We are at the end of the decade, so I collect some ideas and impressions on the discs that I consider fundamental and inalienable, among those released in the year 2000. Still very
deepen and I know this is a snapshot of what the end of 2009, rising from my stereo, my brain has reached far and my heart, and left deep scars.
(the order of presentation of the discs is ... is not an alphabetical list)
Massive Attack - 100th Window
While not a great connoisseur of trip-hop to me I feel I can say that this album is really wonderful night. Although not to the levels of Mezzanine, 100th Windows is a fascinating snapshot of a city at night and mysterious, with its neon lights and the streets deserted. Hypnotic electronic rhythms and synthesized sounds that are icy shivers down my spine. Beautiful
Anathema - A Natural Disaster
Ok, this disc does not invent anything. Anathema will never be the Pink Floyd, Radiohead neither. But their reading of the prog and alternative rock with a distinctly gothic sensibility and "metalheads", makes this album truly exciting and unique. And this is enough for me.
My favorite of the band, along with Judgement.
Yob - Catharsis
A dall'incedere magma slowly, inexorably engulfs everything. Psychedelic doom at the highest levels. Two long tracks and pachyderm, hot like lava. At the center of a track closer to the stoner, while marches and phlegm voices intertwine to a screeching worthy of Ozzy acid. Hallucinated music, valve, piping hot and sweaty.
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
music evolving and changing, demanding but melodically charming. Pretentious and snobbish, perhaps, but also delicate and poetic. And above all, unique and innovative. Songs that wrap themselves in an absolutely natural and contorgono, drawing inspiration from influences as diverse but never give the sense of copy and paste. Everything is smooth. Not easy, but smooth and exciting. Progressive rock.
Opeth - Damnation
A beautiful acoustic record. One November day, shrouded in fog. A masterpiece worthy of the best Pink Floyd. Fascinating
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
From the ashes of At the Drive In was born in this very interesting project that debut album reaches the perfect balance between ipercervellotico prog, psychedelic delirious, hardcore energy and crazy improvisations. Uncontrollable explosion, which draws inspiration from the past as funanboli King Crimson, Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the mixture to the fury of hardcore, preparing the proposal so far unique.
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Another step forward for the Seattle band. Despite this record is often criticized for me is a jewel of modern thrash. He feels the influence of Meshuggah, the hard and most violent of the brain of Nevermore. 40 minutes without a breathing space between apocalyptic atmosphere. Extraordinary Texts of Warrel Dane.
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
back their steps back slightly, Radiohead make a record closer to the rock. Long and fascinating, Hail to the Thief is yet another confirmation of melodies made depressed and atmosphere by the end of the world.
Tomahawk - Mit Gas
Only reading the names involved we understand the value of this band. But we are not faced with a simple sum of Melvins, Jesus Lizard, Helmet and Faith No More. The four apocalypse invent an extraordinarily energetic rock, but melodic, guitar driven by a noisy and abrasive, which is inserted on a driving rhythm section. And then there's the voice of Mike Patton, in my opinion, even in the Faith No More has never reached these levels. The rock.
Neurosis & Jarboe - Neurosis & Jarboe
I am biased. Jarboe is one of my favorite female voices. The Neurosis are one of my favorite bands. I can not be objective. For me this combination is one of the most disturbing and frightening that I've ever heard, but also incredibly moving. Poetry
[No cover] Ornaments - Ornaments
only publication of this extraordinary Italian band. Their instrumental post-rock heavily influenced by the latest production of Neurosis, Isis and Breach, is personal as well as incredibly excited. For the series "if they were English they would have done a very different way." Without too much pride, this is absolutely one of the most interesting * post-discs I've ever heard.
Pelican - Pelican
debut EP for the young Pelican. Four songs of a heavy disarming the limits of doom and psychedelic post hardcore school Neurosis. In some ways even more than the excellent full length released the same year, Australasia.
The Gathering - Souvenirs
After absorbing a huge dose of Radiohead and trip hop, the Gathering are back with a disc that does not lose its unique atmosphere and hypnotic twilight of the previous work, but reads through more modern perspective. Extraordinary voice of Anneke test, which reaches emotional peaks unusual in songs like Broken Glass and You Learn About It, proving one of the best singers around, despite the low fame beyond the restricted circle of fans. Creepy
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
King Crimson In the new millennium is manifested in the form of sounds heavy, bordering on the prog metal more experimental, and combines them soundscaspes atmospheric and twisted guitar solos with some electronic flash, but especially with a real melodic always fascinating and never boring. The result is a wonderful album of progressive rock of the future.
Khanate - Things Viral
The disc most painful and disturbing I've ever heard. An ulcer that will devouring from within, a tumor that weighs down your thoughts. Pain, excruciating. Music for toxic end-stage, or for lovers of strong emotions. The other will be a simple cascade of noise, for me it is a work of art
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
A disc winding, sensual, subtly mysterious atmospheres. More intimate atmosphere and the previous one, closer to the best care, this is really a hard and exciting meravlioso like few others.
Manes - Vilosophe
some ways similar to Ulver, Manes pack a disc from the dark atmosphere but never desperate. Work incredibly fascinating finds few equals in the highly successful mix of trip hop, electronic, alternative rock and gothic atmospheres. A disk also mocking and ironic, I do not know what to call it. The fact is that the singer's voice, although it is not animal or particularly strange, really makes me shiver.
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness
More immediate and impact, the Swedes create a memorable album that manages to perfectly match the dark underground overflowing with energy. A battery in perpetual motion, guitar sounds more compressed and amazing vocal melodies do not weaken, but rather complements, and the leaden atmosphere of classical music the band.
