from earlier this year: https://inoculation-maggotstomp.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-putridity
was described as similar to Deicide by the person who told me about it, but I don't hear it. very creative, catchy riffs. nothing new under the sun, but infectious af, and heavy.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 December 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
I am doing last-minute albums of the year that I missed from the last Decibel Magazine.I am glad I discovered the Alda record and plan on buying it when the Eisenwald store reopens after their holiday break.
http://open.spotify.com/album/1WX7fiFDOzSJceDvVnwQan?si=_9sMIsScSXSmHPMfjrxrag
They don't like the term "Cascadian black metal" but I like it as a descriptive term.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 January 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
Also discovered in the Decibel year-end issue:
http://pan-amerikannativefront.bandcamp.com/album/little-turtles-war
Little Turtle's War by Pan-Amerikan Native FrontPro-War, anti-Western imperialism Native American collective.Solid black metal that sounds like the classic stuff but with flourishes unique to their passion and mission statement.
This was a "Record that tied for 41" incidentally.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 January 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link
Another one that I didn't check out is the Enforced record that Century Media put out in March.
http://open.spotify.com/album/7Ctn7LIvEDjR2etYrwsD3K?si=vXY2dlzlRnmQagbZEaOlTQ
Crispy thrash that reminds me at different times of classic Sepultura or mid-period Testament? Sign me up!
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 1 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link
Possibly the last album of the year I am going to buy:
The new Pantheist album is the same quality ethereal Funeral Doom they have become known for, maybe with the added touch of desultory Ennio Morricone at times.
http://pantheistuk.bandcamp.com/album/closer-to-god
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:18 (two years ago) link
I'd never heard of <code> before, but "Flyblown Prince" is an agreeable slice of weird black metal with prog elements, recommended for fans of Khanus, apparently they have some kind of connection to that Finnish band:
https://codeblackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/flyblown-prince
― o. nate, Tuesday, 18 January 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
The new Decapitated song is...kinda good. More tech-deathy than they've been in a while. Of course, it's called "Cancer Culture," so lots of dickheads are gunning for them on Twitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocusYtiwuAE
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 18 March 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
Necrom - All Parts Are Left Here (Osmose Records, 25 March 2022)
This is getting released tomorrow, Ukrainian Entombed-worshipping OSDM from Kharkiv.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuno6605Aks
― Siegbran, Thursday, 24 March 2022 12:23 (two years ago) link
(ah using the wrong rolling Metal thread it seems!)
― Siegbran, Thursday, 24 March 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link
I just received last year's Panopticon album finally - they didn't do a standalone CD release this time, instead including it in with the vinyl, and I slept on the first pressing that immediately sold out. The second pressing finally made it into my grubby hands which means I have officially purchased every 2021 release I wanted on CD, LP, Tape, or Digital Download if all else failed.
As such, here's my list. It's late to the game but that's Panopticon's fault as far as I am concerned.
My Favorite 2021 Metal(lic) Albums
Aduanten - Sullen CadenceAlda - A Distant FireAnimal Schoolbus - Going To Grammy's House!? 2021 RemixArtillery - XBig|Brave - VitalBlack Mass - Feast at the Forbidden TreeBlasphemous Creation - Forsaken DynastyBloody Hammers - Songs of Unspeakable TerrorThe Body - I've Seen All I Need to SeeThe Body & Big|Brave - Leaving None But Small BirdsBone Tower - We All Will Die SomedayBongzilla - WeedsconsinCarcass - Torn ArteriesCirith Ungol - Half Past Human [EP]Cirith Ungol - Frost and Fire (40th Anniversary Edition)Cosmic Burial - …To The PastCradle of Filth - Existence is FutileCraven Idol - Forked TonguesThe Crown - Royal DestroyerDarkthrone - Eternal Hails…Dead Neanderthals - Rat LickerDeafheaven - Infinite GraniteDeceased - Thrash Times At Ridgemont HighDola - CzasyDordeduh - HarDread Sovereign - Alchemical WarfareDusk in Silence - Beneath the Great Sky of SolitudeEnforced - Kill GridEvile - Hell UnleashedFiat Nox - In Contemptuous DefianceThe Flight of Sleipnir - EventideFluisteraars - Gegrepen Door de Geest der ZielsontluikingFull of Hell - Garden of Burning ApparitionsGaunt Emperor - FemurGraveyard Shifters - Head Turns First, Eyes Follow...Haunt - Beautiful DistractionHeavy Temple - Lupi AmorisThe HIRS Collective - The Third 100 SongsHot Breath - Rubbery LipsIceburn - AsclepiusImpaled Nazarene - Eight Headed SerpentIron Maiden - SenjutsuKhemmis - DeceiverKing Woman - Celestial BluesKnoll - IntersticeKorpiklaani - JylhäKrallice - Demonic WealthLingua Ignota - Agnus Dei [EP]Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get ReadyLucifer - IVLucifuge - Infernal PowerLys - Silent WoodsMastodon - Hushed and GrimMelvins - Working With GodMesarthim - Vacuum Solution [EP]Mesarthim - CLG J02182–05102Monster Magnet - A Better DystopiaMourners - Act I: TragediesNecromantical Invocation - Dogme el Rituel de la Haute Magie Negură Bunget - ZăuPan-Amerikan Native Front - Little Turtle's WarPanopticon - …And Again Into the LightPantheist - Closer to GodPaysage d'Hiver - GeisterThe Pretty Reckless - Death By Rock And RollPyrexia - Gravitas MaximusRed Fang - ArrowsThe Ruins Of Beverast - The Thule GrimoiresSentinel Beast - Depths Of Death (Reissue)S.H.I. - 4 死 DeathSkepticism - CompanionSleep - The Clarity [12"]Spectral Wound - A Diabolical ThirstSteel Bearing Hand - Slay In HellStone Deaf - KillersSur Austru - ObârșieThroat - Smile LessThy Catafalque - VadakThyrfing - VanagandrTowards Atlantis Lights - When the Ashes Devoured the SunTribulation - Where the Gloom Becomes SoundWardruna - KvitravnWarish - Next to PayWhite Ward - Debemur Morti [EP]Windfaerer - Breaths Of Elder DawnsWolves in the Throne Room - Primordial ArcanaYouth Code / King Yosef - A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of DepressionV/A (Sisters of Mercy Tribute) - Black Waves Of Adrenochrome
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 7 April 2022 04:10 (two years ago) link
No Meshuggah? I think the new one is great! Agree with the criticisms above that they aren't reinventing the wheel at this point, but I feel they've earned the right to simply skate along on the wheel they've already invented. They've simply honed and refined over time their groovy battering ram vibe, and sound as immaculate and uncompromising as ever. I dunno, I can never have too much of that sound.
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 7 April 2022 09:27 (two years ago) link
This ended up being my top 5:
Asphyxiate - Altar of DecomposedDeafheaven - Infinite GraniteSněť - Mokvání v okovech Temperance - DiamantiWorm - Foreverglade
― o. nate, Thursday, 7 April 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Dear anybody else who likes the school of black-ish metal-ish that sounds like the internal monologue of the last demon left in Hell after everybody else has moved away, check out the new Reverorum ib Malacht.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3pDeSwiNodraaR3tzEtbWV?si=skJrovsKSq661V6on4yYkQ
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 16:48 (one year ago) link