Daniel's Forum Replies
My family & I are currently in the initial stages of relocating interstate from New South Wales to Queensland which includes the sale of our apartment & the purchase of a new one in the Gold Coast. The logistics of this are astronomical in a COVID environment with two little kids at home & both of us working. If I could snap my fingers & travel forwards in time by two months I wouldn't hesitate.
I think I probably have a very high tolerance for extremity after all these years of indulging in the more intense end of metal. I usually only refer to something is being super-extreme if it sits in the brutal/slam death metal, grindcore, war metal or the more blasting black metal space although I think drone metal, sludge metal & mathcore can all touch on these levels of extremity at times, as can your more modern death metal & tech death outfits.
Doomy old school death metal from Houston, USA.
I really enjoyed this one. Of course it doesn't do anything new whatsoever but it never claimed to & instead offers an easily palatable & professionally produced brand of death metal that should satisfy all fans of the genre. Malignant Altar sit right in the sweet spot between Morbid Angel & the darker, swampier Incantation sound which seems to be a bit of a trend in recent times but they do it all exceptionally well. I particularly enjoy the doomier sections which are clearly a strength for the band. The two minute dark ambient title track is staggeringly good & may well be my favourite track actually. You can't really go wrong with this one. The quality never dips below tier two level & you can easily tell that Malignant Altar have a very strong death metal pedigree.
4/5
I wouldn't recommend that we add Deathcore to The Horde Andi. Most Death Metal fanatics have problems with Deathcore in my experience & the intention of the clans is to is to link subgenres that are likely to appeal to the same audience. I think it's fine residing only in The Revolution although I could be convinced that it's better as a main Genre rather than a subgenre of Metalcore.
On the Trance Metal topic, after putting together The Revolution playlists for a couple of years & religiously including a Trance Metal track I've become very much aware that it doesn't sit all that comfortably alongside the Metalcore subgenre set. I'm interested to get everyone's feedback on whether you think it would sit better in another clan &, if so, which one that might be. The Gateway perhaps? Even The Guardians given the similarities to Power Metal & Symphonic Metal? Thoughts? Where do you think Trance Metal belongs?
On the Trancecore topic, from my playlist programming experience it seems to me that it's more of a variation on Melodic Metalcore than anything else. Am I wrong?
NOTE: Please bare in mind that all this talk is just hypothetical at this stage because it's a significant exercise to make changes like these.
Post-stoner doom from Italy.
Here's my updated list:
25. ISIS - "Panopticon" (2004)
24. Suffocation - "Despise The Sun" E.P.
23. ISIS - "The Mosquito Control" E.P. (1998)
22. Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
21. diSEMBOWELMENT - "Transcendence Into The Peripheral" (1993)
20. Neurosis - "Souls At Zero" (1992)
19. Botch - "We Are The Romans" (1999)
18. Rosetta - "The Galilean Satellites" (2005)
17. Slayer - "South Of Heaven" (1988)
16. Immolation - "Close To A World Below" (2000)
15. Esoteric - "The Maniacal Vale" (2008)
14. Suffocation - "Pierced From Within" (1995)
13. Boris - "Boris At Last -Feedbacker-" (2003)
12. Alice In Chains - "Dirt" (1992)
11. Death - "Human" (1991)
10. Morbid Angel - "Altars Of Madness" (1989)
09. Metallica - "...And Justice For All" (1988)
08. Mick Gordon - "DOOM (Original Game Soundtrack)" (2016)
07. Akhlys - "The Dreaming I" (2015)
06. Sunn O))) - "Black One" (2005)
05. Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One" (2007)
04. Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P. (2008)
03. Deathspell Omega - "Kenose" E.P. (2005)
02. Burzum - "Filosofem" (1996)
01. Slayer - "Reign In Blood" (1986)
Here's my revised list:
1970: Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
1971: Black Sabbath – “Master Of Reality”
1972: Black Sabbath – “Vol 4”
1973: Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
1974: Budgie – “In For The Kill”
1975: Black Sabbath – “Sabotage”
1976: Judas Priest - "Sad Wings Of Destiny"
1977: Quartz – “Quartz”
1978: Judas Priest – “Killing Machine”
1979: Judas Priest – “Unleashed In The East”
1980: Diamond Head – “Lightning To The Nations”
1981: Motorhead – “No Sleep Till Hammersmith”
1982: Ozzy Osbourne – “Speak Of The Devil”
1983: Slayer – “Show No Mercy”
1984: Metallica – “Ride The Lightning”
1985: Exodus – “Bonded By Blood”
1986: Slayer – “Reign In Blood”
1987: Bathory – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark”
1988: Metallica – “…And Justice For All”
1989: Morbid Angel – “Altars Of Madness”
1990: Slayer - "Seasons In The Abyss"
1991: Death – “Human”
1992: Alice In Chains – “Dirt”
1993: diSEMBOWELMENT – “Transcendence Into The Peripheral”
1994: Darkthrone – “Transilvanian Hunger”
1995: Suffocation – “Pierced From Within”
1996: Burzum – “Filosofem”
1997: Exodus – “Another Lesson In Violence”
1998: ISIS – “The Mosquito Control” E.P.
1999: Botch - "We Are The Romans"
2000: Immolation – “Close To A World Below”
2001: Tool - "Lateralus"
2002: ISIS – “Oceanic”
2003: Boris – “Boris At Last -Feedbacker-“
2004: ISIS – “Panopticon”
2005: Deathspell Omega – “Kenose” E.P.
2006: Celtic Frost – “Monotheist”
2007: Ufomammut/Lento - "Supernaturals - Record One"
2008: Pig Destroyer - "Natasha" E.P.
2009: Dragged Into Sunlight - "Hatred For Mankind" (2009)
2010: Deathspell Omega - "Paracletus"
2011: Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P.
2012: Deftones - "Koi no Yokan"
2013: Gorguts - "Colored Sands"
2014: Dead Congregation - "Promulgation Of The Fall"
2015: Akhlys - "The Dreaming I"
2016: Mick Gordon - "Doom (Original Game Soundtrack)"
2017: Fen - "Winter"
2018: Saxon - "Thunderbolt"
2019: Altesia - "Paragon Circus"
2020: Oranssi Pazuzu - "Mestarin kynsi"
2021: Altarage - "Succumb"
OK, so I've given this release three full revisits over the last couple of days & it's nothing short of breath-taking. Not only do I regard it as highly as I did when I first experienced it more than a decade ago now but my feelings may even have developed further. It's quite simply everything I look for in a The Fallen clan release brought together to make up one life-changing package. I'm a big fan of Ufomammut but this transcends anything I've heard from them individually. The way it draws together the crushingly slow riffage of doom metal, the mind-expanding psychedelia of stoner metal & the stripped back tribal structures & slowly building tension-&-release of post-sludge is nothing short of remarkable, as is the production job with the guitar tone being pure perfection for this style of music. I saw someone suggesting that "Supernaturals - Record One" reminded them of Electric Wizard crossed with Neurosis & that's a pretty accurate description as I'd probably tag it as post-stoner doom. Is this a live album as listed on RYM? I very much doubt it but it's a top five metal release for me personally & will comfortably retain its position at the top of my doom metal top ten. Remarkable stuff!
5/5
Great review Saxy. You've summed "Crack the Skye" up beautifully. It's an undisputed classic as far as I'm concerned & I've also gone with a 4.5/5. It comes in a close second to "Leviathan" (also 4.5/5) in Mastodon's overall career for me. I guess I just prefer "Leviathan"s dirtier, sludgier sound that little bit more but there's not a lot in it.
