Still nothing really special, I preferred a lot of the very early albums to this and there were some amazing songs on here (You're Going to Lose That Girl, Yesterday), and it was definitely a massive improvement over Beatles For Sale but I think the best of early Beatles is Please Please Me and Hard Day's Night

Nothing here really stands out in the rest of their discography, it's not bad but it's pretty boring compared to what came before and after it.

Tulus is a very important band to me and even though I discovered them pretty late into my time as a black metal fan I love them very much, Pure Black Energy and Mysterion are some of the best black metal albums ever made in my opinion. This album loses the groove of those earlier works, which is what makes this band special, it was a very unique sound, but I was very impressed with how good the vocals are despite the age of the vocalist. He doesn't sound the same as he used to but he ... read more

It's a pretty fun album but I think Coagulating Darkness is impossible to beat, that was this formula done to probably the best it could possibly be done, and I think Black/Speed Metal overall doesn't have much more room to grow. There's some solid riffing here, and I will say one thing that has improved drastically is the solos. Probably the most fun album I've listened to this year, which is something, but I can't help but compare it to what came before it. Also ... read more

This is the best album of the year so far and I really don't see anything beating it. The bass here creates a sound that I've never heard before in black metal and it sounds fucking amazing, Kekht's music has always had bass parts that you can hear pretty clearly but its just so good here. Everything weird like the clean singing, and the Bladee feature all somehow work so well also, this is insanely impressive how not only he made such a good album to begin with but how good he ... read more

I thought Nargaroth was washed but this actually seems promising

Easily the best release by The Beatles I've heard thus far, it's fun and this is the first album where I've quite enjoyed every song on here so far.

Revenge in Your Eyes is my favourite song that's dropped all year so far, that shit is so good. I'm not too big on dungeon synth with the exception of early Mortiis, so I was a little bored by the start but it got really good near the end, the more keller synth/black metal influenced stuff is what Warlock Corpse is best at for sure, I wish he cut the dungeon synth, although it's not bad, it's just hard to make dungeon synth memorable or stand out in the modern day, at least ... read more

The bass sounds really weird on here, interesting. I don't really know how much I like it, it's very loud and is doing it's own thing from the guitar, which I do like, but idk it sounds almost rap influenced and maybe it needs to grow on me but it sounds weird. Overall the riffing here is pretty solid, I'd say probably the best out of the 3 singles released thus far. Solid work here.

Good, Death in June cover is awesome

fuck you okayallie

Same songs as Peaceful Snow but guitar instead of piano. Vocals sound worse than on Peaceful Snow but I like some of the synth sounds here a lot. Decent release

A little on the blander side for DI6 but there's still a lot of my favourite of their work in this album. It also helps that this review section isnt flooded with people giving the album bad reviews because of false nazi allegations.

A weird song but I don't see where the complaints for the vocals come from, its not as if black metal vocals have always been easy listening, and this is probably the best Darkthrone's vocals have sound in nearly a decade

Nothing Changes is such a fucking banger... the rest of the album's pretty cool too, maybe it's generic but I'm not familiar with post-punk so it's sick to me. All Alone in Her Nirvana, and Heaven Street are sick tracks too.

AOTY try not to base their entire review of music on the political opinions of the artist instead of the music itself challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

get a fucking job

This album's a bit of a trainwreck, but there's some really good stuff in here like "Mesmerized". For the most part this is just weird and not very enjoyable.

Although musically I think it's about the same quality as it's predecessor, "Abigail", the story being told here is fucking amazing, and alone pushes it to a 100 (unsurprising seeing as it's a concept album.)

Although my personal preference is "Something Wild", I can't deny how much the musicians have grown with this album, technically and just in how mature the record sounds. Of course this isn't a black metal band so I can't rag on them for becoming "commercial" or "cleaner", I liked what I heard though, thoroughly so. The keyboards steal the show here in my opinion, they're so well done and I rarely hear them used in death metal (that said I only ... read more

Satyricon's most aggressive outing yet. I was actually very excited to listen to this one, as "The Scorn Torrent" was the first Satyricon song I ever heard and one of the first black metal songs I heard as well. Said song is still one of my favourites of the genre to this day, and this album did not disappoint. While I think there were some standout songs that were far weaker than the best this album had to offer, which I can't say for any of the previous albums, ... read more