“2020 felt like a year in which a lot of quality albums escaped our reviewing grasp. In some cases we simply didn’t get promo and in others we just missed the boat altogether because we’re fallible human beings. Count Inheritance, the sophomore album from Latvia’s Catalepsia, in the former category, and it was our loss for not getting our hands on this freaky beast way back in January.” Sleep studies.
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Steel Druhm’s Top Ten(ish) of 2018
We’re getting to the nitty gritty of the lists, and now Lord Protector Steel Druhm‘s list must be weighed, measured and accepted as gospel. Let no man question the Steel of Approval!
GardensTale’s Top Ten(ish) Album Art of 2018
We write about music all the time, so why shouldn’t we comment on the album art too? And so we proudly present GardensTale‘s Top Ten Album Covers of 2018! Bask in the high culture.
Record(s) o’ the Month – August 2018
“In the summertime when the weather is hot, you can look right up and expect AMG to get the Record(s) o’ the Month in late. We have lives, people. Like anyone else we want to dig out toes in the sand, swig fine craft ale and hobo wine and worship the sun.” Don’t let the sun go down on AMG.
The Eternal – Waiting for the Endless Dawn Review
“Long time readers of Angry Metal Guy Blogworks and Important Opinion Emporium, Ltd., know I have a soft spot for sadboy melancholic doom. This led me to heap praise on Swallow the Sun’s mammothly meandering, overblown triple album suite, Songs of the North back in 2013. In the fullness of time, I downgraded the original score on my Contrite Metal Guy confessional, and hard lessons were learned: Some albums are simply too long-winded to work as well as they should. Now comes Australian act, The Eternal and their sixth album, Waiting for the Endless Dawn.” Why the long album?