Hi Scarecrow. Very valid questions. When we originally created the Metal Academy website we had to decide on a reasonable configuration & wouldn't profess to be experts in every metal subgenre so we simply went with the most well informed position we could at the time. In saying that though, we're always looking for ways to improve the site & have made dozens of changes over time. I agree with you that in hindsight Melodic Metalcore should be under Metalcore & it's likely be something that we'll look to change in the future. Just bare in mind that every change we make to the database structure can create a considerable logistical challenge as we've already got tens of thousands of releases in play under the current structure. There's also a financial cost for us to make most changes so we tend to do them in batches in order to get the most bang for buck with our developer.
As for why there's not a trance metal clan challenge, that's because there are very few genuine trance metal releases of any note which makes it pretty irrelevant as a guide to a potential new clan member's understanding of The Revolution. In fact, I'm now of the opinion that Trance Metal probably doesn't belong in The Revolution & may not even warrant its own subgenre. That might be something we look at over time too.
As far as I'm aware, "extreme metal" is a term that was originally created to encompass all of the genres that are generally hard on the ear for your average music fan. That comprises of anything related to thrash metal, death metal, black metal & grindcore & includes subgenres like death doom metal & funeral doom metal. I've never considered speed metal to be a part of it as it's essentially just sped-up heavy metal & generally includes more melody than the more rhythmic thrash sound. It's interesting that the elitists out there have never allowed for deathcore to be included under this banner when it clearly should be. I'd argue that a lot of mathcore & sludge metal are also pushing into that territory but I'm reasonably comfortable with where the cut-off is at the moment.
Is it hard to define what "extreme metal" is these days due to our ever-increasing desensitization? I don't think we need to take it too literally. I'm comfortable with the intent of the term & it serves its purpose in my opinion. I mean you could argue that "heavy metal" isn't really all that heavy by today's standards but we all know what it means so why fix what's not broken.
For this weekend's top ten list I've decided to do my Top Ten Djent Releases of All Time, a task that was always going to end in an extremely one-sided result.
01. Meshuggah – “I” E.P. (2004)
02. Meshuggah – “Catch Thirtythree” (2005)
03. Meshuggah – “Destroy Erase Improve” (1995)
04. Meshuggah – “Koloss” (2012)
05. Vildhjarta – “Måsstaden” (2011)
06. Skyharbor – “Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos” (2012)
07. Meshuggah – “Alive” (2010)
08. Meshuggah – “Nothing” (2006)
09. Meshuggah – “Nothing” (2002)
10. Meshuggah – “obZen” (2008)
https://metal.academy/lists/single/155
Mid-90's Norwegian black/Viking metal.
It's been a very long time since I've checked this album out. In fact, I don't think I would have heard it since the late 1990's. I remember finding it to be a mildly enjoyable listen at the time but feeling that it wasn't worthy of the praise it was receiving from many fans & critics. As a result, I didn't often feel the urge to return to it & that position has been maintained with a few key flaws preventing me from fully committing. The more brutal black metal sections are great but I'm not as into the more melodic parts of the fully fledged black metal songs which often have a bouncy half-time feel to the drumming which sounds pretty loose & primitive for such a highly regarded artist. The harsh black metal vocals are pretty good but I don't always love the chanty Viking stuff which simply isn't to my taste. I wouldn't say that this is a Viking Metal release though. It does take influence from the genre at times but I think the Black metal tag is enough to cover the majority of the album.
Borknagar may well have been a supergroup of sorts at the time but that doesn't reflect in the quality of the musicianship on display, particularly that of founding member & guitarist Øystein G. Brun & Gorgoroth drummer Grim, both of whom contribute some patchy performances. The keyboard work can often sound pretty cheap too. In saying that, I do generally enjoy all of the genuine black metal tracks included as they definitely offer some good Scandinavian atmosphere. It's some of the five interlude pieces that I find to be pretty ordinary, particularly the very weak two track run of "Ved steingard" & "Krigsstev" which falls well beneath the bar. Overall I think "Borknagar" is worth a listen for fans of the Second Wave of Black Metal but I wouldn't expect it to offer you a life-changing experience.
