It’s here! It’s finally here! Our top albums of the year list for you to argue over! I know you guys have been dying to get to this episode, so I’ll refrain form further exclamations and let you get into it! (Also, I hope you just read all that with the intended sarcasm.)
It’s less than two weeks until the end of the year, so that means it is time to start telling you our favorite (and least favorite) things from this year. As in past years, before we get our top albums, we have some other short lists to share, such as Best EP, Most Improved, Worst Albums, and more! Included in the “more” section is out Best Artwork featuring guest input form Mike Clancey, and this year, we actually are including the art for you to see! Imagine that…
Well, if you listened to these already, the go ahead. If you have not hear these releases, we suggest you listen to this episode before you make your top picks for 2015. Spoiler alert: At least one of these is changing out lists.
Reviews:
Pronostic – An Atomic Decision
Intronaut – The Direction of Last Things (Century Media)
Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering: Tome 1
Yautja – Songs of Lament (Forcefield)
For those of you that stuck around after last week’s oddball episode, A) we thank you and B) we overcompensated the best week could in this episode. We have real Metal pummeling you from all angles and in various styles. Prepping for the show this week felt much better on our end. How does it feel on yours? Let us know in the comments!
Reviews:
Byzantine – To Release is to Resolve
Ghost Ship Octavius – Ghost Ship Octavius
Frosthelm – The Endless Winter (Alkemy Brothers)
Unrest – Grindcore (Unspeakable Axe)
First Impression:
Pronostic – “An Atomic Decision” from their forthcoming album An Atomic Decision
While the slogan of this wonderful podcast is “The best (and worst) in music to make your ears bleed,” and we weekly review music that can cause blood to discharge from said orifice, we rarely get to play the offending music on the show because of legal ambiguity and your show hosts trying not to gain the wrong kind of attention. This week, however, that all changes. That’s right…this week we actually have music! Your three (yes, three this week) hosts still share their totally biased opinions, but now you can actually experience samples of what the hell we are talking about. (If for some reason you don’t want to hear the songs, just skip them…we won’t judge you…much.) We are very excited to be able to do this, and hopefully will be able to continue this going forward. We’re not going to make any promises, but we will try to make it happen.
Do you like having the music in the episode? Let us know in the comments!
Reviews: Byzantine – Byzantine; Paradox – Tales of the Weird; Pronostic – Deviated Inner Spectrum; Within the Ruins – Elite
