This sounds amazing. Count me in.

I've never been into Bloodbath but Paradise Lost was one of my favorite bands in high school, looking forward to that ****

I still remember first listening to Paradise Lost, it was with their track No Celebration. Still one of my all time favorite tracks to this day.

Panda Bear - Mr. Noah [EP] (October 23)
John Zorn - The Last Judgement (November 18)
Kevin Drumm - Wrong Intersection (November 18)
The Church - Further/Deeper (November 21)

Literally sat on the edge of my seat and internally orgasm'd.

David Sylvian - There's a Light That Enters Houses With No Other House in Sight (November 24)

Cooly G - Wait Til Night (10/21/2014)

Robert Delong - Long Way Down EP (November 10)

Ariel Pink - Pom Pom (November 17)
Zu + Eugene S. Robinson - The Left Hand Path (November 25)
Bonobo - Flashlight [EP] (December 1)

Did anyone check the new Godflesh album? Very solid album and I enjoy it as much as their earlier work. What do you think Jans?

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.

It's good, but the best? I disagree.

December metal releases

05.12 * *Noctiferia - PAX
05.12 * *Cretin - Stranger
05.12 * *Sarpedon - Anomic Nation
05.12 * *Revel In Flesh - Death Kult Legions
05.12 * *Cruachan - Blood For The Blood God
05.12 * *Scanner - The Judgement
05.12 * *Coronatus - Cantus Lucidus
08.12 * *Faithful Darkness - Archgod
08.12 * *Taake - Stridens Hus
08.12 * *Death Wolf - III: Östergötland
08.12 * *Pythia - Shadows Of A Broken Past
09.12 * *Lynch Mob - Sun Red Sun
10.12 * *Krimh - Krimhera
10.12 * *Dir En Grey - Arche
10.12 * *Uli Jon Roth - Scorpions Revisited - Volume 1
12.12 * *Unheilig - Gipfelstürmer
15.12 * *Self-Inflicted Violence - The Sanctimonious Hypocrites Of Reality
15.12 * *Witchbreed - Queen Of Storms
15.12 * *Zero Down - No Limit To The Evil
15.12 * *Hetroertzen - Ain Soph Aur
17.12 * *Demians - Mercury
17.12 * *Angra - Secret Garden
19.12 * *Barathrum - Warmetal
24.12 * *Ascension - The Dead Of The World
25.12 * *The Project Hate MCMXCIX - There Is No Earth I Will Leave Unscorched
31.12 * *Six Brew Bantha - Intravenously Commodified
31.12 * *StarGazer - A Merging To The Boundless
31.12 * *Scarab - Serpents Of The Nile

well this is neat; hadn't heard this was a thing

Yeah, that was my highlight of this month too. Listening as soon as it drops on Rhapsody. Probably gonna check out the new Dir en Grey and Stargazer as well.

Maybe Witchbreed but only heard a song or two that may not be very definitive

This is a new one in the UK, Abandoned State by Shalom Maddar which was released on the 6/12. A french blog lifeisaminestrone-over nominated it a refreshing discovery of the year.

anyone familiar with the artist?

Paloma Faith's new album isn't there.

I don't know if these are mentioned in other comments but they're not on the main list so here :3
Rosanne Cash - The River & the Thread (January 14)
Of Mice and Men - Restoring Force (January 27)
The Gaslight Anthem - The B-Sides (January 28)
Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke (January 31)
Eric Paslay - Eric Paslay (February 4)
Suzy Bogguss - Lucky (February 4)
Frankie Ballard - Sunshine and Whiskey (February 11)
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Small Town Heroes (February 11)
Noah Gundersen - Ledges (February 11)
Robert Ellis - The Lights from the Chemical Plant (February 11)
Phantogram - Voices (February 18)
Dierks Bentley - RISER (February 25)
The Fray - Helios (February 25)
Don Williams - Reflections (March 11)
Tokyo Police Club - Forcefield (March 24)
Johnny Cash - Out Among the Stars (March 25)
Jonny Two Bags - Salvation Town (April 1)
Nickel Creek - A Dotted Line (April 1)
Miranda Lambert - Platinum (April 6)
Needtobreathe - Rivers in the Wasteland (April 15)
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (May 13)
Jack White - Lazaretto (June 6)
Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie (June 6)
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (June 13)
Willie Nelson - Band of Brothers (June 17)
Old 97's - Most Messed Up (June 27)
Old Crow Medicine Show - Remedy (July 1)
Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun (July 15)
Anberlin - Lowborn (July 22)
Spoon - They Want My Soul (August 4)
The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt (August 19)
Brad Paisley - Moonshine in the Trunk (August 26)
Shovels & Rope - Swimmin' Time (August 26)
Thousand Foot Krutch - Oxygen:Inhale (August 26)
Robert Plant - Lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar (September 8)
Lee Brice - I Don't Dance (September 9)
Black Veil Brides - IV (October 27)

