For quite awhile now I’ve been publishing a list of my favorite albums released by Connecticut artists. I do this as a way to celebrate what I think is an absolutely stellar music scene here in my home state. In four of the previous five years I’ve been lucky enough to have this list show … More Top Connecticut Albums of 2022
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)
Welcome to part two of our four-part series counting down our top metal album of 2022. You can find part one (and a brief explanation as to why I broke this up into four parts) here: Top Metal Albums Part 1 30. Dark Meditation – Polluted Temples One of my favorite debut full-length’s of … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 2 (30-21)
There are approximately 80 quadrillion year-end lists that flood the interwebs every year. I recognize that and fully recognize that this list probably matters way more to me more than it does anyone reading it (or appearing on it for that matter). However, my desire to share the music I love with my fellow connoisseurs … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 1 (40-31)
Every year in this space we post our favorite metal albums of the year. This Top 40 list is accompanied by a two-part episode of The Metal Dad Radio Show where we play tracks from our personal Top 20. Unfortunately, depending on which one posts first it renders the other a little anticlimactic. So this … More The Metal Dad’s Top Metal Albums of 2021
In previous years I was very strict in my belief that any ‘best of’ list should be reserved for full-length albums. While, I maintained that rule for the three lists we already posted in 2020 – Connecticut albums, Metal albums, and Americana albums – the amount of stellar EPs I found myself gravitating to this … More 2020 Non-Metal EPs of the Year
In past years we’ve done a companion year-end list to our annual heavy metal one where we dump everything else “non-metal” into one bucket. It always wound up being a smorgasbord of genres – country, folk, blues, indie rock, neo-classical – you name it, it was probably represented. This year I decided to switch things … More 2020 Americana Albums of the Year
While the Covid Times hung over everything like the darkest pall, the metal world thankfully kept churning out noteworthy albums. What follows below is my personal list of my favorite full-length release from this past calendar year. While I’m loathe to call this a “best of” list simply because I’m one person and can’t possibly … More 2020 Metal Albums of the Year
For the last couple years I was tasked with putting together a list similar to this one for the Hartford Courant. Knowing in advance that I would be assigned this monumental task I made a special effort to scour the web and listen to literally every Connecticut-based album I could find across every genre imaginable. … More 2020 Connecticut Albums of the Year
The Metal Dad 