Desultory - Counting Our Scars (2010)

Sweden
Old Shool/Melodic Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.31. (52 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.73
320 KB

1. In A Cage
2. Counting Our Scars
3. Ready To Bleed
4. This Broken Halo
5. The Moment Is Gone
6. Uneven Numbers
7. Dead Ends
8. Leeching Life
9. A Crippling Heritage

The long awaited comeback. 17 years after their debut "Into Eternity" and 14 years after their last and more disappointing album "Swallow The Snake". On this album they are back on track on what they left after "Bitterness" Nowhere near as good but stil a pretty good and solid album. Promising comeback. Desultory is back...

Desultory - Bitterness (1994)

Sweden
Old School/Melodic Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.52 (91 ratings)
The Crypts View: 4.36
192 KB

1. Life Shatters
2. Left Behind
3. A Closing Eye
4. Taste Of Tragedy
5. Bleeding
6. Among Mortals
7. Enslaves
8. Winter
9. Cold Bitterness

The second of the two great early pieces by Desultory. Introducing a more depressive mood in death metal. Bloody fantastic album.

Cauldron - Burning Fortune (2011)

Canada
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.33 (67 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.71
320 KB

1. All Or Nothing
2. Miss You To Death
3. Frozen In Fire
4. Tears Have Come
5. I Confess
6. Rapid City / Unchained Assault
7. Queen of Fire
8. Breaking Through
9. Taken By Fire

Wolf - Ravenous (2009)

Sweden
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.52
The Crypts View: 4.25
320 KB

1. Speed On
2. Curse Your Salem
3. Voodoo
4. Hail Ceasar
5. Ravenous
6. Mr Twisted
7. Love At First Bite
8. Secrets We Keep
9. Whisky Psycho Hellions
10. Hiding In The Shadows
11. Blood Angel

Wolf - Evil Star (2004)

Sweden
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.65
The Crypts View: 3.87
128 KB

1. Evil Star
2. American Storm
3. The Avengers
4. Wolf's Blood
5. Transylvanian Twilight
6. Devil Moon
7. Out Of Stil Midnight
8. The Dark
9. Black Wing Rider
10. (Dont' Fear) The Reaper (Blue Öyster Cult cover)

Vanhelgd - Church Of Death (2011)

Sweden
Old School Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.32 (19 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.77
320 KB

1. Kolsvarta Skyar
2. Mänsklighetens Finala Ruin
3. Nec Spe, Nec Metu
4. Point Of No Return
5. Church Of Death
6. The Final Storm
7. Saepius In Auro Bibitur Venenum
8. Total Apokalyps
9. Alone With The Dead

Granicus - Thieves, Liars And Traitors (2010)

USA
Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.62 (18 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.73
192 KB

1. Thieves, Liars And Traitors
2. Space In Time
3. Equator
4. I'm Not Sick
5. Hollywood Star
6. Wizard Of Was
7. Taste Of Love
8. Slings And Arrows
9. When You're Movin'/Back Seat of My Car/Bad Talk (Live Jam)

Granicus second album released 37 years after their debut. Sounds like a could have been just one or two years between the albums though..

Vanhelgd - Cult Of Lazarus (2008)

Sweden
Old School Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.06 (23 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.77
320 KB

1. God Is Not Here Today
2. De Fördömda
3. Heaven Is Lost
4. Necropolis
5. Body And Soil
6. No Salvation
7. Evolution Rewind
8. Avlad I Synd
9. Drunk Beyond Death
10. Dead...But Still Alive

Great slab of classic death metal. Higlights are the songs with wedish lyrics.

Electric Boys - Funk-o-Metal Carpet Ride (1989)

Sweden
Funk Metal/Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.34 (79 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.72
128 KB

1. Psychadelic Eyes
2. All Lips n' Hips
3. Who Are You
4. Electrified
5. Freaky Funksters
6. Halleluja! I'm On Fire
7. Cheek To Cheek (In A Moonlit World)
8. Get Nasty
9. Party Up
10. Funk-o-Metal Carpet Ride

Funky and psychadelic Hard rock. Real orginal with some great tunes.

Blue Murder - Blue Murder (1989)

UK
Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.50
The Crypts View: 3.69
192 KB

1. Riot
2. Sex Child
3. Valley Of The Kings
4. Jelly Doll
5. Blue Murder
6. Out Of Love
7. Billy
8. Ptolemy
9. Black-Hearted Woman

Bluesy 80's Hard Rock.

