1. Devin Townsend - Empath 2. Demon Hunter - War 3. Demon Hunter - Peace 4. Cellar Darling - The Spell 5. Saor - Forgotten Paths 6. In Flames - I, The Mask
I dont really know how I feel about The Spell. Its really good. But I need to digest it more. Has potential to move up or down based on repeat listens.
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath 2. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 3. Demon
Hunter – War 4. Demon
Hunter – Peace 5. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 6. Týr
– Hel 7. In
Flames – I, The Mask 8. A
Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone 9. Children
Of Bodom – Hexed 10. Whitechapel
– The Valley
All I've listened to this year. What am I missing?
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath 2. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 3. Demon
Hunter – War 4. Demon
Hunter – Peace 5. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 6. Týr
– Hel 7. In
Flames – I, The Mask 8. A
Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone 9. Children
Of Bodom – Hexed 10. Whitechapel
– The Valley
All I've listened to this year. What am I missing?
Soen (Probably my #1 right now) Soilwork (Probably my #2 right now) Astronoid Avantasia Haunt Overkill Moon Tooth
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath 2. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 3. Devin
Townsend – Tests Of Manhood 4. Demon
Hunter – War 5. Demon
Hunter – Peace 6. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 7. MASTER
BOOT RECORD – INTERNET PROTOCOL 8. Eluveitie
– Ategnatos 9. Týr
– Hel 10. In
Flames – I, The Mask 11. A
Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone 12. Battle
Beast – No More Hollywood Endings 13. Children
Of Bodom – Hexed 14. Whitechapel
– The Valley
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath 2. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 3. Devin
Townsend – Tests Of Manhood 4. Demon
Hunter – War 5. Demon
Hunter – Peace 6. Brymir
– Wings Of Fire 7. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 8. MASTER
BOOT RECORD – INTERNET PROTOCOL 9. In
Flames – I, The Mask 10. Scarlxrd
– Infinity 11. Eluveitie
– Ategnatos 12. Týr
– Hel 13. Battle
Beast – No More Hollywood Endings 14. Occams
Laser – Tension 15. A
Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone 16. Children
Of Bodom – Hexed 17. Whitechapel
– The Valley 18. Bad
Blood – Cranial Torment
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath / Tests Of Manhood 2. Killswitch
Engage – Atonement 3. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 4. Ashbringer – Absolution 5. Demon
Hunter – War / Peace 6. Necronomidol
– Scions Of The Blasted Heath 7. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 8. Brymir
– Wings Of Fire 9. In
Flames – I, The Mask 10. Gloryhammer
– Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
Everything else: 3Teeth – Metawar MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET
PROTOCOL Rabbit Junk – Reveal Ollie Wride – Thanks In Advance Scarlxrd – Infinity LukHash – Better Than Reality Tiasu – Due Com Truise – Persuasion System Eluveitie – Ategnatos Dana Jean
Phoenix – Pixel Dust Kaleikr – Heart Of Lead Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The
Coma Fleshgod Apocalypse – Veleno Amon Amarth – Berserker Týr – Hel Deadlife – Singularity Deadlife – Orphan Deadlife – Rebel Nights Slvmber – Murphy Slvmber – Teenage Crimes Slvmber – Neoteric Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect Battle Beast – No More Hollywood
Endings Her Worst Nightmare – Her Worst
Nightmare Occams Laser – Tension A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The
World Becomes Undone Children Of Bodom – Hexed Baroness – Gold & Grey Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind Whitechapel – The Valley Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath / Tests Of Manhood 2. Killswitch
Engage – Atonement 3. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 4. Ashbringer – Absolution 5. Demon
Hunter – War / Peace 6. Necronomidol
– Scions Of The Blasted Heath 7. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 8. Brymir
– Wings Of Fire 9. In
Flames – I, The Mask 10. Gloryhammer
– Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
Everything else: 3Teeth – Metawar MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET
PROTOCOL Rabbit Junk – Reveal Ollie Wride – Thanks In Advance Scarlxrd – Infinity LukHash – Better Than Reality Tiasu – Due Com Truise – Persuasion System Eluveitie – Ategnatos Dana Jean
Phoenix – Pixel Dust Kaleikr – Heart Of Lead Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The
Coma Fleshgod Apocalypse – Veleno Amon Amarth – Berserker Týr – Hel Deadlife – Singularity Deadlife – Orphan Deadlife – Rebel Nights Slvmber – Murphy Slvmber – Teenage Crimes Slvmber – Neoteric Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect Battle Beast – No More Hollywood
Endings Her Worst Nightmare – Her Worst
Nightmare Occams Laser – Tension A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The
World Becomes Undone Children Of Bodom – Hexed Baroness – Gold & Grey Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind Whitechapel – The Valley Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
Is KSE that good? I remember you specifically were always one of the ones extra harsh towards Core. Unless you’ve opened your mind more since then since Scarlxrd is somehow on your list.
