Tag: Unbirth

Best of 2025: Chris C – Finding Renewal In A Cyclical Escapism

As cyclical as it is — the experience of being a listener of heavy metal — it is exciting, truly, how every new year brings a surprise or two or three. And it doesn’t have

Best of 2025: Seth Buttnam – All Bosses Rando No Hit Speedrun

Is this the final album I’m ever going to listen to? That has been on my mind a lot this year. Eventually, whether it be tomorrow or years from now, there will be a final

Best of 2025: Isaac Hams – The Big Short

Hello! Thank you for being here. I know you have a lot going on with work, family, responsibilities of many shapes, sizes and decibel levels. Taking five minutes of your valuable time to glaze over

Best Of 2025: Spencer Hotz – Slowly Smoothing Brain Syndrome

Dearest Reader(s?), I firmly believe the noodle soup in the can called my skull is starting to go bad. More than likely, you will agree with that sentiment when you finish reading this rather unhinged

Best Of 2025: Dan Obstkrieg – Have A Wonderful Day

Ranking junk: we love it. And yes, folks, usually I’d love to whip up some fanciful theory for you about how the human propensity to rank things is evolutionarily adaptive instead of decadent, but there

Best Of 2025 – Zach Duvall: The Never-Ending Goldrush

Hello and welcome back to the heart of another List Season. Tired yet of seeing these things peppered all over the internet? Of course you aren’t! So below I present my top albums of the

Best Of 2025: Captain – Ain’t We Lucky We Got ‘Em, Good Times!

“All good things come to those who wait” is a bit of an annoying idiom, but only if you interpret its meaning in a very passive and entitled way that amounts to, “Well, if I

Best Of 2025 – Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25

LET’S GET READY TO FUMBLLLLLLE!! Did we fumble? Sure, there’s about as much stylistic distance between our top two albums as possible, but that’s hardly a fumble. Last Rites has always been a little scattershot