24 Favorite Recordings from 2011

Well, I haven't been around much lately, have I? Things have been . . . hectic. To put it mildly. I'm preparing to move out of state next month, as well as trying to pull together a number of other projects (for instance, this new label), and this blog has suffered as a result. Perhaps soon I will be able to spend more time here, but I imagine it won't be until after the new year.

Until then, I'm killing some time with a year end "most-enjoyed" list. Because that's what you do in December, I've gathered. I won't promise it's the best of this year---just stuff I liked. Mostly metal. Ordered alphabetically, since I can't bring myself to valuate them hierarchically. No deep reflections, either, just artist then title. Enjoy.

Absu – Abzu
Aksumite – The Gleam of Wetted Lips
Antediluvian – Through the Cervix of Hawwah
Ash Borer – Ash Borer
Björk – Biophilia
Blut Aus Nord – 777 Sect(s)/The Desanctification
Bosse-De-Nage – II
Botanist – I: The Suicide Tree/II: A Rose from the Dead
De Magia Veterum – The Divine Antithesis
False – Untitled
Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Locrian – Dort Ist Der Weg
Mamaleek – Kurdaitcha
Mare Cognitum – The Sea Which Has Become Known
Mournful Congregation – The Book of Kings
Negative Plane – Stained Glass Revelations
Oskoreien – Oskoreien
Rob Funkhouser – Granular Momentum Exchange
Servile Sect – Trvth
Sutekh Hexen – Luciform
Terra Tenebrosa – The Tunnels
Trou Noir – Echoes in Black Holes
Void Meditation Cult – Sulfurous Prayers
Wolves in the Throne Room – Celestial Lineage

And that's pretty much it.