The Top 5 List Thread

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of June 2021:

1. Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality
   
   Disgusting mid-paced riff-heavy death metal.
   
   
2. Darkthrone - Eternal Hails......
   
   Craggy true metal, Darkthrone continue to not give a fuck and keep doing their own thing.
   
   
3. Siderean - Lost on Void's Horizon
   
   Killer cosmic prog/tech death metal. Formerly known as Teleport.
   
   
4. Witch Vomit - Abhorrent Rapture
   
   Heavy as fuck death metal, crushing.
   
   
5. Warmoon Lord - Battlespells
   
   Epic black metal, melodic/atmospheric/symphonic without being limp-wristed.
   

Top 5 non-metal releases of June 2021:

1. Perturbator - Lustful Sacraments
   
   Awesome mixture of EBM and gothic rock with heavy synths.
   
   
2. Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee
   
   Beautifully textured pop album, "Be Sweet" is still my single of the year so far.
   
   
3. The Lounge Society - Silk for the Starving
   
   Nice little British art/post-punk EP.
   
   
4. Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
   
   Should be self-explanatory lol.
   
   
5. Emily Steinwall - Welcome to the Garden
   
   Pretty intense vocal/spiritual jazz album.

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of July 2021:

1. Galvanizer - Prying Sight of Imperception
   
   Devastating Finnish deathgrind that dips into groovy Pungent Stench territory at times.
   
   
2. Vouna - Atropos
   
   One-woman multi-instrumentalist funeral doom metal from Washington. Impressed me massively!
   
   
3. Hexorcist - Evil Reaping Death
   
   Seriously heavy death/thrash with an amazing drum sound.
   
   
4. Krossfyre - Rites of Extermination
   
   Finally followed-up their 2017 EP! Sharp and savage black/thrash.
   
   
5. Expunged - Into Never Shall
   
   That dude from Ice War has another band, this time it's basically Carnage-worship, but doomier.

Top 5 non-metal releases of July 2021:

1. The Flying Luttenbachers - Negative Infinity
   
   The gods of brutal prog! Could be counted as metal because of how heavy and grindy it is.
   
   
2. Anika - Change
   
   Really good arty dubby post-punk by a woman who kinda reminds me of Nico at times, but way more upbeat.
   
   
3. Shirley Collins - Crowlink
   
   Follow-up EP to her amazing album from last year. English folk spiced with field recordings.
   
   
4. Descendents - 9th & Walnut
   
   Nothing mindblowing but it's awesome to have one of my favourite hardcore bands back. Catchy shit.
   
   
5. Desperate Journalist - Maximum Sorrow!
   
   Nice alternative rock with a bassy/strummy post-punk vibe to it.

 

[AbelTim]

My top five William Friedkin films -
1. Sorcerer
2. The Exorcist
3. To Live & Die in L.A.
4. The French Connection
5. Cruising

My Top five Iron Maiden Albums -
1. Somewhere In Time
2. Powerslave
3. The Number of the Beast
4. Dance of Death
5. Piece of Mind

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of August 2021:

1. Diskord - Degenerations
   
   Bassy avant-psych tech death for people who usually hate tech death.
   
   
2. Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana
   
   Epic sound, powerful drumming, love it.
   
   
3. Nocturnal - Serpent Death
   
   Vicious cymbal-slaughtering black/thrash.
   
   
4. Nunslaughter - Red Is the Color of Ripping Death
   
   All the 80's underground sounds together just assaulting you with riff after riff of nasty metal of death!
   
   
5. Serpent Column - Katartisis
   
   Blackened mathcore except it actually works and isn't a terrible meme.
   

Top 5 non-metal releases of August 2021:

1. Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad of Dood & Juanita
   
   Stripped to the bone Appalachian outlaw country music and bluegrass, and the whole thing is a concept album so there's an even heavier than usual emphasis on storytelling.
   
   
2. Chrome - Scaropy
   
   70's spacey experimental post-punk legends still chugging along. Pretty heavy.
   
   
3. $uicideboy$ - Long Term Effects of Suffering
   
   Trapped out NOLA southern rap. Better than their first album at least!
   
   
4. Fragile - Beyond
   
   For anybody who doesn't know, these guys are a Yes tribute band that started 20 years ago and at some point started writing original material that is basically solid Yes-worship symphonic prog.
   
   
5. Stuck - Content That Makes You Feel Good
   
   Pretty cool art/post-punk EP. Their album from last year was also good.

 

[Bloopy]

First half of counting down my top 10 most fucked up/disturbing dreams, because why not? Well, you'll know why not if you read them.

10. Sitting in the back seat of a car while my mother is in the front passenger seat, and she's happily letting me remove chunks of her back with a barbecue fork and eat them.

9. Kate Winslet showing me her penis (first wet dream, sometime after watching Titanic)

8. A machine that shrunk people back to kid size, somehow powered by the skeletons of victims of death by snu-snu (known in my dream as the ancient practice of 'Cattling'), fossilised mid-coitus. The dream zoomed in on a skull with a crazy expression and I woke up yelling.

7. Repeatedly diving headfirst onto concrete from a height to smash my skull open, not to die but rather to spill some of the contents out to try and appease vampire(s) who were hungry for my bloody thoughts. The main vampire I saw in the dream was the husband of a woman who wanted to start a relationship with me, but I figure she was one of them as well. Anyway, I started seeing her the following weekend.

