Best of lists from metal bands, metal genres and other music-related topics.
After some successful articles about metal from 2019, I decided to gather the best progressive metal from 2020 in this blog post. I hope I can help you find some new favorites. Please comment or contact me if I’m missing some quality progressive metal from 2019. If you want to Read more…
I’ve predominantly been a metal fan and a rock fan throughout my life, but shoegaze is a genre that has snuck in there more and more. From the early genre giants like Slowdive to the newer bands like Alcest and The Daysleepers, this is my list of the 30 ultimate Read more…
Progressive rock is one of my favorite genres and there so many good bands. This is my list of the 50 best progressive rock bands in alphabetical order. Some of them are borderline metal and some of them are borderline other genres, like alternative rock and post rock. These sub-genres Read more…
This is my list of the 30 best thrash metal bands. Let me just start off by saying that there’s quite a lot of blasphemy in this list. Sometimes I rank new bands over holy cows that released 12 albums. I prefer the extreme side of things, leaning on death Read more…
This is my list of the 20 best Antimatter songs. Antimatter is an English band with a very dark sound, one of those bands that you instantly recommend to fans of Katatonia and Anathema. The material ranges from progressive rock and acoustic to electronic darkwave, making it quite hard to Read more…
This my list of the 10 essential post-metal albums. But what the hell is post-metal? It’s a fleeting subgenre that surely is hard to define. Many of the bands on this list border on other genres and will be included on my lists of the best atmospheric black metal bands, Read more…
Back in the day, this list used to be called “10 essential death metal albums”, but after making an proper essentials list, this is now called 10 best death metal albums. If you’re just starting out with death metal, you might better off at my fresh blog post on 25 Read more…
Death is a legendary band with an impressive discography filled with good songs, so it’s a hard task to rank the 20 best Death songs. I like all the eras, but my special poison is the mid-period from “Human” to “Symbolic”. These are my top 20 best Death songs. Let’s Read more…
Sweden’s Candlemass is one of the most essential doom metal bands. They’ve made albums ranging from great to decent, but first and foremost they’ve created a bunch of immortal songs. This is my list of the 20 best Candlemass songs. Do you agree? Please comment with your own list if Read more…
My death metal from 2017 post got some solid attention, so I figured I’d start a blog post for this year’s output as well. 2018 hasn’t been the best year for death metal, but some fairly solid stuff has still gotten out. Please comment if I’ve missed out on any Read more…