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Hello and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast.

My name is George.

This is Jay.

This is Will.

This is John.

This is Matt.

This is Markisan.

And this is our 2020 year-end Top 25 Albums of 2020 Spectacular Episode, Episode, Episode. It's Metal Christmas! Yeah. Oh, what a year. What a fucked-up year, dude. Fuck 2020. And everybody's making the joke, if you didn't like 2020, just wait until it turns 21 and can drink. I haven't heard that joke. That's actually pretty good. That was my first time. I like that. Yeah, so it's been a fucked-up year, and the first thing I want to,

to use to point that out is the fact that since last time we all met, Sean Malone of Cynic has passed. Yep. And what the fuck? So two-thirds of Cynic gone in 2020. You know, let me counter that with some good news and that, and I apologize, Matt, his name, I'm blanking on his name right now, your buddy who was immunized. Eric. Eric was immunized today. Yeah.

some degrees of separation from an immunization. So that's good. Yeah. I saw the picture online. I, I, I, I literally got a little teary eyed. Um, cause I was like, yes, is he working? Okay. So that explains it. Yeah. Yeah. Way to go, Eric. Thanks for, thanks for doing what you do. Immunizing in a temple avoid shirt. Yes. With, with, with the post. Fuck you COVID. Yeah. Good for you, man. Yeah. So I'm really sad about the cynic.

Yeah, I was waiting to see if we're going back to that. I mean, I'm with you, Marcus, on it. It really sucked. We're sharing Star Wars toys. Will's child has showed up on screen here. Handsome Devil, by the way. Look at the haircut on that kid. And we are sharing Star Wars toys. Sharp. Yeah, we, him and I went this morning around 930 and got some haircuts, right, bud? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I know, sure. You know what? Tell me your favorite album from, you told me

this morning what your favorite album from this year was. You forget? All right. His list is fluid, Will. I mean, it's like us. Oh, that one. What was it? Iron Man. It's a song, but what album is it on? Do you remember? It starts with a P. It starts with a P, yeah.

I was annoyed. Wasn't that kid's favorite record last year too, which is fine. Yep. Yep. His favorite record for the last seven years. Well, it's a good one to have at the top of your list. Yep. Sorry. That was my fault for derailing the cynic thing. I tack on to the tragedy that apparently is attached to that band. I mean, you know, that's a bummer. Who's left? Yeah. Well,

of the original members. It's just Paul and Jason, the other guitarist, but he hasn't been in the band for two decades. So he's probably hiding right now. Yeah. Yeah. I met Sean Malone. I actually hung out with him at a show in Annapolis because he was touring with this guy named John Wesley, who used to be Porcupine Trees live guitarist. And I know John Wesley. And after the show, I said to him, I said, dude, I can't believe Sean Malone's in your, in your

He says, have you ever met him? I said, yes, let's go find him and hang out with him then. I was like, I'm down, let's go. And he did. He introduced me to him and he and I sat around to talk for a while. Super nice guy. I mean, really nice. Dang. That's awesome. I mean, that doesn't, your story doesn't suck obviously. No, I get it. And he was, and as I know Markisan his big fan too, I don't want to take up too much time because I'm sure you want to say something, but he was, people don't know how talented he really was. I mean, he had a PhD in music.

He taught. He was an amazing player. And we see and hear a lot of other names for great bass players. And he's always never given the credit he deserved throughout his career. So it's a big loss. Yeah, I mean, all the members in that band were like virtuosos to me and just underrated as a band and as individual players. But yeah, I mean, they really changed the way I viewed music. I posted this online, but, you know, I just never heard anything like that.

when their first album came out, Focus. So, you know, it just expanded my mind, the possibilities of not just metal, but music. And Sean was a big part of that. Yeah, I don't know if you guys read the Hall of Fame entry in Decibel for the album, Focus. It came out in 93, and everyone's like, oh, they were behind everybody. Actually, it was supposed to come out a lot earlier. It wasn't for the, I can't remember, was it Andrew Hurricane?

Andrew that hit. I don't know the name of the hurricane, but a hurricane hit and delayed the album. So it would have been out a lot earlier than 1993. So they've had a lot of shit happen to them. So I mean, it's, I still revisit that album quite a bit. I mean, all of their material I listen to quite often. So hopefully 2021 has got to be a better year. If it's not, then we're all fucked. So can only go up.

Yeah.

It can only go out.

So, you know, we always look at other people's lists leading up to the year end and mock most of them mercilessly.

We do like the decibel list this year.

I mean, it's certainly far better than most of the other lists out there.

Markison sent us a list the other day from a new website called cursed zine I just wanted to shout that out good that was a good one that was a pretty good list Dean Brown does that site right I can't remember it's some metal journalist I don't think it's Dean Brown actually but maybe you're right well I can't remember so I'm wondering if you guys experienced what I have though too which is I've kept my own list as the year has gone on but of course you check the year on list because you're like did I miss something or whatever the fuck I feel like the lists were all over the fucking map this year like they're

There was a vast array of albums. There are very few that I can think of that were highly represented in all cases. I mean, there are a few. And we'll maybe mention those as we get to them, because they'll probably be represented here too. But I feel like it was crazy. And I wonder if it was because we're all living in our own weird silos this year. But a lot of the list didn't have anything much in common with each other. I have to say, the only other list outside the two that's been mentioned that I actually liked, even though George poo-pooed it when I sent

They didn't like the number one on the list without looking at the list yet was that Pop Matters list which totally caught me by surprise. It's ironic. The site's called Pop Matters and I'm like this top 20 is better than almost every major metal magazine's website or top 20, 25. I mean I don't know if you guys saw Kerangs. Oh that they you know they gave up on metal so long ago. Well they they're giving up just on good music. Like Revolver did.

Revolvers is terrible. I didn't even look at Revolvers this year. I usually do just to get a laugh, but I didn't even bother. Oh, this has got to be one of the worst years ever. Oh, yeah. Well, I just looked up the curse, and it was Dean Brown, so it was right. But yeah, that's a great site. It just looks cool, too, because they've got a really great designer to do it. But yeah, they've got... What's the website? I'm trying to find it. Cursed Zine. Oh, Cursed, yeah. So yeah.

I mean, I really like that list. And they just started, they launched with that list. So I've seen some stuff online where they're going to talk about album covers, and they just got big plans to do some really cool journalistic features on that website. So definitely keep your eye on it. Indeed, we shall. Why don't we do a t-shirt and beer check before we get started? Start with Mark's on. Okay, yeah, I am wearing a Cynic shirt.

We just talked about Cynic and it's a Tristan Air shirt. That made me sad just to put it on to be honest but I felt like I had to represent Cynic today. It'll be cathartic for you, Marcus. Yeah, yeah. And I'm drinking Brimminghorn mead and it's a coffee and contemplation mead made with coffee and vanilla and it is quite good. It is. That's really good. Yeah. So most of us have had it. Yeah.

Is anybody not in the Birmingham Horton Mead Club, Jay? I just relinquished my membership. Did you? I was on the standby at some point, and then I don't know if I never heard from them or whatever, but I do order occasionally, and I just order. Okay. Yeah, I thought maybe you were the one. I'm on it. I've only gotten two shipments, though. Oh, okay. Yeah. I follow them in various ways, and so when I see something that looks cool, I order it.

Which I guess it's all cool. I mean, they do so much different stuff, by the way. They don't fuck around, man. Yeah, there's a ton of good stuff. Like they do it and then they move on to the next one. You know what I mean? They do so many different things. Yeah, and they're good guys. I really like those guys. Yeah, we put them on the podcast. And we spent time with them at Decibel and I remember they were friendly chaps. You know, I just look at the Cursed Scene top 10 there just to do it because I hadn't done it yet. And I have to say my number one is in there.

That's a relief to me because I was expecting to get laughed at for my number one, but I think maybe it's more. We're all going to laugh at you. You're worried about getting laughed at for one pick, Jay. Yeah. By the way, speaking to John from Brimminghorn, since I think we all probably are linked up with him online, did anyone see the little tidbit he dropped the other day? Because he posts a lot of funny stuff. Which one? About the possibility of a mead might get

a second run that he made a while ago. I did not see that. Oh, is it the, uh, incantation? I assumed it might be. It would be the second one that you would think of after that. I'll give you a hint. Norwegian. Frost. Oh, no. Frost. Is it called Frost? That was a good one. Yeah. Eternal something. I don't, I can't remember. He, he'd mentioned he was thinking about it, so. Nice. Or something of that nature. When we were at the Decibal, I'm sure if you remember this, but when, when the place they were doing the interviews, Enslaved came up to

do an interview about that and then when they all left we took it and drank

drank the bottle because oh yeah i remember that that's right they just left it up there who's

i don't know who's standing was anyone standing with me when i was talking with those guys and uh they

said hey what did you think of the mead we made for enslave i said it's good i've been up there at

least three times i'm going back for a fourth he's like oh wow thinking like maybe we should let all

everyone have one i'm like that fuck that shit man i'm standing here

I'm your guy for this. I think we drank it with Outer Heaven when we did the interview with them, right? I can't remember who it might have been. Yeah, that sounds right. It was great. Oh my God, I missed Dust Bowl. I really want to go this year. Yeah, me too. Matt. Yo. Shirt. Oh, Crowhurst. Long sleeve. Old school death metal vibe. Nice. And I am drinking. It's called Do You Like Spicy?

It's a collaboration between Westbrook and Evil Twin. A maroon inspired blended Belgium style strong dark ale aged in port. Oh nice. Cabaret barrels with raisins, cherries and black carons and cherry and raspberry puree added. I'm a member of Tavor or Tavor which is like they send me beer every month. Oh yeah yeah. How do you like that? I actually really like it. Just for the sake of I can try beers from all over the place and honestly

I feel like Adroit puts a ton of stuff. Like I got to it by trying to get that. The deal. Do you know what's more of those? When we had that at decibel last year, that was aged in the cognac barrels. Like that was spiritual for me. So I literally was emailing people like, where the fuck do I get this? And they said, we'll try Tavor. And it hasn't shown up on there in that form, but I ended up joining. And so I'm on the six, they give me six beers a month and then I can add to that. And this is one of the six they gave me. And it's good. It's probably a little bit sweet for my taste.

but definitely worthy.

You know, there's a, I say this now because Wacken, did you see that Wacken made a gin?

It did.

It did.

Yeah.

They like, it comes in like a special case with your name on it and like some sort

of laid up coasters or something.

And I'm like, the site was in German, so I couldn't figure out how to order it.

I'm going to have to try it on my computer and translate it so I can, I don't know if they'll

ship to me or not.

Most places won't. I mean, Horn does for some reason, but just ship it to me, George. There you go. And Matt, the answer to your question is yes, I do like spicy nachos. I was going to say, yeah. Who doesn't like spicy nachos? Spicy anything is good for me. Who doesn't like them? Our wives. Yeah. My wife does. My wife loves spicy things. I think he needs an hour afterwards. Yeah. Y'all need to try my personal home hot sauce.

blend called Exit Wound. It will rip your face off. I just made up three whole giant like 12 ounce bottles of this stuff. Bring it to Decibel next time. Oh yeah. Is Exit Wound the name of your butt? That's what happens when you have my hot sauce, you shit yourself to death. It's so fucking hot. Are you like cooking up the peppers and everything? I'm literally making it, yes.

I use the basically the Thai are both chilies that you like pick out of your Kung Pao. I don't either. I love those things. And I it's because of that. I was like, hey, this would be really cool as a hot sauce. And you know, I found some stuff online. I cobbled some stuff together and made some changes. And it's, you know,

I know it's got these hot peppers in there, but it's like it's got cumin as well. So it's got a little bit of a and it's got apple cider vinegar. So it's vinegary and hot and you know, it's awesome. And like everybody that has had it has like been, oh my God, you need to make me some of that. So yeah, I will. I, you know, I wanted to do a heavy metal hot sauce. I can remember Metal Heads podcast hot sauce. With Atlas beer in it. If I had, if I had a distribution system, I would. I, I,

I own the domain heavy metal hot sauces.com. Well, you've had George's hot sauce before, so just shut up, all right? It's a little salty. Never mind. We're not even one beer in it. Yeah. All right. Sorry. It's like a pain on Marcasson's face. Whenever there's a dick joke going out, I just look at Marcasson and it's like he's dying a little on the inside every single time. That's just professional credibility, Wilting. That's his nearest laugh, by the way. He's like, I fucking hate you guys.

I think we're up to John now. All right. So I'm wearing a festive holiday shirt with a positive message on it. It says stay positive. Even when no one believes in you. Sasquatch. In a Santa hat. It's a holiday Sasquatch from the Life is Good series. Is there any more metal mythical creature than the

Sasquatch. It's a big hairy dude that runs around in the forest and nobody can find him. He's probably in a black metal band. Nobody would know because they've never seen him. He doesn't release. He only records his stuff and then buries it under a rock. I'd probably put the Griffin at number one, but Sasquatch would be a close second. Like I said, stay positive even when no one believes in you. And what are you drinking? I am drinking a beer that has the most outstanding label marketing

It's a white label.

Oh, lunch.

From Maine Beer Company.

Maine Beer.

It's called Lunch.

I'm having lunch for lunch.

I can't think of a label that actually models the beer any closer because their stuff is so clean and finished.

I'm a big fan of Maine.

Yeah, that's a good one.

Remember how, at least down here where John and I live, it was a pretty big deal.

If you got some Maine Beer Company stuff, this is like 10 years ago, it was a big deal.

But now you can get lunch like everywhere. By the way, Will, I have seen it here. Yeah. But you know, we're starting to see in the area now, Will, over Dominion. I've seen dinner show up a couple times. Oh, really? I've not seen that one down here. Yeah. Lunch is good, but dinner's better. I like second breakfast. Is that a Hobbit joke? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

I'm wearing my temple avoid shirt leave the light behind that's cool and I am drinking the exact same thing mark us on is the yes bringing horn mead I said it earlier but I wanted to I've been saving this for the podcast and I want to drink the bring horn on the podcast I thought it'd be appropriate and I want to drink this first before I lost my sense of taste and smell and self so yes our knives Jay what are you wearing and not drinking I take

I take no shame in always reporting what I will be drinking later, but I did finally find, and I don't know why I was having a hard time finding it, but the Prohibition Ale I mentioned last time, so I got that, and my 21st Amendment sitting in the fridge, and I'm drinking water from a Judas Priest cup, and Marcasson will feel digitally hugged when I show him my incantation shirt. Oh, yeah. It's red. Yeah, the incantation was a deep dive for me this year, and not only did I order a shit ton of idol, I also ordered

T-shirt. So good. It's not yellow, but it still stands out pretty good. Well, I got a black one of this same design, and then I also got a Profane Nexus shirt, but the red, it looks good. This works in red, you gotta admit. The red with the black, not too shabby. Well, what's your favorite incantation? Now that you did the deep dive, what's your favorite album, Jay? I think you'll, I don't know if you'll, well, first of all, the new one's fucking awesome, and that will be represented here today.

But the,

is it Dirges for Elysium?

Is that the name of it?

That's my favorite one, dude.

That's a good one.

That's my fucking favorite one.

It's probably got more doom on it than any of the other ones, I think.

But it's so fucking good,

even though they all have shit tons.

I need to publish a correction while we're on the subject of incantation.

Hey.

You know,

I have said before that while I like incantation,

that Onward to Golgotha is a steaming pile of shit.

And...

But little did I know.

Little did I know that they apparently his mic off. Can you turn your mic off? He's about to make a man's. But, you know, apparently they cleaned it up and reissued it because the one on band camp sounds frickin amazing. So I did buy it and I have reversed that call and first down. So but to finalize, I should add to Marcus. There's sort of like Napalm Death or another band or a band like that. There's nothing. I mean, everything is just degrees away from

the last one in the best kind of way. They just don't fuck up. So even though I picked out a favorite. And they offer something a little different each time. That's what I really like about the band. They don't really, I mean, it sounds like incantation, but they don't really repeat exactly what they did on the album before. And I love that. They don't, but the quality is just unrelenting. And the new one is very close to my heart. And I don't mind telling you, it rates very high on my list. Spoilers. Geez. Well, I mean, you know, well, I mean, you know. Yeah.

All right. I am wearing my of feather and bone sulfuric disintegration shirt. First maiden voyage of this one. I got it just in time for the episode. A convert to the band you are, George. Indeed I am. And Brimminghorn for the hat trick. But this is Hecate. Oh, that's a good one. Yes. So. Brimminghorn well represented on this.

As they should be.

All right.

One other piece of business before we get started.

John drum roll.

So the Metalheads Butler.

TR sent us.

I asked him today.

Hey, what's your favorite album of the year?

And he sent me five.

So I figured, well, maybe we should repeat those.

Yeah.

So I'll do them real quick.

Because we haven't done a pick yet. And we've been here a while. Before you do that, can we do the Metalheads Butler acapella? I'll start. Ready? Metalheads Butler! Oh, sorry. Yeah. I'll let you down. Yeah. Somehow I was muted. Are we going to all go on at the same time? No, acapella, as you start a little bit later. Yeah, I'll try. Let's do it. Wait, I'll go second. George, you jump in third. Okay. Should I start again? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Metalheads Butler! Metalheads Butler! You guys are supposed to hold the notes longer, but fine. Fuck it. This is the worst I can feel. You gotta just keep saying it and then somebody else comes in. So like we'll say it. Just keep saying it. Or we could just all do it at once and it would be amazing. Yeah, so we could get onto the list, you know, which is why I'm part of it. Let's just all do it at once. Come on. All right, ready? One, two, after three. One, two, three.

The Metalheads Butler!

Oh, that was terrible.

If you didn't know who that was, we're talking about the Metalheads Butler tier.

We are not opening a Metalheads barbershop.

Nope.

Got a little work to do before we hit that milestone.

For good reason, Marcus.

All right, let's do these real quick.

I don't know if this is how his top five is going.

I'm assuming so based on how he wrote it, but I do know who his number one is.

So in at five fires in the distance echoes from deep November. Wow. Hmm. His number four, he scratched off the list and added an album because he forgot about it. The ocean fan of a zoic too. That's a good pick. By the way, these are both metal albums for TR so far. All right. His third album, also a metal album. And if anyone doesn't know that joke, when he was with us in studio for the year end, how many, a while ago,

He had a list of I think 10 or 15 and about halfway through he had said at least four or five times well this also is not a metal album but so his number three Sorcerer Lamenting of the Innocent I forgot about that album that was pretty good yeah number two Fate's Warning Long Day Goodnight and his number one which this was a definite Spirit Adrift Enlightened in Eternity wow I'm surprised he

put that over Fate's Warning.

Yeah, no, he really likes Spirit of Drift a lot.

At least the last two albums a lot.

That's good.

I'll be Jay's number one.

One thing about TR is he has the most amazing radio voice.

Like better than any of us.

Even though ours are pretty good too.

Yeah.

You have the second best one.

He should probably sing his own Metalhead's Butler acapella song.

Couldn't be any worse than ours.

You should have him do that and just record it so we can have it anytime we want.

If we ever see him again.

I can't remember the last time I talked to TR. Or have Keith D do it. That'd be great. Yeah, yeah. Can we just replace all of us with TR and Keith D and make this much better podcast? Yeah. Because, you know, Keith did, let me find it. Sorry, there's way too many of these now. Now we have 50% less dick jokes. Okay, okay, okay. Here it is. Here it is.

Metal Hoods Podcast.

Now just imagine that with Butler.

Why is that not the intro for every one of our episodes?

Because of Joel?

No, but then you have that and then Joel's music.

All right.

We can try that.

We can try that.

You will listen.

We should have Keith and TR both do like PSAs.

Hi folks, TR here, the Meadowheads Butler. I'm here to talk to you about, you know, like a little 10 second thing. Chainsaws are not appropriate to shave your taint. Exercise caution when using sharp objects. Especially near your taint. Don't put a taint near Will. Yeah, not if you want it back. So normally we do.

an EPs and covers list as well, a top five for those. But after mid-year went seven hours, we are going to slim this down a little bit, hopefully. We're starting off, we're going pretty fast already. Yeah, we're only an hour in. Yeah. So look for those to be posted along with the write-ups of the lists on our website, metalheadspodcast.com. Let's do this shit. Let's do a 25. Let's see, who's at 25? Starting with Markisan. Oh, we're doing it. We're doing it.

This is it. The list. The list. I just made a change. Wow. But not a number 25. Number 25 for me is Morwenian Pristine from Nattermacht Productions. It's atmospheric black metal with these space liquid scents that make you long for the stars. It's a perfect melding of ambient and black metal, which are two of my most favorite things. Nice. Besides your cat.

Yes, and the metalheads, of course. Yeah, indeed. That goes without saying. I like this. So far, pretty economical. Matt, what do you got? My number 25 is the first album from a black and thrash Austin band coming out on 20 bucks spin. The band is Skeleton, and the album is self-titled. Really dug this album. I will say about 2020, quickly. I found myself either about old reliable or just bizarre. This would definitely fall into the old reliable category.

in the sense of like there's some really good riffs on this album um you get a little bit of like older dark grunge in there somewhere which is you know kind of speaks to my younger self um but just really good crusty riffs that kind of stuck with me it's very nice good i like it a lot i like that too good i love that shit all right my 25 disclaimer before we start i've got a sizable list for honorable mentions every single one of my

honorable mentions could easily be in my top 25. I feel bad that I didn't include some albums this year. I just this year turned out to be way better than I thought it would be. I remember Will saying at the end of the mid-year, save your list because you might be using the same list again because nobody knew what was going to happen. And then literally there was a fucking explosion of albums. I think we all probably found the second half to be better than the first half. I think there's maybe seven from my

from my mid-year list? I surprisingly evened out nicely, but I have a lot of albums that could be here. So with that said, and this is a new album that just came out. Jay will be very pleased. I'm assuming this will be on his list. This has to be maybe the most consistent band of any of ours, I think. And it doesn't matter if you like it or not. They are. If you like this style of music, they're very consistent. It's been going on for almost 25 years.

The Ghost Experiment Illumination. The band is Van den Plass from Germany. They're a progressive metal band. They're about as classy as you can get in terms of the way they approach things, the way they do things, and this is no different than any of their other albums. Although I do like this one better than The Last Few. It's a solid album. If you like traditional style type progressive metal, which would be the Dream Theater type style from the early 90s, then you will like this band. Sweet. It's concession.

And it's the same five guys the whole time, which I really like about them, which is really rare in today's music world. Yeah, I like that one. And they never come to America, but I know John has seen them at least. I have seen them, I think four times. And I actually got to see them, Jay, in an acoustic, like 200 people show. And half of the show were like, he's the lead singer's things like show tunes and does like a lot of stage stuff. Yeah. And they, half of them are covers that they did.

And it was just wow.

I assume these were all performances at Prog Power, correct?

They're all Prog Power, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

No, I don't disagree with you.

That's a good one.

And I turned you on to their live album that you had no idea that I was at that show.

You had no idea, Jay.

None.

No, he really was like, what the fuck?

He goes, I just ordered this.

Literally all in one sentence.

Yeah, they're one of my, I wouldn't call it guilty pleasures, but like, you know, unknown pleasures.

So many so few people know them so Oh and before we go I'm on to a new beer new realm third wind it's a triple I have never had it before so I'm jumping in triple Patrick bye-bye John 90 90 Belgian triple what's the percentage on that one you flip the L and the E yeah oh you know your stuff this is a traditional size triple 9.5 percent

And Will will be pleased because he always likes what I like. It's a clear color. I can see you through that. I can see clearly now. Do you have a hazy Belgian or something wrong? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's been taking in a few of the bacteria a little too much there from the yes guy. Yeah. So, Will. Oh, that's good. My number 25. There was a lot of duking it out this morning.

between a couple albums that's going to be the final one to make my list. This was on my mid-year list, but it dropped considerably because there's so much stuff that came out. But this is Dan Clancher. Clancher, I think. Yeah, Clancher. Yeah, yeah. Up in Winnipeg. Hey, Dan. He turned me on to this and he says, this is what Baroness should be or was until they started to suck.

This is basically Baroness, but doesn't suck. Hyborian, Volume 2.

Yeah, good stuff.

It's kind of like just that. It kind of reminds me a little bit of High Spirits. High Spirits is borderline on the metal. This is definitely metal, but it just makes you feel good. I listen to this a lot when I'm doing yard work.

Yeah.

And I blast it, and it's kind of one of those things like it's not going to piss off the neighbors too much when I have it at full volume on the speakers.

But yeah, it's just kind of just straight up good, fun metal.

And Will, you mentioned before Baroness sucked. I agree with you on that statement. Where does Baroness start to suck for you? Because mine is pretty early on.

As soon as the album starts.

I think I like the first two albums, and then after that.

Yeah, the first one.

Yeah. That's good, George. No, I agree.

I think Red, I think, is awesome, and I think Blue is where I'm like, okay, I like this, but maybe not as cool as Red.

But then after that I'm like, I fuck this. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty much. You know, I like a little bit. I think I like a little bit of. I saw them tour red, the red album when they opened for a high and fire who also opened for Opeth, which was quite the tour package. But they were awesome for the red album. Yeah. I'm not saying they suck. Just I liked earlier. I did a lot more. Yeah. When we saw them at decibel, rather, I should say when I saw them at decibel last year, everybody else was like, fuck this. We're going out.

We're getting beer. We're doing whatever. And I'm like, I've never seen Baroness. I have to give them the benefit of a song or two. I gave them a benefit of a song or two. And I fucking left. I was like, nope. Yeah, I saw them. Yeah, I saw them live at the Howard Theater, in fact, and with Paul Bearer, and they put on a hell of a show. I mean, they're fun to watch. And don't get me wrong, I'm really glad that they're still around after everything that's happened to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am. I'm really happy about that. It's not a fan anymore. Yeah, check out How Boring. If you like early Baroness,

This is in your wheelhouse.

Like the red, the blue, the black album, whatever.

Oh, there it is.

There it is.

Oh!

All right.

I'm going to move us on.

It's like a trap in your eyes.

Moving us on to me.

I agree with everybody else.

So much good stuff came out this year that it was hard for me to do what I've done with my 25,

which is kind of give it away as almost an honorable mention,

meaning this band I felt needed to be recognized for what they did this year.

My List is Undeniably Metal this year, but this last one I snuck in a little something that's a little metal adjacent, a little bit gateway drug, but I think they made their best record since the 80s, ACDC Power Up. Wow. These guys made a great fucking record this year. I knew this was coming. I listened to it a bunch of times. I had to do it. I'm telling you, I put it on a lot. It's not your number one, so okay. Yeah, it's the first album I've even really liked by them since Flick of the Switch, and I'm not even a maniac for ACDC, but they were like one of my first hard rock bands.

So my hat is off to them that Brian Johnson is 73 years old. He sounds fucking great. He does. He does sound good. Yeah. And there's no bad songs on this record. My kids, I think I mentioned this before. My kids don't know yet, but my dad bought them the new ACDC on vinyl for my kids for Christmas. Well, see, I thought that's what little Will was going to say when you asked him what his favorite record was, but he still went with Paranoid. So fine. It was, it was nice to see everybody come back together as well. That whole actual Rose thing was kind of weird to me. Yeah, it was.

And it is everybody with obviously, you know, obviously. Minus Malcolm. Even the murder drummer. Yeah, he's back. But Jay, it's clear. Isn't the one brother that took over for Malcolm? Wasn't he part of the band like when they were kids? No, because it was, it's Malcolm's son, isn't it? It's Malcolm's son, yeah. So unless Malcolm was getting busy real early. I could have sworn it was their younger brother. No, their older brother was, their older brother was an original member of the band.

There was another young, the oldest younger. George, wasn't it? I think it is George, yeah. Well, then this dude has been smoking cigarettes since he's three years old because he looks like he's 50. They're in their 70s. You know, you've got a kid in his 20s. He could be 50. 50 ain't bad for 70. He does look like shit, though. You're right. Yeah. I mean, John, you could have a 30-year-old kid right now. I probably do.

I'm undeniably metal after that so I allowed myself that one yeah you Jay Jay is always good for like some head scratchers like Hollywood vampires well I like how he gave us a warning for his number one I hate to break the news to you it's Stevie Young he was born in 1956 so Malcolm must have had a kid who was four yeah yeah that makes him 64 years old yeah that doesn't seem right yeah that doesn't seem right

Yeah, they're like 10 years behind.

I think that was more of a pedophile comment.

Let's move on to the next pick.

I am moving on, and it is Giant Flaming Zombie Polar Bear from Atlas.

There you go.

Thank you for pointing that out, Will.

You're welcome. And my number 25 is my most recent addition to the list. I think this went on yesterday or the day before. I really didn't make a lot of changes. I was busy. I did some ordering, but in terms of what's been on the list, it's been fairly steady. But anyway, number 25 from the United States on Matt's fake label.

This is Cellar Vessel and Vane Beneath the Soil. Oh. Oh. Wait, wait. There it is. Not at all. That was on my list and it got bumped at the end. Oh, there you go. Yeah, that's a good album. Yeah. That's another way of John saying that was a record I thought was good for a minute, too. George, is that the one you and I were trying to figure out when it was released? Yeah. Originally? Yeah. It's a good album.

I like that. Yeah. All right. Back to Marcus. I am uninformed. That's all right. Yeah. My number 24 is black Royal fire bride from suicide records. This is basically a headbanging battery. Every track is a roar of high voltage riffs. You plug this sucker in and your energy automatically goes up by 666% guaranteed. You know, I'm going to start contracting out to Marcus.

on for my list. Your descriptions, yeah. Yeah, well, I can't tell him what's on my list. I'm going to have to contract out for like 50 albums and just have him do all of them so he doesn't know which ones are on my list so that I can still have the anonymity of my list yet I get to have his beautiful verbiage. Oh, thanks. I was actually a little sad that we're not doing album covers because I actually like doing those, but I did sneak in one. I'm going to have one preview, but I'll be really, really drunk probably by the time we get to it.

I do like that black row. I remember you mentioned that I think at the

the mid-year and I heard like five riffs of it and I bought it instantly and I've been enjoying it a lot and that was one of the ones a little bit of a spoiler was one of the ones that was fighting for that number 25 spot but it was in heavy contention. I've listened to that quite a bit. No I do I like it a lot. Also can I point out well based on your comment there that the 25 is almost as hard as the number one. I mean your number one might be like okay this is so obvious to me but it's

Still, 25 is one of the hardest picks. It is. It's like, which one's going to make it on that list? Who's the last kid you throw in the boat? When you're making the list, well, this is how I do it. So I'm making it and I'm looking at the top and the middle and shit just keeps getting bumped down. And then I look at the end of the list and I'm like, oh, this looks pretty good. And like, oh no, I've got to see what else might jump above that. Always a struggle. It's like a big accordion. It is. I think of it as a ship going down.

It's like we can only save so many of you. It's like Jay hits a wall and like four albums just fall out of his hand. Well, we got a few lifeboats for the honorables. And there's a lot of this. I'm sorry. Wilson! I'll come back for you! Which one will walk the plank? That's right. Matty Matt. And just to add to that, I will say it like, I was like you guys in the

a year that I thought, man, we are going to be hurting for good music.