3.5/5
Super extreme industrial death metal from my home town in Sydney, Australia.
Wonderfully atmospheric industrial death metal from Sydney, Australia. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.... Oi, Oi, Oi!
After giving this album a few revisits over the last couple of days I think my review from back in 2013 still holds up very well. These guys are generally listed as residing in my home city of Sydney but that's not entirely true as they're really more of national collaboration with Malignant Monster vocalist Cain Cresall coming out of Perth (which is over a four hour flight away from Sydney) & legendary Psycroptic, Abramelin & Ruins drummer Dave Haley residing in the island state of Tasmania. Regardless, these guys are like metal royalty here in Sydney & have blown away many a touring act in the live environment too. Dave is widely regarded as one of the best metal drummers in Australia (along with Ne Obliviscaris skinsman Daniel Presland) & is globally renowned while Cain is quite simply one of the most theatrical & psychotic front men you'll ever see & the album cover is a very true representation of what you could expect to see at one of his live shows. He's truly intimidating & creates a seriously imposing atmosphere. Anyway... here's my review:
I've always been a big fan of this band. Their first two albums were outstanding examples of industrial-edged death metal & their live shows are a true spectacle. I class them as my personal favourite from the current crop of Aussie metal bands so I had very high hopes for this release & it certainly hasn't let me down. In fact they've stepped it up to another level altogether. The production is better than ever before & it presents the songs in the best possible light. If you don't like triggered drum sounds then look no further because they don't get much more mechanized & up-front than this. It really does enhance the industrial vibe though & the drumming is a real highlight. This is some of the most extreme metal you will find anywhere. Stylistically they sit somewhere between Damaged, Anaal Nathrakh & Godflesh. It's extremely dark & chaotic with the electronic component adding to the insanity of the atmosphere. The slower sections are outstanding & push this dark atmosphere even further. They've included a couple of high quality industrial tracks evenly distributed amongst the metal tracks to give you a little respite from the non-stop assault on your senses & they fit the purpose well. I honestly can't fault this album. Amazing!
4.5/5
I wouldn't but it's not a perfect exercise. The clan members may nominate tracks from those releases anyway.
I've been assumed to be a bot by RYM a number of times while putting together playlists in the past which I found really annoying. Lately I've been thinking that I'd rather not use a competitors site for the task anyway & are planning on trialing the prioritized use of our Latest Reviews page (filtered by the clan in question) & the Track Of The Day threads in each clan forum so as to guide my track selection in a way that most accurately highlights the listening habits of the site. I can easily see the dates of each rating on the Latest Reviews page which makes it easy to pick the ones that you've all been listening to within the month in question.
This English melodic metalcore outfit deliver a super-heavy tribute to classic Pantera.
Ok, so I have to admit that I went into this record with a fairly skeptical mindset given the generally mediocre response that Bullet For My Valentine seem to draw from most dedicated metalheads. I'd only heard bits & pieces of the band previously through my time programming The Revolution playlists (mainly through Andi's track submissions) but had never made the commitment to explore a full album which is hardly surprising given my usual aversion to melodic metalcore (or melodic anything for that matter). This record has really surprised me though & I think it deserves to be given a chance as it's one heavy muthafucka! Don't get me wrong, you can still expect to hear a fair few Linkin Park style choruses but they're done very well for the most part with the hooks offering a bit more than your average pop metal schlock can muster. There are some guargantuan metal riffs included that bands like Judas Priest or Pantera would be proud of though & the production job is absolutely metal as fuck. Michael Paget's lead guitar tone may shred the paint off your walls actually.
To my great surprise I found that I quite like all of the ten tracks on offer here & can see myself returning to "Bullet For My Valentine" in the future too. I don't see where the links to alternative metal or the comparisons to Trivium are coming from because this is about twenty times as metal as those references would seem to indicate. In fact, there are significant thrash & groove metal influences here with album highlight "Shatter" being taken straight from Dimebag Darrel's old playbook. I certainly can do without the commercially angled gang vocal parts but this is a quality metal release that deserves more respect than it's received online to date. It may not be the most original metal record ever but when has that ever stopped metalheads from enjoying well executed & supremely heavy metal music.
