As time goes by I feel myself drifting more and more away from metalcore due to the often formulaic and predictable songwriting or...

This was a tough one to make given how I absolutely love each and every one of these, but that's part of the fun of doing these lists :...

Ah yes, the most fun, light-hearted and gleeful list of them all : 1.) Messa - Close : Three perfect albums out of three for Messa so far...

Almost scrapped this one since I felt a bit silly doing just a top 5 but these albums deserve their highlight. Grindcore is another...

Surprisingly one of the hardest lists to make, this year was filled with amazing death metal and I was gutted to leave out some of the...

1.) Enterprise Earth - The Chosen : This was 2022's most eclectic and inventive approach to deathcore in my opinion, bar none. Great...

Can you tell black metal isn't the genre I'm biggest on ? But hey, at least this year's list is more trve than last year but still not...

No I'm not referring to a group of fictional supernatural high-schoolers, but rather bands that don't quite fit into any specific mold...

Things are getting a bit electric innit : 1) The Algorithm - Data Renaissance : Granted this is not 100% electronic music, but so are a...

Taking it easy for now with my favourite "non-heavy" albums of the year for lack of better words 1.) The Dear Hunter - Antimai : The Dear...

Starting things off by taking a look back at the previous year and some of the fantastic music that somehow slipped past me at the time...

1). Vildhjarta - "måsstaden under vatten" : Vildhjarta have provided the perfect soundtrack to my experience of the last 12 months or so....

Given the various lockdowns and the live sector of the music industry staying entirely dormant for most of the year and the year before;...

1). Cult of Luna - "The Raging River" : A continuation of "A Dawn To Fear" 's slow-burning bleakness; the atmosphere of this could-be...

1). Between The Buried And Me - "Colors II" : BTBAM had some huge shoes to fill with a title like that and not only did they succeed, but...

1). Frontierer - "Oxidized" : It's been thrown around a lot ever since the album came out, but it truly is the most aggressive,...

1). Sentinels - "Collapse By Design" : This album pretty much encapsulates everything I enjoy the most in progressive "core" music. It's...

To be honest, I didn't really listen to that many full-on hxc records this year or most of them were either mixed with other sub-genres...

1). LLNN - "Unmaker" : Yeah, this thing could crush asteroids. By far the heaviest post-metal record I've heard in a good while;...

1). secret gardens - "Tundra" : Perhaps the most intimate and personal post-rock record I've ever listened to; "Tundra" can feel as...