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...

1). Humanity's Last Breath - "Välde" : As majestic as it is crushing, HLB have pushed their sound to new heights with this cinematic and...

1). Fawn Limbs - "Darwin Falls" : Casting aside any limitations, far away from genre pigeonholing; the artistical vision of Fawn Limbs...

1). Iglooghost - "Lei Line Eon" : Whimsical shape-shifting soundscapes drag you into a world all of its own where Iglooghost makes the...

A lil category for albums that didn't really fit into any of the others but all shared one thing : their appeasing, calming and...

So it begins... The end-of-year list-posting. I'll preface this post by saying that I do not consider these albums as "bad". Who am I to...