This to me is like, obviously I love my whatever I, you know, present for a year in this, but I'm really solid on this stuff. I mean, usually I'm like, well, this is a top 10 and then everything else down here, you know, 25 to 11 is like, eh, I could flip a bunch of shit out. And to John's point, like there is a ton of shit I could flip back in, but I really love the shit I've already got. So moving on, my number 24, John, or George,

You Put This in the Box. I started listening to it. I thought, this is really pretty. But I like it. It was almost a little bit too pretty, but I really got into it. And as that album goes on, it gets more progressive, more black metal, atmospherical. I also really dig the vocals. Reminds me a little bit of, and I'm not tightly comparing it to Eson, but just almost like there's a piece of glass caught in the throat of the person singing.

which would be this vocalist. And they have a good contrast between the clean and the harsh. The band is Amiensis and the album is Ebrection. Uh-huh. They're from your neck of the woods-ish. Yes. Yes. St. Paul, Rochester, Eri-ish, Chicago. Nice. Awesome. Uh, John? All right. My number 25 is a holdover from the mid-year. And it dropped pretty far on my list, but that doesn't

I mean, it's not doing 24. You're doing, yeah, 24, John. How much have you drank? Is that triple 10? You said 25. No, I said it was in my top 25 from the mid-year. Oh, gotcha. No, you said my number 25. I think. Oh, maybe I'm drunk. Maybe there were just some words that didn't come out. Anyways, John's 24. Go, John. My number 24 from my mid-year top 25. I had fallen pretty far. It's probably the heaviest album.

on here that I have from Sepukul voice records I like to say it like that I don't know if it's the right way to say it but it just sounds like you would emphasize part of it that way black curse endless wound from the United States of America that's a great title by the way endless wound that's a good fucking metal name too man it's brutal death black black and death war metal I don't

I don't know what the fuck it is it's loud it's heavy but it's got members from chemist blood

incantation spectral voice and primitive man it's a solid album I just you know at some point you have to figure out where to put it and it just fell pretty far because I think it was like my number six in the vineyard but it's a solid album and it probably made the list because of the final song of the album I like that a lot finality I behold is the name of the song that's a great track

My number 24. I'm just going to say the name. Temple of Dread, World Sacrifice. This is obituary worship at its best. They're from Germany on Testimony Records, and they sound like they literally worship obituary. Even the guy's vocals sound a lot like John Tardy.

I'm digging this. Just pure, good, kind of fun death metal. What would you say is obituary at its worst? Obituary of worship at its worst. Baroness. Well played. Take that. Yeah, Temple of Dread. Yeah, it's good. I like that. I picked it up after you told me about that. Okay. All right. For my 24,

The list after this one is just undeniably fucking brutal. There's a lot of heavy fucking great records this year. This is without question a metal record, but it would be more of the kind of middle of the road type stuff. And I just couldn't believe how good it was. If you revisit your past, you could get sacrilegious with it when you're re-recording something, but somehow Diamond Head re-recorded Lightening to the Nations, and it's fucking great.

Night Into the Nations 2020. And I fucking listened to this once it came out, which was fairly recently. I listened to it like 10 times. It's really fucking good. So I actually, I highly recommend it if you're nervous about trying it, because this is a record that came out, what, in 1980. So if Obituary did Cause of Death 2020, then we'll have that on his list. Well, I mean, this is a dangerous territory. The only other band that I know that it's done re-recording that I really liked was Saxon went back and revisited some old stuff and just did it all on one record. This fits in with that.

I love that record. I love this record. God bless diamond head. And there's a lot of classic songs on here, like helpless, am I evil? So on and so forth. And the rest of the record is great too. I mean, those are just the ones I'm naming. So diamond head. I saw that, but I didn't listen to it. Did you like it better than the original version or do you, which version do you like better? Jay? I like this. I like this better, honestly. Yeah. And that's, that's a weird thing to say, but the, they have a different singer now and the guy's fucking amazing. And it,

The Treatment of Modern Production made this a modern, vital, heavy metal record. It was against all odds, but it sounds like it belongs to come out now. Phil Collins, really? So that's it. Diamond Head. And I know I'm the only one that's going to have that, but it was great. It's a great record. All right. Speaking of records that nobody else is going to have, my number 24, Venomous Concept, Politics vs. the Erection, Season of Mist. I considered it.

It's, you know, it's grindy. It's good. It's got, you know, some napalm death and some brutal truth and all those fun kids. And more importantly for George, it has an erection. I expected this one from George because he was really high on it when it came out, I remember. Yeah, I expected it to be higher. I honestly did. But it just kept getting bumped down, you know, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me. It was higher and then the actual napalm death record came out.

This is the holdover to that, you know, and so. Yeah. You don't think it's stay up there that long, huh? Yeah. If it's in the top four for four hours or longer, you need to call it. I've had this album on for four hours straight. What the fuck? I've been hard since I've been making this list, so. It might fall off.

Well, speaking of us, speaking of that, that brings us back around to you, sir. It does. And my number 23 is Astral Born Eternity's End on Prosthetic Records. This is an energetic, melodic death. It sounds like old school in flames having hot, casual sex with a monomarth. And I love it, especially on vinyl. It's a really good spin. I feel like a monomarth would be on top in that one. Probably.

All right. I like that one. It's a good one.

Nice. Matt?

All right, me. My number 23.

I haven't followed this band super closely until this album came out.

It was definitely talked about quite a bit before it came out.

The band is Chrome Waves. The album is Where We Live.

I will reiterate the vocals because I believe it is the same vocalist from my last pick.

But yeah, some really good solid post-metal. I was walking my dog the other night and I realized like, what is it I like about this band so much? And the thing they remind me of is the Atlas Moth. I think the Atlas Moth is definitely a little bit more dynamic. But I believe Savaros from there was in Chrome Waves for a spell. But yeah, Chrome Waves, where we live. I also ordered the corpse provider mead from Birmingham. It was delicious. I was going to say they made mead for that band.

And they just did a fires in the distance, which I think was mentioned on the metalheads butlers list. Yes. I got to try that one. Got to try them all. Yes. Do it. John. All right. So my number 25. Well done. Slip of the tongue fuckers. No white snake alone. All right.

23 is also another newer album that just came out. I'm pretty sure Markisan like this. I think George does too. I didn't think it would make my list, but every time I listened to it, I liked it more. That album is Dawn Walker ages. Yeah. It's not a band from England. It's, I guess their fourth album. I didn't know what to think about it at first. Cause I wasn't sure about kind of a high pitched harsh vocals, but then they dropped some deep guttural vocals in there. And I was like, okay, that's kind of fucking cool. And the,

Clean Singing is pretty solid. It's an interesting listen. I find something new every time I do listen to it. So if you're a post-metal fan, give it a spin. Yeah, I picked this up after your recommendation. I haven't listened to it enough yet, but I liked the parts that I listened to and intend to investigate it further. I love the Clean Vocalist on that. Yeah. His voice is great.

by some of the more melodic kind of lighter moments but they get pretty heavy in a lot of different spots on the album that make up for it i think so if you're a post-metal fan uh you might dig that

yeah it's a little proggy little folky that's it's great i really like it john some blackish moments i guess with some of the vocals you know so it's cool all right will

My Number 23, we had him on the podcast. Local to the Nova, Northern Virginia, DC area. Scalder, the Scythe of Our Heirs, Black Metal. We had him on probably three or four episodes ago. Lead singer and bassist, Carrie Vaughn, was a brewer with me at Atlas. And so I just think this was... It's kind of hard for me

to describe because I just see Cary all the time, Brewer. I knew he was putting together a band and when we saw him for the first time play at Atlas and you're just like, holy shit, they seem like seasoned veterans at this. It kind of really blew me away and I think that has, aside from, I don't know, it just hit me in the feels. It hit me in the feels to see somebody I know. They're devils. Yeah, because he plays shirtless.

You're so cute, like a 10-year-old boy scone. Whoa. Well, how do we drop age that fast? Sorry. Terry looks like he's 10. Sorry. There's a sample. Yeah. Anyway. Scaldor. Psycho-Firers. Well, it's cool, too, because you're not really into black metal, but you really like this. Yeah. He's definitely crossing over. Yeah. Yeah. I could definitely tell the type of black metal that I like because it has good production.

It's like two bands. Right. Who's the other one? Except he doesn't like enslaved. Who's the other man? Good production and a little bit of folkiness, a little bit of melodicness. A lot like Ukiyara. I like Ukiyara a lot. Very melodic. It's also really riff driven too. It's not dissonant. It's really

I don't want to say straightforward but it's more like an old school black metal.

I thought they were very much like old school Norwegian kind of black metal when I first heard it and I like it a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a good pick.

All right.

Jared.

My number 23 is a holdover from the mid-year, a band that several of us have big love for.

And I think this is a transitional record for them.

Though maybe you could say all their records are transitional.

But I think they're on their way to a new place. Though they've never really settled in one place. A lot of people didn't connect with this one, but I loved it. Ransi Pazuzu, Mastarin, Kinsey. I just really want to one of the premier progressive black bands out there now. Weirdos. Weirdos. Yeah, that's a perfect way to put it. I listened to this record quite a bit this year. I haven't put it on in a little while, but they haven't put out anything in the last, what, three or four records or whatever it is that I just,

It's gonna be on my list. They're starting to be an enslaved sized kind of talent to me. Their last three have been awesome. All three especially. Yeah, indeed. Yeah. And my add quick real quick one of my most favorite listening experiences of my life was drinking beers and eating pizza with Jay and his cat. And all we listened to was Arunzi Pazooza. Cool.

Number 23. I believe this is our first repeat. Nobody else has repeated yet? Yeah? I haven't heard. No. Yeah, we haven't had one. From Northern Virginia. Wow. And Atlas Brew Works. Scaldor, scythe of our errors. A literal repeat since you're both 23, I know. I know. I got so excited when he said that. I was like, bing. Nipples. Yeah, I was going to say, if it was someone else, bing. You know.

Boink!

Yep. Nice. Very good album. Very good.

And good guys.

And that was a great interview, so, you know, if people were listening to this cast, go back and listen to that Scaldor interview. It was a lot of fun.

Listen to the guy endearingly talk about his new son named Pigfucker.

That's right. Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, what was his, what was his, he has a funny last name.

Hogsman.

Hogsman.

All right. Number 22. All right. Well, I just cracked open a new beer. It's from Hanakoa Brewing here in Hawaii. It's called Mellow My Soul. It's called Mellow My Soul Imperial Porter with roasted marshmallows. Nice. Pretty good. It's thick.

Like your love.

All right.

Will.

Will.

There's your cue.

Insert Will.

That's what Marcuson said.

Get in there.

My number 22, just like George, I was quite pleased to hear John mention this on his last pick, and it's Don Walker, Ages, self-released.

John and I didn't really see eye to eye on mid-year but I think we'll be a little closer maybe maybe we'll have four albums this time instead of three maybe you know what would be interesting John is to track to see how what how many albums we had from mid-year that carried over to the year end for each of us we got we got time to do all that stuff yes let me know what you want and I'll I'll work okay but yeah this is a John said it really well but it's to me is this prog folky post-metal that makes for a

to the world just before the apocalypse comes. Yeah, Marcus, let me ask this real quick. Do you feel like it's a happy listen, but it's also kind of got a dark underlying to it a little bit? Yeah, I mean, I think it's all really about the end of the world, but, you know, it has, it's very pleasing to your ears. Yeah, it's like, oh, fuck it, we're going to die, okay. That's what I'm saying, like a heartfelt goodbye to the end of the world. That's what it felt like to me, and I like, I like that, that juxtaposition of the two.

So, yeah, it's a great album and it really grew on me because it just came out, what, like November maybe? No, I think actually was just two weeks ago. Yeah, I think it just came out, which is funny because neither one of us talked about it and it both showed up in our feeds, I think, for buying it. Yeah, I think we talked a little bit about it on the Instant Messenger. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's great. It's really good. And I think it could have gone higher. Like you said, John, any of your honorable mentions could,

to be on your list. I feel like I could shift around any of these albums as well. Oh, easily. At least in this bottom part. I don't know how anyone else feels about it, but it feels like the last, like 21 to 25, I always feel like they could easily have moved out if I drank a different beer, you know? And, oh, fuck, I like this. I like this band, you know? Right. All right, Matt. Your other one, I'm sure this is the one you're referring to, but it's, it's thick. That's good. I do like,

All right, Matt.

All right, I'm switching up beers.

So from my realtor, I was turned on to a brewery called Bald Man.

And they specialize in, obviously, beer, but all their beers are based on classic rock.

And so I'm drinking Misty Mountain Hops IPA, which is lovely.

Moving on to my number 23.

Marcus, I think you were the first person to talk about this band.

It was either you or John.

It's probably George.

But it's your 22.

George actually had it on his list first. Fair enough. I heard it first at least. Yeah. What I will say is this band slash person released two albums this year. I didn't have a huge distinction between the two of them. I really chose this one because it had more songs on it and I cannot get them out of my fucking head. Really my list is about the 25 albums that I cannot get out of my head. This band is called Les Cayes, Shroud, Other Cosmic Divinations.

Yes.

It's either me or John talked about that for us for sure.

I think I had it on my mid-year, I believe.

Did you really? Was it you?

I don't think we did because they hadn't completed.

That's right. Yes. You're right.

So we talked about it because we were like, this is a great album, but there's only three songs.

Maybe it'll make our year-end list if they finish it, which they did.

Yeah, but they put out another album with it, though, which I actually like more.

And I didn't realize this dude was from Soulmass and did all their song. Yeah. I mean, he is extremely prolific. I did have their, at the mid-year, their album cover was my number one. Yeah. Yes, that's right. It kind of looks like Ralph McQuarrie concept art for Tatooine. Yeah, from the early, or from the late 70s stuff, right, Will? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I like this one better than Wounds, but Wounds is also really good, too. Yeah. That's funny, because I actually liked Wounds more. I don't know why. I just, something about it. They're both good.

And honestly, John, I went back and forth and I was like, there's just more material on this one that I love. He's somebody we should have on this one. This one, the one Matt has picked, it's just more proggy. I think there's just more going on at the other one is more bombastic, which is cool that they're a little bit different. Yep. The second one is based on another video game, isn't it? Wounds, I think. Story used in a video game or something. I don't know. I think, well, John, because I thought that they were based on like a single video game, but they're actually

based on science fiction stories.

Yeah, he mixes it up.

Right.

All the songs are based on something a little bit different, something else.

Which is great if he did material.

I feel like we almost raced each other to buy the whole catalog that time.

Oh, yeah.

George, Matt and I.

I was like, you son of a bitch beat me.

Yes.

While Matt was just doing his number 22, I was horrified.

I don't know what you said because it wasn't your pick but something about what you said triggered something and I was like wait where is that and I was like there is a huge omission from my list that I just had to boot something for so somehow so I get I get the I just made a change to my list award because something just got weird omission or emission

What's the difference? So, George, you are responsible now for our first repeat and our first, oh, fuck. So, and there's going to be more of those. I'm sure of it. I am totally ready to be like that. This is just for me. This one's embarrassing because it's like, it's a band that I really like. And this, you know, the only thing that I felt I could boot is not as high up as I probably would have put this had I, you know, given this more thought. But so the interesting thing that I think about is when we make those

It's butterfly wings generating a hurricane. Deep thoughts by Grand Moffbitchy. It's like the butterfly effect on our list. You change one out, but it just fucks your whole list up going forward. It shatters things. You guys are stressing me out, man. Who's got deodorant? Where the hell are we here? I'm totally lost. We're John now. My number 22. John 25.

Number 25, Vandenplass. No, my number 22, I know George will be happy about this. I don't like to say this after any guests we've had on, because I like all our guests. But I have to say, this was one of my favorite interviews we had done in a really long time. And surprisingly, I realized I've been doing this a long time with you guys. And it took to a recent interview for me to really come back and say, fuck, I had a great time.

The album is or the band is Morta Scald. I really had such a good time during that interview and I hadn't listed the album enough. I bought it. I was like, fuck, this is really good. Yes, it is. And so I felt that it deserved to be on there. Why wouldn't you have an album like that on your list? Because if anything, Jay's going to buy the shirt because it's yellow. You know? No, I think they, Dave and

company did a very good job on this album and i like it a lot and uh it's very nice and david he's just a pleasure to talk to you it was a much pleasure to talk and i really and like i said i don't like to say because i like all the guests i don't want a single one out but he just and he's been in contact with george a lot but he's also been in contact with other people on the podcast whatever ways online and he was very enthusiastic about staying in contact which i liked so you don't get that too often he's an enthusiastic person

in general. And he's a Randy Rhoads fan, so right off the bat, I'm like, dude, we're brothers. He was super chill. The thing is, John, I felt the same exact way. I love all our guests. I love all our interviews. There's something about talking to him. I just got done. I was like, gosh, that was a fucking treat. I'd sit under a Snuggie with him. I mean, he was a driver for Dio. Come on. Yeah, the other thing, too, is I actually believe this.

when Will said, you know, or when you guys had a conversation about doing something

at some point in the future at Atlas, he was like, oh, yeah, definitely.

I actually believed him.

Yeah, me too.

I thought, oh, we're going to fucking see them at Atlas.

It might be in 2027, but we're going to fucking see them.

You know, one other compliment to him, too, is that usually when we interview people,

sometimes I'll friend up with him on Facebook.

And I bet he did it to all you guys, too.

He sent me an invite.

He friended up with me. He was just a nice guy. He said, I want to stay in contact afterwards. I actually appreciate it. I've talked to him a bunch since then. Such a cool guy. He's just one of those people that you meet and you just instantly know you like this person. One last quick thing about him. I had never really known them. George and I saw them play at Maryland Death Fest.

I went to see Blood Incantation. That was the band I wanted to see that year. But he's like, hey, we should check this band out. They're kind of cool. And we both afterwards were like, fuck, their set was amazing. They were a very good live. Yeah, that was definitely the like, you know, underdog dark horse of that day of MDF. It was like, what? Yeah. Amazing. All right, stop that, Will. Yeah. Man, I don't know if I can. Maybe I will later. Oh, you will later. Well, trust me.

My number 22, all the way from Australia. I have a soft spot in my heart for Australia, having lived there for a little while and have been immersed in the culture. But this is a holdover from my mid-year list, Mammon's Throne, Forward Unto Flame, Harsh Vocal Doom Metal from Melbourne, Australia. I don't know what else to say about it. This is just riffs upon riffs, good doom.

Yeah, and their album cover is amazing, too. That was on my mid-year best album covers list. Check it out. Mammon, it's spelled M-A-M-M-O-N, pastive S, throne, forward unto flame. Yeah, I dig that one. 22, the avenue, that's the place where we all go. My 22, I'm going to need, Matt, I'm going to start it, and you got to finish it, because you helped me at the mid-year.

That's the fullness of my description of this album. It's a holdover for mid-year. Essoc Trillium. Thank you. Essoc Trillium. Essoc Trillium. Eternity of Shaug on Ivoid Hanger Records. It was a little higher on my mid-year, but it's one that's still going in. I still listen to it for a time, you know, at least once a week, maybe once every couple of weeks. Fucking super solid. Highly recommended. A little out there, you know, you got to be a little bit open-minded for this.

But killer stuff. It's good. The fullness of my description. It's good. George. Number 22. From France. On Xenocorp Records. This is putrid awful. Sickness obsessions. I say awful. The internet says awful. But I think awful. Differentiates it from awful.

So it's a cool death metal album. It's very nice. I like this. Let's go. Let's go. I'm just joking. Why are you rushing me? We got 20 more hours. What's the rush? Chill. Dude, mellow your soul. Relax. Sorry, guys. All right. My number to 21. Actually, this dropped quite a bit and I expected to be on other lists. And I,

It's probably the one album that I feel like I need to push higher, but it just keeps ending up here. So it is Cryptic Shift, Visitations from Enceladus on Blood Harvest Records. Nice. Inventive interstellar metal that offers a galaxy of shapes and sounds from dissonant noise to nebula-sized hooks to space travel passages of tranquility. Great album. Indeed.

I'm sure we'll hear that again. Maybe. Maybe not. I think it was John's number one at mid-year, right, John? It was, yeah. Okay. I don't know about this year, but still. Right. Right, right. My next pick. So 2020 is also the year of, I found like, I like this album, but I like their last album better. That would be the case for this one, but I still really love this album.

This band has a very unique sound. It said Old West meets black metal. And I listened to it a lot just trying to find out like what is it. It's not even like do I like this album. It's like why do I like the previous album better. I almost became obsessed with that. Maybe it wasn't Old West enough. And then I go to put this one on and it starts out with the fucking like a piano you would assume in an Old West. I'm thinking like no man just stop. I think this one's more Old West to be honest with you just to say. Agreed. But I mean I hear what you're saying.

I mean, I mean, you know, and the funny thing was when the last album came out, I loved it. And somebody said, I like the previous album better. That was me. I liked their. John B.T. is in agreement with you too. John B.T. feels the same way. So Wayfair, Romance with Violence. The fact that what album I like is irrelevant. Like this band is amazing. This album is amazing. So number 21. I think I actually like this one a little bit better. I do too. Believe it or not.

That's what I love about this is that like I'm thinking I like the last one better and you're like you know what I like this one better. I love that about this. Here's the cool thing I was on your side of the fence at first Matt and I was like I don't know but now no I like the new one the best I think in fact you know absolutely now I'm there. Yeah it's great though but it's by degrees right I mean come on. Yeah and it's it's like what like what mood are you in like what does it hit you in your life like there's so many facts and that's the other thing that I was talking about earlier

There's so many factors about these albums. Tomorrow, I could feel completely different about this list. I chose to lock this shit up a couple days ago because I didn't want to deal with shuffling things back and forth, but it's the enjoyment that we have in doing this. Got my vinyl copy in the last couple of weeks. I'm waiting on mine. I wait for everything, though, pretty much. That's right. There's that whole ocean bullshit thing there.

All right.

My number 21.

Matt, like you, I did lock my shit up early, too.

Yes.

As everyone knows, I had to watch soccer on the day of a major podcast, whether it be mid-year or year-end, and I was no different.

I was doing that at 7.30 this morning, and there's just no way I'm working on my list.

So, my number 21.

I don't know if anyone else is going to have this.

This year I have more death metal than I've ever had. And I think I might have death metal albums that everybody else doesn't have. But that's kind of cool because that just means there's a lot of death metal out there for people to listen to. So maybe this will show up again. If not, if you haven't heard of this band, check them out. Following Will's lead, they are from down under. They're from Australia. And the band is called Faceless Burial Speciation, I guess is how you say the name. They are a death metal technical death band.

on Dark Descent Records. It's their second release. It is heavy as fuck. A lot of driving riffs. And I kind of feel like this song kind of got lost in the mix because it came out just before, right after the mid-year, I think. And so we didn't talk about it that much. Yeah. It's good though. I like it. Went back and listened to it again. It's a really good album. It's a great record. There's a lot of good death metal this year, just like last year. I actually made a top 25 death metal. Yeah.

a list as well and that's on there it's a really good one job so it's a solid view and it's a little not i the word technical has become like atmospheric and progressive i think it gets just tagged on and it doesn't necessarily describe what type of technical it's not like tech death which i find somewhat annoying but yeah um good out all right wilheim every year my number 21 every year

I'm always assuming there's going to be a list buster. I remember one year it was the new Morbid Angel. And I think a couple of us, like it came out like the night before and a couple of us put it on the list and we're all like, you know, list buster. And 25 though, which was kind of funny. I remember listening to that cast. Yeah. And, and this year I was sort of like, Oh, I was kind of disappointed. Like I was really hoping for like, you know, some like late list buster.

And then last night, it came. And so did you. I think with a few more listens, this could be higher on my list. But my list buster for this year coming at 21 is Vrenth, Baptism Death. I posted this, I think, last night or this morning. Last night. It is absolutely filthy death metal from Southern California. They're on Rotted Life recordings that's based out of Maryland. But this reminds me of

I mean, there's just hooks and riffs for days, just well put together. It's got that sort of new kind of buried vocal, dirty, filthy caveman kind of death metal that like two mold perfected. This is really good. Yeah, I agree. It's got really good melodic solos on it too, which I like. It's on my top 25 death metal albums. It didn't make my list just because I didn't have enough

I listened to this a lot yesterday. I listened to it. I listened to the car this morning when my son and I went and got haircuts. I listened to it again and I was like, this has to be on my list. This is just like one of those instant, just phenomenal albums. I like that you listened to it while you were getting haircuts because that now explains why your son was kind of quiet and dazed looking this morning. He's been friends. Yeah.

It was friends.

That's really hard to say.

Weirdly enough, my kids, they'll sit there.

I'll be in the sunroom where I usually do, if I work from home or anything.

Got the record player in there.

I got stereo speakers for the hookup computer.

And there's always death metal playing.

And they're just sitting back there playing with Legos.

They'll be basically underfoot doing something just to kind of hang out.

And they don't blink an eye.

But some of the neighbor kids, if they walk in the house, they're like, what the fuck is this?

Our kids are looking like, what's wrong with you?

I don't know. It's like the Clockwork Orange programming scene. I like that. Your kids are slowly being turned into. Yeah. There are second repeat. Second repeat at the same number in the list. Third repeat actually. Was it? Okay. My description was going to be this year's Blood Incantation but we'll go with Markiston's instead which is a fine description and it always it's fine when we when when several of us choose number one the same that's interesting.

But when two of us are like, this is absolutely the 21st record of this year, well, that's just fucking weird. Cryptic shift, visitations from Insulatus, was one that got a lot of our attention earlier in the year, made a lot of mid-year lists in our group, stayed on mine, had to stick around. Yeah, I feel like you and I have had a lot of listers that are the same number. We do. I don't know why that is. I'd have to go back and look to see how many.

Jay doesn't know what to do and so he cheats off other people's papers we discussed this already that's it oh my god I'm one of those oh virtual hug Jay awesome nice that's two so far for that one right so we have two albums of two so far right yeah and we know it's gonna be on John's list maybe maybe world's worst poker player right there I don't have a three

Go Fish. Yeah. My number 21 is on Century Media. They are from France, where they were underpants. And they are Svart Crown, Wolves Among the Ashes. Oh, nice. Yeah. That was, that was, was that pretty high in your mid-year, George? It was. Okay. Key operative word there being was. Yeah, I mean, it's a good, still a good showing on here. Oh, yeah. I mean, the fact that it's still on my list says something, because most of my list from before was gone.

We didn't really address this directly, but we usually do a top 40 year end. So this year we're just doing a top 25, I guess just to save time, but it just makes all the top 25 even more special in a way. It does. And it was my, I started the conversation, but we've done 25 before, but I did it because usually my 39 and 40, I'm like, yeah, I don't care if anybody listens to this. I really want them to feel special. But now I feel like the term is foist on my own petardia.

because as I was doing these 25, I was like, oh, fuck, that was a terrible fucking suggestion. You know, because there's like so much. But Jay, let's be honest. We didn't know we were going to have more than 10 new albums post July, you know, and all of a sudden everything just started dropping. So yeah, then the floodgates open. Now that stated, I still like the fact that we had to fight that much harder. And I think you can take for granted. We really recommend these records, you know, these 25. Yeah. I mean, honorable mentions. Yeah. I always,

I've been doing it since the late 90s. So I actually made a top 50 this year just because I felt like I had to represent some other bands. And so that's saying a lot. Especially in half the year. Half the year, we didn't know. We didn't think that we were going to get a lot of great records like John just said. And all of a sudden it just exploded because bands realized we don't know when this pandemic is going to end. We got to put out this fucking material. And they had time to make the material. You want to know what else they realized?

We know how to work within the pandemic. Now we can release this shit. I think that's what it, I mean, Enslaved, we all were bemoaning the fact that they delayed their release for whatever reasons, but I think other bands caught on to that, other labels caught on to that, and probably were able to plan better. Yeah. By the way, I think Enslaved is doing another show tomorrow. They've been playing live shows for like the last month. It's so crazy. It's insane. They are,

I don't know if any band hasn't taken advantage of this situation more than them. Yeah, they're doing a great job. So. Who's next? Jay? No. Isn't it you, Marcus? Are we on number 20? No. Did you just go, George? I did 21. Oh, it's my turn. I did Sparkground, yeah. Oh, boy. All right. My number 20. Will, wake up, pay attention.

Vengeful Spectre.

Motherfucker.

Vengeful Spectre Porter.

Call back to before the episode started.

That's awesome, Mark.

I want to make sure we'll understand.

I'm going to look it up right now.

He may have it at number three by the end of the podcast.

It's self-titled.

And it's from China. It's a battle sword of riffy black metal. So you'll probably dig that, Will. It's mixed with Chinese folk magic and evil. And it's fucking awesome. You've been big on this since it first came out, I think, haven't you? I have. And I think it came out like February, January. It was both of our albums. You and Matt, I remember talking about that. Yeah, me and Matt both had this album of the month. It was so funny because I was like, oh, I found this cool band. This will be my album of the month. And then before I could give it to John, Markson was like, oh, yeah, Ventral Spree.

I'm like,

my brother.

Yeah.

I've never,

you guys talking them up.

Yeah.

I love it.

And I've loved it since.

So it's really cool when an album comes out early in the year and then it just

is able to fight off all the challenges that come after it.

Yes.

But yeah,

it's,

it's definitely one of my favorites.

So yes,

we'll make sure you listen to this.

I'm listening right now.

Oh, yeah, we can hear. Literally. And there's a royalty violation right there. I'd like to see that lawsuit. Oh, Jay, trust me. Somebody will take it. Trust me. Wouldn't it be funny if China tried to sue the United States for copyright infringement? No, first of all, just hack your phone first, Will. I just put it on my wish list, so maybe I'm going to make a border for this.

If you're gonna make a porter, you gotta know the band. So good. No, I trust me. I, um, nice, Matt. I like this pain. Am I up next? Yes. Yes, you are. Okay. My number 20 was actually my number nine at mid-year. Yeah. Fuck. Exactly. Middle archive.

early era mastodon which i would agree with but a little bit more mellow

already not quite as aggressive um i think on one of my fake labels independently released

from the uk their second album titled widow maker the band is those snakes i didn't know that

actually but i agree with the description never heard of them my guess was wrong see them beady eyes

It was one of the ones I am in here. I asked you all to send me three records that you were putting on your list. Matt sent this and it went on my list. And you found it. And it remains on my list, by the way. I'm not for spoilers, but it's a good record. That's a great record, actually. It's like a really good, unique kind of southern sludgy. But every once in a while, it gets all Sabbath-y with its riffage and stuff. I mean, it also has nods to the past. It's just super entertaining. Yeah, very good. Matt, since you're always talking about made-up labels, I want you to start your own label called H-E-T.

Taint Records.

A, I would love to start my own label.

B, that is a genius name.

Sorry, John.

I was going to say no one's going to believe it's real.

Oh, exactly.

That's perfect.

B-T.

Bitchy Taint, what the fuck?

Bitchy Taint.