(the order of presentation of the discs is ... is not an alphabetical list)
Year 2003
Massive Attack - 100th Window While not a great connoisseur of trip-hop to me I feel I can say that this album is really wonderful night. Although not to the levels of Mezzanine, 100th Windows is a fascinating snapshot of a city at night and mysterious, with its neon lights and the streets deserted. Hypnotic electronic rhythms and synthesized sounds that are icy shivers down my spine. Beautiful
Anathema - A Natural Disaster Ok, this disc does not invent anything. Anathema will never be the Pink Floyd, Radiohead neither. But their reading of the prog and alternative rock with a distinctly gothic sensibility and "metalheads", makes this album truly exciting and unique. And this is enough for me.
My favorite of the band, along with Judgement.
Yob - Catharsis A dall'incedere magma slowly, inexorably engulfs everything. Psychedelic doom at the highest levels. Two long tracks and pachyderm, hot like lava. At the center of a track closer to the stoner, while marches and phlegm voices intertwine to a screeching worthy of Ozzy acid. Hallucinated music, valve, piping hot and sweaty.
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye music evolving and changing, demanding but melodically charming. Pretentious and snobbish, perhaps, but also delicate and poetic. And above all, unique and innovative. Songs that wrap themselves in an absolutely natural and contorgono, drawing inspiration from influences as diverse but never give the sense of copy and paste. Everything is smooth. Not easy, but smooth and exciting. Progressive rock.
Opeth - Damnation A beautiful acoustic record. One November day, shrouded in fog. A masterpiece worthy of the best Pink Floyd. Fascinating
The Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium From the ashes of At the Drive In was born in this very interesting project that debut album reaches the perfect balance between ipercervellotico prog, psychedelic delirious, hardcore energy and crazy improvisations. Uncontrollable explosion, which draws inspiration from the past as funanboli King Crimson, Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the mixture to the fury of hardcore, preparing the proposal so far unique.
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality Another step forward for the Seattle band. Despite this record is often criticized for me is a jewel of modern thrash. He feels the influence of Meshuggah, the hard and most violent of the brain of Nevermore. 40 minutes without a breathing space between apocalyptic atmosphere. Extraordinary Texts of Warrel Dane.
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief back their steps back slightly, Radiohead make a record closer to the rock. Long and fascinating, Hail to the Thief is yet another confirmation of melodies made depressed and atmosphere by the end of the world.
Tomahawk - Mit Gas Only reading the names involved we understand the value of this band. But we are not faced with a simple sum of Melvins, Jesus Lizard, Helmet and Faith No More. The four apocalypse invent an extraordinarily energetic rock, but melodic, guitar driven by a noisy and abrasive, which is inserted on a driving rhythm section. And then there's the voice of Mike Patton, in my opinion, even in the Faith No More has never reached these levels. The rock.
Neurosis & Jarboe - Neurosis & Jarboe I am biased. Jarboe is one of my favorite female voices. The Neurosis are one of my favorite bands. I can not be objective. For me this combination is one of the most disturbing and frightening that I've ever heard, but also incredibly moving. Poetry
[No cover] Ornaments - Ornaments
only publication of this extraordinary Italian band. Their instrumental post-rock heavily influenced by the latest production of Neurosis, Isis and Breach, is personal as well as incredibly excited. For the series "if they were English they would have done a very different way." Without too much pride, this is absolutely one of the most interesting * post-discs I've ever heard.
Pelican - Pelican debut EP for the young Pelican. Four songs of a heavy disarming the limits of doom and psychedelic post hardcore school Neurosis. In some ways even more than the excellent full length released the same year, Australasia.
The Gathering - Souvenirs After absorbing a huge dose of Radiohead and trip hop, the Gathering are back with a disc that does not lose its unique atmosphere and hypnotic twilight of the previous work, but reads through more modern perspective. Extraordinary voice of Anneke test, which reaches emotional peaks unusual in songs like Broken Glass and You Learn About It, proving one of the best singers around, despite the low fame beyond the restricted circle of fans. Creepy
King Crimson - The Power to Believe King Crimson In the new millennium is manifested in the form of sounds heavy, bordering on the prog metal more experimental, and combines them soundscaspes atmospheric and twisted guitar solos with some electronic flash, but especially with a real melodic always fascinating and never boring. The result is a wonderful album of progressive rock of the future.
Khanate - Things Viral The disc most painful and disturbing I've ever heard. An ulcer that will devouring from within, a tumor that weighs down your thoughts. Pain, excruciating. Music for toxic end-stage, or for lovers of strong emotions. The other will be a simple cascade of noise, for me it is a work of art
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
A disc winding, sensual, subtly mysterious atmospheres. More intimate atmosphere and the previous one, closer to the best care, this is really a hard and exciting meravlioso like few others. 
Manes - Vilosophe some ways similar to Ulver, Manes pack a disc from the dark atmosphere but never desperate. Work incredibly fascinating finds few equals in the highly successful mix of trip hop, electronic, alternative rock and gothic atmospheres. A disk also mocking and ironic, I do not know what to call it. The fact is that the singer's voice, although it is not animal or particularly strange, really makes me shiver.
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness More immediate and impact, the Swedes create a memorable album that manages to perfectly match the dark underground overflowing with energy. A battery in perpetual motion, guitar sounds more compressed and amazing vocal melodies do not weaken, but rather complements, and the leaden atmosphere of classical music the band.
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