Lynx - Caught In The Trap (1985)

Sweden
Heavy Metal
RYM rate: 3.74 (8 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.75
192 KB

1. My Own Way
2. Win Or Lose
3. Fingers Crossed
4. Man Without A Face
5. Don't Fool Me
6. Final Race
7. Nothing In Return
8. Master Of Evil
9. Nightwalker

Michael Nyman - The Piano Soundtrack (1993)

UK
Neo Classical
RYM rate: Unknown
The Crypts View: 3.87
320 KB

1. To The Edge Of The Earth
2. Big My Secret
3. A Wild And Distant Shore
4. The Heart Ask Pleasure First
5. Here To There
6. The Promise
7. A Bed Of Ferns
8. The Fling
9. The Scent Of Love
10. Deep Into The Forest
11. The Mood That Passes Through You
12. Lost And Found
13. The Embrace
14. Little Impulse
15. The Sacrifice
16. I Clipped Your Wing
17. The Wounded
18. All Imperfect Things
19. Dreams Of A Journey

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (1959)

USA
Jazz Fusion
RYM rate: 4.37
The Crypts View: 4.26
192 KB

1. So What
2. Freddie Freeloader
3. Blue In Green
4. All Blues
5. Flamenco Sketches

Bonafide - Something's Dripping (2009)

Sweden
Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.96 (20 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 4.11
320 KB

1. Dirt Bound
2. Hard Livin' Man
3. No Doubt About It
4. Straight Shooters
5. Elvis Chapel Blues
6. Fill Your Head With Rock
7. Dog
8. Shot Of You
9. Butter You Up
10. Swan Song
11. Sicker Than I Think

Classic 70's influences Hard Rock that suprises with having a even album of just good songs of the eleven ones. And i stil got thoose tops that really stick with you. A album to remember. Let's fill your head with rock!

Granicus - Granicus (1973)

USA
Hard/Psychadelic Rock
RYM rate: 3.76
The Crypts View: 4.07
128 KB

1. You're In America
2. Bad Talk
3. Twilight
4. Prayer
5. Cleveland Ohio
6. Nightmare
7. When You're Movin'
8. Paradise

Lethian Dreams - Bleak Silver Streams (2009)

France
Doom Death/Gothic Metal
RYM rate: 3.45 (46 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.82
320 KB

1. Elusive
2. In Seclusion
3. Under Her Wings
4. Requiem
5. Severance
6. For A Brighter Death

Lethian Dreams - Requiem For My Soul, Eternal Rest For My Heart (2006)

France
Doom Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.30 (17 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.79
256 KB

1. In Seclusion
2. For A Brighter Death
3. Accross the Bridge of Infinity...The Essence of Night
4. Under Her Wings (Mournful Whispers)
5. Elusive
6. December's Blame

Lethian Dreams - Lost In Grief [EP] (2004)

France
Doom/Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.30 (7 ratings)
The Crypt Ciew: 3.77
192 KB

1. Sea Of Sadness
2. Lost In Grief
3. Toward The Void
4. Taking Away My Insanity
5. For A Brighter Death

Manowar - Hail To England (1984)

USA
Heavy/Power Metal
RYM rate: 3.68
The Crypts View: 4.08
256 KB

1. Blood Of My Enemies
2. Each Dawn I Die
3. Kill With Power
4. Hail To England
5. Army Of Immortals
6. Black Arrows
7. Bridge Of Death

Helstar - The King Of Hell (2008)

USA
Heavy/Power/Speed Metal
RYM rate: 3.71
The Crypts View: 3.86
320 KB

1. The King Of Hell
2. The Plague Called Man
3. Tormentor
4. When Empires Fall
5. Wicked Disposition
6. Caress Of The Dead
7. Pain Will Be Thy Name
8. In My Darkness
9. The Garden Of Temptation

Helstar - Nosferatu (1989)

USA
Heavy/Power/Speed Metal
RYM rate: 3.77
The Crypts View: 4.17
192 KB

1. Rhapsody In Black
2. Baptized In Blood
3. To Sleep, Per Chance To Scream
4. Harker's Tale (Mass of Death)
5. Perseverance and Desperation (Instrumental)
6. The Curse Has Passed Away
7. Benediction
8. Harsh Reality
9. Swirling Madness
10. Von Am Lebem Desto Strum
11. Aieliaria and Everonn

