This has become one of my favorite annual exercises on this site. Taking a look back at 25 albums that came out 25 years ago is a sometimes fascinating and humbling experience. Fascinating, because I more often than not, can’t believe these albums are actually 25 years old. Humbling because I feel privileged enough to … More 2000: 25 Heavy Albums From 25 Years Ago
Welcome to part two of our annual year-end metal list, where we count down our Top 20 favorite metal albums of 2024. As I mentioned in the previous post this top 40 list culls together my personal favorite albums of the year. In no world would I pretend to have listened to enough new music … More Top Metal Albums 2024: Part 2 (20-1)
Hard to believe its been almost a full year since I posted anything at all on this blog. I have no excuses except that other things took priority in 2024. What remained a priority though was consuming as much new metal music as time allowed. What you’ll find here is the first half of our … More Top Metal Albums 2024: Part 1 (40-21)
My promise to myself in 2024 was to post more than I did last year. (At least more than just archived Fiendish Five episodes, of which there are still a bunch to go up.) We’ll start with one of my favorite annual exercises, in which we look back at 25 metal albums celebrating their 25th … More 1999: 25 Heavy Albums From 25 Years Ago
Welcome to the final part in our series looking back at our favorite metal albums of 2023. You can find Part 1 (40-21) and Part 2 (20-11) here on the site, and don’t forget you can check out some of our favorite tracks from the top 20 over at The Metal Dad Radio Show. … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 3 (10-1)
Welcome back to Part II of our series unveiling our Top 40 Metal Albums of 2023. Make sure you check out the first part of the series counting down 40 through 21. You can also hear tracks from the below albums over at this past week’s Metal Dad Radio Show. 20. Nixil – From … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 2 (20-11)
Please don’t let the utter lack of album reviews on the blog this year be mistaken for me not listening to any new music. The lack of reviews (which will be remedied in 2024) was due to a host of external factors. The flow of new music never stopped, so much so that this annual … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 1 (40-21)
Years ago I used to write for a blog called Lonesome Noise and we’d take turns writing pieces we dubbed “The Silver Chronicles” where we’d wax poetic about albums turning 25 years old that year. I loved it. It was one of my favorite exercises because it not only forced me to re-examine an album … More 1998: 25 Heavy Albums from 25 Years Ago
Welcome to our fourth and final installment of our Top Metal Albums of 2022 list. Thanks to those who have been following along and if you missed any part of the list you can find them here: Part 1 (40-31), Part 2 (30-21), Part 3 (20-11). If you’d also like to hear tracks from the … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 4 (10 – 1)
Part three of our year-end metal list brings us into to the top 20. If you want to hear songs from these albums you can check out the first part of our two-part year-end Metal Dad Radio Show here: Cygnus Radio Also feel free to check out the first two parts of this series here: … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 3 (20-11)
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