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Now, here is the podcast, Metal Heads Podcast Go.

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Hello, and welcome to the Metal Heads Podcast. My name is George.

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This is Jay.

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This is Will.

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This is John.

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This is Matt.

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This is Markisan.

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And welcome to the 2019 year-end episode.

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What a year it's been, huh?

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Woohoo! It's crazy. It's fucking crazy. It's so crazy we can't even speak. Yeah, well, you may have noticed if you've... You can clearly tell none of us are really drinking yet. You may have noticed if you've read the print on the episode that this is a top 40 episode as opposed to a top 25 like we've been doing. We were inspired by the fact that Decibel did a top 40 list to take ours up to 40 as well.

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But we're not going to make you sit through all of that like we usually do. But you'll learn more about that in a little bit. First, though, this episode will only be six hours instead of eight hours. So a regular episode. Right. So before we get into that, though, we're going to do our top five album covers of the year.

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As we did for the mid-year. And we're going to start with Marc Gasol. All right, kicking it off. My number five album cover of 2019 is In Coulter, Fatal Visions album art by Christian Valbo, the drummer of Obliteration. And this is a painting that can only be described as the most evil rental you can imagine in Airbnb.

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My Dear Metalheads is a quaint, one-room rustic hut inside a rocky, blood-splattered trench of your dreams. Inside this popular bungalow, you'll find a carpet made out of the highest quality blood. Every window is on fire, so you never have to worry about getting enough light. Absolutely perfect for reading your satanic Bible or sacrificing a virgin. On the handcrafted roof, you'll find a one-of-a-kind chimney spurting hot blood into an ocean that is gloriously

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Spend it above your summer trench getaway like a floating aquarium. But that's not all. Book now while the blood is hot enough to form a beautiful, supernatural steam guaranteed to make your stay here absolutely unforgettable. Man, if that's your number five, I'm fucked.

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Matt, would you like to follow that? Yes, I would. It took me a while to remember what it's like to follow you, Markisan. All right. My number five is a carryover from the mid-year, and that is Misery Index Rituals of Power. I will nowhere nearly describe it as eloquently as that. I would describe it as kind of like Easter Island meets the terror meets the mist.

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It's these statues filled with skeletons and some shitty storm going on and some other madness. And that's really the best I have. And it's only going to get worse. Nice. By the way, Marcus, I just want to let you know I failed you and forgot to put any artists down. So you're not getting any from me. I tried. Thanks, George. Sorry. Cover by Rafael Gabriel via Insane Visions. Maybe that's his company or something. But yeah, thanks for the

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All right, John.

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So my number five comes from a very anticipated, hotly anticipated album.

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Got a lot of hype.

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Has probably the hardest band logo to read.

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And that is Blood Incantations, Hidden History of the Human Race, which if you haven't seen the cover yet, I'd be surprised if you're a metalhead because it's been everywhere.

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But it's kind of very cool sci-fi alien on a planet that's destroyed with a bunch of, I guess, some kind of, I wouldn't call them satellites, but something floating in the air. It's kind of like a ring of, I don't know what you call them. Jax. Yes. You know, actually, it does look like that. But it's classic 70s sci-fi artwork from sci-fi god Bruce Pennington. And apparently they've used his other stuff. They used one of his.

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Pictures that he drew, I guess, for their EP. So they're continuing the trend. When Jay said Jax, I pictured him playing hopscotch. So that was... Yeah, they're like those. They would be square Jax, actually. Right. It's an awesome cover. Yeah. Okay. Will? All right. My number five. Sorry, I'm a little disorganized. Ultimas, Something Wicked Marches in.

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by the Polish artist Zbrygiu M. Bailak.

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Picture this. It's a smoldering medieval town.

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I can't be like, see what you've done.

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No, but it is. It does look like a medieval town on fire with griffins flying overhead.

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And there's the big, I guess, the Ultimas logo, the triangle logo in the center.

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It looks like hordes of people naked marching into the town while there's like a whole bunch of stuff just decaying. It kind of looks like ancient Rome, really. Yeah. Like that. Is that a good mark of song? You're hiring me to write your next comic book. You need a little polish. You need a little editing. Yeah. But you're sick, so that was pretty good. Yeah. So that's me.

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is a record that I know both Will and I liked, perhaps some other people, but also the cover is great. Legion of the Damned, Slaves of the Shadow Realm. And this is a cover of a sort of, let's say, mortoresque evil army moving forward with an upside down cross on main guy here, I just noticed. But in any case, this is like more than any other record this year. There's a story here, and I don't know what the story is, but I would like to read it. Highly recommended album, but I'll

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Also, a very cool record cover. I'll give you no more description than that. Go look it up. I don't know the artist's name. Thank you for not knowing the artist's name. Oh, no, no, George. I got you. Every time you fail today, I'll fail. All right. So the artist's name is Goyula Havnashnyak, which I'm assuming is Hungarian. Havnashnyak. So can you just, I just want you to know you just said it, and I still feel like I don't know his name. Havnashnyak.

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That sounds awesome. That should be a metal band name. Yeah, definitely. Well, they're from the Netherlands, so maybe that's a Netherlands name. I don't know, but. That's definitely Hungarian. That is okay. Or something in that region. Goulash, kebab, hebblepap. Yeah, God bless you. Thank you. My number five is a holdover from mid-year. I can sum it up in two words. Hellish Hogwarts. That's Possessed Revelations of Oblivion.

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Yes. Nice. Yes, please and thank you. All right, Mark's on number two. Or sorry, number four, rather. Number four is Ossuarium Living Tomb. I talked about this one at mid-year and it makes the cut. For the end of the year as well, it's a green castle of death that somebody abandoned in a swamp. But there's these homeless bone creatures that decided to squat in the crumbling remains. And apparently they walk up and down the stairways in an unending loop for exercise.

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I remember that one. There's a lot of discussion around that one. For exercise. Yes. Yeah, it's a great one. Cool. Matt? Most of these, I think, I had on the mid-year. Mine, a lot of mine, too, yeah. My number four, before I say it, I will say the rest of what I have, I don't believe I had on the mid-year. And strangely enough,

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The word I would use is consistent with all these. I did actually not plan this, but

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there is a theme to go through all these. So my number four is Atlantean Codex, The Course of Empire.

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I described it as sort of like an apocalyptic storm of

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wraiths via like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones.

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I assume they're walking down through the sky and to be what is, you know,

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like the ocean or something. And you see two dudes or people standing on the shore,

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Which now that I say it, that actually sounds more like a romance novel. Which this is clearly not. But that's my number four. Right on. And artist is... Where is it? Marouise Lewandowski. It's never like John Smith. The big Lewandowski? Unless it's Travis Smith. I wish. But close. Yeah, he's done a lot of great covers this year. Yes.

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like fuming mouth and I don't even remember all the ones but they're really good painted stuff.

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John. All right my number four is November Doom, November's Doom, Nephilim Grove. If you're not familiar with it it's a nighttime scene in a forest, the church in the background. It looks like there's a I don't know if it's a demon or a satyr. Is a satyr something the guy with animal legs?

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I can't remember. Yeah, you got it. That's like a goat man, yeah. Yeah, thank you. That's actually a better way to describe it. But there's a bunch of lambs laying around looking like they're getting slaughtered and the forest is all red. So it's a cheerful, happy nighttime scene. This artist... I think I just found my Christmas card for the year. It's... The artist is Pighands, I guess is the name. It's a pen and ink

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artist from Macedonia. If you're not familiar with this person's work, they did the cover, Dope Lord, Children of the Haze. So I don't know how much he has to his credit, but I've just seen a couple covers of his. So pretty cool. Yeah. Jay, your next album should be a goat man playing hopscotch, the cover. Let me see what I can do. Hold on. I'm Googling as fast as I can. All right, Will. All right.

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4. Thonian Horde. The album is Downfall. None of this is going to be a big surprise to you because I think only one of them is different from my year-end or my mid-year rear-end. But the artist is Gilbert Miranda for Laguna Mortis Artwork. So it's like a pen and ink drawing, but it's all purple and black. And it's got more griffin or more lions like charging at you, a priest running away trying to hold up the cross.

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to ward off this giant-breasted evil woman with, like, horns coming out of her head with a pentagram dangling just delicately between her cleavage. Some nuns running away. There's clearly a church in the background in the owl, and it's kind of turning me on right now, just to be honest. Anyway, check it out. Athonian whore, downfall. Are you describing a cover or the porn you watch? Both.

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That's perfect, yeah. Jay? All right, my number four is Opeth in Cauda Vaninam, and I love it. And the more I stare at it, I can't decide if it's a miniature or a painting. Do you know, John? That's just half of the picture. It's actually pretty big when you fold out the album cover. It's a grower, not a shower. Yeah, it is.

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a kind of a weird old house with a horse and carriage in front of it. Each member of Opeth are in the window of the house or in the separate windows of the houses and stuff. And I think he made a joking reference to it being his take on a King Diamond cover or something to that effect. He did. He said, if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for us. Well, it works. And it's one of those ones, too, that just where it kind of brings your imagination to life when you look at this cover. There's nothing particularly. No,

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There is something kind of scary or spooky about it. I don't know how to explain it. It's sort of like a sleepy hollow type thing. That's it. Jay, if you want, look for the full cover online. I think I'm going to do that right now. It's actually, it's on that whole built house and carriages on top of a demon's tongue, if I'm not mistaken. I see it now. Oh, well, that's even cooler. Yeah. Just moved up your list. It's a full cover because you look at it and you're like, you have to just really pour over it.

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study it, you know,

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and it's just not actually not unlike my number five.

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I feel like there's a story there to tell that.

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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Which is, which is even great.

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I don't want to know the story.

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I just imagine all kinds of strange fucking things are happening in that

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house.

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Georgie.

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My number four is my final holdout from mid year.

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This is inter armor is soul for English with the tree on fire.

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It's just a striking color,

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especially for metal covers which are usually very dark and it's very bright so yeah

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back to mark's on number three all right yes number three for me is another holdover for mid-year it's a

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gorgang neon groves it features the fossilized remains of some long dead creature nestled inside an open

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tree stump like casket in the middle of a horror grove and the whole cover is a lit up with this bright blue radiance so it's really striking and just creepy as fuck and that's it that's all you got to say about that i was waiting for more all right matt i can't do everyone as a big story i thought i had way more time

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All right, my number three, Abigail Williams' Walk Beyond the Dark artist, Marouise Lewandowski. So here's the kind of common theme. I'm just really into epic paintings this year because, you know, I'm bitchy and that's what I like. And this is, it's like this gigantic figure of, I don't know, like a hooded figure. You know, I was thinking the Grim Reaper, maybe a Wraith, whatever. And then you kind of see a dude outside about to walk in and clearly he's shitting his pants. And, you know,

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That's my number three. All right. John. Cool. My number three is Arctic Sleep, Kindred Spirits. If you haven't seen it, I'm not sure if it's a woman on her deathbed or just laying on her bed, but she's being consoled by, I think, four black crows. I don't know if they're getting ready to eat her or if they're just hanging out, but it's a beautiful picture. And I believe the woman does her artwork in pencil, if I'm not mistaken. I could be wrong.

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But her name is Jennifer Wheeler. And I believe she did the previous albums cover too. It's very cool. A lot of color and you need to open the full jacket to appreciate the whole picture. So very nice. And there's a video online too of her actually painting it, you know, in like a lapsed time. That's really cool to watch. Yeah, you go to her Instagram page, I think. And she has a lot of that or it links back to her homepage or website. And you can see a lot of that stuff. It's very cool.

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I have to apologize to Keith because I completely dropped the ball on that one anyway well

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my number four George I think is the one that told me about this album of course I did

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all roads lead to George that's right I know that the name of the album is the name of the band is

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superstition the name of the album is the on the anatomy of unholy transformation and the artwork is by

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You Rim Chung. And it's a black and white drawing. This actually kind of looks like a Mark Riddick kind of black and white pencil drawing, but it's got like the Grim Reaper, like killing a zombie-like guy. And there's just like massive amounts of skulls, like at his feet. And there's like just billowing smoke everywhere and like a giant ray of sunlight behind the Grim Reaper. It's pretty cool. Yeah, that was on my mid-year list. All right. Jay. All right.

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3 is Immortal Bird Thrive on Neglect. A gorgeous painting of this little girl, presumably living through some sort of nightmare scenario. There's a lot of reasons. There's monkeys on it, so that's great. But there's a lot of reasons that I like this one. But one is, it calls to mind Nazareth, Hair of the Dog. It's that kind of painting style. I've always loved that album cover. Sorry, I was trying to swipe. I was trying to swipe and I hit a sound.

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I feel like you said this.

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What subtle insult is that?

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But it does call to mind, and I used to love, I still love,

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but I used to love that cover of that Nazareth album.

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It was such a weird fucking scene.

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You guys know that cover, right?

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The cover art.

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John does, I'm sure.

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I do, yes.

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And it still kind of calls to mind,

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I can't think of their name all of a sudden,

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But the guys with blue and the guys with the color covers, what's the name, or color albums. Oh, Baroness. Yeah, it also has a slight Baroness style to it, slight. Anyway, it's a fun one to look at. It's really vivid and a really amazing painting. Artist unknown to me, I'm sure maybe one of you guys knows. She probably told us about it in the interview, as a matter of fact. Yeah, I think we asked the question, but I don't remember the name of the artist. I think it's a woman, and she did their last cover, too, I believe.

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Yes. Yeah. So it's great. Cool. My number three, John already did. This is November's Doom, Nephilim Grow. I'm going to go with his description so you don't have to listen to it again. Nice. Well done. And back to Marcasson for number two. My number two is new on my list. It's the album cover for Psychosphere. The album's called Beta and the album are by Thiago

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And this cover features a crimson demonot baby being birthed out of the core of a dirty moon. It's a beautifully painted image that kind of messes with my brain because when I think of birth, I think of tiny children coming into the world. But in this image, the creature is squirting out of a goddamn moon. So when you think about its relative size to something as massive as a moon, that's an incomprehensibly huge kid.

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And that's fucking terrifying to me. I'm pretty sure that's what his mother would say when your giant head popped out. Yeah, it's a really cool one. Yeah, that's right. That's cool. I came across this album not too long ago and I just was struck by the album artwork, so I should take a look if you get a chance. Right on. Matt? Number two is False Portant.

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The cover is by the same artist. And this, you know, kind of similar figures going on. This one has the Grim Reaper. He's almost like melting into the sea of like fiery lava and just kind of surrounded by walls. And you see figures kind of at the top of that holding a flag and then these dark eyes in the sky. And also the small figures kind of on a rock lower. So it's pretty cool. Right on. Is that three for three for that artist, Matt? Yes, it is. Wow. Wow.

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I'm very consistent this year. Or lazy. You know what you like. I'm not calling you lazy. I was just joking. No, of course. All right, John. So my number two is my only holdover from the mid-year, and that is Nucleus Entity. Artist is Adam Burke. I think everyone's heard of his stuff. It's a sci-fi scene. It looks like there's either a space station or something on a planet being attacked by ships. It's not very clear.

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Like clarity wise, you have to kind of extrapolate some of the information yourself out of it. But it's a very cool picture, especially when you open the hole. I don't have the vinyl, but I've seen the gatefold open picture of it. And it's a full on battle scene, but very cool. So, hey, John, sorry, I was talking to my daughter who's down here, but I didn't hear what you said, but based on your description, was it nucleus? Yes. All right, cool. Yeah, I like that one. Yeah, it's very, very like Star Wars. Right.

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But it has a very kind of 60s, 70s sci-fi album or a sci-fi book cover, which is very cool. Adam Burke's awesome. I would love to get one of his original paintings. I almost bought one because he had a big sale on his website, but maybe in the future. All right. All right. My number two. Jay already mentioned it. I mentioned it at the mid-year.

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Legion of the Damned, slaves to the Shadow Realm, by, as I butchered it before, Gaiula Havanaskak. It's like this evil sort of hooded person riding a skeleton horse with a giant cross that's been broken off and tied to the front of the horse and with a horde of orcs coming at you,

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leading from a castle. It definitely looks like someone out of Lord of the Rings. It's very cool. That's just so un-metal-like. I don't understand. Yeah. I don't know how they got away with that. Yeah. Taylor Swift's cover? What the hell? Yeah, I like how John BT commented and wanted to and said something about wondering of Lady Gaga.

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I was going to be on my list. I'm like, John, she didn't even have an album this year.

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Yeah, get your facts straight.

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My number two doesn't require too much comment because, again, we're starting to double up here.

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But it is, as mentioned by John, Blood Incantation.

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That actually fits exactly, too, John, with the love of the 60s, 70s sci-fi thing.

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And it's just a well-selected cover.

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I don't know if it was original for the record, but to the concept of the record, the secret history of the human race, I might be slightly misquoting. No, I actually think that that's something that was done in the 70s. I think they used his artwork, yeah. It's got to be on the cover of a bad book somewhere then, probably. Heavy Metal magazine. Yeah, it could be Heavy Metal, too. In any case, needs no more comment, but it's a very cool fucking cover. Cool. My number two, I'm sure, God,

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to be on a few more lists uh wait i guess everybody else's next ones are ones huh

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well maybe it is uh that's going to be two mold planetary clairvoyance and yeah i'm not describing it

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because i can't do that well i i'm not going to describe it for you it's not on my list and i really

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wanted it to be but i will say this it's it's one of the covers that looks more like what that record

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sounds like that fucking picture yeah all right well let's go to mark us on and see if see if what he's got i don't i mean i definitely considered that one uh it probably my number six but uh my number one was my number one at mid-year and it could not be dethroned even by a giant moon baby and it is a critical defiance misconception albert by bastian

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And it features a handful of badass space marines who are clearly the last line of defense against a flaming ghost rider skull beast that's coming through a portal between two collapsing towers. And a cosmic ghost rider has spewed forth a horrifying blood cloud through the entrance, which is always, always the precursor to the complete envelopment of the universe and sanguine death.

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Now, did you just read that from what you said last time, or did you make that all up again? Completely different. Yeah. Wouldn't it be cool to have on your resume, last line of defense against a flaming skeleton hell beast, like March of 2000 to whatever, you know? Yeah. Man, I love that cover so much. I don't know. It just gets me. Right in the feels. Yep. All right, Matt.

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My number one, two mold, one particular avoidance, cover art by Jesse Jacoby. The only thing I can get out of this is a little bit of a mix of like, because you have some, I don't know, Roman or Greece architecture in the background, but I was getting a little bit of like the Matrix when they're not in the Matrix, especially like when you see like the people in pods and all the slimy shit and the eyeballs and stuff. And who knows? But yeah, that's my number one.

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It just occurs to me that this could possibly be what you would see if you zoomed in on Awaken the Guardian a little closer maybe

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Ah yeah for sure the colors definitely

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Also I think it's a very HP Lovecraft cover

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Oh yeah definitely

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Yeah

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Yeah metal bands aren't into him at all

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Nah

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It's just kind of weird

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You don't see that a lot

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It's like the only author that anybody's ever read in heavy metal

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Yeah him and Tolkien

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Yeah thanks to Cliff Burton

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Alright John

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One is one that Matt mentioned, but it's not. Tumult, sorry. And that is Abigail Williams' Walk Beyond the Dark. It is the artist, it's Marius Lewandowski, which we've heard his name now a number of times, who we've probably seen his album covers all over the place. My take on the album cover is that it's Bellwitch Mirror Reaper 2.0, which that is this hooded, cloaked figure has finally come through the mirror.

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Oh, that's right. Yeah, I know. Okay, I know the cover you're talking about. And this one guy that Matt said was pooping his pants is the last guy left because this hooded figure is just laying waste on everyone. So that's my take on it. So I think if you put both covers up against each other or take all his covers and put them all against each other, you see a theme that the world's being destroyed by whoever came in on a damn mirror. And John, you bring up a good point because I forgot to say that when I was mentioning all his work. Like the first time I did the year end with y'all,

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You told me ahead of time that it was kind of a collective agreement that that was the number one album cover for the year. So naturally, I chose it. And I just I looked at I was like, this is like fucking epic, you know, I mean, and I think I don't know, it was that moment in time where I started looking at all these other things and not even I mean, it doesn't take rocket science to see that clearly there's you can look at these paintings and realize there's a good chance it's the same person. But I didn't even think that in my head as the year was going on. But it was like, man, this dude paints some really epic shit. So I think he did the one for false to me for this. Yeah.

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Yeah, which I think that's the same hooded figure that's like slaying people to big old sickle or something, if I'm not mistaken. A lot of them have like an army of tiny people below, you know, and there's some huge apparition or just monster. Just getting laid to waste. Yeah, there's such scale. You have like the little ants and then like the gigantic like problems. It's like if Eddie were like that he's telling some sort of. It's like if Eddie were like a freelance and.

