The heaviness in guitar tone is only surpassed by Ride The Lightning or the Black Album, making this one of Metallica’s most powerful and heaviest sounding records to date. Hardwired… To Self Destruct has plenty of great songs making it a good and solid Metallica record. Metallica – Hardwired… To Self Destruct (Blackened) Abendrot proves to be the band’s most ambitious effort to date and manages to feel effortless and sound cohesive within its progressive mentality.Ĥ3. The dichotomy between the sense of urgency that prompted its fast turnaround and the quest for perfection defines an album that sounds sober-minded while at the same time it crumbles under an awe-inspiring, deep emotional weight – especially when frontman Tanner Jones’ mental health is the subject. The quintet based in Orlando, Florida spew the skeleton for their third record in roughly four days and worked on it for the vast majority of the following six months. You Blew It! – Abendrot (Triple Crown Records)Ībendrot, You Blew It!’s first record for Triple Crown Records, is a complex state of affairs for this American emo band. They are shaping a world, a sonic cosmos that operates according to their rules – it’s a dark place, but the sense of wonder and mystery makes it a joy to traverse.Ĥ6. S U R V I V E – RR7349 (Relapse Records)īetween Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s recent breakthrough success with Stranger Things and a general synthwave revival, the timing couldn’t be better for S U R V I V E’s return. You just get wrapped up in those danceable beats and the intense melodies.Ĥ7. Their dynamic is phenomenal, as usual, maintaining that electrifying and sensual approach, while they play their instruments and sing their lyrics. It’s got all the elements to become by far their most confident and daring album. More than just a sonically rock album, Gold is of extreme relevance on a social level with its imposing, gut-wrenching, and extremely gritty lyrics. go frantically at it with a razor-sharp set of songs that for the most part are unwilling to take the foot off the gas. Angel Du$t – Rock The Fuck On Forever (Pop Wig)Īngel Du$t show strength and depth within a genre which is in constant evolution and Rock The Fuck On Forever is definitely a record that will take the listener beyond the punk/hardcore scene into the deeper waters of rap metal, surf rock and alternative rock. So, we’re going to put 2016 behind us and enter 2017 in the best way possible, with our new issue (out next week) and with high hopes that 2017 will be a challenging year that will bring about change for the best. Carrie Fisher, Alan Vega, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Mohammed Ali, Alan Rickman, Prince, Sharon Jones, Gene Wilder, Debbie Reynolds, Johan Cruyff, Alphonse Mouzon just to name a few… During the year, we lost legends who will be greatly missed and certainly not forgotten. Each of our writers and editors submitted their ‘Top 20 albums of 2016’ lists and we worked out the top albums to put together this awesome list.Ģ016 was a strange and turbulent year, from Brexit to the US elections, from the shameful situation in Syria to the overwhelming migrant crisis. From Pinegrove to Mitski, from Run the Jewels (there’s no way around it, RTJ3 is a 2016 record) to David Bowie, it was again hard to pick just 50 albums, but here’s our Top 50 best albums of 2016 along with our thoughts on them.
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