Welcome to the 3rd Annual Golden Asterisks Awards Thread!
Previous Years:
2008 Golden Asterisks
2007 Golden Asterisks
For more 2009 music discussion:
2009 GWJ Album of the Year Nominations
This year, I'm doing things a little differently. Rather than make one humongous post, I'm going to do individual posts on albums, one every day or two, until I run out of albums.
Also, I'm embedding YouTube vids into the posts where possible, to make it easier to sample the music.
Note: Because of the GWJ site's continued refusal to embed YouTube videos with underscores and hyphens in the ID, sometimes I have to pick videos other than the obvious choice - like "mash-up" videos with the song and some unrelated video sequence - in order to embed that song into the post.
My hope is that this will generate a neat thread of music to sample, and a conversation that goes with it, rather than one giant impenetrable post. Although it's quite likely that no one cares. I accept this.
I'll edit this post each time to show the running list of winners.
2009 Golden Asterisks List
Golden Asterisks for Achievement in Metal
Kylesa - Static Tensions (link)
Amorphis - Skyforger (link)
Pelican - Ephemeral [EP] (link)
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (link)
Golden Asterisks for Achievement in Electronic Music
Robert Logan - Inscape (link)
Boxcutter - Arecibo Message (link)
iTAL tEK - Massive Error [EP] (link)
Golden Asterisks for Achievement in Progressive Rock / Fusion
Forgas Band Phenomena - L'Axe du Fou (link)
Golden Asterisks for Achievement in Ambient / Drone
AUN - Motorsleep (link)
Golden Asterisks for Achievement in Soundtrack
Stingray Sam (link)
2009 Golden Certis "Awards of Dubious Honor" List
Golden Certis for "Best" Lyric
Venetian Snares - Horsey Noises (link)
Golden Certis for Best Boobs
Francine Boucher of Echoes of Eternity (link)
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