The February Filter is all clean and tidy.
Angry Metal Guy
Hamferð – Men Guðs hond er sterk Review
“Like so many things doomy, Hamferð doesn’t move quickly. Back in ’18, these Faroese doomsters—fronted by my golden voiced arch-nemesis and all around begrudging ‘friend o’ the blog’ Jón Aldará—released their second album Támsins likam.” I heaped love and adoration upon it and them. And given my history of fickle tastes that shift like the wind, one can only assume that I hate the followup, right?
Record(s) o’ the Month – February 2024
February has come and gone and after obstructing vicissitudes and libations-induced impediments, we’ve finally arrived at that time: The Record(s) o’ the Month for February 2024. Praise be!
Record(s) o’ the Month – January 2024
The Record(s) o’ the Month for January are here nice and on time. Savor this moment.
Angry Metal Guy’s Top Ten(ish) of 2023
What, you thought I wasn’t going to make a list?
Record(s) o’ the Month – May 2023
The year rolls on and we get closer and closer to being up to date with the Record(s) o’ the Month. And what did we learn from May? We learned that death metal can, and does, still rule the roost.
Record(s) o’ the Month – April 2023
April’s Record(s) o’ the Month are here right on time, as usual! This month will be particularly contentious, so that oughtta be fun.
Record(s) o’ the Month – March 2023 [For Real This Time]
I mean, you knew that we had to set the record straight eventually, right? March was a fucking rad month.
Record(s) o’ the Month – March 2023
As things have gotten busier and I’ve struggled with a lot of different things, it’s true that there is a burdensome aspect to being the guy who’s always doing the Record(s) o’ the Month. This year, I tried to approach this differently. I intended to use Zadion’s stupid fucking comment as the kind of bulletin board material that keeps motivating a guy to keep playing even when he’s on the verge of retirement due to his bum knee and a skyrocketing K-rate. But the “diabolical façade” cannot march on.
Gorod – The Orb Review
“Gorod’s assignment with The Orb is to figure out how to follow up 2018’s magnificent Æthra. This album’s predecessor, which followed on a string of excellent releases, is among the best albums that I have ever underrated. But Æthra brought change and continuing on this trajectory, The Orb is the band’s first fully independent release. And that raises the hackneyed, obvious question: is all this change good, actually?” Won’t somebody think of the riffs!?