Epicus Covidicus Metallicus: The GMD 2020 Metal Megathread

[Bloopy]

Listening to bands of a given subgenre that are new to me is like having a particular dish at a bunch of different restaurants I'd never been to before, only to find almost none of them appeal compared to the versions of the dish I've developed a taste for. I've figured out too well exactly what I like, so they have to either match that or have some newfangled point of difference. Unless I made a connection by seeing the band live or hearing them years ago or something.

And what makes or breaks a band for me is mostly the vocals, along with production to a lesser degree. All in a way that doesn't align well with what everyone else gets hyped about, so searching can get tiring. Being a picky motherfucker is a skill!

 

[Krow]

Eating the same food all the time is a horrible existence to me. I suppose I’m always trying something new. Even if it might be gross.

 

[CiG]

Based. Do you still go mushroom foraging?

 

[Krow]

Going around two years now with covid, my wifes pregnancy (and difficulties) and become dad I havent taken much time to myself lately.

I do occasionally still go. Last year seemed wet all year here.

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Greatest album of the 21st Century!

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Megaton Sword - Blood Hails Steel - Steel Hails Fire
2. Absurd - Pure Darkness
3. Ironsword - Servants of Steel
4. Witches Hammer - Damnation is My Salvation
5. Eternal Champion - Ravening Iron
6. Black Sword Thunder Attack - March of the Damned
7. Svolder - The Beast's Mercenaries
8. Solicitor - Spectral Devastation
9. Invincible Force - Decomposed Sacramentum
10. Question - Reflections of the Void

 

[CiG]

Damn, guess I should finally check this Megaton Sword band out.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i haven't exactly deep-dived the year but it's probably my #1 too, it's kind of shallow i guess but i don't give a shit when basically every song is huge.


question fucking rules as well. i should check out that absurd.

 

[Slayed Necros]

The Absurd's only two songs (both included on the 2021 EP too) but imo it's easily their best stuff since the debut.

 

[Burkhard]

Listening to bands of a given subgenre that are new to me is like having a particular dish at a bunch of different restaurants I'd never been to before, only to find almost none of them appeal compared to the versions of the dish I've developed a taste for. I've figured out too well exactly what I like, so they have to either match that or have some newfangled point of difference. Unless I made a connection by seeing the band live or hearing them years ago or something.

And what makes or breaks a band for me is mostly the vocals, along with production to a lesser degree. All in a way that doesn't align well with what everyone else gets hyped about, so searching can get tiring. Being a picky motherfucker is a skill!

I think this sounds pretty much like what I've felt like for the last 20 years or so. Nowadays, I may discover a new band I really do like every other year. The positive aspect of this is that it allows me to listen more often to the new albums I buy as well as to older stuff I still do love. I only have got time to listen to music for about 3-4 hours each day (a bit more on weekends and during holidays). I've got currently about 800 albums (metal and non-metal) and I listen to about 120 to 150 of them each year, to some only once, whereas the most-played get up to 150 spins (sometimes even more) per year. Thus if I bought 50 new albums each year (like I did in the late eighties/early nineties), it would be impossible to listen to them as often as the few new albums I buy nowadays, let alone to listen to older albums I still love as much as I want to.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

Going to get to work on this.....think it's worth doing. Hoping interest can be renewed. Would also not mind seeing one for 2021

 

[Slammed]

I'm tempted to throw another list up and see if I can confuse the final count!

 

[RadicalThrasher]

And So It Goes.....

Spoiler

1. Demoniac - So It Goes

2. Orion - Mysterivm Cosmogaphicvm

3. Draghkar - At the Crossroads of Infinity

4. Apep - The Invocation of the Deathless One

5. Autonoesis - S/t

6. Cosmic Putrefaction - The Horizons Towards Which Splendour Withers

7. Witches Hammer - Damnation is My Salvation

8. Molder - Vanished Cadavers

9. Evildead - United States of Anarchy

10. Macabre - Carnival of Killers

 

[CiG]

Main list 2.0 (revised autism):

1. Macabre - Carnival of Killers
Favourite song: "Stinky"

2. Repuked - Dawn of Reintoxication
Favourite song: "Morbid Obsessions"

3. Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock 'n' Roll
Favourite song: "I'm 14"

4. Undergang - Aldrig i livet
Favourite song: "Menneskeæder"

5. Void Moon - The Autumn Throne
Favourite song: "The Autumn Throne"

6. Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum
Favourite song: "Δt (Recite the Kriitiikal Mæss)"

7. Isengard - Vårjevndøgn
Favourite song: "Slash at the Sun"

8. Slave Hands - No More Feelings
Favourite song: "Forgotten Trail"


9. Malokarpatan - Krupinské ohne
Favourite song: "Krupinské ohne poštyrikráte teho roku vzplanuli"

10. Freeways - True Bearings
Favourite song: "Dead Air"

 

[SonOfNun]

I'm going to assume that Vanished Cadavers would top my list for this year. I was not keeping up at all so it would take some work to figure out the rest.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I was not keeping up at all so it would take some work to figure out the rest.

Do you want to borrow my notes?

 

[SonOfNun]

I'll have to borrow your glasses as well.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

I'll have to borrow your glasses as well.

 

[CiG]

@RadicalThrasher

 

[RadicalThrasher]

@RadicalThrasher

Yeah, sorry meant 2000. Was in the process of editing