Staff Infections: 7.22.2010

Welcome to the inaugural Metal Review Staff Infections feature. Staff playlists have been a staple of many publications throughout the years, and we figured it was high time that we get with the program. Not only is it fun for us rattle off our current favorites, but it will also shed some light on our listening habits; this is a snapshot of our tastes at a certain moment in time. Feel free to lash your own lists below; let's get the metal flowing.

Currently, the most popular album in staff rotation is Soilwork's latest, The Panic Broadcast. (It only appeared twice, but it still escaped with the crown.) Check out one of the album's most impressive moments, "Deliverance is Mine." 

 

 

Zach Duvall

  • Angel Witch - Angel Witch
  • Nox Aurea - Ascending in Triumph
  • Voivod - Killing Technology
  • While Heaven Wept - Sorrow of the Angels
  • Gorguts - From Wisdom to Hate
  • The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite

 

John Ray

  • Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pamîntului
  • Burzum - Belus
  • Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió 
  • Throes of Dawn - The Great Fleet of Echoes
  • Chroma Key - Dead Air for Radios
  • Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons

 

Juho Mikkonen

  • Witchsorrow - Witchsorrow
  • Electric Wizard - We Live
  • Candlemass - Ancient Dreams
  • Mgla - Presence
  • Obituary - Slowly We Rot
  • Celestia - Archaenae Perfectii

 

Jeremy Witt

  • Godflesh - Streetcleaner
  • The Boomtown Rats - The Boomtown Rats
  • Scorpions - Virgin Killer
  • Scorpions - Blackout
  • Bolt Thrower - In Battle There Is No Law

 

Dave Pirtle 

  • Hellyeah - Stampede
  • Jorn - Dio
  • JJ Paradise Players Club - Wine Cooler Blowout
  • Dio - The Last in Line
  • Sebadoh - Bubble and Scrape
  • Bettye LaVette - Interpretations

 

Michael Wuensch

  • Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
  • Manowar - Thunder in the Sky EP
  • Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
  • Gustav Holst - The Planets Suite
  • Puritan - Lithium Gates

 

Matt Brown

  • Aborted - Cornary Reconstruction EP
  • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
  • Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
  • The Breathing Process - Odyssey (Un)Dead
  • Waking the Cadaver - Beyond Cops. Beyond God.

 

Chris McDonald

  • Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
  • Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
  • Necrovation - Bread Deadness Blood
  • Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
  • Lunar Aurora - Andacht
  • Disincarnate - Dreams Of The Carrion Kind

 

Jordan Campbell

  • The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
  • Beherit - Engram
  • Arckanum - ppppppppppp
  • Valborg - Crown of Sorrow
  • Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
  • Asphyx - The Rack

 

Jim Brandon

  • NitbergNagelreid
  • Placebo Battle For The Sun
  • Yaotl Mictlan Dentro del Manto Gris de Chaac
  • Prince Diamonds And Pearls
  • Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave
  • Weakling - Dead As Dreams

 

Sasha Horn 

  • Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
  • Soilwork - The Panic Broadcast
  • Istapp - Blekinge
  • United Nations - Never Mind The Bombings, Here's Your Six Figures 7"
  • The Breathing Process - Odyssey (Un)Dead
  • Bitter End - Guilty As Charged

 

Jeremy Morse

  • Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
  • Deceased - As the Weird Travel On
  • Edge of Sanity - Crimson
  • Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
  • Darkthrone - Soulside Journey
  • Obituary - Dead

 

Melissa Mercury

  • Grand Magus - Iron Will
  • Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry
  • Jakob - Cale:Drew
  • Alcest - Ecailles De Lune
  • Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself

 

Konrad Kantor 

  • D.I.S. - Critical Failure
  • Rosetta - A Determinism of Morality
  • Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree
  • Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
  • NAS - Illmatic

 

Erik Thomas

  • Entrails - Tales from the Morgue
  • Blood Revolt - Indoctrinate
  • At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
  • Circle of Dead Children - Psalm of the Destroyer
  • I Declare War - Malevolence

 

Doug Moore

  • Harvey Milk - A Small Act of Human Kindness
  • Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
  • Today Is the Day - Willpower
  • Ludicra - The Tenant
  • Josh Ritter - So Runs the World Away
  • Decapitated - The Negation

 

 


Posted Jul 21 2010, 08:37 AM by Metal Review

Comments

PachLGV wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 9:29 AM

I'm glad someone else liked that Istapp album and I didn't know Jorns "Dio" was out already!!

I'd love that instead of just listing your choices, you could put the links to the album reviews aswell.

Just my opinion really....

tc7005 wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 11:11 AM

I love all things metal, but it's also great to see Nas' Illmatic appear on a list.  It's nice to see some good diversity in the listening.

Can't get enough Immolation and Hate Eternal right now.

The Metal Mallet wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 12:24 PM

Lately it's been the new Alice In Chains, the new Deftones, and the new Alcest.

I've also been spinning Diadem of 12 Stars by Wolves In The Throne Room over the day.

zach wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 2:09 PM

Mallet, you've got the idea. List away peoples.

Rocco wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 2:16 PM

Ulver - Bertatt

Ulver - Nattens Madrigal

Mourning Beloveth - A Disease For The Ages

Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice Of Steel

Equilibrium - Rekreatur

Americannibal wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 3:37 PM

Agnostic Front - Cause For Alarm/Victim In Pain

Magrudergrind - s/t

Pentagram - Relentless

Clutch - s/t

Scaremaker - What Evil Have They Summoned...

Violator - Chemical Assualt

Besty wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 7:48 PM

Vanden Plas-The Seraphic Clockwork

Slough Feg-Traveller

Slough Feg-Down among the Dead Men

Coroner-Death Cult

Crimson Glory-Transcendence

Kiuas-Spirit of Ukko

Stalker wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 8:02 PM

Dismember- Dismember

Les Dirscrets- Septembre...

While Heaven Wept- Of Empires Forlorn

Dark Tranquility- We are the Void

Amon Amarth- The Avenger

scintilla wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Thu, Jul 22 2010 10:56 PM

Alcest - Ecailles de Lune

Brian Posehn - Fart and Wiener Jokes

Sinister - The Silent Howling

Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse

Pantera - various stuff

snuffsoul wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Fri, Jul 23 2010 5:28 AM

Fuck the Facts - Disgorge Mexico

Beneath the Sky - In Loving Memory

Time Kills Everything - Time Kills Everything

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles

Suffocation - Blood Oath

HateDragon wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Fri, Jul 23 2010 11:22 AM

Myrath - Desert Call

The Sequence of Prime - Virion

Valborg - Crown of Sorrows

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia

Timeghoul - Panaramic Twilight

Decrepit Birth - Between Two Worlds

Enslaved - Mardraum

Danzig - Deth Red Sabaoth

Witchery - Witchkrieg

automatic wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Fri, Jul 23 2010 7:23 PM

Cool idea, hope you keep it up. Pretty impressive that there was only a single repeat with 16 staffers naming 5-6 albums each.

I am listening primarily to Blood Revolt, and will be for the foreseeable future. (Yes, I'll be taking every opportunity to grandstand this album ;) )

ellipsis wrote re: Staff Infections: 7.22.2010
on Tue, Aug 3 2010 11:40 AM

Got SO pumped to see Pete and C.L. on a list. Mad kudos. As for me....

The New Yorker - Home Is Where The Trees Grow

Danza - Danza III: The Series Of Unfortunate Events

Kid Sister - Ultraviolet

Wintersun - s/t

Wormed - Quasineutrality (Single)

Panda Bear - Tomboy (Single)

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