Post your lists here if you got ‘em. Mine will be posted within the next few days and nobody will care.
nasheim, funeral mist, maybe ultra silvam? Marduk? I forget what year shit comes so damn fast as the months zoom by
Put Summoning, Kveldssanger, Dead Can Dance, Nest, and some other neo-folk into a blender. The result is this. My AOTY by a long shot.... The first track deceives everyone because it sounds like another Ulverfolk ripoff, but then it just totally becomes something which is wholly unique and magical. I won't make an actual list, but the best of 2019: #1 = Wolcensmen - Fire In the White Stone Runner-up for #1 = Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings Nasheim - Jord och Aska In Human Form - III Mistyrming - Algleymi Vimur - Triumphant Master of Fates Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light Vukari - Aevum Tool - Fear Innoculum Vehemence - Par le Sang Verse Saor - Forgotten Paths Agalloch - Pale Folklore Agalloch - The Mantle Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia (listen to this album if you haven't heard of it. Imagine My Arms/Your Hearse mixed with filthy death/black metal) and ABSOLUTELY NOT "Old Star" by Darkthrone, because why are you doing this? please stop releasing albums
I don't fall for namesdropping no more but this being Marksveldt of New England I shall listen and report
I legitimately LOVE this album. I would be surprised if you didn't at least LIKE it (same for Erik as well...)
Fave of 2019 list to be chosen from, roughly in order of preference but not scientifically so Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen Nasheim - Jord och aska Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1: In Tartarean Chains Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race Funereal Presence - Achatius Darkthrone - Old Star Mgła - Age of Excuse Colour Haze - We Are Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing Kayo Dot - Blasphemy Mizmor - Cairn Sinmara - Hvísl stjarnanna Drastus - La Croix de Sang Musmahhu - Reign of the Odious
Tier 1: Creme de la Creme Body Hound – No Moon (prog/tech/math/instrumental) Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean (crossover prog/rock) Wreck and Reference – Absolute Still Life (lol) Car Bomb – Mordial (HEAVY mathcore w/ Deftones-ish flourishes) The Mercury Tree – Spidermilk (microtonal prog rock) Fire! Orchestra – Arrival (modern jazz w/ vocals & strings) Caroline Shaw/Attacca Quartet – Orange (modern classical/string quartet) Tier 2: le Creme Lost Crowns – Every Night Something Happens (RIO/avant-rock) Freighter – The Den (punky mathcore) Cloud Rat – Pollinator (grindcore w/ variation) Thank You Scientist – Terraformer (prog rock/metal) Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (retro/pop/indie rock) Chris Lightcap – SuperBigmouth (modern jazz) ni – Pantophobie (heavy/avant/instrumental prog) The Odious – Vesica Piscis (prog death w/ varied vocals) Solace – The Drift (metal/stoner/rock/doom) Orodruin – Ruins of Eternity (trad. doom metal) Pile – Green and Gray (noise rock) Tier 3: le Laite Mars Red Sky – The Task Eternal (stoner/fuzz) Thom Yorke – ANIMA (electronic) Caustic Casanova – God How I Envy The Deaf (playful progressive sludge) Leprous – Pitfalls (poppy prog metal) Angles 9 – Beyond Us (modern jazz) Gorilla Mask – Brain Drain (jazz with punk attitude) Harris Eisenstadt – Canada Day Quartet Live (modern jazz) Big Thief – U.F.O.F. (indie folk/rock) Stake – Critical Method (grunge rock/metal) A.A. Williams – A.A. Williams [EP] (singer/songrwiter/rock/gaze) Helium Horse Fly – Hollowed (dark/discordant/atmospheric/prog rock)
Ken's taste in music is so avant the 10 next big revivals are already obsolete to him. Think I saw some Ni in there Note to UM moguls plz get decent smileys again
Obsequiae and Borknagar were tops. Nile had a good come back. Alcest was pretty good. Rotting Christ had a good one.
Gaahls Wyrd and Nasheim and yeah Pale Folklore for sure. That's my Top 3 which I'll probably add to in 5 years or so.
1. Laster - Het wassen oog [still damn awesome] 2. The Chemical Mind – Beneath the Shadow it Casts [get a lot of maudlin vibes from here--although more blackgazish than doom,] 3. Laeitita in Holocaust - Fauci Tra Fauci[this band rocks, and dat bass] 4. Kayo Dot: Blashpemy 5. Nashiem - Jord och aska [greatt, with some katatonia bits?! 6. White Ward – Love Exchange Failure 7. Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen 8. Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings 9. Kaatayra - No ruidar da mata que mirra [such variety of riffs here, epic etc. etc. --- and the guy came out with another album later in the year--the embedded track rocks along than ends in epic fashion) 10. Mefetis – Emberdawn [black/death done very right] 11. Cara Neir – Part III/IV 12. Yellow Eyes – Rare Field Ceiling 13. Funeral Presence - Achatius 14. Ceremony of Silence - Outis 15. Mo’ynog - Dreaming in a Dead Language 16. Vaura - Sables -. Temple Koldura (found late in year, get ruins of beverasty vibes without the clean vocals, but similar dynamics) - In Human Form – IIII (found late in year, thanks mfj) -Cult of Luna – A dawn to fear Non Metal Billy Woods – hiding places Scorn – café mor Mount Eerie – lost wisdom 2 Thief – map of lost keys Suumhow – secuund Com Truise – persuation system Von tesla - ganzfeld
That Wolcensmen album would be better served as a Ulver rip off. Best track was the opener, eveything beyond was a tepid lull. Maybe needs the proper setting.
