𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔢𝔩 - 𝔄𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔢 ℑ𝔫 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔲𝔢

fucking h8 how overproduced most deathcore is now -_- i wanna listen to more modern bands that i can actually yk. support and see live but its impossible bc pretty much everything good and worth listening to is either in the US or is 10+ years old and all the members moved on and got lives

TOP 3 Metal Albums I Enjoyed from 2023

A lot of great metal came out this year and it was hard to narrow it down to my Top 3. There were some great EPs released this year— Spiritbox’s The Fear of Fear, Brand of Sacrifice’s Between Death and Dreams and Knosis’s The Eternal Doom among them. Singles I enjoyed include: "On the Verge" by thrown, “Masterpiece” by The Anchor, “Enemy” by The Gentle Men (ft. Andy Cizek), “Weight of the World” by Harper (ft. We Came as Romans and Brand of Sacrifice), “Viking” by Slaughter To Prevail, "III" by DEATHPHONK (Nik Nocturnal's weird project); and Knocked Loose had the double, “Deep In the Willow”/“Everything is Quiet Now”.

My Top 5 honourable mentions: 5. [m]other by Veil of Maya, their newest does everything I want it to do, good riffs, cool effects, great vocals; 4. Soul Elegy by Termina, Nik Nocturna, Andy Cizek and friends deliver an awesome metal album; 3. Chaos Horrific by Cannibal Corpse is a strong entry and shows why they're still so loved after so long; 2. The Fox and the Bird by Ok Goodnight mixes folk, rock, metal and whatever else they want to create this really entrancing album; and 1. Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token is one of the albums I listened to the most because it's easy to put on when you're tired of being relentlessly pummelled by deathcore, but though its highs are super high, it just misses out landing on my top 3 because there are a few spots it lags

3. ...And Everything In Between - Unprocessed

Manuel Gardner Fernandes has quickly become one of my favourite guitarists between this release and Unprocessed's previous album Gold. The combination of styles on this album exemplify modern metal: bludgeoning heaviness, thumpy prog riffing (à la Animals As Leaders or Polyphia) and a mix of harsh and clean vocals. Despite the polish of these 9 tracks, some express such raw emotion and a ferocity that they really get me hyped up. The variety of tones and vocals kept me engaged throughout, and they blend and balance heaviness and melody so well. The guitar sounds so angry sometimes–especially the part of "Thrash" where Manuel beats the shit outta his guitar after screaming, "But you're just a fucking lie!" I love that. Other songs like "Blackbone" and "Die on the Cross of the Martyr" continue the trend of excellent instrumentation, the latter featuring guest solos by Polyphia's Tim Henson and Scottie Lepage. It's so well done and so engaging. In the short time I've had this album, it's become one of my favourites of 2023.

2. Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre - Periphery

When Periphery released "Wildfire" as a single I immediately bought into what they were selling. The way they transition through the various parts is seamless, the mix of vocal techniques and the jazzy interlude are all fantastic. It really captures the spirit of the whole record. Songs like "Dying Star" and "Zagreus" are also so hard. Periphery continues to show off their musical dexterity, and the band members prove once again they're not only some of the best musicians djenting their way through the world but as a collective they add up to more than the sum of their parts. My hottest take when it comes to this album is that I love "Silhouette" — it's like if you ran 80s soft rock and 90s/00s boy bands through a progressive music filter. I think they wrote this song and put it on the album just to prove they can do anything. And if Periphery is Djent, and Djent isn't a genre then why shouldn't they go in every genre direction they want to explore?

1. War of Being - TesseracT

In other years this top 3 could have been entirely deathcore or melodeath or metalcore, but this year it was djenty prog metal through and through. It's the music I gravitated to the most this year and nobody did it better than TesseracT. Daniel Tompkins vocals are incredible throughout, his cleans sounding particularly great on "Echoes" – giving us one of the best choruses before following it up with another great one on "The Grey". The album offers engaging lyricism throughout and the instrumentation is at a pedigree one would expect for a band in the vanguard of this genre. The album gives us atmospheric moments, synths, meditative passages before blasting us with metal. In many ways the whole album does what the best tracks on Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden do. Each song and the album as a whole provide an expansive experience. And that's why it's my number one. More than any other album released this year, TesseracT's War of Being makes me want to sit down and listen to it from beginning to end.

Other great albums: SUPERBLOOM by Silent Planet; Fatalism by Polaris; Feral by Left To Suffer; Foregone by In Flames; Ashen by Humanity's Last Breath; The Sin of Human Frailty by END; Symptoms of Survival by Dying Wish; and The Death We Seek by Currents.

Yeah I’m an adult, but that doesn’t mean the edgy 14 year old that lives in my head doesn’t fucking love it when the people parked next to me come back to their car and look at me weird because I have the window down and Lorna Shore blaring

Now I just make a hell for the new world

Dance with hellfire

for the love of god send me music recs. anything. the more obscure the better

It's so hard finding that specific kind of metal band where the lead vocalist sounds like a very angry demon growling from deep within the pits of hell but then the instrumentals are melodic and quite beautiful, sometimes normal singing happens

how's everyone else's mental state?

Confronto - Calvário

The other night my partner was winding me up for moaning about the lack of goth clubs and prevalence of emo nights in Sydney, so I played him some Bring Me The Horizon and he shut right up. The full version of Bela Lugosi’s Dead doesn’t seem so bad now, does it?

Fuck I just realized I didn’t post anything from the Lorna Shore show on Wednesday shit piss ass

The sound guy for Brand of Sacrifice was just having fun lmao

I love when people act like “-core” is exclusively a stupid tumblr aesthetic thing and not like. an actual suffix used for music genres <3

everytime someone lumps grindcore and deathcore together I want to blow my head off

I like how my Top Songs and Top Artists are completely separate from each other. The Top Songs are from my Late Night Vibin playlist that I listen to when when winding down at night while the Top Artists are from a mix of my Metal Remixes, Osmium, & Lunar Lander Rave '01 playlists and just listening to the albums.

Also, gotta love being in the top 1% of Korn listeners while never listening to anything newer than Issues. I wish they still had a statistic for how many different artists I listened to. That was always a fave.

applying to be the new host of my (by my i mean i work for them) radio station's metal show. would anyone like to give feedback on my 4 hour long playlist