Stockholm Syndrome
We follow with three bands this week to see how their latest releases strike us. Do they hold our attention and have us defending them? Or do we want to break free and move on with our lives?
Reviews:
Amon Amarth – Berserker (Metal Blade)
Grand Magus – Wolf God (Nuclear Blast)
October Tide – In Splendor Below (Agonia)
The show is in rare form this week. Your normally agreeable hosts did not give any of this week’s albums the same rating. Did we greatly disagree on any of them? Did we fight over these albums? Well, all of your questions will be answered once you listen to the episode.
Reviews:
Kvelertak – Nattesferd (Roadrunner)
Hatebreed – The Concrete Confessional (Nuclear Blast)
Grand Magus – Sword Songs (Nuclear Blast)
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As promised, this week’s show is about our supplemental lists. A prelude, if you will, to the top albums of the year. We trimmed the fat this year, so we only have six categories (yeah, there was more), including Best EP, Most Disappointing, and Best Art. As in years past, the latter is done with a guest appearance from our good friend and kinda-in-house artist Mike Clancey. Feel free to share your picks – or argue with ours – in the comments!
(Just a reminder: For those of you doing your last minute Christmas shopping on Amazon – which we know some of you are doing – please go there through one of the album links on the side. That simple click-through will help keep this podcast up and running. Thanks!)
Alright, since this is going up really late, I’ll keep this short. We have four brandy new albums with four cool-ass songs to go with them. We also have two live reviews from Brian’s recent ventures into NYC. All that info is below. Get listening! (And sorry for the slackin’ in postin’.)
Reviews: Behemoth – The Satanist (Metal Blade); Exmortus – Slave to the Sword (Prosthetic); Grand Magus – Triumph and Power (Nuclear Blast); Junius – Days of the Fallen Sun (Prosthetic)
Live Reviews: “World Construct Tour” feat. Dark Tranquillity, Omnium Gatherum, Exmortus @ Stage 48, New York, NY on February 3, 2014; “Deceiver of the Gods Tour” feat. Amon Amarth, Enslaved, Skeletonwitch @ Irving Plaza, New York, NY on February 4, 2014
As anybody who has listened to this show a few times knows, I HATE doing these damn lists. You and I both know the main reason is because I am extremely indecisive. However, I also detest them because no matter how long I make the list (Kyle gets angry when I do more than 10) I still feel like I am slighting albums that don’t deserve it. Then out of the albums I do pick, I have to split hairs over which ones I like more than others only to come up with a list I am not even sure I 100% agree with! In the end, I have to get something together and just say, “Screw it. It’s close enough.”