You know, after reading the Daniel Lake's USBM book that just came out last month,

which I'm not done yet, but I'm still reading.

It really makes me want to like release music. I'm like, because so many of these guys from the early black metal scene, they were just like, I'm going to release this. I'm going to start a record label. And you know, I'm like, we can fucking do this. You know, anyway. And Matt, I think you should be grand muff, bitchy. All right. To John, I think. All right.

Number 20. It's funny because the last pick I just kind of dissed on Tech Death. And this band has... Here's some Tech Death for you. They are kind of a technical death metal band, but they're also got a lot of progressive aspects to them. And I believe Jay backed me on this one when George just shit all over this when I mentioned it as my album of the month last time. Just kidding, George. Here's the weird thing. Oh, was it of the month? Never mind. I'm sorry?

I think Matt was going to say in the last one, but we'll see. No. And I'm just giving a hard time, George, because I thought... Exactly. Thank you. The album is called Diagrams of Consciousness. The band is Omnivortex from Finland. I pooped on that? I really didn't think... No, you just gave it like the old cricket stand and we had a good laugh over it. That's all. I'm just having fun. John, please continue with your description. But this is the one.

I thought Matt was going to say because there are some Mastodon-esque passages in this one.

Yeah.

They drop into, yeah, but in any case, go ahead.

It's an interesting album because while I said it's tech death, and it is very technical, these guys are amazing players.

It does get a little proggy.

There's like, I don't want to call them Opeth-esque moments, but they do these moments where they kind of just drop down to a guitar playing only, and it becomes very ambient,

and it's kind of cool. Then they just rip into this very technical passage. But there you go. They do some of that too in there. Great. Just shit all over my pick some more. Anyway, what I get from this album, Jay, not so much Masson, I get some early Baroness vocals and some of the clean singing. So here's another, I have another offering for you though too, which is some of their structures. And this, by the way, was the last

to fall off my list, truly, are sludge-like. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Yeah, so if you are looking to listen to, and again, I hate to say tech deaf because I don't, it's... I don't think it's quite that, anyway. It's not that, but they're very technical. It's very deafy, but it's also progressive, so. Yeah. And they're from Finland, which seems to dominate my list this year for non-U.S. countries. Oh, interesting. Which is funny because they seem to dominate everyone's list every year.

We do this.

I have a crazy amount of countries.

Like when I started filling out that spreadsheet,

I was surprised by how many countries are represented on my list.

Yeah.

I know.

That's awesome.

That's great that so many countries are represented.

I was sorry.

Sorry.

I was distracted by the bestial flatulence coming out of.

Yeah.

Was that real or is that actually a sound?

That might be real.

Is it live or is it member X?

What was your pick? The band name is Omni Vortex. Diagrams of Consciousness. Okay. It was badass. I think you'll dig it well. No, no. Did we get the promo for that? No. This is something that recently one of you guys posted. Welcome to the conversation. I'm sorry. It was my album of the month, but it literally showed up, I think, like the last day of the month or something like that. I like that a lot. I consider that heavily.

It was the last person I think to pick for November. It was because it literally just came out the day before. Yeah. Okay, well, I'm going to start off by saying I'm on my second drink now. I am also drinking the Giant Flaming Zombie Polar Bear Double IPA from my very own Atlas. Well, I got to say that's in the top three, I think, from them. Yeah, it's good. It's basically, it's the Ponzi, but on steroids, it's like the double Ponzi.

And Ponzi is the flagship IPA. So a lot of people are getting fucked over with that beer. Well, it used to be called the Madoff, which, you know, Madoff is the, but I guess they didn't think that was going to go over very well as a name. And then somebody, there was an argument in a, in an Atlas meeting about what the name of the beer. And somebody said, did you see the game of Thrones last night with that giant flaming zombie polar bear when they were all north of the wall and fighting the

Wildlings. And there was this, look at a giant flaming zombie polar bear. And that became the name of the beer. Very nice. Super delicious. It's even better on tap, John, if you make it there. I like I just assume I won't make it there. Well, yeah, that's a pretty good assumption. Yeah. And after all, there is a pandemic on, so there's that. Yeah. My number 20, Midnight, Rebirth by Blasphemy. All right. Speed Threat.

just crazy

I don't know what it's kind of hard to describe these guys

they're like hardcore speed metal thrash metal from Cleveland

absolutely one of the best shows I've ever seen at Atlas

when they played there you know they play with the hoods on I mean these guys like jumping on the amps

the sub monitors that we have on the floor I mean these they

put on a show and if you've never seen Midnight just go

it's so good

I really like this album.

This kind of just reminds me of like,

kind of like some of the metal I grew up with.

It just kind of gives me that like sort of

80s feel to it for whatever reason.

No, it's old school.

It's totally old school.

Well, and you haven't wavered from your opinion of that show.

Every time you've mentioned shows at Atlas,

that's always in your top couple of shows.

It was just so, it was just entertaining.

I mean, but it was good.

And I think Midnight's sort of more of like a one-man band.

So he hires, you know, the guys out or whoever he gets,

gets the hired guns. And maybe it's a little bit more consistent than I'm aware of. But yeah, it's just so much. It's just fun. It's like, oh, that was fucking heavy. Holy shit. And then this one was like, god damn, that was fun. I'm gonna have another beer. And super nice guys like that. That's what that's one of the things I love about what I do at Atlas. You get to meet all these people. And, you know, there's like 1% who are assholes, but 99% of the people

you meet are just like just happy like thanks like i'm thanking them profusely like oh my god thank you for

coming my brewery putting on a show and they're like thank you for having us here's a free t-shirt and i'm like nope nope i will buy it

not a lot of nice people in the metal community that's true a lot of good good people yeah i mean i could i could do a whole list of

nice people there's super nice we'll stop 20 nice people yes yeah i'm 21 will you should you

Naughty and Nice lists. I should. There's only a couple people on the Naughty list. Off air, yes. Off air, yeah. It's funny because I can remember specifically there was like one guy in a band who was like the nicest human being ever. And this is a pretty big band that played. They were kind of like weirdly big that they played. And then like another person in the band was like kind of like a curmudgeon fuck. Not, I don't know, just not as engaging. Yeah.

We don't want to name names. Curmudgeon Fuck would be a good name. Did they break up recently? No, I just started that band. You are that band, John. John, if you had a band, it would be Curmudgeon Fuck. And the first album would be called Hey, Get Off My Lawn. I have an EP coming out earlier called Fuck You. All right. On to Jay.

Yeah, number 20, I think we're on. Yeah. Well, it's, there's some unfortunate, uh, supporting information here from George's suspicion that I cheat off other people's papers. Um, but, uh, now I'm cheating off of his last pick, but also this was on my mid-year and it was George who originally told me about it. Svart Crown, Wolves Among the Ashes. Uh, this was, this, once this got into my playlist this year, it stayed in my playlist. Super solid, well-produced. Um, another one of those bands where I'm just like, how come I don't know about these guys?

and they should kind of be huge and so on and so forth. Just totally approachable. Fair enough. Okay. But I don't have much else to add to the description, but a record that stayed with me all year long. So apparently I liked it one pick better than George did. Yeah. You know, I went through like all my mid-year stuff and listened and I was like, nope, you're off. Nope, you're off. Nope, you're off. But this one was like, all right, you can stay. You know, it was right next to disbelief on my mid-year.

Disbelief did go off, but Sparkground stuck around. Very interesting. Very interesting. Because my number 20 is Disbelief. Is that true? I don't believe that for one second. Do you disbelieve it? The ground collapses on listenable records from Germany. I have to update my number 19.

All right, then.

Wow.

And now we are inside the 20.

We're moving pretty well.

Inside.

Yes.

So my number 19 is Garia Limbo on Season of Mist records from Portugal.

It's a really huge menacing black metal album.

It doesn't really stick to a formula at all. It has a really great sense of melody. And one of the most passionate and emotive growled vocal performances I've ever heard in metal. Just the inflections, the changes in the voice are amazing. So I love this band. And I think this is probably their best album. You know, I think this is the first year that I did not double check a lot of my picks with like Angry Metal Guy and stuff.

I just curious with it but I do remember I heard of

Greer because I think not this album but the previous album like two years ago

Angry Metal Guy gave him like like a four and a half like something crazy like a four

which is pretty high up and then I really I bought the

previous album and this album and I like this album a lot it's a good pick

thanks yeah this is one that I feel like I should have given more time to because I know I like their last album a lot too

For whatever reason, I just didn't, you know, didn't follow up on it as much as I probably should have. Yeah, I mean, it has really good riffs on it. But I feel like if you listen to it more and more, you uncover layers to that album that you don't really hear the first time around. It's definitely something you want to spend time with. Cool. All right, Grand Moff. All right, my number 19 is a Polish band.

the big art of the shadow. But in Polish, it means absolutely no singing children to be found here. I would describe this band's sound as a mix of Behemoth and Bluetouse Nord. When this album started out, it almost sounded like it was going to go to that song, Blaze of Glory, the theme song to Young Guns 2 by Jon Bon Jovi, which I would have been totally fine with.

the band. Exactly. How do you know that? Because I like it. Factoid we did not need to put on this podcast. Because George is a young gun. I knew it as well and I have it tattooed below my belt. The band is Ars Magna Umbra and the album is Apothecesis. Is this the first one that Matt just made up? It does sound like that. This is on I Avoid Hanger. It's a second album. Polish Atmospheric Black Metal Project from 111.

That's good.

I did have this idea of having my son read all my,

read my list.

I mean,

there's no way he would stay in here for that long,

but like,

uh,

just,

you know,

he's,

he's a first grade,

you know,

so he's like beginning reader.

And so he's,

uh,

his pronounce,

I,

I posted this before I took the video of him reading the cover of

decibel top,

um,

the Judas priest hall of fame for painkiller.

And he's like,

it was just like,

Matt was like,

it was exactly how Matt was headed.

We think that Matt can't read very well.

I also like that to listen to.

It only occurs to me quite suddenly at the sub-genre descriptions.

We have these atmospheric Polish black.

I was just like,

we're so deep in the fucking hole at this point,

dude,

with lesbian folk singers on eight track.

This was probably my favorite one this year.

You know what I mean?

It's just like it's crazy. I love that. What? I haven't heard that one, Jay. I'm making them up. Actually, a very treat. It could be Jay's number one. He didn't warn us about that. No, I'm slowly realizing my number one may be hugged rather than pushed away. We'll see. Some other people are going to say it. From ridicule to acceptance. Well, it'll be on some list. It's just not going to be. As long as it's not clutch, it'll be all right.

- Uh, Johnny boy.

- Sorry, I was distracted. I got a visitor that just showed up and...

- Kitty!

-...someone's gonna be hungry soon enough.

- Uh huh.

- So, uh, my number, what are we at?

- 19.

- 19?

- Oh, sorry. Had to open a bear first.

Uh, this is gonna be a little bit of a run of albums from my mid-year.

I actually, believe it or not, had an even split for albums between mid-year and mid-year.

and the end of the year in terms of when they were released.

- They even split, were they on your list?

- Yeah, I mean, I actually carried over 12 albums from my mid-year.

- I think I have 11.

That's why it'd be interesting to do that as a stat.

- Yeah, and I think what happened for me this year is,

I don't know how you guys feel.

Marcus, this might be good for you because you have so many.

I think these ones just end up being ones I listened to the most.

It's not maybe that I necessarily like them more.

I just gravitated to them more during the year. That's exactly what I chose, John, was what I listened to the most. I don't always do that. Markisan, I said this a number of times. I know we've all said at some point, but I know you seem to emphasize it more. We listened to so much fucking music during the year. It's impossible to keep up with everything because I know there's stuff that you guys like that I won't even have on my list. I don't even think I'll listen to that. There's just so much. Can I add one comment to that, John? Yeah, go ahead. That I agree. We listen to a lot of music.

And after a lifetime of that, I think I listened to more music this year than I have in 10 years. And because of the lockdown and shit, I was constantly listening to music this year. But that's the thing, though. If you we listen to so much, if you're going to go back to an album and keep listening to it throughout the year, you know that that's something that's going to make your list. Yes. So I don't know. I think it's like a combination of it. Yes. Some of these earlier albums, I listen to more, but I wouldn't keep listening to them.

if something else came up that replaced it. So just some of them just really are diehard. They couldn't be taken off the list just because I keep spinning them. Yeah. So yeah, that's the same for me. By the way, I just opened up a pop. It comes from Marlowe Artisan Ales. It's a pale ale. It's like a PSA for the beer I'm drinking. I think we all like this band to some degree. They've shown up.

on our list going all the way back to 2015 they only have two releases one ep one full length and that is x genesis solve at coagula i went back and listed this again and this is a really good death doom album i think i for me the production's great it's not your traditional new death doom which is very almost sludgy and dark and the vocals are cavernous this is kind of more of a early 2000

mid-2000s type Death Doom. I like it a lot. I just went back, gave it a spin, and thought, man, how do I not put this back on my list again? It's different than the EP, too. Yeah. Which is funny, because that was also really good. So the fact that they kind of shifted a little bit and still made a great record. It's a little slicker in production and sound, I think. But still, if you like Death Doom, and I don't have much on my list this year, actually, and I'm a Death Doom fan. You probably have about 25 on your list.

list this year. No, I had literally. No death, doom records. Yeah, death, doom. Oh, right, right, right, right. Got you. Have another beer. I'm sure you noticed it was on decibels list. It fell off of mine. It was on my mid-year. I was surprised to see it on decibels list, to be honest with you. Me too. I was surprised I even knew about them. Yeah. But I remember, because. I'm not surprised. It's fucking good. When I first got involved with the podcast, I remember you guys and Will and I were talking about this on the drive up, I think, but this came up during the mid-year.

when I did my first ever episode with you guys back in 2015. It was a five years ago. Yeah, man. Five fucking years ago. No. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, six years ago. 26 years. Physical years. Well, we'll kind of get thrown off, you know, so. Yeah. And I know somebody remind me, I want to say these, the prime suspects in this band are,

Geographically Far Apart. Yes. So I think the one guy is in the band Enshine, which is from Sweden. And then the singer is from Columbia, if I'm not mistaken. I thought Columbia was it. And boy, can he fucking do the growls. I think Australia is in the mix too, for some reason, unless it's just two dudes. But we reached out to them once and they said they'd be on, but I think we just couldn't get the timing right or something. I think, you know, if you like this stuff, you would enjoy this band.

I've talked enough about them. We'll move on.

All right, then, Will.

My number 19.

I remember somebody on Facebook posted, like,

what band have you seen more than any other band ever?

And I think this band is one of those bands

because I've seen them play Atlas and other venues around here

about a bazillion times.

And I never get tired of it.

They always put on a great show, Ilsa.

And their new album, Prior. I mean, this is just filthy ass. I love that. I love that word. Filthy ass. Filthy ass. Just like Marcasson's taint. Yeah. I know. It's very clean. You can eat off this thing. Yeah. It's also Prior. It's Krusty Doom. They're from here in Washington, D.C. Nice guys. Just, just, I think this is their best album.

They had Corpse Fortress, which was their last album, which I liked a lot. But this one prior, it's all about the Asura killer. Like, you know, these satanic, these young kids who got in this satanic cult and thought they were doing something really cool and they were killing people. But just great. And they're on relapse. I just love these guys. Awesome. Expected that one on your list. Yeah.

Yeah.

And I agree.

Well, I've seen them like a gazillion times in the area.

Yeah.

Sometimes I'll open my garage and they're just like playing in the driveway.

I'm like,

they're hardworking guys,

you know,

they're not going to need a sandwich.

I'm going back in.

So what's unique about them is they have three guitar players.

It's almost like Iron Maiden,

like,

Oh,

this guy came in.

The other guy came back and I'm like,

we're,

we don't want to kick this guy out.

So now we've got three.

Which is cramped to Atlas.

Atlas is not a big venue.

And so a lot of times they actually play on the floor.

Yeah.

He doesn't flip his cord out at the audience, does he? When you get a third one that doesn't leave, you just unplug his guitar and don't tell him and make him dance around. Put him on top of the bar. Yeah, but then he surprises you with some killer riff in a song you didn't think he played on. You're right. You're right. That's true. My number 19 was dropped on me by Matt post-previous to mid-year, and it

Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks Because It Weighs A Lot Heavy It's One Of Those Contenders For Heaviest Of The Year Though There's A Lot That Contends For That Big Huge Black Somewhat Post Doomy Death Doom Black Metal Avant-Garde Etcetera Etcetera Drought To Murty This Record Still Resonates With Me And It Is So Fucking Heavy And Catchy In Places And Just A Cacophony Of Just You Know One Of Those Kind Of

like ISIS heavy bands, you know, not, not very ISIS like, but just that amount of, that amount of a punch in the face and, and a great, super entertaining listen. So didn't know about it till Matt told me and it immediately sucked me in. When you guys make these picks, it kind of makes me a little sad. Cause you mentioned these bands. I'm like, man, wish I had room to put it on my list. So many spots. I didn't listen to it. I liked it. Um, just didn't have enough time. It's a little bit, um, it's in the same mode.

as

ulcerate a little bit.

It's that kind of big,

broad, spread out

monster of a fucking heavy record.

And by the way,

can we just back up like

a minute and sample

when Jay was talking about

how it was black and huge?

Black and huge!

Black and huge!

And can we get a screen capture

of Markisan's face?

Actually, what I would like,

I think you should back up. We could do these back to back. It's black and huge. You have to back up because it is so black and huge. That's right. It's so funny. Will, at this point, he's just saying shit to get a reaction out of me. I know, but it works every time. I'll stop doing it if you stop reacting. The whole time. Yeah. Like watching somebody's heart slowly break. I thought I liked these guys. But Mark is getting more subtle. His reactions are getting more subtle.

because he's just sort of like, it's like, it's almost like he's not shaking his head. It's like almost just his nose is shaking or his beard wagging. Yeah, I'm becoming desensitized as the cast goes on. It's called, Marcus, that's called grooming, just so you know. Oh, I know grooming. Did you not see the luxury that is my beard? Oh, it's gorgeous. It's more like the Stockholm effect, Jay. Yes, indeed. I love casting with you guys. Georgie.

19 from George.

So when I did my last pick, I forgot to mention the new drink.

And that is the Sierra Nevada Dankful IPA.

It's dangerously hoppy.

That's danky.

It's danky.

That somehow has a dick joke in there, doesn't it?

Yeah.

Can we just keep this going?

But it's not even just a dick joke.

It's a dirty dick joke.

It's a danky dick.

It's a danky dick.

You see Marcus, he's like hugging himself. He's like, oh my God. This is like just common conversation for Will. And it's like, I'm looking at Will and Markisan next to each other. My screen. It's awesome. But my number 19 is probably going to elicit at least one. Number 19. Okay. I'll take it on for everybody. Go ahead. Okay. Necrot, mortal. Okay. Number 19. There you go. I'm okay with it. I'm okay with it. Yeah. Me too.

I couldn't get that as high as I wanted to get it, George, because of the year, because of what happened. That's a fine placement. It's great, too. It's fucking killer. Now that based on everybody's responses, maybe it's the only one. I don't know. Oh, I don't think so, but I think that just proves how good this year was. Yeah. Are we on 18 or do we? We are on 18. She's only 18.

All right, so nice to meet you. Let's do it. Matt, I'm your Huckleberry. Cool. Stirring black metal infused with the outlaw sounds of the Old West. I'm talking about Wayfair, a romance with violence. That's true. I am always amazed how well this merger works. Yep. And I feel like this album, what we talked about a little earlier, but I just think this is their best album. I think that they were able to do both of those worlds.

in an amazing way on this album. And it took a little bit of time. I had to listen to it more. There's definitely layers to this album, but it's my favorite of theirs. Shut your mouth. I was talking about Wayfair. Grand Muff. Bitchy Tank. Okay. New beer alert. The beer is called Incantation. It is from Anchorage Brewing. It might be a bit of a foreshadower, but whatevs.

a ton of Anchorage lately, which is making me jealous. He's got that. What's that? Anchorage is awesome. I love all their stuff. Like we'll ship that Anchorage stuff. I know. Cause I've looked into Tavor. They don't ship to Hawaii, which is a pair. Damn it. So interestingly enough, they had like an anniversary beer. It was 50 bucks. It was from Anchorage. And I thought, for one beer, you know what? I've already been drinking. I've got the money. Click.

It was amazing. And so I've been mostly doing like their non, clearly the anniversary was like barrel aged and a bunch of different shit. It was super good. Was it at least a bomber or something? You know? Yes. Okay. But I've been trying to get at least their IPAs. So Incantation is a sour. But their stuff is so fucking good. Yeah. Dan Clack and Clown Car really likes that. Yes. Klingon. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, they're not far from him.

No. It's funny to me, Marcus, you can't get Alaskan beers because those are the two. You're in the only other non-continental. I can't even get a joint theory. A joint theory renegotiated their deal with the post office or something, and I can't get their beers anymore. So I only had it for a limited time. You have to come to my house. I'll ship it to you. I'll ship it to you. Awesome. That'd be cool.

Permanent address, I'd be more than happy to ship it. Oh, yeah. Wait, do you have a permanent address, Matt? So, in January, we'll move like four blocks away for a couple months. And then at the end of March, we'll move into our permanent home. So. Why are you moving so much? Because the people we're buying the house from need time to find a new house. And so, they're like, hey, March 31st. That's funny. They didn't think of that. They were like, yeah. Strangely enough, we actually, we got to see the house.

before it actually went on the market. It was kind of a realtor to realtor deal. Our house was like that too. Yeah. Realtor on realtor action. I like it. Yeah, exactly. It was very, exactly. I mean, that part of it was nice because we didn't have to compete with anybody else to get the house because like we had already bid on probably three or four houses and lost out because people are putting like crazy amounts of money down on a house, which we were not interested in doing. And so the downside was,

They actually still need to find a house. We'd already sold our house. So we have a bit of a two month, two and a half month gap. So we're going to rent a house for about, well, until the end of March, but it's only five blocks away. And you know, our stuff going to storage will be great. But yeah, we got, we got the Christmas card and Barb was like, should I save the envelope? Do we need the address? I was like, Nope. Nope. We'll fix that.

All right, John. Cool. Is it my pick? It is. All right. I think. Another holdover from the mid-year. And it was really high on my mid-year. It fell because I'd forgotten about it, went back and listened to it, and it's like, damn it, I've got to find a place to put this on my list. It's death metal with a cosmic influence. There it is. Wow. Did this fall far? I don't think it's a cryptic shift, or no, it's going to be on one of the other ones.

I know which one it is. It's from I Void Hanger Records, which by the way, Matt, I believe any band you mention that doesn't sound real, it's from I Void Hanger because everything from that label I don't believe is real. Cosmic Putrefaction, Horizons Towards Which Splendor? Withers. Nice. Wow. Emphasis on Withers, all right. It was sexy and creepy at the same time. Yeah. Well, you know, not that Dick Talk isn't good.

creepy but um got us all going and then freaked us out thanks john i like is that a new app like tick tock tick tock

tick tock well that's that's a bellhead podcast uh you don't have to swipe left or right just tap

repeatedly yeah come on

here's what i'm realizing i only gave my beer on that last pick i did not actually give my i i was

I was thinking that. I was like, wait, he didn't actually say anything, did he? I just realized that. Thank you, Matt. We'll go back to you. Sorry about that. I thought there was something wrong. Oh, this is where the wheels go. Anyway, so I'll stop real quick. It was on my list before. I still like it. I just didn't listen to it enough to make it higher. Matt, what's your... Insert, rewind, sound effect. My number 18 is a man called Dick Talk. D-I-K-T-I-K. It's called Just Chat constantly.

All right, my number 18. When I was in high school, I worked at Sears in the men's department. Does this go as an underwear model? Wait, Sears? You're buying Tuffskins? Exactly, Sears. Tuffskins. And so what happens in a men's department is when you go to the teenager section, they have music playing all the time because it's hip. Got super sick of it because it completely repeats, repeats, repeats. But there was this one electronic song that uses a riff that totally got started.

in my head and I fell in love with it and I realized like hey this is a Van Halen riff it's the intro to Ain't Talking But Love and so as opposed to like wanting to vomit because I hated hearing it on repeat like everything else that one like just became part of my soul and so when I heard this band the sound reminded me of it it was clearly not as good as that it was not as good as Eddie rest in peace but it was something that totally stuck with me throughout my life

And strangely enough, I found this review of this album I'm talking about. I can't imagine where the fuck this is going. I'm loving this story. It's going to be amazing. I've always wanted to have this band slash this person on my list. Anyways, this review I found. Best albums for wandering the house at night, hearing a strange sound. Oh shit, it might be a ghost. Oh shit, it's a ghost. Oh, okay. It's the ghost of Eddie Van Halen. Rebel Wizard, magical, mystical indifference.

This is like a 33 minute guitar solo. It is not as good as Eddie Van Halen, but it reminds me of Van Halen. It's a super epic rips over and over again. Interesting. You mentioned the electronic thing too, which that was the one thing I couldn't quite shake hands with that record. You know what I mean? I tried. I tried God how I tried. And it's not bad. It's just, I was just like, it's just a little bit too much of that. It's out there. Yeah. I love that record. It's not a, it's not on my list, but I think it's in my honor. I'll have to go back.

But best video of the year for sure. And I wish it was just a little bit longer. I felt like it was too short. Like they should have spent more time on the song. When I checked it, it was the perfect length. Sample that. Actually. Actually. Hold on. Hold on. Perfect amount of length. I didn't realize it was that short till I actually went back to get the

the sound button to get the length for what I was going to say. I didn't realize it. We all feel that way, man. Trust me. I can feel it in my ribs. Whatever. That one definitely flirted with my list for sure. Nudge, nudge. I prefer cock cast, John. There you go. All right. COC. Do you need to clean up your pick a little bit or do you? No, I gave my pick. Do you want me to give it again?

Why not? All right. Why not? 18. Cosmic Petrification. The horizon towards which splendor? Withers. Withers. All right. So long. Will. I think this has been said again. I think it's somebody's number 19. Exgenesis. Soul Hit Coagula. Emospheric. Blackened Death Metal.

Yeah. Yeah. All the way from Finland, not to mock productions. Yeah. Good old fashioned, just blackened kind of death doom. I just fucking love this album. And this is, it's funny. I, when decibel came out of their list, I was like, Oh, I want to see how my list would compare to decibels. And I wrote all this stuff down because X-Chance was one of the ones. And it's like decibelist bands. I never heard of five bands.

I heard of and listened to their music 22 out of 40. Bands will likely make my top 25 and list 10 out of 40. That's not that bad. It was one of them. That makes their lists sound more respectable. We're planning on doing something like that for like the last four years at Decibel. Where we compare our picks to their picks. Oh, okay. Yeah. We're working on that. Right. John actually asked for my list before I was on the Metalhead's podcast.

I need your list so we can get you because it is

congruent then with Matt joining your podcast.

We got to see the people working on that, Will.

Will, can we get it?

John.

Okay.

So good.

Genesis.

No, Will, it's funny you should say that because I thought the same thing.

I said it would be really cool to figure out how much do we actually like Decibel's list

or are we just saying it or are we actually like their stuff?

They're all right.

We like Decibel.

We don't like Decibel.

They're not bad.

They're not bad.

I mean, I've got this black metal book that's all bullshit.

Yeah.

Anyone who's paying attention, that's a very, very funny conversation.

Like, I haven't read this book yet.

For being somebody who's OCD and not literally OCD, I mean, I don't know, maybe I am, but I joke about being OCD anyway, about the depths to which I go to find music I haven't heard.

There's a lot of shit in this book I haven't heard.

Yeah.

I went through the list of acts and I was like, I've never heard of it. I've been listening to everyone, like each chapter. I'm like, I've listened to the band while I'm reading it. And I'm like, well, you made a soundtrack for the book. Yeah. George, the most OCD thing I've ever heard was this for somebody who's OCD. Well, I'm not OCD. Well, I mean, I'm kind of OCD, but I, I, I mean, I, I might not be, but I made a list. I don't know. Possibly. I'm a really good driver.

Kmart sucks. I kind of doubt it. My number 18. And I believe we're at 18. I believe we're at J. Wait, can I pause for a second, J? Sorry, real quick. The beer. I didn't do my beer. I think you guys will all appreciate this one. 20-point recap from Evil Twin Brewing. Don't drink it! Don't drink it! It's hazy-ish. What? There am I. Hazy-ish.

Hazy's is only okay if they do it well. That's the problem. A lot of slurs do do it well, though, I think. I don't know. Sometimes when you see big chunks of yeast and you see... Hazy's done right if you can pour the whole bottle or the whole can in your glass. If the last inch just becomes sludge of shit that's from the bottom of a septic tank, then it's like, no, no, no, no. You did not do this well. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember having that happen. And I've had quite a few hazy beers and I don't remember that. Yeah. They're just like everywhere back here. There's one. I think they're everywhere, everywhere now. Like right now it's the dominant. It was the number one category at the Great American Beer Fest. That just pisses me off. You have no idea, Will, how much that pisses me off. God damn it.

Well, they've shit all over the West Coast IPA style because of that. Yeah. Which is weird because, John, honestly, like if you go to the right or slash wrong store here, there are more hazies to choose from than non-hazies. That just blows my mind. No, it is the same way here, too. I'm telling you. No, I believe it. Yeah. I just agree with John. We shouldn't do it out here, but whatever. Number 18.

A Baltimore Brewery, Nepente Brewing, Alpaca Fracas, Double IPA. And the first four-pack I got was lovely. It was wonderful. I loved it. So next time I was in that store and didn't find anything I particularly wanted, I picked up another four-pack. And the first can I cracked, I poured the whole thing in to my glass. And I was like, what the fuck is all this shit?

I mean, it was like big chunks of like, you know, this wasn't just like, you know, like wine, like things or, or, or even, you know, like normal, like certain beer sludge. This was like giant chunks of shit. And I'm like, yeah, I did not have this. I didn't have this last time I bought this. How long was it between the first time and the last time? Yeah. Cause that's not talking about your sex life either. That's an aging thing for sure. Like a month. It wasn't, I mean, this was not like,

A month is a long time in beer, by the way. Yeah, but I mean, I bought it. I bought it new. I don't know how long it was sitting there. But the point is that I took a strainer and poured my beer through it to get all the shit out of it because I was like, this didn't have this last time. If it had it the first time, okay, I get it. There's sludge at the bottom. But the last time, all four of them, none of them had that. And so I was a little concerned when this one did. First world problems. Yeah.

Anyway, Jay, you're 18. Is that you? Yeah, yeah. Thank you for your white stuff and your beer. My number 18 will be on some other lists. It was some November Record of the Month club for the podcast, though not mine. It's a bit of a late adopter here, but everybody fucking loves it. Not everybody loves it, but people love it. A Feather and Bone, Sulfuric Disintegration. It's as good as everybody fucking says it is.

So I'll just pass it on to the next guy. I was like really late to that. You guys were all talking about it. I was like, all right, I'll fucking check it out. And I was like, yeah, it's fucking good. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Yeah. Now I've talked that one up a lot. George wasn't so sold, but now clearly he is because he's wearing the shirt. Yeah. I think I fell off the cliff after George did. I think he was like, okay. And then I was just like, okay. And now it's now everybody fucking likes them. Great. Now they're fucking trendy. Not everyone. There you go. John's going to J.

