

Streetlight Manifesto The Hands That Thieve What do we want? A GIRRL WORTH FIGHTING FOOOOOR. Some of the most consistent and powerful folk bm out there, I'd have to wager. Stylistically diverse pagan black metal that has no shortage of epic riffz or epic keys/synths or epic whateverz. I feel like any power violence would sound fantastic the way this record was recorded. What makes Nails' first album so significant isn't its brutality (br00tality), but rather its rawness. This pulverizes, and the political soundbites give it that little bit of personality to set it apart from its contemporaries. With more strings, more choir, more atmosphere, and more palpable emotion, Mysterium is probably one of Hammock's best albums (which is saying something). Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot For New Zero KanadaĮven on a cursory listen from my phone's speakers this is easily one of the best records of the year thus far. God Is an Astronaut All Is Violent, All Is Bright When you cram the first half of one of the best ambient artist's discographies into a single compilation package, it must be more than the sum of its parts. One of the first and best bands to capitalize on the post-black fad, they sacrificed expansive songwriting for simply hitting harder, faster.ĭTP first four albums are all great so a comp + demos and jamz is therefore greater. Straightforward blast beating black metal with reverb and delay and twinkly sparkle post-rock. The best black metal record of all time? the best metal record of all time? Maybe!Įasily one of the best post-black metal/blackgaze albums there is.īumped my rating because this is beautiful.ĭeafheaven's former touring guitarist humbly ponders what it would be like if Deafheaven played punk. Ethereal and painfully organic atmospheric black metal/neo folk, wall-of-sound music. I guess you could say The Decline hasn't declined at all in twenty years, as this punk rock behemoth is as potent and fluid now as it was in 1999.įavorite black metal EP of all time (OF ALL TIME). Mike sounds fantastic, the instrumentation is all on point, the backing vocals sound great as well. Additionally, watching the video it's clearly the most energized the band have been in a decade and that really shows in their performances here. Just as good as the original, the orchestral accompaniment also adds enough to make this stand as its own work. I'm dying / is it blissful / it's like a dream / i want to dream / my sides hurt someone Lemme hear the trombone! That ain't a fuckin trombone sorry. Joe Pesci Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You It's not exactly expansive in terms of songwriting, but on this album Insomnium show that they've honed their craft to a masterful point.
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One of the best melodic death metal albums of all time, "Above the Weeping World" is chock full of solid, straightforward jams.

The combination of slowcore and post-rock is wonderfully beautiful and sad in a sort of complacent way. Grace Cathedral Park In The Evenings Of Regret Godspeed You! Black Emperor Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven Admittedly it seems like there's not much here-in a minimalist sort of way-but that's merely a result of the band's ability to disguise invention as simplicity. Godspeed You! Black Emperor F♯ A♯ ∞Įverything just seems so desolate and wide-open. Raw, lengthy atmospheric black metal that's like a thick black noxious choking fog surrounding and consuming you in its utter blackness. Probably the best melodic metal record ever put to tape, mediocre final track be damned.īlack metal. Add in all the other fantastic performances here and this is necessary Dev material.ĭevin Townsend Project By A Thread: Live in London 2011ĭevvy live is about as good as Devvy in-studio there's not much decrease in quality, really. I wasn't big on the studio version of Empath's songs but these live renditions of those songs fix all the problems I originally had with them. Did you expect anything less?ĭevin Townsend Order of Magnitude - Empath Live Volume 1 Post-rock/djent.īen Sharp doing what he does best.

Beacons may be his most organized album up to this point, and definitely his most emotionally rewarding. The kings of Cascadia, or at least its nihilistic suburbs.īen Sharp at his best. Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name 5.0 classicĬascadian wittr worship of folk singing forests metal m/
