iTunes Roulette, part II

Back to the 'I can't be arsed to do a proper post theme' (actually, I'm scheduling this a week in advance so the point's somewhat moot), here's the second week of a random look at my shitty taste. This week's not so bad - we don't have Dummy Burger and System Of A Down as the first two tracks, but I still feel there will be something less-than-kvlt in here.

1) Tomaso Giovani Albinoni - Movement I (Allegro) (of Oboe Concerto No. 6 In D Major, 1751)

Can't remember where I got this from - some classical blog, I don't doubt, but it's summer music at its most defined - sub-Vivaldi baroque classical is the name of the game. It's interesting, but not lasting. However, I can't make that judgement of Albinoni as a whole as I haven't heard any other compositions.

2) Tartaros - Into The Faculty Of Wonderful Secrets (off The Red Jewel, 1999)

There's no Dimmu Borgir this week, but this might as well be a slightly rawer version of Death Cult Armageddon. Recommended to me as good later Norwegian black metal, I'm afraid I see little merit to Tartaros. Symphonic black metal benefits from compositional complexity rather than sheer bombast, which is all that's on display here.

3) Black Sabbath - Neon Knights (off Heaven And Hell, 1980)

In my eyes, this was the best album that the late, great Ronnie James Dio was involved in - better even than the splendid Holy Diver and Mob Rules. This opening track exemplifies the sheer quality of the album - heavy metal done as well as can be with TONY FUCKING IOMMI and RONNIE JAMES FUCKING DIO. I think my point is made.

4) Mastodon - Bedazzled Fingernails (off The Hunter, 2011)

Mastodon are every hipster's favourite metal band which isn't Wolves In The Throne Room. That's not to say they haven't written some good music over the years - Leviathan and Blood Mountain are very good, and this song is one of the better ones off last year's The Hunter, which itself was a large improvement over the lacklustre Crack The Skye, but it simply doesn't warrant the levels of praise and popularity that Mastodon continue to receive.

5) MDC - Henry Kissmyassinger/Mao Tse Tung (off Elvis In The Rhineland: Live In Berlin, 1988)

MDC are one of the hardcore bands that I've never really been able to get into, and it's rubbish like this breaking up the good stuff which is my problem. The whole track is just a poor joke really, and doesn't warrant your time, my time, or anyone's time.

6) Ivebeenshot - What Would Clint Eastwood Do? (off Doza, 2008)

Whatever the last.fm tags suggest, this album has very little to do with grindcore - it's simply a mediocre deathcore album with occasional blastbeats and very frequent breakdowns. There really is nothing to say about this type of music. It's just dull.

7) Yutaka Shiina - Lover (off At The Moment, 1996)

One of the very few Japanese musicians whose music isn't completely apeshit, Yutaka Shiina here serves up a more than adequate album of piano jazz. His technical ability is good, but merely complements the excellent improvisation that Shiina brings to the table here. Good stuff.

8) Circle Jerks - 15 Minutes (off Wonderful, 1985)

Circle Jerks are one of the few punk bands who are genuinely witty. There is absolutely nothing political about their music, which admittedly makes a refreshing change from time to time, and this song is funny. It doesn't really get going until a couple of minutes in, but it's pretty good from that point on. I don't think I've given the full album a proper listen and will have to do so at some point.

9) Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused (off Led Zeppelin, 1969)

Everyone and their mother knows this song. And so they should, it's fucking great. Sometimes Led Zeppelin's music fails to keep my attention due to lack of riffs or ideas over long stretches (middle section of Whole Lotta Love, I'm looking at you), but this is solid throughout. Enjoy it whilst in the middle of this playlist of music that you probably won't have heard before.

10) Dmitri Shostakovich - Movement One (Moderato) (of Symphony No. 5 In D Minor, 1937)

Shostakovich is one of the best 20th century composers - and like the rest of the best 20th century composers, he's Russian. Not quite as avant-garde and dissonant as Stravinsky, yet still breaking new ground in the realm of classical composition, Shostakovich is essential to hear for classical music newbies.

11) Secrets Of The Moon - Black Halo (off Priveligivm, 2009)

Secrets Of The Moon are really, really, really good at writing riffs. Priveligivm is not their best, but it's still a solid album and is another solid example of their brand of mid-paced, slightly doomy, well-produced modern black metal. This one is actually pretty straight-forward and fast by their standards - indeed, there's little melody in the main riff, so the main appeal is the battery, but it's good anyway.

