I'd say half that Decibel list is legit stuff this time around, even if I don't agree with the placement (and really, who ever does on these things?).
yeah, there's a lot to like from there - here's what i've enjoyed this year
40. Panopticon – “The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II“
34. Thou – “Magus“
23. Mournful Congregation – “The Incubus Of Karma“
22. Sleep – “The Sciences“
7. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, – “Wasteland“
6. Skeletonwitch – “Devouring Radiant Light“
3. UADA – “Cult Of A Dying Sun“
2. Tribulation – “Down Below“
1. YOB – “Our Raw Heart“
things i would add:
windhand - eternal return
conan - existential void guardian
marijannah - till marijannah
slugdge - esoteric malacology
arson - harakiri for the sky
Voivod and Satan are on there, easily my two favorites of the year so far. They also placed that Evoken album high and I would have done the same it is marvelous.
Kind of surprised at all the love for that Uada album, thought it was very average and sounds like a lot of other bands. Oh well.
|I agree Harakiri for the Sky should be there. Slugdge might not be in my own top 40 but it will be on my top 100 on RYM list for posi.
Voivod and Satan are on there, easily my two favorites of the year so far. They also placed that Evoken album high and I would have done the same it is marvelous.
Kind of surprised at all the love for that Uada album, thought it was very average and sounds like a lot of other bands. Oh well.
|I agree Harakiri for the Sky should be there. Slugdge might not be in my own top 40 but it will be on my top 100 on RYM list for posi.
Yeah I listened to the Uada album when it came out and remembered feeling that it was very workmanlike
Just listened to it again and it’s pretty generic
I’m actually surprised at their nominatipn of YOB for the best album of 2018; Our Raw Heart is certainly their most consistent work to date and an album I’ve enjoyed a lot but I suspect there is some mythology propelling that to a higher spot on the list given the circumstances of Mike S
"Centipede" is far and away one of my favorite Strapping Young Lad tracks.
i feel like i dont get much syl cred because a frond once asked me what i liked the most and i said "the second half of detox and all hail the new flesh" and he walked away looking disgusted
also not sure if this counts as hesh but also loving this album that still rules, some seriosuly fuzzed out japanese shoegaze
Voivod and Satan are on there, easily my two favorites of the year so far. They also placed that Evoken album high and I would have done the same it is marvelous.
Kind of surprised at all the love for that Uada album, thought it was very average and sounds like a lot of other bands. Oh well.
|I agree Harakiri for the Sky should be there. Slugdge might not be in my own top 40 but it will be on my top 100 on RYM list for posi.
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can you dudes think of any kind of gloomy minor-key washed out prog in a sort of generalised latter-day katatonia vein released in the last couple years?
youtube played me soils song recently and i realised i havent found any gloom merchants recently >:(
(if you dont know this song it is one of those songs that to me beautifully shows how words like "lurching" can exactly capture something about a song that formal terms somehow cannot...)
I don't know how much they sound like Katatonia, @surrealitycheck but atmospherically I might have pulled some similar vibes out of the new album from Poland's Entropia. Definitely some modern metal-rooted gloom here with a few twists.
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Damn, I haven't thought about Antimatter in a long time. I honestly didn't know they were still going, but that's cool. That new song sounds inline with the rest of their stuff.
Their first album is still my favorite, especially with Michelle Richfield's guest vocals. She seems to have completely faded away, with most of her work being with Peaceville Records bands in the late '90s. Later she had a trip hop/electronica project called Sear, but nothing really came of that either.
Damn, I haven't thought about Antimatter in a long time. I honestly didn't know they were still going, but that's cool. That new song sounds inline with the rest of their stuff.
Their first album is still my favorite, especially with Michelle Richfield's guest vocals. She seems to have completely faded away, with most of her work being with Peaceville Records bands in the late '90s. Later she had a trip hop/electronica project called Sear, but nothing really came of that either.
