Royal Thunder - Royal Thunder Ep (2010)

USA
Stoner/Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.49 (28 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.85
320 KB

1. Intro
2. Sleeping Witch
3. Mouth Of Fire
4. Low
5. Grave Dance
6. Hotel Bend
7. Deacon

Paradox - Heresy (1989)

Germany
Thrash/Speed Metal
RYM rate: 3.76
The Crypts View: 4.25
192 KB

1. Heresy
2. Search For Perfection
3. Killtime
4. Crusaders Revenge
5. The Burning
6. Massacre Of The Cathars
7. Serenity
8. 700 Years On
9. Castle In The Wind

Paradox - Products Of The Imagination (1987)

Germany
Thrash/Speed Metal
RYM rate: 3.57
The Crypts View: 4.00
224 KB


1. Opening Theme
2. Paradox
3. Death, Screaming And Pain
4. Products Of The Imagination
5. Continuation of Invasion
6. Mystery
7. Kill That Beast
8. Pray To The Godz Of Wrath
9. Beyond Space
10. Wotan II

Icy Steel - As The Gods Command (2010)

Italy
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.03
The Crypts View: 3.70
320 KB

1. Impetuous Fire
2. The Persistance Of Time
3. The Holy Sun
4. Out Of Your Time
5. Mjöllnir
6. Fallen Heroes
7. Fly Without Wings
8. As The Gods Command (Pt.1)
9. As The Gods Command (Pt.2)
10. The Hymn Of The Brave
11. The Commander
12. There Was Once A Weeping Willow

Russian Circles - Empros (2011)

USA
Post Rock/Atmospheric Sludge Metal
RYM rate: 3.45
The Crypts View: 3.60
320 KB

1. 309
2. Mladek
3. Schipol
4. Atackla
5. Batu
6. Praise Be Man

Black Sun Aeon - Blacklight Deliverance (2011)

Finland
Melodic Death/Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.31
The Crypts View: 3.44
320 KB

1. Brothers
2. Solitude
3. Sheol
4. Oblivion
5. Horizon
6. Wasteland
7. Nightfall

Vallenfyre - A Fragile King (2011)

UK
Old School Death/Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.67 (8 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.91
320 KB


1. All Will Suffer
2. Desecration
3. Ravenous Whore
4. Cathedrals Of Dread
5. As The World Collapses
6. A Thousand Martyrs
7. Seeds
8. Humanity Wept
9. My Black Siberia
10. The Divine Have Fled
11. The Grim Irony

A project formed by Greg Makintosh (Paradise Lost) together with members from My Dying Bride And At The Gates. Heavy mid paced old school death with crushing slow doomy parts.
One of the best death albums of the year for sure.

Kaipa - Inget Nytt Under Solen (1976)

Sweden
Progressive Rock
RYM rate: 3.73
The Crypts View: 4.28
160 KB


1. Skenet Bedrar
2. Ömsom Sken
3. Korståg
4. Stengrodornas Parad
5. Dagens Port
6. Inget Nytt Under Solen

Astral Doors - Jerusalem (2011)

Sweden
Heavy/Power Metal
RYM rate: 3.45 (17 ratings)
192 KB

1. Seventh Crusade
2. With A Stranger's Eye
3. Child Of Rock 'N' Roll
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Lost Crucifix
6. Babylon Rise
7. Suicide Rime
8. The Battle Of Jacob's Ford
9. Operation Freedom
10. The Day After Yesterday
11. Jerusalem

Latest album by Astral Doors.

Sky Architect - A Dying Man's Hymn

Netherlands
Progressive Rock
RYM rate: 3.52 (33 ratings)
320 KB

1. Treebird
2. Melody Of The Air - Expositio
3. The Campfire Ghost's Song
4. Woodcuters Vile
5. Melody of The Air - Explicatio
6. The Breach
7. Hitodaman's Return
8. Melody Of The Air - Recapitulatio
9. A Dying Man's Hymn

Keen Hue - Ogre King (1985)

Sweden
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.70 (7 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 4.00
192 KB

1. The Doctor's Crying
2. Fighting
3. Crossfire
4. Daydreams
5. Liar
6. Ogre King
7. Prisoner But Guiltless
8. We Don't Wanna Go
9. Her Last Will
10. Keen Hue

Excellent debut album by Keen Hue. Not the best sound quality but the music makes up for it. Great catchy heavy metal.

Gravestone - Creating A Monster (1986)

Germany
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.59
The Crypts View: 3.79

1. Masters Of Earth
2. Right To Rock
3. You Can't Take It With You
4. Creating A Monster
5. The End Of Our Love
6. Danger
7. Dirty City
8. Illusions

Gravestone's last full length release.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Magnum Opus (1995)

USA
Heavy/Neo Clasical Metal
RYM rate: 3.30
The Crypts View: 3.84
320 KB

1. Vengeance
2. No Love Lost
3. Tomorrow's Gone
4. The Only One
5. I'll Die Without You
6. Overture 1622
7. Voodoo
8. Cross The Line
9. Time Will Tell
10. Fire In The Sky
11. Amberdawn

Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey (1988)

USA
Heavy/Neo Classical Metal
RYM rate: 3.44
The Crypts view: 3.78

1. Rising Force
2. Hold On
3. Heaven Tonight
4. Dreaming (Tell Me)
5. Bite The Bullet
6. Riot In The Dungeons
7. Dejá Vu
8. Crystal Ball
9. Now Is The Time
10. Faste Than The Speed Of Light
11. Krakatu
12. Memories

UFO - Phenomenon (1974)

UK
Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.88
From The Crypts View: 4.80
256 KB

1. Too Young To Know
2. Crystal Light
3. Doctor Doctor
4. Space Child
5. Rock Bottom
6. Oh My
7. Time On My Hands
8. Built For Comfort
9. Lipstick Traces
10. Queen of The Deep

My personal favourite from UFO's discography. Nearly perfected.

