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[Finn666]

@derivative666:

Just purchased a record that has blown me away. I never thought I would ever be that into Converge. All We Love We Leave Behind is not only IMO the record of the year but may be the best record I have heard in a long time. I am a huge fan of music but, not a huge fan of hardcore. This record i can only describe as ferociously beautiful it has melted my face. I'm off to the local record store to pick up the rest of Converge's albums. Outstanding work Nate and company.

after hearing it for the first time today (like 5-6times on repeat or more) i really start to like it…a lot actually!
thanks for pointing it out Jeff:

[derivative666]

It's blown me away amazing record

[riffblaster general]

Wow guys this is amazing. Thank you!

[xtcclassic]

Off to iTunes I guess, you guys have me curious.

[derivative666]

Just do it you won't be disappointed I am not a fan of hardcore but this record is outstanding

[JLG]

Nate was actually a part of releasing 2 amazing records this year Converge's AWLWLB (mentioned previously) and Old Man Gloom's 'NO'.

[Finn666]

@derivative666:

Just do it you won't be disappointed I am not a fan of hardcore but this record is outstanding

qft!…

[riffblaster general]

@JLG:

Nate was actually a part of releasing 2 amazing records this year Converge's AWLWLB (mentioned previously) and Old Man Gloom's 'NO'.

All this love is making me get all weepy!

[emceeQ]

Since we're piling on the love…

Both of those made it on my year end list.  Your stuff usually does Nate.  Fucking love Doomriders...

[derivative666]

^i wanna see your list

[riffblaster general]

me too!

[emceeQ]

Not in any particular order, but here is a preliminary list of what has stuck with me from this year…

Converge - All Love we Leave Behind
Joyce Manor - Of All Things I Will Soon Grow Tired
Old Man Gloom - No
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city
Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay
Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy
Pig Destroyer - Book Burner
Hop Along - Get Disowned
Vattnet Viskar – Vattnet Viskar EP
Cheap Girls - Giant Orange
haarp - Husks
Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker

Top Three
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Ab Soul - Control System
Witch Mountain - South of Salem

Favorite re-release
Kid Brother Collective - Highway Miles.  This one's kinda special, was randomly given this CD at some show quite a few years ago and it's always stuck with me.  Great album by some dudes from Flint, MI. One of my friends (http://www.lansingscene.com/lprecords/) decided to re release it vinyl, plus I get the chance to see them play in a few days!  It's also streaming at punk news I believe for those interested…

My best discovery of the year goes to the LA Gemstones: Pop and Rock Compilations.  A whole bunch of great 60's pop and rock (http://crystalsphere1.blogspot.com/search/label/V%2FA%20-%20L.A.%20Gemstones)

and then there's my guiltiest pleasure of the year, which is Ke$ha's Warrior.

A little disjointed, but I think that about does it…

[riffblaster general]

good list!

[xtcclassic]

I just want to take a moment to say Godspeed, Mike Scaccia. Mike was the guitarist of Ministry and Rigor Mortis, and for a few years, he was the Gibson Guitar rep when I worked at Guitar Center. He died on stage last night. He was a super great dude, and had some great stories, and was a killer guitarist as well. Bummer.

[riffblaster general]

for real???? awful news.  so sad to read that.

[xtcclassic]

Had a seizure in the middle of a Rigor Mortis show in Ft. Worth at a club called The Rail. Told the light guy to turn off the strobes and then collapsed. Unbelievable.

[derivative666]

Just got my fix.

[riffblaster general]

Oh gosh. I'm sorry ahead of time.

[natehate]

loving this album

[bubbapest]

Can't stop listening to Devil Makes Three's self titled album.  It goes straight into Do Wrong Right which doesn't disappoint, but it's not as good IMO.

Listened to a lot of Megadeth today while at work.  Nothing says programming like Dave Mustaine?

Rounded out the day with Queen on the commute home.

…Was a weird day

some favs:
Punk albums:
White Light White Heat White Trash - Social D
Social D- Social D
Stranger than Fiction - Bad Religion
The Record - FEAR
Outlaw Anthems - Blood For Blood
...complete and total fucking - Midnight
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
...and out come the wolves - rancid
complete discography - minor threat
collection II - misfits
Art of Partying - Municipal Waste
Reinventing Axl Rose - Against Me!
Acoustic EP - Against Me!
As the Eternal Cowboy - Against Me!
Fuck the nineties, here's our noize - Oxymoron
Tragedy - tragedy

country albums:
Devil Makes Three- Devil Makes Three
Live At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
Lucero - Lucero
OCMS - OCMS

hipster albums (or unclassified whatever you'd like to call it)
Brothers - Black Keys
Chulahoma - Black Keys
Thickfreakness - Black Keys
anything Typhoon ever put out
Yanqui XO - Godspeed You Black Emperor
basically anything Explosions In The Sky put out
Real Ghosts Caught on Tape - Fake Problems
Mariachi El Bronx II - Mariachi El Bronx
Bitter Drink, bitter Moon - Murder By Death
The Black Dirt Sessions - Deer Tick
Crane Wife - Decemberists

metal albums
Hisingen Blues - Graveyard
Danzig I - Danzig
Countdown To Extinction - Megadeth
Recreation Day - Evergrey
Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
South of Heaven - Slayer
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Reign in Blood - Slayer
Head of Death - Natur
Red Fang - Red Fang
Yellow and Green - Baroness
Conjure and Command - Toxic Holocaust
Candlemass - Candlemass
Carnivore - Carnivore
Retaliation - Carnivore
Damage Done - Dark Tranquillity
The Gallery - Dark Tranquillity
The Sound of Perseverence - Death

rap albums-
food and liquor -lupe
the cool - lupe
blackstar presents
e1999 - bone thugs
Beautiful Struggle - Talib Kweli
Be - Common
Revolutionary 1 and 2 - Technique

all of a perfect circle's discography
most of tool's discography
all of glassjaw's discography
and more