Year-End Lists

Between Quarterly Reports (Jan-Mar, Apr-June, July-Sept, Oct-Dec), Top 20 Albums of the Year, and More Essential Albums, I featured 100 different albums in 2023. Although I’m constantly scanning social media, streaming platforms, and the best heavy music sites, a lot of amazing albums still manage to slip through the cracks each year. A few of […]

There were way too many remarkable albums released in 2023 to only mention twenty at the end of the year, so here’s one last look back at a few more of my favorite 2023 releases. Each of these albums appears as an “honorable mention” in one of my 2023 quarterly reports. ACID KING Beyond Vision […]

Another year is in the books. A ridiculous number of incredible albums were released throughout the year, and trimming this end-of-year recap down to twenty albums is always a challenge. Modern variations on doom continues to draw me in. And I found myself drifting toward the progressive end of the music spectrum that I’m excited […]

I listened to and considered over 250 albums for this year’s top twenty. Whittling this list down from an obscene number of incredible releases is a challenging exercise each year, but there’s always a handful of albums that naturally bubble to the top of the list. These are the albums that were in the heaviest […]

Despite many bands still being completely restricted from touring this year, or at best limited to brief and local performances, it was another banner year for new music. Here are my favorite doom and heavy psychedelic albums of 2021. 20 Ultra | Kadabra Sept 17, 2021 Spokane, WA, USA Heavy Psych Sounds Kadabra stir up […]