Metal Reviews

Hope everybody is doin well. Mods, feel free to delete this if it's not the time, but I don't see why there can't be an ongoing thread for people to list their fave albums "so far"...

Anyways, I think this has been a killin' year for metal. My favorite "heavy" albums (loose definition):

Protest the hero--Volition
Coheed and Cambria--The Afterman: Descension
Cloudkicker--Subsume
The Dillinger Escape Plan--One of Us is the Killer
Scale the summit--the migration
Skeletonwitch--Serpents Unleashed
Deafheaven--Sunbather
Altar of Plagues--teethed glory and injury
Letlive--The Blackest Beautiful

(I guess this is rough descending order in terms of how much I liked the album)

Volition pretty much cements Protest the Hero as my favorite metal band, period (bumping out Converge...sorry Converge). Cloudkicker is fucking ace, and all of his music is free on bandcamp. Overall, good job metal.

What about y'all?

I haven't listened to a lot of 2013 releases, and generally those I have heard I didn't like, so this will be a very short list

ORCummentary - Orcs 1, Goblins 0

Avernus - Sadness EP (if re-issues of nineties releases count)

Nails - Abandon All Life. Heaviest band ever?
Satan - Life Sentence. So catchy.
Dillinger is sick as always.
Shining - One One One. Spring jams.
Kanye West - Yeezus. Summer jams.
Altar of Plagues is legit and still throws me for loops when I listen.
Chelsea Wolfe - Pain is Beauty. Possibly her best and some really haunting moments.
Author & Punisher - Women & Children. Songs have more emotion than last album.
Batillus - Concrete Sustain. Sick sludge metal.
Ancient VVisdom - Deathlike. Awesome acoustic rock.
Locrian - Return to Annihilation. Becoming one of my favorite drone bands.
Iron Reagan - Worse than Dead. Too fun.
A Pale Horse Named Death - Lay My Soul to Waste. Solid Type O substitute.

Deserve more listens: Cloud Rat's Moksha, Terra Tenebrosa's The Purging, Skagos' Anarchic, Touche Amore's Is Survived By, Ulcerate's Vermis, Woe's Withdrawal, Turnstile's Step 2 Rhythm.

Oh, shit, I have so much to listen to before year end lists.

Lol No.

Warlord-The Holy Empire
Satan-Life Sentence
Cathedral-The Last Spire
Suffocation-Pinnacle of Bedlam
Zemial-Nykta
Inquisition-Obscure verses of the Multiverse
Rotting Christ-Κατά τον δαίμονα του εαυτοÏ

The Ruins of Beverast--Blood Vaults
Monolithe--IV
Deeds of Flesh--Portals to Caanan
Abyssal--Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius
Defeated Sanity--Passages into Deformity
Horna--Askel lähempänä Saatanaa
Cathedral--The Last Spire
Portal--Vexovoid
Altar of Plagues--Teethed Glory and Injury
MDB-The Manuscript ep
Gris--A L'ame enflammee, L'ame constellee

Stuff I still haven't heard enough but would probably make the list:

Darkestrah--Manas
Abstract Spirit--Theomorphic Defectiveness
Fen--Dustwalker
Satan--Life Sentence
Batillus--Concrete Sustain
Inquisition--Obscure verses of the Multiverse
Clandestine Blaze--Harmony of Struggle
Summoning--Old Mornings Dawn

Name someone gnarlier. We may just have different criterion, because Nails is fucking sick.

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine

Sorry guys

I didn't know they had a new one out, I'll have to give that a listen too.