12) Soulreaper - Ungodly (off Written In Blood, 2000)

If you ever wanted a Morbid Angel album after Gateways To Annihilation that was worth listening to, this, and indeed Soulreaper's other one, Liferazer, are they. They really are little but a post-Vincent Morbid Angel clone, but they do what they do well enough to justify the style.

13) The Ruins Of Beverast - Skeleton Coast (off Unlock The Shrine, 2004)

Another iTunes Roulette, another TRoB track. This is an interlude track off the album, so I nearly skipped it and posted something else, but I'm being honest with you all here.

14) HammerFall - Dreamland (off Legacy Of Kings, 1998)

HammerFall's early albums are very much a love-it-or-hate-it proposition for many (their later albums are as a whole pretty poor). I love them - this isn't quite as good as the stunning Glory To The Brave, but I think that if you can overlook the massive faggotry present in the lyrics, the music is actually very well-made power metal.

15) Voivod - Twin Dummy (off Angel Rat, 1991)

Voivod are a band that I find to be overrated - their early stuff is excellent tech-thrash, sure, but the albums produced past that early era are just *adequate* grungey music. They say that grunge killed thrash, and this is an example of how.

Admire my shitty taste

iTunes Roulette, part I.

In an idea loosely based on The Living Doorway's iPod roulette but with different consequences, I'm going to post a few things (I'm loathe to say 'series' because of the failure of my past series) in which I make an 8tracks playlist of the first few things which come up on my iTunes on shuffle. It will help me to rediscover or discover music, and you to find oddities I might not have otherwise posted. Note that this is likely to be mostly metal as my metal collection is much larger than any other, due to better online resources and the fact that I've been into it for longer than other genres. Here goes:

1) Dimmu Borgir - The Sinister Awakening (off In Sorte Diaboli, 2007)

Well, this is a bad start. I'm sure I liked this back in the seemingly primitive climes of 2007 but it's just a little too clean for me now.

2) System Of A Down - Vicinity Of Obscenity (off Hypnotize, 2005)

Another gateway band. Well known, everyone has an opinion. Next!

3) Charles Bronson - Obligatory Jock Slaughter Song (off Complete Discocrappy, 2000)

This is more like it. Charles Bronson is a good band to check out for those just getting into powerviolence. Fast and angry.

4) Fist - One Percenter (1%) (off Turn The Hell On, 1980)

Actually, Xylem posted this album a while back. I haven't got around to giving it a proper listen yet but this seems like reasonable NWOBHM.

5) Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled (off Doom Mantra, 2009)

Drone, noisy, apparently hipster but I don't give a fuck, BSBC rule.

6) Drug Problem - Your Dad's Cumming (off Drug Problem, 2007)

I'm sure none of us want that image, but this is the last track off a decent underground powerviolence record. Never bothered to find out much about them though.

7) Proclamation - Tyrants Of Desolation (off Messiah Of Darkness And Impurity, 2008)

Decent, but not top-end, bestial black metal that's fairly well known by those into the scene.

8) The Ruins Of Beverast - The Restless Mills (off Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite, 2009)

Personally I think the Ruins are a little bit overrated but Foulest... is a good album of unorthodox black metal nonetheless.

9) Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace (off Dusk... And Her Embrace, 1996)

I'll warn you in advance of any further weeks that I have mp3s of all the Cradle releases; the later ones more out of morbid curiosity admittedly. This album is their best and is quite stunning.

10) Root - Casilda's Song (off The Temple In The Underworld, 1992)

Everyone who knows black metal knows that the former Czechoslovakia produced some of the best in the style, and this Root album is one of the best Czech albums.

11) Noothgrush - Stasis (off Erode The Person, 2006)

Criminally underrated sludge that really should be seen on the same tier as the likes of Grief and Eyehategod.

12) Deicide - Mephistopheles (off Deicide, 1990)

Nothing much needs to be said about Deicide's debut - it's rightly seen as a death metal classic.

13) Anaal Nathrakh - Atavism (off When Fire Rains Down From The Sky, Mankind Shall Reap As It Has Sown, 2003)

Coming pre-Domine Non Es Dignus, this is fairly raw for Anaal Nathrakh, but everything they've released is great in my opinion.

