2018
Heavy Sleep like rocking that straddles the line between the Stoner Doom and the spacey psychedelic. One of the better albums from 2018.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Satan - Cruel Magic
2018
Satan delivers! 80's Speed/NWOBHM. These guys know how to do it. Excellent album.
Sunday, January 20, 2019
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Grandpa Jack - Grandpa Jack
2018
Powerful classic rock with a little bit of a Southern vibe. Good stuff.
Ancestors - Suspended in Reflections
2018
Epic Post Rock. I really liked their album "Of Sound Mind" it reminded me of a modern day Animals by Pink Floyd. Looks like it's been ten years since that came out. This is the second album since then. I didn't really care for the last one, but this is really good. This is psychedelic rock that can get heavy it's dreamy and atmospheric. It sounds like I could be describing Pink Floyd again. Good stuff.
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
2018
These guys used to be a full steam ahead blackened Thrash band. They have a new singer now and are more of a full steam ahead melodic black metal band. They're the same but different.
Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
2018
This is the first album from these guys in about 10 years and this is something like their 20th album. Old school Death/Doom. Good stuff!
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
2018
Deafheaven has always been hated for not being TRVE CVLT Metal and this album is not gonna make any fans of the purist. Black Metal. Black Metal is what they keep returning to while adding in other parts that aren't Black Metal.
Best of 2018
I'm just throwing this together, it's a work in progress. It will maybe be refined at some point. No order. If I made a list of what I thought was "The Best" releases from 2018, it would be a different list than this one. These are my personal favorites.
- Weedpecker - III 1/5/2018
- Grajo - Slowgod II 1/15/2018
- Absent - Towards The Void 1/1/2018
- Crypt Trip - Rootstock 1/19/2018
- Clamfight - III 1/19/2018
- Wolftooth - Wolftooth 1/19/2018
- Absent - Towards The Void 1/1/2018
- Orphans of Doom - Strange Worlds / Fierce Gods 1/26/2018
- Dekonstuktor - No Way Back 1/4/2018
- Secrets of the Lost Empires - Secrets of the Lost Empires 1/23/18
- Hound The Wolves - Camera Obscura 2/14/2018
- Black Wizard - Livin' Oblivion 2/23/2018
- Weird Tales - The Fall 2/16/2018
- Pyraweed - Green Jinn 2/12/2018
- River Cult - Halcyon Days 2/9/2018
- The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir 2/9/2018
- Bible Black Tyrant - Regret Beyond Death 2/16/2018
- Blacklab - Under The Strawberry Moon 2/1/2018
- Marijiannah - Till Marijiannah 2/2018
- Coffin Torture - Dismal Planet 2/16/18
- Apostle of Solitude - From Gold to Ash 2/ 2018
- Vvlva - Path of Virtue 2/16/18
- Nest - Metempsychosis 3/2/18
- Eagle Twin - The Thundering Heard 3/30/18
- The Steams - Wild Ferment 3/22/18
- Pressor - Weird Things 3/12/2018
- Fungus Hill - Cosmic Construction on Proxima B 3/12/2018
- Sixes - Methistopheles 3/1/2018
- Sunnata - Outlands 3/23/2018
- Wytchgoat - Kult of the Wytchgoat 3/4/2018
- Green Druid - Ashen Blood 3/16/18
- Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic 3/ 2018
- Conjuer - Mire 3/9/2018
- Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name 3/16/2018
- Wykan - Solace 4/13/2018
- Blackwater Holylight - Blackwater Holylight 4/6/2018
- Messa - Feast For Water 4/6/2018
- Vomitheist - Graveyard Flesh Orgy 4/20/18
- Hashteroid - Hashteroid 4/20/2018
- RRRags - RRRags 4/21/18
- LLNN - Deads 4/ 27/2018
- Klandestin - Green Acid of the Last Century 4/20/2018
- Witchskull - Coven's Will 5/2018
- Electric Monolith - Resurrect The Dead 5/4/2018
- Mountain Dust - Seven Storms 5/18/2018
- Glanville - First Blood 5/4/2018
- Purple Kong - EP II (Crowned in Ouija) 5/9/18
- Wolvennest - Void 5/15/18
- Thou - The House Primordial 5/29/18
- Grave Lines - Fed Into The Nihilist Engine 5/4/18
- Sergeant Thunderhoof - Terra Solus 5/12/ 2018
- Alms - Act One 6/8/18
- ASG - Survive Sunrise 6/15/2018
- Potion - Woman of the Wand 6/19/18
- Red Sun Atacama - Licancabur 6/29/18
- Mystic Sons - Mystic Sons 6/1/18
- Bubak - Bubak's Revenge 6/13/18
- Modok - Evil/Seabeast 6/8/18
- Ripis - Shadow Dies In Morning Light 6/22/18
- Seedy Jesus - Polaris Oblique 6/4/18
- Khemmis - Desolation 6/22/18
- Yob - Our Raw Heart 6/8/18
- Thunder Horse - Thunder Horse 6/1/18
- Witchskull - Coven's Will 6/1/18
- Bishop Lake - When Lucifer Fell 6/1/18
- Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms 6/2018
- Sandrider - Armada 7/20/2018
- Churchburn - None Shall Live...The Hymns of Misery 7/13/18
- Jack Harlon & Dead Crowes - Hymn 7/6/18
- Crazy Bull - The Past Is Today 7/3/18
- The Lion's Daughter - Future Cult 7/20/18
- Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows - Hymns 7/ /18
- Black Helium - Primitive Fuck 7/27/18
- Tripp Hammer and the Water Wheel - Something Strange & Sharp 7/28/18
- True Believer - My Satan 7/13/18
- Grave Disgrace - Sabbatharium 7/5/18
- Brimstone Coven - What Was And What Shall Be 7/21/18
- Chubby Thunderous Bad Kush Masters - Come and Chutney 7/13/18
