Adrien Begrand
1. Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier (EMI)
2. Mares of Thrace – The Moulting (Arctodus)
3. Dawnbringer – Nucleus (Profound Lore)
4. Christian Mistress – Agony and Opium (20 Buck Spin)
5. The Cure – Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)
BOOK: Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell
DVD: Withnail & I, dir: Bruce Robinson
Tate Bengtson
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Henry’s Dream (Mute)
2. Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy (Century Media)
3. Melvins – The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac)
4. Heathen – The Evolution of Chaos (Mascot)
5. Harvey Milk – Small Turn of Human Kindness (Hydra Head)
Keith Carman
1. Poison Idea – Feel The Darkness (American Leather)
2. Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth (The End)
3. Ramones – Ramonesmania (Sire)
4. Rammer – Otherworldly Resurrection (Schizophrenic)
5. Cheerleader – S/T (Indie)
BOOK: Personality Crisis: Warm Beer & Wild Times (Gofuckyerself Press)
DVD: Classic Albums: Paranoid (Eagle Rock Ent.)
Cara Cross
1. Rotting Christ – AEALO (Season of Mist)
2. How to Destroy Angels – How to Destroy Angels EP (The Null Corporation)
3. Iron Maiden – Brave New World (EMI/Sony)
4. The Haunted – The Haunted Made Me Do It (Earache)
5. Baroness – Blue Record (Relapse)
BOOK: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
MOVIE: Deliverance
Laina Dawes
1. Black Breath – Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord)
2. Converge – When Forever Comes Crashing (Equal Vision)
3. Aeon – Path of Fire (Metal Blade)
4. Yazuka – Of Sesmic Consequence (Profound Lore)
5. Obsydian – The Grotesque Presage (Hogan Media Relations)
DVD: The White Ribbon
The Sheild, Season 6
Gruesome Greg
1. JPT Scare Band – Acid Blues is the White Man’s Burden (Ripple Music)
2. Indian – The Sycophant (Seventh Rule)
3. Candlemass – Live (Metal Blade)
4. High on Fire – Surrounded by Thieves (Relapse)
5. Flat Tires vs. The A-Sound 7″ (Tsuguri/Cockfight/Zodiac Killer)
HARDIFACT: Moxy – Under the Lights (Mercury)
Kyle Harcott
1. Crowbar – Equilibrium (Spitfire)
2. Various Artists – Sucking the ‘70s-Back In The Saddle Again (Small Stone)
3. Årabrot – The Brother Seed (Norway Rat)
4. Michael Gira – I Am Not Insane (Young God)
5. Paul Stanely – People, Let Me Get This Off My Chest (internet bootleg)
BOOK: Twentieth Century Eightball, Dan Clowes (Fantagraphics)
FILM: Gasland, Josh Fox
Rob Hughes
1. UFOMAMMUT – Eve (Supernatural Cat)
2. Egg – Egg (Decca/Eclectic)
3. The Green Evening Requiem – Decomposer (Anthropic Records)
4. The Nels Cline Singers – Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
5. Funeral Circle – Sinister Sacrilege (Miskatonic)
BOOK: Vancouver Special, by Charles Demers
DVD: The IT Crowd (complete first season)
Rob Kachluba
1. Monolit – Arcana Balkanica (One Records)
2. Rage – Strings to A Web (Sonic Unyon)
3. Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast (Nuclear Blast)
4. Skeletal Spectre – Tomb Coven (Razorback Records)
5. Count Raven – Mammons War (I Hate Records)
MOVIE: The Shootist
Sarah Kitteringham
1. Early Graves- Goner (Metal Blade)
2. Nails- Unsilent Death (Six Feet Under/Streetcleaner)
3. Daughters- Daughters (Hydrahead)
4. Big Black- Songs about Fucking (Touch & Go Records)
5. Neurosis- Enemy of the Sun (Re-Issue on Neurot Records)
BOOK: Touch and Go: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ’79-‘83
Albert Mansour
1. Unearthly Trance – Electrocution (Relapse)
2. 1349 – Demonoir (Indie Recording)
3. Ampütator – Intolerance Deathsquads (Old Cemetery)
4. Fastkill – Nuclear Thrashing Attack (World Chaos Productions)
5. Samael – Above (Nuclear Blast)
FILM : Maryland Deathfest #7 2009 (Handshake Inc)
Ola Mazzuca
1. Die Hard – Nihilistic Vision (Agonia)
2. Enslaved – Vertebrae (Nuclear Blast)
3. Mike Patton – Mondo Cane – (Ipecac)
4. Volbeat – Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood (Mascot)
5. Groove Armada – Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) (Zomba)
READING: Metal magazines from around the world!
