Teeth of the Divine 2015’s STAFF PICKS
2015. Another, goddamn, year over already. And how’d it end? With a major downer with Lemmy going somewhere else. Who do we have left? Ozzy? Rob? Alice? Anyone else? Damn. It wasn’t all that bad of a year though, even if the world seemed to become even crazier than 2014 — if Fox News is to be believed. Plenty of good music got released and what we’ve got here is a top list of metal related stuff that Teeth of the Divine’s staff handpicked themselves. Unlike most of our corporate overlords, we don’t outsource our opinions, enslave some poor bastards and build safety nets around them just in case they decide to call it quits. Actually, that’s not true. We’re not a hive mind, we enslave people to write for us but we sure as hell aren’t spending any of our huge advertising revenue to keep them alive. Ha! Anyway, browse around and find some worthy stuff you might have missed!
Mikko K.
The year went faster than I would have ever imagined, especially considering all the shit that had to be waded through. Music-wise, I listened to quite a few albums only once and with the amount of stuff released each day, it seems hard to invest yourself to repeated listens. However, for whatever reason, at least the following stuck throughout the year:
Kamelot – Haven
Kauan – Sorni Nai
Amorphis – Under the Red Cloud
Soulfly – Archangel
Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
Shape of Despair – Monotony Fields
And the few ‘disappointments’ that might have happened:
Sanctuary – The Year the Sun Died — was okay, but can we get Nevermore back? It’s really hard to listen to Dane without Jeff’s riffs.
Fear Factory – Genexus — Their best in a while, but that isn’t necessarily saying much.
Moonspell – Extinct — After a strong start, repeated listens didn’t do much.
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I am a bit surprised (and saddened) to see the Sickening Horror mentioned only once, since this seemed to be one of the very few sites that actually reviewed it, and it got a pretty positive review at that.
Definitely some stuff I missed on these lists though so I will have to start digging through them.
on Jan 15th, 2016 at 04:35I reviewed it here but didn’t submit a top ten due to extremely part-time status. But it was one of the few metal records I liked last year.
on Jan 16th, 2016 at 20:49Erik thanks to you I discovered Vallendusk. And WOW! What an amazing album and band!Cheers!
on Jan 25th, 2016 at 07:49\m/
on Jan 25th, 2016 at 09:00