The Sleep Sessions - Lead Into Gold [2008]

(sorry, no cover for this one)

The Sleep Sessions is Dawid Kowalski and he creates harsh noise. The thing is that like many of the Europeans in the noise scene Dawid follows a concept which revolves around lucid dreaming, psychedelic experiments and philosophy. That associated with is "control" over his music originates a very controlled form of harsh noise,free from all the craziness that others do, which in my opinion is something more enjoyable for the casual listening.

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BONUS: Since Dawid got in touch, here are two more releases of his:

Damn Noisy Kids (split with Michelada)
Somnaphobia (split with Thirteen Fingers)

Also, this is now affirmed definitely as being legal to download as Court In The Act has permission to post this.

Azarath - Blasphemer's Malediction [2011]

It has been an incredible year for Old School Death Metal. Initially, it seemed the movement was largely a reactionary one against Technical Death Metal, which at first was the biggest thing in Death Metal before the predictable backlash against it. To me, it was a bunch of pissed off, fat neckbeards (like me) who were mad they could not play "Stabwound" despite all the practice at it, gave up, and formed a bunch of Incantation and Morbid Angel worship bands. A few brilliant new acts and legends stood out, but most of the demos and bands were crap. 2011 has given legitimacy to this movement in my opinion. The sheer quality of the releases this year has changed my opinion on this classic revival for good.

One of those releases this year is Azarath's Blasphemer's Malediction. Azarath have been churning out very solid Angelcorpse worship for over a decade, but Blasphemer's Malediction is their finest work by far. This is some very high quality, old-school Blackend Death Metal, filled to bursting with evil riffs and furious double bass. This album is very fast, only occasionally dropping to mid-tempo's for some flavor. The vocals are brilliantly old-school, and the production is excellent. This is the album we were all hoping Morbid Angel would release this year (my second dig on MA today. Good day). Also, the song "Deathstorms Raid the Earth" is fucking brilliant.

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Imperator - The Time Before Time [1991]

Some Old School Polish Death Metal for you. Their only album before going bankrupt after the planned release on Deathlike Silence fell through and they had to release it on a a label with big distribution problems. This album is great, full of awesome riffs and intense thrashing. This is not very well know but I would rate it as one of the best OSDM albums to come out of eastern Europe. A must for any OSDM fan.

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Vader - Impressions In Blood [2006]

This album comes on a request - personally, I don't think it's all that good, and it delayed me from checking out their masterpiece 'De Profundis' for quite a while. That said, it still features at least a couple of nice songs, in particular 'As Heavens Collide' and 'Helleluyah (sic) (God Is Dead)'.

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Graveland - Thousand Swords [1995]

N.B. The .zip and mp3s both list this as a 1996 release, but I'm not reuploading it for such a minor detail.
N.B.2 The artwork included in the files is from a later release of it.

Graveland took heavy Burzum influence on this, however, what sets them apart from the hordes of Burzum clones is sprinklings of Bathory (particularly 'Blood Fire Death' era) and some ideas of their own, shock horror. This is seen by many as a classic of black metal, and don't be put off by any NS allegations.

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