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!
Nick K
1. Dodheimsgard – A Umbra Omega. Peaceville Records
2. Ahab – The Boats of Glen Carrig. Napalm Records
3. Kronos – Arisen New Era Unique. Leader Records
4. Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction. Metal Blade Records
5. Cohol – RIgen. Osmose Productions
6. Solution .45 – Nightmares in the Waking State Part 1. AFM Records
7. Skepticism – Ordeal. Svart Records
8. Horrendous – Anareta. Dark Descent Records
9. Wolfheart – Shadow World. Spinefarm Records
10. Hate Eternal – Infernus. Season of Mist
11. Evangelist – Enthrall to The Void of Bliss. 20 Buck Spin
12. Organ Dealer – Visceral Infection. Horror Pain Gorror Death Productions-
13. Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself. Neurot Recordings
14. Weeping Birth – The Crushed Harmony. Apatha Records
15. Myrkur – M. Relapse Records
16. Malthusian – Below the Hengiform. Invictus Productions
17. Glory hammer – Space 1992: Rise of The Chaos Wizards. Napalm Records
18. I Chaos – Masterbleeder. RITF Records
19. Desolate Shrine – Heart of The Netherworld. Dark Descent Records
20. Mgla – Exercises in Futility. No Solace
21. Baroness – Purple. Abraxan Hymns
22. Antigua – The Insolent. Selfmadegod Records
23. Ambassador Gun – Tomb of Broken Sleep. Self-Released
24. Abhorrent – Intransigence. Willowtip Records
25. Cryptopsy – The Book of Suffering Tome 1. Earhertz Records
Best label – Osmose Productions Some might find this a strange choice but I really like their releases this year. Cohol, Deathcode Society, Ad Hominem and Himinbjorg all put out some fairly well done albums. The fact that this French label has continued to find unique underground acts internationally for over twenty years is a testament to the diversity of the label.
Best EP – Cryptopsy The Book of Suffering Tome 1 Earhertz Records. At almost 17 minutes The Book of Suffering Tome 1 is almost a time warp back to The Whisper Supremacy Era of Cryptopsy. If this EP is a foreshadowing appetizer to what is upcoming then I greatly like the direction this Canadians are going.
Most diverse Subgenre of 2015 – Funeral Doom
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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