GardensTale has assembled all the best art for his yearly exhibition. Put on your Sunday best and try to act cultured as he explains art appreciation to you filthy clods.
2023
![Crow Black Sky – Sidereal Light Volume 2 [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Crow-Black-Sky-Sidereal-Light-Vol-2-01.webp)
Crow Black Sky – Sidereal Light Volume 2 [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“Crow Black Sky’s second album, Sidereal Light Volume 1, caught my eye in 2018 for several reasons. Firstly, it received a well-deserved 4.0 on this here blog. Secondly, it came from a band located in my home (and favorite city in the whole world), Cape Town, South Africa. For those unaware, extreme metal is a tough sell in Africa. No established scene, no radio support, few venues, and conservative crowds. Any metal band from Africa faces an uphill battle from the get-go, which makes it all the more astonishing how many cool bands South Africa produces. Crow Black Sky are no exception” Early birds arrive late.
Stuck in the Filter – October’s Angry Misses
The October Filter Report is here and we have some interesting things to break down for you. Get stuck!
![Subsignal – A Poetry of Rain [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Subsignal-01-768x768.jpg)
Subsignal – A Poetry of Rain [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“Subsignal, the German progressive metal/rock outfit that rose from the ashes of Sieges Even, has gradually evolved from “a band I quite like” into “a core tenet of my musical identity,” and it pains me that they’ve never been covered on this site. Granted, even at their heaviest, Subsignal’s style of progressive metal leans toward gentleness, but they’re still no less heavy than some other groups featured on AMG. I hoped that after all this time their newest opus might get a full review, and I was crestfallen that we never received their promo. I guess sometimes you’ve just gotta be the change you want to see in the world.” You can’t stop the signal.
![Wells Valley – Achamoth [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Wells-Valley-Achamoth-01.jpeg)
Wells Valley – Achamoth [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“When was the last time something supposedly dissonant and avant-garde really gripped you? Maybe it was one of this year’s releases from Blut Aus Nord, Thantifaxath, or Rorcal. Or perhaps you’ve been bored since Obscura. Whichever the case, Achamoth, from Portugal’s Wells Valley has got to rank highly as one of the more arresting examples of extreme metal in recent times.” In the valley of the dark things.
![Dear Hollow’s Prava Kollektiv Collection [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Prava_Kollektiv_Splash_web-768x768.jpg)
Dear Hollow’s Prava Kollektiv Collection [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
Is releasing 5 records at the same time a good idea? Well, when you’re not a band, but rather a “kollektiv”, no one tells you what to do! Dear Hollow is here to fill you in on what you probably missed.
![Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – The Fractal Ouroboros [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Bull_of_Apis_Bull_of_Bronze-The_Fractal_Ouroboros-768x768.jpeg)
Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – The Fractal Ouroboros [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze manages to create a mammoth hour-and-fifteen length that takes its precious time before crushing your soul with calculated second-wave intensity. The swell and lull of its atmosphere has its time and place, thus lending The Fractal Ouroboros its immense but supremely organic feel, each track moving fluidly among its influences and giving each track a unique identity to fuse into the tapestry of the album’s pitch-black palette and atmosphere.” Bull in a delicate shop.
One List to Debase Them All: AngryMetal Guy.com’s Aggregated Top 20 of 2023
Listurnalia 23 comes to its close as a particularly perplexed and disconcerted El Señor Cuervo counts everything up and makes a list of the albums which garnered the Angry Metal Groupthink™ seal of approval. Needless to say, this year has portended some disturbing developments.
![Fvnerals – Let the Earth be Silent [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Fvnerals-Let-the-Earth-Be-Silence-01.jpeg)
Fvnerals – Let the Earth be Silent [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“While many within the genre drift towards the floaty, gazey, and even anodyne, my favorite kind of post-metal is the dark kind. Post-metal that uses resonant ambience, deep atmosphere, and echoing vocals to create a powerful, weighty sense of foreboding. So it was that back in February, Fvnerals, whose path and mine had not yet crossed, made me sit up and notice them. It seems that in the past, Fvnerals played it a little softer, and safer, with a mellower bent. But this time they’ve plumbed the depths of horror and melancholy.” Dread post ambient.
![The Howling Void – Into Darkness Ever More Profound [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]](https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/The-Howling-Void_01.jpg)
The Howling Void – Into Darkness Ever More Profound [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“The Howling Void is a one-man project from San Antonio Texas. Into Darkness Ever More Profound is their seventh album and first in four years. I haven’t delved deeply into the rest of the catalog, but the prevailing sound is atmospheric funeral doom. There are flirtations with more folksy elements and instrumentation, but the vibe is always slow and introspective.” Rage against the Void.