14) Death In June - Hail The White Grain (off Brown Book, 2000)

These neofolk legends simply don't have any bad material.

15) Attitude Adjustment - No Way Back (off No Way Back, 2011)

This album was surprisingly strong for a reunion album and easily matches up to more recent material of their peers.

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Court In The Act Presents: Best Of 2012 Thus Far

http://8tracks.com/persona-101/court-in-the-act-presents-the-best-of-2012-thus-far

Nothing fancy, just another 8tracks mix. A mixture of major and more underground releases of the year.

1. Absolutist - Churches Burn
2. Dodecahedron - I, Chronocrator
3. Horrendous - Fleshrot
4. Napalm Death - Collision Course
5. Asphyx - Deathhammer
6. Edremerion - L'etreinte
7. Fukpig - Fascist Moron
8. Wyrdforge - Necromancy And Napalm Bombings
9. Liberteer - Class War Never Meant More Than It Does Now
10. Nekromantheon - Rise, Vulcan Spectre
11. Receptionist - When Nobody Sees, You Seize It All
12. Woods Of Ypres - Adora Vivos

Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Index Post

A valid suggestion by JohnRCC, this is basically a summary of the death metal series, although it will not be available as a single file due to its large size.

Bands included:

Abysmal Dawn

Adramelech

Akercocke

Amon

Anaal Nathrakh

Anata

Anathema

Angelcorpse

Archgoat

Asphyx

At The Gates

Atheist

Autopsy

Avulsed

Bastard Priest

Behemoth

Belphegor

Benediction

Blasphemophagher

Bolt Thrower

Bonesaw

Burial Invocation

Cannibal Corpse

Carcariass

Carcass

Carnage

Cenotaph (Mex)

Cenotaph (Tur)

Chronocide

Convulse

Cosmic Atrophy

Cruciamentum

Cryptopsy

Cynic

Darkthrone

Death

Decrepitaph

Deicide

Demigod

Demilich

Devian

Devourment

diSEMBOWELMENT

Dismember

Dragged Into Sunlight

Dying Fetus

Edge Of Sanity

Entombed

Failed Humanity

Fist In Fetus

Fuck The Facts

Funebrarum

General Surgery

Gigan

Goatpenis

Gorefest

Gorerotted

Gorgasm

Gorguts

Grave

Grotesque

Hail Of Bullets

Hooded Menace

Immolation

Impaled

Imperator

Impetigo

Impiety

Imprecation

Incantation

Incubus

Infernal War

Insomnium

Intestine Baalism

Jumpin' Jesus

Katatonia

Krisiun

Lock Up

Luciferion

Lykathea Aflame

Malevolent Creation

Massacre

Master

Melechesh

Mitochondrion

Monstrosity

Morbid

Morbid Angel

Mortuous

My Dying Bride

Napalm Death

Necrophobic

Nile

Nirvana 2002

Nocturnus

Nunslaughter

Obituary

Obscura

Opeth

Origin

Pan.Thy.Monium

Paradise Lost

Pestilence

Phlebotomized

Portal

Possessed

Prostitute Disfigurement

Pungent Stench

Sadistik Exekution

Sadomator

Shub Niggurath

Sinister

Slaughter

Slaughter Lord

Sonne Adam

Sorrow

Soulreaper

Suffocation

Swallow The Sun

Terrorizer

The Chasm

Timeghoul

Traumatic

Ulcerate

Unleashed

Vader

Vital Remains

Vulvectomy

Wormed

Parts:

Masters Of Death I & II
A Slow Demise
Charges Of Manslaughter
Corpulent Oddities
Death Is The New Black I (currently down) & II
Death The Brutal Way
Methodical Demise
The New Old School
Themes Of The Absurd
To The Nameless Dead
Under The Influence

Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Under The Influence

The final part of this 'ere series, and I'm sure most of us are glad to see it finished, myself included (it's a lot more work than most posts). This is based on DM which takes influence from other genres (although this admittedly ended up as mainly grindcore, especially seeing as I already put Atheist in the progressive one).

