There were a lot of good quality metal albums you might have missed, the following list contains a few albums that deserve your ear if you are a metal fan.
If you are a regular reader of this site, you love lists. If you like music, you really like lists. And if you like metal/extreme music, you REALLY like lists. Nowhere more than the metal community are year-end lists so valued and at the same time vilified. I can tell you from experience, as an owner of my own metal review/metal news site and one time writer for Metal Maniacs Magazine and a few other metal related sites and magazines, these things are a big deal. Around October, editors will start asking for lists. Then it's two-three stress filled months of labouring, mulling, switching, re-organising, re-listening and second guessing. And even when this golden egg of lists finally gets published, you are always doubting your list (and even getting requests from contributors/writer to redo the list after its been published). But when it's out there, it's out there, and in metal, fans are notoriously fickle, so you are opening yourself up to "DUDE THAT LIST SUCKS" and "HEY , WHERE IS (insert favorite band here)???. YOU SUCK. PLEASE DIE". My personal list has been live now for over 2 weeks and I'm still not 100% sure about it. So I thought I'd double the stress and do another list. After seeing all of the metal year-end lists online and in print at numerous publications there's no doubt that these lists had some consistency - you can bet that the likes of Gorguts's "Colored Sands", Carcass's "Surgical Steel", Deafheaven's "Sunbather", Inquisition's "Obscure Verses for the Multiverse" and a few others were deservedly on many if not all high profile lists from Rolling Stone to Pitchfork. But there were A LOT of good quality metal albums you might have missed. And the following list contains a few albums that deserve your ear if you are a metal fan. They either didn't seem to get a lot of attention via reviews or press, never seemed to get any year-end recognition or simply flew under the radar in a year filled with great, high quality and high-profile metal. As usual, this is my own personal list reflecting in no particular order, my own personal taste. Feel free to comment with your own albums, but if you disagree, What Culture are always hiring- come at me bro.
I am metal. I am so metal I ejaculate mercury. OK, love puppies, pro football and my daughter, so how's that for balance? I own a little metal blog called teethofthedivine.com and used to write for Metal Maniacs, Unrestrained magazines and currently help out with Hails and Horns and New Noise magazines. Yeah- I guess I am metal.
