Our resident King of Enthusiasm and Trad Metal has much wisdom to share and it has been summarized and bullet-pointed in his Top Ten(ish) of 2023 for those of you who weren’t paying attention all year! Listurnalia rolls on, ever more refined.
Owlbear
Owlbear – Chaos to the Realm [Things You Might Have Missed 2023]
“Eldritch Elitist first brought Owlbear to my attention by mentioning the band in the AMG back channels, and it was a tip that I forgot almost immediately. Fortunately, I rediscovered the band independently after being drawn by the name and the album artwork. When I started the album, my heart was immediately set ablaze by “Fiend of Fire,” Chaos to the Realm’s fantastic opener and one of the finest trad-metal tracks you’ll hear all year.” Whose sword is this anyway?