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You know, like Judas Priest had Eddie on their cover, and then, you know, Dio had Eddie on their cover. That's almost exactly what I was going to say. It's like this guy's telling a story across several bands. That's awesome. I like to see him get really hammered and switch to cloaked figure with the Stay Puft man from Ghostbusters. Yeah. Holy shit. Can I stop you for one second? Have you guys seen the preview for the new Ghostbusters movie coming out? No. Okay. No. Oh, wow. It's like in the Ghostbusters universe. It's not. Yeah. Yeah, you'll have to see.

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I did not know that like it obviously as the preview goes on you know what it is but I did not get that at first it's a group of kids just so you know it's a group of kids that are get involved and find old gold ghostbuster artifacts or something one of them is one of the kids from strangers I was gonna say why don't we cross ghostbusters with stranger things interesting well that'll be huge I just watched it it too that oh yeah I was waiting that was great I thought I wanted to watch them

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both together instead of in parts.

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Now you can.

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Yeah.

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Do it.

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Yeah.

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I didn't like the first part as I loved the book when I was a kid.

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So I haven't watched the second part because I didn't like the first part.

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First long novel I ever read, loved the book.

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And the second part, I thought way better than the first part.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I'll get to it.

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This brings us to John.

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No, Will.

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Yeah.

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Will, excuse me.

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My number one.

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It's an EP, actually, but culted. Vespertina Synaxis, A Prayer for the Union and Emptiness. The album art is by Max Winter from Terra Togen. It's kind of like this cool old school, like, cloaked female statue with wings, but her arms have fallen off. Your arms are off.

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Just a flesh wound. There's like giant skulls behind her. And again, like there's a very big theme to all these album covers I'm picking, I swear. There's like a bright light behind her head and just smoldering clouds and smoke. And just like a crucify. There's the traditional crucifixion scene, which you have Jesus in the center and two other thieves or something along the other side with two smaller crosses. And then just like real, it's a very realistic painting. It's almost like they took, either it's not a painting or they took a whole bunch of photographs and just superimposed them.

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like flawlessly together but it's really really cool definitely check it out

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cool my number one is already been mentioned and i have some visual aids for this which

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obviously don't work on a podcast but i'll describe it and the reason it's but it's the reason i chose

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it so i'm going to use first as a frame of reference the first motorhead record versus the second one

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and even though this is actually no remorse that's still the first motorhead record so you get that

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And then number two,

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when they were suddenly a much louder,

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more great band,

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they exploded the first cover and made this.

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So that,

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so that was the overkill record.

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So this was a band's first album,

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second album,

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and I,

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or not second album,

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but let's call it revival album.

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And again,

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they just like the music inside exploded out to a much bigger realm.

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The original cover looks like this.

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And then they came out with this zest,

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The New Possessed, Revelations of the Oblivion, the artist is, and this is one of Will's, I only wish you were here to read this for me, Zibigniew Bielak. Never heard of the guy. But it's just, it's amazing. It's just like, as if there were a door on the first Possessed album cover and you open that door and this is the hell of shit you found inside. Amazing cover. It's so detailed. There's so much going on.

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And it thankfully came with a poster which is even bigger. That's mine. What do you got Georgie? My number one. I actually don't think anybody's mentioned this one. Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas. I just think that's really cool. I guess I'll describe it a little in non-Marcuson detail. But you know. This like Grim Reaper Atlas skeleton guy with a scythe. And then he's got like the

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the planet on his back and it's like smoldering ruins and there's like stars and nebulas and and a uh an hourglass at his feet there you go yeah i like it too because their album covers of the past it's usually somebody like split in half or yeah just really pooped out of a cow different i liked it right it's like they grew up it matured somehow with the album art it worked it really works well for for the album

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I believe it's the same artist they've used all these years or for many years. Pretty sure I read a little article about it. But yeah, but it's a great cover. And all of the continents are burned beyond recognition. The planet on his back. Yes. All right. Those are the album covers. Yay. Speaking of yay and Jay, John, would you like to explain the Jay Awards? Yeah. So since we do a top 25,

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list of combined podcasts favorites. I noticed, and I'm sure we all notice that there's always one person every year that seems to rain or piss on the parade, I should say, of everyone else's excitement. In honor of Jay. Oh, sorry. And this all stems from Jay and his relationship with Chemist. And this is all good fun.

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So I came up with something called the J Awards. And each year, there's always that one person that either just didn't like it or just didn't put it on there or for whatever reasons just did it out of spite. We don't know. It doesn't matter. It's all fun. So I went back to 2017, started with that one. There were five of us then. Now there's six. So we'll have more for 2017 and less obviously for 2018 because I included all six of us for that one. So let's just run through them real quick.

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and then we'll have a new set for this year because I'm pretty sure there'll be somebody. Oh, yeah. I'm actually positive there will be somebody. Awesome. I am still on the show after all, John. Believe me. So am I, Jay. Exactly. There you go. So here we go. I'll read through them real quick. Don't need to spend too much time. You can kind of figure it out, but it's all good fun. Our first album. Oh, and I should say also I put together, and this is not many, but we also have Clean Sweep albums where we all have them on the way.

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So I'll mention those at the end of each year. So the first one, Enslaved E in 2017. George, Jay, and Matt all had it as a number one. I had it at number nine. Will had it as a Jay. So that's the first album. Second album, Cannibal Corpse, Red Before Black. Will, Matt had it at number two. Jay at 12. George at 17.

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John at J. I think we I feel like we need a sound effect to go with this like you know salt really hurts when it goes on nope I fucked that up say something and then record that George yeah yeah yeah yeah Jay you need to say something that we can sample yeah come on Jay okay uh here I got something for you nope

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Actually, Jay, I kind of liked the one you said a while back. I'm not saying I don't like the guys. They're really nice guys. Great guys. Great guys, but I just don't see what you see in them. Dude, I told Dan. I literally told Dan. I was like, I'm sorry, man. Everybody loves you guys, and I just can't have that. Everybody's an enemy, and I'm not for you guys. So we got three more for 2017. Creator, Gods of Violence, Will's number one.

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George at three Matt 11 J 24 John at J

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the fourth album of the year Temple of

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Void Lords of Death will number three

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George and John at 12 J 22 Matt at J

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oh that level J you right

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respectively for regret that yes

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but the interesting thing is we

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haven't actually named J yet for all

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these.

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Last Album, Ukiaru, For Darkness to Subside, Will 9, George 10, Matt 18, John 22, and Jay at Jay. There he is. Jay on Jay Action. So our Clean Sweep album of that year was Perihelium Ship to Paint a Bird of Fire. So the grand total for 2017, John had me, two Jay Awards. Jay had his own award once, and Will and Matt had one also.

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for 2017. Nice. It's funny because in 2017, obviously I wasn't here on cast, but I definitely would not have put Parahellion Ship on my list, so I would have won the J Award. All right. Well, you get a posthumous J. Retrofitted. I'm not dead yet. Yeah. So quickly for 2018, King Goat, Dead of Anz. George, Jay, and Markisan all had that album at four.

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John at 17. Will at 23. Matt J.

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It.

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All right.

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And only one other album.

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Two Mold, Manner of Infinite Forms.

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Markisan 5, J7, Matt 10, John 14, Will 16, George at J.

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Well, but I think so.

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I think the reason this is the J Awards, though, to be fair, is it has something more to do with Kevin's being at 17.

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Right. Which was J compared to everybody else's one. Right. To be fair, yes. Yes. So we only had one clean sweep album that year, and that was Sludge. Oh, actually, we had two. Sludge, Esoteric, Malcology, and then J shitting on chemists with Desolation. We all had that, so. I'd do it again. And I think it was 17 on your list or something. It was 17.

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It might have been 2017. My only big greatest chemist didn't release an album this year. Yeah. Well, I just got in the mail. I just got the decibel, like top 100 albums of the decade or something. And chemist is high on the list. It's number two. Oh, I wasn't going to spoil it, but there you go. Good job, Will. Anyways, when I saw that, I immediately thought, oh, fuck Jay. You know? Indeed.

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It's definitely ingrained in the podcast now. Yeah, for sure. Fucking J every day. Oh, yeah. Like, keep alone in that. That's it. Only two awards for 2018. Well, let's see what we can get up to today. Oh, it's going to get ugly. I'm going to say at least four or five. Wow. Which is saying something. I think I might have one or two. Yeah, I probably will have a couple. All right. Well, do we want to just hop right into

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this then? Yeah? Should we talk about what we're drinking? Okay. Go for it. Well, I am drinking mead from Brimminghorn, a club exclusive. It is a honey... Wait, it's called Cretan Bull, Seventh Labor of Hercules. A honey orange mead. It's delicious. Yum. Do you still get your club all the way out in Hawaii?

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I do. Yeah, I actually sent them a message and asked them because I was worried that I would not. And they're like, yeah, we shipped to Hawaii, no problem. So yeah, got it right away. So I'm enjoying it. A bunch of nice guys. Sweet. I just finished a beer called Partying Past Burning Bridges. It is a collaboration between Fair State, which is local here, and Three Floyds. It is a dipped, hopped IPA coming in at 6.667.

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6%. And it is lovely. Excellent. I'm doing a metal beer from one of our breweries that we're friends with. We know the band. Jay hates the band, of course. But this is from True Brewing. It's called Jewel Throne. Nice little throw to George Witch Band. Celtic Frost. Thank you. Just checking to make sure people are paying attention. Anyway, it's a sour. And I'm actually done with it now.

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So I need to get another beer. Yeah, I gotta get one too. I am under the weather, so I'm having exactly one beer today, but I did have the second brewer that I worked at, Fairwinds Brewing in Lorton, Virginia. They recently started canning a beer that we brewed a long time ago called Blackened Seas, and the font is all in Metallica font, so like blackened. But strangely enough, the name comes from a Canadian instrumental dune band.

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Cool.

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You're doing well, though, I gotta say. You're doing well from being so sick.

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I wouldn't even know.

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No, trust me, I feel

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yesterday I would have been useless.

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I should say more useless than I usually am, but

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I don't feel great today, but

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I'm way better than I was yesterday, for sure.

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And I'm also drinking a Coke Zero now.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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I'm gonna go grab a beer.

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Well, then I guess we will wait till he gets back since he's going to be there. I assume we're skipping Jay and John because, I mean, Jay and George, as usual. George, do you care if I grab a beer real quick then, George? Go ahead. I'll just, I'm not going to be allowed real quick. I'll enjoy my crystal light. I'll tell you a funny story, George, since everybody else is gone. Well, Will's here. No, just you. He's leaving. It was about my meeting.

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with King Diamond. And I said something to him that I have probably said twice in my life. And that's the truth. And I was like, what the fuck is wrong with me? So I meet him and I'm kind of overwhelmed. And I was like, really look into his eyes. It's just like, hey, man, like, just thank you so much. I've been a fan since Melissa came out, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he did the same thing. He's with you. Like, thank you very much. And I think he's a real sincere guy. He was nice and stuff. But it was all very fast, as you know. Yeah. And then and then we took the picture.

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And this is absolutely true. I shook his hand again. I was like, thank you, man. And I said, God bless you. And then I went like this. I said, oh, I'm sorry, man. And he goes, it's all cool. Or no, he said, it's all good. But I don't think I've ever said God bless you to anybody in my life. And I said, it's a king. Yeah, that's funny. I shit you not. That's the absolute truth. Are you even religious? No, I don't know why that came out of my fucking mouth. Well, that's because he does that to you. I mean, I know. I can't even

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I remember most of what I know. I thanked him for the music and stuff. But his eyes. Like you mentioned, I looked into his eyes and his eyes just swallowed me. And it was just like, say something dumb. Plus they're outlined by the makeup and they're like black almost or something. I don't know. But it was, yeah. But I felt like such a dipshit. That's the impression I fucking love. Yeah. God bless you to a person for the first time in my life. I'm going to have to leave that in.

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Isn't that ridiculous? Oh, feel free. Yeah, I mean, I just was like mortified. I was just like of all the fucking things to say. George, you should use God bless you for the Jay Awards blurb. Now I'm going to piece together Jay saying I love Chemist. Or Chemist is my favorite band. I can piece it together from different parts and make that. Hey, George, since we got new beers, do we have to do what we're drinking part two now already?

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Well, I guess Marcason needs to as well. I'll do one now real quick, which was what I had last night. And also, absolutely why I'm not drinking this morning, because I had too much last night. But I had the new Russian River. They do a thing. They did one last year for the fires, and they did one this year for the fires called Sonoma Pride for the first responders. And it was fucking great, dude. It was a great IPA. That's awesome. Yeah, it was so good. It's like Matt's opening something. John, is that a Star Wars shirt you got on?

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What's that? John, is that Star Wars? Oh, yeah. Stay on target. Wine doesn't have stay on target. This is just the actual one with the numbers. Yeah. I was thinking, George, and we could do this in the future, that we should always do a t-shirt check on the show. Oh, yeah. Melissa. Because you know we all put on, oh, and you got your King Diamond shirt on. Fuck yeah. What are you wearing? What do you have, George? You did a phallic symbol check on Will, which was interesting.

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And George, what do you wear? Is that a Metal Heads podcast? Yeah. I didn't have to look pretty because nobody was coming over. I'm just like, you know, sweatpants and unshaved. Will's still gone. Well, I'm glad. I'm kind of glad the guys didn't come over and it wasn't going to happen this year. But I kid you not, some year, some year, and I'm not going to tell you when it's going to happen. We're going to be getting ready to podcast and you guys are going to wonder

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Why I'm Not On And I'm Gonna Knock On Your Fucking Door George This is a thing I'm doing I'm with you on that Jay Yeah okay well we will call it And Jay it'll be really strange when you hear the podcast say yeah so we don't know what happened to Jay today but we're gonna go ahead and do the podcast anyway So what are you drinking now Markisan Oh what am I drinking now I am drinking a beer called St. Damien from Maui Brewing

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Company. So local. It is a

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local, yeah. It's a robust

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bourbon and brandy barrel-aged

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strong dark ale.

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And it is delicious.

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First time I've had this one.

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Cool. They have good beers in Hawaii.

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I was worried.

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Because, you know, coming from Chicago,

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we have the most craft breweries

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anywhere. But I've been

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pleasantly surprised by the amount of

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craft brews and just really good beers

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have here and what's neat about the scene here in Hawaii is that craft brewing is newer so you're seeing things come up and so you get to experience that where in Chicago there's I was just inundated with tons of breweries everywhere so it's nice to see new ones come up and try stuff as they experiment you know awesome that's very cool so Matt did you open wine what was that no this is me that was my first guess but

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Quince Blossom, traditional mead from Birmingham. So I just, I joined the club and I got my first shipment maybe a month and a half ago. Finally getting around to cracking some mo. Sweet. Good job, Matt. How long does that stuff stay good? Because I've had that like underworld, whatever, for a while. I opened my Sentinel. Well, I sent you guys pictures when I drank mine.

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And I had those both for a few months and they were fine. Yeah, I've had mine since late summer anyway. Yeah, it was about when I got mine too. That bead can last a while. Good, good. Like honey's the most perfect food in the world. And that stuff just lasts forever. Yeah. I should also mention that Matt sent us some of the Surly King Diamond beer to drink today. But since we did not gather, that has been rescheduled.

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And John had the good idea that we should

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I'll bring those to the adroit theory thing and we can

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like have those before

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before that gets started perhaps

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Nice

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Yeah I would do something along those lines

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don't wait for like an entire year

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I'm like here guys here's this great beer for you to try

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Like

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John did you get a new beer?

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Yes I did

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This is courtesy of TR and I was going to

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bring this up today

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But we can have it later because I think this will hold a little longer.

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This is from a brewery in Maryland called Elder Pine.

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And I am drinking something called Barrel-Aged Under the Weeping Moon.

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It's a barrel-aged barley wine.

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And I really want at will to drink this because Under the Weeping Moon is off of Opit's first album.

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And he can't say shit about that album.

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That's pretty metal.

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But I thought it would be fun.

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I thought of more would just be fun because I did make a comment to the brewery and apparently it is a reference to the band so I know that we all try to find beer influenced beers if we can or metal influenced beers if we can. You got that from the Metalheads Butler John? Yeah I didn't he got it for me I had no idea about it and apparently they're close to George it's a farm brewery I think so at some point we'll check it out in person. Nice. Yep. So before we before we launch forward

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here, and this will be very brief, I assure you. I just wanted to give a shout-out to Jeff Gresham, one of our listeners and buddies, because I believe he went to L.A. Decibel this year. I think he's in L.A. right now. They've been posting L.A. photos. I haven't sent any concert shots. They've been doing stuff like going to the Warner Brothers and all that, but I'm pretty sure that's why I was out there, because he asked me if I was gone a while back. But anyway, shout-out, Jeff. Sorry, you're at Decibel alone this year, or at least not with us, but we'll catch you at the next one. Yep. All right.

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Let's get started. So as mentioned, we're doing a top 40 instead of a top 25. But because we would like to get back to our lives at some point, 40 through 26, we're going to do each person's going to do their their list for all of those at once, sort of like on a regular episode when we're doing our what we're listening to. We want to we want to mention these albums and these bands because there's just been so many good albums.

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this year. It was ridiculous trying to fit into 25. And then from 25 down, we will do Per Usual. So, Markisan, why don't you start us off? Yeah. I mean, man, this is like one of the hardest years I think I've ever done. It's a hard year. It's really crazy how many good bands put out albums this year. So, all right, here we go. Shotgun style. Number 40 for me is Ashen Horse.

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Fallen Cathed, Fallen Cathedrals. Self-released, our friend Trevor put out a great mix of Black Death and Prague. I love that he added the clean vocals on the record. And they just shipped a new EP, so I'm looking forward to it. Yeah, I got my sick notice. It's it? No, no, no. I was going to say, today I listened to the first song in the EP, and I was waiting for it, and I was waiting for it, and there's a part where I thought this is definitely coming in. No clean vocals on the first song. Way to go, Trevor. It's glorious.

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Oh boy, please and will. All right. So number 39 for me is Candlemas, The Door to Doom on Napalm Records. This album was quite low for me at mid-year. I really thought it was going to drop off the list entirely, but doing a top 40 gives this album a new life at number 39. And that's pretty appropriate because I think The Door to Doom is a reinvigoration for Doom Legends, Candlemas. To be sure. What's that?

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I said to be sure. Yes, I agree. Yes, yes. Reinvigoration slash reunion. All the way back to the roots on that one. Yeah, yeah. That's right. Number 38 is Mismore Cairn. The album title Cairn means ceremonial piles of stones that serve as landmarks. And so when I listen to this album, I feel the weight of roads traveled and choices made. So it can be a challenging LP, I think,

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It has four very long songs, but I think it's pretty rewarding introspective listen if you immerse yourself in it. Number 37, Crips Cadaver Circulation on Dark Descent. This is a harrowing old school death metal album with lots of murky swirling guitars. I actually had a hard time putting it here because I do love this record, but this is where it had to rest on the list. Number 36 is All Cest Spiritual Instruction.

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on Prophecy Productions. Alsest is poem metal to me. They make avant-garde art in metal form. I don't like this one as much as the last LP, Kodama, but it's still got a ton of spins this year, especially after I saw them live, because they just are amazing performers. Number 35, Mortiferum, Scourged from the Psychotic Depths on Profound Lore.

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Oh, there you go. Nice. Will's wearing the shirt. Found Lore Records. Morta Farrahman is Latin for death bringing. And that's exactly what this album does. And it does it hard. Number 34, Critical Defiance Misconception. I mentioned that as my number one album cover. It's on unspeakable acts records. This album stomps creative riffs all the way through. And it is my second favorite thrash.

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of 2019.

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So number one yet to be revealed.

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Number 33.

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Gravefields.

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Embrace the Void.

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Redefining Darkness Records.

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If you need to get fired up, this is an energetic face-smashing death record from Ireland that will do the job.

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Number 32.

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Harrowed.

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Chaotic Non-Entity from Feast of Tentacles Records.

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Riff-splosive metal blasts that make you ball up your mitts and punch the sky. Really good. Another one that gets you pretty fired up. Number 31. Oh, this is hard to do all these at once. I know. Creeping Death, Wretched Illusions on E1 Music. This is a thick and meaty old-school death sandwich. Really a joy to spin. I've been playing this one a lot.

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Number 30, Vukari Avam on Vendetta Records. Doomie, atmospheric black metal that's both elegant and brutal, often at the same time. Number 29, Yellow Eyes, Rare Field Ceiling on Gilead Media. I've talked about how much I love Yellow Eyes many times.

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continues to cement their standing as one of the most innovative black metal bands around. It's a dense, desolate triumph. Number 28, Pelican Nighttime Stories on Southern Lord Records. This is Pelican's heaviest album in years with big, sludgy riffs that feel like they were extracted from a prehistoric tar pit. Number 27,

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Nile. Vile Nileotic Rights on Nuclear Blast Records. Just when you think that the best day... Wait, wait, wait, wait. When are we going to start getting angry at each other? No. Are you angry? No, no. It's on my list so I don't get to jail. Number 27. Exactly. Hey, Jay, you'll have a chance later. Yeah. That means I have to go all the way through John's list to find out.

