The Top 5 List Thread

[CiG]

Top 5 EP's this year......so far

1. The Reality Machine - The Reality Machine (Finnish one-man multi-instrumentalist heavy metal worshiping the classics)


2. Phantom - Transylvanian Nightmare (ripping as fuck Mexican thrash!!!)


3. Sithlord - Jettison the Dead (Aussie Star Wars thrash masterminded by old Atomizer guitarist, played with an obsession for late 80's)


4. Sepulcher - Veins of the Void (waindscore thrash from Norway)


5. Dark Komet - Sci-fi (One-man industrial death doom gothic ebm blah blah weird shit from Finland)


Honourables:

Abreaktion - Bornhatred (Chilean thrash duh)
Evoked - Immoral Arts (killer Pestilence worship)
Goat Semen - Fuck Christ (black/death/thrash)

 

[Slammed]

I forgot about SithLord. Not much of a Star Wars fan but I did like their debut 20 years ago.

 

[Bloopy]

Bands with grotty names I've seen live:

Decepticunts
Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing
Goatfucking Nunrapers
Josef Fritzls Family Jamboree
Uncle Scum

 

[Cronopio]

All those names are rad, especially Girls Pissing. That one almost had ME pissing myself.

 

[CiG]

 

[Cronopio]

Wonderful. Glorious.

 

[Bloopy]

Cities I've seen the most live shows/concerts/music festivals in:

701 ... Auckland, NZ
100 ... Wellington, NZ
20 ... Melbourne, Australia
16 ... Hamilton, NZ
8= ... Christchurch, NZ
8= ... Tauranga, NZ

Saw my 100th in Wellington last night. I've lived near Wellington for about a third of my gig-attending life, but my gig addiction didn't really take off until I moved to Auckland so that's way ahead (plus it's bigger so it's got more worth going to).

3½ years later I've just seen my 200th in Wellington. Almost got there before moving back to Auckland 9 months ago, and then somehow there were another 5 to go to in one visit. Yes, I'm counting Porirua separately even though it's attached to Wellington like a mole.

775 ... Auckland, NZ
200 ... Wellington, NZ
24 ... Melbourne, AU
17 ... Hamilton, NZ
11 ... Porirua, NZ

 

[Bloopy]

5 films I think we had to study in high school:

Dead Poets Society
Edward Scissorhands
Schindler's List
Speed
The Truman Show

It's such a weird way to watch a movie. Felt sorta like being mentally challenged/suffering from dementia and having someone pause at the end of every scene to discuss the insignificant details with you rather than just the plot. Especially if you were away sick for a few days or the class ran out of time and fast forwarded parts.

I've applied varying degrees of my attention to 3 of them since. No interest in Dead Poets Society, but I should really watch Speed normally.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Top 10 metal songs I've heard so far this year, 1 week before the release of a new Mefitis and Demon Bitch:

1. Mega Colossus - Grab the Sun
2. Mega Colossus - Fortune and Glory
3. Vendel - Out in the Fields
4. Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Die Teufelsbücher
5. Hextar - Doomsayer
6. Grozov - Phantom Guise
7. Satan - Deadly Crimson
8. Hextar - Hour of Glory
9. Portrait - Voice of the Outsider
10. I Am the Intimidator - Gasoline

 

[no country for old wainds]

thought you said you didn't love 'fortune and glory' that much!

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I can't remember ever saying something that idiotic

I mean, it's a notch below 'sun but that "tombs of epic hidden dynasties..." section is one of the most spine-tingling moments of the year

 

[CiG]

I thought I'd done a metal songs list already, but I guess I tried at some point and just gave up.



Anyways "Everlasting Spiral" by Coffins is still my favourite metal song of the year and I don't really see that changing.

1. The Reality Machine - The Reality Machine (Finnish one-man multi-instrumentalist heavy metal worshiping the classics)
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2. Phantom - Transylvanian Nightmare (ripping as fuck Mexican thrash!!!)
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3. Sithlord - Jettison the Dead (Aussie Star Wars thrash masterminded by old Atomizer guitarist, played with an obsession for late 80's)
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4. Sepulcher - Veins of the Void (waindscore thrash from Norway)
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5. Dark Komet - Sci-fi (One-man industrial death doom gothic ebm blah blah weird shit from Finland)
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Honourables:
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Abreaktion - Bornhatred (Chilean thrash duh)
Evoked - Immoral Arts (killer Pestilence worship)
Goat Semen - Fuck Christ (black/death/thrash)

Here's a few more EP's logged since this post that I really dug:

Unsemblance - Insensate Lucidity (Austrian death metal with an avant-garde streak)


Dominion - Evil Control (Primitive and relatively unique USDM)


Father Befouled - Immaculate Pain (They've never sounded fresher or faster)

 

[no country for old wainds]

I can't remember ever saying something that idiotic

I mean, it's a notch below 'sun but that "tombs of epic hidden dynasties..." section is one of the most spine-tingling moments of the year

what you actually said was "Fortune and Glory would be like a 3/5 song if it didn't have that spinechilling outro"

 

[Vegard Pompey]

what you actually said was "Fortune and Glory would be like a 3/5 song if it didn't have that spinechilling outro"

I might stand by this actually, that gorgeous part transforms the whole song. When the chorus comes in again after it, it's 100x more starry-eyed and stirring.

 

[Bloopy]

Bands I saw live the most in 2021:
4× Fatdick
4× Gravel Pit
4× Ripship
3× Bodysiege
3× Mammuthus

More live show geek numbers. 2022 wasn't top 5 friendly - just Mammuthus ×5 and no other artists more than twice.

Seen live the most in 2023 (Ripship moved to Wellington, lucky me):
7× Ripship
5× Dole Bludger (Kiwis love band names with bludger in them too)
3× Old Man Pine
3× Simon Donald
3× Total Violation

Seen live the most in 2024 (but now I was finally based in Auckland again):
11× Brackenwood Coven
5× Exit Sign
5× Forsworn
4× ...a six-way tie between Cesura, Chlorine, Cyanide Altar, Ripship, Soul Stroke and Threat.Meet.Protocol