This one. Jay. Jay. Jay. Oh, I've jayed a lot of albums. I can't wait to see the Jay Awards. The best part of a new year. Georgie. My number 18. We are switching gears. Ooh. Clutch. No, not that far. Dick rock. That was a switching gears joke. Yeah, yeah, clutch. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Fuckers. Yeah, yeah. I got it. Third to fourth. Got it. There's very little on this list that is not a good one.

Not death metal or black metal. But this one is one of them. But it's heavy. In fact, it may be a ton. Maybe a megaton sword. That would be blood hails steel. Steel hails fire from Matt's fake label in Switzerland. Wow. I'm surprised. That's pretty low for me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Number 18. What? I ordered both of the

I don't know if they handle their own records, but I sent them a message and I said, please, if somebody in the band is handling these, could you sign the records for me? So wait to see if they got that. Sign them, we'll see. Honestly, I pre-ordered it. I'm surprised that it was on the list. I mean, it's not that I don't like it. I just didn't think, I was like, there's so much stuff. You were talking it up, George. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but still, there's a lot of good death metal. I'm like, there's a ranking, a priority. Death metal always comes first. There seemed to be a debate among Eternal Champion and Megaton Sword. Who? Okay, sorry. I didn't get your guess there, but fine. I'm with you on that one, Will. I actually like Eternal Champion more than Megaton Sword, and I like Megaton Sword. I like him. Yeah. All right, please.

All right. Number 17, Bitchy Tank Club.

My number 17 is Sons of a Wanted Man, Konoma, and Les Acteurs de les Hombres Records.

It's a black and progressive post-metal that weaves in hardcore shoegaze and other groovy sounds into the mix,

like they're playing a game of musical chairs with metal, and they never, ever lose.

Nice. But I have enough chairs is what you're saying. I don't. By the way, I forgot to mention my new beer as well, the Helltown Rapture IPA. Sorry. I noticed that more beers are getting cracked the longer we go. I'm holding off, man. That's how it works. I gotta hold off. Too fat, too many beers. It's already, what, 953 there? You're good.

Get a few more in before lunch. It's 10.53 now. Five hours. Oh, you don't do daylight savings there? No, we don't do daylight savings ever. Roger that. Got it. Yeah, sometimes it's like six hours difference. What's the fucking problem then? If it's 10.53, you should have nine beers by now. Come on. I've had quite a few.

He's not wearing his seatbelt. He's got to be careful. Yeah, hold on. He does not want to be the guy who fell off his chair. We're going to need to lock you down. I'm good. I mean, I'm usually really good at pacing myself. It's just in that mid-year cast. I don't know what happened. No, I really want to hear you yell that fucking rainbow's back. Yeah, you know, I put up black curtains. Because the sun's always coming down.

John and I look like I'm angelic, which I do anyways. But I put up black curtains, so I can't see anything unless I really look out the window. I fucking have to take a picture of this rainbow. That was amazing. There's more rainbows on the podcast tour. The rainbow. The rainbow's never stopped. I pretty much see a rainbow every day here. Yeah, it's like Scotland. At some point, I'm expecting you to have big bowl Skittles with you, right?

There. Yeah. So this is just in case you need a refresher. This is why Markisan his pacing himself. And drinking the thunder oak. That was taking a shit today. I love how I was drinking thunder oak and then it sounded like a thunder oak falling.

Falls in Hawaii and nobody's there to hear it. Save him. Unless George records it. That's the best part. I think Markisan her J. No, he's fine. Don't worry about it. He's good. Markisan her J. He's like, ah, he's fine. Whatever. That is a bad sign that I'm like, you know, you guys are like, God damn it. You never leave a man behind. I'm like, we're going to be late. Let's go. No empathy whatsoever. No, that was purely faith in Markisan.

He's gonna come back. He's gonna come back. And then he was like, I don't think he's coming back. Well, when you left the room, I thought I was like, no, he's sleeping on the couch. But you know, I did it. I came back. This time. I'm not repeating that performance. Yeah, you're killing it. Let's do Matt's number 17. 17. Serpent Column. It's on Misty Chaos Records. The only thing I'd say about this record is I need to shower after I listen to it.

It's very intense. It's like a post-metal album with kind of an overlay of blast beats. And a lot of dirt. Dirty. It's a really good album. It didn't make my list, but I do really like that one. I like all Serpent Columns albums, actually. John. All right. My number 17, keeping with the mid-year, Shards of Humanity, Cold Logic. I just like this album. It's a short album, but man, it's just awesome, thrashy death metal.

I never heard of them before until this album and now I'm gonna go back and listen to their other release at some point I don't know but I do like this one on unspeakable axe records that's a good one yeah I love the cover too I like the fucking big eye and lighting it's really good Mike that that eye keeps looking at me and I'm kind of getting freaked out every time I turn the album a different direction so looking at me now if you like that kind of they kind of harken back to that late

80s thrashy death where they were kind of still to kind of combine together and

it's cool yeah okay well you can go now and you're muted yeah you try i know sorry i know i'm muted uh i have two

young nine-year-old girls in their wow yeah it's like oh my daughter how much have you had to drink i don't know

Oh, there's another one.

And I was asking Evelyn what her favorite album that came out this year.

Like Sabbath Paranoid?

No, no, no.

I think Evelyn really likes The Eternal Champion.

Nice.

Tell her she's wrong.

I was.

Whoa.

You don't do that.

Luckily, she can't hear you.

I wouldn't have said it if she could hear me.

Oh, God.

So right now, well, you've just made their year.

When they go back to school, like, oh my god, I was on a podcast. But a little, they will be very disappointed to realize there's no video aspect. Oh, it's recording. And one day I'll figure out how to do it and it'll get up there. I think if you were going to start with video, you probably do this one. You know, the big, big, big. I've got, I've been, ever since like, you know, frickin' necrosexuals on, I've got the video recordings. I just haven't figured out how to post them, so.

One day I will and I'll go through and I'll update them all. Yeah, that's because everyone wants to look at us. Yeah. I wouldn't do all of them, George, but if you do like the year-end, mid-year. If I could just watch those six assholes, that'd be awesome. So my number 17, Loud Night, mind-numbing pleasure, speed thrash metal from Richmond. That's why you couldn't say it.

Virginia. Yeah. Yeah. These guys, we, we may have them in the podcast in 2021. I hope so. Yeah. These are the guys, some of the guys from Ramming Speed, which is kind of like a, kind of like a long time thrash metal band that came out of Richmond. And then, then they reformed as Loud Night. They played at Atlas before. They put on a great show. I just think this, this is very similar to Midnight.

I actually like this more. Me too. Yeah. It's really good. I highly recommend if you just like kind of like old school sort of like speed thrash punk in the vein of like I don't know kind of like DRI after they've crossed over and stuff like just it's really really fun. DRI after they crossed over that's funny. More of like the four of a kind kind of thing but that's a good one.

I'm going to

And Ocean's Cosmic World Mother. I dug this one, and it stuck with me throughout the year. So I haven't listened to it in a little while, but I dug it, and I reviewed it in looking at my list, and I was like, yeah, totally fucking deserves to be there. Yeah. You know who really loves that is JR from Brimminghorn. Loves that. Oh, is that right? It's cool. It's good. I mean, it's a big, it's like so, it's kind of world-class, professionally done, nothing wrong with it.

So it's like it's a cheap and easy put this on you'll be happy you know and they're not breaking any ground but it's good stuff. It's their first one in a while they've been off the I think like a long long while right at least like 15 years or so something like that yeah. Yeah. I ate my number 17 continuing in the vein of less extreme metal spirit adrift enlightened in eternity. Nice. Yep. I like it. Yep. Yep.

I like it too. It's got the best vocal performance and man, the solo is just sore on that thing. Yeah. It's good stuff. I will go back and say again, like this. Blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The vocals are better. They're still just not there for me. You got to admit for a guy who didn't have the confidence. I'm not saying he didn't. It's just he didn't sound like it on the previous albums. This album, he just made leaps and bounds, I thought. No, I think he did.

Yeah, I think it's way better. It's just not still, it's a little nasally for me. Yeah. And considering all the shit that's happened in that band. I'm offended by that. Yeah, I know it's probably Jay's number one. Will is the vocal police. Yeah, I'm the vocal police and Jay is the nasally giant nose police. Hey, George, do you like this one more? It sounds like I'm singing. Matt is my deputy. Sorry, John. George, do you like this one more or less than the last one? The last two, they've kind of

I like this is my favorite. I think so too. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And. Magazine number 16. Uh, my number 16 is or Hava La Doga from avant-garde music. Um, just a really dense spellbinding soundscape of melodic black metal ambience. I really like the way this album feels the sounds on it. So I've gone back and actually,

got their older albums too. This might be a Crickets album actually too. I don't know if we even talked about it that much. There are so many Crickets albums on this today, Marcus. It doesn't matter. I really like this one a lot. I've been spinning it more and more actually towards the end of the year. I ordered the last two albums on vinyl. Looking forward to see what else they do. You know, speaking of vinyl, if I may interject as I always do when everybody else is talking, I'm sorry. I'm rude.

I used to be a big vinyl fan, as anyone who has been listening for a while knows.

And then I...

I know, you look great. You lost a lot of weight.

Yeah, yeah.

It's all vinyl.

Slender vinyl fan.

And then I abruptly stopped, and it's been a couple years since I've really...

I bought one or two.

I bought the Affair Brewer one because, you know, my boys.

And one or two other ones.

But the other day, I don't know.

I was watching something on TV and I looked over at Barb and I was like, I want to shop for vinyl. I'm feeling the urge. Yes. Yes. I'm like, I'm drinking. I'm feeling the urge. I'm like, I need to go. You know, I miss the world. I miss going and flipping through vinyl. I need to go get some vinyl. And

What did you get, George? I didn't get anything yet. You just flipped. Basically, I got a little bit of approval. Part of the problem was I have too much. There's nowhere to put it. It's stacking up in corners. There's always a place to put it. You just won't be able to display it. That's the key. Astro Glide works wonders. Ikea's all out of shelving.

I'm taking us down the rabbit hole here sorry I meant to do this actually before we started but I decided to skip it there's the Gimme Metal Vinyl Club and I know that that has been mentioned before and I've tried looking at the website and I don't understand how it works does anybody know can you explain this to me how this works yeah you get it you get a subscription you pay like $25.99 and you're in the club but do you get everything because it's well you can cancel the subscription at any time you get it for when you sign up George starting from

that period. Okay, so, because I thought that there was some sort of, like, you can, like, say yes, I want it, or no, I don't, because, like, okay, okay, that's what I was looking for, because I'm, like, the very first one's Chemist, and I'm, like, I already got it. If you sign up before, so they have, like, a cutoff for the album, so, like, Chemist is the one that's going on now, and so if you signed up now, you would get that Chemist album, but you could cancel it before the next one, you know? Yeah, Marcus, have you figured it out yet? Because I actually joined for the bolt thrower one, which,

was supposed to be here yesterday and it's apparently locked up in Louisville right now. As I understand it, and Marcus, since you and I have talked about it a little bit, maybe you understand it better than I do. I have Bolt Thrower coming and I have the Chemist coming. I could have canceled Chemist, but then I'd have to sign back up again to get the next one. Right. Which is kind of weird the way it's set up. Yeah, that was my question because like, you know, even back in the 80s on the Columbia Record and Tape Club, if they were like, here's your monthly

you had the choice to say no thanks. And if I don't have a chance to say no thanks, then I'm not signing up because I'm, you know, half the stuff they're going to have, I'm probably, I probably already have. Right. As far as I know, you don't, you know, depending on when you cancel it. Yeah. It's, I think you can George and they can jump back in after that for the next one. But here's the thing too. They haven't been selling out of all those records. So I've actually purchased the death album.

that they had on the club. Was it Leprosy? That you got? Yeah. Right. And it came with the pin and everything. It's the same as the club. They had extras because they didn't sell a lot of them. Now, that could change because it gets more popular or an album comes out that people really want. Chemist is number five, I think, isn't it? They haven't done many. I think so. They did Possessed. They did Ulthar. Did they do that one? No.

For the club they did Possessed, Death, Necroft, the first album for Necroft. Then it was Bolt Thrower. Bolt Thrower and then Chemist. And then Chemist. This is a new one that just literally got announced. Yeah, see other than the Necroft, I already have all of those so I wouldn't want to do that. Yeah, these are like, they're doing special variants and they add like Markisan set a pin or something to it that's unique for that specific release. Well, and they're really cool colored vinyl. They look great.

I'm just not a variant person. If I've already got it on vinyl, I don't need it again. I want to support Gimme Metal, and I like the idea of a monthly vinyl club, but I need to be able to opt out of stuff I already have. I think you can, and you can jump back in the next month, I think. But it's not clear. You can jump in any time, and once you cancel it, I assume. I think so. I agree. I mean, the chemist is tough for me because it looks cool. The pin's awesome, and I love chemist.

I already have like three versions. I have a chemist. Like Marcus, like you and I said, I'll just find somebody who doesn't have it and just give it to them. Yeah. So yeah, that's I think that's the problem. They've done they've had awesome albums in the club. But they're awesome albums. We probably already have them. Yeah. You know, I say this with no level of annoyance. But where the fuck are we here? Matt? I'm totally lost. Yeah, must be getting cold in Minnesota. I mean, I just did.

16. Jay, this is no different than any other episode, so I don't know why you're confused. Or why you're annoyed. First, the only thing you should be confused about is that we're still at least nine hours ahead of ourselves from another episode. I agree. That's why you're confused. Wait a second. Am I in the right place? It's still sunlight out. What the fuck? What? Sun's going to be going down soon here. Number 16.

Straight Up. No Bullshit. Death Metal. Necro Tea. Mortal. I never heard of them. They're kind of like Necro. Very similar. But just kind of. Yeah. Heavy emphasis on the tea. Necro Tea. It's like bubble tea, but different. Very similar. Tastes great less filling.

John. All right. I'm sure this will disappoint somebody. Number 16. That's not a good lead, John. Well, you'll see with my pick. Somebody will be like, what the fuck? Maybe not. But I'm putting this one here. I like this album. I just find that I like the last album a lot more. I think, was it Jay who said that earlier? Somebody said that earlier. It was me. Sorry about that. No worries. I didn't know if you were real or not.

Matt, so I just went to somebody that I knew. I'm the young emperor. Yeah, this is one of those albums that I like, but I just prefer the previous one. It's not that I don't like this one, I do. My number 16 is Temple of Void, The World That Was. I love this album, but it didn't hold me as much as Lords of Death. And this is good, and I don't have a problem with the clean singing like Will does.

But it's just a little different for me. And I'm excited for them because they already have new material for another album. So yeah, and I do think that this album is another one that's brought them more notoriety. And it did actually make decibels list this time. Yeah, I know. I think it's just I haven't listened to this one enough is what it is more than anything. No, I totally agree with you, John. I liked the last album.

I like those guys

and I want to like this album more

but I just

I'm not into it

I'm not into this album

I like that they experimented more with the sound

because I don't want the same fucking album

over and over again

there's only certain bands that are allowed to do that

like as Jay would say

Saxon is one of those bands

that's allowed to do the same thing

every album and you like it

there's very few that I think

we give a pass to

I would never discourage a band from trying to broaden their sounds. I just don't like it as much. I don't like the clean vocals in it. And normally I'm not a snob like Willis about that, but I don't like that. It might just be that Lords of Death is just that good. It might be that too. I think it is. I think it is. Lords of Death is unbelievably good. Yeah. And I, and I, if I had to go back and do that year over again, that would be in my top five easily. I had it, I had it around 12 or 13. There's no chance it wouldn't be. I can't remember. What year did that come out? It was maybe three.

17 or 18? I agree. I had it on my list. I don't think I was on the Metalhead podcast when it was out. Yeah. But I had it on my list, but it would be higher. Yeah. I really like that album, especially after hearing this one, because I would revisit the old album. Like, man, I really dug that last album more than I thought. But I will put money down on this. If we saw them play this album live, I think this album would sound amazing live. Yeah. And I mean, it's still your number 16, John. That's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. No, I just, I felt,

It's odd putting it there because I like them so much, but it just didn't resonate as well with me. And I don't know why. Don't let that discourage you. If you've never heard Temple of Void, go listen to this. Lords of Death was 2017. Yeah. But they remain our favorite group of first responders. So that's enough. And they're fun guys to talk to. And yeah, check them out if you don't know. They're a great band. Yeah. Willem.

My number 16. Mentioned before, good guy. Mortis Gold, suffer for nothing. Sounds like he suffered for something. Yeah. I'm a big believer. I've gotten arguments with George about this before where he's like, oh, no. No, fuck you, man. Knowing something in the band does not sway my opinion. I'm like, of course it fucking does. Yeah, it does. Yeah, it does. Ben.

Yeah.

Rassenblatt needs to know no knowing. That's a lot of no's. I know. I got lost in there somewhere. Rassenblatt would peak without knowing him. But Suffer for Nothing, I think is great in the Mortisgoal catalog. I can't wait for, hopefully, Peaceville to re-release all the previous... A little update on that? Yeah, the archive. I heard from the guy who's updating. He said he's slowly working on their catalog.

Yeah, I think I saw that too. They just did a lot of autopsy. They've been doing catatonia. Hopefully they'll do the OPET stuff. They did all the OPET stuff, right? There's only two of them. They actually ask people, hey, what's your favorite ones? Because we're doing them all, but what do you want us to do? Yeah, I know. Will and I both said border-scald. Yeah, I did reply to that. Nice. I don't want to say underrated because I don't think they're underrated. Let's say under-known.

Yeah, I don't know. Like one that, you know, and I remember when we had David on the podcast. Last episode. Yeah. So long ago. But it was amazing to me that he was like, oh, you know, we were the second wave. I'm like the second wave. You were like 1992 or something like that. Like, how is that second wave? But that's considered second wave.

That's how fast it was moving at that time. Yeah. Anyway. Mortis goal. So for nothing. Nice. By the way, have we had an album get three hits yet? Or have they been a lot of twos? A lot of twos. Wayfair got three. Is it three? It's the only one so far. Okay. Matt, you and me. Yep. That's the only one. I haven't mentioned Wayfair yet. No. I think everyone thought he was going to mention Wayfair and then he just mentioned Temple of Void. Yeah. I'm just getting drunk now. Yeah.

Let's get him going.

When you were teeing up your Temple of Void pick, I'm like, oh, he's talking about Wayfair.

You're right. I thought he was, too.

I fucked that shit up.

He's not going to talk about Wayfair.

So two is the most.

Matt's gone full emperor down there.

I know.

Oh, shit.

Dude, is that the Snuggie?

Is that the Huggle?

Darth Bitchy.

It's my Vikings hoodie.

Oh, so it's the Vigel.

Yeah, the Vigel.

Nice.

You should have like flames behind you and like people getting like slaughtered. Let me see what I can do about that. All right. Go Google that. Oh, go ahead. We had two for Wayfair, two for X Genesis. Yep. So four or five that got to so far. Yeah, but we're getting up there now too. And it's going to get ugly. Yeah, we're going to start getting a lot. Yeah. Sorry, Jake. Now it's getting real. Now it's getting real. I haven't said that yet.

I was going to say it after pick 24, but I decided not to. Smoky. He's repeating your 25. I said it after 20. Now we're getting fucking serious. My number 16 kind of butts up against my 17, which was And Ocean's Cosmic World Mother. This is a similar style, kind of big sounding black metal, well produced. I did like this one a little better. I think I had these butted up against each other in the mid-year, I'm pretty sure.

I've seen this one on some lists around the web and it deserves it, but it doesn't deserve to be any higher than 16. Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World. This was a really good fucking record. I dug it. Yeah, thank you, Jay. I like it all, too. It was great, yeah. So definitely list worthy. Definitely no higher than 16. Yeah, well. No higher than 16. Big, broad, not symphonic, but kind of.

that kind of black metal. Good stuff. It's pretty proggy, actually. It is a little proggy in places, yeah. And there are some, sorry, well, clean vocals on there. Hey, Matt, I watched a Bob Ross episode the other day for the first time since I was like 10, and it was the most soothing thing. And my wife and I were like, how the fuck does he do this? Right. Yeah. Well, he doesn't do it anymore, but. Yeah. Well, he's painting the lid of his coffin now. Well, no, he's painting happy little trees in wherever he is. Wherever he is, indeed.

Clouds. There are your trees. 16. Number 16 on Season of Missed Records from the United States of America. Tombs Under Sullen Skies. Nice. What's the thing? They just put... Or no, it wasn't... Was it Tombs? Something else just came out. Well, they put out two releases this year. But wasn't it... Was the first one an EP? I forget. It was considered an EP, but it was like 30 some odd minutes long. So by our standards,

It's not an EP. That was Monarchy of Shadows. Well, they claimed it was an EP at first on Bandcamp, and then they actually changed it because it's longer. So we consider it an album, and I think they now consider it an album as well. So, Toomes numero dos of the year. And I guess with that silence, we shall move back to Mark us on for number 15. All right.

Number 15. I keep being wrong about things, but I think this one was mentioned already. Of Feather and Bone, Sulfuric Disintegration on Profound Lore Records. This album officially makes of Feather and Bone the most evil, most dangerous sounding death metal band on the planet. When I listen to this album, I'm torn between wanting to lay in the devil's lap so he can stroke my hair or hiding in a seaside cave so I can cry alone forever.

It's a really great album.

Yes, it is. Are we on number 15?

Yes, it is.

Marcus, did you just say Feather and Bone at number 15 when this was your number one a few years ago?

It was my number three a few years ago.

Dear.

Dear me.

I did my job. I've been talking it up.

And now you guys are into it.

That Megaton sword must feel really good.

It always does.

It is a Megaton sword.

That's the sister group to

Will's band Megaton Cock.

That's Megaton Pike to you, buddy.

It's two Megaton, by the way.

Megaton Lance.

All right, then.

Matt or Bob Matt.

Bob Ross.

Bob Matt sounds like somebody from Kentucky. Funny thing is my middle name is Bob. So it's Matt Bob. Number 15. This is basically a 36 minute folk like metal revenge film. In a similar vein to Tanger Calvary and the Who, I have chosen Vengeful Spectre. Self-titled. Will, pay attention. The Porter.

I hear you.

Nothing.

That's what he thinks of that album.

Chinese Porter.

Please.

Yes.

No small support of one.

Vengeful Specter.

Yes.

So good.

So right.

Johnny.

All right.

My number 15.

I don't remember many people talking about them this year.

It's another death metal band.

I like this one a lot.

It's my favorite of their four albums.

I'm new to them with the last album.

The band is Skeletal Remains, The Intumament of Chaos.

For whatever reason, this one just clicked with me this year, and I dug it, and I like these guys a lot.

I forgot about it.

Not really much to say about them.

I mean, they're not breaking any new ground, but what they do, they do very well, and I think that's testament to their abilities.

I just think that we're going to see so many different death metal albums.

So much death metal period, John. That's the thing. What kind of death metal do you want?

I'll be honest, I'm a little burned out on it because there's so much. So I had a hard time deciding what I like this year.

I think my list kind of reflects that too. I definitely have death metal because I love death metal.

But I just was looking for other things besides death metal. Because last year was a really good year for death metal. Maybe the year before, too. The last three or four years have been just amazing. And old school death metal, there's a lot of that. Yeah. I'm still trying to figure out what the definition of old school death metal is. Just sounding like bands from that kind of, what, 88 to 93 period, I guess. Maybe. I don't know. Yeah. Well, according to Will, the new wave starts in 92, so. Not according to me.

According to David.

According to David.

From Mortar Skull.

Oh, yeah.

But I mean, like a band like Cynic was putting out promos back in what?

Or demos back in what?

88, 87?

I would say John's right.

These guys, they're old school.

Yeah.

Oh, definitely.

They have a little bit of a Morbid Angel sound to them.

That's not your only band, but that's the one I hear a little bit.

Yeah.

Faster paced Morbid Angel, I should say.

But they could have come out back then and they would have slotted right in there.

Yeah.

That's a shame for some of those bands because they probably deserve a better, not that they have a bad reputation, but because they're doing it so much later. I would be willing to bet we have probably more single death metal albums on our list than any other genre or subgenre, I should say, of metal. Yeah. Possible. I think so. Yeah. Probably. Will, 15. Grot. Mortal. I got it. Just straight up.

I'm old school. I'm still struggling with this whole old school. What is new school? Tell me what new school is. Matt does not say that old school. Matt just says, or new school, he just says that's the right school. Well, I don't know. Well, and it's all splintered now. So there's so many different weird subgenres of death, but let's say slug just new school or cattle decamputation. I mean, or five figure death punch.

Well, I'll tell the reputation, definitely. But yeah, there's bands like Tumult who, they sound old school, but they're doing, they have some new tricks to them. This is my point. Exactly. They sound old school. They're doing new tricks. Is it new school? Is it old school? But anyway. But it's more like Necrot. I mean, that's just straight up like 90s. Necrot, Off of Tank Crimes, out of Oakland, California. Land of the Oaks. Yeah, I was surprised they weren't on the label I'd ever heard of before.

Never heard of Tank Crimes? Nope. I think they only released one album this year, and it was Necrot, and I think they just said because of COVID, we're just focusing on one album, and that's it. Huh. Was their first one on Tank Crimes? I don't think it was. Blood Offerings? I'm not sure. I'm not sure. Well, in any case. Might have been. Discog's it, Jay. Somebody go to the Google machine. I'm on the Google machine, and in the meantime, I'll give you my 15, and this is the part

the list where maybe we even though we want to say more about these higher albums some of them have been well described by previous people so that stated i have very little to add um but this except to say matt was responsible for this one as well he's already said it once described it well we spoke about it then those snakes widowmaker a really good fucking record dude one definitely stuck with me i'm gonna listen to that someday oh it's fucking tops you know what that was the exact same that we had that conversation after

Maybe everybody was like, okay, I guess I better check that out. Never did. I checked it out. I liked it. Let's see. Georgie's 15. In the meantime, I'll get us in the crowd answer. All right. So if we were doing a top 30, we would be halfway here, but we're not. So we're not. My number 15 from the Boston, Massachusetts area of the United States of America on prosthetic.

Any guesses? That's right. Infero. Rights of the nameless. My boys. What offerings did indeed come out on Tank Reps? I like the Infero Brew, but not enough dick jokes. Neutrino loves dick jokes. I'm just surprised the lack of dick jokes. Yeah, but Galen doesn't. Galen was very, you know, when they were on here and they did the lightning round, I think you made Galen very uncomfortable.

I think it was Neutrino who I made very uncomfortable. Both of them. They're nice guys. Nice guys don't want to be involved in your lightning round. Nobody wants to be involved in it. Anybody who wants a future in a public way does not want to be on that. Somebody you went so far as to censor it. Yes. But we won't say.

Back Around to Mark a Song that was a big 14. Number 14 for me is Firelink self-titled self-released just a blaze of progressive black and death metal dynamic production on this just really big riffs I love this I think it's a huge step up from their last album which I also enjoyed but just just phenomenal and the cover painting by Luke Orem I love so

Great one. Very nice. I like that. All right, Matt. Number 14, already mentioned tombs under some guys. Fairly traditional tombs. They venture outside their room a little bit, but definitely a solid record. That's good. Very good. Okay, then, John.

All right. My number 23 has already been mentioned once. Probably the last time it'll be mentioned. 23. After I get my number 25. Okay. No, my number 14. Dark Fortress Spectres from the Old World. Well, no shit. No wonder you were all up in arms on that. I didn't know that you liked it that way. You broke the rule of 16. Well, no, my list says no more than 14. Oh, okay. Got it. Sorry, my mistake.

No, I actually think this is a very good album and I'll probably explore. I didn't really know much about Dork Fartress. I didn't know much about that because I'm more into Alka Dork. I like that band better. That's fantastic. It wasn't just the Dork, it was the Fartress. Dork Fartress.

Dork Fortress. That was brilliant. Nice. I'm dying. I had to run down and feed my cat. I'm kind of discombobulated right now. Give me a break. Oxygen level is a little low. Dork Fortress. Blood sugar is down. I haven't eaten. I've been drinking for three hours. Jeez. That will go down in history. Podcast history is Dork Fortress. Yeah, the Dork Fortress is where we all hang out. Trust me. You're all there with me. We are. We're totally in it. Anyway, Dork Fortress.

He still can't say, right? Have you caught on him saying it like that now every time, Steve? New York Fortress. Spectres from the old. Oh, man. Oh, man. Spectres from the old farts. Yeah. I'm going to fuck up every band name going forward, not just for fun. Just to do it. Trust me, the next one will be fun.

Oh, man. Will.

I think Will just peed himself up an old lady.

That's part of the black case.

Will, you need to draw it in a little bit so you can give us your number 14.

Yeah.

I'm going to quickly tell you what I am drinking.

I'm doing my best.

There's a brewery that shall not be named. Oh, what the fuck. But they do happen to come out with a beer that is my recipe. Yeah, not even close. It's not quite the same recipe. I think anybody who's a connoisseur of beer, a good beer, can know that. But I have a morbid curiosity to find out what the maniacal double IPA, which is named after a Camel Corp song off the album Kill, but they won't mention that.

like a nightclub in Miami. Looks like 80s neon bullshit. Yeah. Or the Big Lebowski. Right. And I can say that. Only if they were that cool, but it's not. And I'm allowed to say that because I'm definitely one of the biggest fans of that beer. Will knows that. Yeah. It's kind of a dorky beer. The dork fortress of beers. Dork fortress. My number 14. This is something.

Pretty 100%, maybe 99.9% kills all germs. Positive that George told me about this. Well, of course. I don't know if I have no idea if I'm pronouncing this right, but it's APEP, the indication of the deathless one. This is a German band doing Egyptian death metal. I forgot about that. That's a good one. Holy shit, do they do it well. I mean, Niall, shake in your boots because these guys

are hot on your heels with the Egyptian-themed death metal. It's really, really stellar. Stellar production, stellar musicianship. The content is great. Highly recommend it. APEP. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Or APEP. A-P-E-P. I think it's APEP. Maybe it's APEP, I don't know. Yeah. They're German. It's APEP. APEP

Sorry to our German listeners, by the way. All three of them? Both of them. Yeah, we are. We'll see you in August. Yeah. I sure freaking hope so, man. Limp Bizkit's playing. The Slipknot. Did you say Limp and Biscuit? Limp and Biscuit. I think they're opening for Fort Darkris. Slipknot and Limp Bizkit are playing Bakken? Yeah. Slipknot is actually probably, I mean, I hate to say it, but Slipknot is probably a headliner.

Based on where their name was on the poster. And you guys are still going to this? Yeah, that's good for you guys. You go back to whatever you're doing. Yeah, but there's some really good bands on there, too. Yeah, like a little fill in. Like Korn and... No, there's some good stuff. Try Five Finger Death Punch or Three Days Grace. Oh, my gosh. Isn't Gary on that? Yes, they are. They're good. Yeah, but see, you guys won't be drunk during all the early bands,

hammered during the shitty bands.

