Traditional Metal

[no country for old wainds]

good stuff indeed. a little bit low ceiling high floor for me tbh, i like a bit more ambition these days, but it's a tried and tested formula.

 

[no country for old wainds]

2023 TIER LIST (so far+subject to change)
HOLY FUCK
Savage Oath - Savage Oath EP

HELL YES
Protean Shield - Protean Shield
Sacred Outcry - Towers of Gold
Tanith - Voyage
Triumpher - Storming the Walls
Witchtower - Voyeur
Yaaroth - The Man in the Wood
Apolium - Live and Die with Honor EP

COOL COOL
The Bretwaldas of Heathen Doom - Summoning the Gatekeepers
Century - The Conquest of Time
Firmament - We Don't Rise, We Just Fall
Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
Jag Panzer - The Hallowed
J.R. Preston - Preston's Fantasia
Lord Mountain - The Oath
Lovebites - Judgement Day
Lucifer's Fall - Children of the Night
Night Demon - Outsider
The Night Eternal - Fatale
Owlbear - Chaos to the Realm
Project: Roenwolfe - Project: Roenwolfe
Smoulder - Violent Creed of Vengeance
Tyrann - Besatt
Voltax - Ardentis
Wytch Hazel - IV: Sacrament
Altar of Oblivion - Burning Memories EP
Midnight Vice - Midnight Vice EP
Spectre - Lonesome Gambler EP
Tales of Medusa - The Titan Sun EP

MID
Caprahed - Caprahed
Cavaleiro Dragão - Conhecimento Proibido
Darklon - The Redeemer
Enforcer - Nostalgia
Freeroad - Do What You Feel!
Galneryus - Between Dread and Valor
Heathen Kings - Fealty to None
Hellcrash - Demonic Assassinatiön
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
Megaton Sword - Might & Power
Metal Church - Congregation of Annihilation
Metallica - 72 Seasons
Millennium - The Sign of Evil
Rope - Rope
Sintage - Paralyzing Chains
Strange Horizon - Skur 14
Virgin Steele - The Passion of Dionysus
Violent Sin - Serpent's Call
Black Viper - Volcanic Lightning EP
Dolmen Gate - Finis Imperii EP
Iron Curtain - Metal Gladiator EP

HORSEPISS
Air Raid - Fatal Encounter
Angus McSix - Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
Blood Star - First Sighting
Elvenking - Reader of the Runes: Rapture
Frozen Crown - Call of the North
Gloryhammer - Return to the Kingdom of Fife
MDXX - MDXX
Powerwolf - Interludium
Rage and Fire - The Last Wolf
Rosslyn - Totentanz
Shadows - Out for Blood
Twilight Force - At the Heart of Wintervale

KAMELOT TIER
Kamelot - The Awakening

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Surprised the new Metallica ranked as high as mid!

 

[CiG]

Sus tiering.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Surprised the new Metallica ranked as high as mid!

it's actually a perfect split of a third decent, a third mediocre and a third shit to me. it's extremely low ambition and more black albumy than old-man-thrashy, which suits them honestly compared to whatever the hell they were trying to do on their first couple of 21st century records. still disposable though, if i hadn't listened to all that flower metal shit at the top of the RYM charts maybe it wouldn't seem so acceptable.

my main takeaway from this year is i only like bands from the 2nd half of the alphabet anymore. hoping the megaton sword will click at some point, hasn't really been doing it for me so far. stuff is more likely to get upgraded than downgraded though in my experience.

might do tier lists for some other genres too but that's a work in progress.

 

[CiG]

I saw someone say the new Metallica album sounded AI generated.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i actually agree with that, i just think that's better than it sounding like it was written by metallica.

 

[CiG]

Ha true. I've only heard one song, "You Must Burn" and it wasn't too bad.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's definitely in the 'decent' category for me, RYM track ratings claim it's one of the worst but RYM is dumb lol

the worst thing about that album is, as always with metallica, the production.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

might do tier lists for some other genres too but that's a work in progress.

 

[CiG]

the worst thing about that album is, as always with metallica, the production.

Yeah soul-crushingly lifeless bullshit. Lars' drumming doesn't help either. Such a boring cunt behind the kit.

 

[no country for old wainds]

reissue of dark quarterer's debut announced

 

[rms]

reissue of dark quarterer's debut announced

I swear SKR reissued this years ago

 

[CiG]

 

[no country for old wainds]

RIP pharaoh. not surprised they've split up after aymar died, at least they went with a bang. one of the best discogs of the 21st century for me.

 

[CiG]

Demo comp out soon.