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Well hell yeah. Will check it out. Gotta love Darkspace.
I’m sure you’re all on it already, but 40 Watt Sun is back. 40 is the project of Patrick Walker who was the front man of the all-time great and all-time sad doom metal band Warning. Their album Watching From a Distance is a favorite of mine. If you like Pallbearer, you like Warning. 40 isn’t doom, it’s essentially slow core. Their new one Perfect Light is just as heavy and heartbreaking as all their other stuff. Walker reminds me of 60s English folk singer more than a metal or slow core guy. The Age of Apocalypse album is also great. The bass in the middle of the Fury is the best thing I’ve heard so far this year.
If anyone's gonna damage Ye's image, it's gonna be Ye damnit!
"Bat Out of Hell" is the funniest, most of absurd song I've ever heard. I love it dearly. R.I.P. Meat Loaf.
Also the one I sing in a silly voice the most
This is really fucking good
Slaps. Put me down as “excited”.
This sounds like Krallice while sounding like nothing else they've done. Love it. This band continues to stretch out and evolve. Absolutely one of the best to ever do it.
I heard their record… its alright Jokes!
Glaring omission: SOUL GLO
Yeah twigs can have fun. She's earned a low stakes, messy mixtape.
I don't think that's a hot take. I think the fandom is pretty evenly split down the middle. Room for both! Yodh fucked with my head when I first heard. I had no sense of time. It was just strange riff and unexplainable sound after another. I looked at where I was in the album expecting to be halfway through, but I wasn't even done with the first song yet. Just a journey of an album. I trust him to make an interesting ambient piece.
Some Rap Songs is an all-timer rap album for me. Very excited for SICK! Also out this week is Mizmor's Wit's End. 2 massive funeral doom, black metal, ambient pieces. The last Mizmor album, Cairn, is great, but you have to listen to his 2016 record Yodh. Lots of strange shapes and textures in this metal.
Well hell yeah. Never thought we’d get a full length from these guys. Got an AOTY contender already on the way.
I went to art school. You could say I’m, to some extent, in the creative field. Something that drove me nuts when I’m school (and still kinda does) was when people would say things like “I just don’t feel creative today!” I’ve called anyone out on it, but I always “well what are you gonna do when this is your job?” Creativity is a great, but it’s also just a skill. I’ve always felt that we (maybe it’s just an American thing) hold it with a lot of preciousness. This interview was a very refreshing take on art as a job. Hyped for Hygiene.
The lineup for that tour is INSANE
Dawn FM gave me a real hankering for some Cold Cave
I’ve been saying it: he’s the secret sauce Of The Velvets
Hey, hey the only one who gets to call Jerry Brown a fascist is Jello Biafra!
Favorite musical moments of the year: - The spoken word sample in the middle of “Dream Unending” by Dream Unending - When that big synth melody comes in at about the halfway mark on Sadness’ “Collar” and the song immediately changes directions - When “…where suffering never ends” goes back to the verse after the first blast beat section and then it somehow just glides along. But really I could just say all of CHRISTFUCKER was a favorite moment of the year. - Everything about “Thumbs”. - Fiddle solo on Panopticon’s “Dead Loons” - The bent note in the solo in Dödsrit’s “Mortal Coil”. For a second it sounds like Guns N Roses solo. - When everything drops out of “Great Mass of Color” for a moment and the bass and synths wrap around each other.
Can’t be the only one shocked that “Bad Selection” isn’t #1 here. Happy I could help.
Stoned listening to Pallbearer’s 2017 classic Heartless. Happy holidays.
Supposedly there's an hour of new Cure music out there waiting to be released. Is it finally coming? Other than that it's all about Chat Pile, Blood Incantation, FKA, and Greet Death for me. I have a hunch that Drain is looking to drop as well. If you're someone who was blown away by GLOW ON, Drain might be you're next step. It's much harder than anything Turnstile's done but they don't let that get in the way making fun, catchy stuff. California Cursed is a top 5 hardcore album of the last 2 years imo.
Well I’m stoked! Paul (vocalist, one of the guitarists) has been making solo ambient material as Hoverkraft (and a few other monikers I’m sure) for a long time. They know what they’re doing. That art is characteristically sick too.
I think Drug Church's last album is very hooky. Try "Weed Pin" and "Dollar Story". Other than that maybe Militarie Gun. Very tuneful stuff that sounds a lot like power pop just harder.
100% agree. "Screamo Del Barrio" is one of the year's best.
Ah shit! I forgot World Peace - Come and See. That one also rules
First, a big thank you to Tom is in order. Doing god's work digging up so much goddamn hardcore throughout the year. I've always been a big hardcore fan. Hardcore and punk were big for me during my teen years. But over the last couple years I've felt much closer to the genre than I have in a long time. Tom is definitely a big part of that. 01. Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment 02. Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead to the Gun I & II 03. God's Hate - God's Hate 04. Dead Heat - World at War 05. Closer - Within One Stem 06. For Your Health - In Spite Of 07. Ekulu - Unscrew My Head 08. Amygdala/Listless split 09. Supine - No Altar For the Company Man 10. Thirdface - Do It With a Smile Y'all don't need me to go on about Portrayal of Guilt anymore this year (or maybe you do!), but I consider them to be metal. If you consider them to be hardcore, go ahead and put CHRISTFUCKER (AOTY by my estimation) at number 1 and We Are Always Alone at 2. I like Ultrapop, but I think they've moved pretty far away from hardcore. Enforced is a thrash band imo, but Kill Grid rules.
This will open up an entire new world for some kid out there and that rules.
"Be Harder" into "(Quietly) Do the Right Thing" please
Good for Turnstile. Good for hardcore. Get God's Hate on Colbert next.
When I think of 2021 rap, I'm think of Backxwash immediately. Total achievement.
I kinda like that this band has no style. They're too busy practicing they're instruments to follow the indie rock fashion trends! Albums gonna rule regardless of what they're wearing.
I know a lot of people are saying there's no consensus album, but idk. Seems like Japanese Breakfast is showing up in a lot of places...
01. Lucy Dacus - Thumbs 02. Japanese Breakfast - Posing In Bondage 03. Panopticon - The Embers at Dawn 04. Gulch - Bolt Swallower 05. Portrayal of Guilt - ...where the suffering never ends 06. God's Hate - Be Harder 07. Backxwash - I LAY HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES 08. Lingua Ignota - Many Hands 09. A Pregnant Light - Still, a Great Deal of Light Falls On Everything 10. Full of Hell - All Bells Ringing
Here’s a list you can trust. I forgot to put God’s Hate on mine. Album of the summer
TRESSPASAUR I should’ve put that shit on my year end list…