Saturday, October 15, 2011

Isole - Born From Shadows (2011)


Country: Sweden
Genre: Traditional/Epic Doom Metal
RYM rating: 3.44 (6 ratings)
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.85

1. The Lake
2. Black Hours
3. Born From Shadows
4. Come To Me
5. My Angel
6. Condemned
7. When All Is Black

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime (1988)

Country: USA
Genre: Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.99
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.80

1. I Remember Now
2. Anarchy-X
3. Revolution Calling
4. Operation: Mindcrime
5. Speak
6. Spreading The Disease
7. The Mission
8. Suite Sister Mary
9. The Needle Lies
10. Electric Requiem
11. Breaking The Silence
12. I Don't Believe In Love
13. Waiting For 22
14. My Empty Room
15. Eyes Of A Stranger


Queensryche masterpiece. A truly magical concept album. Greatness from the beginning to the end.

Queensryche - The Warning (1984)


Country: USA
Genre: Heavy/Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.67
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.30

1. Warning
2. En Force
3. Deliverance
4. No Sanctuary
5. N M 156
6. Take Hold Of The Flame
7. Before The Storm
8. Child of Fire
9. Roads To Madness


Queensryche's debut album.
Highlights from this album are the beatiful "No Sanctuary" and the closing track "Roads To Madness".

Queensryche - Queensryche (1983)


Country: USA
Genre: Heavy/Progressive Metal
RYM rating: 3.83
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.50

1. Queen Of The Reich
2. Nightrider
3. Blinded
4. The Lady Wore Black

Excellent first Ep by Queensryche. Throw your first in the air for a more heavy metal oriented Queemsryche as the liking of early US power metal bands. That pipe by Geoff Tatte.. **** ****

Running Wild - Black Hand Inn (1994)


Country: Germany
Genre: Heavy/Power/Speed Metal
RYM rating: 3.86
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.99

1. The Curse
2. Black Hand Inn
3. Mr. Deadhead
4. Soulless
5. The Privateer
6. Fight The Fire The Hate
7. The Phantom Of The Black Hand Hill
8. Freewind Rider
9. Powder & Iron
10. Dragonmen
11. Genesis (The Making and the Fall of Man)

Running Wild - Gates To Purgatory (1984)


Country: Germany
Genre: Heavy/Speed Metal
RYM rating: 3.71
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.22

1. Victim States Of Power
2. Black Demon
3. Preacher
4. Soldiers Of Hell
5. Diabolic Force
6. Adrian S.O.S.
7. Genghis Khan
8. Prisoner Of Our Time


Running Wild's furious debut.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Gary Moore - After The War (1989)


Country: UK (Northern Ireland)
Genre: Hard/Blues Rock
RYM rating: 3.42
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.79

1. Dunluce (Part 1)
2. After The War
3. Speak For Yourself
4. Livin' On Dreams
5. Led Clones
6. The Messiah Will Come Again
7. Running From The Storm
8. This Thing Called Love
9. Ready For Love
10. Blood Of Emeralds
11. Dunluce (part 2)


R.I.P. Gary. You were among the best...

The Doors - Strange Days (1967)


Country: USA
Genre: Psychadelic/Blues Rock
RYM ratings: 4.02
From The View of The Crypt: 4.20

1. Strange Days
2. You're Lost Little Girl
3. Love Me Two Times
4. Unhappy Girl
5. Horse Lattitudes
6. Moonligth Drive
7. People Are Strange
8. My Eyes Have Seen You
9. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
10. When The Music's Over


Second album by The Doors. Featuring some excellent songs such as the perfect ending "When The Music's Over".

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Kreator - Extreme Aggressions (1989)

Country: Germany
Genre: Thrash Metal
RYM rating: 3.90
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.10


1. Extreme Aggressions
2. No Reason To Exist
3. Love Us Or Hate Us
4. Stream of Consciousness
5. Some Pain Will Last
6. Betrayer
7. Don't Trust
8. Bringer Of Torture
9. Fatal Energy

My favourite Kreator album. Fast, aggressive with a thought behind it all.

Goddefied - Abysmal Grief (1993)


Country: Sweden
Genre: Death Metal
RYM rating: 3.40 (27 ratings)
From The View of The Crypt: 3.87

1. Blaspheme In Blood
2. Zephaniah Dwells
3. Abysmal Grief
4. Spiritually Diseased
5. Left To Die
6. Inhumation of Shreds


Kickass early swedish death metal.

Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)


Country: UK
Genre: Psychadelic Rock
RYM rating: 4.04
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.05

1. Astronomy Diviné
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R. Toc H.
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. The Scarecrow
11. Bike


Pink Floyds excellent debut album. One that often gets shaded by albums like "Dark Side Of The Moon" And "The Wall". A bit different Pink Floyd here...

Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless (1973)

Country: USA
Genre: Hard/Psycchadelic/Progressive Rock
RYM rating: 3.64
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.10


1. Bright Blue Tango
2. Sufficiently Breathless
3. Drifting In Space
4. Evil Men
5. Starglow Energy
6. Distant Sun
7. Voyages Of Past Travellers
8. Everything's A Circle

Captain Beyond - Captain Beyond (1972)

Country: USA
Genre: Hard/Psychadelic/Progressive Rock
RYM rating: 3.98
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.60


1. Dancing Madly Backwards (On a Sea of Air)
2.Armworth
3. Myopic Void
4. Mezmerization Eclipse
5. Ragin River Of Fear
6. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Intro)
7. Frozen Over
8. Thousand Days of Yesterdays (Time Since Come and Gone)
9. I Can't Feel Nothin' (Part I)
10. As the Moon Speaks (To the Waves of the Sea)
11. Astral Lady
12. As The Moon Speaks (Return)
13. I Can't Feel Nothin´ (Part II)

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Katatonia - Tonight's Decision (1999)


Country: Sweden
Genre: Doom Metal/Atmospheric Rock
RYM rating: 3.53
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.05

1. For My Demons
2. I Am Nothing
3. In Death, A Song
4. Had To (Leave)
5. This Punishment
6. Right Into The Bliss
7. No Good Can Come Out Of This
8. Strained
9. A Darkness Coming
10. Nightmares By The Sea
11. Black Session
[Silence]
[Hidden Instrumental]

Crypt Of Kerberos - World Of Myths (1993)


Country: Sweden
Genre: Technical/Progressive/Melodical Death Metal
RYM rating: 3.39
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.91

1. The Canticle
2. Cyclone Of Insanity
3. Dream
4. Stormbringer
5. The Ancient War
6. Nocturnal Gasp
7. The Sleeping God
8. World Of Myths

Dokken - Back For Attack (1987)


Country: USA/Germany
Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
RYM rating: 3.65
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.86

1. Kiss Of Death
2. Prisoner
3. Night By Night
4. Standing In The Shadows
5. Heaven Sent
6. Mr. Scary
7. So Many Tears
8. Burning Like A Flame
9. Lost Behind The Wall
10. Stop Fighting Love
11. Cry of The Gypsy
12. Sleepless Nights
13. Dream Warriors

Dokken - Tooth And Nail (1984)


Country: Germany/USA
Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
RYM rating: 3.71
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.13

1. Without Warning
2. Tooth And Nail
3. Just Got Lucky
4. Heartless Hear
5. Don't Close Your Eyes
6. When Heavens Come Down
7. Into The Fire
8. Bullets To Spare
9. Alone Again
10. Turn On The Action

220 Volt - 220 Volt (1983)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Heavy Metal
RYM rating: 3.34
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.61


1. Lonely Night
2. No Return
3. The End Of The World
4. Gypsy Queen
5. Nightwinds
6. Child of The Night
7. Stop And Look Back
8. Prisoner Of War
9. Woman In White

Monday, October 10, 2011

Bastard Priest - Ghouls Of The Endless Dead (2011)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Old School Death Metal
RYM rating: 3.71
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.78


1. Pestilence Force
2. Ghouls Of The Endless Night
3. Enter Eternal Nightmare
4. Poison
5. Sacrilegious Ground
6. Fucking Slaughter
7. Last Scream
8. Enormuos Thunder Of The End


Bastard Priest's second album after releasing "Under The Hammer Of Destruction" in 2010.
Excellent Old School death in the veins of the old swedish masters in the genre.
Surely one of the albums of the year for death metal.

Journey - Look Into The Future (1976)


Country: USA
Genre: Progressive/Hard Rock
RYM rating: 3.41
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.83


1. On A Saturday Nite
2. It's All Too Much
3. Anyway
4. She Makes Me Feel (Alright)
5. You're On Your Own
6. Look Into The Future
7. Midnight Dreamer
8. I'm Gonna Leave You

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Devil - Time To Repent (2011)


Country: Norway
Genre: Traditional Doom/Heavy Metal
RYM rating: 3.00 (4 Ratings)
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.90


1. The Welcome (Intro)
2. Break The Curse
3. Blood Is Boiling
4. Time To Repent
5. Crazy Woman
6. Open Casket
7. Death Of A Sorcerer
8. Howling (At The World)
9. At The Blacksmith's
10. Howling pt. II (Outro)


Full length debut by Devil.

In Gowan Ring - Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home (2002)


Country: USA
Genre: Neofolk
RYM rating: 3.81
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.30

1. Orb Weavers
2. Hazel Steps
3. The Seer And The Seen
4. Kingdom Of The Shades
5. Morning's Waking Dream
6. A Poet's Lyre
7. Wind That Crackes The Leaves
8. Two Towers

Excellent neofolk. Calming beauty...