Planetary Confinement is my personal favorite Antimatter album. I kinda lost touch with them after Leaving Eden and I need to catch up, but Duncan Patterson's writing was my main draw to the band (though I did really like Mick's songs from Planetary Confinement).
I've listened through my new Sigh album a couple times now and it's clearly a winner. And a weirdo, which is what I always want from this band. Lots of twists, turns, surprises, and of course the killer guitars that marry black/thrash and 70s prog rock. Also one of my favorite cover arts of the year (along with the Sepulcher album).
He explained that he wasn't saying the album sucked, but that it was "too personal" and that everyone would hate it. A useful distinction, I suppose. But yeah, the album rules.
93 of the 100 picks for my year's end list over at RYM have been written. A very diverse crowd. Now I'm just juggling a few around that might fit into the last spots, and seeking out whatever I haven't heard. Couple potentially cool things coming out in the next 6 weeks, so it's far from over.
"Hands of the String Puller" is amazing. It's a really good album.
Two that have really grown on me over the year: Madder MortemMarrow, and ManesSlow Motion Death Sequence. Excellent albums that sound like nobody else. The new Wombbath has also gotten better with subsequent listens and I think that's probably their best album.
You guys have probably heard Witherfall, with the guy replacing Warrell Dane in Sanctuary, and their new album is also pretty awesome, darker US power/progressive metal, and his vocals are Dane-like.
Pitchshifter reformed to do six shows - their first in a decade and running back to back this week - to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their defining www.pitchshifter.com album (sadly the website doesn't exist any more; although, much to the band's amusement, the domain now points to a Japanese supplements site!). They're promising nothing beyond these shows, and have been at pains to point out that they live in different cities and, in some cases, countries to each other now.
This has made the logistics of the tour rather chaotic, as they managed to get in just one rehearsal all in the same place, the night before the first gig! Characteristically, their Facebook page has some good updates on it; they were one of the first bands I saw really embrace the internet with a very solid website and singer JS Clayden's brilliantly entertaining tour diaries even back in the late '90s, and even though it's not quite like that any more they're keeping the tradition alive.
I'm going to go to the Nottingham show on Saturday, the last gig of this tour (so potentially their last ever) and in their old hometown, so I'm hoping for a good party atmosphere. They only made enough merch for the tour, so I hope there's at least one t-shirt left in my size!
I've never heard another band quite like them, they really had a unique fusion of sounds (from metal to punk to industrial to electronica to d'n'b etc etc etc) with a distinct lyrical style, and they're a band I would have loved to see carry on properly (the last studio album was in 2002), but I'll happily take the opportunity to see them again, very possibly for the last time.
I really liked the first few Pitchshifter releases like Submit and Desensitized, groovy industrial metal. They lost me at some point when they felt more like a nu-metal band with electronic beats and techno breaks, but I should probably go back and revisit some of their later stuff.
I've seen the nu-metal badge applied to their later records, but to my ears never really thought it was all that accurate. Yeah, their first few records were far more industrial metal leaning (Submit and Desensitized in particular from that era have some great stuff on them), then the sound changes a lot for the .com album and that style stuck for the two albums (Deviant and PSI) that followed it. There's even a tacit acknowledgement in the way the band's name was spelled - Pitch Shifter on the earlier records, Pitchshifter on the later ones, and to my ears they might as well be two separate bands (although the Infotainment? album was definitely a bit transitional), but both good. I prefer the later stuff - the punk and electronica elements in particular shine through for me (even though they're not usually my thing) and let JS in particular bring a lot of personality to it.
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The new Obliteration, Chapel of Disease and Sulpher Aeon albums hasn't even come out yet.
