Circle the Wagons
Finally got new CD of Darkthrone after the 1.5 month wait due to awful problems with post service here – “Circle The Wagons”. Well, Darkthrone dive even deeper into oldskool metal with this album. Tracks are more punkish and somewhat more melodic, you even might want to sing along with them when you’ll know them better. And they’re easy to remember. The records made in true raw Darkthrone style. All instruments sound soft and properly merged together. Despite it not being cruel black metal I like it nevertheless. Nocturno Culto’s voice is still piercing evil one, which is cool. On CD there’s also very cute little video where Fenriz talks about old metal albums, showing their vinyls’ envelopes and remembering old metal bands.
Carcass – “Reek of Putrefaction”. Decided to get this release because it comes with white plastic bag “to avoid unpleasant leakage” from the contents and also features DVD with clips and interviews. But I’m having troubles viewing DVD on my computer, probably have to assault someone’s DVD player one day and watch it as it looks promising.
SUNN O))) – “3:Flight of the Behemoth”. Decided to buy this one as one of the last SUNN cds I ought to get. This one is from the early era of the band. Still it’s quite experimental and interesting. I’d only cut away one track which is done with collaboration of Merzbow. Random piano smashing during entire track sounds quite unpleasant. Second Merzbow featured track is quite harsh and proper mix of noise and drones.
Annotations of an Autopsy -“II:Reign of Darkness”. Still being in grind mood, I’ve found this new band. Pretty technical deathmetal. Though I liked their previous album more, but it was absent in the record store, so I got this one. Not as intense as Napalm Death, but still has its own interesting moments and juicy slow bits.
Folkstorm – “Ortodox“. Released on OEC comes new Folkstorm. This time Nordvargr uses only analogue equipment to generate noises and it’s quite noticeable from the sound. It’s somewhat warmer/softer, but still brings devastating industrial atmosphere. Rather peculiar release, type of noise presented there is kinda attractive so 
I didn’t want to skip to the next track and was immersed when listening to it for the first time.
Vortex – “Phanopoeia”. I was recommended to listen to this album and liked it. It’s quite proper dark ambient with alot of variety in sound, from vast spacey to some evil droning with background noises. Recommended to darkambient / noise fans.