Must Have Soundtracks No. 1

Album: Lost Highway
Year: 1997

Tracklisting:

1. I'm Deranged - David Bowie
2. Videodrones; Questions - Trent Reznor
3. Perfect Drug, The - Nine Inch Nails
4. Red Bats With Teeth - Angelo Badalamenti
5. Haunting & Heartbreaking - Angelo Badalamenti
6. Eye - Smashing Pumpkins
7. Dub Driving - Angelo Badalamenti
8. Mr. Eddy's Theme 1 - Barry Adamson
9. This Magic Moment - Lou Reed
10. Mr. Eddy's Theme 2 - Barry Adamson
11. Fred & Renee Make Love - Angelo Badalamenti
12. Apple of Sodom - Marilyn Manson
13. Insensatez - Antonio Carlos Jobim
14. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Barry Adamson
15. I Put a Spell on You - Marilyn Manson
16. Fats Revisited - Angelo Badalamenti
17. Fred's World - Angelo Badalamenti
18. Rammstein - Rammstein
19. Hollywood Sunset - Barry Adamson
20. Heirate Mich - Rammstein
21. Police - Angelo Badalamenti
22. Driver Down - Trent Reznor
23. I'm Deranged (Reprise) - David Bowie

Lost Highway is a 21st century noir horror film by David Lynch, nearly impossible to explain with questions of identity being central themes. The soundtracks original material (composer Angelo Badalamenti, and Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor) and compiled selections provide the perfect atmospheric backing to Lynch's psychological thriller masterpiece. The track selection is mostly-industrial, alternative rock and metal cuts, with a couple of jazz songs and dark original score selections, including an industrial-tinged Badalamenti/Reznor collaboration.
We've Met Before, Haven't We?

Odin's Eight-Legged Steed

Band: The Flight of Sleipnir
Album: Lore
Year: 2010
Genre: Doom/Stoner/Psychedelia
Country: United States
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theflightofsleipnir

Tracklisting:

1. Legends
2. Of Words and Ravens
3. Asgardreid
4. Fenrisulfr
5. The End Begun
6. Black Swans
7. No Man Will Spare Another
8. Winter Nocturne
9. Let Us Drink Till We Die

Sleip∙nir -(slāp'nir) Odin's eight-legged steed, and the greatest of all horses. Sleipnir, the swiftest on the earth could bear Odin over sea, through the air, and to and from the land of the dead.
Lore is a mythological journey that strikes a balance between trational doom and stoner/psychedelia to healthy doses of progressive and experimental sounds. The album is atmospheric and melodic with plenty of dark turns into heaviness and menacing riffs.

Giddy Up

Romanian Thunder

Band: Negura Bunget
Album: Virstele Pamintului
Year: 2010
Genre: Black Metal
Country: Romania
Mtspace: http://www.myspace.com/negurabunget

Tracklisting:

01. Pămînt
02. Dacia Hiperboreană
03. Umbra
04. Ochiul Inimii
05. Chei de Rouă
06. Ţara de Dincolo de Negură
07. Jar
08. Arborele Lumii
09. Întoarcerea Amurgului

"Vîrstele pamîntului was completed on seclusion in the wilderness of the mountains.
Translated as 'Ages of the Land/ Earth' is as the title suggests an album about ages, about places of the earth and places of the spirit, about bounds transcending worlds. It’s an album about embracing your destiny, about choosing and consciously assuming a way of life."

Pan Flute Anyone?

Spheksophobia

Band: Talanas
Album: The Waspkeeper
Year: 2011
Genre: Progressive Metal
Country: United Kingdom
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/talanas

Tracklisting:

1. Ananta (the Portrait)
2. The Veil & Its Behest
3. A Fortune Worth Its Disguise
4. Messaline
5. Elsewhere, But for the Giving
6. The Ecstasy of Betrayal
7. Penetralium
8. Prussia White
9. Antiphon
10. The Unhealing I
11. The Unhealing II

"The Waspkeeper manages to combine instrumental intricacy, bared-teeth aggression, and an atmosphere of melancholy in near-equal measure."

An absolute stunner of an album

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BIATCHES
Mantap

Reason No. 4 Why the 90's Were Better Than the 80's

Band: Lethargy
Album: It's Hard to Write with a Little Hand
Year: 1996
Genre:  Technical Death Metal
Country: United States

Tracklisting:

1. Carebone
2. Humor Me
3. Create
4. Spill
5. Erased
6. Medley
7. Spineless
8. Thread
9. Among
10. Humorless

Bordering on old school death metal and mathcore, Lethargy's only studio album is an ever twisting instrumental interplay. Songs are loaded with riffs, sudden changed in tempo, odd timing and the occassional blast beat. Good to note that two of the lads went on to play with Today is the Day and then Mastodon.