Tracklist:

1. Fuck The Facts - La Derniere Image (from Stigmata High-Five)
2. General Surgery - Ambulance Chaser (from Left Hand Pathology)
3. Impetigo - Dis-Organ-Ized (from Ultimo Mondo Cannibale)
4. Lock Up - Fake Somebody/Real Nobody (from Hate Breeds Suffering)
5. Napalm Death - More Than Meets The Eye (from Fear, Emptiness, Despair)
6. Terrorizer - Corporation Pull-In (from World Downfall)
7. Wormed - Geodesic Dome (from Planisphaerium)
8. Incubus - Blaspheming Prophets (from Serpent Temptation)
9. Slaughter - Maim To Please (from Strappado)
10. Insomnium - Mortal Shore (from Above The Weeping World)

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: To The Nameless Dead

Some may call them 'third-tier', I call them 'unfairly forgotten' - this was loosely based around those death metal bands who never got the underground's attention, for whatever reason.

Tracklist:

1. Gorefest - Foetal Carnage (from Mindloss)
2. Grotesque - Incantation (from Incantation)
3. Timeghoul - Occurence On Mimas (from Panaramic Twilight)
4. Jumpin' Jesus - The King Of Worms (from The Art Of Crucifying)
5. Imperator - Persecutor (from The Time Before Time)
6. Nirvana 2002 - Zombiefication (from Disembodied Spirits)
7. Slaughter Lord - Die By Power (from Split Bootleg With Morbid Angel)
8. Soulreaper - Godless Reaper Of Souls (from Liferazer)
9. Imprecation - Vomit Floods Of Christian Remains (from Theurga Goetia Summa)
10. Traumatic - The Grotesque Mutilation Of Infested Organs (from The Morbid Act Of A Sadistic Rape Incision)

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Themes Of The Absurd

Okay, so this was the last part of the series I threw together (although there are still two more to come), and it lacks a common theme; I simply used what I had left that I wanted to include.

Tracklist:

1. Dying Fetus - Epidemic Of Hate (from Destroy The Opposition)
2. Unleashed - Dead Forever (from Where No Life Dwells)
3. Pungent Stench - Games Of Humiliation (from Been Caught Buttering)
4. Hail Of Bullets - General Winter (from ...Of Frost And War)
5. Intestine Baalism - Alastor Possess (from An Anatomy Of The Beast)
6. Avulsed - Homeless Necrophile (from Stabwound Orgasm)
7. Luciferion - On The Wings Of The Emperor (from Demonication (The Manifest))
8. Impaled - Spirits Of The Dead (from The Dead Shall Dead Remain)
9. Gorerotted - Gagged, Shagged, Bodybagged (from Mutilated In Minutes)
10. Nunslaughter - This Is Fucking War (from Hex)

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: The New Old School

In case you weren't aware, there's been something of a resurgence in bands playing old-school style death metal recently, probably to counteract the soulless wankery that has taken precedent since the turn of the millenium. This is a compilation of some of my favourites from this scene. (I will note that my colleague HeySharpshooter is somewhat more of an expert than me; if you like the style, I highly recommend all of his posts).

Tracklist:

1. Bastard Priest - Total Mutilation (from Under The Hammer Of Destruction)
2. Funebrarum - Cursed Eternity (from The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams)
3. Hooded Menace - Terror Castle (from Never Cross The Dead)
4. Sonne Adam - Take Me Back To Where I Belong (from Transformation)
5. Abysmal Dawn - Leveling The Plane Of Existence (from Leveling The Plane Of Existence)
6. Bonesaw - Kill, Fuck And Eat (from Sawtopsy)
7. Decrepitaph - Desecrate Sacred Flesh (from Profane Doctrines Unburied)
8. Burial Invocation - Through The Void Of Obscurity (from Rituals Of The Grotesque)
9. Cruciamentum - Convocation Of Crawling Chaos (from Convocation Of Crawling Chaos)
10. Mortuous - External Deformities (from Mors Immortalis)

N.B. The reason for Abysmal Dawn's presence here is that they are akin to classic era Morbid Angel - amongst the rest they will stick out like a sore thumb.