4/5
Perth-based Aussie alternative metal for fans of Tool, Chevelle & Korn.
Yeah, I really enjoyed this release too. I knew pretty well what to expect going in as Karnivool are very popular over here (in fact, "Themata" reached number 41 on the pop charts & stayed in the top 20 of the independent charts for 165 straight weeks in Australia). It's very easy to see why critics label them as a poor man's Tool though as there's absolutely no doubt as to where they've borrowed most of their sound from. It's just lucky that they do a great job of it with the vocal hooks being plentiful enough & the execution & sophistication of the instrumentation being impressive enough to pull it off pretty comfortably. There's not a dud amongst the twelve tracks other than the pointless twenty seconds of silence that makes up "Omitted for Clarity". "Shutterspeed" & album highlight "Synops" are both perfect examples of the alternative metal sound & are genuine Aussie metal classics while "C.O.T.E." & "Mauseum" aren't too far behind either. There's a bit of a drop in quality through the middle of the tracklisting when Karnivool decide to expand their horizons a touch by creating a couple of much jumpier tracks that sound a lot like Korn & Rage Against The Machine but this is more of a taste thing for me rather than a creative failure. I do prefer Karnivool's 2013 third album "Asymmetry" over his one as they'd defined their own sound a little better by that stage but I doubt too many members of The Gateway will struggle to find enjoyment in a record like "Themata".
4/5
We're having our two bedroom apartment internally repainted on Thursday, Friday & Saturday. We'll be packing the kids into the car & heading south of Sydney for a few days while it's done. My wife is currently forcing me to make a decision between ten different shades of white. One of us is taking this decision far too seriously while the other couldn't give a flying fuck which shade we go for & is getting very annoyed with having to be involved. I'll let you guess which one I am.
The end of January Sonny.
Yeah I do.
I haven't experienced this before Vinny. I don't usually do longer lists though. Mine are usually limited to ten entries.
Slayer – “Repentless” (from “Repentless”, 2015)
4/5. SLAYER!!!!!! This song really sums up humanity in a nutshell, with good sound quality. Drummer Paul Bostaph replaces Dave Lombardo once again in the final album before Slayer's farewell tour and retirement. Bad-a** thrash right here! Except the more popular thrash bands are kinda out of bounds from my thrash league. Thrash tastes better as an underground dish, that's part of the appeal of Morbid Saint and Viking that I'm glad to discover.
That's kinda like saying you prefer masturbation over a blow job in my opinion.
I'm afraid my feelings on this one are very much the same as they were for Majestica's "A Christmas Carol" feature release from last month. I've made no secret about my not being capable of dealing with the cheesier & more consciously epic side of European power metal. I also hate the vast majority of symphonic metal, are repulsed by almost all folk metal & think neoclassical metal is really boring & repetitive most of the time so, let's be honest, no one was really expecting me to like this record. It's just lucky we have such a cool clan rating feature so that my piss poor score doesn't effect the likelihood of others who are destined to be more fortunate discovering this release which is admittedly very well produced & impressively executed with Yngwie J. Malmsteen being drawn upon for inspiration at times. If pushed I'd probably take this one over the Majestica one but there's very little in it.
2/5
Sonny, the main reason for doing these posts is to drum up some interest in clans like The Sphere, The Gateway & The Revolution where we have very few ratings so I was wanting to give people an easy guide to the most likely releases as we only have a month to go. The Sphere is the best example as none of the more popular releases have even a single MA rating & if we took the current leader as the winner then it'd go to a release that hasn't even made a dent elsewhere with only two MA ratings (e.g. it hasn't even come close to reaching 100 ratings on RYM). If you'd like to post some of your own suggestions for The Fallen then I'm sure everyone would appreciate it.