Well, during the early bands, I'll be pooping from the night before.

Yeah, if you know anything about Valken, you're drunk the whole time, John.

Or you're sleeping in piss.

Yeah, well.

He does that too, yeah, sorry.

But, I mean, At the Gates is going to be there.

Cadaver is going to be there, which is freaking awesome.

Death Angel, Devin Townsend, hello.

Dropkick Murphy is not metal, but I'd really like to see them, Gary.

We have seven stages to choose from.

So I mean,

you guys are going to have a good time no matter what,

cause you'll be together.

Yeah.

Priest Lordy.

I really want to see Lordy.

Actually,

priest should be your main thing just because it's the 50th anniversary tour.

And they're 50 first to show back up.

Yeah.

Onslaught is going to be there for Will,

but he won't be there.

Pestilence,

Rotting Christ.

It's a depends if I like old Onslaught.

I don't like new Onslaught.

Sick of it all.

Hello.

Oh,

I do like sick of it all.

Therapy,

which is cool.

Venom.

I haven't heard therapy in years.

Well done.

Well done there, man.

It's Devin Townsend will be there.

I mean, John.

Yeah.

But we'll just in case you give a fuck.

Yeah.

But you can see Devin Townsend any day of the week on that.

He's always doing something right now.

Yeah.

That's true.

Next to Enslaved, he's the most prolific musician in the world right now.

All right.

I really am going to do my number 14 now.

Straight up.

Death metal.

Heavy as fuck.

Dark Descent Records. I don't know how much we have talked about this, but I think it must have come up at some point. Prescription Conduit. Oh, yeah. That's a fucking straight up good time afternoon fucking death metal record. Remember, we got the promo for that and I liked it a lot. Yeah. It was a consideration. That must be how I ended up on my MP3 player. But yeah, good stuff. There you go. Underwateraudio.com.

I wish that hasn't even been charged since the pandemic stopped. There it is. Just sitting here doing nothing. Sadness. Georgie. So I'm going to do my number 14 as if I'm from Baltimore or as we say Balmore. On this one, we're going down the ocean. And that's the ocean. Fenerose Eric 2. Wow. Blah, blah, blah. Whatever comes after that.

A lot of other like, I don't know, time periods from when we weren't alive. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. If you know the ocean, you know, they name everything after a time period from like 500 million years ago. So. Yeah. They like took Jurassic Park and they were like, this is really cool. Let's do something with this. Yeah. So good. Yeah. Nice. Let's keep this monster going. The 13, 12, 13, 13. Lucky 13.

For Me is Dephosphorus Sublimation under Valter Records. Cosmic Convergence of Grind, Progressive Metal and Hardcore, Heavy Riffs, and Vocals That Sound Like a Tortured Alien Spirit. I love this record. I don't know what it is about it, but it's spun it a ton. I really enjoy it. Not a lot of people know this, but Valter Records was formed by Valter Fagan. Am I right about that, John?

I did not know that. I'm making it up. Or Walter Disney. You should ask Matt then if that was real. Not me. I'm going to check my notes. It's a weird one because it's nerve alter records, but I think they also, there's like four different labels or something that put this album out. So that's where I got it from. Nice. Matt. All right, Matt.

to find a way.

The Ocean Collective.

Wow.

Two.

I can't even pronounce those two words.

It's on Metal Blade.

It's their 10th album.

They're from Germany.

They're post-metal.

I really dig this album.

Two Oceans.

Wow.

All right, my number 13.

Well, this is for you.

It's not the dork fortress, but it's farts warning. Thanks for the warning. Yeah. Yeah. My number 13, the 13th album from this band, fate's warning long day. Good night. Uh, I liked this album. It's not my favorite album from them, but I still do like it. And it probably is their last album. Unfortunately, those guys have reached that point in their careers.

And there's not really much to say about it because I'm probably the only one who has it on their list. I can think of one other person who might like it, but I don't know if it's on this list. Nonetheless, Fate's Warning. It's a solid album. It's not their best, but it's definitely a good album. I like it a lot. It's not on my list, I'll say, but I really do like that album. But yeah, The Theories of Flight is my favorite. I would agree. I like that album better because it's leaner.

It's more compact and I think there's

from one song to the next you like

each song. This one there's a couple

that you're like

They could have trimmed it down but if it's their last album

then I kind of understand John. I didn't realize

it was their last album until you said that

It probably will be

Just throw it all out there. I kind of get it

It actually made me appreciate it a little bit more

if it's going to be the last one

If it's a band you like a lot and you find out

it might be their last and you're like well give me five hours

then. I don't do that

I'll take whatever you got. Give it all. And for a band, this is another band I mentioned about Vandamploss being classy. Their whole career, they've never really put out anything I haven't liked. We haven't lost the plot. Yeah. And we all have bands like that that we appreciate everything from them. Yes. Indeed. All right. Fort's Warning from the Dork Fortress. So there's a Fort's Warning coming in.

What shall we do? What are you making fun of me for my accent? Fuck! How you like them apples? Yeah. It's a fucking grease. It really is. I got a number. So I have to admit that after John told us his pick, I was just watching George come back and he looks like a recovering alcoholic, like disappointed with himself. He's like, I'm going to open this beer. It's big.

He's like shaking his head. He's like, fuck, what am I doing? Yeah. And then he pours it and he's like, smelly. Like, like, like, like, it's like watching a gorilla in a zoo. Okay. So. There's your next spirit. Alice will recovering alcoholic gorilla from the zoo. George George of the jungle. So. So if you recall the seven hour mid-year episode,

Yeah, we're far from that. Part of that was because I was fucking hammered on like all kinds of really nice, tasty, dark stouts. And this is like the first one since then. And I'm like, yeah. So you're going to make it to pick nine is what you're saying. And then you're pretty much done from there. This is probably it. I can't wait to break out a beer, but I'm really.

for us to get to the top ten. And this is a big one, too. It's a, you know, one point, one pint, six ounce big bastard. What is it? What is it? It's a Big Bad Baptist Pecan Pie. Epic Brewing. They had me at pecan. From Utah. You had me at big. Will, we are on year 13. Number 13, I love gore, and therefore, I love this album.

Gore, filia in the eyes of nothing. Death, doom from Finland, dark descent records. Uh, wow. I mean, what can I say about this? I mean, it's just, it hits me right in the fields for my, my death. Death, doom is like, I've said it many times. I repeat myself, but it's like my sweet spot. As far as my music tastes go these days. I love death metal. I love doom. Take, take just filthy ass death metal and shave its tail with a chainsaw and slow it down a little bit.

And this is what you get. Gorephilia hits me right there. In the tent. Right in the eyes, which is the cover, which is a really cool cover. Finland, though. Finland. Oh, man. Taint. They're so depressed. Taint. They're just like, they just make good music. Taint. Like, I think per capita, they have the most metal bands and the most awesome metal bands. They do on our list so far. Yeah. Taint.

Taint. Baptist Taint.

All right.

My number 13 has not been mentioned by anybody yet.

Might have gotten blown off some people's lists, but I will see.

It's a pullover from the mid-year, and I mentioned it once in reference to the drought record

and mentioning that these were both, I thought, kind of standards for heaviness,

just sheer out undescribed heaviness, meaning it's just fucking heavy.

I can't explain why.

Ulcerate, Stare Into Death and Be Still. That record started strong with me and stayed strong with me. Be Still, Jay. What number are we on? 13. It moved down. I think I had it as high as two in the mid-year. I'll have to go look, but it was way up there for me, but just so much good stuff came out. It was one of those ones that got beaten up a little bit. That one was even on Decibles list, which I thought was a huge... I thought that was it, yeah. I think that was on one of the... If you look on the Facebook page and all the people complaining about what missed the list, Ulcerate,

came up quite a few times yeah yeah the three were that the ocean and skeletal remains that people bitched about the most yeah and also it was our number one at mid-year-old yeah that's right oh i forgot that's right well it's on a lot of lists so number 13 uh-huh wait till you see my what's he here my number one will you're gonna be oh Taylor Swift did come out with an album that's George's list yeah yeah but if I cheat off George's paper it could be mine too

You never know. It changes copies. That's right. He's just a tracer. Yeah, it's an important part of the process. Just to piggyback off of the people bitching about Decibels list, I also want to mention I was greatly amused by Albert responding to all the people bitching about the USBM book that had not been released yet. You know, they announced it.

on Facebook and all these fucking troll pieces of shit are like, this band and that band and he's like, you know, you fuckers, the book is even out yet. Why are you bitching about shit? You don't even know if it's in there. And George, I did that earlier. I don't know if you caught that. I made a joke about the book being shit. Yeah. Yeah. I hadn't read it yet. Right. Well, the point is that, you know, I remember reading through those comments and most of the bands that they were bitching about are in the book. The book. I know.

And some of those bands don't deserve mentioning. Well, he launched his list that way this year. I like that he started. He put the list on Facebook. He's like, it's just a list. Shut the fuck up, basically. That's what he said before he even posted the list. So I'm all for Albert playing that way. Just real quick. It's okay if somebody gets the list and leaks it. That's cool. But Albert can't leak his own list. Is that how it came out? It was leaked? No, no. The reason they released the list early every year is because somebody

eventually finds out and leaks it and it ruins it for decibel so he's like fuck you guys i'll just leak my own list

sure if it's done fuck it put it out there that's what i make it if some jackass from their mom's

basement leaked it oh dude this is fucking awesome yeah but but they do it like they're assholes

gotcha anyway bitching him out is the guy who wanted to leak it right so anyway my number 13

is from Finland. Go figure. Of course. That's weird. Nuclear Blast Records. Aransi Pazuzu. That was it. God bless you. Exactly that one. Mumble mumble. Yep. That was a bit of a drop but it's still in there. Hanging in. Hanging tough as the new kids on the block would say.

But ain't me, you're tough.

Whoa.

That's me, Jeff.

All right, so we're sort of at the midway point now.

We're past the midway point.

Pick 12 now.

All right, I said sort of.

I mean, 25.

Past it.

25, you can't, you know.

You got to give us credit.

We're past it.

Come on.

All right, we're just past the midway point.

John, by the way, keep lubing up those lips.

You're getting me hot.

I have to, man. My lips are so dry in this weather. Fuck. See, don't worry, Will. You'll feel the benefit of this later tonight. Will doesn't like chapped lips. All right, so we're on number 12. My number 12 was on my mid-year list, and it was lower. It has moved up, which hasn't happened with a lot of albums. That's an unusual movement. It is, and it is

Witnesses, Witnesses, Witnesses, Doom 2. Just a really arresting, emotional Doom album with passionate alt-rock vocals and just really thick riffs on it. I really like this album. I liked it right away, and I just continued listening to it throughout the year, and it crept up my list to number 12. Awesome. Randy? All right, number 12.

From my mendier. Also, I dropped it like it's hot in this cryptic shift. Visitations from Enslatus. Enchiladas with burritos. God, I want a burrito. Is that three now for that album? I believe so. Wow. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I figured that would probably pile up some points.

None of them super high yet, obviously. But we know we're not there yet, but still it's getting clicked off. Yeah. I guess this brings us to you, Big John. Yeah. So my number 12, this was on a lot of lists, actually everyone's list but George's, and I have a feeling it might not be on everyone's list except mine, which is cool. But this album, for whatever reasons, stuck with me, and it has the whole year. It's another death metal album. Shocker that we would have so many death metal albums.

on our list this year. But that's Plague, Portraits of Mind. For whatever reasons, I just like this album a lot. It stuck with me, and I just kept listening to it. And with so much death metal, I feel like I listened to an album like, fuck, I don't know the difference between this and the last four death metal albums I listened to. And that's not a knock on these bands, but for whatever reasons, I just remember the songs from this album more than other ones. That's probably why it's still on my list.

Hey, John, I will say that I don't know if they play. They're from Greece. Yeah, but I think they started out in Spain. Sorry. It's just like, you know, underwater audio. Scott Travis is then in Judas Priest, the Black Album. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, all that shit. But I remember, I'm trying to figure out which social media they, so I like this album quite a bit on the mid-year, and they reached out to me.

me and they said thanks for the shout out. Plague did. Like reached out to me directly and I was like, that's cool. Shit. That's awesome. So I don't know if they listened to this steaming pile of garbage podcast or they looked at it on. Or they just looked at our lists online. Yeah, they looked at it online. Who's going to listen to this seven hours? But anyway, no, it's a phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal death metal album. Yeah.

It's just so hard to choose the death albums you're going to want on your list this year because there's so many. There's so many to choose from. That's why I made a top 25 death metal albums list because then I can look at it and I'm like, all right, well, this is what I like the most. Now I can insert it here into my main list. It's crazy. Not to cut you off, Marcus, but George just put an image behind himself and the way you're looking, George, it looks like that guy's staring at your ass. That's the point. It's that meme image of

the guy turning around and making that ooh face and his girlfriend looking at him like, oh, you pig. Oh, my God. How are you looking at? Oh, my God. What is that? Becky. His butt is like so big. Oh, my God. I think we can go right to you, Will. Let's just move on. Oh, shit. What are we on? 12, 12, 12. Convent. 12. Puritan masochism. Holdover from the mid-year lift. I mean, this is, again,

You put a lot of riffs and hooks galore in your doom metal and like I am going to be like the Tiger King all over you right now. No, I, I, Banff of Germany, just the, the, the song, the musical songwriting in this is just really, really good. I was going to put my scarf on, it's cold in here. Sorry, Will. That's all right.

Convent with a K. Puritan masochism. I wanted to get them on at some point. It's a little late now, but at one point I was like, dude, we gotta get them on. What do you mean it's too late? It's been like a year since the album came out. So? Maybe they've recorded new music. I like that. That's good point, counterpoint. It's not so. It's not. Yeah. And?

It's just not recent. But... George, don't you get a helmet to be on the moon? I don't think it matters, George. You want to see my helmet? Uh, no. Dick joke number 435. Oh, boy. I'm taking 12 and I'm running with it. Here we go. No, do it, please. I'll be there shortly, Jay. We pretty much tried... We all pretty much agreed to drop the rules.

this year and we've never really lived by rules anyway when it comes to these lists but one of those rules and i and but i tried harder than ever to live by them uh hollywood vampire still couldn't help my we know all your live albums yeah what rules we have no rules they're jay has no rules that's right i live by my own code i marched the beat of a different drummer there's no rules in the dork fortress

Or Fartress. Number 12. But this is an EP. But I thought it was such a high quality EP that I just had. And obviously I rated it high. It's number 12. And it's Trevor's Buddy and Fairy of Sunless Realms. Stevie! It's kind of tech death. But it approaches tech death. And it fits under the same quandary John has. Which is, it is, but it isn't. Not quite. I don't know how to put it. But this is so well polished. So well written.

that I just listened to this so many times this year. So EP it may be, but in theory of Sunless Realms, very high quality stuff. All right. Jay always breaking the rules. Trevor's friend. Stevie. Also, but he's the singer. There's nothing to do with Ashton Horde. Ashton Horde, correct. Is this Stevie from Schitt's Creek? No. Oh, such a good show. That's a good show. I'm on to Dairy Girls now, by the way. Check this out. It's a good show. Dairy Girls. Yeah, it's good. That's awesome. I love that show. It's funny, dude. I love it.

Georgie. Number 12. This is a band from the United States of America on Shadow Kingdom records. And if you remember back before the plague, there was Temple of Voids, the world that was. And, okay, maybe that was after the plague. That was right before. It came out right before, right? Because we were talking about that.

Yeah, but it came out like literally like February, March, something like that. Right now it came out in March. It was right around the. Yeah. Another really fun interview we did. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Nice guys. We'll have them on again, too. Just one of those guys that kind of becoming a regular after a fashion. One of the good things about 2020. One of the 25 good things about 2020. So, yes. Number 12. Back to Markisan for number 11. We near the 10. We inch closer, gentlemen.

I think John's ready to fall out of his chair. He's got a full of Markisan. He does not sound like he should be. I'm fine. He's jerking off. Nothing there. Nothing there. No, I'm trying to get this cord off of the grill on my, the vent. You know, your air comes through. Do I need to fucking move my laptop for you to see it? Jeez.

I was in a dork fortress or something. All right. Well, my number 11 has been mentioned. So I think this will be the second time. And it is Lakai Shroud, Other Cosmic Divinations 1. Just fantastic, progressive death metal inspired by science fiction stories with a gorgeous blend of heavy riffs and Tron sensitive synth.

This album came out in pieces actually in 2020, thanks to COVID. But I kind of dug that experience because it reminded me of a monthly comic book where you get a chapter and then you have to wait for the next issue. It made me savor those chapters that I did get and then appreciate the work as a whole when it was completed. And as we mentioned, La Chia de Shroud also put out another album called Wounds. But this one is my favorite of the two just because I felt like I had more prog, more synths.

just more layers to it and because it unfolded slowly i just i really enjoyed that part of it so something that really stuck with me i'm glad they finished the album or the guy finished the album yeah matt unmuted matt son of a bitch in the coming years david lynch will make a movie about 2020 and

We'll watch that movie and after which we will die, much like The Ring. That movie will be called Master's Fingernails. And the soundtrack to that film will be of Nancy Pazuzu. Yes. In Finnish, the title of the album means Master's Fingernails, which I will not pronounce today. Well, you did pretty good with the, you said it, Master's Fingernails. Killed it. Thank you. Knocked it out of the park. Oh, yes. Thanks for finger fucking us with that, Matt.

That was great. Always a pleasure. Take up that mantle, Johnny. Let's get into those tens. Been mentioned twice before, even though one of the mentions was from the Metalheads butler. But I believe George mentioned this band. My number 11, Spirit Adrift, Enlightened in Eternity. You are enlightened, my son. Thank you. Eternally. Even better.

Yeah, solid, just traditional heavy metal. I think their doom days are, for the most part, gone. I don't hear any anymore on their new album, so. But solid. I think that move to traditional metal is good for them, though. I mean, their doom was good, but I think they're just a better band. I agree 100%. I'm actually, whoa, sorry, it was me kicking my garbage can. I actually think they did a better job considering there's only two guys in the band now.

Since they broke off with the guys that are part of Gate Creeper. Conscious Uncoupling. Yeah, Conscious Uncoupling. I don't even know what to say after that. All right, who's next? I may be the first person to say this band. I'm pretty sure I am. It's been like almost all of our picks today. Which is kind of awesome. I'm pretty sure.

I would hope this gets mentioned again, but I don't know if I'm going to get complete shit for putting this at number 11. Napalm Death, Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism. Number 11? Yeah. Okay. Confirms my punch. There is so much great with this album, but there's a few clunkers in there. I have to admit that I'm just like, there's one that sounds like, there's one that sounds almost like a pop song.

I don't remember that and then the last thing which is like just noise and synth and stuff like that so it's not the perfect album that George and a Decibel magazine thing because there's some there's some clunk in there but the the first I don't know whatever eight songs on it are just absolute classic mid-era napalm death rippers what's that got to do with the Decibel article?

as a perfect 10 and a number 1.

Oh, right.

All right.

Yeah, gotcha.

Okay.

So I'm assuming George has it very close to number 1 by his reaction.

It's a great album.

I get a little fatigued listening to that just because there is some clunkers in there.

They could have trimmed a little bit off of it for sure.

Yeah, like the last three songs.

Or no, it's the last song, and there's like a middle song that's like very poppy.

I'm like, what the fuck is this shit?

What matters?

My number 11 is was I will be the second person and the last to mention it. John, of course, would be the only other one. Vandenploz, Ghost Experiment. I actually, in opposite of John, liked the last one a little better than this one. But Vandenploz is a band who is famous for taking five or six listens and then you're like, OK, shit, now I get it. So I actually almost put it here as a safe

I love it it's just I like the first part a little better this is a second part in a I assume two-part thing but it might be a trilogy in any case Phantom Plus Ghost Experiment 2 great fucking band always release records that are growers and this one's no exception nice good good pick and I disagree with the clunkers comment about they both thank you you don't think that last song is a clunker it's it's it's a

I don't even think that because they do that they've been doing that for it's kind of like the opening of the last one actually and the previous one to that I think they do that it's not a clunker you just keep doing clunkers no no fair enough but I don't I like it I like how it breaks the record up and goes in weird directions I like it all right number 11 yeah yep all right United States of America peace

Ville Records mentioned twice before. If you're going to suffer, don't suffer for nothing, Morta Scald. Wow. That's three. Yep. I thought this would be higher, honestly, but top ten is a motherfucker. Yeah, but that's showing up on a lot of lists, so that's good. Yeah. Let's do ten. Let's do this, man. Let's fucking do this, man.

Let's do this, man. It is time. Oh, so I just cracked open a new beer and it's a sour, which I don't normally like sours, but I'm like, I'm going to give this one a shot. Cascade Brewing Mayan Burbonic Imperial Porter aged in bourbon barrels with cocoa, cinnamon, cayenne pepper and dates. Cascade. Yeah, Cascade does almost all their beers are big beers, sour beers and

Barrel-aged beers. Yeah. I think Will and I may have had a few of those together. Somewhere down the line. Somewhere down the line. In the Bible. I hate sour beers, but I, you know, I always, I try to come back and I just hate, I don't even like this, but I'll drink it. What about the Duchess? I might have to get another beer after this. What about the Duchess, though? Duchess is good. Duchess is not like other sours. Come on. Have you had a dissident? Even Will likes dissident. Yeah. I like the beers that

are naturally soured by a bread and myse's yeast rather than introducing bacteria like pediococcus bacteria.

Your pediococcus.

You like your bacteria natural, right, Will?

Yes.

So Marcus.

Oh, that's a legitimate question I just asked, by the way.

It is.

It is.

If you know anything about Belgian sours.

Everybody likes his Jules fake, so that's just the way Will is.

He's a cheap bitch.

So I have to know because when I said the duchess, you shook your head. Now is that a shook your head, not going to try it, shook your head, had it and didn't like it? I haven't had it. Okay, well you, I think it's good. It is not sour. It is not sour like the trendy sour beers. It is tart. It's tart.

It's good. Yeah. I don't like it. It's good. No, no. After this one, I won't be buying another sour for at least five years. You're missing out if you don't have the dissident from Deschutes. Oh, that's. I mean, I love Deschutes. I just hate sour beers. I keep trying them and I hate them. I just, I hate them. Marcus, I'm right with you. I don't, I'm not as visceral as your hatred leads to the dark side. But,

I don't like sour beers, but there's a few that I can. Jesus Christ. Get it. His face. After drinking that, just stop. Just stop. Get another beer. Oh, the humanity. It's such a big bottle. I have to. I can't drink this. I'll be right back. Yeah, my God. It's a big bottle for him to go. He can't drink that. Oh, wait. He used to go first, too, with number 10, doesn't he? It wasn't that bad. I bet it's like a top-rated sour, too. Probably.

It's going to be awesome. Are you going to have any beer today? Or are you going to be your typical straight edge self? Well, I do my drinking at night, man. I drink for what it's worth. I drink too much beer, dude. I drink beer every night, but I like to do my, I make that okay by what I do in the daytime, which is I do exercise and stuff. And then at night I drink more than I should. So Jay, do you drink late at night, play video games and do like chatter bait? I don't know what chatter bait is, but. Oh, if you guys don't go chatter bait,

Take some time.

Wow.

So according.

I have a ritual every day.

Every day I put four or five beers in the fridge.

I drink four or five beers every night.

And then I sit and play video games.

We would actually appreciate if you would drink those beers with us though.

I know.

But I.

Have you thought about that?

Or at least one.

Yeah.

One.

Well, you know.

Once a year.

Have a beer with us, Jay.

According.

Jay could be a near beer.

I mean, I know you're online friends that you've never met before. Why are you not drinking? Jay, go get a beer right now. No, listen, listen. According to California law, Jay is not allowed to drink beer during daylight hours. And he can't drink in his house either. There you go. Thank you, George, for backing me up with the statue. Since you mentioned Deschutes. Which one? Jubilee. Jubilee. Jubilee.

It's called Jubal Hill. That's their winter warmer. Yeah, I've never had it before. It's nice. And my second Metalheads of Oscars. If we all start busting out video games, Jay, will you have a beer? It's not the video games. It's the time of day. It's just that I've got my little system. It's two hours earlier in Hawaii and there's no problem. If we were at Decible, I'd go all day with you guys for sure. That's pretty good. And fart a lot. Actually, if Jay's with us, yeah.

And I have a bag of shrimp. Oh, that is so gross. Shrimping. It's Hawaii, man. Just reach out your window and grab a bunch. Jay's credit. When we were in Philadelphia, he was drinking early. Oh, yeah. No, no. I can go all day. I just it's different when I'm at home. You know, my wife doesn't care, but I just don't put her through shit like that. You don't want to get stupid in front

I just bought my ninth album. It's eight o'clock in the morning. Uh, stupid. Clearly you get better at hiding shit. No, no, there's, there's behind that record. And Markisan take us to the top 10, top 10. All right. My number 10. I know it's going to be on a lot of lists. It is enslaved guard. Number.

10. First one.

You take the deliciousness of Enslaved, then toss in a heaping spoonful of refined prog and a new box of vocal sugar.

And a weakie bit of oivin.

And enjoy a delicious new twist and an old favorite.

That's this record, and I can't stop eating it with my ears.

It's awesome.

It's a first to five.

As long as it doesn't taste like shrimp.

I'm glad you said the first to five and not six.

I pay attention to what you said come on

yeah I think the only person not gonna

have it is Will right yeah I

like old enslaved it's like Metallica

it's like after a certain point

no no no no

it's still cool Metallica

do you do you see

any of the guys from Metallica or instead

going oh yeah

I don't know but I hear a lot of weird

shit in this new stuff

I'm going to the J-Words. This will be the first of many J-Words. You got that. This is where we play the Star Trek fight music and Will and John get in the ring, motherfucker. No, I'm actually happy Will actually likes an Enslaved album, so he'll get no argument from me. Oh, Frost? I mean, Frost is amazing. Well, if you like Frost, you should like Eld. Come on. I know.

Yeah, you never listen to it. That's the problem. This new stuff is just... He thinks Elda's new. That is the problem. It only came out like 20 some years ago. No, that's exact. I just don't understand. It's like Metallica for me. You have a band that did this. And then now they're doing this, it's like it's not even the same band. Oh, you're so wrong. Man. But that's cool.

When I look at my number 10, I find that nothing else matters. I started listening to this band in 2011. They had an album called The Destroyers of All. Blew my fucking mind. And then I didn't listen to them as much since then. And then I started listening to this album and I realized like, this is kind of tech death, but it's also like post-metal. It's like brutal post-metal. And the album is

Now that my screen went to a screensaver. The band is Ulcerate. And I can't get my fucking password to work. Stare into your password and be still. Thank you. Stare into death and be still. I don't know why I thought that was funny that he got locked out of your screen. And I've had the thing going for like four hours. I guess it has to do with the fact that Matt's background image is like a space image. I know.

He's just kind of floating around his face. Does it make you want to drink Kool-Aid? Does it make you want to kill yourself? Spake Varathustra needs to be played. Are you grooming us? Other channels. My name is Bo and I have a friend named Peep. Do you want some Kool-Aid? BGK Records, the final frontier. Take the vow. Yeah, ulcerate.

What's the name of that cult? I forgot the name of that cult, Matt. Did you just watch that documentary? Yeah, NXIVM. We watched both. Is that the one where they started? No, Heaven's Gate, you're thinking of. Heaven's Gate, yeah. Yes, that was on HBO as well. That NXIVM stuff was Heaven's Gate where they all put on the same shoes and killed themselves, yeah. Yeah, they suffocated themselves. Or took pills. No, they took pills. Both.

They were like in bunk beds. Yeah. I thought they had like bags over their heads. That was the Haley Bop thing, right? Yeah. The leaders did the bags. Everybody else did like a pill on the bed. Dude, that NXIVM stuff, I want to take that dude and brand him for everyone he branded. Fuck that guy. It's funny like watching that and I look at my wife and be like, you know what? Just listening to people talk about that dude, like there's no one in my life that I have that

that much respect for.

But I said to my wife, like,

George is listening, by the way.

You know what?

Like, I feel very offended by that.

No, but like, I told my wife, I'm like,

if King Diamond was talking,

I would probably look at him like that.

But not this fucking guy.

Let's put it this way, Matt.

Matt, let's put it this way.

I wouldn't even join my own cult.

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'd be like, this guy's a douchebag.

He doesn't know what he's talking about.

Next time, next time we are at Decibel,

We all have to put plastic bags over our junk and then run through the hallways of the hotel. Okay. We have to end up on the curry couch. Let's find out John's number 10. Okay. I'm positive this will be on no one's list. Awesome. Yeah, it is awesome. Yeah, yeah. It's one of my only few black metal influences.

This album is on my whole list. It was on my mid-year, and I've listened to this album since day one. It should have probably been my album of the month when it came out, but it wasn't. It's from January. I hope I say this right. The band is from Finland. The name is Maris Mealy, Between Land and Sky. I absolutely love this album. It's just an amazing combination of black and pagan black metal, and I never know what pagan black metal is.

other than the fact that it's black metal infused with folk music but it's more of the 90s sound not the current atmospheric folky stuff today and the production for this type of black metal is great i think and it's their debut album they have an ep if this is their debut i think that they're hopefully going to go good places it's a solid piece of music cool i like that one john is this

Between Land and Sky? Yes. Yeah. This is one of the albums you guys all sent around stuff from your mid-year that you thought like you guys are all flaming fucktards for not liking this. And Maris Mealy is one of the ones that I bought because I did like it. I'll tell you, for black metal, it's loaded with a ton of really cool riffs. Which usually, you know, black metal's got that traditional sound. This is a little different than that. Trombolo, high-pitched trombolo. Yeah.

It's a little different. And, Will, you should like this. It has a Frost-influenced album cover. Hold on. Give it a minute and you'll see. Let me go back to the Google machine. Oh, yeah. It's got the whole river and mountains. Mountains and shit. Anything that's added with and shit is like the best descriptor ever. It's like burgers and shit. Oh, yeah. I know what that is. It's like a time-life collection.

and shit. And shit. Collection of songs. I like metals and nuts suck. Cupsies and shit. Here's a little bit of Kool-Aid. I like grapes. And shit. And shit. I like grapes. Will, what's your number 10? My number 10 is Low Beer Warning Light by Will Cook. Oh, you're in your beer. I thought of your beer. No, no, no, no. What do you got?

Lowbeer warning label sounds like a new metal band. Yeah, that is true. Yeah. Bad idea. Bad, bad. Oh, my God. This is this is again kind of like with my napalm death pick. I don't know if this one I'm going to get a terrible amount of shit for because it's at my number 10 or people are really like, yeah, number 10. I don't know. Wake. Ring Ruin.

I'm surprised it's the first time we're hearing that. Me too. Wow. Well, there's a reason for that. Yeah, I think the reason is I think it has a lot higher on everyone else's list. I know it was Markison's number one, I think. Mid-year it was, yep. Yeah, yeah. Awesome. I mean, anything in the, listen, anything on the list is, you know, I can't fault you for putting it there because it's so hard to pick, especially top 25. So put it in the top 10.

