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Episode 208: Bring Me The Horizon, Atreyu, Pig Destroyer, Reflections 2015 Album Reviews

There’s Something Lurking in the Show

Yeah, we realize Pig Destroyer doesn’t really sit right next tot he other bands this week.  It was a slow week and we worked with what we had. (The next two weeks are filled with some anticipated albums.)  We’ll just chalk it up to the show’s usual diversity.  You’ll also probably be thanking us for throwing it in there considering a couple of the albums it’s between…I know we were thanking ourselves.

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Reviews:
Bring Me The Horizon – That’s the Spirit (Columbia)
Atreyu – Long Live (Spinefarm)
Pig Destroyer – Prowler in the Yard (Deluxe Edition) (Relapse)
Reflections – The Color Clear (eOne)

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Episode 118: The End of the End (of the Year)

It’s that time! Time for Brian and Nick to share their top albums for 2013!  And this year, there are more than ever!  After individually making lists of more than 20 albums (beyond 20 was largely undecided when they worked on the collective list), the combined lists brought a Top 25!! There were so many great albums this year, it was hard not make a list this long.  Realistically, it should be even longer because there are even more great albums that didn’t make the cut because of math, but there was just not enough time (and energy) to go further.

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So, without further delay, here is The Sideshow Podcast’s Top 25 Albums of 2013!  Feel free to discuss and debate (and leave your own lists) in the comments.

  1. Nails – Abandon All Life (Southern Lord)
  2. Byzantine – Byzantine (independent)
  3. Norma Jean – Wrongdoers (Razor & Tie)
  4. Nero Di Marte – Nero Di Marte (Prosthetic)
  5. Amorphis – Circle (Nuclear Blast)
  6. Dead Letter Circus – The Catalyst Fire (The End)
  7. The Ocean – Pelagial (Metal Blade)
  8. Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed (Prosthetic)
  9. Carcass – Surgical Steel (Nuclear Blast)
  10. TesseracT – Altered State (Century Media)
  11. Dark Tranquility – Construct (Century Media)
  12. Protest The Hero – Volition (Razor & Tie)
  13. Disperse – Living Mirrors (Season of Mist)
  14. Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal (Epitaph)
  15. Unhuman – Unhuman (independent)
  16. Soilwork – The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast)
  17. Anciients – Heart of Oak (Season of Mist)
  18. Audrey Horne – Youngblood (Napalm)
  19. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us is the Killer (Party Smasher/Sumerian)
  20. Lunarsea – Hundred Light Years (Punishment 18)
  21. Enshine – Origin (Rain Without End)
  22. Man Must Die – Peace Was Never an Option (Lifeforce)
  23. Weekend Nachos – Still (Relapse)
  24. DevilDriver – Winter Kills (Napalm)
  25. Old Gods – Stylized Violence (Forge Again)

Episode 79: Exit, Stage Left

Boy, do we have an epic episode for you!  Not only do we have a record six albums shoved in here, but i think this ends up as our longest episode thus far.  There’s a polarizing review of the new Killswitch Engage album! That’s followed up by the long-awaited (by long I mean two weeks) review of the raved-about-by-Kyle Russian Circles!  And then after that, Kyle decides he has had enough and jumps ship! There’s a Sideshow Case!  There’s Melodic Death about aliens!  There’s Polka!  Wait…what?  Yeah.  Polka.  It happens.

Also, make sure you stay tuned to the site for a contest announcement of how you can win your self a copy of Killswitch Engage’s Disarm the Descent!  And, as always, feel free to share your own thoughts on any of the albums in the comments!

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Reviews: Bring Me The Horizon – Sempiternal (Epitaph); Eryn Non Dae – Meliora (Independent); Hypocrisy – End Of Disclosure (Nuclear Blast); Killswitch Engage – Disarm The Descent (Roadrunner); Russian Circles – Empros (Sergeant House); Russkaja – Energia! (Napalm)

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