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Review: The Flight of Sleipnir – Essence of Nine
This has been sort of the year of stoner metal. I swear a new entry to the stoner/doom/sludge genre comes out every week. I’ve ignored most of it. It’s not that I dislike it, I just haven’t been in the...
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Review: Torche – Harmonicraft
In 2008, I thought of Torche as the most poppy stoner metal on the market. By 2012, the attributes have reversed. You won’t hear anything quite as doomy as Meanderthal’s title track, Pirhaña, or...
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My Top 10 Metal Albums of 2013
It’s that time again. In spite of 2013 being pretty much the worst year of my life, I found it a lot easier to select a top 10 list than in 2012. Odd-numbered years almost always seem to produce a...
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Review: Boris – Noise
Black cat. Halloween. Coincidence? But you shouldn’t have been looking at that. You should have been looking at the two words surrounding it, because it suggests something we haven’t heard much of in...
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My Top 10 Metal Albums of 2014
I don’t think a New Years rolls by that I don’t say something amounting to “odd-numbered years produce better music”. The trend inexplicably holds true once again. I actually listened to a good bit of...
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My Top 15 Metal Albums of 2015
Fourteen years posting a year-end list somewhere, and the rule never changes: odd-numbered years produce more good music. Thankfully, we just concluded 2015. 15. Deafheaven – New Bermuda 14. Peste...
View ArticleMy Top 20 Albums of 2018
Happy New Year! It’s time for my annual check-in to confirm that we’re still alive and well, and that I still have terrible taste in music. Sample size: 71 albums Quality: This was a pretty damn good...
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A bit late, but I’ll never forget about you Shattered Lens. Happy New Year. 🙂 20. Paysage d’Hiver – Im Wald black metal Sample track: Alt Like every Paysage d’Hiver album I’ve heard, Im Wald is a meaty...
View ArticleMy Top 25 Albums of 2021
This is the first year I relied exclusively on Bandcamp for downloads, and I think the artist notifications and trending recommendations paid off a lot. The last time I felt comfortable pushing my aoty...
View ArticleMy Top 35 Albums of 2022
Here we are again. With 96 2022 albums and counting in my collection and who knows how many others sampled, this is probably one of the hardest (but most rewarding) year end lists I’ve put together. I...
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