QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - ...LIKE CLOCKWORK (2013)
Brilliant. Strikes a good balance between radio-sounding singles and big, dirty riffs. Their best for a while, possibly since Songs for the Deaf.
AT THE GATES - TERMINAL SPIRIT DISEASE (1994)
Amongst the first death metal I heard, revisisted today alongwith 'Slaughter of the Soul'. Much more melogic time in the bands career when compared to their earlier stuff, and damn good.
NAAM - NAAM (2009)
I band I heard but didn't actually see at a festival recently, as I was mostly preoccupied and distracted, and this band served as somewhat of a wind down inbetween bands I knew and really wanted to see. What a mistake. Fresh, ripe, heavy psych stoner metal, with plenty of vocal harmonies and softer, more grander, mellow moments. Very, very good.