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath / Tests Of Manhood 2. Killswitch
Engage – Atonement 3. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 4. Ashbringer – Absolution 5. Demon
Hunter – War / Peace 6. Necronomidol
– Scions Of The Blasted Heath 7. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 8. Brymir
– Wings Of Fire 9. In
Flames – I, The Mask 10. Gloryhammer
– Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
Everything else: 3Teeth – Metawar MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET
PROTOCOL Rabbit Junk – Reveal Ollie Wride – Thanks In Advance Scarlxrd – Infinity LukHash – Better Than Reality Tiasu – Due Com Truise – Persuasion System Eluveitie – Ategnatos Dana Jean
Phoenix – Pixel Dust Kaleikr – Heart Of Lead Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The
Coma Fleshgod Apocalypse – Veleno Amon Amarth – Berserker Týr – Hel Deadlife – Singularity Deadlife – Orphan Deadlife – Rebel Nights Slvmber – Murphy Slvmber – Teenage Crimes Slvmber – Neoteric Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect Battle Beast – No More Hollywood
Endings Her Worst Nightmare – Her Worst
Nightmare Occams Laser – Tension A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The
World Becomes Undone Children Of Bodom – Hexed Baroness – Gold & Grey Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind Whitechapel – The Valley Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
Is KSE that good? I remember you specifically were always one of the ones extra harsh towards Core. Unless you’ve opened your mind more since then since Scarlxrd is somehow on your list.
Im still not into a lot of hardcore and scenecore type bands, but Im big on metalcore, especially the second wave, I even play in a metalcore band now. And the new KSE is amazing.
Also Im not huge on the "trap metal" scene, but I do like Scarlxrd. Still prefer older rap ala Public Enemy, but I also like Necro and Ill Bill for the metal influenced rap. Not big on like Ghostemane though
1. Devin
Townsend – Empath / Tests Of Manhood 2. Killswitch
Engage – Atonement 3. Cellar
Darling – The Spell 4. Ashbringer – Absolution 5. Demon
Hunter – War / Peace 6. Necronomidol
– Scions Of The Blasted Heath 7. Saor
– Forgotten Paths 8. Brymir
– Wings Of Fire 9. In
Flames – I, The Mask 10. Gloryhammer
– Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
Everything else: 3Teeth – Metawar MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET
PROTOCOL Rabbit Junk – Reveal Ollie Wride – Thanks In Advance Scarlxrd – Infinity LukHash – Better Than Reality Tiasu – Due Com Truise – Persuasion System Eluveitie – Ategnatos Dana Jean
Phoenix – Pixel Dust Kaleikr – Heart Of Lead Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The
Coma Fleshgod Apocalypse – Veleno Amon Amarth – Berserker Týr – Hel Deadlife – Singularity Deadlife – Orphan Deadlife – Rebel Nights Slvmber – Murphy Slvmber – Teenage Crimes Slvmber – Neoteric Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect Battle Beast – No More Hollywood
Endings Her Worst Nightmare – Her Worst
Nightmare Occams Laser – Tension A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The
World Becomes Undone Children Of Bodom – Hexed Baroness – Gold & Grey Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind Whitechapel – The Valley Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
Is KSE that good? I remember you specifically were always one of the ones extra harsh towards Core. Unless you’ve opened your mind more since then since Scarlxrd is somehow on your list.
