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I've never listened to eternal champion, anyone know why they're not on spotify?

 

Lot of great stuff this year (some hardcore mixed in there):

Atramentus
Elder
Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou
Forming the Void
Freeways
Gulch
Haken
Huntsmen
Myth of I
Pallbearer
Poppy
Primitive Man
Psychonaut
Pyrrhon
Radiant Knife
Ripped To Shreds
Serpent Column
Sharptooth
Sheenjek
Spirit Adrift
Spiritworld
Svalbard
Ulcerate
Vile Creature
War On Women
Yarrow
Yatra
Zeal & Ardor

 

I thought the Ulcerate was impressive but didn’t get me going - that level of technical prowess is generally not what I enjoy the most in my music

 

Liked new Ulcerate a lot, and was actually surprised how melodic it was at times considering their last album pummeled me to bits.

 

Gonna just use this post for a shortlist of all the albums (mostly metal and hardcore) that are in the running for me. It's a mix of singles, EPs, and albums but I've never really cared about semantics there.

Spanish Love Songs - Brave Faces, Everyone
SPY - Service Weapon
Gulch - Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress
Bleeding Out - Lifelong Death Fantasy
Like Rats - Death Monolith
Wake - Devouring Rain
DRAIN - California Cursed
ESP Mayhem - Bloodsportswear
Caustic Wound - Death Posture
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Colonial Wound - Untitled
Needle - s/t
Peace Test - Uniform Repression
Age of Apocalypse - The Way
Almyrkvi/The Ruins of Beverast split
Drug Church - Bliss Out
Anhedonist/Spectral Voice split
Bloodsoaked Necrovoid - Expelled into the Unknown Depths of the Unfathomable
Rope Sect - The Great Flood
Brother - Live 7/5/2019
Carcass - Despicable
Castle Freak - Savage Nights of the Castle Freak
Dame - s/t
Faceless Burial - Speciation
freshwater - demo2020
Haapoja - Mullan Keskelta
Haexler - Blankenship, Bleakness
Livid - Life Is Pain Life Is Shit
Chepang - Chatta
Hexer - Realm of the Feathered Serpent
Higher Power- 27 Miles Underwater
Innumerable Forms - Despotic Rule
Inter Arma - Garber Days Revisited
Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
Antichrist Siege Machine - Filth of the World
Left Cross - Prophecy of Conquest
Meth Leppard - Woke
Midnight Dice - Hypnotized
Mindforce - Swinging Swords, Chopping Lords
Napalm Death - Throes of Joy In The Jaws of Defeatism
Nothing - The Great Dismal
Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
Pig Destroyer - The Octagonal Stairway
Primitive Man - Immersion
PUP - This Sucks Ass
Regional Justice Center - KKK Tattoo
Ripper - Paranormal Waves
Septage - Septic Decadence
Sex With A Terrorist - Demo
Skeletal Remains - The Entombment of Chaos
Speedway - s/t
Spice - s/t
Stimulant - Sensory Deprivation
Sunami - s/t
Torture Tomb - Killing To See How It Feels
Travolta - In Tinnitus We Crust
Ulthar - Providence
Ulver - Flowers of Evil
Umbra Vitae - Shadow of Life
Undeath - Lesions of a Different Kind
Undergang - Aldrig i livet
Valkyrie - Fear
Vein.fm - Old Data in a New Machine Vol. 1
Warp Chamber - Implements of Excruciation
Worriers - You or Someone You Know
Year of the Knife - Internal Incarceration

Currently finished edit: Wow. I listed to more this year than I thought. The top of list will likely be more towards the top of the list because those were the releases that came to mind before I started using my Youtube Music library as a reference.

Subject to change. Will likely be added to. Just using this list as a reference point for when and if I actually make a list.

 

Do yourself a favor and jump on their bandcamp. Start with Armor of Ire and don't look back.

Not sure why they're not on Spotify tbh

 

oh yeah Oranssi Pazuzu was good too!

I need to listen to the new Primitive Man & Paysage D’Hiver

 

I totally get why some bands don't want to/aren't able to use Spotify but man oh man it really does send the chances of me listening to a band more than a couple times straight down the toilet if they aren't on that platform, LOL. Over time I've really just put all my music consumption eggs in the Spotify basket so it's a chore to break away from that.

That's probably going to bite me in the ass one day when Spotify inevitably goes away but hey what can you do.

 

I don’t know how old you kids are but I remember when I had to save $ for a month to buy a record I had read about it an magazine & hope it was good

 

It's that reason specifically that when I'm not broke I try to maintain a habit of routinely blind-buying CD's from record stores. Keep some of that sensation alive. I often wish I'd been around for the era of tape-trading. That would've been so cool.

 

tape trading culture was soooo dope! wish I had been a part of that too

 

Can't believe this was released this year. Feels like I've known these songs a while lol. Time, pandemic, ect.

Death Monolith
Años en Infierno
Obscene Repressed
Slow Decay
Fearmonger
Where Only Gods May Tread
Verminous
Unconquered
Endarkenment
May You Be Held
Bloodletting

some favorites from the year

 

I never got deep into it, but tape trading was fun. I remember buying blank VHS tapes in bulk. Wish I'd held onto/preserved more of that stuff.

 

lol didn’t mean to sound preachy!!

but yeah read some books!!

 

another one I actually really liked from this year that keeps growing! maybe his best?!

 

Books are so much easier to read than an e-reader or my phone. Gimme a paperback for something I really want to read.

Not that anyone cares, but I also finished my shortlist for now. It's also currently in subject to change without reason stage for the time being as I delve more into things like Eternal Champion and Ulcerate.

 

For fuck’s sake how hard is it to be a DECENT HUMAN BEING. Hopping off this band as soon as I got on.

 

wow why did no one mention that the Whitechapel album that came out last year is legitimately fantastic. it reminds me kinda of a deathcore Katatonia.

 

That sounds like 7 degrees of separation...

 

because it came out last year and not this year?

 

Ya guess I will but like @inspectorkemp said I really find it hard to listen to stuff not on spotify. Just cause it's one app for everything.

 

I think we did bring it up when it came out

You should check out the acacia strains recent releases

 

not gonna like “deathcore Katatonia” is picking my interest even when I’m not a deathcore fan

which now that I think of...

anyone care to recommend one deathcore album that is artsy & out of the box & one that is just trying to be as stupid & brutal as possible? please don’t hit me with a long-ass list bc I will not know what to try out lol

kinda wanna sample what the genre has to offer