tectactoe: MUSIC: tectac's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2019

tectactoe 10.17.19	Go easy on me, the true depths of this genre are still relatively new to me. Here's what other 2019 metal albums I currently have in the queue: * Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race * Weeping Sores - False Confession * Inter Arma - Sulphur English * Wreck & Reference - Absolute Still Life * Deus Mortem - Kosmocide * Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond * Lord Vicar - The Black Powder
tectactoe 10.17.19	and here are the metal releases of 2019 I most hated (anything I rated 2.0 or below) just for a frame of reference: * In Mourning - Garden of Storms * Seizures - Reverie of the Revolving Diamond * Car Bomb - Mordial * Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire * Cloud Rat - Pollinator * Infant Annihilator - The Battle of Yaldabaoth * Tool - Fear Inoculum * Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue * Touch Amore - Dead Horse X * Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind * Lichmagick - s/t * Northlane - Alien * Wolves at the Gate - Eclipse * Soilwork - Underworld * Ihlo - Union * Artificial Language - Now We Sleep * Secret Band - LP2
NoHellsNoHeavens 10.17.19	> * Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire > * In Mourning - Garden of Storms You monster
tectactoe 10.17.19	I know in the case of the formal, the vocals were a big problem for me. Can't remember exactly why I disliked the In Mourning album so much, I'd have to listen to it again.
budgie 10.17.19	tsk not a single dream pop album. shame shame. damn shame
DoofDoof 10.17.19	like the top 10 but haven't listened to your numero uno yet
tectactoe 10.17.19	Doof, not sure how keen you are on ‘Sunbather’, but Aevum reminds me of a darker, slightly less melodic (i.e., more “black”, more black of a better word) version of that. Highly recommended. Listened to it five or six times the first week it came out, which is rare for me to do with any metal album at all.
OldCrime 10.17.19	Nice. Been enjoying 10 a lot. Haven't been able to get into 20 or 17 yet.. need to check 1. Hope you enjoy Inter Arma when you get to it! Maybe try The Offering.. But looking at your hated list you may not like the vocals..
tectactoe 10.17.19	Thanks for the suggestion - I'm willing to give anything a try once! And yes, the Inter Arma has been in my queue for a while now, I plan to get to it before the week is over! And definitely checkout Aevum when you get a chance, I absolutely love it, I'm surprised it hasn't gained more traction (only like 11 or 12 ratings on the site for it right now).
DoofDoof 10.17.19	Will give it a shot tect
Deez 10.17.19	Solid list but like...its October
tectactoe 10.17.19	It is a dynamic list that will be updated indefinitely. Just trying to see if there are any that have gone under the radar thus far.
Deez 10.17.19	Blut aus nord -Hallucinogen Skáphe & Wormlust - Kosmískur Hryllingur This Gift Is A Curse-A Throne of Ash
tectactoe 10.17.19	Check number 10 :-) Thanks for the other two!
Relinquished 10.17.19	Torche - Admission sludge metal with pop melodies
tectactoe 10.17.19	Torche is on my list to revisit with a 2.5, I loved the first four songs but was completely bored by the end. Hopefully I have a better reaction to the back half next time I spin it (before the year’s end).
Relinquished 10.17.19	yea they got slower cuts but as a sludgehead the tones are delicious and the t/t and last track are prime
Deez 10.17.19	Check number 10 :-) OOPS
tectactoe 10.18.19	I’m down for some more sludge recommendations, even from years other than 2019.
Deez 10.18.19	Indian - From All purity Thou - Heathen Noothgrush-Erode The person Meth Drinker - Meth drinker Iron Monkey-S/t Green Machine - D.A.M.N check Relinquisheds List he had a few sludge lists I think Booya https://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=290499&listid=141250
Winesburgohio 10.18.19	well yes but how do you feel about Gus Van Sant (seconding Meth Drinker and adding Toadliquor - Feel my Hate and obvi Harvey Milk - Courtesy and Goodwill Towards Men)
OldCrime 10.18.19	Meth Drinker are filthy.
ramon. 10.18.19	you listen to music?
tectactoe 10.18.19	only when i’m not peepin’ kino
Scheumke 10.18.19	I'd say check out Saor - Forgotten Paths
Egarran 10.18.19	That could actually be the first DSO album that clicks with me.
Pheromone 10.18.19	you like music?
Pheromone 10.18.19	ramon got there first
Egarran 10.18.19	Too bad we can't delete our posts.
tectactoe 10.18.19	'I'd say check out Saor - Forgotten Paths' Nice, this one's been in my queue for a while and keeps getting bumped down. I'll move it to the top of the priority list.
