Marduk - Viktoria

Genre: Black Metal

Label: Century Media Records

Year: 2018

Origin: Sweden

Track listing:

1. Werwolf [1]

2. June 44 [3]

3. Equestrian Bloodlust [2]

4. Tiger I [1]

5. Narva [4]

6. The Last Fallen [3]

7. Viktoria [4]

8. The Devil's Song [3]

9. Silent Night [2]

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(this is a track-by-track rating I've been thinking of doing for a while now, each piece is rated out of 5)

A Norwegian Black Metal Playlist - 90's Part I

I would usually make an album list for this but for once, I chose specific favorite tracks to support the case instead of whole records. I try to maintain one track by each band when it's not a specific band's playlist, which means of course I have more tracks but the artists I like that I didn't use here. Many of them are personal choices of some of my favorite tunes, so if anything's missing, it's not that I might have ignored or overseen it. I wanted to create a Spotify playlist but some tracks were missing so I decided just to list Youtube links to each track, for anyone to have a quick listen. I have a second part of a similar playlist and then a third installment for bands active after 2000, I don't know when I will write things up about them in the future though.

Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather

Turbonegro (Norway)

Scandinavian Leather (2003)

Burning Heart Records (Sweden) | Epitaph Records (US)

After all this time, I'm returning to posts about shit I buy and it's not all too much lately. I've always wanted to look more into Turbonegro albums because it's a band that has been suggested many times and they seem to be liked by metalheads quite much. I found Scandinavian Leather in a second hand store for a really cheap price, mostly among totally random numbers there, but it was the discovery that made me buy it in the end. I don't know much about them and a track featured here, "Train of Flesh", is weirdly the first I heard by Turbonegro ever. Even though there's lots of "ooOOOoo" for my taste, some tracks are catchy and well written. From what I have heard so far, it's only specific tracks by the band I dig.

Favorite tracks: Gimme Somme, Train of Flesh, F**k the World (F.T.W.)

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Albums of the Year 2017

This blog is now five years old, plus a couple of months.

AOTY 2017: Top 10 misc albums

László Moholy-Nagy, At Coffee, c. 1920s

We're close, we're almost there! This is the final post before my main list and again I'm doing this seperation with miscellaneous albums, maybe for the last time. We'll see!

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10. William Basinski - A Shadow in Time

ambient

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9. The Necks – Unfold

jazz, improvization

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8. Brad Medhlau & Chris Thile - Brad Medhlau & Chris Thile 

jazz, piano, acoustic

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7. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed the Rats

stoner rock

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6. Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar

synthpop, experimental

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5. Colin Stetson – All This I Do for Glory

experimental, jazz

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4. Elder – Reflections of A Floating World

stoner / hard rock

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3. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Luciferian Towers

post-rock

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2. Susanne Sundfør - Music for People in Trouble

pop

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★ 1. Krokofant – Krokofant III ★

jazz rock

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Krokofant

AOTY 2017: Top 10 EPs

Shuffling through releases of my favorite format, I saw new violent Svartidauði material, as well as Sinmara and finally another One Tail, One Head EP. Great new bands come around, like Abkehr, Daeva, Chevalier, Thantifaxath’s mini album appealed to me more than their full length a couple of years ago and Poison Blood was a reasonable / nice crossover. Fever Nest was the best gift of the year and close to the epitome of filth, just how it’s done. I want to change my approach to end year lists drastically in the future, but I hope this kind will stick around.

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10. Poison Blood – Poison Blood

9. Chevalier – A Call to Arms

8. One Tail, One Head – Firebirds b/w Prowess

7. Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevät / Värimyrsky

6. Daeva – Pulsing Dark Absorptions

5. Svartidauði – Untitled

4. Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading As Matter

3. Abkehr – In Asche

2. Sinmara – Within the Weaves of Infinity

1. Fever Nest – Black Carrion Fowl