A lot of good album's here, some of my personal favourites here too, the ones that you have listed I would recommend for you are:

Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Wintersun - Wintersun
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Summoning - Oath Bound

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 20.10.2021 at 23:55

A lot of good album's here, some of my personal favourites here too, the ones that you have listed I would recommend for you are:

Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Shylmagoghnar - Emergence
Sanctuary - Into The Mirror Black
Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Wintersun - Wintersun
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Summoning - Oath Bound

Alright! Those will be my top priority!

Now 100 albums on my to-do list...
This is going to take a while... but it'll most likely all be worth it! Already I'm enjoying the ones I've started with (Burnt Offerings, By Inheritance, Where Fear and Weapons Meet)

Damn that's a lot of great releases awaiting for you, I can already tell you're gonna have a blast.
Several of my personnal favorites are in here, most importantly Windir's Arntor. It's my favorite black metal release ever, and my former favorite was Storm Of The Light's Bane, so given your affinity with Dissection you might get the same connection with Arntor as I did, at least I hope you will!

Written by Roman Doez on 06.11.2021 at 22:32

Damn that's a lot of great releases awaiting for you, I can already tell you're gonna have a blast.
Several of my personnal favorites are in here, most importantly Windir's Arntor. It's my favorite black metal release ever, and my former favorite was Storm Of The Light's Bane, so given your affinity with Dissection you might get the same connection with Arntor as I did, at least I hope you will!

Thanks! I'm looking forward to it!

Bro you're missing out on so much. Listen to these ASAP!

Written by metalriff on 22.12.2021 at 05:10

Bro you're missing out on so much. Listen to these ASAP!

WILCO!

I've now organized the list by genre.

I'm making progress... from around 130 just one or two weeks ago to now under 100

I've just seen this list for the first time; this is a very useful idea you got with this! A lot of these albums on the list I know pretty well, I'm sure you will have a blast listening to those! As far as death metal goes, I wanted to recommend Vital Remains' album titled Dechristianize.

Written by Qualeen on 05.03.2022 at 00:15

I've just seen this list for the first time; this is a very useful idea you got with this! A lot of these albums on the list I know pretty well, I'm sure you will have a blast listening to those! As far as death metal goes, I wanted to recommend Vital Remains' album titled Dechristianize.

This list used to be a lot longer
I've been busy grinding through a ton of albums and rating them these last couple of weeks.

I've been adding the best songs that I come across to my "Greatest Metal Songs" list and the best albums (usually rated 9/10) to my Favorites list, even though I haven't given them descriptions yet. I'm probably (after listening to all of these albums here) going to change that list and really limit myself to a certain number of true favorites - at the moment it's full with ones that are great but I dont find myself revisiting much.

I'm also keeping track of every album that I've listened to so that I can at the end of the year release a list of the most-listened-to albums of 2022.

The recommendation is much appreciated - I remember seeing it in your list of favorites

Written by F3ynman on 05.03.2022 at 00:46

Written by Qualeen on 05.03.2022 at 00:15

I've just seen this list for the first time; this is a very useful idea you got with this! A lot of these albums on the list I know pretty well, I'm sure you will have a blast listening to those! As far as death metal goes, I wanted to recommend Vital Remains' album titled Dechristianize.

I've been adding the best songs that I come across to my "Greatest Metal Songs" list and the best albums (usually rated 9/10) to my Favorites list, even though I haven't given them descriptions yet. I'm probably (after listening to all of these albums here) going to change that list and really limit myself to a certain number of true favorites - at the moment it's full with ones that are great but I dont find myself revisiting much.

I understand very much this process and the "cleaning up" you are referring to - adding new stuff and then removing that which you do not find yourself revisiting. I basically do the same thing. I edit my favorite albums and favorite song lists all the time. The only problem there is that I try to maintain a Spotify playlist with all my favorite tracks, and in the particular order they have on that list. It's such a pain but I really wanna have both updated.

Hey man, I thought I would have a look at this list again to see what you had put on your radar. Actually, looking at it now I'm not so familiar with a lot of these picks, but I wanted to share some insight on those that I know well and which I would highly recommend:

Hath - All That Was Promised - It really has a glorious punch sound, definitely one of those albums where production stood out to me. Also very interesting, not-so-common harmonies. In general one of my favorites of the current year.
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea - D O O O O O O O O O M. Goddam awesome. Just takes a bit of patience, by the nature of it being funeral doom.
Windir - 1184 - This took me some time before I got really into it, but it's been extremely enjoyable since. As far as 21st century viking stuff goes, this album is some of the best (alongside Enslaved which I am also seeing on the list).
Insomnium - Winter's Gate - It has a surprisingly high amount of soft moments, but because both the heavy and soft ones are so fantastically crafted, they empower each other.

Written by Qualeen on 20.05.2022 at 19:56

Hey man, I thought I would have a look at this list again to see what you had put on your radar. Actually, looking at it now I'm not so familiar with a lot of these picks, but I wanted to share some insight on those that I know well and which I would highly recommend:

Hath - All That Was Promised - It really has a glorious punch sound, definitely one of those albums where production stood out to me. Also very interesting, not-so-common harmonies. In general one of my favorites of the current year.
Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea - D O O O O O O O O O M. Goddam awesome. Just takes a bit of patience, by the nature of it being funeral doom.
Windir - 1184 - This took me some time before I got really into it, but it's been extremely enjoyable since. As far as 21st century viking stuff goes, this album is some of the best (alongside Enslaved which I am also seeing on the list).
Insomnium - Winter's Gate - It has a surprisingly high amount of soft moments, but because both the heavy and soft ones are so fantastically crafted, they empower each other.

