It’s nearly the middle of the year. And what better way to celebrate than with a nice list of brilliant albums that have come out already. There’s probably better ways to celebrate this passage of time, but it’s a Sunday and I can’t be bothered. I could easily have expanded this list to a top twenty. But that seemed like a lot of effort.
This list will be alphabetical, for the sake of fairness. And also because it’s too hard to choose a number one. Sorry.
I first heard about Seidr via Austin Lunn’s one man pagan-anarcho black metal (a term used by the man himself, not just some madness I made up. Honest), band Panopticon (which is brilliant, check it out). Seidr is one of many side projects that Lunn has on the boil. How he finds the time to do this and record as prolifically as he does for Panopticon, I’ll never know.
1. A Vision From Hlidskjalf
2. On The Shoulder Of The Gods
3. Sweltering
4. In The Ashes
5. The Night Sky And The Wild Hunt
6. A Gaze At The Stars
7. Stream Keeper
Last week I happened to listen to this band whilst in the presence of my mother. “What the hell are you listening to ?!” she asked, I gave her the band name and she replied with “Pallbearer ? I suppose it does sound like being at a funeral.” I love my mum. It’s the slow, processional style that gives this impression. The sheer heaviness of the music. It’s doom at it’s best.
1. The Legend
2. Devoid Of Redemption
3. Gloomy Sunday
Bleak Metal 