Teeth of the Divine 2015’s STAFF PICKS
2015. Another, goddamn, year over already. And how’d it end? With a major downer with Lemmy going somewhere else. Who do we have left? Ozzy? Rob? Alice? Anyone else? Damn. It wasn’t all that bad of a year though, even if the world seemed to become even crazier than 2014 — if Fox News is to be believed. Plenty of good music got released and what we’ve got here is a top list of metal related stuff that Teeth of the Divine’s staff handpicked themselves. Unlike most of our corporate overlords, we don’t outsource our opinions, enslave some poor bastards and build safety nets around them just in case they decide to call it quits. Actually, that’s not true. We’re not a hive mind, we enslave people to write for us but we sure as hell aren’t spending any of our huge advertising revenue to keep them alive. Ha! Anyway, browse around and find some worthy stuff you might have missed!
Will “BoneS’ Lee
Top 10 for 2015 (in no particular order)
Schammasch – Contradiction. Drop dead amazing in sound, atmosphere, production and at 2 CD’s for this release of dark, atmospheric metal, what more could you ask for?
Marduk – Frontschwein. Nothing to say but another stellar release from this black metal powerhouse.
Sanctuary – The Year the Sun Died. The first steps in the return to greatness. Almost makes up for the loss of Nevermore.
Tsjuder – Antiliv. Just adding to their growing formidable repertoire.
Melechesh– Enki. Mesopotamian thrashing goodness.
Lost Soul – Atlantis. Loved them since Chaostream and this is death metal with the tech done just right.
Overkill– White Devil Armory. They just keep adding the bullets to the belt. Age has no boundaries.
Shape of Despair– Monotony Fields. Dark, heavy as hell, expressive and beautiful but so uplifting at the same time.
(tie) Nettlecarrier– Black Coffin Rites & Djevel – Saa Raa Og Kald. Almost the same band but different aspects of the darkened cold filth of the early days.
Nile – That Which Should Not be Unearthed. Egyptian lore gods return!
Surprises of 2015
Paradise Lost – The Plague Within Not that they were ever truly “lost” (sorry) but a welcome return to form.
Honorable Mentions
Ibex Angel Order, Degial, Cirith Gorgor, Castrator, Invocation Spells, Infernal War, Swallow the Sun
Guilty Pleasures of 2015
Gruesome, Cemetery Lust
Still on the Fence for 2015
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out .I may be one of the few who missed/liked Rob Dukes in Exodus, I love the sound and the power of the band, but Zetro….I gotta get used to again.
Mayhem – Esoteric Warfare .Obviously this is Mayhem! Attila is singing. Classic stuff, right?….but why do I have a nagging feeling when listening to this?
Don’t Understand for 2015
Ghost, All That Remains
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I am a bit surprised (and saddened) to see the Sickening Horror mentioned only once, since this seemed to be one of the very few sites that actually reviewed it, and it got a pretty positive review at that.
Definitely some stuff I missed on these lists though so I will have to start digging through them.
on Jan 15th, 2016 at 04:35I reviewed it here but didn’t submit a top ten due to extremely part-time status. But it was one of the few metal records I liked last year.
on Jan 16th, 2016 at 20:49Erik thanks to you I discovered Vallendusk. And WOW! What an amazing album and band!Cheers!
on Jan 25th, 2016 at 07:49\m/
on Jan 25th, 2016 at 09:00