Calculate how metal you are using your fav album per year

[EspaDa]

Sunbather is excellent. The best blackgaze album ever IMO. Ordinary Corrupt love is more so the best album in a relatively weak year. However, it has some phenomenal songs like "Honeycomb" and "Canary Yellow." I gave Sunbather a 97/100 and OCL a 93/100.

The vocals on Sunbather wear me out very quickly, though. How 'bout you?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

The vocals on Sunbather wear me out very quickly, though. How 'bout you?

They sound like pretty typical black metal screeches to me.

 

[CiG]

2018 wasn't a weak year.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

2018 wasn't a weak year.

What were the great records in your eyes?

 

[CiG]

2018: Voïvod - The Wake vs Adrianne Lenker - Abysskiss

^

Also off the top? Portal's ION and Moloch's A Bad Place are still to this day never too far away from my CD player. Back in 2018 it felt like I was drowning in great music.

 

[challenge_everything]

2021: Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

Love this album. Probably my #2 or #3 from last year.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

^

Also off the top? Portal's ION and Moloch's A Bad Place are still to this day never too far away from my CD player. Back in 2018 it felt like I was drowning in great music.

Well you know my take on Voivod

I do like Portal, but didn’t find ION to be their best, maybe it’s worth another listen. I haven’t heard Moloch. Looks like it’s sludge, which I usually find easy to like, hard to love, but I’ll give it a shot.

Personally, I felt 2018 was one of the weakest metal years. 2019 was much better.

 

[Slayed Necros]

2020: Demoniac- So It Goes

Awesome album.

 

[redscot]

Love this album. Probably my #2 or #3 from last year.

Seems a sound fella too

Youths attack and ambush Sheffield man who challenged them for not wearing masks | The Star

 

[challenge_everything]

Seems a sound fella too

Youths attack and ambush Sheffield man who challenged them for not wearing masks | The Star

I was aware of his political views from his lyrics but hadn't seen that story, good on him.

 

[Bloopy]

Me when this thread turns out to be quite a success, with us taking everything we've learnt through all the metal and non-metal year polls and reducing our music taste down to single, almost meaningless numbers:

 

[Bloopy]

Updated my list for 2022 and oops it's another non-metal album. There goes 1.1% of my metalness!

I haven't been good at finding new music lately, but both '22 albums vaulted well up into my all-time faves. Can't see them getting toppled by any belated discoveries.