6. My sister eating a bowl of my richly-coloured diarrhoea (the colour matching real life as I'd gotten salmonella poisoning at the time)

 

[no country for old wainds]

how in the hell is this the bottom half of the list

 

[Bloopy]

Without giving much away, if my top 5 were real-life occurrences they'd certainly all send me to either prison or a psychiatrist. Or both. Tune in again in another few months. Maybe I'll have a bonus dream in the meantime.

 

[EspaDa]

These are very interesting and sinister-sounding dreams. You should consider visiting a psychologist, though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

or a prison.

 

[rms]

diggin' that new sturgill too @CiG

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Sick list @Bloopy, can't wait for pt 2

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of September 2021:

1. Lvcifyre - The Broken Seal
   
   Intense death metal, like Morbid Angel meets Incantation, kinda.
   
   
2. Suffering Sights - When Sanity Becomes Insanity
   
   Chilean death/thrash. FFO: Death, Possessed, Pestilence, Necrophagia.
   
   
3. Thecodontion / Vessel of Iniquity - The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event
   
   Not a huge fan of Vessel of Iniquity's side but the Thecodontion tracks absolutely rule. Avant-war metal.
   
   
4. Portrait - At One With None
   
   It's Portrait. Nothing mindblowing but it's still some solid M.F./K.D. heavy metal.
   
   
5. Hellsword - Cold is the Grave
   
   Awesome Slovenian no bullshit black/death/thrash!

Top 5 non-metal releases of September 2021:

1. Amyl and The Sniffers - Comfort to Me
   
   Vital Aussie pub punk, boiling with raw energy.
   
   
2. Maggot Heart / Okkultokrati - Split
   
   Even though Okkultokrati play a weird kind of doomy black punk I'm putting this on the non-metal side because I'm mostly psyched for the Maggot Heart material. Killer post-punk/garage rock.
   
   
3. The Doppelgangaz - G Pack, Vol. 3
   
   Consistent rap duo from N.Y. but on this new EP they seriously pay homage to the bouncy, funky west coast beats.
   
   
4. Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert
   
   Smooth, jazzy, soulful British femcee that excels at changing flows and storytelling. Reminds me of Bahamadia at times.
   
   
5. Charley Crockett - Music City USA
   
   Good ol' overly prolific Charley Crockett. He doesn't blow minds but he's trusty, never crap, always worth a jam.

 

[Bloopy]

Top 5 albums pre-1967 (that being the earliest year we've done in the GNMD polls)

1. Julie London - About the Blues (1957)
2. Barbara Dane - On My Way (1962)
3. Desmond Leslie - Music of the Future (1960)
4. Julie London - Julie Is Her Name (1955)
5. Jimmy Witherspoon - Evenin' Blues (1964)

Honourable mention to Karel Appel - Musique barbare (1963):



I DO NOT PAINT I HIT!!

edit: had to promote Julie London to #1

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1. Hellsword - Cold is the Grave
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   Awesome Slovenian no bullshit black/death/thrash!

I love that the band logo reads more like Heccsword.

 

[CiG]

I love that the band logo reads more like Heccsword.

Hecc Awaits!

 

[CiG]

Top 5 metal releases of October 2021:

1. Count Raven - The Sixth Storm
   
   The legendary Swedes haven't lost any of their socio-political bite. <3
   
   
2. Force of Darkness - Twilight of Dark Illumination
   
   For anybody who just wants to be assaulted by venomous riff after venomous riff.
   
   
3. Cult of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion
   
   Greeks worshiping the Greek sound dogmatically.
   
   
4. 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
   
   Melodic blackened death doom is now a thing apparently!
   
   
5. Hideous Death - Remnants of Archaic Evil
   
   Norwegian death metal demo that sounds right out of the 80's.

Top 5 non-metal releases of October 2021:

1. Tunic - Quitter
   
   Canadian noise rock/post-punk. My recent sadboi vibes.
   
   
2. :Of the Wand & the Moon: - Your Love Can't Hold This Wreath of Sorrow
   
   One of those albums where I love half the songs and the other half I just kinda like. But it also feels like a grower. Great neofolk.
   
   
3. Hologram - No Longer Human
   
   DC hardcore punk that sounds feral.
   
   
4. Kohti tuhoa - Väkivaltaa
   
   Solid Finnish crustcore.
   
   
5. Spy - Habitual Offender
   
   Cali hardcore that sounds pretty classic.

I fell behind with non-metal a bit last month. Still need to hear the new records by Lana Del Rey, Yes, Hard-Ons, JPEGMAFIA and Lil Ugly Mane's new hypnagogic pop album sounds intriguing.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

1. 1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet
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   Melodic blackened death doom is now a thing apparently!

I've seen this album mentioned several times and I'm only now realizing this is a different band than that boring black metal band 1349. Naming your band after a year is stupid.

Maybe I'll check it out now though, your description sounds intriguing.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i really need to revisit 1349, some of my rym friends say they’re actually very weird and DHG influenced and the rep of being generic is way off.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

i really need to revisit 1349, some of my rym friends say they’re actually very weird and DHG influenced and the rep of being generic is way off.

I've been hearing some high praise for their recent album "Where Fear and Weapons Meet".

 

[challenge_everything]

i really need to revisit 1349, some of my rym friends say they’re actually very weird and DHG influenced and the rep of being generic is way off.

Your friends are fucking with you mate