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?

We're Going Down

Band: Cloudkicker
Album: Beacons
Year: 2010
Genre: Progressive Metal / Instrumental
Country: United States
Bandcamp: cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/album/beacons

Tracklisting:

1.  We Are Going To Invert
2.  Here, Wait A Minute! Damn It
3.  We're Goin' In. We're Going Down
4.  Oh, God
5.  I Admit It Now. I Was Scared
6.  We Were All Scared
7.  Push It Way Up!
8. ...Its Just Wide-Open Field
9.  It's Bad. We're Hit, Man, We Are Hit
10. Amy, I LoveYou

It's The Price Of A Beer ... Buy It!!!

Watain - Lawless Darkness (2010)

Sweden' s own Watain once again reach out of the darkness and wrap their gnarled fist around your Jatz Crackers.

It's black metal at it best.
It's black metal with that old school thrash feel.
It's a combination of vocals, guitars, drums and the strength of that composition.

In the end its fucking Watain.



Tracklisting:

1. 'Death's Cold Dark'
2. 'Malfeitor'
3. 'Reaping Death'
4. 'Four Thrones'
5. 'Wolves Curse'
6. 'Lawless Darkness'
7. 'Total Funeral'
8. 'Hymn To Qayin'
9. 'Kiss Of Death'
10. 'Waters Of Ain'

Deep, Cold and Black

Atheist - Jupiter (2010)

Another nightshift being whipped by the unrelenting machine, pushing cups of coffee down my engorged gullet and throwing some grooves into the blackness.

Whilst never having heard Atheist before I didn't have any expectations. If anything I had my doubts seeing the band has been peddling its wares since the mid 80's and this is their first album in 17 years. I reached out, turned my metal horns to the sky and prayed it wasn't some geriatric power metalers hiding behind a very cool album cover.

Not to be. The album starts off with a blistering pace and with a bucket of shit in hand, the band throws everything at you. Spiraling riffs and tempo changes. Countless solos and sick twists.  I expect in comparison to their previous efforts the production its a very polished sound and to some this may be a downfall that the band has climbed out of the dungeon. Overall a great album.

Tracklisting:

01. Second To Sun
02. Fictitious Glide
03. Fraudulent Cloth
04. Live And Live Again
05. Faux King Christ
06. Tortoise The Titan
07. When The Beast
08. Third Person

When the Beast Calls...Answer