Dear all,
I would like to start by thanking our dedicated (growing number of) followers for listening, liking and sharing our anniversaries and reviews throughout Facebook! The casual comments on how these posts remind you of the good ol’ days or that you discovered an album through our page really motivates us every day to keep the content coming!
It’s been a great year with some amazing gigs, inspiring festivals and mind blowing music. By engulfing ourselves in what we love most (music! music! music!) we meet new like minded people everyday, be it IRL or through the world wide web strings that bind us. Sure we’ve had a few hecklers this year trying to ban our page and some pages copying our work but we kinda see that as a compliment and the real credit goes out to the artists that inspired this page in the first place.
My wishes for 2020 are that we keep supporting the underground and on a worldly scale:
Pull the trigger,
Bend the bow,
Wield your mighty lances!
It's time for new tales of resistance!
Lyrics from “Raise the Flails” – Behold Sedition Plainsong by Dawn Ray’d
Without further ado, here’s my bestest of 2019!
Best Compilation
Riffs for Reproductive Justice by Various Artists
Genre: black metal, death metal, extreme metal, punk, grindcore, hardcore
Release date: July 2, 2019
Label: independent (Black Flags Over Brooklyn)
Best Collaboration
Curse These Metal Hands by Pijn & Conjurer
Origin: UK
Genre: sludge, doom, post-metal, post-rock, progressive
Release date: August 16, 2019
Label: Holy Roar Records
Best Split
Origin: Poland
Genre: heavy psych, stoner, doom
Release date: February 1, 2019
Label: independent
Best albums top 20
#20 Pressed in the Earth by Mar
Origin: Providence, Rhode Island
Genre: doom, noise, punk, sludge
Release date: January 20, 2019
Label: independent
#19 Jupiter by Reka
Origin: Moscow, Russia
Genre: punk, post-hardcore, post-metal, post-rock, sludge
Release date: April 19, 2019
Label: Moment of Collapse Records
Origin: Nantes, France
Genre: black metal, death metal, doom, post-hardcore, sludge, shoegaze
Release date: March 1, 2019
Label: Sleeping Church Records, Sludgelord Records
Origin: Copenhagen, Denmark
Genre: doom, punk, sludge
Release date: August 2, 2018
Label: Wargame Records
Origin: Wellington, New Zealand
Genre: fuzz, psychedelic
Release date: June 21, 2019
Label: Stolen Body Records
Origin: Oslo, Norway
Genre: doom, sludge, stoner, progressive
Release date: November 1, 2019
Label: Fysisk Format
Origin: Tacoma, Washington, US
Genre: metalcore, punk, hardcore
Release date: January 12, 2019
Label: Independent
#13 slake by WOORMS
Origin: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Genre: sludge, postmetal, punk, noise
Release date: January 18, 2019
Label: Sludgelord Records
Origin: Los Angeles, California, US
Genre: doom, psychedelic, stoner, heavy metal
Release date: January 10, 2019
Label: King Volume Records
#11 Glorify by Diploid
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Genre: grindcore, blackgaze, experimental, hardcorepunk, noise, screamo
Release date: November 22, 2019
Label: Art As Catharsis Records, Black Wire Records, Lacklustre Records
Origin: Melbourne, Australia
Genre: doom, psychedelic, stoner
Release date: October 18, 2019
Label: RidingEasy Records
Origin: Lille, France
Genre: doom, post-hardcore, postmetal, sludge
Release date: April 26, 2019
Label: Deadlight Entertainment
Origin: Sweden
Genre: crust, punk
Release date: May 24, 2019
Label: Southern Lord Recordings, Century Media
Origin: Athens, Greece
Genre: desert rock, psychedelic, rock ‘n roll
Release date: November 15, 2019
Label: Ihaveadrum Records
#6 Vol. 6 by Seer
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre: doom, progressive, sludge, black metal
Release date: February 8, 2019
Label: Artoffact Records
Origin: Sweden
Genre: crust, d-beat, punk
Release date: July 8, 2019
Label: Ruin Nation Records
Origin: Umeå, Sweden
Genre: postmetal, progressive, sludge
Release date: September 20, 2019
Label: Metal Blade Records, Red Creek
Origin: Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Genre: doom stoner, punk, thrash
Release date: May 1, 2019
Label: Riff Merchant Records
#2 FINIS TERRAE by STORM{O}
Origin: Feltre, Italy
Genre: punk, crust, hardcore, noise
Release date: October 4, 2019
Label: Moment of Collapse Records, Pundonor Records, Left Hand Label, Skeletal Lightning, To Lose La Track, Shove Records
#1 Behold Sedition Plainsong by Dawn Ray’d
Origin: UK
Genre: black metal
Release date: October 25, 2019
Label: Prosthetic Records, Action Now!
Thanks for reading/listening, hope you enjoyed it! Feel free to comment below!
Greets,
Ebabeleba