July 8, 2011

CRUSTCAKE PICKS: BEST OF '11 SO FAR



It's ridiculously hot outside. That means we're halfway through the year. And that means it's time to get started on a best of the year list. By now you've undoubtedly made your own "best of the year so far" and read a few others here (and here, and here.) Crustcake has a list for you too. Check it after the jump and let us know what we've missed and what releases you're excited about coming up the next couple months.

A few many of us are digging:

Gridlink Orphan
Autopsy Macabre Eternal
Loss Despond
Peste Noire L'Ordure à L'état Pur
Tombs Path Of Totality
KEN mode Venerable
Vastum Carnal Law
Earth Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light Part 1
Negative Plane Stained Glass Revelations
Batillus Furnace
Liturgy Aesthethica
Deafheaven Roads To Judah
Selected others:
Dark Castle Surrender To All Life Beyond Form
Fucked Up David Comes To Life
Capsule No Ghost
Trap Them Darker Handcraft
Palehorse Soft As Butter, Hard As Ice
Krallice Diotima
Mitochondrion Parasignosis
Maruta Forward Into Regression
Rotten Sound Cursed
Column Of Heaven Ecstatically Embracing all that we Habitually Suppress
Psychic Limb Queens
Ash Borer Ash Borer
Primordial Redemption at the Puritan's Hand
Batillus Furnace
Tree of Sores Tree of Sores
Lifelover Sjukdom
Seidr For Winter Fire
Acephalix Interminable Night
Planning for Burial Untitled EP
Dethroned Emperor War Grind Hell
Avulse I am the Liquor
In Solitude The World the Flesh the Devil
Van Damned's favorite cassettes so far:
Acephalix Flesh Torn Twilight
Arizmenda Without Circumference Nor Center
Barghest Barghest
Iron Age Saga Demos
Whorelord 2011 Demo

12 hollers:

WillH said...

All good choices y'all, specially the Column of Heaven, Psychic Limb, Maruta, and Batillus

HeadØvMetal said...

I missed so many of these!

Thanks for the heads up!

The Path Less Traveled Records said...

Excellent list. I need to catch up!

Mark said...

Agreed on both barghest and Ash Borer. Awating both lps in the mail right now. Have you guys heard Thou - To the Choas Wizard Youth or their split with Cower? Both are in constant rotation on my turntable.

Anonymous said...

That Whorelord demo is sick as hell.

Andrew Wilhelm said...

I know Van has been digging Chaos Wizard a lot, I need to get on it.

Carm said...

The new Acid Witch, Miasmal, and Bastard Priest records have been ripping ass so far.

Van Damned said...

@Mark: I've got both and have been enjoying them. Look for a review of Chaos Wizard here in the near future.

Also eagerly looking forward to the new Falls of Rauros, btw. AND I got an unmastered version of the new Skagos album. It's amazing. Gonna blow minds.

Chase Macabre said...

I can't say enough how much that new Capsule record blow my freakin' mind. Seriously. "No Ghost" is really amazing.

I'm interested in that Acid Witch and Miasmal. I've also got Chaos Wizard on deck.

Anybody dig the new Disma? It's streaming at NPR. I listened once through and that it was solid, but not life-changing.

Andrew Wilhelm said...

New Yob is super-good. "Prepare the Ground" might be my song of the year.

Acid Witch are kinda gimmicky IMO.

Carm said...

Shit, I'm an idiot for forgetting that South Side Chicago death dealers Cianide put out a killer new record before MDF.

Also, the new self titled album by Bones (3/4 of Chicago's mighty Usurper) can raise the dead.

Last Sun's Light said...

Awesome that Avulse was up there. Pretty good for something that was release online with nothing physical.