MindFuzz

One of the greatest brutal death albums ever done, easily. Love the production, the instrumentation and grooves are relentless front to back, and it all comes together perfectly. Joe Wolfe was on fire here, stellar vocal performance all album (not to mention him recording the album *by himself*). An album that will forever be hard to beat in the genre.

Favorite track: Hung With Barbwire

An hour or so of noise rock that is *actually* quite noisy believe it or not. Fantastic album to get lost in with walls of sound mixed so aggressively and raw, and just enough structure gluing things together to keep it from all falling apart. Evil shoegaze.

Favorite Track: Haruspex

Pig Destroyer certainly wasn't on my radar for a doom metal release, and yet they managed to take their eerie and unsettling nature I'm used to hearing in a grindcore context and work it into a monumental ambient doom track. Writing a song longer than some of your other full albums is a risky move, but man did they nail it; they managed to craft 37 minutes of sludgy slow riffing intermittent with dark ambience leaving a sense of dread and unease unlike anything else they've ... read more

Book Burner is both a fun and solid listen throughout, however I feel its lacking the energy and ideas present in earlier albums. They may be retreading the same grounds as before, but it's certainly still well above average and worth returning to its 30 minute onslaught now and then.

Favorite Track: Machiavellian