Obligatory Mid-Year Highlights Thread

[DarkGift]

did you listen to the new anathema album johan?

 

[nizzon]

Yeah, it fucking sucks.
See my review on their forum.

 

[vikk]

^i just read it, and i agree. plus the mix. didn't pleased me at all. didn't even got halfway through. what a shame

 

[nizzon]

Stefan is certain I will like it with time, im not so sure this time.

 

[DarkGift]

they have a forum? wut

 

[nizzon]

Their old forum here at UM has been reopened after like 8 year in hibernation.
So fun to look up old flamewars, that place was worse than it is here, elitism deluxe and I was in the line of fire a few times.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Come on kids, so much good this year....

Nux Vomica - Nux Vomica
Dead Congregation - Promulgation of the Fall
Amogh Symphony - Vectorscan
Darkspace - Dark Space III I
Teitanblood - Death
Veilburner - The Three Lightburner's
Taurus - No/Thing
Blind Thorns - Blind Thorns
Electric Wizard -
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Indian - From All Purity
Kuolemanlaakso - Tulijoutsen
Muscle and Marrow - The Human Cry
Murmur - Murmur
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden
Wo Fat - The Conjuring

annnnndd that's just the good off the top of my head metal, there is so much more.

 

[Belac]

You have the most random taste in music.

I picked Blind Thorns at random from your list, I don't know what the hell I just watched but it was basically a bunch of noise over a highschool music video.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

That video is beyond stupid. The music, is awesome.

 

[Belac]

And do you listen to it as background noise or is this something you actively listen to and focus on? I'm legitimately curious

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Both. Depends on the mood.

 

[PowerBlade]

Nope it has been a great year!

Triptykon
Vader
Behemoth
Cannibal Corpse
Belphegor
Accept
Black Anvil
Grand Magus
Judas Priest
Ending Quest
Necros Christos
Misery Index
Vanhelgd
Skogen
Just Before Dawn
Wolf
Massacre

And still to come are new albums by Bloodbath, Exodus, Sanctuary, 1349 and Ac/Dc!!!!!

Of course you would put EQ in bold

Didn't know there was coming a 1349 album though, awesome! Also, isn't one guy from AC/DC in the hospital for dementia?

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

1349's newest is alright, not sure how I feel about it yet, though.

 

[(The bass player)]

So yeah half the year has passed and it's been a pretty fucking epic year so far and it looks like it will continue to be as there are a shitload of new albums to look forward to in 2015.

Albums I have enjoyed so far in 2015:

Archgoat - The Apocalyptic Triumphator
Marduk - Frontschwein
Venom - From the very depths
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the antisphere
Thulcandra - Ascension Lost
Entrails - Obliteration
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Gruesome - Savage Land
The Ugly - Decreation
Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis
George Kollias - Invictus
Undead - False Prophecies
Satan's Wrath - Die Evil
Unleashed - Dawn of the nine

And still to come are new albums by Nile, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Saxon, Slayer and Malign!

 

[winters epilogue]

I've enjoyed quite a bit from this year, here are some of the highlights:

Metal(-ish)
Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
Akhyls - The Dreaming I
Árstíðir lífsins - Aldaföðr ok munka dróttinn (released December 2014, but I only just found it)
Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
Jute Gyte - Ship of Theseus
Leviathan - Scar Sighted
Mastery - VALIS
Misþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu
Napalm Death - Apex Predator – Easy Meat
Öxxö Xööx - Nämïdäë
Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable

Non-Metal(-ish)
Andrew Hock - Crystalline Privative Opulence
Corpo-Mente - S/T
Doomtree - All Hands
Gamardah Fungus - Hidden By The Leaves
Insect Ark - Portal/Well
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Mamaleek - Via Dolorosa
mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
Noveller - Fantastic Planet
Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
Self Defense Family - Heaven Is Earth
Team Sleep - Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4

 

[PowerBlade]

I always think that I'm a massive music nerd but then I come on here... I think The Way of All Flesh (which isn't exactly new) is the only album I've bought all year long

 

[MadTinus]

So far:

1. ARCTURUS - Arcturian

Other interesting albums:
PARADISE LOST - The Plague Within (pretty good, but I'm not overwhelmed yet)
KEEP OF KALESSIN - Epistemology
TRIBULATION - The Children of the Night

I hope for some more true killers, so far there's not too much to cheer about.

 

[(The bass player)]

Oh I almost forgot Ahab and Metal Church are releasing new albums as well!

 

[griev0r]

I checked out a lot of the bands posted but they are mostly death/black metal. I'm more focused on doom these days, the new Electric Wizard was good but I dunno I think they went over the top with the in a long hallway production sound.

Really looking forward to new Swallow the Sun, but I've been out of touch with new music lately don't really know where to look.

 

[(The bass player)]

I checked out a lot of the bands posted but they are mostly death/black metal. I'm more focused on doom these days, the new Electric Wizard was good but I dunno I think they went over the top with the in a long hallway production sound.

Really looking forward to new Swallow the Sun, but I've been out of touch with new music lately don't really know where to look.

You and pretty much everyone else on this forum