A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons (2008)

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1. 1,000,000 Died To Make This Sound

2. 13 Blues For Thirteen Moons

3. Black Waters Blowed/Engine Broke Loose

4. BlindBlindBlind

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Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank The Cradle (2002)

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1. Lion's Mane

2. Bird Stealing Bread

3. Faded From The Winter

4. Promising Light

5. The Rooster Moans

6. Upward Over The Mountain

7. Southern Anthem

8. An Angry Blade

9. Weary Memory

10. Promise What You Will

11. Muddy Hymnal

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Pelican - Pelican EP (2002)

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1. Pulse

2. Mammoth

3. Forecast for Today

4. The Woods

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Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope (2008)

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1. Asphalt

2. No Feeling

3. Dead Don't Pass

4. God Condition

5. Red Room Blues

6. Mount Hope

7. Frozen Man

8. Hard to Swallow

9. Concrete Mountain

10. Dreams are Class

11. Butch's Dream

12. Tumor

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Undergang - Indhentet af døden (2010)

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Thick and heavy old school death metal out of Denmark. Brutal.

1. Englemagersken

2. Dødshymne

3. Opslugt Af Mørket

4. Evigt Lidende

5. Tvangstanker

6. Forkullede Rester

7. De Dødes Passage

8. Indhentet Af Døden

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Adai - ...I Carry (2008)

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2 piece, straight out of Denver.

1. The March...

2. And Termination

3. Home

4. A Mark of Ownership

5. Hawkins

Cavity Records

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Fire On Fire - 5 Song EP (2007)

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Fire on Fire were a folk band from Portland, Maine. Featuring members of Big Blood and released through Michael Gira's label Young God Records. Awesome.

1. Hangman

2. Liberty Unknown

3. My Lady Coffin

4. Amnesia

5. Three or More

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Melvins - Stoner Witch (1994)

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First CD I ever bought. Still one of my all time favorites.

1. Skweetis

2. Queen

3. Sweet Willy Rollbar

4. Revolve

5. Goose Freight Train

6. Roadbull

7. At The Stake

8. Magic Pig Detective

9. Shevil

10. June Bug

11. Lividity

O little wish it away

I got time to wish away

Low Sky - Led Zeppelin House Show EP (2009)

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3 members of Braveyoung and 1 member of Advent make up this awesome, unique band from North Carolina. This was a limited cassette tape only release. Hand printed cover only 4$. Get one and download it free below.

1. Pigeon Handler

2. Streets of Gold

3. The Perilous Grey

4. Palace Flophouse

5. A Walking Sleep

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Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed (2007)

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Fact: In January 2010 Weedeater vocalist "Dixie" Dave Collins shot his big toe off while cleaning his favorite shotgun.

1. God Luck and Good Speed

2. Wizard Fight

3. For Evan's Sake

4. Alone

5. $20 Peanut

6. Dirt Merchant

7. Gimme Back my Bullets

8. Weedmonkey

9. Willow

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Samothrace - Life's Trade (2008)

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"Heavy music for heavy times."

1. La Llorona

2. Awkward Hearts

3. Cacophony

4. Cruel Awake

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Tom Waits - Bad As Me (2011)

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"I'm the blood on the floor

The thunder and the roar...

You're the same kind of bad as me."

1. Chicago
2. Raised Right Men
3. Talking at the Same Time
4. Get Lost
5. Face to the Highway
6. Pay Me
7. Back in the Crowd
8. Bad as Me
9. Kiss Me
10. Satisfied
11. Last Leaf
12. Hell Broke Luce
13. New Year’s Eve
bonus tracks

14. She Stole the Blush
15. Tell Me
16. After You Die

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The Tree of Life (2011)

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This movie is amazing.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞ (1997)

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"The government is corrupt
And we're on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn. 
We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death...

I open up my wallet and it's full of blood." 

