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Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday ... Read More...
Last year I took it upon myself not only to organize and compile our own staff's AOTY list, but to take things one insane step further and compile a bunch of lists from major metal or metal-covering publications and websites into one MEGA AOTY list to rule them all. Eden and I then analyzed the list and made some (mostly snarky) comments about the metal journalism industry and how they approach these sorts of things. Though I still 100% stand by what we wrote there and the conclusions we drew from it, I was really interested in seeing how well some of them would stand up to another year to use as a data point. Thankfully, this year I had a lot of help in all of our list-making efforts thanks to fellow editor Noyan, who put a ton of work into coming up with the method we ended up using to aggregate our lists (if you haven't already, you should absolutely read his post delving into the nitty-gritty of that methodology) and then did the actual number-crunching.
40 Watt Sun's Patrick Walker released a statement in response to the record label Kreation Records reissuing his influential doom record in Warning's Watching From a Distance without their permission, which y... Read More...
This sure was a year for new releases. I mean, some stuff came out. Wow! Modern technology sure is crazy. I wasn't terribly impressed with the quality of doom released this year but I'm also sure a lot pass... Read More...
Morning chaps and chapesses. Today's chirpy offering are 40 Watt Sun, from our fair capital. They sound a bit dim, and tonally they are, but that doesn't detract from the quality of doom from these three ge... Read More...