Really great article. It's always seemed odd to me that emo got such hate from so many audiences. Perhaps it's my own bias toward the genre but emo music tends to be some of the most humanist music I've listened to. Same with the older slowcore bands of the early 90s like Codeine, arguably proto-emo themselves. Conversely, I'm just a pathetic twenty-five year old man. I'm OK with that though.
The Hall of Fame may not really "mean" anything but come on. The flip flopping or whatever is happening here is obscene. Get the guy's hopes up and even his kids stoked and then yank out from under him? Shitty, man. Real shitty.
I'm not sure of the track title but the outro starting around 38:00 is just so dominant. Excellent write up as well. Just now really getting into sludge. Bands like this and Cough really make me want to dig deeper.
Samuel Herring reminds me a lot of Mikael Ã…kerfeldt from Opeth in that he can pull of the clean vocals well and nail the guttural/shrieking vocals. Would be killer to see Samuel in a metal band.
On a reputable list, the books aren't even ranked. It's just a compilation of the "100 greatest novels" or something similar. TIME has done it a few times.
This kind of post-rock inspired melodic black metal is growing on me but I'm still more fond of the raw, dissonant riffs. Either way, this is a pretty great album. Going to give it some more listens, see if I can dig deeper into it. Favorite track right now would be "And If All the Stars Faded Away."
Side note: why doesn't SoundCloud have a volume adjustment in its embedded players? They always play at full at volume and it's really startling/too loud. I probably woke my neighbors up this morning when I hit play.
Feels a bit more nuanced than everything on "Days." Cleaner sounding and not as hazy. It's definitely in the same vein but it feels like the natural progression/conclusion of that "Days" sound.
A woefully unknown band that was cut short far too early. All of their output is just magnificent. "Burning in the Undertow of God" was my favorite track off of "Weighing Souls with Sand."
Deafheaven were only metal inasmuch as the shrieking vocals and blast beats where there (i.e.: stretching it). Beyond that, it's just really heavy post-rock.
For what it's worth, I think there were plenty of other better metal releases in 2013 beyond Sunbather. It's a great album but I don't think it deserves the unending adulation its receiving.
That How to Dress Well cover needs to be way, way higher than 5. Number 1 even. All the same, glad it got mentioned. Absolutely beautiful/heartbreaking cover.
I genuinely feel that "Get Lucky" is generic funk rock. It's a marketable single but as a song of the year? Please. Just feels like such a hollow song to me.
It seems to me that the fault should really lie with the labels and not Spotify itself. They don't purchase rights from artists directly but rather labels and their parent companies, should they have one. Moreover, it's not like every single band that has ever lived is on Spotify. There are still punk bands and indie bands and artists of all ilk that still believe in the tried and true old fashioned street teams/word of mouth method.
This truly is one of the most heinous, despicable events in music of the past 20 some odd years. I only hope that the children effected by this inhuman creature are able to live stable, healthy lives from now on.
Thank you for putting Grave Miasma in the top 10. So many "best of metal" lists on other sites completely ignored this brutal album.
Hell, thanks for putting this whole list together and bringing metal to the indiesphere. It's pretty fantastic coming to a site where I kind find both the new Behemoth video and the latest Morrissey gossip.
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