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No, no, no, I'm giving you shit. I'm glad it's there. Man, I appreciate you just giving me a break from just non-stop listing albums. Okay. Do you want me to? Bueller. Hey, Marcus, now you know how George feels every episode when he's like on his 52nd, you know, what I'm listening to. Now you know my pain, except that the whole time you're doing your list, everybody's rolling their eyes and talking shit.

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I actually thought the list was not hard to make, but there's just a lot of albums on there that I feel are deserving of the list. But when I made it, I was like, all right, this can go here. This is a fine spot for it. So yeah, Niall, I love the album. Love it. And I thought for Niall, it's a band I've really enjoyed throughout the years. And I thought maybe their best days were behind that.

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But this one

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Honestly, it could be their best record

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It's up there, man

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It's savage, it's crushing

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It's a return to form

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So why the fuck do you have it so low then, asshole?

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Alright, now, Will, you need to give him a hug

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Yeah, I don't know

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I think there's better death metal albums

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To be honest

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Or better albums overall

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He's just had too much to drink. 27's pretty high though. Alright, so number 26. You're almost there. That's the last one. Yeah. Coast of Glaciers, the greatest burden on translation lost records. We got some excellent instrumental metal albums this year from Pelican, which I mentioned, Labyrintho, Russian Circles, but this is easily my favorite of the bunch. It's the heaviest, but it's also the most beautiful. Fluid tonal shifts and just gorgeous textures.

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that ebb and flow like ocean waves. Really great. And there you go. All right. Matt, enter the gauntlet. John, I'm going to use the graphic on your shirt as inspiration because I feel like I will try and stay on target. Number 40, Idle Hands, Mona. They are a U.S. heavy metal band. Definitely got into them after seeing them live. I'd listened to the album probably once this year and it was like, eh, fine. And then after watching them up,

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for King Diamond, it really changed my perspective. I think you had mentioned something about that too. Yep. Totally. Um, Pelican or a number 39 Pelican nighttime stories. Number 38, a band called second to sun. The album is legacy. They are a post black metal band from Russia. Number 37 is wind swept with the onlooker. They're a Ukrainian black metal band. That's like the drinker guy. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. A couple of guys from there. Uh, number 36 is Herod.

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and Sombra Desane. They're a Swiss sludge metal band. Number 35, Shabti, Trembling and Shorn. They're a US kind of proggy black death metal band. Number 34, Niall. Oh, even lower! I know. I want to take the heat off you, Marcus. Yeah, it's off. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's done. It's done

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some ways to put some odds on this stuff. 33, 13, 49, the Inferno Pathway. Number 32 was my number one, Downfall of Gaia, Ethic of Radical Finitude. Number 31, Misery Index, Rituals of Power. Number 30, Moinock, Dreaming in a Dead Language. Number 29, Altarage, The Approaching Roar. They're a Spanish black death metal band. 28, a local band for me, Ashbringer, Absolute.

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They're a atmospheric black metal band. Number 27, second only to obituary with the best hair in metal is Ukiyaru, Madness and Creation. And number 26, The Mothgatherer, Esoteric Oppression. Nice. Oh man, this has been a long year because there was a couple titles there I forgot about, namely The Mothgatherer. I know, I was like, that was this year? Wow, it was. That was this year. It's been a long year, dude, a long metal year. Well, it's interesting too because I recognize

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a lot of these albums from Matt's mid-year. So, you know, he's got to have a lot of new ones on the 1 through 25. All right, John. All right. So mine, and I'm sure this will be stated a million times, but I can't even imagine how many albums I didn't even make or include for my top 40 because there's so much stuff out there like everyone's been saying. So it's like then you really feel like an asshole, right? Yeah. You know? Yeah. I guess. Not that you are.

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Yeah, it's par for us. Anyway, all right, so here we go. My number 40, a band called Target, Deep Waters Flames. They're from Chile. They're a technical death metal, somewhat progressive metal band. They were in my mid-year, but they fell to 40. 39, this is kind of low, but unfortunately, there's just so many ums. It's our friends that have this wonderful hair that Matt mentioned, Ukiyaru, Madness and Creation.

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Well, number 38, everybody knows him because he's literally playing in every single band. As a matter of fact, Jay, he might be in your band and you just don't know it yet. Hannes Grossman, Aprophenia, Technical Death Progressive Metal, which is basically just a little more technical than alkaloid. 37, got this one from Markisan I think I saw it. He was in his, I guess, wish list on Bandcamp. Which means you really got it from Jay, or from George. Yeah, of course.

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Of course. Yeah. And I left it completely off my list. I completely remember telling Markisan about this one, even though I don't know what it is yet. Yeah. Whatever it is. Probably not. What is it? It's Weeping Source, False Confession, New York Band, Death Doom. It's very cool. Just I liked a few other Death Doom albums more than this one. So it kind of fell to here. Number 36, Night Fell, A Sanity Deranged, Portland, Oregon. I have a Death Doom band.

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And I haven't mentioned any labels yet, but they're at $20. Band, which I'm guessing that name's going to get said a lot today. So my number 35 is because of George. Because I never really listened to the original band, and I should have because I feel like an idiot now, but Memoriam, Requiem for Mankind, Death Metal from England, they are the follow-up band to Bolt Thrower. And I've slowly been picking up their catalog and wondering why it's taken so long.

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But shit happens, right? It does. My number 34. Gates to the Morning, Return to Earth, New Jersey Band, post-black metal, progressive metal, whatever you want to call them. I like that album a lot. I don't know how they would have fared had I had more albums, but it's a pretty solid album, I think. So. Number 33, thanks to Will, I know how to say this band's name now. Soar, Forgotten Pass from Scotland, Atmosphere, black metal band.

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That was by far one of the longest shows ever at Atlas. They just kept playing and playing. And we got more than our money's worth on that show, I thought, from them. It was definitely a good show. Yeah, and it was a fun night, too. It was like 100 degrees. Well, no, that show was 90 degrees. The Tumult show was 100 degrees in the brewery. But we had a lot of fun at that. Number 32. I know Will and I like this band early. This album seems like it came out five years ago because it came out so early. That's Soul Mass, The Weakness of Virtue.

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Florida, Death Doom, Death Metal Band. 31, Marcus Hans mentioned these guys already, Crips, Cadaver Circulation, Death Metal slash, I hear some Death Doom in this album compared to previous stuff, but it's a good solid album, I like it. Number 30, another time, this has been mentioned actually, second time, Ashen Horde, Fallen Cathedrals, Progressive Black Metal, I don't mind the clean singing on this, unlike somebody on the podcast.

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It's a new element. I think that really it takes it to another level. Yep. Yes, but like well, I do agree. I do dig the opening track to the EP. It's it's pretty vicious singing on there, which I think is kind of cool. Some people call Jar Jar Binks a new element, too. Says the guy who has the Jar Jar Binks outfit for Halloween. Well, thank you. All right. My number 29. Misa no like you.

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And by the way,

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Will Justice is Jar Jar Binks because he finds it very scary.

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It's fucking horrifying.

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There you go.

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By the way,

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real quick.

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That's a horror film.

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Did you,

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is anyone still watching the Mandalorian?

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Did you see the newest episode?

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I haven't seen it.

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I haven't seen the newest one.

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Yeah,

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not the latest.

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I just finished five last night.

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So,

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nevermind.

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All right,

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got a few more.

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Number 29.

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We've mentioned this album cover and the album,

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Oshie,

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I'm living tomb for an Oregon death metal death doing band on 20 books been 28 Abigail Williams walk beyond the dark I'm not really a fan of this band but I really did like this album a lot and it kind of put them a different perspective I know this is a different album for them being that it's more atmospheric black metal than their previous stuff I think Matt are you a fan of these guys yes you mentioned that yeah so 27 November's doom nephlin grove

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A. Longtime band, Death Doom band out of Chicago. They're a band that I pretty much like everything from them, whether I like it a lot or not. They just always seem to be on my list every year. And my number 26, the last one, the great old ones, Cosmicism. Atmosphere of Black Metal Man from France. I'm not a super fan of the early stuff, but I do like the last two ones, and I like this one probably the most of all their stuff. It's their best album, for sure. It's also from France.

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Well, no, I know, but it's the Coneheads thing. Yeah, exactly. Where from? France. It also is the best production that they've done. There are four albums, I think, so it's a little better, I think, for listening purposes. It's also the best cover. Yes. I'm going to keep going with that. And it's another one of those HP Lovecraft bands. Fuckers. Fuckers. Okay. All right, Maya. Yep.

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Okay, just jump right into it. Number 40, Legion of the Damned, Slaves to the Shadow Realm. These guys are from the Netherlands. Jay is the one who told me about these guys. And if you like Old School Creator, definitely check these guys out. Old School Creator with better production. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. Well, I'd hope so. It's been about 30 years. Maybe 40. 39, Miesmoor, Karen.

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Gilded Media. I should say these guys. He played Atlas and put on one hell of a show. Really good dude. Number 38, Slow Maddox from Belfast. The album is Canyons. And if you like Conan, apparently Slow Maddox is the band that inspired Conan. So just check them out. They're pretty good.

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I don't know if it was Markisan but probably was George but Critical Defiance Misconception guys out of Chile it's definitely George

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but I have to say that I kind of get annoyed with these bands to try and do old school thrash you know in this decade but these guys do it right this looks like it this seems like it could have came out in the late 80s like easily except for better production

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Number 36, Exhumed. The album is Horror. Off of Relapse Records. They've been around for a while. It was funny because if you look at the album cover, I think it says Relapse Video Release or Video Productions or something like that because it's all about a horror movie theme kind of stuff. I think it actually even has a Please Rewind sticker on it. It might, yeah. I think it does. So I just found that a little humorous.

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I'm probably a man alone on the island except for maybe Jay. But just recently, Jay said, hey, you guys should check out War Troll. These are guys that share our practice. And I was like, all right, War Troll, Frozen Heart. Or Frozen Horde. I'm like, ah, this is going to be terrible. And then it's like, it's actually some pretty fun, but it's like brutal and fun, like death blackened folk metal. And I really like it.

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It was a lot of fun to listen to that album. I agree. I listened to it too when Jay recommended it. I thought it was great. I was surprised too. Yeah. He is the nicest fucking guy too, dude. The head guy. He was in another band called Arsa. This was like his side project. It's really well produced and everything. He's a good songwriter. We've played with him a bunch of times. I just love that guy. He's fucking awesome. Yeah. All right. Where am I? Oh, number 34. Fetid. Steeping Corporal Mess. These guys are at Seattle.

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Old School Death Metal. They play to Atlas. There's probably a theme here because I think half the bands on my list play to Atlas, but it's because I already like them. But I think really these days almost all the good underground bands are playing at Atlas. So it was I was not at that show, but I heard it was a great show. Number 33, Ultimas, Something Wicked Marches In. This is a supergroup band. I guess they're based mostly out of Portugal, but also Texas and Montreal. Check them.

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out. Number 32, Candlemast, The Door to Doom from Sweden. We already mentioned those guys. Good Return to Form. Number 31, I can't remember if... No, I was going to say John, but there was another band that John told me about. But anyway, number 31, Slow. The album is VI or 6, Dantalion, Death Doom band out of Belgium. And when they say the name of their band is Slow, they are...

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I mean, this is some really quality death doom, but man, there is some really, really long songs. And it's well done, but it may be just drawn out a little too much sometimes. That's a good album, though. I like that one. Number 30, I think John mentioned already, Soul Mass, The Weakness of Virtue, a bunch of guys out of Florida, Soul Crushing Death Metal. It was my January album of the month.

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And then number 29, Soor, or Sayor, A Forgotten Path, a band out of Scotland off avant-garde music. They played Atlas, as John mentioned, and it was a great show. Number 28, Pelican, Nighttime Stories. You know, I just didn't have, I didn't spend enough time on this album. It probably could have been a little higher. I kind of like fell off my radar for a little bit. And then, anyway, number 27.

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All of us are putting it in the back half so far. Except George who hates instrumental albums, of course. I'm going to get a J Award for that one. Yes, you will. I don't feel like anything in the back half is a J Award, but either way. I'm probably about to get the J Award for this one. Number 27, Mayhem, Damian. This is a great record. I've never been the biggest Mayhem fan, and I feel like in this today's

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I mean he didn't do it but

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He was thinking about doing it.

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Yeah, exactly. He was going to do it. Somebody beat him to it.

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And then number 26, and I had a hard time keeping this out of my top 25. That's why it's at number 26, Nucleus Entity. Great Death, Doom, Crust kind of band out of Chicago. And that is my 26 through 40.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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All right. By the way, Will, you sound good for not feeling well. Good job. Yeah, you do. Thanks. Fake it till I make it. All right. So in the interest of not pausing, I'm not going to pause. And I'm going to not really describe mine, to be honest with you. I'm just going to run through them. But feel free to shout out some angry comments as we get past some of your favorite albums of the year. Just shout out Jay every time he says Jay. And I think I'm going to get to you first.

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Is it not on my number 40? Wait till 39. Number 40, a band called, and I don't know how to pronounce this, Asagram, Dawn of the Infinite Fire. I said I wasn't going to describe it. I'll stick to that. 39, Gate Creeper, Deserted. Pause. There you go. Pause for insults. 38, Coffin Rot, A Monument to the Dead. 37, Memoriam, Requiem for Mankind. 36, Stellar Master Elite, Hologram Temple. 35, you're goddamn right to get it down here, Will. War Troll, Frozen Hordes.

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Oh, nice, man. Wait, what number was it? 35. I think you had a little higher than me. I had it number 35. Well, I've always said if you and I know one thing, it's what the 35th best record of any given year is. That's the troll position right there. 34. I did like this record. Not as much as the first one, but it's a little bit more like Immortal. Abath, Outrider. 33. Ashen Horde, Fallen

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Cathedrals sorry treasure wanted a little higher Trevor but that's where you landed is a lot of good records 32 crypts cadaver circulation 31 troll fest I can't believe this came out this year Norwegian fairy tales that was seven years ago 30 galls word gas deer ghosts invited 29 adrift pure sorry again Markisan 28 well it was higher on my mid-year 28 it's this record lived with on with me Hollywood vampires rise it's basically an Alice Cooper record 27 you're

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All Right that we went in the back end with this. Pelican, Nighttime Stories. And 26, I don't think this one will piss off George because it might not even make his long list, but Entombed, A.D., Bowls of Earth. You're okay. That's it. Just a quick question. If Jay is the only one who has an album on his list and we don't have it, is that still a Jay Award? It's called a Reverse Jay. A Reverse Jay. Not to be confused with a Reverse Cowgirl.

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Yeah.

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That's called the Yaj Award.

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Yeah.

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Yaj.

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I love that.

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That's too good.

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Nice.

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Nice one, Marcus.

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All right.

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Well, as someone who's used to flying through these lists really quickly, let me just go ahead and breeze through here.

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Number 40, Memoriam, Requiem for Mankind.

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Number 39, Waste of Space Orchestra, Synthiosis.

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Nice.

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Number 38.

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Witch Vomit Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave. Number 37, Infant Annihilator. No, I almost forgot. Sorry, if I will comment. I liked that album when it came out, and I just kind of forgot about it, and then I saw it in my playlist. I'm like, oh, I should have listened to that more. The Witch Vomit. Yeah. 37, Infant Annihilator, The Battle of Yaldabaoth. Number 36, Gates to the Morning, Return to Earth. Sean. Wow.

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Holy smokes. Nice. Number 35. This one will stand alone. Takafumi Matsubara. Strange, Beautiful, and Fast. That's some Japanese grindcore. I thought I was the only one. I don't mean to be rude. I don't mean to be rude, George, but you mispronounced the words all there. Sorry. Number 34. Misery Index. Rituals of Power. Number 33. Candlemask. The Door to Doom. Number 32. I'll mispronounce this.

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and Tufelbuker. I don't know how to say that. Exactly. Sure. Number 31, Son of the Dying. The Earth is Silent. They're from Spain. Number 30, Pandemonium. Monuments of Tragedy. Number 29, Bluthaus Nord. Hallucinogen. Number 28, The Negative Bias. Narcissus Rising. Number 27, Ultimas.

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Something Wicked Marches In. Number 26, Basilisk Emergence. And there we go. This is hard. I hate my listeners so much. I mean, as I look at my top 25, they really are the records I listened to most this year. That's really what I've got there. I'm starting to feel like an idiot. Not really. We know, Jay, we know. You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast.

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Self-Important Elitist Ass Hats. Every one of them. All right, Markisan. Let's do 25. Is there like something you want to play like set the mood here, George? Yeah, let's pretty see what we got. That thing is huge. I was in the pool.

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Taint.

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Taint.

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Holy shit, I'm really fucking hammered off.

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Alright, so ERG. Our top 25. This is big. This is big.

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Meow.

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Meow.

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Number 25 for me is Haunter: Sacramental Death Qualia from iVoidHanger Records.

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This is a great black and death album with some prog flourishes. It's less about pummeling you in your face with big riffs and just more about delivering a depth and atmosphere and mood. And I think it does that in spades with some really killer musicianship on this album. Cool. I did buy that because of you. So I heard it first, but I bought it because of you.

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Did you just admit that you didn't start? I told you I heard it first and then I was like, meh. And then you liked it and I bought it. I'm kidding, though. I'm kidding. It swayed you. Yes. All right, Matt. My number 25 needs no introduction. That is Ash and Horde with Fallen Cathedrals. Nice. I think needs no introduction should be followed by silence. Silence. Needs no introduction. Yeah.

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And then it's moving on. Good job, Trevor. All right. So my number 25 is an album I actually didn't get that you guys all liked at first. And then George convinced me to go to Atlas to see this band play. And I got to say, this was by far one of my favorite shows, band performance-wise at Atlas this year. And despite what Will says, I went to a lot of shows this year at Atlas. A lot. And I saw a lot of good shows.

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but this was one of the best. That's Mortiferum, Disgourged by Psychotic Depths. They were fucking awesome live. They were. And I actually think they sound better live than they do on album. They do. But I do like that. The more I listen to the album, the more I hear and think about the show. And I like it more. Death Doom, death metal band on Pour Frown Lore. It's their debut release. It's actually a very good album. So that's my number 25. I'm going to pause here for a second. I'm sorry to interrupt you.

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just I can say we've been to a list and we shouldn't because there's no time but this was also a great year for live shows I saw some fucking killer shows this year speaking of your inspiration there like really man like it was so much good stuff this year yeah and and I poke fun at the fact that will makes fun of me for now and George and I for not going that often but there were a lot of good shows at Atlas this year that we saw so hats off to all of them well and crew for putting on something that is

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really special for all of us. Yep. Nice. Well, it's a good segue into my number 25, which is the band Sick Deer, their album Awake Proceed, who is playing at Atlas tonight and who I like these guys a lot. They're a blackened, like just a super fast, aggressive black metal band. And they're also going to be opening the Adroit Theory fifth anniversary metal show with their sixth.

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It's fifth. I thought last year was fifth. Yeah. That's what I thought. I'm pretty sure this is fifth. But anyway, the so the lineup is sick deer, Basilisk, Ilsa and Inter Arma. Nice. It'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. January 25th. Enjoy theory. Be there or don't be there.

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Rinky Likes R

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That's a good one. Yeah, see. Told ya. Wait till you hear number 24. Oh, man. All right. My 25. The Jay Award is up. Yeah. My 25. Take your list, George, and turn it upside down. That's my. Yeah. So if you told me this at the beginning of the year, that this would be even on my list, I'd have laughed in your face. But

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But after the King Diamond show, Idle Hands is at number 25 with Mana. Right on. You guys were talking about it on the thread at some point, and I honestly thought you were being sarcastic. Nah, man, they were awesome. Yeah. No, they were good. I just didn't. I mean, I won't diss them. I thought you guys were just joking around. That's a really fun record. I really like it. They remind me of the... Well, go ahead, because I have to think of the name of this band.

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It's like 80s goth rock mixed with metal. Yep. So who it reminds me of is a band that, in solitude, they had this album called Sisters. They remind me of that. All right, 24. No, no, excuse me. Yeah, 24. That would be Markisan. That's me. Yeah, let's see. I got to scroll back up.

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Number 24. This might hurt John a little bit. Cult of Luna, A Dawn to Fear on Metal Blade Records. This record covers a lot of sonic territory from energetic rippers to just really somber, introspective instrumentals. It's a long album. I think it's 79 minutes or something like that. But it's really well paced. It doesn't feel like 79 minutes and it's captivating all the way through. I mean, Cult of Luna is definitely in the

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The Post Metal Elite. This one really solidified it for me, I think. So I actually didn't think this one would make my list, but I've just listened to it a ton. So I love it. Really great. Nice. All right, my number 24. This is a carryover from my mid-year on Pelagic Records. The band is Savor. The album this day came with Sunlight. They're a Norwegian post-metal band. First album. Cool.