It was a horrible year for new music :(

Not really. You want some recs? I see you like jazz, check out the releases from Marc Ribot Trio, Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask, Icepick, Paal-Nilssen Love, John Zorn (Valentine's Day, specifically), Marc Ducret, and Ken Vandermark. There was also a fantastic live Coltrane release called Offering: Live at Temple University that I'm sure you'll like.

Your January metal release injection.

01.01 Bonfire - The Ballads Collection [Compilation]
01.01 Sabbat (JPN) - Hades Archer / Sabbat [Split] [EP]
01.01 Mechina - Acheron
01.01 Volition - Wreck Among Ruin
01.01 Abysmal Darkening - Sub Terra
04.01 The Kill - Kill Them... All
07.01 Ketha - #!%16.7 [EP]
07.01 Jupiter - History Of Genesis
09.01 Battle Beast - Unholy Savior
12.01 Ingested - The Architect Of Extinction
12.01 Wednesday 13 - Monsters Of The Universe: Come Out & Plague
12.01 Sylosis - Dormant Heart
12.01 The Crown - Death Is Not Dead
13.01 King Crimson - Live At The Orpheum [Live]
13.01 Desolate Shrine - The Heart Of The Netherworld
13.01 Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
13.01 Ghoulgotha - The Deathmass Cloak
13.01 Doomraiser - Reverse (Passaggio Inverso)
13.01 Midnight Odyssey / Spire (AUS) - Magica / Scientia [Split] [EP]
14.01 Alpha Tiger - iDentity
14.01 Dragon Guardian - 輪廻のウロボロス [Collaboration]
16.01 Insanity Reigns Supreme - Unorthodox
16.01 Fōr - Void Asceticism [Split] [EP]
16.01 Orden Ogan - Ravenhead
16.01 Sotajumala - Raunioissa
16.01 Northland - Downfall And Rebirth
16.01 Serious Black - As Daylight Breaks
16.01 Angra - Secret Garden
17.01 Cruadalach - Rebel Against Me
18.01 Satan's Host - Pre-Dating God Part 2
18.01 Satan's Host - Pre-Dating God Part 1
19.01 Marduk - Frontschwein
19.01 Angelus Apatrida - Hidden Evolution
19.01 The Slow Death - Ark
20.01 Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor
20.01 Caïna - Setter Of Unseen Snares
22.01 Lycanthia - Lycanthia / Atten Ash [Split] [EP]
23.01 Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei
23.01 Toundra - IV
23.01 Stormwitch - Season Of The Witch
23.01 Eisbrecher - Schock
23.01 Scanner - The Judgement
23.01 Stargazery - Stars Aligned
23.01 Ostrogoth - Last Tribe Standing [EP]
23.01 U.D.O. - Decadent
24.01 Beardfish - +4626- Comfortzone
24.01 Thurisaz - Live & Acoustic [Live]
25.01 Hate - Crusade:Zero
26.01 Periphery - Juggernaut: Omega
26.01 Armageddon - Captivity & Devourment
26.01 Black Sheep Wall - I'm Going To Kill Myself
26.01 Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha
26.01 Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
26.01 Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat
27.01 Venom - From The Very Depths
27.01 The Body / Thou - You, Whom I Have Always Hated [Collaboration]
30.01 Gamma Ray - The Best (Of) [Compilation]
30.01 Callisto - Secret Youth
30.01 Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror
30.01 Leah - Kings & Queens
30.01 Thulcandra - Ascension Lost

Holy ****, those are all being released in January?

Yup, and a few pretty big bands releasing stuff too

In 2014?

Someone should make an albums of 2014! I can't 'cause i don't have the skill & knowledge xD.

Call this thread good and sticky the new one?
http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ms-2015-a.html

^yep

^^yep.