 0))).  These guys do crushing, brutal Death Metal with brains, while most DM acts lyrics are like 80s slasher films, these guys are doing "Lawrence of Arabia", to the point of having done at least one song ENTIRELY in Ancient Egyptian.  They were always going to have a horribly hard time following up their last two masterpieces, In Their Darkened Shrines and Annihilation of the Wicked, and I really do think they stumbled somewhat on Ithyphallic.  The fast songs on their have prompted me to nickname it "Punishment of the Naughty", since they do feel like rejects from the crushing AotW (my fave album of theirs), other than The Essential Salts*.  When it slows down though, like on "Eat of the Dead" and the title track...WOW.  That's when it hits its best.  The title track is DAMNED good stuff, but I already knew that from hearing it live when they toured Aus earlier this year.  And "Eat of the Dead" is one of the best slow oozing Death tracks since Morbid Angel did "Where the Slime Live".I've also placed orders for some work by Moss and Wolfmangler, some hardcore Drone/Doom work, and I'm eagerly awaiting my copy of the debut from Serpentcult, the band that rose from the sudden and disgusting downfall of Thee Plague of Gentlemen...look it up if you're curious, Mayhem haven't lost members in quite such an alarming manner IMO.*Seriously, how many arms does George Kollias have?  He raised the bar to dizzying heights for himself on this one, not even "Chapter of absurdly long title" and "Burning Pits of the Duat" from AotW are this insane.</blockquote>

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