Im still not into a lot of hardcore and scenecore type bands, but Im big on metalcore, especially the second wave, I even play in a metalcore band now. And the new KSE is amazing.
Also Im not huge on the "trap metal" scene, but I do like Scarlxrd. Still prefer older rap ala Public Enemy, but I also like Necro and Ill Bill for the metal influenced rap. Not big on like Ghostemane though
Hate all of it. Hate Ghostemane, some of $uicideboy$ is “okay” but overall they’re too corny and tryhard. Scarlxrd definitely has something unique going for him but I don’t feel that it necessarily works sonically. Idk I feel like that whole “Trap Metal” scene type shit is the new Nu-Metal and fails in the same way in the sense that it’s too tryhard. Ho99o9 overall prolly pulls it off the most natural and smoothest, but still not my thing. I think the closest thing to that scene that I legitimately adore is Night Lovell, but he doesn’t even fit into the whole Trap Metal thing. He’s jus extremely dark depressed straight up Trap, although really heavy as far as production goes.
As I had said in a random post recently, I feel like the best example recently, and essentially EVER, of Rock/Metal + Hip Hop working is Bring Me The Horizon’s “why you gotta kick me when i’m down?”. And that’s only one song because obviously that didn’t become their overall new sound and it was a one off experiment that went extremely well. But that’s what the fuck it should be if you’re gonna blend those 2 genres out of anything else. Shit, shit was technically 3 genres since it had the EDM outro slapped on it as well. And even that shit was absolute gas.
Don’t know where else to put this but “Unsainted” is one of the top 3 songs of the entire year and arguably Slipknot’s hardest single of all time. Might not be the absolute “catchiest” on a commercial level, but jus the artistry. That choir they incorporated was fucking GENIUS and gave me “Crucify Me” vibes from when BMTH dropped TIAHBMISITIAHLKIAS. That shit, to ME, showed a lot of fucking maturity from the same band who produced “YOU CAN’T SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLON BRANDO’S EYES!!!!” lmao. And that breakdown wit the samples on the turntables was the most blatantly that they ever actually used the DJ lmao. Record is beautiful, still going thru the whole album as far as multiple listens, but as it stands, I can’t lie, the only 2 records to fully impress me this year have been in the Rock/Metal realm. BMTH and Slipknot. Hip Hop/RnB been fucking DRY this year. Last year was fantastic in comparison.
Don’t know where else to put this but “Unsainted” is one of the top 3 songs of the entire year and arguably Slipknot’s hardest single of all time. Might not be the absolute “catchiest” on a commercial level, but jus the artistry. That choir they incorporated was fucking GENIUS and gave me “Crucify Me” vibes from when BMTH dropped TIAHBMISITIAHLKIAS. That shit, to ME, showed a lot of fucking maturity from the same band who produced “YOU CAN’T SEE CALIFORNIA WITHOUT MARLON BRANDO’S EYES!!!!” lmao. And that breakdown wit the samples on the turntables was the most blatantly that they ever actually used the DJ lmao. Record is beautiful, still going thru the whole album as far as multiple listens, but as it stands, I can’t lie, the only 2 records to fully impress me this year have been in the Rock/Metal realm. BMTH and Slipknot. Hip Hop/RnB been fucking DRY this year. Last year was fantastic in comparison.
Check out Devin Townsend's Empath. Truley one of the most unique albums I've ever heard, and a true deconstruction of the genre. Dude mixes a bunch of genres and makes it all flow so seamlessly. New Slipknot is absolute ass in comparrison.
