Album Rating: 4.5

That's a great way to put it Demon.



Edit: Page break RIP

Album Rating: 4.5

"pretty wild take bro and I like what you like. hone in on your favorite sub-g's and drill that well bb 2023 is overflowing with stuff to keep my ears busy if you pre-filter out chugspam and 2nd wave monoblack etc. Even if you only judged a year by the very best things it produced for innovating or personal favs this year is no worse, if at all, than recent imo.



see my lists for recs"



Bro sorry I hadn't read this. I think the main problem is that not much has stuck with me this year, I give it a couple of spins and then just get bored... Even with some of the stuff you mention.

Album Rating: 4.5

"Honestly a cringe take tbh"



Why you coming at me like that dude?

Album Rating: 4.5

@Azzazel



I'm not much into Blut Aus Nord, so I can't really give my opinion on that one.

Fleshvessel has its great moments, I know it's good stuff but it just isn't sticking.

I was honestly expecting more from new Rannoch.

New Blackbraid seems vey one dimensional, but it's a fun ride, problem is that it gets kinda repetitive fast.

Sacred Outcry... it would be shit without Heiman, and believe me I really wanted to like it.

Dodheimsgard needs certain conditions to be enjoyed and I'm just not in that state of mind now.

And Sermon is easily top 5 this year for me (at least so far), it offers a smooth listen, mixing is superb, it just flows effortlessly...

NeO never seems to disappoint.

Horrendous made a great leap with this one IMO.

Nebulae Come Sweet is a gorgeous release, I'm thinking of 5'ing it...

And I'm still waiting for new Stortregn to drop, but I don't think they'll be able to top their latest.



That's my 2 cents.

Album Rating: 4.0

Kostnateni is still my AOTY, but I haven't really heard anything that's blown me away aside from it and this one. Lots of perfectly listenable stuff mind, some of it approaching really good territory. The majority of it outside of metal, admittedly

Album Rating: 4.5

Piripichotes, out of the bands you've listed NeO released a flat out stinker turd in cathedral so not sure what you on about



Modern prog metal is a fucking travesty for the most part, imagine stanning it

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't understand NeO's appeal on the whole, myself

Album Rating: 4.5

Pika you hate The Ocean and BTBAM. I'm amazed you like this!

Album Rating: 4.5

"Kostnateni is still my AOTY"

It really is a great album... my only gripe with it is that some songs are waaaaay better than others...

Album Rating: 4.5

I love The Ocean



look at my ratings



I just like to meme on pelagial and anthropo because they aren't as good as the rest of their discography



And their new one kinda sucks too



But Precambrian is perfect

Album Rating: 4.5

also BTBAM are a joke and everyone knows that

Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound Off

prog sucks balls agreed

Album Rating: 4.0

btbam is circus metal

Album Rating: 4.5

"And their new one kinda sucks too"



We agree on that!

Album Rating: 4.5

"also BTBAM are a joke and everyone knows that"



party pooper.

Album Rating: 5.0

Finding new, exciting parts every listen. What a fantastic record

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

>i feel like this record is pretty decidedly tilted more towards technical thrash metal than death metal

I agree but I'm not sure how much purchase t-thrash has as a distinct sound for most listeners if they're aware it exist. Seems to subtly influence a lot of crit-hit records but t-thrash itself is less common/popular sans Vektor.

If you love this and haven't checked the 2020 chart topper Demoniac 'So it Goes' I'd remedy that as they have a new one dropping this week Nube Negra that will make big waves. Hellwitch return this year was dope too though no prog

Album Rating: 4.0

I also agree with the tech thrash vibes, it definitely leans more towards that than any of their previous efforts

Album Rating: 4.0

'Pika you hate The Ocean and BTBAM. I'm amazed you like this!'

I don't understand the correlation here.

Album Rating: 4.3

What the fuck? Lmao