Demon of the Fall 10.18.19	17-20 for best part of the list, 3 is of course king though. Saor - Forgotten Paths (2) - (atmo BM/folk) Ceremony of Silence - Outis - (erm.. kind of like DSO?) Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance - (death) WRVTH - No Rising Sun (post black) Downfall of Gaia - Ethic of Radical Finitude (post black)
tectactoe 10.18.19	Thanks Demon. Have the Tomb Mold & WRVTH both at 2.5 - have listened to WRVTH twice and no different feelings, I'm just mostly ambivalent to it. I owe the Tomb Mold another listen, though (always try to give my 2.5 and 3.0 ratings at least two spins). I'll probably spin the Saor today, and have added the CoS and DoG albums to the queue :-)
tectactoe 10.18.19	Listened to Inter Alma - 'Sulphur English' this morning, awesome stuff. Upset that I slept on it for so long. Added at #8.
Scheumke 10.18.19	Nice! Let us know what you think of Saor, curious to see if you like it.
Demon of the Fall 10.18.19	Feel like I should check Vukari, did say I would.
butt. 10.18.19	18 and 7 rule. I guess there are some here I need to check
teamster 10.19.19	On the post metal side of things for 2019: Cartographs - Wilt and Blossom Novarupta - Disillusioned Fire Spotlights - Love and Decay PSOTY - Sunlight Ghosts Of Glaciers - The Greatest Burden
tectactoe 10.19.19	thanks for the suggs - haven’t spun any of those yet!! all added to queue.
tectactoe 10.21.19	Liked the Saor album [3.0] though not quite enough to crack this list. First track was killer, but I found the pagan/folk influences a little enervating by the end, and the subdued final track just felt out of place on a "metal" album, though I understand its purpose as an attempt to span genres. Good album overall, though, glad I listened to it.
Demon of the Fall 10.21.19	Loved the Saor album initially, those melodies just spoke to me. It did wear off slightly after repeated listening though, so very much something I instinctively enjoyed that maybe wouldn't hold up if overplayed. Really interested to hear the rest of his discog though.
tectactoe 10.23.19	Updated to add Mortiferum - "Disgorged from Psychotic Depths" at #3. Holy SHIT what an album.
OldCrime 10.24.19	Mortiferum is excellent! Also check Ossuarium - Living Tomb Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
tectactoe 11.05.19	Some big additions in the last two weeks: * The Great Old Ones - "Cosmicism" at #8 * Mayhem - "Daemon" at #11 * Weeping Sores - "False Confession" at #12 * Gatecreeper - "Deserted" at #16 * Vastum - "Orificial Purge" at #18
tectactoe 11.05.19	(Surprised the Weeping Sores album ain't getting more Sput love, seems like their type of jam.)
alamo 11.05.19	yup that in mourning album sucks balls
tectactoe 11.15.19	Updated. Additions: * Liturgy - "H.A.Q.Q." at #4 * Tomb Mold - "Planetary Clairvoyance" at #11 * Schammasch - "Hearts of No Light" at #14 * Esoteric - "A Pyrrhic Existence" at #18 I'm not hip on the whole Liturgy drama nor am I sure why they are everyone's favorite band to hate, but I thought the new album was awesome (haven't heard anything else of theirs). Also gave "Planetary Clairvoyance" a repsin after giving it a 2.5 shortly after its release. Not sure what happened, but something clicked this time and I loved it.
Egarran 11.15.19	That Esoteric is too funeral for me. I want my doom to be uplifting and joyous, like My Dying Bride or Solitude Aeturnus.
tectactoe 11.15.19	Understandable. Managed to put me in a decent trance, though, and stomped by guts out at several other junctures, so it gets a nod from me (for now). I admit I was pretty taken aback by that run time before I listened, though.
tectactoe 11.22.19	Added: * Blood Incantation - "Hidden History of the Human Race" at #5 * Rorcal - "Muldona" at #13
Egarran 11.22.19	How do you not understand hate towards Liturgy? It's custom made for alienating at least 50% of bm fans.
tectactoe 11.22.19	I mean, it's to the point (at least _that_ album) where it's hardly even "black metal," regardless of what they've appraised themselves as. It's like, I dunno, maybe avant-garde metal or some off-shoot of post-metal? Black metal influenced, sure, but to qualify it as such doesn't seem fitting. And so why evaluate it as a "black metal album" when it's really not? But I was more referring to the whole manifesto thing, which I'd only learned about a few weeks ago, and it seems a lot of the hate stems directly from that (I could be wrong, though). My point was that I am not hip to any of the non-musical drama surrounding the band, but I'm getting the sense that a lot of it exists.
MementoMori 12.10.19	This list is fairly solid actually. Check out Vesica Pisces by The Odious and White Ward with their sophmore: Love Exchange Failure.