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I like that album a lot you mentioned it Matt and then I listened to it and I really enjoyed it it's it's definitely on my honorable mentions it almost made the list but it's a really good record of the list of bands that I list that don't actually exist this is one that does exist all right John so real quick I'm starting to think that maybe this after hearing some of your guys selections that the Jay Awards need to be changed to the John Awards but maybe we can we can

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Revisit that later on but

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We're not even close to feelings getting hurt yet

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You just wait

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We just need to make

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We need to make that pact that we're all still going to be friends when this is done

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In a hotel room in Philadelphia

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I make no such promise

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Nobody wants to share a room with you anyway Jay

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In Philadelphia

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Hey Jay I'm so used to

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My album's not showing up on everyone else's list

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I just don't get upset

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It's like you have your own little podcast

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Yeah. I'm just, what? That's on your list? Fuck you. So my number 24 is a holdover from the mid-year. And I'm pretty sure that I'm giving myself an award on this because no one else will have this. A band's called Glare of the Sun. Thea is the album. They're from Austria. They're kind of a post-metal doom metal band on Life Force Records. It's their second release. And we can move on to Will's 24. Well, I have to say, John, I do like that one quite a bit. Oh, cool.

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It's on my honorable mentions as well. So I definitely considered it for it. George, it is definitely a cricket album. I mean, it's they're hardly known, but I think I have it too, actually. Oh, yeah. I think I picked it up. I take everything back. I said about it. You've influenced us a little bit, John. No, clearly that was from George. Yeah, I was gonna say, don't you remember me telling me about that album? It was like right when I was like, dude, listen to Ordo's and Glare of the Sun.

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Well, speaking of influence, we have now our second album that somebody matches up the exact same number. And I think if I had to guess, this is going to make John very happy. Cult of Luna. A dawn to fear. Now that you realize they're not some like symphonic like Italian band. Right. I swear to God, I thought there was something along the lines like Lacuna Coiler.

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I was like what cult of Luna I don't know you got you got the feminine you got the feminine noun in there I'm like ah no this is gonna be terrible but they are it's solid it's funny you say it well because I would think that this would sort of be in your wheelhouse this type of music no it is I just literally based upon the name of the band I was like I'm not checking that out nice wow slip nice well done my my 24 is

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It's probably the first I, J Award popped, possibly. And I have to tell you, this almost didn't make my list at all, but I revisited it, and I was like, okay, I was kind of wrong about this. Nevertheless, it's still going to hurt world's feelings when I say my number 24th favorite album is Crypt Sermon, The Ruins of Fading Light. Wow. It's on your list, though, so you can't give yourself an award. I can't. I know, and it almost wasn't. I have to tell you, this was not on my list three weeks ago. Nice. And then I revisited it, and there was something about his voice that didn't work for me. I put it on the Swimpod underwater audio.

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.com. And it came up, and I confused it for something else. And I was like, oh, wait. I was like, which one fucking is this? And I put the little identify button. I was like, okay, all right. And then I got it. It clicked for me. So what you're saying is Crip Sermon sounds better underwater. Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah. But it's nice to have a record kind of circle around and redeem itself for you if you weren't into it at first. Cool. Georgie.

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24. Mortiferum, Disgourged from Psychotic Depths. Nice. I thought that might have been a little higher, but... Cool to see that one make another one. Yeah. All right, back to Mark's sound for 23. Okay, my number 23 is Vanom, Ageless Fire from Profound Lore Records. This was one of the first great black metal albums I heard this year. I believe it was my album of the month,

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in like January, February. It's a scorcher. It's an elemental firestorm of tension and texture. And I've been listening to it all the way through 2019. Cool. Sweet. Speaking of albums of the month. Sorry, Matt. But do we do one for December? Does this count as December? I guess we do, don't we? I think, yeah, let's do it. We should. Yeah, we should. You know, we could all, if you want, we could do that. Or you could just pick like maybe albums that just

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came out too late, you know, or whatever. I mean, yeah. December is a wild card. As far as I'm concerned, do whatever you want for that. All right, cool. Anyway, sorry. Go ahead, Matt. Yeah. No, no, I like that idea. My number 23, the ember, the ash consciousness torn from the void via avant-garde music. This is the first album from a Canadian atmospherical black metal. I'd also describe them as slightly symphonic and they, by they, I mean, uh, it's a, it's a solo project. One person who was previously associated with the band, I want to say,

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They were called Unrequited. I love Unrequited. Yeah, it's like a super raw black metal album that has some really cool symphonic undertones. In a lot of ways, I feel like it's outside my wheelhouse, but I just completely connected with this album this year. Cool. It was my album of the month from, I'm not sure what month, maybe August or September. John. All right. My number 23. I did get this one from George, and then George told me the other night,

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He really doesn't like this band. No, he doesn't dislike them. He's just not into them as much as I am. And it's a late bloomer on my list because it literally just came out last week. And I think Markisan like this one because he made reference to it. And that is Fenn, the Dead Light English atmospheric black metal band on Prophecy. I just think it's a solid album. I think if we had more time, I might have it higher. I don't know. Maybe I'd have it lower, but it just sits right at 23 for me right now. So.

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I think it was just on the 6th or something. I don't know.

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It's more energetic than their last albums. It's really a turn for them, I think. I think it's their best album, to be honest with you. I really enjoy it. I wish I had a little bit more time with it, too.

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I've liked their other records, but this one, there's something about it. I think it's the energy.

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Yeah, and they tightened it up a lot more. They're not meandering.

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for 15 minutes.

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Right.

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We got the promo for this, right?

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No, it literally just came out.

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I don't think we have an office set record.

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I have a fan.

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Oh, no, we got an EP that George got a while back for them.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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This is a fuller.

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Yeah, I think it's their best record.

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I really do.

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It's good.

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I like it.

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All right, Will.

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All right.

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My number 23, I am sure I'm going to get a ton of crap for putting this at 23, but there's a lot of aspects I love about those records, and there's a few things that just annoy the crap out of me, but Calor Decapitation, Death Atlas. Wow. The fuck? Yeah. It sounds like he's got three different lead singers. Before, it sounded like they had two lead singers, and now I feel like they've got three lead singers. I'd say they have five, to be honest with you. They've got five voices.

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His guttural growls are some of the best in death metal, but sometimes he does this mid-range screeching and this high-pitched screeching. I'm just like, God. But the music is phenomenal. I don't know. I like it a lot. That's more of me explaining why it's at number 23 and not higher. Would you mind taking your earbuds out for a second so we can talk about you? Yeah, sure. I shouldn't assume.

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Will is very singer sensitive. Yeah, he is. He's a very sensitive guy. Oh, wait, wait, he's listening. Never mind. Yeah, no. So anyway, like I was saying, he's the most handsome one of us. So my 23 needs not too much description, except to say that I'm a little embarrassed for those of you who thought this was the 24th best record of the year, whatever. Cult of Luna, Dawn of Fear.

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Nice. That's amazing that we've grouped it so close. It is weird. I wonder if I'm going to J-Ware that one. Probably. I think that sounds like confirmation. I listened to like two minutes of that album. Oh, really? Yeah. And I was like, nope. No. Back to my obscure, unpronounceable German.

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Yeah, because all you listened to were songs that were a minute and a half this year. So, I mean. Yeah, the long ones. That's right. That's what George's grind year. I forgot. 2019 is George Corps. George Corps. 23, yeah? Yeah. My 23 is Cerebral Rot, Odious Descent Into Decay. The only one that might care is not listening.

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So I guess we'll just move back on to MargaZone for 22. Number 22 is Eternal Storm Come the Tide from Transcending Obscurity Records. Man, it's been a while since I really enjoyed a good melodic death album. And this one, it's just about perfect to me. And it's the band's first record. So it's really dynamic. It's uplifting. I think it's got masterful execution.

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I've heard good things about it. It feels like it's their first album, but it feels like they've been around the block for a long time with this record. So I was surprised that it made my list, but man, I spend this one quite a bit. Right on Matt. Sweet. My number 22 superstition, the anatomy of unholy transformation via 20 bucks spin. This is the first album from a U S death metal band. There's just some really good,

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Dirty, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty, Dirty.

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Alright, John.

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My number 22 is a French Death Doom band that's got some blackened feel to them. I may be the only one. I'll put this on the list. Maybe it will. I think he checked this out. The band is called Epitaph, and the album is either called One or I. I'm not sure.

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I'm assuming it's one. It is not something I thought I would like as much. I love Death Doom, but the songs are like 20 minutes long. But they flow pretty well, and there's a lot of blackened feel to the Death Doom. It's very cool stuff. It's a debut release off of Aesthetic Death Records. It's cool. Check it out if you like Death Doom. That is the one that I was talking about. You know why I got confused? Because it was Slow and then V-I, Damnation, but it was Epitaph.

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and then I or one, Roman numeral one. But yeah, that is one. I did buy that and I did like it and I was considering that for my list, but just didn't make it. And maybe it's because, as I'm famously known for having a short attention span. You got to work to light that out. It's a lot. But if you can get through it, there's a lot of cool stuff in there. It goes fast for the songs being like 15, 20 minutes long. It actually, you would think it'd be like esoteric and it's not. So esoteric could be hard to get through when those songs are like 20 some minutes long.

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Is it me? It is. 22, Immortal Bird, Thrive on Neglect. These guys are off playing Buckspin from Chicago, and they just played Atlas like a week ago. Put on one hell of a show. That is a show. I will say that George and John were there. And I got to meet Nate, Marcus. My buddy. Yeah, I had a good time with him.

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So yeah, they put on a hell of a show. They played the whole album. So it was great. Borderbird, number 22. It's funny too, because since Nate and I have become friends, I have not seen him play. So I wonder how I'll feel when I watch them play, knowing how much I know Nate and how good a friend he is to me. So I'm looking forward to that one day. Marcus, you live in Hawaii. You don't see anybody play. You're not going to see it. You don't have to worry about it.

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But if he's really your friend, you're going to be like, oh, these guys are so lame. Because that's what you do with your friends. Well, I definitely do. Yay! Yeah, I like to jail my friends. That's true. You're supposed to. You can't support their artistic endeavors. Speaking of which, we never did hear anything about Catatonic Society this year. You're like, oh, I'll tell you later. I'll tell you later. Like, we need to update.

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Is there news, Jay? Is there news? No. No. I mean, we're still a band. Of what? There is the existence of these songs that need to be recorded, and we've had some weird scheduling problems lately, so there's that. And we kind of went through this thing where we almost lost our drummer, and now he's back. Oh, I thought Hannes Grossman was in the band. I was just going to say, he's available, Jay. I mean, come on. Isn't there some other band, though, too?

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Yeah, there is another thing too. That you're still not going to talk about that either. Wait, you have another side project? A little something on the side maybe? A little side action? I'll tell you this much. It's a dune band. Cool. Let's leave it at that and move on to my number 22. And Hannes Grossman's his drummer. It's also in that. My number 22, there's a metal band called Hoth, as we all know. And Hoth is a planet of Star Wars world. And in the southern part of the planet where they have southern accents,

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They pronounce that the name of their own planet, Half. So Half is the band of Rot and Ruin. This was a great record that Matt Slugmoss turned me on to via his Facebook page. He throws out a lot of cool stuff from time to time. Right now he's pretty obsessed with Brexit. Yeah, I remember telling him about that album. Anyway, Half of Rot and Ruin.

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Great, kind of,

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Opethion is the wrong word for it,

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but it's kind of goes to a lot of different acoustic-y,

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then heavy places, and so on and so forth.

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A lot of riffs in every song,

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a lot of catchy stuff,

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totally keeps your interest through the whole record,

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and just really well done,

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and furiously, so great stuff.

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I think it's good, yeah.

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Yeah, and that came out really early in the year, I think.

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It did.

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Yeah.

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My number 22 is

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The Palms of Sorrowed Kings. Tanner Anderson. Nice. Good guy. Good music. That's a good one. Mark Zahn. Number 21 is an album that really surprised me this year. It is Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum on E1 Music. It's just a complete reinvention of the band. It's much more progressive.

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And I think they're better off for the change. Even though I like their older stuff, too. So it sounds new and fresh. Even though the band is clearly time worked back to the 70s to grab some guitar licks and melodies. I love the mix on this album. So yeah, Lord dying. I can't wait to hear what they do next. So I have a criticism of that record. And it's that even though I like it, but it's in the first song.

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especially he sings like James Hetfield sings today. Go listen to it. You might be like, what are you talking about? Put it on and listen to it. And it got to me. I couldn't hang. I don't remember that. I know, just like... I don't remember any ooh-yahs in there, but I'll go back around. Trust me, when you hear it, it's James Hetfield all over the place. Let me hear ooh-yah if anyone likes the way James Hetfield sings today. Ooh-yah! No Jay Awards there.

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Yeah.

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It was a reverse J.

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A reverse J.

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Indeed.

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Addie.

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Me.

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All right.

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My number 21.

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Visceral disgorge.

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Slithering evisceration via Agonia Records.

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This is the second album from a Baltimore tech death band.

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I don't typically get into tech death a whole lot, but when it's brutal, I do.

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Their Sound Reminds Me A Lot Of Wormed, which I'm head over heels in love with. But yeah, some solid brutal tech death. Cool. Sweet. Without the Hetfield vocals. Yeah. All right, John. So my number 21, I'm going to say is probably one of my favorite ones to mention this year for a very specific reason, because I'm 100% sure

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I'm sure this is definitely our first J award right here

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and the person will know who's getting that award when you hear the album because I'm pretty sure

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everyone's mentioned it so far my 21 does not have any vocals and thankfully James Hetfield's not on it

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that's Pelican Nighttime Stories and I believe George might be that J I am no no it's not it will not be on George's list

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the things about a J award is that you just rank an album so shittily that you tank its chance of being the top five of the full podcast so but I think I think everyone placing it maybe in the highest I think so far makes sense because the first half of the year we didn't have as many albums like we did the second half so not to mention I think it was in everybody's almost everybody's list for mid-year I think it was combined number one I believe yeah it was combined number one without me again we just did we just didn't

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And everyone's mentioned, I think it's their best album since

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The Fire in Our Heart. Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw from 2005. So it's a solid album.

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And let's not forget about our made-up supergroups where I added Ice-T on vocals and created the band Pelican't.

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Yes, that's right.

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You can forget that.

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All right, Will.

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My number 21, it was mentioned before, Basilisk Emergence.

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Yeah. Unsigned independent band out of Philadelphia. I've gotten to know these guys quite a bit. They've played Atlas twice now and they're going to play the New Jersey Theory show. But great band. Death metal. Just straight up great death metal on the thrashier side. It's great. My number 21 related to and this is not why this is on my list but related to best sets and live shows we saw this year. This was a set.

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because it was in the midst of a big shit show of bands uh but uh so uh excuse me inter armor really blew us all the way at the pre decibel fest um so there was that but i also like inter armor in general i didn't like this one as much as paradise gallows nevertheless it's another good record from inter armor sulfur english is my number 20 yeah yeah i think with this this record it's there's a little bit more filler or excuse me um or just like a couple more of the extra like the slower songs but the

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The Bastard's songs are just unbelievably brutal. And when you see them live, obviously they cut a lot of that stuff out. So it's just a great set. Yeah, and I think when we saw them, I think they played more old stuff than they did this album. I think they only played one or two songs off the new one. But in any case, they're still this very unique band playing today. And I enjoyed this record a lot. I listened to it quite a bit. So in no way am I criticizing it. I did just like Paradise Galas a little better. Paradise Galas is way better.

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Yeah, I was going to say a lot better. This record is very meh for me, but I agree. I think they're just a better live band than they are a studio album band. I think Paradox Gallows captured their sound better than any of the other albums. This one, no. I listened to it maybe twice, and then it was enough. That's their first record after their best record, so there you go. Yeah. Georgie. My number 21, Arctic Sleep, Kindred Spirits.

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Oh, yeah. All right. Mark us on. Take us into 20. Love it. Number 20. And this might be a little low. I always, I feel like I could put this higher at any point, but this is where it fell. It is Wilderun, Veil of Imagination. Self-released. This album is Musical Imagination Science, gentlemen.

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It's a wonder to listen to, really. Yes, it is. And I wonder why it's so low. I just, I think I like other styles better. I've gotten more into progressive metal through the years, but it's just not my preferred style, you know? So I feel like when I listen to

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to that. I really have to pay attention to it. And sometimes I don't want that. Sometimes I just want to freaking punch the shit out of stuff. But it's still pretty high. Yeah. All right. Number 20. There was a time where I thought I would never see this band live. And actually this past year, I've seen them twice. Strangely enough, the band is Soar, Forgotten Paths, the avant-garde music. It's the fourth album from the Scottish Celtic folk, black metal,

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It's a great album and they also put on a phenomenal show

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Did you say Kiltic?

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Celtic

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It would work for Scottish

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No I know but

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Yeah okay let's have this argument

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It's a hard G

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I was thinking of Scottish kilts

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Yes

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John

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Dude we're so efficient when everybody's not in the same room getting drunk

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I've noticed

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I'm pretty drunk

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Just saying now. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No. Go ahead. Do you want to be efficient or not, Jay? You're right. Good point. Just kidding. So my number 20 is a holdover from the mid-year. It's a cricket band, but I do like this album a lot. It's Stormhaven Liquid Imagery. They're a French progressive death metal band, independent release. It's their third one. Just a solid release.

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to see for something else. And it just, every time I listened to it, I liked it. So it just fell right around this point. I feel like I bought that. I think you did. Uh, but I don't know if you ever listened to it cause the songs are more than two minutes long. So, uh, yeah. And you know, the blast beats are like never. So, but anyway, that picked it up. George or me? No, I actually, you listen to the first song and they're all,

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more than two minutes. That's right. Yeah, exactly. All right. My number 20. No one's mentioned this as far as I know, but Cerebral Rot, Odious Descent into TK, Seattle. Did George mention that? I did. I think a couple people. I said it, but Will had his earphones out, and I said, and the only person that's going to care is not listening, and you missed it.

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kids and they're like on the other side of the door and every now and again they cut open the door and check on me check on i have my mute on and sorry sorry i'm a little distracted besides being under the water but anyway cerebral rot uh odious descent into dk 20 bucks spin guys out of a old school death metal band out of seattle check it out it's really good yeah it's good where was it on your list 23. oh okay well there you go i can't tell if will disapproved or he

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No, I'm sorry. Things are moving a little slower for Will today. I know we had to reschedule this whole thing because it's something I had, a prior commitment, and then we scheduled today, and I'm home alone with my kids, and I'm not feeling good. So anyway, sorry. No worries. My number 20 is a follow-up from a band whose last record I really liked.

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They've gone along in the same vein as the previous record. And maybe even gotten a little more streamlined and a little more accessible than the previous one. Rotting Christ, The Heretics. This picks up where Rituals left off, which was kind of really a new thing for them. And they've moved forward with it. It's cool. The only, well, no, I'll leave it at that, actually. It's a good record. All right. And with that, Marcus Unstormed out of the room. Fuck Rotting Christ. Yeah. I will not listen to them.

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here or there I'm getting the fuck out of there. All right. My number 20 exhumed. Or he's just getting the burrito. Maybe. Number 20 exhumed horror. My feeling about this. What did I think that was on your lower 40? It was on my lower 40. George likes this because all the songs are under two minutes. It is. It's grindier than the last one. Definitely it is. I love it. I think it's great too. But it's got some grindier edge to it than the.

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Death, what was the last one? Death Revenge. Yep. Yeah. All right. I would say back to Markazan, but Markazan is now back to be back, too. So. I'll take a moment and be thoughtful for a minute. Holding. How long does it take to heat up that burrito? Jay probably knows. Hmm. You need the girl for even a play in the background. Yeah. Markazan, you are up with night.

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What did you pick for 20, George? Exhumed. Oh yeah, that's a good one. All right, number 19. I don't think anybody else will have this on their list, although I think I mentioned it in a message, but it's Cranial Alternate Endings on Moment of Collapse Records. This is an absolutely monstrous and aggressive sludge in post-metal album.

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that occasionally dips its toes into sci-fi synth waters. It's like one of the biggest sounding LPs I've heard this year. And I think it's my favorite in the post-metal genre. I'd have to double check that on my list, but I love that album. I cannot stop listening to it. Cool. Ashawarian. What was that?

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That's number 19. My number 19. I feel like this was higher for me on the mid-year than it was for anybody else. Ossouarium, Living Tomb, Viet 20 Book Spoon. Were you just Google... The pronunciation. Were you... Ah, that's awesome. Yeah, right here. I'm not going to fuck this up. Ossouarium. Ossouarium. Because I'm tired of fucking up band names, but... It's more Dirty Dirty Death Metal. I don't know how you screw up the band names when you make the names up yourself.

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I'm just not good with vowels and continents and how they all blend together.

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Continents.

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Continents, you know.

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Matt, listen, I love the way you say it better.

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I like the bitchy way a lot better, Matt.

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The bitchy way is the best.

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Yes.

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BitchyMatt.com.

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All right.