Edit: Well, it looks like Chapel of Disease is on there though
I love The Perineal Yell
yeah, there's a lot to like from there - here's what i've enjoyed this year
40. Panopticon – “The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II“
34. Thou – “Magus“
23. Mournful Congregation – “The Incubus Of Karma“
22. Sleep – “The Sciences“
7. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, – “Wasteland“
6. Skeletonwitch – “Devouring Radiant Light“
3. UADA – “Cult Of A Dying Sun“
2. Tribulation – “Down Below“
1. YOB – “Our Raw Heart“
things i would add:
windhand - eternal return
conan - existential void guardian
marijannah - till marijannah
slugdge - esoteric malacology
arson - harakiri for the sky
Kind of surprised at all the love for that Uada album, thought it was very average and sounds like a lot of other bands. Oh well.
|I agree Harakiri for the Sky should be there. Slugdge might not be in my own top 40 but it will be on my top 100 on RYM list for posi.
Yeah I listened to the Uada album when it came out and remembered feeling that it was very workmanlike
Just listened to it again and it’s pretty generic
I’m actually surprised at their nominatipn of YOB for the best album of 2018; Our Raw Heart is certainly their most consistent work to date and an album I’ve enjoyed a lot but I suspect there is some mythology propelling that to a higher spot on the list given the circumstances of Mike S
some of the stuff ive been enjoying the most is bonus tracks
also shout out to this weird ass ocean machine demo
i feel like i dont get much syl cred because a frond once asked me what i liked the most and i said "the second half of detox and all hail the new flesh" and he walked away looking disgusted
also not sure if this counts as hesh but also loving this album that still rules, some seriosuly fuzzed out japanese shoegaze
The Geoff Tate one goes under Operation: Mindcrime now.
My favorite from that album. Kinda feels more like a DTP song than SYL.
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i cannot recommend that youtube channel that posts random asian shoegaze bands enough, have found so many GOOD FUZZY BOIS on there
Haken
Amorphis
Ihsahn
Møl
All of those are currently on my list, one of them being way up. Actually, not all, I liked Møl's album but it gives me a headache after awhile.
youtube played me soils song recently and i realised i havent found any gloom merchants recently >:(
(if you dont know this song it is one of those songs that to me beautifully shows how words like "lurching" can exactly capture something about a song that formal terms somehow cannot...)
If you want something more to the rock-oriented side of Katatonia, the new Antimatter (ex-Anathema) record is super catchy.
Their first album is still my favorite, especially with Michelle Richfield's guest vocals. She seems to have completely faded away, with most of her work being with Peaceville Records bands in the late '90s. Later she had a trip hop/electronica project called Sear, but nothing really came of that either.
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Planetary Confinement is my personal favorite Antimatter album. I kinda lost touch with them after Leaving Eden and I need to catch up, but Duncan Patterson's writing was my main draw to the band (though I did really like Mick's songs from Planetary Confinement).
"Hands of the String Puller" might be the best song on the album, I think.
Two that have really grown on me over the year: Madder Mortem Marrow, and Manes Slow Motion Death Sequence. Excellent albums that sound like nobody else. The new Wombbath has also gotten better with subsequent listens and I think that's probably their best album.
You guys have probably heard Witherfall, with the guy replacing Warrell Dane in Sanctuary, and their new album is also pretty awesome, darker US power/progressive metal, and his vocals are Dane-like.
This has made the logistics of the tour rather chaotic, as they managed to get in just one rehearsal all in the same place, the night before the first gig! Characteristically, their Facebook page has some good updates on it; they were one of the first bands I saw really embrace the internet with a very solid website and singer JS Clayden's brilliantly entertaining tour diaries even back in the late '90s, and even though it's not quite like that any more they're keeping the tradition alive.
I'm going to go to the Nottingham show on Saturday, the last gig of this tour (so potentially their last ever) and in their old hometown, so I'm hoping for a good party atmosphere. They only made enough merch for the tour, so I hope there's at least one t-shirt left in my size!
I've never heard another band quite like them, they really had a unique fusion of sounds (from metal to punk to industrial to electronica to d'n'b etc etc etc) with a distinct lyrical style, and they're a band I would have loved to see carry on properly (the last studio album was in 2002), but I'll happily take the opportunity to see them again, very possibly for the last time.
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I just snagged a whole bunch from Amazon. I'm waiting for the Christmas sales to get whatever else I want.