The Metal Thread Genre • Page 719

I still download MP3s illegally like a degenerate so I don't have a Spotify wrapped.

 

Downloadify

 

I was telling @Elder Lightning that I’m having a really hard time with Death Metal these days. Unless it’s got some hardcore in it (200 Stab Wounds, Frozen Soul, Gatecreeper) I can’t get into it.

Hot take, I know…

 

Not at all! I did see gatecreeper this year and they were awesome. Sometimes I listen at work and it's hard to focus or I'm driving with my family

 

if your list doesn't have Frozen Soul and Enforced on it, I'm probably not gonna take it seriously

 

Frozen Soul should be on every list if only because they sell sandals called Frozen Soles:

https://allinmerch.com/collections/frozen-soul/products/frozen-soul-crypt-of-ice-sandals

 

that's fine. there were better albums out this year anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Lolz

 

in all seriousness, enforced is probably a top 25 album for me for the year. frozen soul was good, but it was released so long ago in the year that i keep forgetting about it.

 

I need to listen to that Enforced album before the end of the year. I have not listened to that Frozen Soul album in a while but it had some kickass Bolt Thrower vibes going on.

 

Both were released early in the year and will therefore probably be forgotten by a lot of lists. I'm a little bit biased when it comes to FS, but I don't think I've liked an album as much as Crypt of Ice or Kill Grid since like Nightmare Logic. They both just hit my personal sensibilities perfectly.

 

if you like thrash/crossover AT ALL, definitely check out the Enforced record

 

same, although "sludge metal" was one of my top genres. but I chalk the lack of metal in mine up to the fact that the bulk of my metal listening is either vinyl or CD, while the bulk of my streaming listening is the playlist of punk/rock/indie I put on at work.

 

My top songs of the year barely have any metal at all in the entire 100-song playlist, but my top four genres were death metal, brutal death metal, black metal and deathcore.

This is probably because when I listen to metal I tend to blast straight through entire albums one after the other but rarely put individual songs on repeat so the non-metal I listen to gets overrepresented in the top songs and artists wrap-up.

 

I listen to quite a bit of DM but don’t really fuck with the ultra-tech stuff (with some exceptions)

like, I rather listen to something with a groove (Undeath) & / or just bleak and heavy as fuck (Mortiferum) than a wanky chaotic death metal band

 

my wrapped:

1. ambient
2. death metal
3. art pop
4. black metal
5. shoegaze

kinda funny - I also listen to a ton of vinyl so not necessarily representative

my no1 artist was Caroline Polacheck bc I discovered her album this year & became obsessed

my most listened metal album of the year was the Vildhjarta & the Ruins of Beverast I’d say but according to spotify my fourth most played artist this year was korn lol - I really really re-discovered my love for their first 4 albums

I also finally acquired a vinyl copy of october rust which I played non-stop this year & which got me obsessed with album yet again & then I became obsessed again with World Coming Down

being a music obsessive is so much fun

 

Lmao my most listened to song is a Chevelle song and my most listened to album is a videogame soundtrack (second year in a row).

Top 5 genres:

1. Alternative metal
2. Progressive metal
3. Metalcore
4. Pop punk
5. Death metal

 

Goregrind

War metal/grind stuff

 

new Tardigrada

 

Here's the current shortlist for my EOTY list. Probably goes best here since it's mostly metal and adjacent stuff:

200 Stab Wounds - Slave to The Scalpel
Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade
Bodybox - Through the Bongfire + Microwaved Weed
Bone Sickness - Theatre of Morbidity (Remaster)
Candy Apple - Sweet Dreams of Violence
Carcass - Torn Arteries
Chain Cult - We're Not Alone
Colonial Wound - Degradation
Converge + Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I
Death Toll 80k - The Future Is Yours
Dodsrit - Mortal Coil
Drill Sergeant - Vile Ebb
Drug Church - Tawny
Eastwood - Antibiose
Enforced - Kill Grid
Ekulu - Unscrew My Head
Feverchild - s/t
Fiddlehead - Between the Richness
Flames of Betrayal - The Rain Reeks of Heaven
Full of Hell - Gardens of Burning Apparations
Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality
GEL - Violent Closure
Gleue - Promo 2021
Gravesend - Methods of Human Disposal
Gulch/Sunami split
Holy Figures - Luck of the Draw + Thanatophobia
Human - Delicacies of Extinction
Hyperdontia - Hideous Entity
Malignant Altar - Realms of Exquisite Morbidity
Makthaverskan - For Allting
Melting Rot - Blood Delusions
Militarie Gun - All Roads Lead To The Gun + All Roads Lead To The Gun II
Moisturizer - Interstellar Migraine
Nak'ay - Closed Doors/Open Veins
Pan-Native Amerikan Front - Little Turtle's War + Immortal Ceremonies split
Phrenelith - Chimaera
Porcupine - The Sibyl
Raw Plastic - Waiting Till Summer + There's No Place Like Home
Regional Justice Center - Crime and Punishment
Sentinel - Sense of Dread
Septage - Septisk Eradikasyon
Socioclast - s/t
Sore Dream - Gears Clogged With Blood and Honey
Soul Blind - Third Chain
SPY - Habitual Offender
Stand Still - A Practice in Patience
Staticlone - Demo
Steel Bearing Hand - Slay In Hell
Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
Suffering Hour - The Cyclic Reckoning
Sulk - Tennis Elbow
Sweet Soul - So Far No Further
The Can't Hardlys - Beach Flat Rock
The Ruins of Beverast - The Thule Grimoires
Thrice - Horizons/East
Turnstile - Glow On
Violent Spirit - Fire
Wild RED - Brain Squeeze

 

Good list. Definitely gonna go through it cuz there's a bunch I haven't heard.

 

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Really vibing with this Eldovar album: