What a good year for metal and loud music in general. This mixtape doesn’t even cover half of the battle axe destruction I heard, including the epic Hammers of Misfortune two-disc set I literally just heard today for the first time (seriously wish I’d known about this back in October). It was a good year for reissues, too: Amebix, an apparently influential metal band I never heard of, and The Rules of Hell box set featuring the Dio years of Black Sabbath, years I wrongly had ignored until then.

P.S.: Do not miss the Jex Thoth track. In fact, don’t miss her self-titled disc at all — organ-led doom-metal heavy on the psych.

Download: Total Vibration 2008 Mixtape, Pt. 2

01. Viking Skull “In Hell”
02. Made Out Of Babies “Cooker”
03. Thou “With a Cold, Life Extinguishing Elegance”
04. Helms Alee “A New Roll”
05. Amebix “Progress?”
06. Harvey Milk “After All I’ve Done For You, This is How You Repay Me?”
07. Leviathan “Made as the Stale Wine of Wrath”
08. Krallice “Cnestorial”
09. Mount Eerie “In Moonlight”
10. Heavy Hands “See Saw”
11. Fucked Up “Crooked Head”
12. Black Sabbath “Neon Knights”
13. Jex Thoth “Stone Evil”

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