I'm not going to fault you for that. Yeah. Can't fault you for being hard. Yeah. I mean, just black and grind from Calgary, Canada. I mean, these guys. There's no grind in it anymore. Well, yeah, it's less grind, but it's just it is really, really good. Just they did. They play a decibel. They did. The last time we were there. Yeah. It was awesome.

These guys in Uwata, I kind of fit into the same boat where they just sort of just this blackened grind. Just well, even Uwata is not as much grind anymore. No grind. Yeah, yeah. But just, yeah, see the black metal coming out of me? Yeah. Are you proud of me? Well, what used to be grind? This album like takes it to a different level. Very different. Yeah. But I like it. It is. It's good.

J. Very good. Very good. My number 10 is Necrot, mortal. Uh-huh. Ten crimes records. Is that two or three? Three, I think. Three? Thrice. I think three, yeah. Nice. Aye. Thrice is nice. Thrice is nice. Made number 10? Yes. Two. Number 10. If you do not know my number 10,

Then you oughta.

Dad joke.

Yeah, you oughta.

Chin.

There it is.

It's the first one, I think.

Yes, please.

There should be several more on that.

I feel sure.

Well, I don't know.

We'll see how many more.

I feel so sure.

Yeah, I can't be that sure.

You're right.

What are we talking about?

It resonated with.

Oh, well.

Moving on.

Back to number nine.

It's fucking crazy. We're at nine. Wait, George, what was your number 10? You oughta know. 12, 30. You oughta. How do we fucking start this thing? Sorry, I had to run. I always wait until somebody makes a pick. Jay said, uh, Necroft, and then I ran out to get a beer, and then I apparently missed yours. So what was yours? You oughta. Okay. Number nine. Number nine for me is drown.

Sub-Aqueous from Prophecy Productions. This is the best Funeral Doom album I've heard in some time. If getting lost beneath ocean waves in total darkness sounds like something you'd like to experience in musical form, Sub-Aqueous is the record for you. I'm not saying it's not a good record. I just don't want to experience that. You got a little confused there, Marcus. I didn't know you were going to say musical, not in real life. I thought the same thing. I was like, I don't want to get trapped under a wave.

It's a son of the fun. Musical form. The actual drowning in the freaking. Gotcha. Love. I fucking love this record. And I love it more. I feel like it could go higher at any point on my list. So I don't see a lot of, I don't see it on a lot of lists. I feel like it's gotten lost. I feel like it's drowned out. But it's a phenomenal record.

Yes. Alrighty. My, what are we at? Number nine. I love how he looks at his list and it looks like he's looking off into the cosmos. Yeah. I drug my Mac down here. I'm in the wife's office and things are kind of set up weird. Uh, raise your hand if you're sure for number nine. You want to be sure about that one. I saw that coming. I didn't see that coming there, but I saw it coming.

That seemed to coming. It came. All over. John? Hey, Marcus, that's the spirit. Get into the dick jokes. You're like, pshh. I'm always into them. I think you're just overly concerned with my reactions. Okay, okay, okay. My approval. Okay. We're going to stop for a second. Marcus is going to make a dick joke. Or I'll laugh at it. Go on, make a dick joke. I can't just do it on the spot.

Just do it on the spot Micronesia come on purple helmeted warrior on around your there you go just like

A lot like me when you said that. That was you. It's a little salty, but it's not bad. It's a little salty, but it's not bad. So, George, you have like a 2019 salty and a 2020 salty now. Indeed. George, you have like, how do you get all these sound effects in the folder? Like, do you just have a folder for like, it just says dick on it? No. It says will. It's on my phone.

It's called, I don't know, some sort of sample thing, but there's like one, two, three, four. Four sample. There's like 20 on a page, and I scrolled. I have like page one, page two, page three, page four, five, six pages of these things, which is why I sometimes. Six pages of dick jokes? Well. I like dicks. That's page one through ten. Yeah. Shut the fuck up. Penis. Penis. Penis.

Penis.

So, I've got just tons of these things, and I just keep adding to them, and sometimes it's hard to find them because I don't know what page it's on.

I'm still looking at that beer like, what the fuck is this?

It's one of the worst beers I've ever had.

I am a dildo head.

Oh, God.

I hate somers.

I'm wearing somers for me.

Was that mid-year?

Yeah, I was mid-year.

More like drunk-year.

The other day I did call George.

I am a dildo head.

I was driving around looking for an elf on the shelf in all kinds of places in Northern Virginia. And I think it was a good time to call George. And I called George. I'm like, you should just have like a year end sample. Just like just five minutes at the end of the episode where it's like the best samples of our voices of dumb shit that we have said throughout the year. And I feel like. That'd be great. I know, but he's doing he's doing them now, which is great because we're all cracking the fuck up. Yeah.

Let's see, what else we got? Oh, I like this one. This one's me. Liquid yummy. I'm not sure what this is going to be. It is by far the best package. There we go. It was. That was way longer than mine, George. I don't know why you tried to compare it to mine. Where did that one come from? I don't remember that one.

Yeah, what you're listening to. It's a list. Oh, yeah, because my lists keep getting longer and longer. And then it's awesome. To take it back to Keith, these are probably two of my favorites of the year. Coronavirus, if you're listening, fuck you, motherfucker. And then. Got an eye of the tiger in this fucking shit. Is that when we interviewed Butch? Yeah. Butch Marino.

That was fun. He's awesome, man. Yeah, he is. I have no fucking idea where we are. You're on nine. I don't know who's... It's my turn, I think. All right. This album... Sean is exasperated. I don't know why. I don't know. I'm trying to think of something stupid to say because I've already said enough stupid things this episode. Which is not uncommon for anyone.

at any time on this episode.

It has to do with hands and shit and psychedelic stuff from Finland.

Ah.

Ah.

It's a wonderful life.

Aronti, Pazuzu, Mysterian, Kinsey.

Anyone's guess at that point.

This is your number nine?

Yes, it is my number nine.

Holy shit.

Yeah, and pretty much outside of one album, you can pretty much figure out what my top nine are.

or top eight out of nine, if you know me. But yeah. Second Slave, Cryptic Shift. Maybe. I don't know. Napalm Death. I don't know. Maybe not. Not in my honorable mentions either. I like this album, but it didn't hold me as much as the previous two. But I still think it's a very good album. And if you like avant-garde, and it's not even black metal anymore, not even close. It's just kind of avant-garde.

Proggy, psychedelic rock, post-metal-ish, I guess. And that's not even fair comparison, but I dig them. I think they're even better live than they are on albums. That was amazing. I would like to see them live. I cannot get into their albums, but I would definitely like to see them. They are just insane live. I saw them with George once, and then I saw them with our good friend Warren one time, and they're just insane. Warren. I miss Warren. I know, so do I.

I love how Warren's like, dude,

do you go into this thing?

And I'm like, I'm not.

And I always, every time I feel bad, I'm like, dude, I wish I was.

Yeah.

Warren and I saw one of the best shows in a long time.

We saw them, Aronsi,

and Horrendous was the opening act of three bands.

It was, we had a great time.

For the uninitiated, Warren is a brewer in the Maryland, D.C. area

who is a mad raving metalhead.

One of the absolute nicest human beings.

Love Warren.

Niceest human beings.

Did she get him on the cast?

Well, he's been on.

He's one of the cast's family members, no doubt.

Yeah.

He's been on, like, at shows and stuff.

Yeah.

When we go to.

But, yeah, well, you know, I.

He's kind of like the guy you hear in the heavy metal parking lot kind of thing.

Yeah.

Well, I.

Oh.

You know.

Last.

I think.

Was it the last time we were.

Matt is sinking. I think it was actually, I hate to say it, I think it was almost a year ago at the Adroit Theory show. And I was, Warren was there. And I was talking with Warren and Mark Osborne of Adroit Theory about doing an episode with both Mark and Warren to talk about beer and metal. And, you know, pandemic never happened.

But we should do that when we can. Yeah. That Adroit Theory show was one of the last shows, I think, that at least George... That was my last show. Oh, I went to more shows after that, believe it or not. I may have had one more. Shockingly, I went to a couple more shows after that one. Yeah. And I have to say that last one was a lot of fun. Yeah. They're always fun at Adroit Theory. There's only been two we've gone to, but... Adroit Theory is really cool. Anybody that isn't near Adroit Theory sucks.

I'm not near it at all.

They won't even deliver it.

It hurts my feelings.

I know.

I'm kidding.

I love it.

I really like getting their beer.

No, I can't.

But no, it's a very cool place.

What number are we on?

Will, give us your number nine.

Oh, my number nine.

Number nine.

Jesus titty fucking Christ.

Number nine.

Number nine.

I think this has been mentioned once before.

A feather and bone.

Sulfuric disintegration.

These guys actually played Atlas, God, like two or three years ago on their last album. And I think I was there. It's kind of hard to remember, but this album is just, it's pummeling. It is unrelenting death metal. You cannot take a breath. It's not like, like incantation is like pummeling for a while and then they'll chill out for a song or chill out for sections of a song. This is just unrelenting, dirty, filthy ass caveman death metal.

That you can't take a breath. You cannot take a breath listen to the album. And I think that was intentional. And it's really, really good. It is. Denver is now like the new, I don't know what it's the new of anything, but it's. It's the new. It's one of the hot spots. It's a hot spot for black metal, death metal, whatever metal. It's a hot spot. It's a hot spot. And

Hmm. Coincidence? I say not. Adult contemporary metal. Oh! I like that. We listen to adult contemporary metal. What the hell was it? Bolton Thrower? We're kind of adult contemporaries, aren't we? I was just listening to something the other day. I'm listening to golden oldies there, Marcuson. Come on.

The Sam Cooke. Oh, I love Sam Cooke. Sam Cooke is nice. I love Sam Cooke. Sam Cooke is very good. Was very good. Jay, bring us your number nine. George and I, George just wanted to turn me on to these guys, and I really got into this record. Not everybody dug it that much, but I know George did, so I don't know if it's even on his list, but I fucking dug it. I'm into these dudes. Anulnith Rock and Darken Men. It's fucking good stuff. I heard of them. Yeah. Good.

Yeah, Jay, you jumped on board big time this year. Yeah, but this is still the one I like the best. So I went and bought all their old stuff, and I have to say this, it's no coincidence, this is the one that got me into these guys, because I like it. It's their most metal record. They have some aspects of industrial in their past, and this one's just in your face. Did you watch them at MDF when they were there? I know I did, but I don't know. You and I did, George. George, that was you and me. Yeah, okay. I thought most everybody else was like, meh.

Yeah, I wouldn't have known at that time. And you've mentioned them so many times. So it was a very rich addition to my life and playlist this year. So and obviously I rated it high. That's a good record. It is a good record. I knew it would be on your list, Jay. It's not on my list, but it definitely makes my list for worst album cover of the year. Well, now which album cover? The one with the pig dicks or the other one? The other one is a little short.

A dick. It's okay for pigs to have dicks for eyes. Pigs for tics for eyes. Nice. That's really confusing. Oh my gosh. Okay. Wait, is it me? Yes, he is. Yes, George. Number nine? Yes. All right. Well, I want you to stop. Don't move. Stare into death and be still. Ulcerate.

Number nine. Yeah, I know. What can you do? What can you do? Move to number eight? I guess you can. Sorry, George. You do realize, like, these guys are from New Zealand, and this is the absolute greatest thing to ever come out of New Zealand, aside from ski resorts. And Kiwis. Lord of the Rings? It's true. Hobbiton?

Yeah.

The fucking rugby team that dominates the whole fucking world.

I guess it's higher on Will's list.

Yeah, I guess so.

He's shaming everyone who puts it.

Whatever his number is.

It would be like number seven now or number eight.

Yeah.

That's true.

Yeah. And moving on to number eight, as John mentioned, for Ulcerate, I have put it at number eight. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Stare into Death and Be still. Wow. Is that three or four now? Diebenmueur Mordiarek. That's from New Zealand. From New Zealand. Just really a colossus of inventive death metal delivered with the cold, desolate texture of an atmospheric bloodline.

Black Metal Tundra. I love this record. And yes, it could go higher on my list at any point. It's number eight, which is still pretty fucking high. So you're saying it could be like, we could get to five and you're like, nope, it moved up. It could. At this point, I'm too drunk to move it. Yeah, but then we'd have to do it. We'd have to do it as number eight again then. No, no, it'll be eight and five. Oh, a skipper. Making it for those that don't have it. That is entirely

That's like if, you know, Throssenblatt was 25 through number one. Well, they are. They're always 25 through number one. George, did I tell you that I put Throssenblatt as a place on the map and by the horns? You did not. Did I tell you that? It's on there. Yes. This is the part of the episode where we don't swear. No, no. Is that three or four for ulcerate now? It's three. It's at least three.

So it's going to be high. It's going to top out at some point. My daughter is here and you just mentioned By the Horns. Oh, yes. Do you like By the Horns? Hey, Evelyn. Hello. Hello. So you like By the Horns? Yes. What do you like? The eyeball. The eyeball named Evelyn. Yes. Well, you know, I. It's possibly named after you.

Matt's daughter.

In the fact that they're killing unicorns.

What do you have against unicorns?

I just don't like them.

Yeah, I mean.

She's too metal for unicorns.

They look like sick horses.

Sick horses.

Oh, boy.

Yeah, you know, I don't know.

I think because the fact that I've heard the name Evelyn so much since I've been on the Metalheads podcast,

I think it's probably influenced the name for that character.

Do you have a favorite album from this year? I don't know. Paranoid. Yeah, because Chemist hasn't come out with an album. Paranoid. Exactly. What's your favorite Chemist album? Desolation. Desolation is good. You have to get closer to the microphone. Desolation. What are you listening to right now? What do you like to listen to right now? Desolation. Fair enough. Fine choice. Evelyn, you know they're coming out with a new album next year.

the new album next year. Yes. One second. So, but you like the, this year I played the Eternal Champion album for you. You seem to like that. I like that one. Yeah. It doesn't stay. That's okay. You can go up. It's fine. I'll bring your food down. Thank you. You're welcome. I was about to ask her about playing baseball and brushing people back from the plate.

Oh, she'll tell you. She'll come back down. We ordered food tonight and the food just arrived. No food for you. Is it a bag of shrimp? Close. It's a bag of fish tacos for me. They're not the same as you get in California. I can assure you. Kill for some fish tacos right now. Fish tacos in Hawaii are stunning. It's not Hawaii style. It's not even Southern California.

California style. It is Northern Virginia, Washington, D.C. style. Basically, it's fish sticks in a wrap. It is. If it came out of the water, don't eat it. That's my motto. It's good when you're drunk, though. Thank you, Marcus. You just said it. You're hammered. Just eat. Exactly. It doesn't matter. I actually prepared this bag of shrimp. I was like, I don't want to have to make anything. I just want a bag of shrimp.

And then I just got cocktail sauce. There we go. Who's next on number eight? We are averaging about 20 minutes of pick right now. And so we're looking at another eight hours here. So just. Well, yeah, that's why I'm saying who's next. Am I next? Matt, float back down to earth. Let's does this. Okay. My number. Matt in space.

Welcome to my cult, Drink Rape Kool-Aid. One sound I've always loved is like Black and Thrash that is reminiscent of like a motorcycle gang who may or may not be involved with the occult. That sums up this band. The band is called Drag Car. The album is At the Crossroads of Infinity. On and Speak Black's records, first album, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It was in the box like months ago. Y'all didn't listen to it, and so y'all are missing out.

Yeah, I'm the one that put it there and I didn't listen to it. You don't even remember putting it there. No, I do. I do. I remember it. I just didn't listen to it. I mean, I like Matt's description. He's basically saying it's Sons of Anarchy mixed with the occult. Yes. I'm good with that. That would be a cool show. Super catchy riffs, you know, maybe killing people. I don't know. Maybe some tattoos in places we don't talk about. It's really good. Sons of Anarchy meets Supernatural. Now that would be badass. No, I don't want them. No.

I missed Supernatural already. I still have two episodes. I've been waiting for weeks. George, I'm going to be on season nine again for the second time. I have the last two episodes sitting on my DVR. Listen, Mr. Tickle Tate. Obviously you're done, Marcus, right? I'm thinking this coming week I'll probably get to it. Marcus, you're done with this series, right? Oh, yes. Yeah, okay, thank you. I mean, it's the series I watched.

I've never watched a series that long. It's the only one I've watched from almost start to finish. Maybe if you've watched like the Simpsons, you know, or South Park, but I haven't, but this is the one I followed the most religiously since there's no other series where you wish those guys were your brothers. Yeah. Well, you know, what's funny is that right now with Barb, I'm watching the Gilmore girls from the beginning. We're on season four, five, four or five now. And then they're on Gilmore.

girls, Jared is Dean on supernatural. He's Sam and his brother is Dean. Yeah. Coincidence. You need to stop that and get ready for Texas Walker, Walker, Texas Ranger. Yeah. All I'm going to see is I'm just going to wait for Dean to come out to defend Sam. No matter what he does. I think Walker, Texas Ranger is not going to last long and we'll get a supernatural.

A couple years. But I gotta tell you, watching Gilmore Girls and Dean, I'm like, it's young Sam. He's fucking badass. And his hair never changed, except for season four. He had this weird fucking bowl cut thing that was kind of fucked up. But otherwise, his hair is always awesome. Welcome to the Gilmore's Podcast. I like it. I like the most important thing to George is the hair. Yeah. George is going to Gilmore Girls and Marcus and John are going with Supernatural.

I want to hear what what are we on eight nine I will guarantee no one else has this on their list which is pretty much I'm thinking now I'm up to like 18 picks that nobody else has had I feel the same way actually and that's awesome because we've got a lot of picks for our listeners to check out you have to know this is going to be on my list this year I love these guys have been a fan for years decibel

loves these guys as well paradise loss obsidian really enjoy this album a lot i know we've discussed this album compared to the play within but i really like this one for different reasons because it harkens back a little bit to the icon draconian times feel along with incorporating some of the play within i know medusa was in between play within and this one but it's heavy but it still has the gothy kind of rock

feel to it also. And I think that's what makes it a good album. Paradise Lost, every album seems to just tweak it more than enough to not copy the last album they did, which is nice. Don't get me wrong. Wow, that's true. They've got their clunkers like everybody else, but they've been on a nice run the last, say, 15 years of albums. Yeah, it's I think it's a really good album, John. I feel like it's just like a mash of

everything they've done. Exactly. Thank you. Yes. I agree. That part of it. You know, it's like, listen, we've done all these different records. We've tried different things. Now we're going to distill it, put everything into this album. And yet it's still cohesive. Yes. And I agree with Will. I think the plague within is the best album they've done since draconian times. But, but I do think this is a very good album too. On top of that, for the reasons Markisan just mentioned that it is a great, it's like almost a nostalgic trip through their past.

John did that come out in the second half of the year or is the first part of the year first half of the year it was on my mid-year also yeah

well put down those fish tacos and give us your number eight you sexy

you sexy

you'll be horrified to know that these are in fact basically fish sticks in a taco

Yeah, we already talked about this. We knew this. Do you like fish dicks? Do you like fish dicks in your mouth? This is the greatest episode ever. Can I just tell you guys, this is funny. So I created a comic book series where it took Aquaman and Namor the Submariner, who's a character in Marvel, and made them underwater detectives called fish dicks. And I've written like, I don't know.

They're like those, you know,

they're Sunday paper strips where they're just maybe four panels or whatever.

I got the deck part of that. Yes.

That's awesome.

I've never released them because I need to get an artist for them,

but underwater detectives called fish tanks.

Oh, man.

Jay's like, what the fuck are these guys talking about?

No, no, I'm not.

But I will say this.

We have,

we have interspersed each pick with a long conversation about television

for the last hour.

We can't get through. Where are we at here? Eight? Yeah. Get ready to spend the night, boys. Yeah. A number of plagues. Portraits of the Mind. Death, Menace, Reef, Finding Darkness. Okay. So I'd like to bring up something about The Simpsons now. I'm just joking. I'm fucking with you. Now I want to hear it. No, I don't. I don't have anything. It's just that it's a theme we've taken on. All right. I'll take it.

I'll ask Will about play. So you actually have that high for a death metal album considering how much you like death metal. You must be high. Oh, this is a great death metal album. But I just realized a complete, I'm going to have a massive mea culpa later in my list because I just realized because I'm using Microsoft Word for my list that there was an album that was, it was at the end of,

The Plague, like in Microsoft Word, and I just realized that I had to hit enter, and it gets its own number. And this is a very, very important album to have a number, and now I am at 26. You gotta kill something. I'm gonna have to kill something in retrospect. In my top seven. Oh, fuck. That's happened a day before. That is brutal. We thought Dork Fortress was bad.

Dork Fartress. Dork Fartress. Let's talk about Murder, She Wrote. Actually, there's nothing maybe. Oh, that sucks. All right. Okay, Jay, come on, move it. Where are we? Number eight, Wayfarer, Romance with Violence. Nice. Jay, have you ever watched that show? It's about a bar in Boston.

I'll kind of hang out.

Tim Danston's on it, I think.

You said this album grew on you, though, that it wasn't your favorite initially, but now...

Oh, no, I liked it right away. I think I liked it right away.

I don't remember. I don't think I switched places for me.

Maybe. Maybe. If it was, it was brief.

But I've liked it from the get-go.

That opening track just takes you down a road and you're done.

I think it's fucking brilliant.

Awesome.

That's the third. Fourth. Third or fourth? Will? I can't remember. Not John. Not John. Where are we? You, buddy. Number eight. Yep, yep, yep. Master eight. All right, from the Canada. Oh. Translator.

I hope you're hungry because you're going to be devouring ruin with wake

happy to see that again

very nice

I wonder how many times George has said very nice

32 times

a lot

I think my hearing has improved this year actually. Yes. Because the production, I listened to this again the other day and I was like, damn, what's wrong with this production? Ain't not wrong with this production. What are you talking about? Yeah. So I don't know. It just proves we all hear things differently at different times. Yeah. Well, that album has a lot of layers to it too. So I think every time. Is it a wall sound? I haven't listened to it much myself. Yeah. And especially if you listen to it out of headphones, you're going to hear a lot more.

more than if you just spin it casually. All right. Excuse me. All right. Markisan. Keep us going. Yeah. Number seven. I know no one's going to have this on their list, but I love this record. It's Unleash the Archers Abyss on Napalm Records in Canada. There is no album this year that fills me with as much joy as Abyss. And in 2020. Why is it not your number one?

Because I don't like to be joyful all the time, George. Okay. That's fair. But in 2020, you know, that means something. So I love the band's last record, Apex, but this one just takes them to a whole other level of the metal song craft. It melds traditional metal, power metal, death metal, folk, rock, 80s pop, and fucking synth lasers into just a really unique and just memorable record to me.

I love Britney Slay's vocals and I adore that she came up with this like star-spanning sci-fi fantasy saga that started on their previous record and then concludes with this one. She's a killer singer. She's amazing. I really like the early stuff by them. She's great live too. I've seen them live before. Actually, they did a show live and you could just pay money to do it and I

I talked to her. They were at Prague power one year. They were cool. I think they become, I think they were super cheesy when they first started and they just become a really great band. They just managed to meld all these different kinds of sounds into their, into their metal. And I don't think anybody really sounds like them at all. It's just fun, enjoyable. And like I said, just ultra memorable to me.

So, number seven, unleash the archers. Abyss. All right, Matt. Hey, Newber Zeban. Already mentioned, a feather and bone. Sulfur disintegration. Yes. Wait, wait, wait. I have to do it. It's going to be high. Beautiful. Mr. Tickletaint. Mr. Tickletaint. That's what they call me.

So you're Mr. T.T. instead of Mr. T. That's right. That's right. I pity the fool. I pity the fool that don't take on a date. All right, my turn. Yes. So this reminds me of a show I was watching back in the 80s. All right, we won't go there, Jay. Oh, no, I thought you were really going to say a show.

7 has been mentioned before. I think once or twice. Maybe once. I don't know. The Ocean Collective. Not just the Ocean, but the Collective. Phenerozoic 2. Mesozoic. That upright. Yeah. Yeah. Cenozoic. Continuation from their previous album in 2018. These guys have hit home runs now for a few albums in a row. If you like

The Ocean or Ocean Collective's version of post-metal slash prog metal. Great album. I'm enjoying. And that's all I've got to say. There's nothing else to say. It's a killer album. And I agree with everyone regarding Decibel that it should have been on their list. Yeah, that's kind of weird. Yeah. On a top 40 for sure, you know. At least, you know, or 50 or something. And I've seen it in all different ranges from the,

bottom half to the top half. So I think that kind of says enough I need to know about the album in terms of how it's viewed across the board. In defense of Decibel, their list is a compilation, much like our ultimate list, of a lot more people than our list. And so, you know, there could have been a fair number of oceans on that list. Of course, yes. And it just didn't make it because of all the different people that go into making the Decibel list.

How many people though? Oh, it's actually a lot. It's like 654 people, I think. No. I'm just kidding. I'm just making shit up. We need Albert on this cast. No, I think it's over 30 people, isn't it? It's gotta be a lot, yeah. Yeah, it's a lot. And that's the one thing people didn't understand about the list, is that it's a culmination of the whole staff. Yeah. And they got a lot of great records on there, for sure. Yeah. And look at this, Enslaved is doing a

Q&A online right now and they're sitting in a car doing it.

It seems the best.

I tend to think they get the joke, you know, in general about the online world.

They just take full advantage of it, which is awesome.

All right, Will.

Comedian in cars getting coffee?

Yes, like Seinfeld.

Yes.

So I have a mid-list crisis right now because there is clearly an album that is one of my favorite albums of the year

that does not have a number because

I use Microsoft Word

and just somehow got stuck

at the end of another

number seven pick. So here's what you're going to

do. Also, I can't count.

You're going to list them both.

You're going to list them both.

And it's John's problem

to figure that shit out later.

I'll just fucking axe whatever I

want. I don't give a shit.

I'll J-Will on

this one.

I may have to submit when the official list of John may be resubmitted. Oh boy. I don't remember Will mentioning this album. I'm going to mention this album that somehow got tacked on to the end and then I will mention my number seven. Fair enough. And we will figure it out. So my album that got tacked on is Uwata Jin. Uwata put that in the right motherfucking place.

I think so many fucking times I love it so much and I had it at number seven but somehow I got tacked on the end of the line wait so it is is it number seven or not number seven I don't know what it is like literally because I have a number seven my number seven is dope lord sign of the devil it was uh which one do you like more you know what

I have two children. You can't pick me which one I like more. Do you have two cats, John? No, I can't because I'm allergic to cats. Do you have a cat or a wife? Pick one. Do you have a wife? Cat, obviously. She's not home, so that's why I'm saying if she was home, she'd cut my head off in three. You see my head going off in a second. Trust me, she would pick the cat before me a hundred times out of a hundred. I mean, everybody would. Come on.

God, I haven't seen Jen in forever. I haven't seen any of you in forever. My God. Another way of saying that is, would you prefer your wife or pussy? Exactly. Hey, you're married long enough, you know what. Hey, Jay, I'm actually confused by that question. What does it mean? What does it mean? It means you can fuck your cat. That's exactly what I'm trying to say. Oh, no. Yet despite that,

still comes to them frequently in the afternoon. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Afternoon delight. Marcus's cat likes him. My cat comes to me because she wants to eat. She has requests. There's a big difference there. Trust me. Your cat, like mine, comes to report a felony in the kitchen. And it, it, open that damn can and feed my ass. Hey, fucker, you got one job. No, two jobs. I got to scoop the box after I feed her. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's fair.

Matt, you've been on water for a long time. True story. Matt, I feel like you're just floating in space right now. You look the most drunk, but you're probably the least drunk. Yeah, you've had like what, one beer? I had three. All right. One was a taller bottle. Two of which are beer. I mean, I cannot hold my liquor. You guys know that. My God. Yeah, but you're still on screen though, above shoulder. You've got to pump it up so you can lift some more. This is true. This is true. You look like Dr. Manhattan flying out in the air.

I mean his eyes look really drunk. Drinking for Kool-Aid. But not the mustache. Grape. Yeah. You guys want to do some push-ups? He's wearing Nikes. Can we bunk our beds? God, I'm trying to get through this sour beer and it's fucking hard. So my number seven is Dope Lord. I have to figure out where you ought to. The djinn comes in, but sign of the devil, stoner doom from Warsaw, Poland. I would say it comes in above Dope's throne. What?

or whatever the fuck. Dope whatever. They have a one that's, Hail Satan, Don. You should listen to it. I think it would gravitate to a one. Did that come out this year? I don't think it did. It did come out this year, numfucks. Not Hail Satan, Worship Doom. Not Hail Satan, Worship Doom. The Dope Lord did. Dope Lord came out with a song called Hail Satan. It's like, Hail. You've only had the beer how many times, George? Jesus fucking Christ, George.

Listen to what I'm saying.

I just had that revelation.

There's always that moment where the podcast

just turns into a total shit show

out of nowhere and it just happens.

It's usually about five minutes after we start.

But it's never been like,

oh, I fucked up my list.

Oh, no.

It's usually Jay fucking up his list.

No, we've had our list fucked up before.

There's no problem with that.

Including this one.

This is my favorite fuck up.

Didn't that come out last year?

That's happened a couple times actually.

A couple times.

Well, hey, I completely forgot to put one in there and we totally breezed by it and didn't have to talk about it.

Who the fuck is picking next?

Me.

Sorry, John.

Jay, Jay, Jay.

Progressive Polish black metal, extremely progressive.

I put it on my mid-year.

It still holds well with me.

I love this record.

Odraza.

Yeah.

That was good stuff. I really, one of my best discoveries of the year is this band. I love that fucking record. Can't wait for the next one. You were really big when that came out. You liked that a lot. I dug the shit out of it. And I admit, I didn't listen to it as much in the second half of the year, but on those, like, I need to revisit stuff for my list, I fucking was like, yeah, that's right. This is fucking badass. But then now we're getting into, I think, what might be true for a lot of us, which is one, two, three, four, fully four of my last

Five Albums are new to the list. Which, we'll see if that's true for everybody. Everything from the rest of my list is new. No, I'm even. 33. I say that five of my last six, rather. My number seven? Yeah. Anal Nathrak. I thought you, I figured, I knew you were going to have it. And Darken Mint. Yep.

All right. That's all I gotta say about that. I'm just gonna make an observation. Has anyone said incantation yet? No. Why would they? God, that's fucking... It's gonna be a fucking... It's gonna wipe the place out, Will. I don't think so. Well... Said Jay. It won't be a clean sweep. He's said that for like a few albums already. I got beer here and I'll think about that. My money says

It's going to be the number one of the

I would agree with that because

we literally don't have

a number one up to this point

So it's going to be

It's going to be somewhere

we're all saying so we'll see

At least for a change it'll be something that

Yeah anyway

Does anyone have any clue?