Justin M. Norton
1. Nails – Unsilent Death (Streetcleaner)
2. Nachtmystium – Addicts, Black Meddle Part 2 (Century Media)
3. Blues Harp Meltdown Volume 2 (Mountain Top)
4. Anaal Nathrakh – The Codex Necro reissue (Earache)
5. The Locust – Plague Soundscapes (ANTI)
BOOKS: On The Yard by Malcom Braly; Touch and Go (collected fanzine) by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson
MOVIE: The A-Team
Sean Palmerston
1. Convulse – World Without God LP (Relapse)
2. Hawkwind – Blood of the Earth (Eastworld Recordings)
3. Kataklysm – Heaven’s Venom (Nuclear Blast USA)
4. Rammer – SCHIZ39 12″ LP (Schizophrenic Records)
5. Rush – Fly By Night (Anthem)
DVD: SODOM – Lords of Depravity, Part II (SPV)
TV: Doctor Who, series 5 (2010)
Dave Sanders
1. Eyehategod – Take As Needed For Pain (Century Media)
2. The Crown – Crowned Unholy (Metal Blade)
3. Watain – Lawless Darkness (Season of Mist)
4. Dave Attell – Skanks for the Memories… (Comedy Central Records)
5. Killing Joke – Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (Cooking Vinyl)
BOOK: The Pacific: Hell was an Ocean Away – Hugh Ambrose (New American Library)
MOVIE: L4yer Cake (Sony Pictures Classics)
Jonathan Smith
1. Pelican – What We All Come To Need (Southern Lord)
2. How To Destroy Angels – s/t – (Null)
3. Les Discrets – Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées (Prophecy)
4. Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor (Century Media)
5. October Tide – Rain Without End – (Vic)
BOOK: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
Kevin Stewart-Panko
1. Kvelertak – Kvelertak (Indie)
2. Gama Bomb – Tales From the Grave in Space (Earache)
3. Knut – Wonder (Hydra Head)
4. Cripple Bastards – Age of Vandalism 1987-1993 (Selfmadegod)
5. Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty (Relapse)
Jason Wellwood
1. Mares of Thrace – Moulting (Arctodus)
2. Black Tusk – Taste The Sin (Relapse)
3. Avantasia – The Wicked Symphony (Nuclear Blast)
4. Striker – Eyes In The Night (Iron Kodex)
5. Danzig – Deth Red Saboath (The End)
BOOK: Dio – Light Beyond the Black by Martin Popoff
FILM: The Book of Eli
Laura Wiebe Taylor
1. Melissa Auf der Maur – Out of Our Minds (MAdM/EMI)
2. Shattered Hope – Absence (Lugga Music)
3. Madder Mortem – Where Dream & Day Collide EP (Peaceville)
4. Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy (Century Media)
5. Savatage – Gutter Ballet (Atlantic)
READING: Selling Out (Quantum Gravity Book Two) by Justina Robson
Adam Wills
1. Agrypnie – 16[485] (Supreme Chaos Records)
2. Yakuza – Of Seismic Consequence (Profound Lore)
3. Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here (Kscope)
4. Negur? Bunget – Vîrstele Pamîntului (Code666)
5. Woods of Ypres – Pursuit of the Sun and Allure of the Earth (Krankenhaus Records)
MOVIE: Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
Natalie Zed
1. Portal – Swarth (Profound Lore)
2. Stars – The Five Ghosts (Soft Revolution)
3. Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones (Century Media)
4. Anathema – We’re Here Because We’re Here (Kscope)
5. Watain – Lawless Darkness – (Season of Mist)