Well, this week in metal a new contender for album of the year came out:
Dutch Symphonic Black Metallers Carach Angren released Where The Corpses Sink Forever and it's farking amazing. Link

Perfect example of technically good playing and mediocre songwriting...

push me, pull me. or pull me out.

- Pearl Jam

Well that sucked.

New Nile
New Marduk
New Ihsahn
New Deathspell Omega
Mantas' Death by Metal re-release

New Panopticon song over at Decibel (I'm as shocked as you that they're promoting awesome music). After hearing it, all I have to say is that the best album of 2012 will most likely be Kentucky or Never Quite Dead. Can't f*cking wait.

good things -

Occultation - The Sea of Snakes and Souls (occult doom rock - holy fark this album is good)

Abnormality - A Chaos Reserved (technical/brutal death)

Stalwart - Corrosion (um... whoah... uh... progre?... uh... wut?)

Chaos Inception - Phalanx (The Tip of the Spear) (death)
Chaos Inception - The Abrogation

This is really farking good, but the youtube samples are gone :(
Bastard of the Skies

Cortez - Johnny (outstanding stoner/doom)

Wodensthrone - Wyrgthu (pagan/black)

Azoic - Monasterium (black/death)

Adebisi: Well that sucked.

New Nile
New Marduk
New Ihsahn
New Deathspell Omega
Mantas' Death by Metal re-release

Woah. This may be my single favorite/expensive post of yours, ever. I haven't listened to Ihsahn since AngL (it was good, but didn't stick with me - I think I missed out on what he's done since).

I was on the fence the first time I heard the new Nile song - the sound is a bit different than their older stuff, but since they were stagnating on their last couple of albums it's probably a good thing that they've changed a little, and now that I hear it again I'm sold on the new album.

And I just can't spend money on the others soon enough :)

Evilsmurf: Dutch Symphonic Black Metallers Carach Angren released Where The Corpses Sink Forever and it's farking amazing. Link

SPna15: New Panopticon song over at Decibel (I'm as shocked as you that they're promoting awesome music). After hearing it, all I have to say is that the best album of 2012 will most likely be Kentucky or Never Quite Dead.

Damn. More good stuff. I don't think I'd normally like Carach Angren, so maybe I'm just in a really good mood, but I enjoyed that a lot. Panopticon also surprised me in a very good way. And Pagan Altar is awesome.

I've never any like this, except for Metallica (opening), Dragon Force, Devil Driver, etc. fark.

a few tracks from the best album evar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLVxXY 6dnDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8LQL kSt-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSUmm NL5TY

HighZoolander: I haven't listened to Ihsahn since AngL (it was good, but didn't stick with me - I think I missed out on what he's done since).

After is a great album, certainly his proggiest. What I've heard from his is new one is good, but doesn't blow me away.

HighZoolander: I was on the fence the first time I heard the new Nile song - the sound is a bit different than their older stuff, but since they were stagnating on their last couple of albums it's probably a good thing that they've changed a little, and now that I hear it again I'm sold on the new album.

I'd like Nile a lot more if they just put some bass in their music.

HighZoolander: Wodensthrone - Wyrgthu (pagan/black)

Not a big fan of the genre, but that was really good.

Other good stuff:

Unmothered
New Ahab

well shiat

Leader O'Cola: a few tracks from the best album evar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLVxXY 6dnDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8LQL kSt-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSUmm NL5TY

Yep, that is a damn good album (and thanks again for helping me find it - some of the best money I've spent on metal)

Here's another good one that I'd be surprised if you haven't recced in the past -
Hail - Let the Wolves Lead You to Satan's Glory
Hail - War Must Go On

So I'm not much of a self promoter but I finished a black metal project recently. A one man operation working out of my home studio.I put it up for download on bandcamp with a pay if you want option. Check it out I put my heart and soul into it.Very atmospheric.
Link

HighZoolander: Panopticon also surprised me in a very good way

Prepare yourself, for with Panopticon and Taake leading the way, banjos will be the new "it" thing in black metal.

Leader O'Cola: a few tracks from the best album evar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLVxXY 6dnDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy8LQL kSt-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReSUmm NL5TY

I think somebody, maybe you rec'd it awhile back, took me 8 months to find in on CD, it is farking awesome.

So I watched the Battlecross video, and noticed the drummer had a big tattoo across his upper chest. Took me a minute to decipher it, and I'm not sure if it says "God Speed" or "Gods Peed". I'm kind of hoping it's supposed to be the latter.

HighZoolander: good things -

Occultation - The Sea of Snakes and Souls (occult doom rock - holy fark this album is good)

Good moody stuff, that....

Stalwart - Corrosion (um... whoah... uh... progre?... uh... wut?)

and definitely WTF moments here...reminded me a bit of Biomechanical a few times....

Wodensthrone - Wyrgthu (pagan/black)

Lurve it....

Well that was a streaming pile of cow feces.

Adebisi: HighZoolander: I haven't listened to Ihsahn since AngL (it was good, but didn't stick with me - I think I missed out on what he's done since).

After is a great album, certainly his proggiest. What I've heard from his is new one is good, but doesn't blow me away.

HighZoolander: I was on the fence the first time I heard the new Nile song - the sound is a bit different than their older stuff, but since they were stagnating on their last couple of albums it's probably a good thing that they've changed a little, and now that I hear it again I'm sold on the new album.

I'd like Nile a lot more if they just put some bass in their music.

HighZoolander: Wodensthrone - Wyrgthu (pagan/black)

Not a big fan of the genre, but that was really good.

Other good stuff:

Unmothered
New Ahab

That track from After is pretty damn good.

I haven't heard of Unmothered before, but that was good. The whole album was pretty good.

/off to impoverish myself :)

HighZoolander: Adebisi: HighZoolander: I haven't listened to Ihsahn since AngL (it was good, but didn't stick with me - I think I missed out on what he's done since).

After is a great album, certainly his proggiest. What I've heard from his is new one is good, but doesn't blow me away.

HighZoolander: I was on the fence the first time I heard the new Nile song - the sound is a bit different than their older stuff, but since they were stagnating on their last couple of albums it's probably a good thing that they've changed a little, and now that I hear it again I'm sold on the new album.

I'd like Nile a lot more if they just put some bass in their music.

HighZoolander: Wodensthrone - Wyrgthu (pagan/black)

Not a big fan of the genre, but that was really good.

Other good stuff:

Unmothered
New Ahab

That track from After is pretty damn good.

I haven't heard of Unmothered before, but that was good. The whole album was pretty good.

/off to impoverish myself :)

That Ihsahn album is one that slowly worked its way into my consciousness and slowly but surely became one of my favorite releases from the past few years. It's just magnificent. My favorite track is "On the Shores," but the whole album is brilliant and I can't wait for Eremita.

Another new Panopticon track, over at Hammer Smashed Sound, along with a review. Now I'm even more excited for Kentucky.