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My number 19 is now my – kept trying to push off my list because I didn't know how much I liked it, but I just like it.

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I'm not a big melodic death metal fan, like some insomnia. It's the other band I would probably like. That's In Mourning, Garden of Storms. I tried, but every time I listened to it, I liked it more. So they're a Swedish kind of preroggy death, like I said, melodic death metal off of Agonia Records, I think is how you say it. It's their fifth release. I think a few of us had them on their last album, had them on our list, but I like this one better than the previous album.

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I like how you say, John, trying to get it off my list. Usually you're trying to get something on the list. This is the second or third time he said that. He's trying to kill his list. Because there's so many albums this year, and I kept feeling like, okay, I've got to knock this one off to put something else on, and they end up solidifying themselves on my list. So I think it's a testament more when I say that to the album than it is to me just fucking around with my list. Especially since it's all the way up at 19. You're trying to kill it down to 40, and it's like, no, bro, let's go a little higher. It just keeps going up.

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I was pretty much in a dumpster fire and I made it my number one. Yeah. Why did I listen to this? Yeah. Yeah. I think it just is a testament of how good this year ended up being. So. Yeah. Such a crazy great year. My number 19. I'm probably the only person. And if I could guess one other person who may have this on their list would be Jay. But Overkill. The Wings of War.

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And this is just a testament to a band. It's overkill, not testament. The other band that should be in the big four. Just a testament to their longevity and consistency, in my opinion. Like, I rank these guys up there with Slayer, which kind of, like, hasn't really put out anything too terrible, like some of the other big four bands or the big five or six bands. But, yeah, overkill, Wings of War.

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I'll give you a spoiler alert it's absolutely on my list that way I can say it fast when we get to it but yeah

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which brings us to me feelings will be hurt but all the way around the room just because this is one of those

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things where you guys are like that's not a fucking metal band Jay but I don't care fuck you guys

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I discovered these guys this year this is a good a good record it's an entertaining record I said this at

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mid-year I thought they were a bubblegum band they're not Romstein self-titled album I fucking love this

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I listened to it a bunch of times this year. It was really good. It stayed with me. It made me go back and buy their older stuff, which I haven't completely done yet. But I also think it's heavy enough to be here. It's good stuff. Cool. And oh, cool. All right. I'll take the cool. I was being nice. I don't think I don't think anybody. What's up, Jay? Let's see. My number 19.

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The Liberation. Nice. Long awaited new album from them. German. Very long. Yeah. How long? I don't know, like 13 years, something like that. 14 years. Yeah, something like that, yeah. Damn. All right, number 18 for me is The Great Old Ones, Cosmicism, Season of Mist Records. Nice. I've enjoyed The Great Old Ones for a while now.

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But this album, I think, just takes their sound to a grand cosmic level. It's immersive. It's visceral. As visceral as the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos it's based on. I've been spinning this one a lot. I think a lot of great black metal records this year, too. I think death metal is the big winner as far as genre goes this year. But, man, there's a lot of good black metal stuff. Maybe we need a filter.

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We put some other columns on our list here. Maybe we need a genre ranking. It's kind of hard to judge. That might be a good idea. I did a death metal album list. There's like 40 albums on it. I think it's going to dominate a large part, a large section of the podcast's top 10 and top 5. That's going to be the genre winner for the year. I can't believe it's not. But we'll see. But we shall see.

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Jable Jett, I'm sure. Oh, yeah. Actually, no. My top five are basically all Death Metal records. Didn't you already do Gate Creeper? Yeah, sorry. It's top four out of five. I like that you were like, if that's not your top five, then they're not all Death Metal. All right, Matt. I totally forgot where we are. My 18.

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Another local band for me is False, and they're all important via Gilead Media. It is their second full-length album of black metal, which feels strange because they have a bunch of other EPs, so it feels like they've had so many other albums out. I would equate this band's sound to almost the soundtrack of a 70s horror flick, which is really the sweet spot for me, and it's kind of been cool to just kind of watch them grow and evolve, and this is, this album still sounds like a 70s horror soundtrack, but also, you know,

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a much more mature and polished way of doing it. Cool. Yeah, love it. So my number 18 is Bork Nagar, True North, Norwegian Progressive Black Folky Metal, Century Media. It's her first album with ICS Vortex back on lead vocals, even though he's been back in the band playing bass. I like this one a lot. It's my favorite since Empiricism came out in 2001.

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And I'm kind of pissed I'm going to miss them when they come in April. They're coming the day after Decibel Fest, but I just can't make that show. So. Hey, what's, um, they're with them. That's like a cool lineup. Who else is in that lineup? Oh, there's like five or six bands. It's called like, uh, not the, it's, um, Rod in Christ. I think it's Rod in Christ. It was like the devastation tour or something like that. Yeah. I remember thinking like, wow, that's a bunch of bands together. Yeah. So. That's a good

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That was one I tried to put on my list because I like it so much. It just didn't make my list. It's definitely in the honorable mentions for me because I've actually liked their last at least three albums. This one and then the two before it are just really good. I think the last one we all might have tried to do with. Very good. Yeah. Sorry, I was like, what is that screaming in the background?

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I thought I had my mic on mute and I was like

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Matt are your kids screaming in the background

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and I realized it's Michael

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did you hear any shattering glass will

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what a sound of sirens

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dad I'm calling 9-1-1

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oh my god

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his eye popped out

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oh it's back in we're good

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wait it's backwards

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All right.

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My number 18, I'm going to butcher this name, but

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I can pronounce the name of the country they're from, and it's not Greece. It's Spain.

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Yeah, of course.

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Ani Rophagius, Endarkment, Illumination Through Putrefaction, Death Doom Band.

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I think it's a great album.

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I sometimes used to check out Angry Metal Goddessy, like, oh, what do they think of this?

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And they hated this album, which made me think, all right, I don't need to look at that site anymore because they're dumb, dumb heads. Dumb, dumb heads. Yeah, but Will, that's the beat of that site. Even when they shit on an album you like, it's giving the album you like attention. That is true. That is true. Yeah. My number 18, if it survived with anybody, it's going to be Will. It's the second album by a band that I believe,

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John told us all about being a George orders. Yeah. I still like this band. And I mean, I'm sure those of us who like them all still like that. But this record was the classic grower. It took a minute, a couple of listens. And I was like, oh, this is as good as the last one, or at least close to as good as the last one. Production is a little bit less heavy, but it's still a very cool atmospheric record. And I really like they're just kind of like.

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They just use very basic simple words. And that sounds silly, but what I mean is it's almost biblical in nature the way they talk about things. And it comes off as scarier than any of these people who try to talk about surgical necretation, blah, blah, blah. It's just like it's just a good old Edgar Allen Poe type of spook stuff. You know, it's funny as I remember, I think we talked about it when it first came out. I was a little disappointed because I didn't think it was nearly as good as House of the Dead, which I thought was a phenomenal record. But then when I actually bought it on vinyl,

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I did like it a lot more. Yeah, I got it on final two. They're a great band. They're a great band when I'll keep watching. I like what they do. Cool. My number 18 is Inter Arma Sulfur English. Yay. That's great. Such enthusiasm, George. Really, really good. It's really good. Well, I mean, George had trouble digesting Paradise

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because of the vocals being kind of far in the back. So this is not growth. It's progress. This is George adjusting. I just bought all the albums on Bandcamp. That makes it sound like you were behind. Even Paradise Gallows. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Number 17 for me is Obsequie, The Palms of Sorrow, Kings, and 20 Buck Spin. This is a brilliant melodic black metal mixed with Renaissance Faire. It's basically,

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classic medieval literature in musical form and it's glorious. You're all right. I'm really good out. You're all right. I like you. Are they going to tour with Jethro Tull? Elizabeth and Rock. That's what they used to call them. That'd be kind of cool if they did. Wouldn't that be something? I'd go. Yeah. It wouldn't be good yet. Manny Matt. Let's see. My... What are we on? 17.

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17. I totally dug the first album. Love the second album. Immortal Bird, Thrive on Neglect via 21 Spin. That was one that grew with me and grew with me. I liked it right away, but then I set it down for, I listened to it like four times and set it down, listened to it like a month later and I was like, holy shit, this is really fucking good. I had the same thing because I listened to it and then it was a lot like Tune Mold, their previous album. Listened to it right away a few times.

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and then forgot about it and then went back to it and realized like oh shit these are the songs that have been stuck in my head for a while you know all the riffs were very familiar to me it's just a unique album nothing sounds like a mortal bird you know it's hard to get them down and i like that part of it well you from if you listen from a distance sometimes you can almost call it like a post-metal thing but it's not really that at all i mean and why that's what i heard the first time i heard this record i listened to it again i was like what the fuck are you talking about this is nothing it's not even close to post-metal right

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It's just straight up, you know, deathy, blah, blah, blah. It's great. John. My number 17. From the Desert. Gate Creeper, Deserted. Relapse Records, second full length. I like this album. I like how it prods along. It's not as brutal in terms of pace as other death metal albums, but I do kind of dig the prodding in your face. And I kind of

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I don't enjoy his story, but I find the lead singer story interesting, everything he's gone through to get to this point. So that kind of helps. When I listen to the album, I kind of hear some of that in him. So it's a cool album. Yeah. I get yawning on that. He just jaded that in a yawn.

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I only have four out of five death metal albums in my top five so

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that's still pretty high though Jay you know it's a good spot for it I can see that

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uh well uh my number 17 Jay's gonna hate me but possessed revelation of oblivion um

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just glad you got it on there actually yeah yeah no I no I like this album a lot just uh

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I don't know I guess I was hoping that it'd be a little bit more deathish than thrashish but um

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It's still a great thrash album through and through. I think I've thought about that because we made similar comments in the previous round. And I think the reason that I allow them still in my mind to be a death metal band, and bear with me here, not that it matters, but is that they really were kind of the first death metal band, and then death metal became what it became. So they still get this little badge of honor. And maybe it wouldn't be right to call them death metal now, but they, you know, because the first few death records after Possessed,

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all kind of were possessed like and then it started to go in this other kind of direction but in any case it makes my it warms my the cockles of my heart that you have it there what cockles of my heart oh and that means me this was the one i said i didn't have to comment on much i won't well did a good job describing it overkill the wings of war consistent band made a consistent record nice

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Cool. Not on my list. But. Hail to consistency. I haven't had a single drop of alcohol and I can't speak. My number 17. Maybe that's your problem. It could be. I was going to say that's the problem. Have a drink. Hasn't watered the gears. Ashen Horde Fallen Cathedrals. Wow. That's my.

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Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. It's a good album. It is. Markisan, 16. 16. I found this very sinister thrash album about a week ago, and it's left all other speed metal competitors in its blood-soaked wake, and it is in-culture Fatal Visions on Edged Circle Productions. The atmosphere on this is just really dark and evil.

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It's pretty much the way I describe the album cover, which is number five on my list earlier on the cast. Most of the other thrash bands I listened to this year, they just don't have that kind of malevolence in their music, and I very much dig malevolence. So, you know, if you like really dark, evil thrash music, this is fucking awesome. Matt. Sweet. Number 16, Gate Creeper, Deserted via Relapse Records.

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Yeah, gate creeper showing up. It's creeping up. The gate. It's starting. With each pick, it creeps a little higher. It's beginning. How many is that now? Is that two or three? At least three. I had two. I just had it really low. But yeah, a bunch of us have said it. It's begun. It's creeping. John? I forgot where we are. So my 16, I might get a number 16.

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But this is another band like Mortiferum. When I listen to this album, I like it, but I like it way better live. And I actually like the first album better than this one. But my number 16 is Crypt Sermon, The Ruins of Fading Light. It's a really good album, but I just like the first one better. And I just think that this sounds better live than on the album. It's fair. Yeah.

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Silence leads us to Will's number 16. Hey, you know what's still on the list? You still dig it? That's still pretty high. Yeah, we're getting to the point where if it's on there, it's reasonably acceptable. Respectable. I just made a change to my list. Just now. I'm really interested. So, John, are you going to do the list? You're going to do it based on 40 now. That's going to be a lot different. Oh, yeah. You put something up high, it's going to get

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a lot of points. Yeah, but I still think, I don't think it'll change things that much, though, because I think our top, I think our top 25 will still be what decides everything anyway. I do. Except for that some of us who went with 40 might drag a couple of things down. As long as there's no tie. That's the real J. That's the torpedo. Actually, yes. I think we might kill off some of the ties. Yeah, I think it might because of that many albums. I think so. Next year it'll be 100.

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But I'll have to like start at like 45. And then it'll be the worst year in metal. Yeah. What am I going to do? Well, my number 16 is a band that we all know and love, except for Jay Ukiyaru, Man of Creation. Jay's just living the life. Trust me, you're not going to hear it from me today. You didn't hear it from me anywhere. No Ukiyaru here.

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These guys are melodic black metal out of Wisconsin. For an independent band, just three guys with the best hair and metal aside from obituary. They've played Atlas twice now live, and it's a treat. I love them. They have amazing pre-show rituals. We'll leave it at that. And they're good guys.

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And I'll say if they added a fourth member who had equally as phenomenal hair, they could keep up to that number one spot. And all that does include you. Just not quite enough hair. Exactly. Because you guys are worth it. I used to think of hair bands as something different. Now I have a whole new outlook on it. All right. My number 16 survived from my mid-year. It gets body from here on out.

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There's some midyear stuff and some non-midyear stuff. But in any case, this one did. I don't remember where I had it on midyear. This is my representative goat whore witchery kind of entry, which I believe is how I described it in midyear. Worm Witch, Heaven That Dwells Within. This is a super, super solid record, dude. Accessible, thrashy, catchy. It was a huge jump from their previous record, which I actually like too. So these guys are the ones to watch. Worm Witch.

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I actually forgot about that record yeah I might have been in January or February record it was a long time ago Jamie when you say it like that now I know you're talking about thank you indeed oh worm which oh yes awesome pick number 16 spirit adrift divided by darkness nice oh oh just your standard heavy metal album this year

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Yet another 20-buck spin band.

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Yeah. Jeez. They've been dark the center all over the place today.

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And that's why I was like, hey, let's do records when we do those spreadsheets, because the record labels.

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I was surprised how many 20 bucks is on here.

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There's a lot. There's a lot.

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I'll take some time to do my spreadsheet tonight, John, after we've done the list. I'll get it to you quick.

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Get it to you when you can.

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I will. But we've done 10 albums. Can we use the restroom? Sure. You're listening to the Metalheads Podcast, where morals is pronounced mmm orals. All right. We have 15 records. Are we ready to go? All right, number 15. That's me. My number 15, I appreciate Jay mentioning this earlier, and that is Adrift Pure from a couple of torturous records. This is another album on my list that just

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It sounds really thunderous and massive. It's a progressive powerhouse. It's driven by mountainous riffs. We got black metal vocals in there and just a wicked bass sound throughout the whole album. And I just want to thank that street painter in Madrid who told me about this band. We couldn't communicate, but he gave me hand gestures and somehow I found out that Adrift was the band he was talking about and I've been a fan ever since. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe he was just like asking you where the bathroom was and you think it was.

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Cool. I'll check it out. He's like, I'm a drifting urine. Where's the bathroom? A drifting urine sounds like a fantastic metal band name. It's like doom core. Sounds like some dude who's fucking hammered in an alley pissing himself. It's like this podcast. All right, Matt. Haven't we all been there?

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My Number 15, this band was on my radar once I knew the album was coming out. I think they released a song ahead of time, and I kept forgetting about them. But fortunately, Marcuson, you kept mentioning them, and that is The Great Old Ones, Cosmicism, via Season of Miss. It's their fourth album, French black metal band. Once I finally got the time to just sit and digest this album, it's fabulous.

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Cool, man. Glad you dig it. Yeah, it's just a great lesson.

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And it's heavy, too, man. There's some of the tips on that are just awesome. Yep. John. So, unlike Matt, I have been in the alley, but I wasn't pissing myself. He was just blowing some day. That's how John and I. Sometimes you just got to do what you got to do, Marcus, on the mix, right? Hey, five bucks is five bucks. Yeah. Five bucks, Ben? Yeah.

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So my number 15, and it's appropriate that this is my number 15, because I can't think of anyone more entertaining in the metal world as a person. Really? I learned something new this week. I never knew what Hot Bagging was, and now I do. It's a controversial pick for some people, and they can just deal with it, because this album has led to this person now wanting to delve

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his old past, which is brutal past. This album is Empath by Devin Townsend. He has a song on the album called Hear Me, which is very Strapping Young Lad-like, even though there's still a lot of prog rock on the album. There's a lot of metal in places, and he has finally come to terms with his past, and he's going to be playing a lot of Strapping Young Lad going forward, or some, at least. And if you're a fan of him,

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I can't think of anything better because strapping is awesome.

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Yes. Sometimes they come back.

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Yeah.

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I would like to just agree with John and say strapping is awesome.

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So are young lads.

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So Jay, when I said that, I purposely kept out the young lad.

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Well, young lads, plural, would have really got you in trouble.

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I actually thought this might be higher on your list, John.

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Yeah, me too.

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True.

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True.

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You know, I mean, it is what it is.

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It's not his best album, but I do like it a lot still. Well, it's cool because it makes me curious what you picked over it because I just thought you were really into that album, which I mean, still 15 is high, but what else do you have in store for it? Well, at this point, 15 is really goddamn high because now we've got like 57 albums on our list. Not to mention the 40 plus honorable mentions I have on my list. That's exactly what you did. You actually legitimized

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the rest of the whole of our list so that's what happened our top 25 now it's like our top five all right well number 15 nile a vile melodic is melodic rights is that how you pronounce it or not it might be nyelotic that's what i say um nile just they've had a lot of lineup changes but they haven't lost step it's a great album tizz

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My number 15 was mentioned by Will, will be mentioned by no one else because, well, I don't know, but it's the aforementioned old-school creator-style Legion of the Damned, Slaves of the Shadow Realm. A record I listened to a whole bunch this year, went back to it quite often when I was just bored, was one of those records where I was like, oh yeah, it's one of five that I'll put in on a regular basis. They have a rich history about which I know very little. I went and looked at their Bandcamp page, I haven't bought anything,

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by them yet, but I probably will be doing that. Good stuff. Legion of the Damned. Good thrashy, deathy, more thrashy than deathy, but good stuff. Right on. My number 15, I'm going to stick it to Jay with Utkiaru, Madness and Creation. Yes. Nice. On the contrary, sir, I am sticking it to you. Thank you. Yeah, well. Stick it to him. Yeah.

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Both of your pitching and catching. Indeed. Oh, yeah. Hey, man. Young lads. Old lads. You bring the wetsuit, I'll bring the chocolate sauce, J.G. Okay, man. I'll put that on the shower curtain. It's devolving. It is. Mark us on. Get us out of this pit. Holy shit. Is it my turn already? Fuck. All right. Number 14.

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Vassivus Nihilism on Profound Lore Records. Holy fuck. I found this a little bit later than when it came out. This is a fucking awesome Black and Death album. Merciless, Unrelenting, just killer breakdowns on this. The whole album is really cohesive. It's one of my favorite Death Metal albums this year. I feel like it's flown under the radar a little bit, but fuck, this is really good. It's one of the ones that I've been spinning a lot in the last

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like week or two. So if you haven't checked this one out, definitely put that on. Cool. Matt. All right, my number 14, Dead to a Dying World, Elegy. Also off of Profound Lore. This is the third album from a U.S. Blackened Sludge with Folk Element band. I pretty much liked this since day one. I don't remember where it was in my mid-year, but.

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Kind of complex, but definitely a journey. Definitely worth listening to. Cool. Good one. John? My number 14, I didn't know if I would like this until I put the headphones on and got the full gist of what was going on because there's a lot going on. Although it's the most probably straightforward album from this artist in a long time. And that is Blut Os Nord, Blus Nagen.

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atmospheric black metal from France, which I think you can safely say that considering all the different avenues he's gone in the past. Yeah. But to put on the headphones made a much bigger difference and pulled out a lot more of the kind of intricacies that I didn't hear just on regular speakers. And holy shit, is that a big change for that man? Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't so big on the chanting vocals at first, but then when I got the headphones on, it put it more in

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So it's a good album. I like it a lot. I agree, John. Yeah. My number 14, Osuarium, Living Tomb out of Portland on 20 bucks spin. Dirty, dirty death. Dirty, dirty death metal. With a little bit of doom. I'm really surprised this one survived a bit because, I mean, it's a good album, but I don't know. I feel it's kind of basic.

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It's stock. Some of us are basic. We're basic. Jay? I shared my comments on this one when somebody added it to their list. I don't know who said it yet, but in any case, it was a record I very much enjoyed this year. I listened to a lot. It was a pleasure to have them on the show. Immortal Bird, Thrive on Neglect. And by them, I mean her.

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She was a good guest. I love it because she actually took the time to like look up the news and make comments on every single thing. Not every guest does that. And I quite like that part of it. You know, she she put the time in. Yeah, that was cool. My number 14 is Lord Dying Mysterium Tremendum. Nice. Yep. Almost had a chance to see them in a diet list, but no. They're.

