Best of Post-Metal 2021

Jan25, 2022 by Dæv Tremblay

Post-metal is often slow and atmospheric, somewhat akin to doom metal with riffs, or post-rock with riffs. There’s been a lot of really good post-metal this year, so here are my favourites!

Number Five: Cave Sermon – Memory Spear

Australia’s Cave Sermon released a jaw-dropping debut this year with Memory Spear, an amazing atmospheric post-metal album with a tinge of black metal inked into it, which makes for a marvellous entry into our top 5!

Number Four: Daxma – Unmarked Boxes

Doomgazy post-metal with melodic female vocals over drawn-out chords and slloooww riffs. Is that what you want? Then … Read more

Best of Post-Hardcore 2021

Jan24, 2022 by Dæv Tremblay

Best of post-hardcore!

Number Five: Dead Lights – The Uncanny Valley

The new Dead Lights album is high production and high profile, The Uncanny Valley borders on metalcore with its heavy riffs and harsh vocals, but I made the choice to include it in the post-hardcore list. Whatever you choose to tag it, it remains an incredibly strong album from 2021!

Number Four: A Secret Revealed – When the Day Yearns for Light

Blackened, sludgy, noisy, and filthy, A Secret Revealed’s When the Day Yearns for Light is an amazing and disgusting album, one of the strong points of the … Read more

Best of Pop 2021

Jan23, 2022 by Dæv Tremblay

Let’s hear it for the best pop albums of 2021!

Number Five: Honne – Let’s Just Say the World Ended a Week from Now, What Would You Do?

I know next to nothing on Honne, but I was really hooked by 2018’s Love Me / Love Me Not, and here I am, in 2021, starting my top 5 of the year with this album! It’s the most straightforwardly pop album of the bunch, but it’s great, dynamic, and has a lot of interesting ideas! So, you should definitely check it out!

Number Four: Half Waif – Mythopoetics

I’ve always … Read more

Best of Nu Prog 2021

Jan22, 2022 by Dæv Tremblay

Let’s move on to nu prog, a genre that is somewhat obsessed with solo musicians and their guitars. Here are the album that I enjoyed the most out of 2021!

Number Five: Dzũng – Dzanca

On Dzanca, Vietnamese guitarist Dzung brings us eleven songs inspired by traditional Vietnamese folk songs. This gives the album a very distinctive feeling and sound, and I’m glad to hear these traditional songs, however transformed!

Number Four: Bodhi – Koans

Bodhi has been at it for some time now, and Koans is there to remind us why: melodies that stick in your mind, guitar … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

Jan21, 2022 by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 14 January

Acranius – Ruthless

14:01
deathcore
Germany
Independent

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Æthereus – Leiden

55:03
technical death metal
Tacoma, Washington
The Artisan Era