Best of lists from metal bands, metal genres and other music-related topics.
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…
Just as the metal bands per capita map indicates, Finland is the home of a crapload of good metal bands. These are my 50 favorites. I’m going to exclude some gateway metal essentials like Children of Bodom and Nightwish, simply because I don’t personally enjoy them anymore . I’m also Read more…
Blackgaze is a genre that combines black metal elements with shoegaze elements. This is a list of good blackgaze bands. The bands are often mixed and hard to classify, and could go under the term post-black metal. My problem with the genre is that many bands tend to sound the Read more…
I’m admittedly not as big of a Morbid Angel fan as most people who are into death metal. Still, the band does have a bunch of really good songs. This is my list of the 15 best Morbid Angel songs. If you like nerdy death metal lists like this, don’t Read more…
This is an article containing my best atmospheric black metal bands. It’s a diverse genre featuring many different types of bands. If you’re more interested in blackgaze, there’s also an article about that genre. Please comment if you have an atmospheric black metal band I should check out, or if Read more…
I’m not an expert in the sludge metal genre, but the subgenre of atmospheric sludge metal is a whole other story. The atmospheric subgenre takes the violent sludge sound in atmospheric, dynamic direction, often influenced by post rock and post metal. I like quite a few bands in the genre Read more…
Ulver is a Norwegian black metal band turned electronic. The band recently made a move from the more experimental side of electronic music to a more synthpop-influenced sound on 2017’s “The Assassination of Julius Caesar”. This is my list of the 15 best Ulver songs. I’ve been on an Ulver Read more…
Hey! Forgive me for the dumbass popup, but I have some new music out! I’m Stefan, the owner of this website and composer of progressive death/doom metal band Soliloquium. Our new single “Famine” is out and would be awesome if you had a listen. Best way to support me, and you might like it! Full album is out April 11th, and already available for digital/physical pre-order.
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