I mean I haven't been keeping track

I can't think of what album's gotten four picks

Wayfair is up there

Wayfair, Aronso's got a number

but they're all kind of low

Well, I think Wakes is going to be pretty hot. Well, we've got too high Wakes. Yeah. I think Wakes will do all right. Ulcerate. Ulcerate, yeah. I think the picture will start to become clear now, though, because I think we have some big scoring points. Don't worry. I'll put my mark on all these albums. There comes John. Marcus, son, let's do your six. Let's do it. Number six. It was my number two on mid-year, and I'm pretty sure I'll be the only one who has this one.

on the list. It is unrequited Empathica, Northern Silence Productions. Just a sweeping, that was a really weak crickets noise, a sweeping cinematic epic in album form. This is just stunning symphonic black metal. It makes me feel like I'm soaring over ancient wonders in a haunted fantasy realm. So whenever I felt like I needed to transport myself away from the real world, this is the first record that I would reach for.

I love it. This is one of the ones I've spun the most this year. So a purpose record then. Yes. Nice. Yes. By the way, I would add too, and I bet this is true for all of us. John, I think John was saying, no, Marcus said this. Everything we put in now, these are the records I've listened to the most this year. Everything here is the stuff that I listened to all of these 10, 15, 20, 30 times, depending on which one it is. Yeah. So we're getting some multiple listens here now. See, big man.

from the moon. This is my number six pick, drop number two from the mid-year list. It is Esau Trillium, Eternity of Shug. By far the most bizarre album on my list, yet it all still feels like one thing. Black metal, folk metal. There's like a piano interlude that I couldn't listen to because I'm just not that classy. But this is the fifth album from a French black metal one-person project. And this is another

the band that I've always wanted to have on my list, but up until this point, it just didn't work out. But today it did. That's high. Today is the day. Yeah, exactly. All right. Matt, you're classy to me. So thank you. Absolutely. All right. Very nice. We should drink every time George says that. We're so screwed. Very nice. So screwed. Drink your grape cooler.

So let's keep up with the theme I've had my whole list. Another album that nobody else has. But that's okay because this album. No, you can't cricket this album because it is by far. I can't think of an album. I was more emotionally affected by than this one. It really is a difficult listen. The album is the Oubliette by the Reticent. If you haven't heard this, if you like,

I would give it a spin. The reason why I say it's so emotional is because as described on Bandcamp, it is an emotional journey into the seven stages of Alzheimer's disease. It is very difficult to listen to because I believe the main person behind this band is basically giving a story of someone and his family. It really is tough to listen to. But the music is so good.

And if this is a one-man act, this guy's beyond talented. I think he probably has a band that he plays with, but I think he's the driving force. I don't know his name. I apologize for not having that with me right now. But if you really want to kind of go down that concept path, but a difficult subject matter, I give him all the credit in the world for pulling this off with this album. The previous album, people hail as a great,

Another progressive album and more of a tool influence he tackled suicide on that one. So this guy is not exactly talking about tits and boobs and bears. He's tackling very serious issues in his lyrical content. So yeah. Not to be a downer or anything. It's a freaking amazing album on top of that. I want to hear it now. Yeah. But it is a downer when you think about it and it to hear the voiceovers and samples that he uses.

you're like, oh man, this, I don't know if I'm going to make it through this. So yeah. Did Will's kids just bring him a beer? I don't know. I don't want to swear right now. That's something I'm worried about. I feel like William, William just handed you a beer and said, here you go. They asked, did you just bring me a beer? Yeah. What'd you bring me? Yeah. Oh, that's so awesome. I have no idea if they can hear you or not. They can't. They can't.

Two-Hearted Ale. Yeah. Once again, appearing in Northern Virginia. Yeah. They're back. Well, that was just a whole distribution. Eh, we're not getting a free ride. William, can you pronounce the highlighted one? This is my number six album. We're on number six, right? Yes. Yeah. But it might possibly be dropped at some point. Yeah. Yeah, we're on number six.

4 hours to do 6 things. It's taking us 5 hours and 18 minutes. Alright, just... We're doing pretty good for our lives. William, can you pronounce that one? The highlighted one, number 6. I don't even know what it's saying. Vell...ness. Vellonous. Oh! Saw this coming. William, you take a crack at it.

Velenas, yes. Always need some ass in there. Gotta love the ass. Velenas, scion of ether. Oh shit, man, that wasn't fair. I couldn't have read that. Yeah. No idea what you're talking about.

Yeah, this is from from Niederland, Colorado, which is a small mountain village outside Denver. And I've actually been there because there's a brew pub there. There's a very good guy. This is like 15 years ago. Maybe I was there. But this is this is like the cusp of blackened melodic kind of it reminds me a lot of Wayfair album.

There's something about that Colorado Western. When they start doing black metal, there's another level to it. I mentioned this the other day, a couple weeks ago, in the Messenger. The more I listen to this, the more I love this album. This is the album that I go to when I wake up in the middle of the night and I can't fall back asleep. I put this on and it's just pure black metal.

I hear you with your earbuds on.

Way to keep your kid up.

She hears me with my earbuds on.

Which means you're keeping her up.

How loud are you listening to that music?

Matt knows what I'm talking about.

I do.

Kids exaggerate.

I see.

My number six is a band who really hasn't probably ever made a misstep, but they certainly haven't made any missteps post-2000. You're entitled to your beliefs, but one man's clunker is another man's treasure. Napalm Death throws in the joy of the jaws of defeatism. It's the usual gut punch, you know? Yeah. As old as these guys are getting, as long as they've been going to come out with this kind of

And it's super listenable and addictive. Great stuff. Doesn't hurt that I took a deep dive on Napalm Death this year, but that was precipitated by the fact that they were playing Decibel and I wanted to be ready for them. So it just led to good things. Great fucking record. Oh, great record. Pardon my language. Super record. Amazing. It's neat. This is a really neat record. Yeah, really, really great. I like it a lot. Georgie.

Okay, number six. This album is not going to be on any other lists. Oh, we've said that like 47 times today. No, no, because nobody gets it but me. Only I am cool enough to get this album. Oh, boy. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe Dork Fortress enough to get it. Yeah. Hey, Dork Fortress is looking pretty good right now. Fortress. From Norway. On Nuclear Blast.

records.

Cadaver at her inbottom.

Oh,

I considered it.

I thought you were going to say enslaved.

Norway and Dirt to their blast.

I was thinking something else.

Oh yeah,

yeah.

I guess that's true.

I like that.

And I like that record,

George.

It was up to consideration.

I cannot believe that this was not on more lists at all because I believe it.

It is so,

so good.

It got ravaged to the couple of reviews.

It did.

And I don't get that at all.

I don't because I totally disagree too I was like what am I hearing something wrong yes it fell into my my my total like old reliable category as many carcass fans as we have on here I know nobody agrees with me but the vocals are very Jeff Walker like and I mean the music may not be carcass like but the vocals are very like Jeff Walker has a very distinct style and I think this is very similar to that well it's got a nice old school vibe to it too one of the reviews I read George said they have

They shouldn't have bothered. That was literally the review. That's a crappy review. I'm an angry metal guy. That's a gut punch, that review. And completely wrong. Wow. Completely wrong. Even if you didn't like it, it's not like that. Wow. I also think Jeff Walker should change his name to Jeff Walker-like. Or Jeff Skinwalker. Or Texas Jeff Walker. I like it.

I like it. It's great if he came to a show and just kicked us in the face with a roundhouse boot. Or just call himself Moose. To be kicked by a British man. No, I want to have a beard and do the whole Chuck Norris thing. I'm going back to the original. But yeah, I flabbergasted that people don't have this on their list and I'll be the only one. Sorry. George, I'll be honest. It was in there and then I fell out. It was.

I never wrote it down, but it was in consideration. It got a Jeff Walker-like kick in the face. I never wrote it down, and it wasn't in consideration. I was like this. I was like, oh, good album, Charlie. There was no room. There is so much room. So much room. I remember you mentioning it, and that was about it. Yeah, well. Just wait. Just wait. Oh, I'm waiting. All right. Five. Five. I'm going to say it. Here it comes. I haven't said it yet this year. Now we get to

- No, get serious. - Oh, get serious. - Wait, can I interject for a second? - No. - 'Cause my daughter wants to read everyone's screen names. - Oh no. - Tickle Titan. - Wait, let me change that. - Why am I glad I... - Tickle's a good one. - So what's this one? - George. - No, but I know that's George, but what's his screen name? - Tickle Titan. - Tickle Titan, that's fine. - Way to go George.

Chainsaw Titan Shave Engineer.

What's this one down here? What's Mr. Mads?

Grad Muff Bitchy Titan Records Chainsaw Mash.

The last word is Massacre.

Massacre.

Titan, yeah, that's it.

Fluffy Bunny Hugs.

Fluffy Bunny Hugs.

That explains your background. Yes. Exactly. I'm very kid-friendly. Hey, Will. Hey, Will. Can I say, since you're laughing, I'll say what you're going to say next. John. Don't tell your mother we had this conversation. That comes up many times. Yeah. Don't let your mother know we did this. That's why dads rule early on. Yeah.

You know, I've been this past week, my all-time lifelong hetero life mate of my same name, his name is George, my best friend from fifth grade on. His 15-year-old son has been texting me for the last week. He's a bass player. He's into the Misfits and Cliff Burton big time.

And we have been like having like long text conversations for this past week. And it's, it's both weird and kind of cool because he thinks I'm really cool. And don't, don't tell him I'm not. Yeah. He'll learn. George is cool. He's like, he thinks for now, you know, I, he, I can tell him all these stories from the last 35 years and he's just like, what? And he thinks, he thinks we're all really cool. He, he, he like wears the podcast shirt. He like listens to the podcast.

It's like we're Santa Claus.

And then he'll eventually find out.

Now I've got to edit this out because he'll hear it.

Don't want him to think I'm not cool.

George is the coolest guy I know.

We're not real.

Alright, when Marcus gets back, we get to do this.

Number five?

Number five.

We're going to bring it home.

I'm going to...

Didn't think I was, but here I am.

All right. Hi, Fluffy Bunny hugs. Fluffy Bunny. Hey, Fluffy Bunny. Your background is very realistic. Fluffy Bunny hugs next. Number five, where shit gets serious. George left because it's too serious. What's that? No, that's not funny. Crap gets serious. Unicorn killers, yes.

I think this is going to be the first a few picks and it is incantation sect of vile divinity on relapse records wait that's your number five yeah number five yeah my favorite death metal group of all time and it's your number five yeah top five is great because mark a song could be objective about his favorite death metal band yeah yeah I like it my favorite death metal band and the highest on my list

for death metal. There's a lot of new death metal bands that have gotten attention over the years. So it's really cool to hear death metal, this dynamic, this brilliantly alive from one of the genres originators. And yeah, I've spun it a ton. Five is a pretty great position, I think. Well, I just know how much you are an Incantation fan.

would be no so that it means his next four records are going to be knockouts but i gotta listen to

megaton sword is not a knockout compared to incantation just saying

i i mean you know that's how i feel about it so you can pick what you want to pick

i agree with john it's like it's objective you know it's like i like a lot of other bands i've heard a lot of

incantation i've listened to a lot of incantation over the years this is one of my favorites that

they've done. But I just spun a few more records a little bit more. Let me ask you this, Markisan. What do you like more? Vile of Secd Divinities or Profane Nexus? Secd of Vile Divinities. Okay. You? Profane Nexus. Profane Nexus is a great record. All the Incantation records are good. Tell George what you picked. I picked Incantation, the first Incantation pick. For number five?

Yeah.

That's what we'll say.

Hey, welcome to the conversation, George.

It's so funny because I knew you guys would say that because I think I'm probably the biggest Incantation fan.

Number five.

You're the most honest Incantation fan.

I'm honest.

You know, like it's a great, great album.

Does it give you anything new with Incantation?

A little bit.

It's new for them, but it doesn't transcend.

I mean, it doesn't give you something completely different in the death metal genre.

Are you saying that did not mature? It's just a great, great death metal album. So, that's why. Matt, look at your five. Join Me in Space. My number five pick has basically become like another layer of skin for me. It is Temple of Void, The World It Was. This album has become a part of my life. I put it on and I blink and it is done. That's how much I love this album. I basically memorize

it from front to back. If you are a member of that band and listening, be wary and file a restraining order against me. That's how much I like it. The world that was behind you. Hello. I'm just impressed, Matt, you got away from Earth fast enough. I took a bit, John. I took a bit. I have some football thighs and they give me the strength. All right. Let's do another pick that nobody has on their list.

Number two on my mid-year made it to number five on my year-end. Sweevin, The Eternal Resonance from Sweden, Fan Records. If you don't know them, you're not going to know them. It was a good album. It was on my mid-year, but it dropped off. Yeah. And I was very surprised to see it so high on Decibel's list because I didn't think it would be something they overall liked because it's not your traditional death metal album. It's not even remotely close. Yeah.

But it just stuck with me for the whole year. And I thought it would fall lower on my list, but I listened to it again. I was like, I still dig this album a lot. So. Cool, John. I think I've seen it in a few lists pretty high. Surprised. Yeah, because I just, I think when Will mentioned he listened to it, it kind of resonated. It fell more in line with what I like when it came to death metal. Or when it came to progressive and death metal. And not so much just straight death metal. But I'm surprised at how many lists it's showing up on. So that's cool.

Check it out if you've never heard it. I keep going, who's emptying their garbage can? It's Mark is on digging for shrimp. Hey, Mark, I'll save it for off air. I have to ask you a question about your shrimp. You're shrimpy. Give me a deal. Will, five, bring it. Let's go.

Blow this taco stand and get the hell out of here. All right. Come to the microphone and read my number five pick.

That's it. That's it. That's all I have to read. Pretty much. Nicely done, sir. Just say, Clint Eastwood, Wayfarer, Clint Eastwood. We're good. We know it. Wayfarer, a romance with violence. Will, you're like a black metal junkie this year. Yeah, what the hell? Wow, I'm impressed. Where's he? I love him. You know, I've been a fan. Wayfarer was one of my first black metal loves, I guess you could say. Yeah, that's going

back a few albums you like yeah you know going back to world's blood and um

crap what was the other one that i liked a lot uh the one before that which is actually the one

anyway oh uh anyway um this this this is just uh i think it's like the great um combination of like that

that old western sort of like vaudeville kind of thing with the pianos the lyrical content like it just i just really enjoy it it's just fun can you say that about black metal it's fun yeah and it sounds western somehow yeah it works and they play they play with say they play with sore uh at atlas and uh that was the infamous uh show by the way yeah that was the infamous show where the power came out yeah someone's one of the

I don't know who went and daisy-chained like all the power cords to one like power surge breaker or whatever and so there's a video online where you can see that at some point in the show I have to go back and sit by the breaker switch and keep flipping it every time the power went off and it was yeah anyway but they I do have an affinity I will 100% admit I've said it before I have an affinity

for bands that play atlas and i see them live i get i i get the chance to talk to them interact with them and wayfarer is one of those bands that just like absolute gentlemen i think i'm friends with facebook with the lead singer now and it's just just um wow i love this album i love it and we've said it before that was like one of the hottest shows i've ever been to in my life temperature wise temperature wise now the two mold

A week earlier was even hotter. I don't even know how the two mold guys even survived that show. They were so exhausted, spent. I will never forget Pace and Powers. Drank a whole pitcher of water, remember that? And he just sat there at the end of the show like, I'm going to die. He sat on the stage, didn't care. I'm like, I'm going to die. It was the craziest week ever. We did two mold one night. The next night,

We did Chemist at a basement. I don't know what that is. Songbird. Songbird. And then the next night after that was Soar and Wayfarer. Three nights in a row. And it was 100 degrees every single day. Remember when we used to get breakfast around the corner? Oh my God, George. It's amazing. I miss that. I don't care about Atlas. I remember the breakfast. Do you remember the debate, George? Do we just get the whole platter? I think we do. I think we do.

Wafirer is going to have a good showing on the combined list, I think. Oh, yeah. Cool. Can you hold that up so I can see it, please? Oh, I forgot. Does anybody remember what those are called? What's it called? Jaguba. No, no. Dubak. Yeah, Dubak. The droids, they're here. My son is holding up. These aren't the droids you're looking for. Exactly. That's Tatooine. Oh, wait. You know what? Come back. These were the droids you were looking for.

I'm sorry I made a mistake that's them get them shoot oh I'm so embarrassed all right uh who's next on five jay and it is not um it requires no it requires no description except to say that my top five somewhat interchangeable my one I'm leaving there by itself this could have landed in a lot of places this is where it landed again we're going by how many times did I listen to it enslaved boot guard

You know, I mean, E was my number one album of that year. I don't think that necessarily means E is better than this record. It just means this is where this album fell in the albums. In the albums it was fighting against. We all know. We all love Enslaved. I don't have to. Well, everyone minus Will, but yeah. Everyone minus Will. Yeah, boot guard. You know, Enslaved might steal this over incantation maybe. It's possible, maybe. It's possible. Maybe. At least one and two. Possible. Yeah, we'll see.

It's possible. I could be bluffing. Perhaps I lack the strength to stand. If everybody has it, it'll win. But Will won't have it, though. So, yeah, it's going to be tough. Somebody might screw incantation over. You never know. Well, we know you, but Will won't have it. No, not a fucking chance. It's a trade-off. It's a trade-off. It's going to be tight. It could be one and two. I don't know.

I think they're gonna be wanting to. I do. Yeah. I just dropped F-bomb in front of my kids and didn't realize it. Don't tell your mother. Firetruck. Will, are you trying to drill? Don't tell your mother. Don't tell your mother. This is where you get blackmailed big time by your kids. Get your fucking mouth shut. Yeah. Shut the fuck up, Will. You guys can save everyone. They can't hear you. I will end you. Yeah. Just fuckity fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Take up for pizza, goddammit. All right, Chase, let's see your five. My number five. United States, profound lore records of feather and bone. Wow. Sulfuric disintegration. That could be number three on the list. That's pretty high. It's ugly. Wow. All right, number four.

Number four for me is Megaton Sword, Blood Hails Steel, Steel Hails Fire. Fire Hails Water. Yeah, when I selected this record for my top five most anticipated albums earlier this year, I knew it would be great, but the actual album blew away my expectations. I think it's just a really great collection of high fantasy war anthems that I,

need.

With a field commander in Uzi Unchained, who I will follow into battle unquestionably.

So you bark your orders, hurl your death curses at me, Uzi, you tiny dragon-lunged troubadour to arms.

Number four.

Okay.

He's like the guy from the Scorpions.

I don't know who's taller.

He's tiny.

Yeah.

What a great year for traditional metal.

Yep.

So many good albums.

And this, I mean, this was the one that by far, to me, you know, this one was the ultimate. So love it.

Right on. Matty.

My number four.

100% outside of my wheelhouse.

Yet I air-guitared the shit out of this album in my kitchen, which also substitutes as my office for work.

FYI, Evelyn is actual guitarian in the background.

That is very good.

And Will's son got a mohawk somehow during this episode. He did. Both of which are playing from this album. Yeah. It is spirit adrift enlightened in eternity. Pretty high. Spirit adrift moving up the list with three now. Yeah. I knew Matt would have it because I remember when he talked about it and I was like, man, this is not something that you traditionally enjoy as much. No. He really digs that one. It's a climber.

Very high climber. Yeah. Oh, nice. Nice. All right, John. Oh, my turn. Oh, let's keep going down that nobody else has this on their list pick. But man, I got to tell you, I absolutely love this album. And for a while was my number two on my list. I think I'm the only person who put a single on their top 25 because there's only one song on this album.

It's 31 minutes long. So it's a long song. Will's Dissolve Echoes. I absolutely love this album. Every time I listen to it, I put the whole 31 minutes in. I don't cut off at any point. And I enjoy this a lot. I know their last album came out last year and people have compared them to Opeth and all that, whatever. This one, I think they've just transcended everything they did on their first album. So. Man, this one.

I flirted many times with my top 25. I do really like it, John. You have to basically accept the fact that it really is just one song for 31 minutes. And if you can get past that, then I think that makes it easier. And I'd say that wasn't the case for you, but when you accept the fact that it's not a collection of songs, you know. Which is a funny thing. Yeah, that does take some good. It is. I think it hurt it for me. Yeah. I think it hurt it for me a little bit just because it's one song with just so much

many different changes in it. Oh, it's yeah, it's all, but it's not all over the map. It's still kind of follows the same pattern throughout the whole song. But well, I'll tell you, if they can, if they can take that to the next level of the next album, they're going to be in good shape. Yeah. And we should say this wills dissolve record is far and away like the best thing they've ever done. Yeah. Oh yeah. You know, the other stuff is fine, but this is like phenomenally good compared to the stuff they've done in the past.

But yeah, if you know my taste, you knew this was going to show up at some point.

Well, let's get your number four.

Yeah.

My number four will be introduced by a guitar solo by my dog.

Oh my God.

That's your number four?

It's amazing.

It's brilliant.

Yes.

That was my number.

I knew Will was a deep purple face. I knew it.

Soak on the water and fire in the sky.

Beep.

Big finish.

Hold on.

I actually have to give my number four pick.

That was good.

Good intro, guys. Thank you.

Let me see. Let me look at my...

Oh! Oh, this one!

Hey, right.

William's gonna read this one read that one that's I highlighted as number four what is number four say

Incantation?

Yes, Incantation, Sex and Vile, Diffinities. That's better from Pennsylvania, from Relapse Records. Oh, yeah. I love how Will gave me shit for putting Incantation at number five, and his is number four. Well, I just like... It's one more. You brag about being the number... Incantation's your number one death metal band of all time, and I just, you know, it's good. It is, but I don't need... That doesn't mean I have to put him at number one every single time.

You know what? It was good-natured ribbing because I had it at number four. Yes, that's awesome. I don't need to say any more. Again, we're into pure straight-up volume of listens this time, or no, numbers of listens. In this record, I listened to the shit out of this record. Will confessed to doing the same, but still fucked up his list. Uwata, Jin. I fucking love that record, dude. Solid.

Number 4. It had to be in the top 5. Considered it for even higher. Is there a way I can combine mine? With mine? Sure. Come on over baby. Oh my god. I seriously love the album so much and I have no idea how it just got like in Microsoft Word it got tacked on to the end of something else. Number 7. You got Bill Gates man. Let's not blame human error. No no it's totally my error. I mean totally my error. But I want to blame Bill Gates. You are in control of your own.

Now, I did send you an Excel file. You know, I did, I will say this, I liked their last album a lot. They were probably my favorite performance of the last Decibel, and I think they just hit this one out of the fucking park. Out of the park and beyond. This is such a good record. I don't find anything on it slow or... They might make the top five on our list. That's pretty high. Yeah. They might. Georgie. Georgie. Number four. Four.

From England.

It's not a big purple dinosaur.

It's napalm death.

Throws in the jaws of defeatism.

I thought that would be your number one, to be honest with you.

Well, you would think that, wouldn't you?

Yeah, I did.

That's why I said it.

That's good.

You remember what I was just saying?

There you go.

Well, it's not. It's my number four. And I'll still bring this up every time Napalm Death comes up. The greatest assembly of musicians on a demo record ever. Have you ever looked at that list who they had on their first demo? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's amazing. Yeah. Nobody knows. Yeah, fucking Justin and Lee Dorian.

It's like,

bloated.

Yeah.

Bloated.

All right,

Marcus,

son,

let's crank this horse three,

baby.

It's getting started to hurt.

It's starting to hurt.

It started hurting before we started.

It started to hurt.

So good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Mr.

Mellicamp.

Cougar Mellicamp.

Number three for me is,

uh,

my easily my favorite,

uh,

death doom album of the year.

Equal parts,

blood cloud,

thick atmosphere,

and grand ethereal scope. And it is Convocation Ashes Coalesce on Sentient Ruin Records. I fucking love this record so much. And it also features one of my favorite album covers of 2020. There it is. So here I will give you a description of the album cover. Picture, if you will, dear Metalheads, a world blanketed in perpetual night under dead stars.

where black oceans drank the cities and turned everything to liquid shadow and ink. Only those lucky enough to be carried away from the unrelenting dark to the upmer atmosphere by a mysterious crimson scarf can survive. Here, where all hope has nearly been swallowed up by oil, death, and darkness, two human survivors make their last leap to the heavens,

and the feel of soft fabric of rescue. Like a Snuggie. So we didn't do album covers, but I had to throw at least one. Convocation, Ashes, Coalesce. Love, love, love this record. Nice. Apparently. Yes. All right. Number three.

this album when it came out but every time i listened to it it climbed up my list and to coincide with that the last country i was in this pandemic started was italy and if i was in italy they would pronounce this band's name incantation sect of vile divinities very nice it's gonna be high on the list i think so the combined lists i think so

John.

All right.

So I'm going to throw a monkey wrench into that combined list.

Yes.

And push this band just a little bit higher than incantation.

Oh,

let me get the crickets.

Enslaved.

Maybe.

Almost got to be.

George,

if you pull out the crickets,

I'm going to send these guys to your house to beat you up.

Oh,

well,

all right,

then they have very big beards.

So you're being trouble.

Wait, beat me up or beat me off?

You let them know when they get there.

They'll do whatever.

All right.

All right.

I mean, hey, guys, whatever George wants, help them out.

They're not on Will's list, but check it out.

They're on everybody, hopefully everybody else's list.

I think so.

I think so.

Enslaved.

Oh, you mean enslaved.

No.

Oh, no, no.

We're going enslaved.

Enslaved-y.

This is interesting.

Ooh to the guard.

Yes.

It's.

I love this album because it's so different and still sounds like enslaved.

It's not bad.

Yes.

Sorry.

Yeah.

It's not bad.

You know,

a couple of decent tracks on it.

Oh yeah.

It's fine.

Well,

it doesn't suck too much.

It's new five finger death punch.

Yeah.

Five finger death punch.

Number three there, Will. We've got a kid who's going to read it. Stare at the screen and don't say anything. You could do that too. Yeah. It's words, so who knows what it is. Yeah. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Edge of receipts. Will. You. Say something. Five. Sloppy something.

that much since the mid-year ulcerate stare into nothing and be still so good that's gonna be this well yeah this this was our number one album from the mid-year i'm hoping it still will be high on our um yeah it'll be high on our year-end list oh it's top five i think yeah it is it is just um i think these guys have something special i don't know if it's the isolation being in

New Zealand. They're on an island. They're not influenced by other things, but they're just coming up with some magical hobbit type shit. Second Breakfast. Second Breakfast is doing well by them. My number three is probably the first album that came along this year and really got me obsessed about an album. Slipped a little bit, but it's been around

for most of the year. Still love it. But it's not pushed down by a couple of things. Trypticon Requiem. Still fucking think that's great. Still listen to it a bunch of times. Two albums came and bested it, but that's where it sits. That's fine. You just cricket AJ on Trypticon? Yeah. Actually, I think the crickets died when they were trying to do it. The crickets don't sound good, dude. They sound pretty rough, yeah. Why do the crickets have COVID? Come on. It's a different.

I think the critics don't want to do that to Tom G.

There you go. Yeah, they were like, I don't know, man.

That was Jay's number one, and I wondered if he would keep that album on his list, because it's a live album, but it's also, there's new material, so it's kind of strong.

You know, I'll say this. I didn't know, Marcus, on where you stood on a few things, but you are going to be very pleased with my number two and my number one.

Will I be?

Oh, yes.

You guys going to make out or something during those breaks?

I think maybe they'll be the same as my number two and my number one wow we haven't heard Yanni jerking the penis in a while they won't they won't Jay is my bitch there it is can I just say I love doing this cast with you guys this is just a freaking blast I fucking hate it it's nothing but a chore every time this comes up I'm like oh my god I gotta deal with these guys again

Yeah, we're fucking dicks. Spit out your three, George. Come on, do it. Spit it out. Pfft. Pfft. That are slipknot songs. It's from the United States of America, as most of my list is. Wow. It's on relapse records. Wow. If I was to put a bag over my head, I might be part of a sect of vile divinities. Oh, wow. Incantation. Incantation. It's going to be tight at the top, man. Yeah, I thought it might be,

Número 2.

people would think to put on their list, but... Right, Taylor Swift. Jesus Christ. Evermore, yes! It is Emma, Ruth, Rundle, and Thou, May I, Chambers, Beef, Paul. I was wondering if that was going to show up on your list. I actually thought it might be his number one. It's close, close. It's a glorious marriage of folk sexy sludge and post-metal with a dollop of MTV's Alternative Nation from the 90s.

It's one of the very best collaboration records I've ever heard in my life. And I like both of those acts on their own, but together I feel like they've conjured something uniquely magical with this album. It's got a lot of reviews that say the same thing, dude. I love it. I love it. And it was my, I think it was my album of the episode, the last episode we did. It was, and you spoke similarly highly of it. Yeah. You were, you were,

I was.

This is going to be his number one.

I love it.

I love it so much.

I know I pimped it a lot on the last cast, I think.

And it's not that long a record.

It's like 30 some minutes, but it's like the perfect length.

It's got that emotional depth to it.

Let me find it.

Let me find it.

Perfect.

Number two.

A little note on her.

She is one of the last artists I saw live this year when she was on the Cult of Luna.

and intronaut tour i saw the world came to an end and i was at that show

thinking uh am i gonna get sick because the world is already starting to implode around me as it is

but fuck it culta luna's in town and i want to see this show

that's cool now and i'm jealous because i think she's just a phenomenal singer

especially on this album i've seen her twice once on her own with just her guitar and the other time when she was playing with red sparrows

Yeah, that's cool. Right. And I think I've talked about she was in a marriages, which is like, great, great, great band. I really liked that band. So I may have seen them too. Yeah. Yeah. But I didn't think that this would be great. And combining those two sounds works perfectly. Like I would just quit those other two bands and just do this from now on. Yeah. Like Jay said, that's been on a lot of lists that I had a lot of a lot and very high. Yeah. You're right. And described with this similar enthusiasm. Like really,

People are like I didn't fucking think this would be this great so yeah yeah Matt let's get your number two my numero dos is a masterpiece of intensity is also what I say to my kids in the morning wakey wakey devouring radiant wait what wake wake wake devouring radiant which is also my number dos he just combined wavering radiant from ISIS yeah

No, I don't know if you guys know, but they changed the name of the album midway through the year. So fuck y'all. No, I'm kidding. It was also my number two at mid-year. I'm hanging out with Matt now. Didn't move. It did not move. It's cold up here, George, but it's warmer with you. Matt has slowly dropped on my screen to just the hoodie. I just see the top of the hoodie. That's it. I just want to make sure the nose is visible.

So definitely another album on my list that nobody else has. I think I'm going to win the John Awards, which is most albums that nobody else has. Oh, so what's Fates Warning? I think I'm in the running. I already mentioned Fates Warning like a long time ago. Oh, I was out then. Oh, no, actually, you wouldn't have heard it. I mentioned Farts Warning. It was one of the few times George got up and went. Completely different band. Yeah. No, yes.