Helstar - Remnants Of War (1986)

USA
Heavy/Power Metal
RYM rate: 3.58
The Crypts View: 3.76
128 KB

1. Unidos Por Tristeza
2. Remnants Of War
3. Conquest
4. Evil Reign
5. Destroyer
6. Suicidal Nightmare
7. Dark Queen
8. Face The Wicked One
9. Angel of Death

Helstar - Burning Star (1984)

USA
Heavy/Power Metal
RYM rate: 3.58
The Crypts View: 3.95
192 KB

1. Burning Star
2. Towards The Unknown
3. Witch's Eye
4. Run With The Pack
5. Leather And Lust
6. Possession
7. Shadows Of Iga
8. Dracula's Castle

Frequency - Compassion Denied (2008)

Sweden
Heavy/Progressive Metal
RYM rate: 3.26 (10 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.40
320 KB

1. Compassion Denied
2. Agony Is My Name
3. Beginning Is My Name
4. Life After Hell
5. Your Pain Is My Guide
6. Act Of God
7. Spirit In Black
8. Alive
9. New World Ers

Bigelf - Cheat The Gallows (2008)

Sweden
Hard/Progressive Rock
RYM rate: 3.66
224 KB

1. Gravest Show On Earth
2. Blackball
3. Money, It's Pure Evil
4. The Evil's Of Rock & Roll
5. No Parachute
6. The Game
7. Superstar
8. Race With Time
9. Hydra
10. Counting Sheep

Bigelf - Hex (2003)

USA
Hard/Progressive Rock
RYM rate: 3.60
192 KB

1. Madhatter
2. Bats In The Belfry II
3. Painkillers
4. Disappear
5. Rock & Roll Contact
6. Sunshine Suicide
7. Falling Bombs
8. Black Moth
9. Carry The Load
10. Burning Bridges
11. Bats In The Belfry I
12. $

These Are They - Disposing Of Betrayers (2010)

USA
Death/Doom Metal
RYM rate: 3.46 (19 ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.55
320 KB

1. The Massacre
2. Behind The Door
3. The Sins Of My Brothers
4. No Angels To Catch You
5. By Phaeton's Design
6. Cranial Hemorrhage
7. La mano nera
8. Evening Widows
9. Disposal Of Betrayers


Doomy Chicago death metal with members from Novembers Doom.

Fatum Elisum - Homo Nihilis (2011)

France
Doom Death Metal
RYM rate: 3.38 (6 ratings)
320 KB

1. Pulvis et Umbra Sumus
2. Pursuit Of Sadness
3. The Twilight Prophet
4. Homo Nihilis
5. East Of Eden

Second full length by the frence death doomers Fatum Elisum which is latin for "Dashed Against Fate".

Mithotyn - Gathered Around The Oaken Table (1999)

Sweden
Viking/Black Metal
RYM rate: 3.71
The Crypts View: 3.70
320 KB

1. Lord Of Ironhand
2. Watchmen Of The Wild
3. In The Clash Of Arms
4. Hearts Of Stone
5. The Well Of Mimir
6. Chariot Of Power
7. Nocturnal Riders
8. The Guardian
9. Imprisoned
10. Guided By History
11. The Old Rover

Hellbringer - Hellbringer EP (2011)

Australia
Thrash Metal
RYM rate: 3.77 (28 Ratings)
The Crypts View: 3.82
320 KB

1. Intro
2. Hellbringer
3. The Banished
4. The Rapture
5. Spawns of The Void
6. The Hammer
7. Screams From The Catacombs
8. My Fist Your Face (Armoured Angel Cover)

I might not be the biggest Thrash fan but i recognize a great thrash album when i hear one.
This is a fantastic old school thrash metal ep by Hellbringer. Hope they continue on the same path...then who knows where they end up. This debut promises alot.

Legend (US) - From The Fjords (1979)

USA
Heavy Metal/Hard Rock
RYM rate: 3.74
The Crypts View: 3.97
320 KB

1. The Destroyer
2. The Wizard's Venegeance
3. The Golden Bell
4. The Confrontation
5. R.A.R.Z.
6. Against The Gods
7. The Iron Horde
8. From The Fjords