Best of 2019

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I find myself listening to less and less albums, and stuff doesn't seem to get released that way as much anymore. But here's what I liked most album-wise for 2019:

Blutengel - Un:Gott
Leonard Cohen - Thanks for the Dance
S Y Z Y G Y X - Fading Bodies
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Felix Marc - Substance
Ghostland - Dances on Walls
Grooving In Green - A Second Chance
Angel Metro - Dark Days Bright Lights
Pulchra Morte - Divina Autem Et Aniles
Wires and Lights - A Chasm Here And Now
Blaqk Audio - Only Things We Love
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason (I'm including this because the new re-mix really gave a whole new life to what was kind of the one dated sounding Floyd album)

And the songs that are on my playlist this year:
Swimming - Wires and Lights
The Fortress - Felix Marc
Rain - The Purge
Blurred Visions - S Y Z Y G Y X
Leave Behind - Ghostland
Psychic Sobriety - Foie Gras
Cold Cave - Promised Land
Trauma Bond - Angel Metro
The Viles - Blaqk Audio
Space Force - Tragic Impluse
Providence - Ruined Conflict
The Guilt - Hidden Souls
Last Revolution - Culture Kultür
Morning Star - Blutengel
Dead Slot Machines - Yellow Lazarus
Masters of Destiny - Delain
Deadzone - Ladytron
We Could Go On - Harmjoy
Crack the Sky - Rave the Reqviem
Satellites - Felix Marc
What's Next - Piroshka
Alone Together - Ritual Howls
Curtains - Der Klinke
East of the Sun West of the Moon - Long Night
Murder of Love - Dissonance
Send Me An Angel - Blutengel
Command Machine - Delusive Relics
Soft Peaks - Pixel Grip
A Million Suns - Je T'aime
Thrill - New Haunts
Psychic Sobriety - Foie Gras
Sacrifice - Minuit Machine
Elegy - Hapax
Broken Pieces - Echoberyl
Maiden China - Vr Sex
Great Concerns - Lust for Youth
Entrenched Divides - Grooving in Green
Oxytocin - Drab Majesty
Guillotine - Jorge Elbrecht
Wish No Harm - Audra
The Other Side - Drab Majesty
Conversation - Lucy Rose
The Motherland - Ex Libris
One Day - Asylum Pyre
Caught in the Middle - Grendel
If Not Now When - Interface
Poison - Dark Water
Don't Cling to Life - The Murder Capital
Passerby - The Soft Cavalry
Imitation - The Ninth Wave
Breathe - Night Sins
Terminal Beach - Operators
Close Your Eyes - A Primitive Evolution
Made - Creus Lies
Empty Handed - Empathy Test
Drive - Wires and Lights
Mountains - Bat for Lashes
The Chain - Evanescence
Miss You - The Purge
Cry Little Sister - Ashbury Heights
Wölfe der Nacht - Erdling
Good Girls Do Bad Things - Lucia & the Best Boys
Black is the Night - The Damned
Let You In - Null Device
Sisters in Arms - True Moon
Amazing Paradise - Virgin Tears
Twin Tribes - The River
A Pleasure to Burn - NOIR
Ride on my Bike - Rosalie Cunningham
Just cut them up like regular chickens

Re: Best of 2019

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Top ten songs (in no particular order):
  • Borknagar - Up North
    Insomnium - Valediction
    Soen - Martyrs
    Belzebugs - Cathedrals of Mourning
    Cartographs - In Teal
    Slipknot - Solway Firth
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Waiting for you
    Aephanemer - Bloodline
    Rimfrost - Natten
    Refused - Malfire
Top ten albums (also no particular order)
  • Soen - Lotus
    Belzebubs - Pantheon of the Nightside Gods
    Borknagar - True North
    Aephanemer - Prokopton
    Refused - War Music
    Cartographs - Wilt & Blossom
    Bad Religion - Age of unreason
    Insomnium - Heart like a grave
    Victims - The Horse and Sparrow Theory
    Bewitcher - Under the witching cross

Re: Best of 2019

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woot!

here are new albums i heard that i enjoyed last year, in alphabetical order:
1349 - The Infernal Pathway
3teeth - Metawar
Bats - Alter Nature
Bethlehem - Lebe Dich Leer
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Bokassa - Crimson Riders
Darkthrone - Old Star
Daybringer - Disruption
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palilngenesia
Desert Sessions - Vols. 11 & 12
Drudkh - Кілька Рядків Архаїчною Українською (A Few Lines In Archaic Ukrainian)
Fen - The Dead Light
Fister - Decade Of Depression
Front Line Assembly - Wake Up The Coma
Gold - Why Aren’t You Laughing
Grave Pleasures - Doomsday Roadburn
Hellknife - Dusk Of Doom
Kayo Dot - Blasphemy/Purity
KMFDM - Paradise
Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel
Lo-Pan - Subtle
Matador - They Were Here Before Us
Mayhem - Daemon
Mgła - Age Of Excuse
MZ412 - Svartmyrkr
Oranssi Pazuzu - Live At Roadburn 2017
Pelican - Nighttime Stories
Queensrÿche - The Verdict
Rotting Christ - The Heretics
Russian Circles - Blood Year
Sarke - Gastwerso
Strigori - Abandon All Faith
Tau Cross - Burn With Me (wish we got the rest of this)
The Black Keys - Let’s Rock
The Bright Light Social Hour - Jude Vol. I
The Hong Kong Sleepover - Butcher & Bolt
Through The Canopy - Descension
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis

Re: Best of 2019

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TC wrote:KMFDM - Paradise
Oh yeah, I forgot about this one. I'll have to check it out. I think I did end up seeing just about every former member of KMFDM live last year. I'm not even sure who's in it these days.
Just cut them up like regular chickens

Re: Best of 2019

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i don't know. don't know that much about the players. just know that they seem to really have the formula dialed. every album is consistently as good as the last. if you like them, you'll like it.

Re: Best of 2019

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I know I'm a bit off the spectrum relative to y'all, but Periphery - Hail Stan gets my vote. Matt Halpern's drumming makes me feel like I was born with noodles for arms and nobody bothered to let me in on it.

Also, pick a time signature at random - there's a 100% chance that it'll be in whatever song you're listening to.