Steel Druhm summarizes his experiences on the recent 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise while downplaying and concealing crimes committed in international waters.
Kanonenfieber
1914 – Viribus Unitis Review
“1914 has never shied away from the ugliness of war and death. Since Where Fear and Weapons Meet was released in 2021, the Ukrainian outfit has witnessed the horrors of that ugliness on their own soil. On Viribus Unitis, the quintet from Lviv maintains the poise and brutality of earlier material while imbuing their latest opus with deft poignancy.” War is always Hell.
No Shelter. – Remission/Resolve Review
“No Shelter. is a five-piece from Münster that peddles in D-beat brutalization with a heaping helping of Boss HM-2 pedal worship. Its latest, Remission/Resolve, is a bass-driven freight train of Swedish-coded blackened death metal, crust punk, and hardcore, conjuring direct comparisons to genre stalwarts like Nails, Rotten Sound, and Trap Them. Can No Shelter. stand in the spotlight with some of the most vicious rippers around, or is it flying too close to the sun, wax wings ready to send it to hell with the rest of the copycats?” Entombing the unsheltered masses.
AngryMetalGuy.com’s Aggregated Top 20 Albums o’ 2024
“Here we are. The culmination of not just two to five weeks of hardcore listing, but twelve months of hardcore metalling. The AngryMetalGuy.com Aggregated Top 20 Albums o’ 2024 represents the cream of the crop, or more accurately, the cream of a small corner of a field containing some crops. Using the unrestrained power of manual data entry and a mighty spreadsheet, our wonderful little website compiles our numerous year-end ranking articles and the dozens of metal albums therein into one final, dreadful ranking.” One List to Debase Them All, One List to Find Them…
Angry Metal Guy’s Top Ten(ish) of 2024
Starting 2025 with a bang was always important, and I elected the “being 26 days late with your Record o’ the Year post” as the best possible way to give everyone that patented Angry Metal Guy feeling of waiting and waiting only to be smacked in the face with 5000 words that you disagree with entirely. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Executive Dysfunction™! Let’s make a list!
El Cuervo’s, GardensTale’s, and Eldritch Elitist’s Top Ten(ish) of 2024
Listurnalia rolls ever onward to glory! Next up are El Cuervo, GardensTale and Eldritch Elitist, each with a glowing Top Ten(ish) of 2024 to consider and study in depth. Have at them!
Carcharodon and Cherd’s Top Ten(ish) of 2024
Carcharodon and Cherd roll out their Top Ten(ish) of 2024 for all the metaverse to gawk at. Pay first!
Doom_et_Al’s and Dear Hollow’s Top Ten(ish) of 2024
Doom et Al and Dear Hollow take the stage to share their carefully considered Top Ten(ish) of 2024. Throw flowers.
Clowns, Fools, and Buffoons: The AMG Staff Pick Their Top Ten(ish) Records o’ 2024
Welcome to Listurnalia! First to shock and offend the fickle masses are the AMG Staff lists for 2024. Brace for provocations and prepare for bitter disappointments. We warned you.
Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe Review
“When I wrote up Menschenmühle, the debut full-length by Germany’s Kanonenfieber, in late 2021, I described it as ‘stunning.’ The storytelling arc that it achieves, opening with the almost enthusiastic bombast of the early days of the Great War, through to the exhausted horror of No Man’s Land, is incredible. Cast in shades of blackened death metal, I ended up crowning it my Album of the Year, calling it a ‘masterpiece.’ So how does one write the follow-up to a masterpiece?” With one’s tongue, apparently.