Honey, I Shrank My Arm

Reason No. 3 Why the 90's Were Better Than the 80's

Band: Megadeth
Album: Rust In Peace
Year: 1990
Genre: Thrash Metal
Country: united States

Tracklisting:

1. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
2. Hangar 18
3. Take No Prisoners
4. Five Magics
5. Poison Was the Cure
6. Lucretia
7. Tornado of Souls
8. Dawn Patrol
9. Rust in Peace... Polaris

‘Rust in Peace’ would have to be Megadeth’s most balanced effort. It’s not a straight forward thrash record and manages to integrate a more technical, melodic and progressive edge into the album. While the vocals are questionable and not to everyone’s taste the musicianship is tight and the lyrics are superb. I wouldn’t  go as far as describing ‘Rust in Peace as a masterpiece but it is an essential album for any collection.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Haaaaaaa

And The Walls Will Come Down

Band: Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Album: Exegesis
Year: 2012
Genre: Progressive Metal
Country: United States
Bandcamp: http://tacomanarrowsbridgedisaster.bandcamp.com/

Tracklisting:

1. Fractal World
2. Exegesis
3. Calligraphy
4. Valis
5. Black Iron Prison
6. Going Out Like Lights On A Switchboard
7. Sungazer
8. Wake 

Sick of waiting for that new Tool album to come out???
Well this is a worthy alternative.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The digital album cost less than the price of a beer so support the artist and buy it you cheap bastards.

So Hard A Cat Couldn't Scratch It

Band: Vagitarians
Album: Wood
Year: 2012
Genre: Sludge Metal
Country: Poland
Bandcamp: http://vagitarians.bandcamp.com/

Tracklisting:

1. Spirit is free
2. Close to the window
3. Shallow Grave
4. Ruthless/Bezlitosne Mieso
5. Stones from a blank sky

Some hardcore sludge hammer from Poland that will knock your block off.

The digital album cost less than the price of a beer so support the artist and buy it you cheap bastards.

Reason No. 2 Why the 90's Were Better Than the 80's

Band: Tool
Album: Aenima
Year: 1996
Genre: Progressive Rock
Country: United States
Myspace: Tool

Tracklisting:

1. Stinkfist
2. Eulogy
3. H.
4. Useful Idiot
5. Forty Six & 2
6. Message to Harry Manback
7. Hooker with a Penis
8. Intermission
9. Jimmy
10. Die Eier von Satan
11. Pushit
12. Cesaro Summability
13. Ænema
14. (-) Ions
15. Third Eye

Innovative Music +
Complex Instrumentation +
Impressive Lyrics & Vocals =
=====================
An Absolute classic album.

Dark and dense, its an album that has to be not just listened too but experienced.

Don't You Fucking Lie

Sample Based Pocket Funk

Band: Chu.
Album: Messychops
Year: 2012
Genre: Hip Hopstrumental/Funk
Country: Australia
Bandcamp: http://chuchoons.bandcamp.com/album/messychops

Tracklisting:

1. The Shiva 
2. Ya got to be funky. 
3. 2kings
4. Baby baby
5. Future oounis  
6. Blaze  
7. Shouey  
8. iwish   
9. Cath me   
10. Dark Sun  
11. Geez Louiese   
12. brrrrrb  
13. Gimme the night   
14. heck yes  
15. An Asian Dingo  
16. get involved  
17. tuberculosis  
18. I'm Ready  
19. moochers.  
20. Athel Life  

20 tunes from 2012 that are pretty much all sample based funky shit.

The Colour Of Music

Band: Soror Dolorosa
Album: Blind Scenes
Year: 2011
Genre: New Wave/Gothic Rock
Country: France
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sorordolorosa

Tracklisting:

1. Crystal Lane
2. Autumn Wounds
3. Damaged Dreamer
4. Low End
5. Soror Dolorosa
6. Scars Of Crusade
7. In A Glance
8. Broken Wings

In the bands own words:

"The album is quite cold, with misty blue moods. 'Blind Scenes' would rather be perceived as scenes unseen, that is to say, out of time and out of the real world. As a state of grace overshadowed by the inevitability of everyday life. The lyrics are heartfelt and talk about regrets, coldness, alcohol abuse, as well as forfeiture, but mostly nostalgia, hence the blue color of the music."

No Regrets