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THE BEST BUTTHOLE ALBUM ART AWARDS OF 2020

Posted on December 30, 2020 by jtextreme

Welcome to the Butthole Album Art Awards (BHAAAs)! Here are 50 albums that best represent this stinker of a year! SHRIEKING wins best in show with their 2020 blowout smash hit![Bandcamp] ATAVISMA, VOID ROT, and you all star in … Continue reading →

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YEARLY RIPPERS: JUSTIN’S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2020

Posted on December 20, 2020 by jtextreme

Hello there! Should go without saying, but these are my FAVORITES. They are the ones that hold my highest replayability for now & years to come. Also I’m starting with #1 because this isn’t a goddamn christmas present that everyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Lists, Rips | Tagged 2020, ash borer, atramentus, autonoesis, beltez, best of, black curse, black metal, blood incantation, death doom, death metal, denver, funeral leech, gilead media, heretical sect, king gizzard and the lizard wizard, krallice, list, Lists, lykotonon, noroth, oranssi pazuzu, phthisis, sentient ruin, shadow kingdom, siege column, solothus, temple of void, the world that was, undergang, void rot | 2 Comments

THE BEST BUTTHOLE ALBUM COVERS OF 2019

Posted on December 22, 2019 by jtextreme

As the year pushes to a close, it gives me great relief to discharge these fine specimens of absolute brute BH power. Once you have the eye, you can’t unsee them. They live. No ifs, ands, or butts, RENDEZVOUS POINT … Continue reading →

Posted in butthole | Tagged album art, album covers, art, brown kite, butthole, this is art | 2 Comments

YEARLY RIPPERS: JUSTIN’S FAVORITE BEST TOP ALBUMS OF 2019

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jtextreme

Hello there! Ahh listseason, my favorite time of year! I’ll spare you an exhausting introduction since there is an endless sea of these right now. But thanks for visiting and riffling through my picks of 2019! #20) Desecresy – Towards … Continue reading →

Posted in Rips | Tagged 20 buck spin, a pig's head on a stick, acathexis, aevum, annihilism, belong, black metal, blackened death, blood incantation, bull of apis, bull of apis bull of bronze, bull of bronze, chasm, chicago, crypt sermon, dark descent, de val, death metal, desecresy, fallen empire, gilead media, heretical sect, hidden history of the human race, indisciplinarian, infest the rats nest, inter arma, ir, king gizzard and the lizard wizard, madison, madison wi, orificial purge, orm, ossuary, rare field ceiling, relapse, rotting cosmic grief, sentient ruin, shabti, sick fucks, sulphur english, supreme degradation, suspiral, trembling and shorn, tridroid, ultha, unknown artist, vacivus, vastum, vendetta, vendetta records, verwoed, vukari, wi, wisconsin, xtreem music, yellow eyes | 1 Comment

JUSTIN’S MID YEAR RIPPERS 2019

Posted on June 24, 2019 by jtextreme

Oh hey! Just a quick little recap of the year to date. Here are 10 of my fav albums of 2019 so far! So screw the foreward, let’s get to it! And you’re damn right I wore the same shirt … Continue reading →

Posted in Rips | Tagged acathexis, avantgarde, black metal, bull of apis bull of bronze, death fortress, death metal, doom, fallen empire, feral light, france, heretical sect, inter arma, madison, mord'a'stigmata, ossuary, pig's head on a stick, prog, shabti, sinmara, suspiral, tech, tech death, usbm, verwoed, wi, wisconsin | 1 Comment

YEARLY RIPPERS: JUSTIN’S FAVORITE TOP BEST ALBUMS OF 2018

Posted on December 11, 2018 by jtextreme

Hi there! The following list is something I spend way too many hours obsessing, preparing, thinking, and overthinking every year. It means nothing but everything. That being said, I’m happy you’re here! I’m excited to spend the upcoming winter lull … Continue reading →

Posted in Rips | Tagged 20 buck spin, ails, anicon, atavisma, aural music, black salvation, black wizard, calm black water, chasm, chicago, churchburn, death, entropia, entropy mantra, faroe, feast for water, fister, gilead media, good fight music, horrendous, idol, illinois, infera bruo, infernal decadence, lev weinstein, listenable, livin oblivion, ludicra, manor of infinite forms, messa, migration fest, mutilation rites, nike, no spirit within, none shall live, profound lore, pyrolatrous, relapse, rezn, rhodes, season of mist, shrine, slaegt, spectral wound, st louis, svartmalm, temple of void, the chthonic rituals, the inextricable wandering, the unraveling, the wheel, tomb mold, tribulation, ultha, uncertainty is bliss, vacuum, van records, vendetta, vrtra, wayfarer, woe, worlds blood, yashira | 1 Comment

YEARLY RIPPERS: JUSTIN’S FAVORITE TOP BEST ALBUMS OF 2017

Posted on December 12, 2017 by jtextreme

[insert reflective diatribe re: 2017’s dismal climate and express gratitude for heavy metal here] In all seriousness, it is and thankfully, it was another great year for metal. After the countless hours spent on Bandcamp, Twitter, and my friends’ Slack … Continue reading →

Posted in Rips | Tagged aesop dekker, alien world, anicon, avantgarde, baneful genesis, bell witch, below the sun, beltez, black metal, blood incantation, bolt thrower, brooklyn, cascadian, cavernlight, chris grigg, cloak, crawling chaos, dark descent, death doom, death metal, desolate endscape, desolate shrine, detroit, doom, drouth, expander, extremity, floods, gilead, gilead media, haim, hardcore, harry styles, hell, hope attrition, iron reagan, john carpenter, krallice, lantern, lords of death, mooncurse, morphosis, msw, necrot, nutsacks, occult, pagan, phrenelith, planetary space child, portland, power trip, prophecy, ruby the hatchet, ruins of beverast, shattering light's creation, skyeater, spectral voice, sun of the sleepless, taylor swift, tchornobog, tee pee, temple of void, the black angels, the maw of time, thrice woven, to the elements, tofu carnage, translation loss, tribulation, tyrannosorceress, wode, wolves in the throne room, wormwood | Leave a comment

JUSTIN’S MID-YEAR RIPPERS 2017

Posted on June 14, 2017 by jtextreme

Hey! I moved my site from goodshakes.com (RIP) to here. This is unimportant as I only post twice a year. So I’ll get right to it! You are here to read my digest of 2017 rippers (so far). Woe – … Continue reading →

Posted in Rips | Tagged abm, aesop dekker, alien world, anicon, antihedron, ars magna umbrae, atmospheric, avantgarde, behemoth, below the sun, black metal, blood incantation, bolt thrower, brooklyn, bufihimat, cosmic, dark descent, death is this world, death metal, desolate endscape, devouring star, doom, eggplant, extremity, floods, gojira, hardcore, hope attrition, jagged vision, krallice, kylesa, lantern, lovecraft, ludicra, nyc, osdm, peach, phrenelith, prog, progressive, retro futurist, russian, season of mist, servants of the countercosmos, shimmy, sludge, strut, tech, tech death, techgrind, the great old ones, through lunar gateways, ulsect, usbm, vhol, vrtra, walk out, wode, woe | Leave a comment