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They're opening for someone on some big tour. Yeah, yeah. I can't remember who, but it's actually really good for them to be on that tour. Yeah, what was that? But I don't remember who it is, so. Oh, fuck. I know what you're talking about. That was really good. It took, it had been a while since I spun it, because I think that came out earlier in the year. It did. But when I put it on again, like, wow, I should have been spinning this a lot more, you know? Just, there's so much going on in that album, and it's so fresh and different. That's what I like about doing the

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year-end. You get to revisit these albums that, not that you have forgotten about, that maybe you just haven't played as much as you should have, because we're constantly getting new albums. Such a good one. All right. 13. 13. All right, number 13. I'm going to piggyback off of a J here, Immortal Bird, Thrive on Neglect from 20 Buck Spin. I commented on this a little bit earlier, but I just don't think anybody quite sounds like Immortal

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They've got their own kind of signature sound. I like that the album's pretty short. It's just really tight. And as you know, Nate just has become a really good friend of mine. And even though I've moved to Hawaii, we've been texting a lot, and he's been telling me about everything that's happening on tour. And I think we've talked about this before in cast, but knowing people, does it affect where you put albums? I don't know. I feel like I still would have put a

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I think is a pretty good spot.

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Did Nate have a good time at Atlas? He did. He had a blast, dude. Yeah. I asked him, I was like, did Will treat you well? He's like, absolutely. You know, had a really fun time, like great meeting them. Yeah. He gave them beer when they left. So yeah, he was very, yeah. Except for George. He's like, who the fuck was that guy? That guy. Just kidding. Matt. So Marcus, they're in my neck of the woods on Thursday and I feel like I have kid duty.

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but I'm going to do my best to break away and get to their show and just text Nate that I want to have a really good high five. Even like a Top Gun high five where you go up and go down. He doesn't have like a torn rotator cuff or anything like that. All right. I love hanging out with that guy. You know, it's weird. You know, you have all these musicians and things and of course you want to hang out with them and talk with them about the music that you love. But it's rare that you just have that kind of camaraderie with somebody.

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And especially for me, I don't have that many friends. So I was sad for me to leave. Yeah. Because I just met them a few months back. And from my standpoint, I mean, Immortal Bird is a band I've never seen live. They've been around for years. As to what we discussed, they have a very unique sound, which I can only imagine is amplified once you see them live. And it just feels like a rare opportunity. And so I'm going to do my best to take advantage of it. I mean, it's, you know, 10 minutes from my house.

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And this is my fifth best record. If you do see them live, make sure you see Nate before the show and say, turn your amp up. He purposely doesn't have it too loud and we had to do all kinds of like special stuff in the middle of the set to try and hear his guitar because he's like, oh yeah, I usually keep my amp low. I'm like, no! All right, 13.

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Yep.

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Render 13 was not on my list at mid-year, even though I did hear it.

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And I listened to this album and I did not get into it right away.

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And now in the second half of the year, I gave it some more time and really realized like, wow, this is quite incredible.

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And actually, if I would have spent more time with it, it would probably be higher.

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But that is Wasted Space Orchestra.

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Cynthia.

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I did not realize this was like a kind of a one-off roadburn commission.

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I mean, this is some crazy shit. Really unique album. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. One of John's favorites for sure. I expect that to pop up on the list soon. It's very good. It was on mine, Lowdown, like 39 or something. Oh yeah, that's right, George. Cool. That wasn't on your mid-year, right? I think it was. I feel like it was. I feel like it was, yeah.

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Okay. All right. So my number 13 was not on the mid-year. That's okay. My number 13 was not on the mid-year. That's because it came out after the mid-year. And it's because of Yanni. And he called my progressive metal credentials into question by having not listened to this album really yet. And I listened to it a little more than I originally had when he called me out.

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But nonetheless, it was still a call out. Wait for it. My 13th. Wait for it. I can't find it. Here's the fiction party. Jay is my bitch. Trying to pull your pants down? There we go. Even when he's not on the show, he's on the show. Do you want to follow it up, George, with his other one? Jerking the penis. Jerking the penis. It even sounds slower.

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I think it sounds like it's a slow-mo because I think George is trying to savor every last syllable with that Finnish accent of penis. Penis. And suddenly Yanni becomes southern. So my number 13 is Disillusioned to Liberation. German progressive metal, melodic death band, Prophecy. Their third release, first one since 2006. It's a very good album. And yes, Yanni, you are correct. I needed to.

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My Progressive Metal Game. It's a good album. Speaking of those guys, give a plug, they just put out a little two, they just released two songs that are pretty damn good. Yes, they are. They're a alien ship. Jay, I heard your deep purple comment in the music, and I heard a little old Genesis in there too, which was a nice kind of mixture of the two together, while still sounding very metal-ish. But that is, Gianni's not on this one, I don't think. No, he's not, no. Yeah. So, yeah, I don't think we've, this was right in the year,

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and shit show thing, you know, meaning we're all putting our lists together. So first and foremost, I owe him some comments because he was nice enough to have sent us those tracks even in advance of that. And I like them a lot. They're such a consistently good band at this point. Yeah. Yeah. Looking forward to the new release maybe next year. I should think so. I mean, this sort of implies there's going to be a new release next year. Yeah. Hey, Will, why are you putting that anal thermometer in your ear? Rectal.

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I think the real question is why is Will putting everything else in his rectal? Yeah, I was going to say, wait, was that in your rectal first, then in your ear? Oh, man. You know, that reminds me of a joke that I have to tell you. There's this doctor walking down the hallway of the hospital. Does that say 0.0? He's dead, Jim. Will is dead. No, it says 100.0. I'm sorry, buddy. I'm not making fun of you. No, no. Zombie Will. No, no, no.

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I still got to make my joke though so this doctor absolutely guys let's just let it rip now as I'm sitting here I'm starting to feel worse and worse so yeah I bet you all right that's why I was like I asked my daughter go up and get that the rect I mean the ear thermometer and which I by the way I'm now calling an anal thermometer apparently but in any case this doctor's walking down the hallway of the hospital he's got a rectal thermometer behind his ear and this nurse walks by him and she stops and she says she looks back and she shouts back at him doctor she says I don't mean to embarrass you but did you know you have a rectal thermometer behind

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your ear and he pulls it out and looks at him and he's, ah, you know what this means? Some asshole has my pen. That's awesome. No idea where we are here. Me neither. It's someone's asshole, Jay. Who went last? Will, you just need a beard. Will, you should have a beard.

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Sorry, I'm still laughing from the asshole joke. Sorry, the J joke. Also the exact same thing. It is funny when we're on Messenger. I've told this a bunch of times. When you're on Messenger, if you type in the word dick, J. Dickinson pops up like, oh, you want to

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I just want to make a dick joke. Number 13, Rotting Christ, the Heretics. Boy, I really like this album. And they're from Greece, not Spain. Or Spain, not Greece. I forget which one. I'm pretty sure they're from Greece. I was actually surprised because they're on Seasons of Mist and I just didn't think they'd be on Seasons of Mist. I guess I see Seasons of Mist as more of like a, I guess maybe Rotting Christ has been around for a while. They've been everywhere.

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Yeah, and they've been around for a while, too. So that's what she said. I reached out to them after rituals, and I kind of complimented the record and asked what they made me be on the show. And the answer I got back was in such broken English that I was like, yeah, there's no way these guys can be on the show. I think I remember you telling us that, yeah. Yeah, it was brutal. My number 13, again, we're on some well-traveled ground at this point, but this was a record I listened to a whole lot this year.

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I actually liked it better than Death Revenge, Exhumed Horror. That was really put together a solid record this year that I was kind of one of my little go-to's when I didn't know what else to listen to. So I put it in mine too. I went to it a lot. That one's come up a lot. Yeah, it has. It's hit a lot of lists so far. I bet that nobody will probably have it higher than 13, I bet. I bet nobody will share this post. Anyway.

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My number 13, I'm surprised it's this low, but there you have it. Gatecreeper Deserted. Hmm. Nobody else is surprised. No, but that might have been said more than anything else now. It just has slowly been building up and up. Pelican's been on five so far. Pelican's on five. Yeah. So I'm the only holdout then. Well.

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Well, I don't know me, Jay. You don't know me.

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No, I, well, I, I think I can name everybody's number one. And I know that's probably not your number one, but I know you love that record. I know you love that band. You were really looking forward to it.

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You're right. It's true, Jay, because I had it on my most anticipated when we did the top five for that. And Gate Cooper was definitely on it. I think I was the only one who had it.

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Which I admit doesn't necessarily translate to a super high place on your list. It doesn't have to be. No. It just means I anticipate. Yes. Well, now's your chance to talk. Oh, no, wait. Yeah, there was Gatecreeper. So 12, Marcus. Oh, Gatecreeper. That's what started that all. And so what I was saying is, yeah, what do you got? My number 12 is not Gatecreeper. It is false. Portent from Gilead Media. Matt already mentioned this one.

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He called it a 70s horror soundtrack, I believe. And I think that's pretty apt. It's a really great black metal release. I think it's the best album False has done. It's a lot more layered, I think, than the previous releases. And I love it. I'm a really big fan of black metal. I'm more of a death metal fan, but I like what's happening in black metal, especially this year. I feel like there's just a lot of extra

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curricular activities going into black metal this year. And false is one of them. Plus an awesome cover as Matt has also mentioned. And Matt. I feel like we've heard this at least once. Cult of Luna, A Dawn to Fear. Metal Blade. Cult of Luna having a good show. I gotta say. I kind of expected that. I feel like when you talk shit about the

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As I Lay Dying guy. They may have creeped up. The singer, more specifically, I feel like they creeped up at least one on my list. Cool. I like that. Revenge. That's called the revenge placement. Well done. Yeah. Wait, what's this about As I Lay Dying? So the singer called out, like, so the fact that As I Lay Dying is back touring now and people are going to watch them. Yeah, and he was like, that's bullshit. I was like, okay, you're one of us. Not that they weren't before.

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So the guy called out, I was only dying. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay, got it. Mm-hmm. He called out the fact that everyone was acting like nothing happened. Even the band. Yeah. And he said, look, I'm just saying. And people got all butthurt over that. And they're like, oh, he's, they're like, oh, he served his time. And I'm like, still an asshole. You probably don't need to be a musician anymore. Yeah. Oh, is that the child rape? No, that's the, I hired somebody to kill my wife. Try to have his wife killed. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. And he's out.

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And people are like the band, the band wrote them off. And now all of a sudden they're all back. They're like, wow, that wolf and war thing didn't work out. And I guess we better get him back. Yeah. And then the music media is kind of like, oh, who's that guy? I don't remember that story. Right. So that's the ultimate hashtag. He tried to fucking kill her. Which to me, to me, like to me, that's a huge talking point. And no one has said shit except for the singer for a couple.

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Yeah.

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My number 11.

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No, I'm sorry.

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Because of that.

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Wait, Matt, you just moved him up a spot because of that.

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I did.

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You moved him up a spot.

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That's the bitchiness.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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My number 12, sometimes just got to like a heavy metal album.

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Doesn't even have to be a specific genre.

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Spirit Adrift divided by Darkness.

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Nice.

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Off of 20 bucks, Ben.

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Yeah, I'm not a super fan of their previous two albums,

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But I did like this one a lot. I just

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Sometimes I don't need to have

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All this crazy subgenre stuff going on

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Sometimes I just want to hear just a regular metal album

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And I thought they kind of did that more on this one. So it's cool. Yeah

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How about that?

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Well, it's cool that they changed their sound

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This album is not on my list. I actually like the last album better

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But I do appreciate the fact that they

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They just tinkered with their sound. It does not sound like the last album

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So I dig that with bands. This could have been out of the mid-80s with a

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lot of sounds. Yeah, I agree.

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You know, I've never, I just can't get into Spirit of Drift. I will admit that I like the music on this album a lot more. I really like their music, but I'm just not a fan of that vocal. And no, it's not because it's clean vocal. I don't know.

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Have you seen them live, Will? No, and maybe that's... Because that'll change your mind.

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They're really good live. Truth be told, Marcus, we were all drinking at the back bar at the Fillmore when they played during Decibel Fest. Oh, I was hammered before Decibel even started, I think. I get it. My number 12. I'm pretty sure no one's going to have this on their list. If they do, maybe possibly, Jay, but I'm pretty sure no one's going to have this. This is my high school guilty pleasure.

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Yeah, that opens up a whole can of worms, isn't it? Well, is that that big three-band tour thing that just came out just recently? Motley Crue Poison? I bet you guys didn't know Poison put out a new album this year. So Poison. No, Sacred Reich, Awakening. I was a big, big Sacred Reich fan. Ignorance, Surf Nicaragua, American Way.

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It kind of dropped off a little bit, but I even like Heal to a certain extent. But yeah, I thought this was a good return. So number 12, Shake It Right. It's not on my list, but I was a big Surf Nicaragua fan. And that was right, like literally around the time when like DRI Crossover came out. And who was that that did a return of Martha Splatterhead? It was like all these different like hardcore. The Accused, that record was out. That was like a super almost punk summer. You know what I mean? Or whatever.

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So I was a big fan of this. And I listened to the new one. It didn't make my list, but I liked it. I thought it was a good, solid show. Yeah. I was actually surprised that I think Despo had this like nine or something like really. Oh, did they really? Yeah. I was really surprised by that. You had that on your mid-year too, Will, right? I don't think it was out then. It was out. Yeah, it wasn't out. We talked about it, but it wasn't out yet. I think we talked about that they had just released the track, the first track. Oh, right. Well, interestingly, mine is not to high school as well,

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But it goes beyond that. And you'll understand what I mean when I say it. But it's, we witnessed really, like, I kind of got emotional this year. We witnessed the end of an era. And I'm not putting this on here as a gift to them. I think that they ended their band's life in a proper fashion with a proper tour. And they made a proper record to document that tour. Slayer, Repentantless, Killogy. I listen to this record a lot. I know it's a live record.

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But it was... Well, fucking Slayer died this year, dude. That might be the first live album on a list. I didn't know Jay did that last year. I did a lot. He has done it. That might be the second live album on a list. If we were going to put live albums on, that would be my number one this year. It's just like the greatest hits of Slayer. I mean, how can that not be everyone's number one? So Jay should be your number one, really.

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I mean, there's no surprises on it or anything, and it's not just so I have the chance at the end of the year to say, hey, how fucking weird is it going to be to live in a world without Slayer? This was like a Slayer celebration year for me. I listened to Slayer a lot. This came out. I listened to this a lot. Saw him a couple of times. I deserve a spot on it. Did you see the... Did they have a DVD out? What? Is there a DVD of it that you can buy? No. Yes and no. I tried to buy it, and it's

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Keeps saying this usually ships in six to nine weeks. So I think it's just not out yet. Okay. It's on Amazon. It's listed on Amazon as a Blu-ray. You guys will be proud of me because I bought it purposely on CD. And then, John, you'll remember this. I was like, so how do you use MusicBee to burn the CD and the flack? And that's the whole reason I ordered it from Nuclear Blast. So I can get the flack. But stay tuned for the release of the DVD. I mean, I don't know when the hell it's coming.

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Yeah, because it's kind of like a movie where it's got the concert footage and then it's got the videos that they did for like maybe three songs or something that merged into it. Yeah. And I'm not wrong, right? It's not out yet, is it? I don't know, Jay. I have it on vinyl. So I got the limited edition Sunburst vinyl and I do love it, but I don't have the DVD, so I haven't seen the movie. They did release it in theaters, though. I almost want to see it in a theater. Yeah, yeah.

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But I had something else going on that day, and it was only like a one-day release that they did it. But it's mostly concert footage, I believe. And then it has, like I said, there's three videos that they did, like a trilogy of videos for songs that are inside the movie concert footage thing. Well, I'm going to buy it in real time. It's actually available now. And it's available. I can get it delivered in nine hours and 58 minutes. I think I'll do it.

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Do you guys have that instant local delivery show? So, hey, Jay, maybe you can make that your number one by the time it gets delivered because we'll probably still be going. Yeah. Hold on. I'm going to change my number one. I just got this. It's such a Jay thing to do. Oh, I'm going to put this live album on here. Like nobody else is going to have a live album on this. That's just a Jay thing. But it's a great live album. It is. And you understand, I mean, what happened this year too. So you understand the sort of gravity of the situation. So that's part of the reason.

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I appreciate it because if you love it

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and you feel like this should be on a list

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it's cool that you put it on there

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I listen to it a bunch

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so Repentless College is out on Blu-ray

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well just so you know

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if you pre-ordered it you should have it soon

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9 hours or less

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my number 12 I think we are

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Crypt Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light

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I thought that would be higher on your list too, George. I thought it would be too. Huh. This is really interesting. Top 40, I gotta say. Sorry. What was your pick? Crypt Sermon. Do you think the fact that 40 items changed how your list goes as opposed to 25? Yes, definitely. Yeah, it allowed me to be less conservative. I mean, it was just like,

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And it's not just that that deep stuff made it. I had no doubt that it had an effect on my top 25 somehow.

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You can acknowledge albums you really love without cutting them because they're still on their list. It made a big difference to me.

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Yeah, that's probably the right way to put it. Yeah, it was brutal. But yeah, it was an interesting thing. I don't know that we'll always be able to do it because truly this was a pretty watershed year.

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Yeah.

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Number 11.

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All right, number 11.

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Jay, just talked about this not too long ago.

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And I'm the last holdout.

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It's Gate Creeper.

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There it is.

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On relapse records.

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You're not the last.

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Yeah, I mean, this is a really good death metal album.

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They call themselves Stadium Death Metal.

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I felt like it's a great album.

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It kind of fell short to me for having those like super memorable riffs. But then I played it in the car. And it's my favorite record to play in the car. It is a completely takes on a different atmosphere in a vehicle. I don't know how. But I really enjoyed it. But it's still it didn't quite crack my top 10. So it's interesting how we had Gatecreeper staggered all throughout like a 25 through now to 11.

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Indeed.

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All right.

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Matt.

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All right.

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Number 11.

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I feel like I'm not going to see this one show up at all.

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It is Serpent Column, Mirror in Darkness on Mystic Chaos.

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It's a U.S. black metal band.

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It's their second album.

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I feel like I kind of randomly found this on Bandcamp and just totally stuck with me.

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Definitely second half of the year band.

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Just some really cool chaotic death metal. Yeah, you know, you mentioned that one, Matt, and I really like that album. It's on my honorable mentions list. So I don't think I would have found it without you making that recommendation. So thanks. Right on, man. You guys are welcome. And a great name. Yeah, absolutely. John. My number 11. I think only Marcus has mentioned this and maybe only he and I will mention this one. And that's cool. It's still a good album.

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The New Alsace Spiritual Instinct Post Black Metal. We don't want to say what else they are because Will will laugh hysterically for 20 minutes. But no, actually, I find this to be more post black metal than their previous albums. Laughter is the best medicine to sock it to me, buddy. I think it's got to be Black Gaze. Black Gaze. All right. There goes Will. We'll talk to him in another half an hour. But no, I think I like this album a lot. Unlike Marcus, I do

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like this one more than Kodama, but I like both those albums a lot. So I don't, it's, it's a flip of a coin when you listen to those two for me. Uh, and it's on Prophecy, which seems to be another label that I have a lot of albums from this year. So. And I have to say, I'm the, they are some of the best live performers I've ever seen. Awesome. So I, so good. Just, I feel so much energy coming from them when I see them live. So, um, that actually adds to, um, how much I love

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them.

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Will.

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All right.

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My number 11.

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It's been mentioned before.

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Crips.

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Cadaver Circulation from Dark Descent.

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Death Doom Band.

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This is their third album.

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They're from Finland.

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And one of the guys from Hooded Menace is in there.

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And I spun this a lot this year.

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I really like it.

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That's been named a number of times now.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was lower.

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But it's come up on a bunch of lists. It's solid. It's a solid album. It's really good. Yep. My number 11 is a band that I consistently put on my list and nobody else consistently does, which is perfectly acceptable. We all have these things that we find and you're like, OK, I connect with John already knows what I'm going to say. Oh, yeah. You know what? Just spit it out, John. No, you go ahead. I'll let you do the honors. Let me do the honors. Vandenploz, The Ghost Experiment. These guys are a proggy,

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band from Germany. I think they're from Germany. And they do a lot of weird musical stuff. And when I say musical, I mean, they do get involved in musicals and stuff. But they have an exemplary band. This is really their side thing, if you ask me. And Andy Kuntz, the singer, is one of my very favorite singers in metal. It was funny because they had a record a few years ago called Christo, or Christo. It was like the Count of Monte Cristo. And then they did this two-album thing where they

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these really long form albums. I was like, I don't know if I like them making that switch. But then I love those records. And now this is more like Christo. And now I'm like, I don't know if I like them doing this. It's weird. But it's just as full of quality music as they always do. So Vandenplaza band I will always punt for. But also makes good records. I will say this one thing about them that I do like a lot. It's the same five guys since day one, which you don't see too much in semi underground metal or prog metal or whatever. It's just you change band members.