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Methodical Demise

Similarly to brutal death, technical death metal is not my favourite subgenre of death metal (and the two often cross over), but there are some parts of it which I like. This is largely formed of stuff which I like, and some which is passable, and including the classics of the genre:

Tracklist:

1. Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts (from None So Vile)
2. Nile - Lashed To The Slave Stick (from Annihilation Of The Wicked)
3. Demilich - (Within) The Chamber Of Whispering Eyes (from Nespithe)
4. Gorguts - Nostalgia (from Obscura)
5. Nocturnus - Lake Of Fire (from The Key)
6. Origin - Wrath Of Vishnu (from Antithesis)
7. Obscura - Euclidean Elements (from Omnivium)
8. Anata - Dance To The Song Of Apathy (from Under A Stone With No Inscription)
9. Gigan - Suspended In Cubes Of Torment (from Quasi-Hallucinogenic Sonic Landscapes)
10. Carcariass - Children Slave (from Hell On Earth)

I refuse to post Brain Drill.

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Death The Brutal Way

Stealing a title from Asphyx may be one thing, but attempting to create a compilation on a sub-genre one is not particularly fond of is another. There are some brutal death bands I love (Suffocation, Demigod, Lykathea Aflame and Ulcerate are on this), but the majority of this part is formed of stuff I have downloaded on a whim.

Tracklist:

1. Suffocation - Breeding The Spawn (from Pierced From Within)
2. Demigod - As I Behold I Despise (from Slumber Of Sullen Eyes)
3. Devourment - Masturbating At The Slab (from Butcher The Weak)
4. Lykathea Aflame - Bringer Of Elvenefris Flame (from Elvenefris)
5. Ulcerate - We Are Nil (from Everything Is Fire)
6. Prostitute Disfigurement - She's Not Coming Home Tonight (from Deeds Of Derangement)
7. Gorgasm - Infection Induced Erection (from Orgy Of Murder)
8. Cenotaph - Gorenographic Pervert Victimology (from Putrescent Infectious Rabidity)
9. Failed Humanity - They Rise, They Fall (from The Sound Of Razors Through Flesh)
10. Vulvectomy - Adolescent Vaginal Gourmet (from Post-Abortion Slut Fuck)

N.B. The 'Cenotaph' included here is not the one that will be included on this blog later, who are a Mexican death/doom outfit who evolved into The Chasm.

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Death Is The New Black Part II

Although the artwork format looks kind of strained with that length of album title, I'd like to take another opportunity during a theme I've already described to thank Teekylee once again for its awesomeness. She won't be uploading herself, but it's nice to have a resident artist.

Tracklist:

1. Akercocke - The Dark Inside (from Antichrist)
2. Melechesh - Grand Gathas Of Baal Sin (from Emissaries)
3. Impiety - Terror, Death, Worship! (from Formidionis Nex Cultus)
4. Devian - Heresy (from Ninewinged Serpent)
5. Mitochondrion - Trials (from Parasignosis)
6. Infernal War - Spill The Dirty Blood Of Jesus (from Redesekration)
7. Blasphemophagher - Demiurge Of Thermonuclear Damnation (from Nuclear Empire Of Apocalypse)
8. Goatpenis - Fatal Equinox (Perpetual Resplendence) (from Biochemterrorism)
9. Sadomator - Nuns Ingesting Sperm (from Goatblood Panspermia)
10. Chronocide - Children Of Thalidomide (from The Solitude Of Man)

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Death Is The New Black Part I

No, this, the next part of the death metal series, is not about hipster deathcore bands with fringes (rest assured, that will not come to be), but rather the expansive genre of blackened death metal - so expansive I had to split this into two parts, of which this is the first.

Tracklist:

1. Morbid - From The Dark (from December Moon)
2. Sadistik Exekution - Possessed Haemorrhage (from The Magus)
3. Belphegor - Vomit Upon The Cross (from Necrodaemon Terrorsathan)
4. Angelcorpse - Reap The Whirlwind (from Exterminate)
5. Necrophobic - The Call (from Darkside)
6. Archgoat - Angel Of Sodomy (from Whore Of Bethlehem)
7. Anaal Nathrakh - Reevaluation Of All Values (from Domine Non Es Dignus)
8. Amon - The Morning Of Black Magic (from Shemhamforash)
9. Behemoth - Slaves Shall Serve (from Demigod)
10. Shub Niggurath - From The Stars, Nyarlothep (from The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon On Earth))

Link taken down. Will be put back up if I feel like it or if there is demand for it.

Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Corpulent Oddities

This part of the death metal series is focused on the progressive elements of death metal - although I have attempted to keep the core of this being death metal as opposed to proggy shit (had to get that one in to piss off JohnRCC).