I'm glad because if it was Fiat's Warning I would have felt like a complete asshole for outing you so sorry. That's okay. I want to cut it anyway but you know. Yeah so I love the marriage of progressive metal technical death metal and fusion. I'm not a huge jazz fan but for whatever reasons I love fusion and metal and this band I've just adored for a

I just love their sound.

And they're from Baltimore.

They're local.

Exist.

Egoista.

They were my number one in 2017.

And they were my number one a week ago.

But they got beat out by somebody.

Big fan of that band.

Yeah.

I know George knows them and everyone else doesn't.

And that's cool.

They're good.

They're very good.

I know I'm John you know cool yeah that's awesome I really love their so I I I'm a big fan of that kind of fusion guitar sound in metal so yeah I love I've known them and then you've talked about them since I've been on the metalhead podcast you've talked to them quite a bit so I've revisited those albums just awesome give them more of a listen that's really good stuff man but it's not for everyone I will know no it's not no and so and I know Jay you've mentioned in the past about not being a super fan of fretless bass

And you get a little bit of that sometimes. But I'm kind of a fusion fan because I like the Jeff Beck stuff and that kind of stuff. So yeah. Oh, you know, John McLaughlin and all that stuff. Yeah. Well, number two. Cue up the crickets once again. I still am kind of befuddled by nobody has even like even listened to this album, but Barishi, Old Smoke. That's a dry cricket.

I like that album.

It didn't make my list, but I do like that.

Yeah, to me, it's like a more progressive inner armor.

I know we all kind of like inner armor, but it's just an album that just absolutely speaks to me.

I love it from front to back and back to front, depending how you wipe.

It doesn't matter.

Well, you can rectify this situation later this evening.

I might.

I might. I'm sober enough to attempt it. Yeah, they're from Battleboro, Vermont. It's a great marriage of death black in Prague. I thought of anybody, John would be more into these guys. But yeah. It's just too much to listen to at this point. What? Yes. Quitter? That's like a quitters attitude.

I like 30 albums you didn't listen to this year that I did.

You can name off 30 albums that I didn't listen to this year.

I know, but your albums suck and this one's good.

Oh.

I don't see many baristas on other lists.

No, they're not.

I think, Will, you're really into that kind of like stoner hippie metal more than the rest of us.

I am. Yes, I am.

Yeah, that shitty stuff.

I like it, but I'm just not as into it as you are.

Yeah.

I'm just kidding. I'm just trying to be annoying. I'll tell you the truth, Will. Seriously, I couldn't keep up with everyone this year with everything we listened to. It was too much. I really couldn't. And try to fit in my own personal likes outside of metal. And then just also just listen to something you want to listen to every once in a while. I could not keep up with everybody. It's not like I didn't give it a try. I just didn't give it a try.

And I think like we're doing our top 25, but that doesn't mean there's not like 100 other albums that we really, really enjoy. It's just this is what we prefer more than anything else. But there's a lot of albums that are very close to that. I feel like everyone's giving me some sort of weird pity party, but anyway. Please, I've probably got like 18 picks already today. Number two. Number two. Can you imagine if we had done 40? I love it when you discover, when you have, when you find a thing you can take a deep dive on. That's wonderful.

It can still happen for all of us after all of these years that we can go and find a band who's got a rich history even now that you don't haven't really experienced. I did such a thing this year and to me this is this album is a melted down concentration of really what I love about heavy metal. Incantation, Sect of Vile Divinities. I listened to this record so much this year and even though their modus

operandi, if you will, is not predictable. It kind of goes on a rail and keeps going that way. You still discover new things about it. I just think they're brilliant. And that record is so fucking good. I spun it more than anything else up until we get to my number one record, which then took things. So I'm glad I got, and I totally took that dive because of Marcasson being like, this is my favorite death metal band. I'm like, well, why do I know them? And it's true. They're great. They're fucking amazing.

And I've become a fan of John McIntyre. I follow him on Facebook. He seems like a sweet guy. We got to interview him once. Great record. I'm so happy. It makes me so happy. Yeah, I think that's the trick with Incantation. You know, it's like they're doing what they've done from the start, but then they give you a little something extra each album that makes them relevant, makes them a little bit to progress, you know, that gives them purpose, gives them something to look forward to.

new tricks. And they clearly love it. And they love doing it. Yeah. And there are some riffs on this that I am not going to hum to you, but that gets stuck in my head in the best kind of way. They're magic. Yeah. So incantation. And I would say too, I love that they've gotten a lot of love this year. I feel like they've been on the list than they have in their previous few albums. And they deserve it on the last albums, but this one for some reason is, you know, kind of out there. People are really gravitating towards it.

I think they're starting to enjoy and maybe have for a while, but more visibly so legendary status at this point, too. So they're getting now they've got that consistently great records. Come on. Yep. Yep. Although they're at the top of our list right now. You know, I like how you were so happy that Jay had it as number two, but didn't give me any credit for number three. Oh, because two is higher than three. Point taken.

Well, here's the thing though. Jay mentioned me. You did not. I mean, there we go. Maybe George is the whole dynamic right here. Is it me or does my thing look like I have a Quasimodo thing going on in my shoulder? You got a hump. You got a hump. It's the microphone. You look like you're traveling to Matt to have sex with him in space. That's what happened. Wasn't your hump on the other side? Matt hasn't moved in like 10 minutes. My lady had a hump. Number two, George.

Fire that rocket. My number two from the country of Norway. From nuclear blast records. Oh my god. He teased us this way once before already. Utgard and Slavit. Very nice. Just living the life. It goes back and forth between incantation and enslaved. Well, it's no doubt they're one and two. No doubt. They gotta be. No doubt. What could number one be? I don't know.

- Which is awesome. Both albums got Jay. Both albums got Jay and they're one and two. And Jay has some kind of number one that he wants. And Jay's on both of those albums. Yeah, I did not Jay either of them. I love that. All right. Here we go. Number one. Do we get drum rolls or you got anything for this George? Come on.

Okay. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. All right. I believe we got the promo for this album, my number one album in February. So it's repelled attacks for 11 months like a Mandalorian helmet of pure best power. Not listening. It was my top selection at mid-year and it remains at the peak of my list at the end of 2020.

It's Devouring Ruin by Wake. That is my album of the year. It's an absolute behemoth of black and crust, death and grind. Devouring all comers. Oh yeah. Impressively takes Wake's sound to another stratosphere while still retaining that heavy ferociousness of the band. I feel like that they were already a great grind band before Devouring Ruin, but by adding these new dynamic

textures and layers to their songs. They not only became a phenomenal band, but they became one of my very favorite bands in metal. So, Wake Devon Road. They might be number three now for the year. That's awesome. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Put your cards on the table. In all transparency, my number 26 pick, the title was actually 100 Other Albums. So, I have listened to 100 other albums as I compiled this list.

I guess for me and as fucked up as the year as 2020 has been I did not set out for this album to be number one but in thinking of how fucked up the year has been and like what this album is it's you know it's John put it right it sounds like the band but it's a little bit out there for them and honestly I tried to compare other things to it but nothing else compared even though everything else was really good

Nothing compares to you.

Nothing else matters.

From both Sinead O'Connor and Prince.

Sinbad O'Connor.

But the album is enslaved.

The band is enslaved.

The album is titled Utgard.

Utgard.

Utgard.

Utgard.

Utgard.

Utgard.

Utgard.

That might put it over the top.

It does.

I think that would be it.

It does, yeah.

It does.

Yeah, I'm a little surprised Matt has it at number one, but I mean, he had to have

it somewhere, so there it is.

It was my only choice.

It's fantastic. Honestly, it was my number one until my number one came along. Oh, snap. Your number one was like abysmal dawn or something, right? That didn't even make the list this time. Are you serious? Was your number one at mid-year? It doesn't even make the list? It was on there until a couple of days ago. It was on there until a couple of days ago and I was like, nah, nah, gone. Bye-bye.

You know what we're kind of relieved because when you had that number one we're like huh? I'm sure your number one now is going to evoke the same. Oh it will. It will stand. John. All right. So by number one like Markisan. Know what it is. Go for it. But it's not white though. Oh I know what it is. Go for it. Repeating from the mid-year. I love my cosmic.

Thrashy Death Metal from England on Blood Harvest Records. Crypt Sermon. Visitations from... Crypt Sermon, really? Really? Yes. Are you paying attention? Oh, boy. Are you paying attention? I'm perfectly fine. Cryptic Shift. Visitations from Enceladus. Hesitations. Wow. Hesitations from Crypt Sermon. You can laugh at me all you want, but I'm awake, which is more than I can say for some people.

I always thought I was still awake. Which is amazing. That's awesome, John. Like, I knew it would be high on your list. I didn't know it was going to hang on for you. So that's cool. It played it cool, too, though, because we kept kind of poking that record at you and you were like, yeah, you were like, yeah, I was debating if I was going to change it like everyone else has changed records this year. So yeah, I thought it might go down. I mean, my number one was the same. Yours number one is the same. I don't know how many other people will have. Mine's not. Mine is not. Matt's was not.

Well, my number one is the same. Temple of Void, the world that was. That was easy. Yeah, that's going to move up, I think, now because of that, Will. Yeah. I think that's the top tenner. Maybe even top five. And I will even admit that I do like Lord's Death more, but I am a Temple of Void fanatic at this point in my life, and I just think that they produce some of this

the most thoughtful, atmospheric, rich, death, doom. With wonderful clean vocals. I'm still not the biggest fan of the clean vocals in the, what's this, I'm wearing, leave the light behind. But I do think that they're pushing some boundaries with the synthesizers, and I think it complements everything. I'm usually not a fan,

Synthesizers, but I feel in this, it's kind of like the movie soundtrack kind of thing where it just flows and I appreciate it and it doesn't detract. I think it supplements and makes it better. Yeah, for sure, dude. Yeah. Plus, they're super cute, by the way. Totally sexy.

Well, they're all stacked, too. They all got muscles. Well, Don, Don, maybe not so much, but the other four. Oh, he's good. He's good. All right. My number one for the year. If something is sincere, then it is not kitsch, and it is not sentimental, and it's not even fucking retro. When you deliver something with passion and belief, it is as multifaceted as any think piece, shoegaze, post-metal, smarter than you bullshit you can come up with.

And I say that as a fan of those things. I put trypticon on my list. I didn't see this record coming. It came from out of the blue. I quote to you all around the world and veils almost forgotten. They praise your mercy and charity building temples to hold your love. But I, a poor soul, hold the sword still trembling. Push it through the woven wire, a slave to your desires. I mentioned you'd be happy because it's clear to me you were as passionate about this as I was. Markasson. Easy.

one for me. Megaton Sword, Blood Hail Steel. This record is so addictive. It came out in November and I listened to this more than anything else this year without question. Wow. That's fantastic, dude. It's brilliant. I am a huge fan now and the previous one is great too. Fucking great. Yeah. It's cool because I feel like I pimped that record when people weren't really listening to it on this cast. It's cool for you to go from

Not really knowing the band, really putting them at the number one. I'll say two more things. The record flows perfectly from start to finish. There's a little taste of everything, and there's not a minute of music on that that I am not overjoyed with. It's glorious. It is good. It's not retro. It's fucking metal. It's so good. That's got to bring it into the top ten with at least three. I hope it's going to be up there. Jay Markison dragged it up there tight.

Anyway, that's it. That's cool. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Oh, I'm still listening to it. Not sick of it. Wow. Yeah. I thought it might be on your list, but you know what? Now I'm thinking about it. You didn't mention it before. So yeah, it's pretty cool. I was trying to keep my cards close to my chest. I was glad you put it in four because I was like, good. He sees the passion in this that I do. There you go. Yeah. I mean, like I said, I've been a huge fan since Nierlet came out, you know, was it last year or the end of 2018? I can't remember, but yeah.

And this album just blows that one away. So I'm really looking forward to see what they do in the future. What they do next. Agreed. Yeah. All right, George, bring it home. All right. Well, my number one is... Nobody. I guarantee you nobody's even listened to this album. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. It's sad because I honestly think... Let's just see.

One of you would like this album for one reason or another. This was my dark horse. When this came out two weeks ago, I was like, oh shit. I was like, I got to tell these guys. Oh, I can't tell these guys because if I tell these guys with the passion that I have for this album, they're going to know what my number one is. And so I didn't. And I said nothing. And I downplayed it. And I told everybody else in the world. I was like, oh my God, this is my number one.

I told Galen and I told a bunch of other people and Chris. Yeah. So this band is from Austria. Nothing? They're on World Terror Committee Records. Nothing? Nothing? Nothing? Keep playing the crickets. This album absolutely blew my fucking mind and will be one of my all-time favorite albums.

For all time.

And this is Abagor and Tootschlager, a Saint Slayer's songbook.

Okay.

We better get on that.

You fucking better.

Holy hell.

This is insane black metal.

This is anthems to the Walkin' at Dusk era emperor called up John Williams and said,

Dude, we like that Star Wars music.

It's pretty fucking epic. Let's make a metal album together. It is fucking amazing. Front to back. I cannot stop listening to this. This is all I've been listening to for the last two weeks. It is fucking insane. You should have shared that with us, George. I couldn't. I wanted to, but I couldn't. But he sort of did because he bought the whole fucking catalog on Banking. I did. Yeah, I caught on to that. As soon as he started, I was like, oh boy.

shit to disguise it. Yeah, he mixed in like an album here and there. What is the name of the album again, George? I don't know. The pronunciation is like Tootschlager, a St. Slayer's songbook. It's got like a reddish cover. The covers could conceivably be on my covers list. It's kind of cool. It is amazing. There's so much like orchestral John Williams-esque fucking Imperial Darth Vader type fucking music combined with extremely

Well, I feel like I might have missed one of the big fucking deals of the year. God damn it. Yeah. I mean, I've been a fan of them for years and I was just I was casually like, oh, well, I'll just check this out. Just check it off the list. And then I was like, oh, my God. And I was I was working out. I was listening to it. And I I went through it. I went back again. And I was like, yeah, I did just hear that. And I wrote to James at Decibel.

And I wrote to Galen and Chris and a couple other people. And I was like, have you listened to this Apple Gore album? And they were like, yeah, it's fucking awesome. And I was like, yeah, it is. And I wanted to share it with you. I got something to listen to now after the fucking cast. I wanted to share it with you, but I did not want to play my hand too early. But honestly, I mean, the production is so good. It's really heavy. It's not like all like tremolo picking weird.

black metal. It's like a deathy kind of black metal. So I think like Will could get into this. I think like Matt easily would love this album. And Markisan I think you would too. And even John I think he could get into this. You could have just shared it and said here's an out my like. You didn't have to. It wouldn't have tipped your hand buddy. I just couldn't do it man. I feel like you're. Because I couldn't mention it. Selfish bitch. Yes. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. I couldn't share it without.

What a dick? Sharing the enthusiasm behind it. There's just no way. You should have been like, this isn't bad. Give it a shot. That's okay. That's all you had to do. I know. Can you make room on your website for selfishbitchy.com? I listen to everything everybody recommends. I listen to everything everybody recommends. If somebody's emphatic enough about a record, I haven't listened to Megaton Sword. I listen to all kinds of stuff. I'm like, people love this so much, I'm going to listen to it.

to give it a chance and I'll make my own opinion about it. So yes, I would have listened to it. This is going to be my number one record next year. It's so fucking good. I'm serious. I, this album is insanely good. We're going to listen to it and be like, that's all right. Yeah, you might. I'm sure you will. Well, that's probably the other reason I didn't tell you because I wanted you to have mystery now instead of going, yeah, that wasn't good. How do you spell it? Abagor? A-B-I-G-O-R.

It's on Bandcamp. Abagor. Got it. Totschlager. A Saint Slayer's songbook. I like how Totschlager in German means death cock. Does it? Well, of course it does. That's it. Well, that happened. Yep. And by that, I mean all of it. All of it. Yeah. Is this even on Bandcamp?

It is.

It is.

Oh, yeah.

Just go to George's Bandcamp.

You'll find all the Abagores there.

Well, I see Abagore, but it's all.

It's because it's under the World Terror Committee Bandcamp.

It's like WTC.

Oh, right.

Right, right, right, right, right, right.

I look at it.

I'm looking at it now, and George is like, oh, I really like the album cover.

It's basically a naked dude, like, laying in sheets.

Come on.

It's like Matt and a Snuggie.

George was like, I'm in.

I know.

Okay.

I just like the red. There's something about the red. It's just very... And like the old school... Yeah, no, it's cool. Well, cool that you found something that you love that much that's your number one, but not cool that you didn't share it with us. I'm a dick. You should have done that. You dick, Bill. Because there's so much metal. If it's that good, you should have shared it with us. Just underplayed it a little bit. For the future.

weeks before, like a day less than two weeks before. Yeah, but I mean, Will shared an album. You shared another album with us that were like a day before. Yeah, but I didn't like those. Those are good. That was a fucking red herring, dude. That was a red herring. That's like throwing chum to the sharks. He's like, these idiots. This will distract these idiots. Totally. That was what I did. I think George didn't want to tell us because he just wanted to look like, oh, I found

this fucking underground metal that nobody knows about. And it's my number one. Well, you know, honestly, I thought if I thought Matt might have listened to it because Matt listens to all the cool black metal. I thought Jay might have heard it just because and I thought Microsoft might have heard it. But I figured will because it's black metal would not. And John, for no particular reason, I just was like, either way, probably not. I mean, I'm surprised I haven't heard it because man, I listen to a fucking lot of metal. But you know, you can't

I can't get everything in there. I'd like to kind of offer up my own version of a brief summary on the year. And it was a weird fucking year for all of us. And I think it probably affected our lists in ways we're not even totally aware of yet. Like the stuff we were drawn to and what did it for us. And we didn't get to go any fucking shows and blah, blah, blah. So I'm glad we have this, this outlet, you know, metal and in particular metal with you guys. So it's a shitty fucking year, but I'm no,

I'm happy, I'm healthy, I have friends, good music to listen to, so I guess I'm saying I'm thankful for you assholes. I agree with that, you know. It actually, doing metalheads and just talking to you guys helps, you know, with everything that's going on. It does, it really does. It's a nice thing to bounce things off of, and I just think the world of you guys. You may find this odd, but you're the best friends I have, meaning I don't have any friends near me that are as close as you guys, so. Likewise.

Well, except that Will and John are both near it. But there's nobody else near here that's like that. There's nobody. You got it wrong, Will. I mean, George loses a few points for not sharing his album of the year with us. He's a power bottom. Yeah, well, next episode, you'll all give me shit and go, man, your album of the year sucked. I'm listening to it right now. I don't know if you can hear it. Honestly,

I am too. Honestly, possibly only on principle we're going to tell you it sucked, George. Yeah, I'm going to shit all over this album. Yeah, well, it has to be. And then I'll secretly buy it like the next day. You have to listen to it on headphones and you have to listen to it loud because it is just like epic. It is epic. I'm going to listen to it for sure because that's crazy. I didn't know about it. That's, you know, it's like, you know, I figured a death metal album would be my number one this year because I'm so death metal these days. But this,

But if anything trumps that, it is something that is completely epic. And this album is epic. I mean, what happened to Abysmal Dawn? I mean, that was your number one. I actually, I listened to that album quite a bit. I'm like, all right, George said this is number one. Like, I'm going to listen to it. I'm like, nah. And now it's like, didn't even make your list. I know. I know. Time, asshole. Even back then, it was an elaborate plan to get us to this moment where we

have no fucking clue what his number one was. That was the first is the long con. Yeah. Put your pinky on the side of your mouth and say. Are we going to do honorable mentions? Oh shit. Yeah. I will say this. I'm not, but just because I didn't, you know, I didn't make it. I mean, I have a list like 50 albums long. That's the problem. Yeah. But we can run through them as quickly as we want to be. Yeah. So mark us on go. Yeah. So like I said, I made a top 50, but I'll just

give you through 40. So like my number 26 was Godthrum Reflections. Number 27 for me was Question Reflections of the Void. A lot of reflections. I thought that might be on your list. Yes, it's close to making that top 25, but 25 is hard, man. It's really hard to do. Number 28, Merciless, the Mother of All Plagues. Number 29, The Ocean, Phanerozoic II, Mesozoic, Cenozoic.

Number 30 Cloud Kicker, Solitude. Number 31 Dark Forest, Oak, Ash, and Thorn. Number 32 Wayward Dawn, Haven of Lies. Man, I love that Death Metal album. That's got some of the best riffs this year. Number 33 Shoutout to the Metal Butler, Fires in the Distance Echoes from Deep November. Metalheads Butler! I really like that album. Metalheads Butler! Metalheads Butler! Metalheads Butler!

That was shitty, but still better than before. We did it better now, imposter, drunk, than we did trying to plan it earlier. Metalheads but love? Is that what you said? Yeah. Number 34 was Judicator, let there be nothing. That's good. Number 35, undeath lesions of a different kind. Number 36, napalm death, throes of joy and the jaws of defeatism.

37, Liminal Shroud, Through the False Narrows. Number 38, Sojourner, Premonitions. Number 39, Battle Hag, Celestial Tyrant. Oh, I like that Battle Hag one. It's so good. Yeah, I felt like it should go in my top 25 and then ends up 39. You know, like a lot of these albums, you know, you could change them, you know, tomorrow. Number 40, Uwada, Shin.

Hans.

I tried to like Uwata, but it's so long. I get tired of it. And then there's that one track that just, it's just talking. It's like the third track or something. And I, this is just terrible. That end of it is terrible to me, but it's just so long. I just get fatigued from it. You know, I felt the same way kind of with a Napalm Death. Not that I can't listen to long albums, but those two in particular, I just like, I just want to be done.

I've been accused of the one having a short attention span on this podcast. And also of being too long. That is true, yes. Yep. So there you go. That's my top 40. Like I said, I did top 50, but to save time, I'll just do it through 40. All right. Matt, what you got? All right. Scaldor, Side of Airs, Mortis Gold. I can't remember what that was called. Fuck the Facts, Cosmic Putrefaction, Inferiabrio,

Napa, Napa, Napa, Napa, Napa, Black Curse, Mr. Bungo, Decoherence, Proscription, Asietas, Cadaver, Sard of Humanity, and obviously Carcass. Of course. Nobody said Carcass, did we? It was an EP. I know, and that's all well and good. For some reason, I thought you were going to, you said something earlier in the day where I thought, well, George did it. It's on my EP list, my top five. Yeah, I know, and there you go.

All right, John, any? Yeah, I got a whole bunch. I'll try to do them really quick. Cellar Vessel, Vein Beneath the Soil. Draconian, Under the Coddly's Veil. I was looking for that. Eternal Champion, Ravening Iron. I'll get this wrong, the name, but Flusteris, Bloom. Oh, yeah. I thought that would be on your top 25, John. Eh, bounced it. Godthrim, Reflections, Green Carnation, Leaves of Yes,

I bounced that one pretty hard. I need more metal. So and Farah Bruah writes of the

nameless intranaut fluid extends as extension inversions lantern dimensions Luna's coil void megaton sword blood hails steel dash steel hails fire dash no no dash after that.

The Crop, Mortal, Psychotic Waltz, The God-shaped Void, Sectal Falls Apart, Skaldur, Sith of Our Heirs, Will, this is for you, Soliloquium, Things That We Leave Behind, because I could say it. Hardest one to say. Sorcerer, Lamenting of the Innocent, Winterfelf, Felth, Reckoning Dawn, and Void Ceremony. Bear with me here.

Anthropic, Reflections, Continuum,

Colon, Dimensionals, Unravel.

Every single one of those albums could easily have at some point flirted with the top 25.

They're all great albums.

Check them all out as well as all our honorable mentions

because it was such a tough year to keep everything in our list.

All right.

Will.

So one of the late entries that was almost a list buster for me,

I thought somebody, one of you scoundrels would have this on your list, but the, I'm going to butcher this name and the album name, and it may be Icelandic or I don't know what the fuck this thing is, but finish. Havukru. Havukru. Havukru. Yeah, that's a good album. Unijunas Sjomain Sjota. The two swords pointing to each other. Yes, yes.

It's like a double suicide or something like that. Dirth, to crown all be found in Black Royal, one on Moccasan's list, Firebride, Alchemist, which I thought somebody or John would have, Sanctuary. FYI, that was the one that got bumped because of the one that I forgot. Eternal Champion, Raveting Iron, Infrared Brewer, Rites of the Nameless, Solethus, Realm of the Ashen Blood, Necrovant,

Toten Zug, Tombs on the Sollent Skies, Cryptic Shift, Cosmic Future Faction, Prescription, Bear Mace, which I thought somebody would have. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's it. Yeah. Shardfield of Slaughter, Undeath, Jupiterian, all the Lakia Shroud, whether it's wounds or other cosmic divinations. One, Graceless, Lights, Rats, Funeral, Leech, Black Curse, Blaze of Perdition, Rotting Kingdom,

Wayward Dawn, blah, blah, blah, Perdition Temple, and the list goes on. I mean, I have like, like, a lot of them, yeah. And John, did you have Lakai's Shroud on your list? No, I did not. And it's not because I don't like them. I just, I stopped it at a certain point. I have easily another 15, 20 albums that I love this year that I just didn't put them on the list. That's all. Oh, that one's just surprising to me, I guess. I like Wounds more than the other one, the first one, so. Right, right.

We can go straight to you, George. I really didn't. I kind of started to formulate one. I know what dropped off mine and stuff. You could probably go to my mid-year and say some of that stuff. I tried to ooh and ah when you guys all said things that I didn't have and wanted to have. So I'll just leave it at that and we'll hear your list. Yeah, there's a few things that were on my list, like in the 25 that I deleted and neglected to put in my honorables because I was lazy. But they've been mentioned, so whatever.

So here's my list. Skeleton, the self-titled, really great. Hail Spirit Noir, Eden in reverse. Benediction Scriptures, that hasn't gotten mentioned, but that was pretty good. Bratog, The Die Is Cast, very good album. I will concede that the plague album, Portraits of Mind, is not terrible. It's fucking good, dude. What? Funeral Leech, Death Meditation, Volcano, Eye in Hell, Cosmic Future Fetch,

blah blah blah all that and with a with a colon uh we're wolves the dead are screaming very good album uh ulthar providence

protose somebody mentioned that that's the first thing that's been said yeah yeah oh the other one um i bought

recently i watched i like a lot is uh hell ripper yeah yeah that's a good record yeah that's fun i thought

somebody would mention that one yeah uh proto sequence a blunt description of something obscene

The Vader Album, Solitude and Madness, just, you know, it is what it is. Black Pestilence, Hail the Flesh, Ara Juris Prudent, Vampire Rex, which was on that list from the Cursed Zane. Yeah, that's a good record. Void Ceremony, also mentioned, I think, by John, Entropic, blah, blah, blah. Oh, that's the one with the colon. Sorry. Astral Born, Eternity's End, Markasson.

Beast of Revelation, The Ancient Ritual of Death, and finally Lantern Dimensions. Oh yeah, I thought Lantern might make some lists. So two, I had that on my honorable mentions also. Wow. Yeah, yeah. I considered that for my list and I just couldn't do it. No, it's too many other albums that I like. Yeah, I mean, I'm not a fan of that one, but I thought some of you guys might have it. But yeah, so many albums. So many. It really fits so many in that top 25.

No one fell out of a chair. At least maybe Matt did and we didn't notice. He's just kind of floating in space. He is the benefit of zero. He is. Feels good. All right. Well, here we are. We are at the end. We are going to wrap this shit up because by my count, we're over six and a half hours. Shorter than the last, shorter than the mid-year. Yeah, but we had James for that.

And we did covers and EPs too. I know. I expected this to be like four hours, boom, done. But not so much. So sorry for all you that are still listening. But thanks for hanging out with us if you made it this far. And this is the end of the year for us. We will be back in January. And we have that sort of planned out. So come back and see us sometime. Or listen to us.

Whatever. Yeah.

Or listen to us.

Come back and see me sometime.

Have a Merry Christmas, you guys, and a Happy New Year.

I know I'll be talking to you.

Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas.

Happy Holidays.

Whatever you celebrate.

Whatever holiday.

Happy Holidays.

May 2021 be better for the rest of us than this year.

It will.

It will.

So.

All right.

Let's call this thing.

We done it.

We done it.

Cheers.

Awesome list, boys.

Awesome, guys.

Later.

Hello and welcome to 2020, the year in sound clips review.

I will expose myself. Oh wow. Big floppy donkey. That's a decent length. It's thick, but it's like the perfect length. This is floppy, dude. If you like it and you think it's long enough, then just put it in your mouth. It's going to be tight. It was in there and then I fell out. You can't get everything in there. I just couldn't pull it off. Are you guys saying length matters? I just do length. So mine's real short. Small balls, small sticks. I wish it was just a little bit longer. I felt like it was too short. I made a bigger dick in my game.

- But it's like the perfect length.

- I'll let you know if I cum.

- Blah blah blah blah blah blah.

- Uh.

- Uh.

- Filthy ass.

- Porno bass.

- That's how the banana pronounced it.

- Satan.

- What's up motherfucker?

- Oh man, I got a shit.

I was taking a shit today.

- I just had that revelation.

There's always that moment when the podcast

just turns into a total shit show out of nowhere

and it just happened.

- I fucking have to take a picture of this rainbow.

- There's more rainbows over here.

And drinking the thunder oak. I'm against drugs, but if you have some, I'll take it. I am a dildo head. Dork fartress. Sperm. The earth is pretty metal. That place would be Will's basement. Make fun of me again and I will gouge out your eyes and go fuck you. Sex. Dad, this is heavier and I like it. Meanwhile, back at the podcast. We gotta finish beers. Shit show. Got some aloha metal tonight, huh?

I actually prefer mocha caramel. She just gave a look like, I am so out of here. I've been peaking since 1999. Will, you should just hold on to something real quick. Ridiculously cheesy. Now we know you're full of shit. A little closer than I thought it was going to be. Weird. I didn't want to destroy my own mailbox. Do you like glasses and power metal? Hi, I'm Josh. It's Tuesday, here's my nipples! Sometimes they have a nice package to them.

Slap yourself. The shambling corpse of Will. Kick me in the balls. I think Will shot his load earlier on. The kid with a dream in his eye. Uh, Will dethroned. Where the fuck have you been? I would suck him off in an alley no problem. You're the only one with a load in his pants. The blowjob gesture. Number two, Dragon Force. Okay, Boomer.

to me, jackass. The world-famous asshole. Like, everybody else sucks. I'm the best. I really like what's going on over there on Will's screen now. Really going south now. Oh, it's Will. He's back. There's a reason why I'm fucking exhausted. Did you get a vasectomy? Fuckface. Oops, George did it again. Pouring one out for Matt. Look, it's not like it's a Toll album or anything. Ooh, super evil. Fresh Carcass.

Fuck no, that last house sucked. I'll fight you. What are you going to do, bleed on me? You're an asshole. She'll fucking kick my ass. You mean your G-spot, right? If I wasn't asleep, I would have said that. Will peed at the beginning of the podcast, and he's just been peeing himself since then. There's some perks to being me. Sorry, I had to pee for a really long time. On your hole. Brutal medieval dungeon metal. Apologies to my wife?

Ich bin, ich bin, ich bin, ich bin.