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)
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)
2022 is off to a ripping start with a ton of new releases worthy of your time. Below are a smattering we highly recommend. Eight Bells – Legacy of RuinI’ve been a massive fan of Portland’s Eight Bells since they dropped their debut EP back in 2013. It’s been six long years since their last … More More (Metal) Guitar in the Monitor – March 2022
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
It’s time once again for our monthly look at the metal albums that have been in constant rotation in recent days. This month’s selections seemed particularly dark as the days continue to grow shorter and the nights colder… Wolves In The Throne Room – Primordial ArcanaYou simply cannot have a discussion about US Black Metal … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – September 2021
Time once again for our pseudo-monthly look at the metal albums that have been in high rotation in the The Metal Dad household. Cerebral Rot – Excretion of MortalityWe’ve waxed poetic in this space quite a bit over the last few years about the renaissance that death metal has undertaken over the last decade or … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – July 2021
We continue forth with our pseudo-monthly look at some recently released metal albums that have been kicking our collective tails. Steel Bearing Hand – Slay In HellIt’s been six long years since Dallas death/thrash act Steel Bearing Hand blitzed across the metal landscape with their debut record. In that time the world has continued to … More More (Metal) Guitar in the Monitor – May 2021
Pandemic shmamdenic. Not even COVID can stop the flow of exceptional new music from reaching our collective ear holes. This time around we look at some recent metal releases that have us banging our heads extra hard. Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning Having come of age during the first true golden era of … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – March 2021
Our pseudo-monthly look into recent metal albums that have been in constant household rotation. Bone Church – Acid Communion First and foremost I should admit that there were few albums I was more excited about their eventual release in 2020 than I was New Haven, Connecticut’s Bone Church. I was completely enamored with 2017’s … More More (Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – April 2020
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