Fates Warning - Perfect Symmetry (1989)

USA
Progressive/ Heavy Metal
RYM rating: 3.67
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.21

1. Part Of The Machine
2. Through Different Eyes
3. Static Acts
4. A World Apart
5. At Fates Hand
6. The Arena
7. Chasing Time
8. Nothing Left To Say


Another wonderful album by Fates Warning. Together with No Exit the album feels a bit underrated. Strong, emotional and musicianship.

Great White - Twice Shy (1989)

USA
Hard/Blues Rock
RYM rating: 3.41
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.75
160 KB


1. Move It
2. Heart Of The Hunter
3. Highway Nights
4. The Angel Song
5. Mista Bone
6. Baby's On Fire
7. House Of Broken love
8. She Only
9. Once Bitten Twice Shy


A album that starts a bit trembling but gets better and better along the way. Classic hard 80's hard rock with a bit of blues touches. House Of Broken Love is a great song.

Deathevokation - The Chalice Of Ages (2007)

USA
Atmospheric Death Metal
RYM rating: 3.70
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.18
192 KB


1. Rites Of Desecration
2. Acheorontic Epitaph
3. The Monument
4. Embers Of A Dying World
5. The Chalice Of Ages
6. Infinity Blights The Flesh
7. Carrion
8. Chunks Of Meat
9. As My Soul Gazes Skywards


Excellent doomy death metal. Melodic, mid paced atmospheric.
The closing track is ten minutes of glory.

Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous (2009)

Germany
Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rating: 3.81
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.08

1. Where Angels Fear To Tread
2. Paradigm
3. The Sea
4. The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
5. Walking With Ghosts
6. I Go With The Wind
7. To Hope The Road Is Long
8. Beautiful & Monstrous
9. The Last Light Of Summer


Amazing debut album. Keep these guys in mind, if they will keep delivering album like this and their latest "Touchstones" they are going for the book my friends.

Sky Architect - Excavations Of The Mind (2010)

Netherlands
Progressive Rock
RYM rating: 3.72
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.87
320 KB

1. Deep Chasm I Charter
II. Chime
III Changeling
IV Chasm
5. The Grey Legend
6. Russian Wisdom
7. Excavations Of The Mind
8. Gyrocopter

Excellent debut full length by Sky Architect.

Subsignal - Touchstones (2011)

Country: Germany
Genre: Progressive Rock/Metal
RYM rating: 3.90
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.01
Bit Rate: 320 KB

1. Feeding Utopia
2. My Sanctuary
3. Echoes In Eternity
4. The Size Of Light On Earth
5. As Dreams Are Made On
6. Wingsless
7. Finisterre
8. The Essence Called Mind
9. The Lifespan Of A Glimpse
10. Embers - Part 1: Your Secret Is Safe With Me
11. Touchstones
12. Con todas las palabras


Second full length album by Subsignal that is more and more seems like that could be one of these bands that we will remember in about 20 years from today. Classy Progressive music.

Neil Young - Harvest Moon (1992)

Country: Canada
Genre: Folk Rock/ Singer/Songwriter
RYM rating: 3.70
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.05

1. Unknown Legend
2. From Hand To Hendrix
3. You And Me
4. Harvest Moon
5. War Of Man
6. One Of These Days
7. Such A Woman
8. Old King
9. Dreamin' Man
10. Natural Beauty

One of the great forgotten albums of Neil Youngs repetoar. Contain several great songs.

Memory Garden - Mirage (2001)

Country: Sweden
Genre: Doom/Heavy Metal
RYM rating: 3.69
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.99

1. Prologue
2. A Long Grey Day
3. Hallowed Soil
4. Shade
5. Navigate
6. Revelation
7. Yearning
8. River Of Sludge
9. My Pain
10. The Search

sHEAVY - Disfigurine (2010)

Country: Canada
Genre: Stoner Rock/Doom metal
RYM rating: 3.42 (17 ratings)
From The View Of The Crypt: 3.70

1. In The Shadows Of Vesuvius
2. Waking The Bloodbeast
3. Disfigurine
4. Echo In The Skull
5. Dead Since Birth
6. Clutching At Straws
7. The Book Of Lost Time
8. Beyond The Black Waves
9. Eyes Of The Demon Lord
10. War On Titan
11. Voices From The Star Chamber

Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (1981)

Country: UK
Genre: NWOBHM/Hard Rock
RYM rating: 3.70
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.21

1. Let It Go
2. Another Hit And Run
3. High 'N' Dry (Saturday Night)
4. Bringin' On The Heartbreak
5. Switch 625
6. You Got Me Runnin'
7. Lady Strange
8. On Through The Night
9. Mirror Mirror (Look Into My Eyes
10. No No No


This is my favourite Def Leppard album. Quality album with a great mix of the NWOBHM style and the american hard rock scene.

Deep Purple - In Rock (1970)

Country: UK
Genre: Hard Rock
RYM rating: 4.10
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.90

1. Speed King
2. Blood Sucker
3. Child In Time
4. Flight Of The Rat
5. Into The Fire
6. Livin' Wreck
7. Hard Lovin' Man


One of my all time favourite albums. Thoose vocals on Child In Time...nothing more needs to say.

Kreator - Pleasure To Kill (1986)

Country: Germany
Genre: Thrash Metal
RYM rating: 3.92
From The View Of The Crypt: 4.04

1. Choir Of The Damned
2. Ripping Corpse
3. Death Is Your Saviour
4. Pleasure To Kill
5. Riot Of Violence
6. The Pestilence
7. Carrion
8. Command Of The Blade
9. Under The Gulliotine