1. The Dead Flag Blues

2. East Hastings 

3. Providence

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*East Hastings Live Video - London 2010

Russian Circles - Empros (2011)

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1. 309

2. Mladek

3. Schipol

4. Atackla

5. Batu

6. Praise Be Man

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True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth (2011)

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1.  Jackyl
2.  Blooden Horse
3.  NH
4.  Skull Eyes
5.  Wither
6.  Boaz
7.  Night Witches
8.  Interlude
9.  Doomseer

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Hesher (2011)

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Thou - Malfeasance/Retribution (2008)

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Thou is a five piece doom band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In my opinion one of the best bands around today. I highly recommend visiting their website. There you can order their records and download all of them for free. Everything these guys have put out is solid. The artwork alone makes it worth the purchase. Malfeasance/Retribution was released as a limited 10 inch vinyl and is long out of print. According to the band it may be repressed soon in some way. This is one of my favorites from them. Two tracks of crushing doom. Download it below.

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Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian (1985)

"Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 Western novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House.
The narrative follows a teenage runaway referred to only as "the kid", with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Indians and others in the United States–Mexico borderlands in 1849 and 1850. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden, a large, intelligent man depicted as entirely devoid of body hair and emblematic of violence and conflict.
Although the novel initially generated only lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since become highly acclaimed and is widely recognized as McCarthy's masterpiece." -From Wikipedia


One of my favorite quotes from the book:
"...The judge smiled.
Books lie, he said.
God dont lie.
No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.
He held up a chunk of rock.
He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.
The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools."

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Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

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1. War Pigs

2. Paranoid

3. Planet Caravan

4. Iron Man

5. Electric Funeral

6. Hand of Doom

7. Rat Salad

8. Fairies Wear Boots

Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom (2010)

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"Bongripper is a four-piece instrumental doom metal band from Chicago. Since 2005, they have self-released six recordings. Known for a deafening and intense live performance, the band thrives on an unrelenting sound that can compete with any of the heaviest metal bands of their genre.

In 2010, Bongripper out-did themselves with "Satan Worshipping Doom." Their 4th full-length was released on vinyl as a double LP, and sold out of its original pressing in less than two weeks. The re-press sold out just as quick, and has since received tons of praise all over the internet. Roadburn.com named Satan Worshipping Doom as one of the Top 10 Albums of 2010." -from website bio

1. Hail
2. Satan
3. Worship
4. Doom

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Braveyoung - We are Lonely Animals (2011)

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Braveyoung consists of four constant individuals and a collection of others donating their input. Started in 2005 in North Carolina, United States under the moniker Giant, and in in late 2008 began to function under the name Braveyoung. -from last.fm

1. Flesh And Bone

2. How Each Friend Departed (Thus Do The Gods)
3. And No Two Walked Together
4. Our Teeth Are Falling Out
5. Dark Days, Including After Midnight
6. Whe Weight Of Loss Is Whole
7. The Light Narrows
8. We Are Lonely Animals

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Earth - Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method (2005)

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A few words from Earth mastermind Dylan Carlson regarding the evolution of the Earth sound:

"The ongoing musical project which is earth has always been concerned with repetition and the drone or THE NOTE. When I was younger and full 

of hubris I believed that a "pure" or "original" music could be developed in a static and removed state from other music. I now realize that music, especially music containing the drone or THE NOTE, and music that effects a spiritual reaction from the listener is a continuum. It is a music that has continued throughout time and manifested itself in a number of different forms or "genres" or"styles". I began to see my music as part of and a product of that continuum. I also began to see that continuum strongly expressed in historically 'american' forms. Specifically the "genres" of "country" and "blues". The truly 'cosmic american musics'. This specifically 'american' style also got me thinking of the history of this continent. A continent of formerly endless frontiers. I was heavily influenced by the book "Blood Meridian; or the Evening Redness In the West". A book that explores the real western expansion and real clash of people on this newest continent. It has been a continent that from the beginning has been alien and hostile yet posessing a bewithcing beauty. " A land of some other order. Whose geology is not of stone ,but of fear." There is an occult history to this continent, one of a continent evil in and of itself, a continent which the inhabitants have had to suffer mightily to carve their various "New Jerusalems" out of. An infernal landscape which requires, from us, a song. 

-Dylan Carlson (summer 2005)"

1. Mirage
2. Land of Some Other Order
3. The Dire and Ever Circling Wolves
4. Left in the Desert
5. Lens of Unrectified Night
6. An Inquest Concerning Teeth
7. Raiford (The Felon Wind)
8. The Dry Lake
9. Tethered to the Polestar 

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