- Hound - Settle Your Scores 7/29/18
- Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 7/13/18
- Kingnomad - The Great Nothing 7/6/18
- Luger - Hellraisers of the Wasteland 7/27/18
- Maggot Heart - Dusk to Dusk 7/13/18
- Saint Karloff - All Heed The Black God 7/27/18
- Secret Cutter - Quantum Eraser 7/6/18
- Spaceslug - Eye The Tide 7/20/18
- Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep 7/20/2018
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- Backwoods Payback - Future Slum 8/3/18
- Crystal Warlock - Gamma Trip 8/19/18
- Demonauta - Temaukel, The Spirit Before Time 8/13/18
- Forming The Void - Rift 8/17/18
- Haunt - Burst Into Flames 8/8/18
- Mr. Plow - Maintain Radio Silence 8/10/18
- Greengo - Dabstep 8/10/18
- Swamp Hawk - Swamp Hawk 8/24/18
- Rebel Wizard - Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response 8/17/18
- Salkbuck - Cityslicker 8/20/18
- Sahara - II 8/3/18
- Grusom - II 8/31/18
- Rivers of Gore - Rivers of Gore 8/4/18
- Thou - Magus 8/31/18
- Mountain Tamer - Godfortune // Dark Matters 8/24/18
- Grandpa Jack - Grandpa Jack 8/10/2018
- Goatmaster - Satanic Metal Assault 9/28/18
- Satan - Cruel Magic 9/7/18
- Acolytes of Moros - The Wellspring 9/24/18
- All Them Witches - ATW 9/28/18
- Allfather - And We Will Be Desolation 9/7/18
- Alligator Rodeo - Ghost in the Machine 9/27/18
- Arteaga - Vol. III Necromance 9/23/18
- Canyon - MkII 9/14/18
- Conan - Existential Void Guardian 9/14/18
- Druid - The Seven Scrolls 9/9/18
- Famyne - Famyne
- Grand Reunion - In The Station 9/20/18
- GRRRMBA - Embodiment 9/6/18
- Magmakammer - Mindtripper 9/28/18
- Kvasir - The Hanged man and the Emperor 9/22/18
- Shogun - Infintet 9/14/18
- Spacemetal - Shroud 9/15/18
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
2018
Rifftastic Death Metal that doesn't get too techie. Heavy duty stuff right here. Really good.
Misery Wizard - Witching Hour
2018
All the descriptions I see for this record say its Funeral Doom. I guess. I would think it's more stright up psychedelic doom, light on the psychedelics. I like it. Five songs, one hour long.
Lophius - Lophius ep
2018
Stoner Metal. The first song has a big build up that I kept waiting for the pay off, but it eventually just sort of kept grooving the build up. The three songs end up being some good rockin' out.
Idle Hands - Don't Waste Your Time
2018
The 80's. 80's style Gothic Rock. It's really well done. Like an 80's Metal band doing Gothic Rock that would fit in seamlessly between The Sisters of Mercy and some other band I didn't listen to in the early 80's because I was listening to Metallica. Good stuff here.
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
2018
Blackened ambient Doom. It's like going to church. Well done!
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death Meatspace
2018
Tristed bizarro noise/experimental/art punk. That's not to say that it's not accessible. Something here pulls you in and it's pretty messed up.
Uada - Cult of A Dying Sun
2018
Melodic Black Metal. Atmospheric bits. One hour long album. This is good, but their first album is probably a bit better.
Sergeant Thunderhoof - Terra Solus
2018
Proggy psychedelic rock. Nice variety. One of the better albums from 2018.
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
2018
Progressive Death Metal. The first song reminds me of Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes, but it changes back and forth to Death Metal. The album gets heavier. They mix it up pretty well, quite a bit of variety in the songs.
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
2018
Technical/Progressive Death Metal. One of the best albums from 2018.
Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
2018
Sombre, dark atmospheric. Otherworldly. Good stuff for your sensory deprivation chamber trips.
Vvlva - Path of Virtue
2018
Tasty 70's hard rock with keyboards and good vocals and good songwriting. One of the good ones from 2018.
Apostle of Solitude - From Gold to Ash
2018
Doom Metal similar to bands like Khemmis. This is one of my favorites from 2018.
Forktail - Forktail
2018
Layered spoken word and sounds. Two man project. Lots of textures. Interesting stuff. There's songs with tribal beats, but I prefer the "songs" without the beats.
Tribulation - Down Below
2018
Progressive Black Metal. Solid album. I prefer their earlier ones, but this one is just fine. Pretty tasty actually.
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
1974
Stormbringer is a great song then this album starts sinking pretty fast. It isn't even bad, it's just not all that good.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Voivod - The Wake
2018
I really like The Wake. I can get lost in it and realize how great it is. Also when I don't quite have time to get lost in it, like on my way to work...I think man, I feel like I've heard all this before on earlier Voivod albums, then I think, but this isn't even the same guitar player but it sounds just like it used to. I'm not saying this is good or bad and I expect Voivod to sound like Voivod. So, I'm glad they managed to make a great album this far into their careers.
Thursday, November 8, 2018
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