Tracklist:

1. Death - Secret Face (from Human)
2. Pan.Thy.Monium - Untitled II (from Dawn Of Dreams)
3. Cynic - Uroboric Forms (from Focus)
4. Edge Of Sanity - Twilight (from Purgatory Afterglow)
5. The Chasm - I'm The Hateful Raven (from Deathcult For Eternity: The Triumph)
6. Atheist - Your Life's Retribution (from Unquestionable Presence)
7. Portal - Marithyme (from Swarth)
8. Phlebotomized - Desecration Of Alleged Christian Remains (from Immense Intense Suspense)
9. Cosmic Atrophy - Doomed By The Cancer Domus (from Codex Incubo)
10. Fist In Fetus - Communion (from Fist In Fetus)

Total runtime 57:24

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Charges Of Manslaughter

Before I introduce another part of the death metal series, I'm just explaining my comparative absence of recent times. I'm not losing interest; I love this. I'm simply on holiday, with sporadic internet access.

Anyway, this one is based around lower-tier death metal bands that are nonetheless well recognized. There is no other common theme than that.

Tracklist:

1. Dismember - Dismembered (from Like An Everflowing Stream)
2. Vader - Sothis (from De Profundis)
3. Monstrosity - Immense Malignancy (from Imperial Doom)
4. Benediction - Eternal Eclipse (from Subconscious Terror)
5. Convulse - Blasphemous Verses (from World Without God)
6. Krisiun - Blind Possession (from Black Force Domain)
7. Adramelech - Mythic Descendant (from Psychostasia)
8. Vital Remains - Dechristianize (from Dechristianize)
9. Sinister - Desecrated Flesh (from Diabolical Summoning)
10. Massacre - Corpsegrinder (from From Beyond)

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: A Slow Demise

This is another part of the death metal series; from here on in, the parts are not ordered. This aims to expose the quality in the realms of doomy death metal, which naturally means long songs, thus a large filesize.

Tracklist:

1. My Dying Bride - A Sea To Suffer In (from The Angel And The Dark River)
2. Anathema - Cerulean Twilight (from The Silent Enigma)
3. Paradise Lost - Gothic (from Gothic)
4. Opeth - Demon Of The Fall (from My Arms, Your Hearse)
5. Katatonia - Brave (from Brave Murder Day)
6. diSEMBOWELMENT - The Tree Of Life And Death (from Transcendence Into The Peripheral)
7. Sorrow - Human Error (from Hatred And Disgust)
8. Swallow The Sun - The Justice Of Suffering (from Hope)
9. Cenotaph - Larvs Of Subconcious (from The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrows)
10. Dragged Into Sunlight - Boiled Angel, Buried With Leeches (from Hatred For Mankind)

The second half of this one is a lot more extreme than the first half, which has a tendency to gothic doom.

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Masters Of Death Part II

The second part of the death metal series. This is the next tier of DM bands (with some overlap with the premier acts - not on quality, but exposure), but they're all still hugely respected with the DM sphere, hence the continuation of the title.

Tracklist:

1. At The Gates - City Of Screaming Statues (from Gardens Of Grief)
2. Darkthrone - Sempiternal Sepulchrality (from Soulside Journey)
3. Pestilence - Deify Thy Master (from Consuming Impulse)
4. Incantation - Golgotha (from Onward To Golgotha)
5. Immolation - No Jesus, No Beast (from Failures For Gods)
6. Asphyx - Last One On Earth (from Last One On Earth)
7. Grave - ...And Here I Die... Satisfied (from ...And Here I Die... Satisfied)
8. Malevolent Creation - Systematic Execution (from Retribution)
9. Carnage - Death Evocation (from Dark Recollections)
10. Master - Funeral Bitch (from Master)

N.B. Where there is not yet a link to an album or a band does not mean that there will not be that band on the blog by the time you read this.

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Court In The Act Presents Death Metal: Masters Of Death Part I

After the surprising success of the thrash series, I thought I'd do another one. Except this one is going to be longer. Many thanks to Teekylee for her beautiful artwork - it's a lot better than the one I did for the thrash series, that's for certain! This first part is a very basic introduction to the legends of death metal.

