Category: Best Of Lists
Rae Amitay’s Best Of 2012: Here’s A Clever Title
2012 didn’t bring about the apocalypse, but it was still a tempestuous collection of days. Still raw from the loss of David Gold and my future in Woods of Ypres, I spent the first few …
Zach Duvall’s Top 20 Of 2012
Last year there figured to be about twelve or thirteen albums I was trying to shove into my top ten. This year there are easily eight or nine trying to wiggle their way into the …
Last Rites’ Best Of 2012 – Combined Staff List
First thing’s first: Welcome to Last Rites! Now, it might seem weird for a “new” webzine to be bursting out of the gate with a Top 926-or-whatever Albums of the Year list, but, despite appearances …
Ramar Pittance’s Top 20 of 2011
Originally written by Ramar Pittance I started writing about albums for MetalReview in 2003, and since then my affinity for the genre has waxed and waned, but my appreciation of what this community offers has never wavered. …
Captain’s Best of 2011
[photo: painting by Brad Moore from Boldly Stride The Doomed] 2011 was certainly better than 2010, but that’s like saying a sinus infection is better than contracting lupus while falling down two flights of stairs, so …
Dan Obstkrieg’s Best Of 2011
2011, huh? Political and economic turmoil throughout the world, major life changes here on the home front, all the usual anxieties and insecurities and tiny insignificant victories, and through it all, a certified fuckload of …
KK’s Best Of 2011
From a writers perspective, 2011 was a very interesting transition year for me. Somewhere in the process of graduating from college (4 years late, but hey…), spending some time to myself in Northern Germany and …
Zach Duvall’s Top 20 Albums of 2011
What. A. Year. Can’t say much else. I probably had 30 albums to try to squeeze into 20 spots and 15 into the top 10 this year. There was just so much wicked stuff I’d …