It's ****ing fantastic. Probably top 10 material for this year.

Huge fan. Gotta check this out.

Have you listened to this?

I'm gonna go ahead and start pasting Metal Injection's lists here each month, because I never see anyone else doing it.

November
03.11 Adimiron - Timelapse
03.11 Soen - Tellurian
04.11 Judicator - At The Expense Of Humanity
04.11 Kauan - Muistumia
04.11 The Prophecy²³ - Untrue Like A Boss
04.11 The Skull - For Those Which Are Asleep
04.11 Apostle Of Solitude - Of Woe And Wounds
04.11 Decaying - One To Conquer
04.11 Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
05.11 Spires - The Whisperer
07.11 Job For A Cowboy - Sun Eater
07.11 Triosphere - The Heart Of The Matter
07.11 Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm
07.11 Downfall Of Gaia - Aeon Unveils The Thrones Of Decay
07.11 Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel
07.11 Spectral Haze - I.E.V.: Transmutated Nebula Remains
07.11 Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
07.11 Usnea - Random Cosmic Violence
08.11 Gillman - Tributo A Los Desconocidos
09.11 Appalachian Winter - The Epochs That Built The Mountains
10.11 SSS - Limp. Gasp. Collapse.
10.11 Nightingale - Retribution
10.11 Kaipa - Sattyg
10.11 11Paranoias - Stealing Fire From Heaven
10.11 Pain Of Salvation - Falling Home
10.11 Skyharbor - Guiding Lights
10.11 Saille - Eldritch
11.11 Methedras - System Subversion
11.11 The Birthday Massacre - Superstition
11.11 Old Man Gloom - The Ape Of God
11.11 Stealing Axion - Aeons
11.11 Hanzel Und Gretyl - Black Forest Metal
12.11 Anguish - Mountain
14.11 Skálmöld - Með Vættum
14.11 Monster Magnet - Milking The Stars: A Reimagining Of Last Patrol
14.11 Raunchy - Vices.Virtues.Visions.
14.11 The Deathtrip - Deep Drone Master
15.11 Nesseria - Fractures
15.11 Desecravity - Orphic Signs
16.11 Redwood Hill - Collider
17.11 Voices - London
17.11 Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral
17.11 In This Moment - Black Widow
18.11 These Are They - At The Feast Of Seven Funerals
18.11 Kaledon - Antillius: The King Of The Light
18.11 Cadaveria - Silence
19.11 Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
19.11 Bloodbound - Stormborn
21.11 The Duskfall - Where The Tree Stands Dead
21.11 Varathron - Untrodden Corridors Of Hades
21.11 Divine Ascension - Liberator
21.11 Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
21.11 Cripper - Hyëna
21.11 Centinex - Redeeming Filth
22.11 Fen - Carrion Skies
24.11 Wayfarer - Children Of The Iron Age
24.11 The Flight Of Sleipnir - V
25.11 Foscor - Those Horrors Wither
25.11 Aria - Через Все Времена
26.11 Engel - Raven Kings
26.11 Omit - Medusa Truth Part 1
28.11 Harmony - Theatre Of Redemption
28.11 Isole - The Calm Hunter
28.11 Axenstar - Where Dreams Are Forgotten
28.11 Black Fate - Between Visions & Lies
30.11 Lost Soul - Atlantis (The New Beginning)

^ I wasn't too keen about the last Primordial album Redemption at the Puritan's Hand. I guess I'll give their new one a listen but I'm expecting more of the same.

Maailma - Speculum
Aphex Twin - Syro
Silver Mt. Zion - **** Off Get Free
Grouper - Ruins
St. Vincent - s/t
Swans - To Be Kind
Aleksi Perala - Colundi Sequence volumes 1-6
Venetian Snares - My Love Is A Bulldozer
Dahga Bloom - No Curtains
Iceage - Plowing Into The Fields of Love
Franz Kirmann - Meridians
Plaid - Reachy Prints
Young Fathers - Dead
FKA Twigs - LP1
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Revelation

(more pending)

2014 has been a great year, I loved this new direction of R&B that cropped up with Young Fathers and FKA Twigs. Syro was everything I wanted it to be, Ruins was just a real pleasant surprise, and the new Iceage pulled me back into the group. I honestly feel like as the years go by, I find it easier and easier to find new and great things coming out. Fuck all those idiots living in the past, lamenting about today's music. I see nothing but greatness.

tētēma - Geocidal (December 9)

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For Mike Patton fans, I just learned of a new project he's involved in with composer Anthony Pateras. Their debut album comes out in two weeks. Those of you into tribal and world music, you may also enjoy.

"Patton’s croaking vocals crouch behind thick, clattering percussion and big bars of distortion like a tiger hiding in bamboo. It sounds like a hymn meant to accompany some strange religious ceremony, full of clanging bells and ghostly ripples of sound before it crests in a full, bracing demonic freakout in its final moments."

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Ariel Pink
"pom pom"

Elephant 6+Frank Zappa+R. Stevie Moore

I go in and out of music. I binge and purge. It's probably no surprise to older MB members that have seen me come to this site in quick bursts, becoming an active member, taking part in many a discussion, hell, even having my own member journal, only to leave it all mid-conversation for a year or two, (leaving few people upset, never-mind aware). Such is my relationship with music itself. I could probably fit every piece of new music I listened to in 2013 on four 80 minute CD's this year, my desire for exploration and enjoyment comes and goes with my mood. Fortunately, my life has bounced back around at least momentarily enough for me to make thirty or forty 80 minute CD's if I so chose (probably much less than you guys, but that's why I'm here)

This year of personal musical renaissance, I've found Wild Nothing, King Tuff, Parquet Courts, Eddie Floyd, Ducktails, The Feelies, Tashaki Miyaki, Peach Kelli Pop, song by song. I will take 100 different good songs by 100 artists over 100 great songs by a great artist any day. And then, after months of wallowing in indie-single wasteland for months, I see Ariel Pink, who I've always considered a bit overrated (but nevertheless has made some great tracks) has a new album.

"pom pom" is dark, it is goofy, it is outrageous, it is bland. It is the album I have always thought about making. It is a lo-fi odyssey through genres, with enough bizarreness to put it flagpole sittin' right in-between the nations of arch-rivals absurdity and pretentiousness. It is as much a singular sound as it is a collection of potential singles. It is the best release I have heard this year by far.

I've always been a huge lo-fi fan, and assumed after the Best Coast/WAVVES/Times New Viking late oughties explosion the best days were over. But no other release, ("pom-pom" that is) solidifies lo-fi's stance as a perennial genre more than this record. DOWNLOAD IT.

^gonna have to check that out, I've been hearing a lot of good about it.

Was about to post about this myself. Very excited for the album, I like what I hear so far.

Machine Head - Bloodstone and Diamonds (great new metal album)

I am stunned by the lack of love for the real estate album. Easily the best of the year.