Tracklisting:

1. Death - Evil Dead (from Scream Bloody Gore)
2. Possessed - Death Metal (from Seven Churches)
3. Morbid Angel - Maze Of Torment (from Altars Of Madness)
4. Autopsy - In The Grip Of Winter (from Mental Funeral)
5. Carcass - Incarnated Solvent Abuse (from Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious)
6. Obituary - 'Til Death (from Slowly We Rot)
7. Bolt Thrower - World-Eater (from Realm Of Chaos)
8. Cannibal Corpse - A Skull Full Of Maggots (from Eaten Back To Life)
9. Entombed - But Life Goes On (from Left Hand Path)
10. Deicide - Revocate The Agitator (from Legion)

Please note that just because a link to the album does not exist on this page, does not mean it does not exist on the blog. Indeed, as time goes on, it is more likely to exist elsewhere, as this page will not be updated.

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Court In The Act Presents Thrash: Parts I-V

So now that the thrash series has been completely posted, I'd like to say a few words about it. Before I get any complaints about any particular bands not being posted (as if the blog is popular enough for that), I'd like to add the disclaimer that this is in no way intended to be encyclopaedic. I'm not the most knowledgeable person about thrash in the world, and as I said in the first post, this is more targeted at people being introduced to the genre. Artists were chosen at an arbitrary basis within the categories, and songs are those I like. The series has included the following bands:

Absu
Annihilator
Anthrax
Aura Noir
Bathory
Blood Tsunami
Celtic Frost
Dark Angel
Deiphago
Demolition Hammer
Deströyer 666
Destruction
Dew-Scented
Evile
Exodus
Flotsam & Jetsam
Forbidden
Heathen
Hellhammer
Hobbs' Angel Of Death
Holy Terror
Impaled Nazarene
Kreator
Lawnmower Deth
Legion Of The Damned
Manilla Road
Metal Church
Metallica
Morbid Saint
Mutant
Nifelheim
Pestilence
Possessed
Razor
Ripping Corpse
Sacrifice
Sadus
Sarcófago
Sepultura
Sextrash
Skeletonwitch
Slayer
Sodom
SSS
Testament
Toxic Holocaust
Venom
Violator
Vomitor
Vulcano

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Part IV
Part V
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Court In The Act Presents Thrash Pt. V: 21st Century Thrash

The final part of Court In The Act's Thrash Series (for now), this is based on newer albums (not necessarily bands) which have particularly impressed, although the only qualifier was to be released post-2000 (and, obviously, to play thrash).

Tracklisting:

1. Absu - Pillars Of Mercy (from Tara)
2. Evile - Schizophrenia (from Enter The Grave)
3. Toxic Holocaust - Nuke The Cross (from An Overdose Of Death)
4. Heathen - Arrows Of Agony (from The Evolution Of Chaos)
5. SSS - New Dogs (from SSS)
6. Aura Noir - Schitzoid Paranoid (from Hades Rise)
7. Legion Of The Damned - Legion Of The Damned (from Malevolent Rapture)
8. Violator - Atomic Nightmare (from Chemical Assault)
9. Vomitor - Neutron Hammer (from Devils Poison)
10. Mutant - Turbo Hyper Ultra Mega Power (from Laserdrome)

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Court In The Act Presents Thrash Pt. IV: Lost Gems Of Thrash

This is part 4 of Court In The Act's thrash series, and it's focused on highlighting some of the quality within the lesser-known areas of thrash metal. It ranges in style, from that which is barely aggressive enough to be thrash (Manilla Road), to the brutal (Ripping Corpse, Sextrash).

Tracklisting:

1. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic (from Crystal Logic)
2. Razor - Behind Bars (from Violent Restitution)
3. Metal Church - (My Favourite) Nightmare (from Metal Church)
4. Flotsam And Jetsam - Desecrator (from Doomsday For The Deceiver)
5. Sacrifice - Existence Within Eternity (from Soldiers Of Misfortune)
6. Ripping Corpse - Anti God (from Dreaming With The Dead)
7. Lawnmower Deth - The Seventh Church Of The Apocalyptic Lawnmower (from Ooh Crikey It's Lawnmower Deth!)
8. Sextrash - Alcoholic Mosh (from Sexual Carnage)
9. Hobbs' Angel Of Death - Jack The Ripper (from Hobbs' Angel Of Death)
10. Holy Terror - Debt Of Pain (from Mind Wars)

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