YEAR-END LISTS?

[Dungus]

Out of all the albums I heard this year, these are my favourites (in no order):

Auric - Empty Seas
Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Retox - Beneath California
Spectres - Dying
CHRIST - Tower
Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside
Thundercat - The Beyond
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
Stove - Is Stupider
James Elkington & Nathan Salsburg - Ambsace
Sannhet - Revisionist
Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Elder - Lore
Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs
Sajjanu - Trauma13
Weedpecker - II
Waves x Cloud Nothings - No Life For Me
Chaos Echoes - Transient
Infinity Girl - Harm
Bell Witch - Four Phantoms

+ tHE beEattilS oN sPotiFy

[resincum]

A$AP Rocky - At. Long. Last. ASAP
Mudwest - Sobersided
GY!BE - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
The Black Heart Rebellion - People, when you see the smoke, do not think it is fields they're burning
Father Murphy - Lamentations
The Body/Thou - You, Whom I Always Hated / Released From Love
Destruction Unit - Negative Feedback Resistor
Cloakroom - Further Out
Christ - Tower

[O Drones]

The Big|Brave record was actually in my top 3. Forgot it

[D.o.S.]

This thread is more like the easily accessible and concise version of the beast. I mean, the beast is a beast.

I mean I just link it so I don't have to sit and remember which records I liked from this year there were a lot of them.

Cherubs won 2015 and Christian didn't put them on his best of list b/c he's too busy ripping it off for the new Whores record you heard it here first.

I like Cherubs, but it's nowhere near as good as Heroin Man.

I mean if that's our criteria more than 80% of the eligible entries are DQ'd.

[goroth]

Napalm Death - Apex Predator.

Everything that comes after napalm is in no particular order. Except Amorphis, which was clearly the best record not put out by a band with napalm death in their name.
Amorphis - under the red cloud
Beaten to death - unplugged
Ahab - the boats...
Krallice - Ygg huur
Melekesh - enki
Satan - atom by atom
Horrendous - whatever it's called
Vi - de praestgiis angelorum
Vastum - a hole below
Leprous - the congregation
Theories - regression
Iron maiden - book of souls
Kjeld - skym

Albums I may have loved but didn't listen to enough
New cradle of filth (never saw that one popping up on this list)
New tribulation
Sulphur aeon
Sarpantium
Nile
Blind guardian

I think that's about it. 2015 was a great year for music!

[Iommic Pope]

Dorthia Cottrell won my heart with her solo record this year.
I have seriously had it on near constant rotation.
Sadly the new Windhand wasn't as strong as Soma.
New HoF was also well received.

Just realised I need to actually listen to more new shit. I've just had a long list of stuff I've been meaning to get to.
Like I've heard the new Kowloon, Fight Amp, Torche and Acid King albums, but I've spent fuck all time with them.

I've just been listening to Dorthia and old Om.
Jesus...

[odontophobia]

Napalm Death - Apex Predator.

Everything that comes after napalm is in no particular order. Except Amorphis, which was clearly the best record not put out by a band with napalm death in their name.
Amorphis - under the red cloud
Beaten to death - unplugged
Ahab - the boats...
Krallice - Ygg huur
Melekesh - enki
Satan - atom by atom
Horrendous - whatever it's called
Vi - de praestgiis angelorum
Vastum - a hole below
Leprous - the congregation
Theories - regression
Iron maiden - book of souls
Kjeld - skym

Albums I may have loved but didn't listen to enough
New cradle of filth (never saw that one popping up on this list)
New tribulation
Sulphur aeon
Sarpantium
Nile
Blind guardian

I think that's about it. 2015 was a great year for music!

Gonna heck out some of this list.

I totally forgot about the new Tribulation. Children of the Night is a great record.

[goroth]

Napalm Death - Apex Predator.

Everything that comes after napalm is in no particular order. Except Amorphis, which was clearly the best record not put out by a band with napalm death in their name.
Amorphis - under the red cloud
Beaten to death - unplugged
Ahab - the boats...
Krallice - Ygg huur
Melekesh - enki
Satan - atom by atom
Horrendous - whatever it's called
Vi - de praestgiis angelorum
Vastum - a hole below
Leprous - the congregation
Theories - regression
Iron maiden - book of souls
Kjeld - skym

Albums I may have loved but didn't listen to enough
New cradle of filth (never saw that one popping up on this list)
New tribulation
Sulphur aeon
Sarpantium
Nile
Blind guardian

I think that's about it. 2015 was a great year for music!

Gonna heck out some of this list.

I totally forgot about the new Tribulation. Children of the Night is a great record.

Yeah dude, it's all rad music!

Also, I totally forgot how much I loved Barren Earth - on lonely towers. not at all similar to opeth, but kind of. But back when they were like... Good.

[Iommic Pope]

Hey! Hey now...just because 70s prog isn't your thing doesn't mean it isn't good.


Seriously, though.

[Muff_Diver]

Father John Misty- I Love You, Honeybear
Jeremih- Late Nights

[Jwar]

Sunpocrisy Eyegasm
Puscifer Money Shot
Lamb of God Strum and Drang (first album I've liked of theirs for awhile)
Fear Factory Genexus
Muse Drones


Worst

Faith No More's album. Seriously

[voerking]

jazzy stuff: Steve Coleman 'Synovial Joints', Matt Mitchell 'Vista Accumulation', Ben Monder 'Amorphae', the Tomeka Reid Quartet album, the Sakata/O'Rourke/Merzbow/Chikamorachi 'Flying Basket' double LP, Stephen Haynes 'Pomegranate', Chris Pitsiokos - 'Gordian Twine', Mary Halvorson 'Meltframe'
////
noisy, weird rock: Aleuchatistas 'Arrebato', Upsilon Acrux's 'Sun Square Dialect', Battles 'La Di Da Di', Serious Beak "Ankaa" (i guess this could have gone under 'metal'...whatev's), JOBS - 'Killer BOB sings' (the vocals on this one kinda grate on me a little, though), Kowloon Walled City 'Grievances', Elephant9 w/ Reine Fiske 'Silver Mountain', Gnarwhal 'Shinerboy', Guapo 'Obscure Knowledge', Sonar 'Black Light', Housewives 'Work', goat 'rhythm and sound' (this is the band from japan, not the one from sweden)
////
metal: Krallice 'Ygg Huur', Chaos Echoes 'Transient', Ad Nauseam 'Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est'
////
uncategorizable: Heather Leigh - I Abused Animal
////
sardonic baroque pop: Jim O'Rourke - Simple Songs

[Joe Gress]

I forgot about buying Mutoid Man's Bleeder and Indian Handcrafts Creep. Both excellent releases!

[PanicProne]

My list ended up looking like this:

1. Vennart - The Demon Joke
2. Employed To Serve - Greyer Than You Remember
3. Abby Gundersen - Aurora
4. Tiger Lou - California Hauling
5. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances
6. Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
7. Cult Leader - Lightless Walk
8. We Never Learned To Live - Silently, I Threw Them Skyward
9. Sumac - The Deal
10. Björk - Vulnicura

[Dungus]

5. Rolo Tomassi - Grievances

Wow, had no idea they were still going. I remember restarting their song Unromance over and over one time, laughing my ass off at the drum intro. Such a nice guy, but a woefully terrible drummer.