![]() It’s less a call to arms than an outright damnation (it’s Cradle of Filth, after all), but it’s still probably the most real world thing the band has ever penned. Yes, Cradle of Filth! The penultimate song on Cradle’s beastly new record Existence is Futile, “Suffer Our Dominion,” scathingly criticizes mankind’s unsustainable resource consumption, unchecked pollution, deforestation, and basically every other way that we’ve trashed the planet. Least Expected Environmentalists: …Cradle of Filth? Is this fair? Does Carcass going through the motions deserve extra credit just because they created the style(s)? To me, no, but to others, the answer is obviously yes.īest Band Fighting the Good Fight: MystrasĮmpires Vanquished and Dismantled is Ayloss’s second collection of gorgeous and medieval anti-authoritarian/antifascist black metal in two years, and his actions always back up his notes and words. I didn’t really go nuts for Torn Arteries, which I found too mid-paced, too long, and too devoid of new riffs (even if the recycled riffs were still quite good), but I’m still down for what bands like Pharmacist ( more below!) and Septage are providing. So, so, so many notes, but in great songs! More below!īiggest Internal Debate: Old Real Carcass versus Young Ripoff Carcass? ![]() With that out of the way, time to get to the 2021 Heavy Metal Superlatives! Behold, the awards for… Anyway, none of that matters really, so I just gave the top spot to something ludicrously fun and ran with it. Another reason is because nothing really stood out to me as a true album of the year (instead I had about six almost-albums-of-the-year), which threw my thinking off for the rest. Part of that is because I generally spend a lower percentage of my total music listening time on metal than I did a few years ago while still trying to digest countless heavy releases. ![]() I’ve never had as tough a time putting together a snapshot list of heavy metal albums as I did in 2021. ![]()
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