Category: Best Of Lists
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 100 Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 1
Heroes! Adventurers! Bards, smiths, strumpets, tapsters, fools and ghouls! As the great Aragorn once famously declared in the back corner of a dimly lit halfling honky-tonk, “Let’s get into some mother-humpin’ trouble…” “YES!” Replied every …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 50 US Power Metal Albums Of All Time, Part 2
Gird your loins, heroes! It’s time for part 2 of the Top 50 US Power Metal Releases Of All Time // The Final 25. If you missed Part 1, you might consider a quick sidestep …
We Have The Power Presents: The Top 50 US Power Metal Releases Of All Time, Part 1
A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to write about the outstanding new album from Greece’s Sacred Outcry—a process that naturally involved a fair bit of groundwork and exploration into all manner of classic …
Best Of 2022 – In Crust We Trust: Dis-Nightmare Continues EPs & Demos
“Fuck it — it’s rock & roll! There are two kinds of music; music you like and music you don’t like.” – Lemmy Kilmister Kia ora, crüe. Welcome to the second and final part of …
Best Of 2022 – In Crust We Trust: Fresh Full-Lengths For Rotting Dumpster Divers
“You just have to keep going; everything will sort itself out.” ― Lemmy Kilmister Kia ora, crüe. Welcome to In Crust We Trust’s end-of-year soirée. Apologies for turning up unannounced like this. I know it’s …
Best Of 2022 – Chris C.: Special Tunes From Metal Goons
We live in strange times—said everyone, ever, right now. Like literally everyone. No one has not said this. Even the strange people contributing to said strangeness recognize these are strange times in their own strange …
Best of 2022 – Spencer Hotz: Wait, Why Did I Come In Here?
GRINDCORE, FROM SOFT, MARRIAGE…SQUIRREL!!! As I sat here staring at the screen, trying to think of some sort of unifying theme for 2022, I pondered what took place throughout these past 12 months. I survived …
Best Of 2022 – Lone Watie: I Just Microwaved My Lunch Except It Wasn’t My Lunch It Was My Salad.
I’d originally written more than a thousand words for this space. I’d begun with “Somebody asked me early in 2022 how I define happiness,” and spent a great deal of words and energy then describing …