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that happens and it's the same five guys. So good for them. They also released a retrospective box set. I believe that was this year. More importantly, released the vinyl. The stuff was the key. They were some Holy Grail stuff for me. So I picked up their key releases for me on vinyl. Nice. Georgie. Number 11, November's Doom, Nephilim Grove. Oh, wow. That's way up there for you. Nice.

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Yeah, it's really good. I mean, I've been a fan for a long time, but this one just really clicked, you know? Yeah, I think it's their best sense of thought, you know, so it's good. Yeah. Oh, no, I feel like a dick for having like 27. It would be higher on your list, John. You know, it's they're overkill for me, like they are for you guys. I just like everything they put out. And sometimes they don't end up going as high for me because it's always

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kind of be solid, you know, so it's been a while since one of their albums really stood out for me. Yeah, no, I agree. It's like it's very, very consistent, but it really doesn't elevate to like another level. But I see what George is saying, because I thought the first three or four songs on the album are great this time. So. Yeah. All right, Markisan, bring us into the top 10. I've got to pee and get another beer before we do this. Okay, don't bring us into the top 10.

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You're listening to the...

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Ah! Ah! Seriously, couldn't you do that somewhere else?

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Sorry, dude.

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Well, first of all, I'm going to tell you, I just got this beer from Stone.

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And it's called Stone Farking Wheat Woot Stout.

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I've had it.

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An annual release, and it's got artwork by Alan Davis.

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He's like one of the masters of comic books.

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You know, he did a lot of stuff for X-Men and Justice League of America, and he's still out there. You can find him at cons and stuff, but I didn't even realize that until I just read the back of the can, but it's a stout brewed with pecans, wheat, and rye aged in bourbon barrels. 11.5%, so I'm excited. What a record, I love that beer. I love it, too. I've never seen it in a can before, but that's cool.

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Yeah, man, look at this thing. We usually thought in the can. Usually it's in the kitchen. Yes. Again, I'm like, I'm very impressed by Hawaii. There's a place called The Village and they get just a lot of really great beers. There were beers that I thought I would not see again that I found in Chicago and they had them. And a lot of great California beers, too, which is something I didn't really get. I mean, we got them in Chicago, but not every single one.

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But because we're so close, we get a lot of good Chicago beers. And again, there's a lot of good microbreweries here that are up and coming. So I'm pretty pleased with the craft brew scene here. All right. Are we ready? We're doing top 10, gentlemen. This is crazy. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Let me have a sip. I think we're going to actually hear more common titles than we have been, but we'll see.

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All right, my number 10. Falls of Roros Patterns and Mythology from Gilead Media. Just, man, thunderous black metal with acoustic passages, like progressive streak in it, just like everything in there. And some of the best production I've heard, I think, on an album this year. I just, I really love listening to this. I've liked Falls of Roros, but to me, every release just gets better and better.

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And it falls at number 10 for me. I'm very pleased with this one. Muted. Muted. Muted. Fucking shit. Number 10. I wonder what the hell you were saying before you unmute yourself and you said, fucking shit. Fucking shit. And all the other shit I said. I didn't know they had an album. And it's great. It's my number 10. Fucking shit. That's great, Carl Ratt.

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It doesn't matter. My number 10 is a band I made out there called Kaleikr. The album is called Heart of Lead via Debbie Murmorty Records. It is the first album from an Icelandic prog atmospheric black metal band. They went by another name previously. I do not remember what it is. Like Drag Soul or something? Something like that, yeah. And this is their first album. This is literally why we think you make this crap up. And I do. I do. I know.

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I like the other album.

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Yeah.

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I'm a walking facade.

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Like my fucking name is not what it is.

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It's bullshit.

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First name fucking.

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But if you want some good progressive,

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atmospherical,

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Icelandic black metal,

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or BM as I call it,

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check out Laker.

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All right.

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John.

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Hey, Jay,

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I hate to put a damper on your,

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we're going to have a lot of common albums,

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Now amongst ourselves. I wasn't thinking of you. I've waited quite a long time to put something from these guys on my list. So we'll just say it. Opeth in kind of an item. Pretty much. I'm surprised it's that low. Even though number 10 is high.

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I like other albums more. That's what it falls down to. It's I think their best album since Watershed but I still would prefer other stuff but with that said I still thought it was a pretty good album. Best since Watershed for sure. Accurate statements there. Do better Will. Sorry I'm like eating and I didn't realize that. Let me ask you this are you eating Milk Duds? Because you're really chewing that shit for a long time. Yeah now throw them at your screen.

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and crackers is what I could find quickly. Yeah, I hear you. When this band announced that they were putting out a new album this year, I thought for sure this would be my number one. But as I've already stated earlier, when someone else announced it, I think there's a little bit too much filler and they're much better live. Inter Arma, it's all for English. Cool. Yes. So my number 10 is proof that you are all wrong about so many things.

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I forgot about this record and I totally get it and I totally understand that you kind of forgot about it but it was really high for me on mid-year. It just dropped a little bit. It saw the wonderful voice of Johan Lundqvist come back to Candlemas and they made what I thought was a very heavy, very well produced, very catchy record with one of my favorite vocal performances of the year. Candlemas, The Door to Doom.

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Yeah, that's high. I wonder if anybody else will have it. I think it was like a number three at mid-year for me. It was really high on mid-year. Yeah, so it got beat up a little bit, but I still listen to it. I just love his voice, dude. It's such a good voice. It was a revival record. Yeah. Well, and considering the second half of the year and how many great albums came out, it still endured against those. Yeah. Nice, Joe. Yeah, but we're going to start to get into some pretty late-year stuff now as we move on.

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My number 10 is Blood Incantation, Hidden History of the Human Race. We're talking contender here. That's one. That's the first one. I think most of us are going to have that one. I would be surprised if we didn't all have that one on the list. Will might not. Well, he is a death metal guy. He might J. What'd you say, Sar?

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This rectal thing in my ear. When do you not have a rectum in your ear? Oh, yeah. That's how my daughter got pink on it. Oh, boy. All right. Well, my number nine, George, I'm piggybacking off of you. Blood Incantation, Hidden History of the Human Race. Right on, right on. I love it, too. You know, not as much as Decibel does, but holy shit. It is some spacey,

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Really Creative Death Metal. I think it's their best album. I just happen to like a few things a little bit more, but it's one I've spun a shit ton. What's cool about that album, I feel like you can listen to it late night on headphones if you want, and just fall asleep to it, or you could listen during the day when you want to get fired up at the same time. That does not happen that often with albums. Really great, great record.

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It's a journey, and they are becoming masters of the long-form death metal song. Yes, they are. All right, Matt. All right, my number nine. Upsic, yeah. Upsic, yeah. Upsic, yeah. A song for our kingdoms via 20 bucks, Ben. You know, I love that. I love that. Because my iPod shuffle, switch, underwateraudient.com, has,

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That's how you find out what you're listening to if you don't know, because sometimes I'll put on new bands in there. And they always have it pronounced in a fucking foreign accent. I'm like, why the fucking? If I want to hear it pronounced, I don't want to hear it. That doesn't help me pronounce that at all. I would just say this is, you know, Tanner has such a unique sound, you know, that kind of medieval black metal sound that, you know, it's really hard to argue with.

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But another 20 bucks been released

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It's great and I feel like I mean it's on my list already

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But I feel like we haven't talked about that one too much during the year just between us, you know

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Just came out now. It's starting to creep up. Yeah, I know but you know, we do talk every day on messenger

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Yeah, I just haven't heard that worse on it, but

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A lot of people are everybody's finding it. I mean interesting to see if it's on the list

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on so so

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So I for one actually would like Matt just to have Google do his whole list for us. He's like our Stephen Hawking. I've got my next one queued up. You know, and then I would really hope that you could find like a bitchy format, which would make it even better. So my number nine, I think was mentioned once already before I got this band from Matt, who got it from

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George.

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Atmospheric Sludgy Post-Metal from Sweden, the Moth Gather, Esoteric Oppression.

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From the moment I heard this album, it resonated with me because I'm a big Colt of Luna fan.

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I like the ocean.

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And these guys kind of have that vibe of those two bands.

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Yep.

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So that sits right in my house.

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Awesome.

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Awesome sounds.

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Before I say my top nine, I almost want to make a bet there's three in my top nine that will not, well, I know they're not on anyone's list yet, and I seriously doubt they're going to be on anyone's list. Perfect. Awesome. Let's hear it. I'm getting a J award for myself. I'm definitely getting a J award this year. Well, no, it's the reverse J. Oh, boy, he got one award. Some of us are getting four or five. Yeah, I better dust off the mantle. Oh, boy.

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My number nine, Ordos, the end. We already talked about it. And I think Jay described it the best. It's just, these guys are just like creepy doom metal. And I like, I just love what they do. And I learned about this. They deal with like archetypes, you know what I mean? Like just this fundamental stuff. Yeah. And I definitely remember hearing about this from John, which maybe you heard from George, which started the whole joke.

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Yeah. I'm sure it was George that told me about this. I did. I did say it. You just didn't listen to me. I think this isn't on too many lists because George is just like that. He finally had to say something. It's like, okay, I gave you one round. I'm coming in. Yeah. That brings it to me. I'll be the first mention of this. I don't know how universal this is. Just the people who love it on this podcast love it.

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I actually have some qualms with it but I cannot deny its objective greatness I wish there were a few more hooks in it is the truth I think it goes off in certain directions for a few minutes and it could turn a corner but that after that great length Wilder Run Veil of Imagination is the fine record that you guys think it is I think it's funny because I'm kind of quoting Markisan here and even though I know you've become a big fan of this maybe we're right away Markisan you said you feel like this is the one that's

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to build up to their great record. And I think I'm going to stick with that theory that you had at least at mid-year or whenever we talked about it. I don't think it was out at mid-year. It definitely wasn't. Yeah, it wasn't. It was when we brought it up in November. Yeah. Yeah, but in any case, it is a fine record. It could have gone a little higher for me, but they need to adjust a couple screws and they're going to be a genius band. But it's good stuff. It deserves to be where it is. Number nine, that's pretty fucking high. Yeah, that's high. Everything else after this was a shit.

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It's where it starts to get hard

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My number nine is a big old bag of hot

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Devin Townsend, Empath

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Hot bagging

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Hot bagging

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Yes

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It's hot bagging when you get into a sleeping bag with another man

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and then jump out and get into a different sleeping bag

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with another man

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No, it's when you get into a sleeping bag and you fart

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Why don't you know that well? I thought you were an expert in these things. Well, there's another description of which John will tell you. Yeah. I don't know how many people have actually been on a tour bus before. And if you have, and you've been drunk and had to use the bathroom, you'd know that they only process water on tour buses. So if you've got to do a number two, either you wait till the next stop, or you have to use a plastic bag and bag it.

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and it's called hot bagging and you toss it when you get to the next stop god why do you have to wait to the next stop just toss it up what are you gonna do leave it on the table i said open up the roof and chuck it out so that the guy behind me lands on the windshield you know but i told to archie he's like just throw it out the window i'm like you just don't throw a bag of shit out the window let's do that at decibel that is gross let's just do that but you could see why but you could see why that wasn't so gross coming from

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Devin Townsend.

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No, fair enough.

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It makes perfect sense.

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Absolutely.

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He probably does that at home.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Why not?

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All the way back around.

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Number eight.

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Number eight.

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Can't remember number eight already.

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Number eight.

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I believe John mentioned this one already.

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It is Weeping Sores False Confession on Ive Voithanger Records.

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I mean, there's a lot of death in here.

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There's doom in here.

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There's some folk.

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There's violin throughout it. It's just a beautiful and brutal entry that I didn't even know about until I just found it on Bandcamp one day. I just actually just got the tape in the mail yesterday. So I ordered it quite a while ago. They didn't even have vinyl out for it yet, but what a just a brilliant record. You know, it kind of reminds me of like old songs.

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will Doom records just mix with some other stuff that I forgot I had loved so much in the past. So yeah, Weeping Sores. Definitely one that flies under the radar. So, you know, anyone who's listening to this, give it a shot, because I think you might dig it. Cool. Matt? Right on. Number nine. Is that where we're on? No. Eight. Eight. Sorry. Sorry.

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Cider Buns? Here's Spanish.

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Sermon de la Cripta.

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Sermon de la Cripta.

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Crips.

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The runes are fading away.

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You know, I like Doom.

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It's definitely not in my wheelhouse on a daily basis,

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but I find this to be a hard album to argue with.

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I actually don't think it's Doom.

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I think it's just traditional metal at this point.

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I could be wrong about that, but that's what I'm calling it.

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Eu acho que é muito bom, porém, eu acho que eu tenho certeza de que é muito bom, mas também.

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up here, man. Right? I mean... To be honest, if that's the worst out of all of our lists, then it's doing really well. Then it's going to be a monster. You're so lucky I'm not in a room with you. I actually... I don't care. I kind of feel like I'm feeling a J Award vibe from George right now on that. We'll see. On Tumult? No. No. George has to have that on his list. I think he torpedoed Manor of Infinite Forms, though, didn't he? He did. He torpedoed it. I think he's going to rectify that. Yeah, maybe so. Especially

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He's going to rectify it.

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Rectumify it?

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Rectumify it.

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All right.

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Well, we'll give him a chance.

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He also had the cover on his covers list.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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I feel like right now we should all take our body temperatures rectally.

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I've been doing that since we started.

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I haven't took it out.

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What are you going to do?

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But I was just using my finger.

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Jesus, Jay, is this chatterbait or something?

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John, you're so lucky I'm not in there from right now.

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I really don't care.

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Because he would make you sick. Yeah, exactly. Thank you. I'm a little sad that you guys aren't in the same room together because I enjoyed that you guys get to hang out and do the year. That's weird. I do look forward to it twice a year. I suck this year. I just fucking suck this year. Herpegonocifilates again. I kicked it last time.

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What's your number eight, Will? Oh, my number eight. This is my first of three that I know nobody has on their list. How was the last album? The last one was Ordos. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, this is the first of three that are my top eight that I know no one has on their list. And I had this at number one at the mid-year, but it has dropped Throne Hammer, Usurper of the Oaken Throne, all the way from the UK.

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It's like a traditional kind of doom band. And George, I don't know if you're rubbing your head because you just can't believe it or you're not feeling too well. No, it's just itches. It's just itchy forehead. Anyway, I dig this album a lot and I know no one else does. I bought it. You're right. Yeah, I actually really liked it. I didn't know anything about that album, Will, and then when you named it number one, of course I had to listen to it and I like it. It's a

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really long album there isn't it so um but yeah i dig it it makes you uh feel like you got to get ready for battle for sure yeah i like that part of it Markisan likes battle i do and thrones but to the thrones of skulls actually so i for my number eight i um i referred to candle mass as one of my favorite vocal performances of the year i might have even said my very favorite i don't know if that's true or not because i'd forgotten about number eight

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which is a guy who has the vocal performance of the year when he just fucking sits up in his bed and looks around which is to say Arch Matheus winter ethereal how is John Arch singing this well at what pushing 60 or at least mid 50s because he hasn't sang for the past 20 some years been saving his voice that was actually a very practical answer a fine entry from these guys I'm just glad that they have kind of got this relationship going now that has

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It's been solid ever since John put out his solo album. A Lot of Water Under the Bridge. And they came out and put a nice little proggy fun to listen to. And the thing I like about John Arch appearing on any of these last few things he's done is the fucker sings from start to finish. There's like, that's a 45 minute record or whatever it is. And I'm just making that up. There's 40 minutes of singing on it. I mean, he doesn't fucking stop. I know. I wish he would actually. But it's a very fine album.

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and deserves a place on my list. Indeed. Number eight. Eight. Possessed Revelations of Oblivion. Yep. Indeed. Yep. Yep. Awesome cover. Yep. That's right. Number seven. Number seven. John was like, oh, I might get shit for putting this

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I said number eight. But no, I'm not going to give you shit because I got a number seven. And that's two mold planetary clairvoyance from 20 bucks. Spin Records. This is just like, I mean, obviously a killer death album. But it was weird because it came out earlier in the year. So I had to come back and listen to it because there's been so many other things and it still holds up. But it was like September. No, no.

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It was July. Maybe July, I think. I don't know. Years of blur. After mid-year, I think. I'm pretty sure, yeah. Yeah. Hold on. I'll tell you in one second. Just keep talking, Marcus. Just keep talking. And I like that this record's short. I think they just got riffs for days on this thing. And when you hear it live, which I had a couple times this year, it's even better.

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So, um,

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Tumult,

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I think they're always going to be kind of at the forefront of death metal or going

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forward. So, um,

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I expect their album always,

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you know,

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anything they put out is going to be close to the top 10.

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So kind of nice that they took a break now after putting out three albums in three years.

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That's a good point.

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Yeah.

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Which I think they probably will.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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This is July.

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This is,

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it's like what,

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30 some minutes.

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It's pretty short.

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So maybe they'll take a break and put out something a little longer.

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It will be interesting to see what they do with it because

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this one sounds a little different than the last one to me.

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It's actually close to 40 minutes.

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Is it?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Still, it's not long.

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It's one of my favorites.

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And seven, pretty good, pretty good ranking for them.

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So.

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I think so.

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Yeah.

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I didn't hear Will say he was going to beat you up.

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Seven was the threshold for that.

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It's not eight minute abs.

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It's seven minute abs.

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Markasson is a little too far away for me to beat up. Besides, he looks kind of badass with that mohawk. I'm a little scared. It's intimidating. Go to Hawaii, you'll feel better. He looks like a... What was the evil guy? The evil gremlin Spike or something in Gremlins? Yeah. Yep. Wow. We did watch Gremlins 2 the other day, which is a pretty bad movie.

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But it is the movie that has Angel of Death by Slayer in it. So my kids were like perked up and like, my dad, daddy, look at this and that song. Yeah, I dig the Mohawk. I've always wanted to do it. And when I came out here, I was like, oh, perfect time to do it. So that's been fun. I got to shave it again, actually. Go to the barber. Jay. Really? No. Maddie.

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Decapitación de ganado. Decapitación de ganado. Cattle decapitation. Cattle decapitation. My number 7. Cattle decapitation. Death Atlas. Explain yourself. No explanation needed I have to say I think this is the funniest and most inventive thing we've come up on this podcast for a long time. You remember when we were at the you remember

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I think it was the KISS show. And we were talking about doing the whole list like that. Remember that, John? No. You guys must have been fucking drunk. We were talking about automating the entire list. And just doing it in half an hour. And then we'd just drink beer and bullshit for five more hours. Oh, yeah. I do remember that now. Yeah. Yeah. But we didn't do it. I forgot again. Sorry.

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Anyway.

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John.

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Now that I've figured out what order we're in, my number seven has been mentioned a few times.

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Lord Dying, Mysterium Tremendium.

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Dude, that was going to pop up on the list for you, John.

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We've already mentioned it, so we can move on.

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To Will.

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My number seven has been mentioned before.

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Mortiferium, Disgourged from Psychotic Depths.

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and I'm wearing a t-shirt today that I bought at the show. They played Atlas a couple weeks ago. And I always love it when I always feel like a point of pride when the these days when smaller underground bands actually list out like the concert lists on the back that was typical in the 80s and 90s. And so when they their last stop was Atlas Brew Works on the back of it that actually has the date and Atlas Brew Works Washington DC on it. So but I have to say they first of all they put on one hell of a show as I think John mentioned earlier.

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But just like the nicest people like you just you just kind of always fear that not fear but you just assume that people making that kind of nasty death metal are just going to be like this brooding bunch of a-holes and complete opposite nicest guy in fact they were so appreciative that one of the guys I put on Instagram one of the guys like yeah we were up in Vermont I picked up this beer heady topper and focal banger and he's like yeah here have a couple four packs

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It's like, thank you!

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Wow.

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Quickest way to Will's heart.

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Yeah.

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Second of the question.

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One of the quickest.

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Except through his red cage.

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Penis, B beer.

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So my number seven definitely, I believe, rated it higher than everybody else.

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I think it's probably hit every list that's going to hit until this point.

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I mentioned that Worm Witch was my kind of goat horror meets witchery kind of entry this year but really these guys stepped into this realm now too they're cleaning their sound up a little bit and are doing old school black metal the way I like it 1349 the Infernal Path but nice had high hopes for this record and was not disappointed I'm pretty sure that's all my honorable mentions and I remember when I listened to this album quite a bit when we got the promo and I

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I just kind of forgot about it

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it is all my honorable mentions spoiler alert

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but I do like that album a lot good choice

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they just they sort of occupy a space in my consciousness

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I mean when their stuff comes out I'm anticipating it

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they're a band I know well and love and they've really kind of grown as they've gone

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and this is the this is almost like their death atlas really

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this is the height of their growth so good stuff

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dare I say this is their most accessible album

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Yeah. Not that it's that accessible to most of the people, but I mean, for people like me, who's not that steeped into European black metal, this is pretty good. Definitely. I remember Jay had it. It was his album of the month, whatever month that was. I remember. No, I think that was Matt. It wasn't me. It was me. Yeah. It might've been two. Yeah. Could've been two. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Dual. Six, six, six, George. Dos. You mean seven. Seven,

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7-7-7-7-7, George. Arch Matheos, Winter Ethereal. All right. Nice. So that would say you were one above me. George and I, we group up sometimes. That's good stuff. I wonder where that's going to fall for John. Hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. Can you take me higher? Damn, Yankees. All right. So.

