An ongoing list of each year’s best metal releases.
Looking over the past few years of these "best of" posts, I've noticed that after my top 5, I usually end up with more and more reservations about the albums I call the "best" of …
2018 is winding down, but I'm just now getting around to posting my best metal of 2017 list. A combination of procrastination, a serious consideration of just shutting down the feature all together (due to …
As I make these lists it is always a tricky thing to distinguish between those albums that seem excellent at face value, and those albums that are just plain exciting and/or fun to listen to. …
The more I do these end of year lists, the more I realize that most new metal (like most other new music) is pretty heavily indebted to the "old stuff." And, while it's rare to …
Another year of actually listening to new metal down, and I'm happy to report it was another year of quality finds! There weren't any real standouts like Peste Noire and Satan's new ones last year …
I've never been one for new albums. Partly because my taste tends to run "old school," and partly because there is so much older stuff that has withstood the test of time that I still …