Pitchfork's 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010-2014) Pitchfork's 33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time. On Obsequiae do interludes differently. Among those bands, Toronto’s Tomb Mold began as the most reverential; their pivot toward atmospheric territory began with last year’s From the return of Sunn O))) to Blood Incantation’s death-metal space odysseys to anarcha-feminists Ragana, these are the metal records we loved this year. It’s a perfect match: Ragana lifts us up towards the light, Thou brings us crashing back down to hell on earth. Lists & Guides. By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. Listening to it feels like competitive spinal surgery: tearing you open, doing something insanely complicated and ill-advised, and sewing you up in just 27 minutes. The creepy-crawly riffs on horror vignettes, like the crusty, churning “Old Maid” and distortion-smeared “Drums of Dark Gods,” come slick with blood and slither straight down your spine. Pitchfork. (“Yes, even the choirs,” he notes in the credits.) The warped, intricate death metal of the Colorado quartet’s sophomore album takes influence from legendary bands like Death and Morbid Angel, while its all-analog recording and illustrated sci-fi cover art feel further rooted in the past. At the intersection of death metal and D-beat is Power Trip drummer Chris Ulsh, who revived his main band Mammoth Grinder after a four-year hiatus. Horrendous are one of the few death metal bands who mine the sounds of the past with a gaze towards the future. Even the side-long closing track, “Awakening From the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul),” seems like a nod to the ’70s prog acts whose dark visions helped inspire countless subgenres of heavy music. These dozen tirades limn a landscape where sweet love is brittle, country rivers run red, panaceas beget apocalypse, and civil society enforces conformity. I think I actually got aids from reading loudwires listI can't get into death growls and def want more tradional vocals from my metal. 5 years later they’ve totally forgotten about it so they never realize half these bands were utterly irrelevant.You’re absolutely right. When you buy something through our retail links, however, Pitchfork may earn an affiliate commission. They usually have some bandcamp only stuff, like Ragana in this case, and until last week or so Profetus too.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castPress J to jump to the feed. The crusty impulses are there, lurking beneath the muck on tracks like “Rückenfigur,” but rancid death remains their primary concern. The Bay Area anarcha-feminists offer three slices of thoughtful, emotionally rich blackened doom, and their abiding love for screamo and gentler sounds shows on tracks like the whispery “Inviolate,” the harsh brightness of “The Sun,” and the tense, howling “The Void.” For Thou’s part, they skew heavier and nastier, using crackling feedback and seasick vocal harmonies to build an aura of general unease. Yet the real brilliance of this music lies in how For most of this decade, these dismal Swedes seemed ready to burn out. But he’s never gone quite as deep or dissonant as he does on Inspired by classic Finnish death metal and role-playing video games like “Bloodborne,” Tomb Mold’s second album is a familiar dose of gnarly, dissonant mayhem, propelled by blast beats and breakdowns. It also sheds light on one of the underground’s greatest secrets: Ragana. And coming second is their desire to hype some obscure irrelevant shit so hipsters can feel they’re ahead of the curve. The absence of Mayhem is at the very least suspicious, at worst it reflects the malfunction of the reviewer’s ears. After three years of inactivity, Teitanblood reemerged with A major trend of metal in the 2010s has been old-school death metal revival. The site’s reputation historically was closely associated with independent underground music, and in the last 10 years their Album of the Year award has gone to Of those 14 albums, a grand total of one appeared on The rest of the list of 14 is a mix of names we’ve seen in many other “big platform” lists and others that have appeared rarely, if at all.