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2. Demon Hunter - War
3. Demon Hunter - Peace
4. Cellar Darling - The Spell
5. Saor - Forgotten Paths
6. In Flames - I, The Mask
I dont really know how I feel about The Spell. Its really good. But I need to digest it more. Has potential to move up or down based on repeat listens.
2. Cellar Darling – The Spell
3. Demon Hunter – War
4. Demon Hunter – Peace
5. Saor – Forgotten Paths
6. Týr – Hel
7. In Flames – I, The Mask
8. A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone
9. Children Of Bodom – Hexed
10. Whitechapel – The Valley
All I've listened to this year. What am I missing?
Soilwork (Probably my #2 right now)
Astronoid
Avantasia
Haunt
Overkill
Moon Tooth
Also didn't new Eluveitie just come out?
2. Cellar Darling – The Spell
3. Devin Townsend – Tests Of Manhood
4. Demon Hunter – War
5. Demon Hunter – Peace
6. Saor – Forgotten Paths
7. MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET PROTOCOL
8. Eluveitie – Ategnatos
9. Týr – Hel
10. In Flames – I, The Mask
11. A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone
12. Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings
13. Children Of Bodom – Hexed
14. Whitechapel – The Valley
2. Cellar Darling – The Spell
3. Devin Townsend – Tests Of Manhood
4. Demon Hunter – War
5. Demon Hunter – Peace
6. Brymir – Wings Of Fire
7. Saor – Forgotten Paths
8. MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET PROTOCOL
9. In Flames – I, The Mask
10. Scarlxrd – Infinity
11. Eluveitie – Ategnatos
12. Týr – Hel
13. Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings
14. Occams Laser – Tension
15. A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone
16. Children Of Bodom – Hexed
17. Whitechapel – The Valley
18. Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
Still need to get to the new Amon Amarth.
2. Killswitch Engage – Atonement
3. Cellar Darling – The Spell
4. Ashbringer – Absolution
5. Demon Hunter – War / Peace
6. Necronomidol – Scions Of The Blasted Heath
7. Saor – Forgotten Paths
8. Brymir – Wings Of Fire
9. In Flames – I, The Mask
10. Gloryhammer – Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
Everything else:
3Teeth – Metawar
MASTER BOOT RECORD – INTERNET PROTOCOL
Rabbit Junk – Reveal
Ollie Wride – Thanks In Advance
Scarlxrd – Infinity
LukHash – Better Than Reality
Tiasu – Due
Com Truise – Persuasion System
Eluveitie – Ategnatos
Dana Jean Phoenix – Pixel Dust
Kaleikr – Heart Of Lead
Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The Coma
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Veleno
Amon Amarth – Berserker
Týr – Hel
Deadlife – Singularity
Deadlife – Orphan
Deadlife – Rebel Nights
Slvmber – Murphy
Slvmber – Teenage Crimes
Slvmber – Neoteric
Immortal Bird – Thrive On Neglect
Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings
Her Worst Nightmare – Her Worst Nightmare
Occams Laser – Tension
A Pale Horse Named Dead – When The World Becomes Undone
Children Of Bodom – Hexed
Baroness – Gold & Grey
Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
Whitechapel – The Valley
Bad Blood – Cranial Torment
Also Im not huge on the "trap metal" scene, but I do like Scarlxrd. Still prefer older rap ala Public Enemy, but I also like Necro and Ill Bill for the metal influenced rap. Not big on like Ghostemane though
As I had said in a random post recently, I feel like the best example recently, and essentially EVER, of Rock/Metal + Hip Hop working is Bring Me The Horizon’s “why you gotta kick me when i’m down?”. And that’s only one song because obviously that didn’t become their overall new sound and it was a one off experiment that went extremely well. But that’s what the fuck it should be if you’re gonna blend those 2 genres out of anything else. Shit, shit was technically 3 genres since it had the EDM outro slapped on it as well. And even that shit was absolute gas.