Thanks for reminding me to return to this list. I've been kind of veering off my plans.
I did check out Ahab recently - and am listening to it right now in fact! Yeah, funeral doom takes a lot of patience, but I'm liking it more and more: the melody on "The Pacific" is nicely eerie

I'll have to check out the others and let you know what I think.

The checklist is slowly climbing back up to 100 albums... man, it's a curse and a blessing to have so much uncharted territory to discover!

Making progress. I've been mainly whittling down at the black, doom, and gothic albums

I've made a lot of progress! It's now down to less than 50 albums (58 slots in the list minus 9 genre headers = 49 albums)!

I'm here to bring some Black Metal to the table

1. Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
2. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
3. Drudkh - Кров У Наших Криницях (Blood In Our Wells)
4. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

Written by nonZero on 21.10.2022 at 16:23

I'm here to bring some Black Metal to the table

1. Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
2. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
3. Drudkh - Кров У Наших Криницях (Blood In Our Wells)
4. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

I've already listened to Kénôse and enjoyed it a lot! (See here)
Thanks for the other four recommendations!

Written by F3ynman on 21.10.2022 at 16:39

Written by nonZero on 21.10.2022 at 16:23

I'm here to bring some Black Metal to the table

1. Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
2. Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
3. Drudkh - Кров У Наших Криницях (Blood In Our Wells)
4. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design
5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

I've already listened to Kénôse and enjoyed it a lot! (See here)
Thanks for the other four recommendations!

Ahh I see. I searched your album votes but didn't see it so wasn't sure!

Written by nonZero on 21.10.2022 at 17:02

Ahh I see. I searched your album votes but didn't see it so wasn't sure!

Yeah I'm not voting that often on albums anymore since I find it harder and harder to associate an album's value entirely with a single number. That's why all of my reviews lately are also without rating. These "Currently Enjoying" or "Currently Listening" lists are meant to record albums that I've listened to and enjoyed, replacing a list of album votes in a way.

Written by nonZero on 21.10.2022 at 16:23


4. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design

It took some time, but I've gotten around to this album finally. It's fantastic! No surprise that Swano is behind it

Written by F3ynman on 15.04.2023 at 22:30

Written by nonZero on 21.10.2022 at 16:23


4. Diabolical Masquerade - Death's Design

It took some time, but I've gotten around to this album finally. It's fantastic! No surprise that Swano is behind it

Awesome

My to-do list keeps growing and growing. Sometime I've got to tackle some of these. Does anyone reading this have a recommendation where I should start in my checklist?

Holy.. Well to my taste, you should tackle these, because they are some of my favourites from this list.

1. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
2. Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
3. Cautiva - Human
4. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers
5. Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
6. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

There would be others in there but thats a good start and some excellent albums IMO.

Written by Guib on 24.02.2024 at 23:44

Holy.. Well to my taste, you should tackle these, because they are some of my favourites from this list.

1. Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
2. Black Tusk - Taste The Sin
3. Cautiva - Human
4. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers
5. Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
6. Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

There would be others in there but thats a good start and some excellent albums IMO.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to make those my priority

Written by F3ynman on 24.02.2024 at 23:16

My to-do list keeps growing and growing. Sometime I've got to tackle some of these. Does anyone reading this have a recommendation where I should start in my checklist?

Bro you have some truly great stuff sitting in that list, my picks would be:
1. Albino Slug - Barabbas (because you liked the debut and I'm still the only vote on this EP)
2. Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew (I am simply in love with this album)
3. Urfaust - Geist Ist Teufel (or the compilation Ritual Music For The True Clochard, which isn't in your list but captures the band and their atmosphere perfectly)
4. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors (one of my gateways into weirdo metal and I still love it to this day)
5. Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis (because you clearly need to give them a second chance and this album is great for that)
6. Verdunkeln - Einblick In Den Qualenfall (just an all around great album)
7. Encenathrakh - Ithate Thngth Oceate (I'm not even sure I'd recommend this album to anyone but it's awesome if you're mentally prepared for it)
8. Maudlin Of The Well - Bath (I'm not the biggest MotW fan anymore but this album was a cornerstone of my metal journey and there's a lot to love about it)
I could make a list twice as long as this one but I think those are good picks for what to listen to in priority

Written by Roman Doez on 25.02.2024 at 00:25

Written by F3ynman on 24.02.2024 at 23:16

My to-do list keeps growing and growing. Sometime I've got to tackle some of these. Does anyone reading this have a recommendation where I should start in my checklist?

Bro you have some truly great stuff sitting in that list, my picks would be: ...

Awesome! Thanks! I like some of your taste while some is still a bit too weirdo for me , so I'm interested to see if these'll appeal to me too

Written by F3ynman on 25.02.2024 at 00:30

Awesome! Thanks! I like some of your taste while some is still a bit too weirdo for me , so I'm interested to see if these'll appeal to me too

I'm dreading the moment you'll listen to Encenathrakh, but those other picks are pretty safe bets imo

As I try to tackle my lengthy checklist of metal albums to listen to, I spin the wheel and give The Meads Of Asphodel's The Excommunication of Christ a listen. Here are my initial thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASGJFtfjBwE