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Which new releases fought their way into your listening (and your regard) during the last year? I wouldn't call this a Critical Top Pics. Some of these I found a bit uneven, but all of them had something that got me listening and kept me coming back. Also, it's not all metal, though the...

Thinking about this mostly because of a) Mikaei Akerfeldt's 70s heavy list of his favorite heavy metal-ish albums and b) listening the crap out of Fields of the Nephilim for the last couple weeks... While the '70s and '80s had their shares of great metal, I'd argue that the '90s are when metal...

However many. No ranking necessary. What impressed you? What did you play the crap out of? What caught your attention? For me...: Borknagar - Winter Thrice Fallujah - Dreamless Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust Be'Lakor - Vessels Insomnium - Winter's Gate Opeth - Sorceress...

Well, I got obsessive LOL. After Summer Ewe posted her thoughts about The Beginning of Times and the differences in how Tomi Joutsen sounded between recordings I started listening to the different mixes and masters for the Amorphis catalog the way that I did a while back with the Enslaved...

For all your alcohol related musings. Who knows, this might tempt Karhu back from his hibernation. Lord Luck sowed barley on top of Osmo's new field barley grew beautifully came up exceedingly well on top of Osmo's new field in Kaleva's son's clearing. A little time passed. Now hop...

Not even going to try to rank things or choose a "Best of..." because, really, I'm just going by personal taste here. Lots of good releases to choose from: Ahab – The Boats of the Glen Carrig Amorphis – Under the Red Cloud Enshine – Singularity Enslaved - In Times Ereb Altor – Nattramn...

Your friend who does not know anything about Amorphis asks you for three songs from the band to get a good idea what they are all about. Which three songs do you give your friend?

Okay, I've had it. I'm sick of Blabbermouth. Sick of seeing headlines dominated by gossip and manufactured band feuds and bands that are 20 years past any relevance. Time to get them off my news feed. So where to go now? Loudwire looks marginally more adult, but it's still too dominated by...

I generally don't see much merit in the heavy metal blog "Greatest [fill in the blank] of the [fill in the blank] popularity contests, but having binged on World Cup games and finding myself bereft of football for a while, I've been thinking about whether one could come up with a list of 32 top...

I'll start things off for the reviews of non-Amo shows... Quick write-up of the Deceiver of the Gods Tour featuring Amon Amarth, Enslaved, and Skeletonwitch at The Wiltern in Los Angeles (videos not mine). We always love going to the Wiltern for a show. It's a restored Art Deco movie...

Threatened to post one of these a while ago. In true Amo Forum form I expect this to drift between talk of the band's gear and talk of our own gear (and lusted after gear). Still playing my Hagstrom Swede, though it may be nearing time to take it in to a luthier to have it set up again...

As I understand it bands usually get help from their label for a tour and the other bands on the concert bill help pay for the cost as well, but when it comes to the tour the label, transportation, help, concert venue and promoters all have to get paid before the band sees any money. I hear a...

No particular order: Swallow the Sun - Emerald Forest & the Blackbird Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage Enslaved - Riitiir Katatonia - Dead End Kings Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol ...what have you got?