Church of Australian Metal

[Slammed]

I just went through M-A for Aussie full lengths from this year and there was 167 listed. Some of them are single person shred, or single person BM type projects where they've released 4 albums in a week, many are from bands I haven't heard of and some are from bands I didn't know had released stuff. I've got a list of about 15 things here I hope to find and listen to...thank fuck for bandcamp!

 

[CiG]

My Top 10 Australian Metal ov 2022, Mate:

1. Solemn Ceremony - Demise
2. Lucifer's Fall / Eldritch Rites - Graveyard Rites
3. Woe - Czernobog
4. Petrol - Petrol demo
5. Nocturnal Graves - An Outlaw's Stand
6. Eldritch Rites - Hell and Doom and Days Long Gone
7. Drownd - aNGST FiXaTioN
8. Faceless Burial - At the Foothills of Deliration
9. Ironhawk - Ritual of the Warpath
10. Flitcraft - Our Long Journey to the Middle

Looks like a fuckin' doom metal year this time. That Woe band features members of The Wizar'd and Tarot.

Just one listen so far but the new D666 album made me physically cringe at times. Weak as piss album. This isn't a wolf country, it's a dingo country you faggots.

 

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A couple of those are on my 'to listen' list.
I was never a huge fan of D666 so I wasn't waiting for their album, but I haven't heard too many good reviews of it, or the songs released from it.

 

[CiG]

My list is a bit premature since December only just started but nothing in my wishlist yet to be released was anything especially interesting. I only waited for D666 because they're such a big name, but I knew based on the single that I wasn't gonna love it. That band has veered right into cringeworthy political metalrock territory.

 

[Slammed]

I don't think there is anything on my list that I'm waiting for either, that includes from international bands. I don't think I've listened to or bought as much this year as I have in previous years, but I also don't think I'm going to go deep diving into hundreds of releases just for a list. There is a couple of Aussie albums I forgot about and a few I didn't know came out but that's going to be the extent of my hunting. When it comes to the other top 10 list it will more likely just be what I've bought.

 

[CiG]

Honestly if we included non-metal my list would feel a lot stronger. New albums by The Chats and Amyl & The Sniffers are easily my most-listened-to Aussie albums this year.

 

[no country for old wainds]

what the fuck is this lol

 

[Slammed]

Honestly if we included non-metal my list would feel a lot stronger. New albums by The Chats and Amyl & The Sniffers are easily my most-listened-to Aussie albums this year.

A friend of mine talks a bit about Amyl she's seen them a few times and always listens to their music,but I've never actually heard anything they've done.

what the fuck is this lol

I'll go with, What is something I wont listen to for $2000 Alex!

 

[CiG]

what the fuck is this lol

Australian Vegardcore?

Listening to the second track and this is some weird shit.

 

[no country for old wainds]

both reviews mention agalloch, boy oh boy am i stoked

 

[CiG]

A friend of mine talks a bit about Amyl she's seen them a few times and always listens to their music,but I've never actually heard anything they've done.

I think they're fantastic. Very rare that hyped bands live up to it for me, although I did get into them slightly before they blew up. Their new album is front-to-back fucking awesome and very relatable lyrically.

They found a way to modernise pub rock that doesn't seem too tryhard or vintage/nostalgic.

 

[Slammed]

I remember asking more than one security guy the same question and probably coming up with equally silly fucking excuses why I should be allowed it!!

Looks like two more albums I'm going to have to get now

 

[CiG]

I remember asking more than one security guy the same question and probably coming up with equally silly fucking excuses why I should be allowed it!!

Looks like two more albums I'm going to have to get now

Let me inya pub!

Lmfao yeah they're great fun, nothing super deep just a lot of energy.

both reviews mention agalloch, boy oh boy am i stoked

I actually didn't mind what I heard. Cheers.

 

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Aaahhh reminds me that I should watch Russell again one day soon.

 

[CiG]

Yeah same. I'll have to dig the boxset out soon, such a classic.





The Chats put out a real corker this year too. Way better than their first one, which was cool but felt a bit like a gimmick stretched thin to reach a running length.

 

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I love that 6lt GTR film clip.

 

[Slammed]

First of all @CiG Fuck you because you made doing my list harder than it needed to be by pointing out that I should have been listening to Amyl and the Sniffers. Every time I went to listen to something I thought I needed to hear Amy again first!!

Anyway here's my top 10, if anything else comes out before the new year then fuck em they should have got in earlier!

1. Motherslug – Blood Moon Blues
2. Apocalyptic Remnants – No Way Out
3. Flitcraft – Our Long Journey To The Middle
4. Remains – Grind Till Death
5. King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – Omnium Gatherum
6. As Flesh Decays – Dead City Cathedral
7. Woe - Czernobog
8. Battlegrave – Cavernous Depth
9. Apocalyptic Remnants – Eaten Alive
10. Terraphobia – Rise

 

[CiG]

Hell yeah good to know I'm responsible for that lmao. Surprised to see Remains in your list for some reason.

 

[Slammed]

I'm surprised to see half the bands on that list

 

[CiG]

Scraping were ya?