Sonny, the release of the year will simply be decided on the highest scoring release using our Site Ratings & whatever minimum rating cut-off seems to make sense. The shortlists I'm providing are not intended to tell everyone the only releases that are in contention. That's not the case at all. Metal Academy obviously only has a small number of regular contributors at this stage so the shortlists are intended to draw people's attention to the releases that are getting the most attention on social media & other metal-related websites. The Dvne release has been included in the shortlist because (despite the fact that it only has one rating on this site) it has been popular on other metal mediums e.g. it's been making a number of well-informed people's AOTY lists on Twitter where I spend a fair amount of time & has scored highly with a large number of ratings on competitor's sites. The long & short of it is that I'm looking to minimize the chances of important releases slipping under the radar of our small group if at all possible. I'm not saying that these five releases are the only potential winners.
The monthly playlists are all updated guys so please feel free to create your new playlist threads & add the January tracklistings to the Past Playlist threads. It's also time to start submitted your track suggestions for the February playlists in the relevant clan forums.
Here's the February feature release nominators:
THE FALLEN: Sonny, Ben, Daniel
THE GATEWAY: Andi, Saxy S
THE GUARDIANS: Vinny, Xephyr, Andi
THE HORDE: Daniel, Vinny, Ben
THE INFINITE: Andi, Xephyr, Saxy S
THE NORTH: Daniel, Sonny, Ben, Vinny, Xephyr
THE PIT: Daniel, Sonny, Vinny, Ben
THE REVOLUTION: Daniel, Andi
THE SPHERE: Daniel
Here's my submission for the February 2022 playlist:
Kill The Thrill - "Us & Them" (from "Tellurique", 2005)
Here's my submission for the February 2022 playlist Andi:
Cold As Life - "All Alone" (from "Born To Land Hard", 1998)
Here are my submissions for the February 2022 playlist:
Dark Angel - "The Death Of Innocence" (from "Leave Scars", 1989)
Condor - "Riders Of Violence" (from "Unstoppable Power", 2017)
Destructor - "Maximum Destruction" (from "Maximum Destruction", 1985)
English Dogs - "Ordeal By Fire" (from "Forward To Battle", 1985)
Exciter - "I Am The Beast" (from "Long Live The Loud", 1985)
Hallows Eve - "Plunging Into Megadeath" (from "Tales Of Terror", 1985)
Here's my submissions for the February 2022 playlist:
Wodensthrone - "Those That Crush The Roots Of Blood" (from "Loss", 2009)
Archgoat - "Luciferian Darkness" (from "Whore Of Bethlehem", 2006)
Ulver - "Hymne II - Wolf and the Devil" (from "Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden", 1997)
Here's my submissions for the February 2022 playlist:
Cretin - "Freakery" (from "Stranger", 2014)
Cryptopsy - "Defenstration" (from "Blasphemy Made Flesh", 1994)
Abominable Putridity - "A Burial For The Abandoned" (from "The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin", 2012)
Carcass - "Hepatic Tissue Fermentation II" (from "Tools Of The Trade" E.P., 1992)
Cannibal Corpse - "Devoured By Vermin" (from "Vile", 1996)
Dark Tranquillity - "Insanity's Crescendo" (from "The Mind's I", 1997)
Aborted - "Skullfuck Crescendo" (from "Engineering The Dead", 2001)
Here's my submission for the February 2022 playlist Saxy:
Bad Wolves - "Springfield Summer" (from "Dear Monsters", 2021)
Here are my submissions for the February 2022 playlist Sonny:
