YEAR-END LISTS?

[echoraven]

Black Sabbath 13 - Loved it!
Attika 7 - Very cool hard rock-ish music
Geri X - She is kind of a dark melodic pop-ish, I hate calling it pop since I hate pop music.
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls; oddly enough they (like Black Sabbath) still have it
Motorhead - Bad Magic - Great album, super surprised by the "Sympathy for the Devil" cover. Really, really good. RIP Lemmy.
Sons of HIppies - indie band, really, really awesome psychedelic rock. They've since disbanded.

...and of course Whores. I LOVE Whores. (and pretty much really like whores in general) and patiently awaiting the new album.

[PanicProne]

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.

I've just gotten into them this past year. Known of them for a while but never got it. Also, think they've a new drummer since then. I know they changed bassist and guitarist a while back too (their new band "Body Hound" is fantastic! Probably even better than Rolo imo).

[casecandy]

01. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
03. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
04. William Basinski - The Deluge
05. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
06. Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss of Longing Throats
07. Sunn O))) - Kannon
08. Desaparecidos - Payola
09. Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
10. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

[WeHuntKings]

Black Sabbath 13 - Loved it!
Attika 7 - Very cool hard rock-ish music
Geri X - She is kind of a dark melodic pop-ish, I hate calling it pop since I hate pop music.
Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls; oddly enough they (like Black Sabbath) still have it
Motorhead - Bad Magic - Great album, super surprised by the "Sympathy for the Devil" cover. Really, really good. RIP Lemmy.
Sons of HIppies - indie band, really, really awesome psychedelic rock. They've since disbanded.

...and of course Whores. I LOVE Whores. (and pretty much really like whores in general) and patiently awaiting the new album.

Sons of Hippies is now called Pleasures. Love that band, played with them twice now.

[Eivind August]

KK Null - Plasmagma
Lightning Bolt - Fantasy Empire
André Bratten - Gode
Sajjanu - Trauma 13
Björk - Vulnicura
William Basinski - Cascade
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and other Distress
Sleater-Kinney - No cities to love
Moon Duo - Shadow of the Sun
Sunn O))) - Kannon

Probably stuff I forgot or haven't heard yet.

[PanicProne]

01. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
03. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
04. William Basinski - The Deluge
05. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
06. Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss of Longing Throats
07. Sunn O))) - Kannon
08. Desaparecidos - Payola
09. Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
10. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

A lot of stuff on that list that I've never heard of. Will check some of them out. Punch Brothers and Gnaw Their Tongues intrigue me name-wise especially. That Sufjan Stevens record however, is really good. A friend of mine had it as his fave last year and I've been listening quite a bit too it since then.

[GardenoftheDead]

Top ten + Favorite song

1. Abyss by Chelsea Wolfe (Dragged Out)
2. The Color Before the Sun by Coheed & Cambria (The Audience)
3. The Deal by Sumac (Blight’s End Angel)
4. Jenny Death by Death Grips (Pss Pss)
5. No Cities to Love by Sleater-Kinney (A New Wave)
6. To Pimp A Butterfly by Kendrick Lamarr (Momma)
7. Lore by Elder (Spirit At Aphelion)
8. Four Phantoms by Bell Witch (Suffocation, A Drowning: II - Somniloquy (The Distance of Forever)
9. A Fragile Geography by Rafael Anton Irisarri (Empire Systems)
10. The Direction of Last Things by Intronaut (Digital Gerrymandering)

[casecandy]

01. Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell
02. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
03. Titus Andronicus - The Most Lamentable Tragedy
04. William Basinski - The Deluge
05. Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
06. Gnaw Their Tongues - Abyss of Longing Throats
07. Sunn O))) - Kannon
08. Desaparecidos - Payola
09. Punch Brothers - The Phosphorescent Blues
10. Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

A lot of stuff on that list that I've never heard of. Will check some of them out. Punch Brothers and Gnaw Their Tongues intrigue me name-wise especially. That Sufjan Stevens record however, is really good. A friend of mine had it as his fave last year and I've been listening quite a bit too it since then.

Definitely check out his other albums! Seven Swans sounds a lot like that one, acoustic, melancholy, and I love it too. Punch Brothers is in the same vein as Sufjan Stevens, folk music pushing the boundary. They call themselves a progressive bluegrass band which as far as I can tell means they've mixed bluegrass with classical and jazz. The mandolin player Chris Thile is legitimately one of the best musicians in the world... I'm not just saying that, I mean, he's collaborated with Yo Yo Ma, played Carnegie Hall, has reinterpreted the Bach canon for mandolin, etc.

And Gnaw Their Tongues is a black metal project from Denmark that makes very vile, noisy songs with lots of screaming and samples of church music... terrifying! Like, if I wanted to make a haunted house that would traumatize kids for the rest of their lives, I'd have that album blaring and strobe lights and zombies everywhere LOL

[GardenoftheDead]

Wait wtf Gnaw Their Tongues had a new album?!

Last year was too overflowed with good music I missed stuff

[casecandy]

Wait wtf Gnaw Their Tongues had a new album?!

Last year was too overflowed with good music I missed stuff

Despite the above list, I don't know most of my favourite albums of 2015 exist yet. I'm sure of it.