Anathema - "Sunset Of Age" (from "The Silent Enigma", 1995)
Kyuss - "Son Of A Bitch" (from "Wretch", 1991)
Neurosis - "To Crawl Under One's Skin" (from "Souls At Zero", 1992)
Crowbar - "The Only Factor" (from "Time Heals Nothing", 1995)
Dystopia - "Population Birth Control" (from "The Aftermath" E.P., 1999)
January 2022
01. Andrew Hulshult – “DUSK” (from “Dusk (Original Game Soundtrack), 2018) [Submitted by Daniel]
02. Mechina – “Blood Feud Erotica” (from “Siege”, 2021)
03. Eisbrecher – “Supermodel” (from “Eiszeit”, 2010)
04. Motionless In White – “Wasp” (from “Reincarnate”, 2014) [Submitted by Andi]
05. Pitchshifter – “Scene This” (from “Deviant”, 2000)
06. Rob Zombie – “18th Century Cannibals, Excitable Morlocks and a One-Way Ticket on the Ghost Train” (from “The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy”, 2021)
07. Oomph! – “Suck-Taste-Spit” (from “Sperm”, 1994)
08. Godflesh – “Veins” (from “Godflesh” E.P., 1988)
09. Keygen Church – “T I L A S K A R O T” (from “░█░█░░█░█░█░”, 2021)
10. 1000 Homo DJs – “Hey Asshole!” (from “Supernaut” E.P., 1990)
11. Lard – “The Power Of Lard” (from “The Power Of Lard” E.P., 1988)
12. Youth Code & King Yosef – “Looking Down” (from “A Skeleton Key In The Doors Of Depression”, 2021)
13. Nine Inch Nails – “Happiness In Slavery” (from “Broken” E.P., 1992)
14. Ministry – “Alert Level” (from “Moral Hygiene”, 2021)
15. Old – “Disconnect Self” (from “Lo Flux Tube”, 1991)
16. Fange – “Les vergers de la désolation” (from “Pantocrator”, 2021)
17. Fear Factory – “Disruptor” (from “Aggression Continuum”, 2021)
18. Code Orange – “Swallowing The Whole Rabbit” (from “Underneath”, 2020)
19. Author & Punisher – “Doppler” (from “Drone Machines”, 2010)
20. Red Harvest – “Junk-O-Rama” (from “Cold Dark Matter”, 2000)
21. Borgne – “To Cut The Flesh & Feel Nothing But Stillness” (from “Temps Mortes”, 2021) [Submitted by Sonny]
22. Kill The Thrill – “Soave” (from “Tellurique”, 2005) [Submitted by Vinny]
January 2022
01. Noxis – “Paths Of Visceral Fears” (from “Communion Of Corrupted Minds split album with Cavern Womb, 2021) [Submitted by Vinny]
02. Fallensun – “The Wake Of The Fall” (from “The Wake Of The Fall”, 2021) [Submitted by Ben]
03. Atrae Bilis – “Lore Beyond Bone” (from “Apexapien”, 2021) [Submitted by Vinny]
04. First Fragment – “In’el” (from “Gloire éternelle”, 2021)
05. 1914 – “Corps D'autos-Canons-Mitrailleuses (A.C.M)” (from “Where Fear and Weapons Meet”, 2021) [Submitted by Vinny]
06. Obscura – “Forsaken” (from “A Valediction”, 2021)
07. Sunless – “The Unraveling Of Arcane Past” (from “Ylem”, 2021) [Submitted by Ben]
08. Quo Vadis – “Silence Calls The Storm” (from “Defiant Imagination”, 2004) [Submitted by Ben]
09. Rompeprop – “Dislocated Purple Stoma” (from “Menstrual Stomphulk”, 2002)
10. Brujeria – “Raza odiada (Pito Wilson)” (from “Raza odiada”, 1995)
11. Pestilence – “Out Of The Body” (from “Consuming Impulse”, 1989) [Submitted by Daniel]
12. Gorement – “My Ending Quest” (from “The Ending Quest”, 1994) [Submitted by Ben]
13. The Amenta – “V01D” (from “V01D”, 2010) [Submitted by Daniel]
14. Bloodbath – “Eaten” (from “Nightmares Made Flesh”, 2004) [Submitted by Ben]
15. Gravesend – “Rats Among Us” (from “Preparations for Human Disposal” demo, 2020) [Submitted by Vinny]
16. Creeping Death – “Ripping Through Flesh” (from “Wretched Illusions”, 2019) [Submitted by Vinny]
17. Cannibal Corpse – “Hammer Smashed Face” (from “Tomb Of The Mutilated”, 1992) [Submitted by Daniel]
18. Nile – “Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten” (from “Annihilation Of The Wicked”, 2005) [Submitted by Daniel]
19. Discordance Axis – “Castration Rite” (from “The Inalienable Dreamless”, 2000) [Submitted by Ben]
20. Dead Congregation – “Subjugation” (from “Graves Of The Archangels”, 2008) [Submitted by Daniel]
21. Devourment – “Choking On Bile” (from “Molesting The Decapitated”, 1999) [Submitted by Daniel]
22. Wormrot – “Blockhead Fuck Off” (from “Voices”, 2016) [Submitted by Vinny]
23. Vitriol – “The Parting Of A Neck” (from “To Bathe From the Throat of Cowardice”, 2019) [Submitted by Vinny]
24. Cenotaph – “Anti-Pathogenic Morbid Incubation” (from “Precognition To Eradicate”, 2021) [Submitted by Ben]
Are all Phyllomedusa's 260+ albums as bad as this track. That's a fucking huge pile of shit if that is the case!
I suspect so but I've just queued up his entire discography & will do an in-depth analysis of each release until I come up with a definite conclusion on this critical issue.
I've gotta say that once I started investigating how many new Hall of Glory entries I've discovered through the feature releases this year alone it pretty much justified what we're trying to do here. Check this list out in order of preference:
01. Akhlys - "The Dreaming I" (2015)
02. Dead Congrugation - "Promulgation Of The Fall" (2014)
03. Oranssi Pazuzu - "Värähtelijä" (2016)
04. Lucid Planet - "Lucid Planet II" (2020)
05. Inside The Beehive - "Drink Bleach; Live Forever" E.P. (2011)
06. Kill The Thrill - "Tellurique" (2005)
07. Altarage - "Succumb" (2021)
08. Nehëmah - "Requiem Tenebrae" (2004)
09. M.S.W. - "Obliviosus" (2020)
10. Red Harvest - "Internal Punishment Programs" (2004)
11. Deftones - "Koi no Yokan" (2012)
12. Killing Joke - "Killing Joke" (2003)
13. Kayo Dot - "Moss Grew On The Swords & Plowshares Alike" (2021)
14. Dolorian - "Dolorian" (2001)
15. Leprous - "Tall Poppy Syndrome" (2009)
16. Grip Inc. - "Nemesis" (1997)
We don't have it as a genre Sonny. Ben & I completely agree with you & decided that from the start.
Interesting. I think Venom have probably gone on to be second only to Maiden as far as notoriety & possibly even sales too thanks to the black metal movement. I'd be interested to see if that's really the case actually. Diamond Head was always gonna be in my four as they were just too important not to be in my opinion. I went with Saxon for my fourth spot, mainly because Saxon were the most prolific producer of high quality NWOBHM as opposed to Angel Witch who only released the one classic album during the movement.
I've just checked Wikipaedia and their estimated record sales are 100 million - more than Genesis and David Bowie!
It's worth noting that if we were to include Def Leppard then we'd only be looking at the impact of their self-titled E.P., their debut album "On Through The Night" & their sophomore record "High 'n' Dry". "Pyromania" doesn't seem to be referred to as NWOBHM. The same goes for other enduring artists like Saxon. Let's assume that the NWOBHM was 1979-1983.
I chose to disqualify Def Leppard along with all of the other members of the NWOBHM community that have nothing to do with metal (Praying Mantis, Shiva, Girlschool, Saracen, Demon, White Spirit, Dark Star, Rock Goddess, Heavy Pettin, More, Ethel The Frog, etc.) simply because this is a metal website. Happy to include them if everyone thinks it's better.
Anyway, what would be your final three Sonny?