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Number six for me is Arctic Sleep, Kindred Spirits. Wow. This is a really stunning, emotionally arresting doom album from Keith D. And he dedicated to his beloved cat Yoda, who sadly passed away after the album was completed. But he was by Keith's side the whole time he was recording it. So in addition to being just a gorgeous album musically, the lyrics,

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really tug on my heartstrings every time I put it on. I love this record so much. And before we did that interview, I really wasn't that familiar with Arctic Sleep. I had listened to Unearthed Elf, but I had not really listened to Arctic Sleep. So it's kind of nice for me because it's like new, even though, you know, it's been around a while. It's a new band for me to get into. And I really like Keith D too. He's a big fan of Voracious, which also helps, I think.

03:28:30.319 --> 03:28:59.160
Oh, that personal connection. Yeah, no, again, that's that personal connection. We talk, you know, on Instant Messenger, and it's neat, you know, when, you know, you do something creative, and then you admire somebody who also does something creative, and even though it's, you're doing something different, there's a lot of parallels between the two. And, you know, I would love this record, regardless, but it definitely heightens it to know the person behind it, and the reason

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and for why he did the lyrics or where the music came from. So. You know, Marcus, based on that description, I want to go check it out because I know we interviewed him just a couple months ago and I couldn't make it. But I do remember when we did the Unearthed Elf and he told us about Ukiyaru. But just based on your description of the Arctic Sleep, I want to check it out because I haven't listened to it yet. It's great. Well, yeah, surely. I mean, it's beautiful. It's so well crafted. I think it he puts it.

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a lot of effort putting all his albums out. But I feel like that Arctic Sleep album is just like a step above the other projects that he's worked on. So check it out. Coming up next is Chopping Mall. That's right. I forgot about that. He just says so many different things. You know, it's like he's got all these different facets to his personality. He has to get them out musically in different ways. And I really like that part of it.

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What you don't know, though listeners will have heard it by now, is that all of the transition pieces in this episode are by Keith D. Something to look forward to if you're on the podcast. Something you've already heard if you're just listening.

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I guess six. I feel like this is out before the media was out and it did not show up on my list, but currently it is on my list and that is. Vanom. Vanom. Aegis Fire. Vanom. Aegis Fire. The second album from a U.S. black metal band on Profound Lore. And they just played Atlas instead of Vastom. Yes. With another band.

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It's such a good album. I mean, it was on my list in my top 25. So yeah, I'm glad to see you have it on there as well, Matt. Yeah, I think they played with Yellow Eyes, right? Yeah, see? Yeah, I could not make that show. Yellow Eyes, a one that may be on Matt's top 10. I don't know. We'll see. Do you know, I have a Yellow Eyes beer can sitting right over here. Have you guys seen that or heard of it? Hold on, let me get it. Please explain. Please explain.

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In the meantime, John.

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My number six, definitely not on anyone's list.

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I don't even think anyone knows this band.

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It's not even on my list, you should say.

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It's not.

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I just saw the name when I was surfing the net, and I throw them on.

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They're great guys.

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Even though I don't know them, I've never talked to them.

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Awesome.

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Well, that's really cool.

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Look at that.

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I cannot remember.

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Maybe Looch sent this to me?

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From Moonraker?

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No.

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What do you got? Matt, you sent it to me. Did I? Didn't you? It does not look familiar. No. I would have loved to have sent it to you. Hold on. Brewing canned at Moonraker Brewing Company. Maybe it was Jay. Auburn, California. If anybody sent Will this beer, please raise your hand.

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Somebody sent this to me. Oh, I know who it was. Sorry. It was my buddy, Chop. Sorry. He lives in California now. And my buddy, Chop, who loves metal, who does listen to this podcast. All right. Back to John. Yeah. Sorry, John. My number one is... My number six. Israeli progressive death metal band. Independent label. First full-length release.

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release Obsidian Tide Pillars of Creation.

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Who, surprisingly, I was

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nicely surprised that

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Angry Metal Guy gave it one of theirs.

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You might have missed this in 2019.

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Which is kind of cool when they do that for

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lesser known albums.

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Cool.

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I just saw that somewhere recently

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and I was like, that sounds familiar.

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It's Progressive Death.

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I think I listened to that one.

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It's good.

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I missed so many albums yeah too many to keep track of cool my number six is my second installation of something that I of a record that I know no one will have on their list hate arc gates of vellus and this is what I wish the last behemoth album was without kids singing it's a polish

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You have no idea how much that is. No, on the contrary, Will. We know exactly how much that is. Anyway, hey, Art Gates of Veles. Check it out. All right. Jay? Number six. Would have been nice to push into the top five.

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show of fucking blood screaming missiles so this is where it has to sit six nile nile vile nilotic rights

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we've already spoken about it a little bit i think um one of their strongest records ever and an amazing

03:34:42.521 --> 03:34:48.840
Markisan set it best via text at some point nile is back and that's exactly right it's a great

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very furious very great record had a good fortune to see them a month or so ago and they were great live

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on this, and they played three songs off the record. Yeah. I expect that one to be on George's list soon. I thought he already said it. Did he? Maybe not. George, did you Niall yet? No. Well, let's see what George has to say. It's going to be higher. Did you Niall yet? Are you Niallin'? My number six is Vastum or Official Purge. Most disgusting title of an album this year, by the way, or Official Purge.

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approval or disapproval on that one. Well, it's better. Last time you said official. I know. It's because I read it off of the thing and it, you know, autocorrected it. And I was like, oh, yeah, you're right. Anyway. It's because George does not have your slutty mind. Well, that's why. Top five. Yes. Top five. I feel like there should be a song or something.

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All right. Well, I think I piggybacked off of George's last album, but I'm doing it again. So number five is Vastom, or official purge from 20 Buck Spin Records.

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Dudes, I've plunged into Vastum's orifice so often this year, I honestly feel like I've cheated on my wife. Word. Holy fuck, orificial purge is brutal. Just big, memorable riffs, but it has like a modern vibe to it that I think just stands apart from the increasingly crowded death metal field. And it's also wrapped in a really unique, stunning cover. This probably is on my honorable mentions,

03:36:53.700 --> 03:37:23.660
for covers even though we didn't do honorable mentions but uh lana terpstra she did this kind of like um i don't know abstract it's very abstract it fits perfectly i think for the vastum record it kind of underscores the atmosphere that's on that album but um one of the just one of the best death metal albums i i spin this thing a lot on vinyl so sorry tracy

03:37:23.700 --> 03:37:53.620
Yes. Vastum. Vastum. Vastum. Vastum. My number five, Vastum, or Official Purge. All right, Matt. I'm just waiting for Matt to announce a band name with his Google, whatever it is, and then say somebody else. Okay, so I really want you guys to know now, we all are bragging about awards and stuff, but this is how you J&L.

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That was my number 25. So prepare for it not to be anywhere near where you want it. You're not in touch with the dark side of the force like I am. What was your 25? Vastal. Oh, was it? I didn't remember that. Okay. And that stands as my proof of that's how you J a record. Yeah. You've been J-ed. Way too low. You sure about that, J? Yay, John. I knew. John, we should just sit at home and

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Or we could do it on Skype. Okay, there's that. Yeah, Jay. You get that album off my lawn. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. My number five is, I think, been mentioned at least once, maybe twice. Big fan of their other band that they're associated with, but I also like this one a lot. Waste of Space Orchestra. Synthiosis from Finland. It's Oransi Pazuzu and Dark Buddha.

03:38:54.300 --> 03:38:58.240
got together and made an album and it's killer if you like that kind of

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psychedelic black sludgy doom whatever you want to call it i don't even know what it is

03:39:04.970 --> 03:39:09.960
but it's a really really cool album bueno it's easy in your

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knew that wouldn't be in john's list was that on your list george yeah it was 39

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Well, thanks for J-ing that one. Yeah, you did. J-ed the shit out of it. You were one step away from the ultimate J. You were like, all right. And I was in the middle at 13. Yeah. I J-ed it so much, I threw the album away. Yeah, exactly. As he was saying, it was number 39. Well, I'm going to start to go with this whole concept John has, which is this is so much not on anybody's list. It's not even on my fucking list. You know what I mean? It's just like,

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I saw it on someone else's list on a different site. Just going to start saying shit. My number five. It's been mentioned before, I think. Yeah, it's definitely been mentioned before. Maybe just an album covers, but Blood Incantation, the Hidden History of the Human Race. I thought you were going to J it. You didn't. No. There's another one I'm J-ing hard. Not even an honorable mention. Could you say that one more time? J-ing hard.

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Will's big in the death metal so I was I definitely thought this one would be an asless. You're right I miss right him. I think that and this is again my attention span kind of thing I think if they would have taken the last song and broken up into like maybe at least two different songs it may have I liked it a little bit more but just what I heard is just just an amazing take on death metal a lot of modern elements to it a lot of old school elements to it I mean they're doing something they're certainly

03:40:48.080 --> 03:40:51.120
doing something special with death metal and it's unique and i like it a lot

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my number five you know that's the problem that's the problem is that this the year and

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death metal was so crowded and so like even niall that who shouldn't have such a good show

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because they've been around forever we're all used to whatever they put out such a good record

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and then you got two mold and all these other great things so my number five is something that i

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think under certain circumstances in certain years would have shot to number one for all of us

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because it's something new and special in death metal

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and it's blood incantation.

03:41:20.520 --> 03:41:21.500
You know, it's a great record.

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And I had to at least get it in five.

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It's just that one through four are pretty tough.

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So I think it's only number 10 is good.

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Sorry.

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Is that where I was on you for you?

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For you was 10?

03:41:32.980 --> 03:41:33.060
Yeah.

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There you go.

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You spoke your mind.

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It's going to rate pretty high.

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It's going to rate pretty high.

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Everybody's got it on their list.

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It's going to be up there.

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But tell us your number five so we can make fun of it, Georgie. Yes, indeed, because no one has this one. And that is my number one at mid-year, Mephorish, Shem Ha Mephorish. It was on my list until very recently, and I mean that. Is that like an old Hebrew song? Mephorish, Maha Mephorish. Yeah, it's something from that, yeah. Hava Nagila, but close enough. But they're a Swedish band, so. Yeah, that makes sense.

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I do remember how much George talked about this band so you know I definitely listened to it a few times to see if it would make my list but it's a very good album just didn't quite make it for me but I know it's not 40th good right all right well then what is your number four number four for me it has been mentioned a couple times I believe it is Crypt Sermon the ruins of fading light on Dark Descent Records

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You know, we got this album a little bit early, and I listened to it a ton, and I thought that it was a shoo-in for, like, number one. But this 2019 has been so good. I just can't remember a year where there's so many great albums that I had to consider or just listen to over and over to make a decision. But, wow, this is just really good. Like we were talking about, it's more like a traditional

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traditional metal with Doom in it. But every song, you can sing it. It's great in the car. There's awesome riffs. And I hope to get to see them live because I have not seen them live yet. So just a really good showing from them. Nice. Could you just repeat it since I was rude enough to have to get up? Crypt Sermon in the Ruins and Fading Light is my number four, Jay. Thank you. Matt?

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Numer Quattro. Ojos Amarillos. Ojos Amarillos. Anybody? No. Yellow Eyes. Yellow Eyes. I knew it was coming up. Rare Field Ceiling via Gilead Media, fifth anthem from an NYC black metal band. I loved it from the beginning and it's kind of only grown on me throughout the year. Cool. John.

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I knew it would be on there. My number four has been mentioned a number of times, so not much to say. Koltaluna, Adon to... I don't know what I wrote here. I wrote the wrong thing. I threw a blank there. I wrote something. I wrote this late last night, and I was very tired. So yeah, Adon to Fear, my Koltaluna. Adon to Far? That doesn't make any sense. It's my number four, but I don't know what it's called.

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Hold on, let me look at somebody else's list. This is not on mine. You know, I like the album, and I know how much you liked it, John, and then because you liked it so much, I had to revisit it over and over, and that's why it really made my list. I think it's had a really good showing. It's tough. So I knew it would be on yours. Really good album. You don't know how to deal with your friends, Marcus. When one of them tells you they really, really like something, that's your number 25.

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In this case, number 26. Indeed, yes. In this case, not at all. That's the thing I love. Obviously, we have our own tastes, but the fact that we're all friends and we come to do this because we love metal. Somebody has something that they just really, really enjoy that maybe is not in my wheelhouse. I'm going to give it a shot and try to see it from somebody else's perspective because I respect,

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all of your picks.

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And I really, really enjoy that part of it.

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You know, it's, I mean, I love doing this fucking cast.

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Because you guys are awesome.

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But I feel like I've discovered new dimensions, new levels of metal.

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Just because, you know, you talk about an album that maybe is something that I wouldn't have looked at from that perspective.

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So I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Definitely, dude.

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And the problem is you can't walk a mile in another man's shoes. And so like there are reasons that we all love certain things that have to do with our lives and how we grew up and where we grew up and when we first heard something. But it makes everybody's opinion valid. And that's why I like hearing stuff too. I like hearing where people are coming from. The truth is I question nobody's choices on this fucking thing. Well, I do question your choices, Jay. I question nobody's, everybody questions mine. So unfair.

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I think that brings us to wills number four my number four it's been mentioned numerous times and numerous times recently vestum or official purge and uh I'm gonna give a little spoiler alert this came out right around the same time I remember listening to the gate creeper and just made me think gate creeper who good night yeah um so gatekeeper I am that guy is not on my list not even on my honorable mentions like I

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I tried to listen to it and I read the article

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in Decibel and I was like this is going to be the best out

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and I was like it just doesn't do it for me

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but you know what does? Vastum

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and they're from Oakland

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Jay so they're in your hood-ish

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yeah I don't see their name up on any

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coming soon boards but

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presumably they play around a little bit I'll keep an eye out

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my number four is

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one of those ones that's got a firm hold

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on a lot of different people

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there's so much I like about it

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And I just love that these guys came in and just started destroying the death metal world a couple years ago. Toomold, planetary clairvoyance. I'm sorry, can you pronounce that again? Toomold. Toomold. You should be doing that, Will. You're sick. Toomold. Toomold. Yeah, another good showing for that band. I mean, I'm sure. I think everybody's got that one on the list, I think. Probably. I don't know if John did. I have to go look. I might have had.

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A Matter of Infinite Forms at number four, too. I can't remember. I'll have to go. Interesting. But that says a lot about the top three. You know? Always the fourth best bad. George. My number four. I'm glad I finally get a chance to say this like this because I didn't get to say it like that last time. So I'm going to say tube mode. Planetary Clairvoyance. Nice.

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John totally J's it.

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John J's it.

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Oh, yeah.

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When an asshole, he put it at number eight.

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Did you really?

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I was going to say, John really looks too old.

03:48:54.000 --> 03:48:54.720
What are you talking about?

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Not like I put it at 39 or something.

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Oops.

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All right.

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I guess we're in the top three, gentlemen.

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This is it.

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My Number 3 was my number one at midyear. Oh! Productions. I thought it was the first. Three. Having said that, I just realized that 3, which is the title of the album, is coincidentally where it falls on my list. So 3 and 3. So listening to this record, I feel like, I think I've

03:49:39.500 --> 03:50:09.440
I just feel like I'm experiencing something new it's scrumptious dark syrup blend of sludgy black metal noise shoegaze and electronica it was a real pleasure to do the interview with Jay and talk about the album so it drops a couple places on my list but still just a really really high unbelievable metal record this year another one I feel like it's just fallen under the radar a little bit

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I haven't seen it on many lists, but for me, it just does not fall very far. Just really innovative metal. I honestly thought it would hold on for one because you've so, I mean, but that says a lot again about your tab too. Yes. A tough year, Jay. Weren't it just. Matt, what does Google say your most recent thing is? Well, I would just say I do not work for 20 bucks bin. But I will say in

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Molde de la tumba.

03:50:43.000 --> 03:50:44.760
Molde de la tumba.

03:50:44.880 --> 03:50:46.020
Planetary clairvoyance.

03:50:48.399 --> 03:50:48.880
Molde.

03:50:50.739 --> 03:50:53.940
I think that's the leading contender for the number one spot.

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Molde de la tumba.

03:50:58.680 --> 03:50:59.940
Molde de la tumba.

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Nice.

03:51:02.120 --> 03:51:03.520
You know what I'm finding really weird?

03:51:03.680 --> 03:51:04.520
Because I'm totally sober.

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And I've never been totally sober at this point in a pocket.

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In fact, usually at this point in the mid-year and the year-end, I'm like almost blacked out drunk. And you don't have pants on? I don't know. You're like a totally different guy. I don't even recognize him. I know. I know. This is the most chill and weird thing that I don't feel like. You're like Homer Simpson when he quit drinking. I remember I went to a baseball game and he was like, I never realized how boring this game is. It was like the bat boy is going over now to get the bat. He's walking back to the dugout. It looks like that. Oh, that lady in the third row there is just waved at him.

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It just goes out and out and out. Oh, Jenny. My number three has been mentioned a couple times already. It was my number one at the midyear. Archbethios, Winter, Etherell. I thought for sure that'd be your number one. I thought for sure that'd be your number one. It is my number three. I thought Crowhurst would be Marcus's number one. At least two good records came out, as it turns out. Yeah. Will.

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I have no idea what number one and two is going to be for people here. Yeah. I have some ideas. Yeah. But I can tell you what my number three is. Yeah, you can. It's very appropriate because I'm stuffed up because it's too mold. Oh, there it is. I thought we were done with too mold. It just keeps going up and up. I can say that that one's definitely going to be a number one for us. Yeah. I think it looks like it. I think so. Yeah. Something real weird happens here with one and two.

03:52:37.779 --> 03:53:07.120
It seemed like for a while they were like the Atlas House band because they just played quite a bit. They played, it seemed like twice, but it seemed like they just kept coming around and coming around. It's like a band this popular and this on the rise. It's like, you guys shouldn't be coming to my brewery this often, but super nice guys. I almost feel like I could just call them up like, hey, man, we need a headliner for this show somebody's putting together. Like, yeah, sure. We'll be right down. Don't worry about it. What? Will's in trouble? Yeah. Does everybody have that?

03:53:07.560 --> 03:53:35.860
Does it have two months in their top ten? Yes. I think so. Jesus. All right. Well, I mean, it makes sense. It does, but still. Yeah, that's going to be high. It was the only album of the year that we all picked for album of the month. Oh, yeah. For the month? Yeah, that's a good point, George. Really good point. And that, yeah, it does not happen very often. That's right. Yeah, I don't think it's ever happened. It actually never happened. It never has. Oh, shit. Okay, okay. The fog is starting to clear here. Yeah, no wonder.

03:53:36.760 --> 03:54:05.600
Well, wait, what time is it? Why are we even doing this cast? It is clear. It's clear right now. I'll give it another hour. Yeah, it literally is. We're okay right now. Where the fuck are we? I think it might be you, Jeff. Who just went? I think it was Will. Will did three. All right. We're getting to these ones we don't have to describe over and over. Cattle Decapitation, Death Atlas, number three. Record of the Year for me.

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I was sincere about my lack of description so you might just go ahead and go George

03:54:13.421 --> 03:54:15.740
oh sorry I was like hey I am

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you literally look like you're about to fall asleep

03:54:18.620 --> 03:54:20.460
my number three is

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Wilderun Veil of Imagination

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let's see

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I think that might be John's number one

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because Archmotheos dropped a little

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we'll see we'll see

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we'll see

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I don't think I forgot about it. It's going to be way up there. It's two or one. It's got to be. Yeah. Yeah. So we have to wait and see. Let's hear your number two, Matt. Let's get this over with us. Let's fucking find out what's going on. Oh, I'm sorry, Marcus. Hey, Matt, what's Marcus's number two? Oh, yeah.

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I know Atlantean Codex is in there somewhere. I just don't know where it is. That'd be a good guess. My number two is not Atlantean Codex. It is cattle decapitation. Oh, shit. Okay, yeah, I guess I should have known that. Holy fuck, dude. I cannot stop listening to this. I know Will doesn't appreciate the vocals, but I love them. I think the vocal performance on that is astounding. You know, obviously the music.

03:55:34.280 --> 03:55:59.400
is just brilliant. But also the vocal performance, I think, just enhances the music to another level. I just love the variety on that. I feel like almost every track just sounds a little bit different, but yet it's still just this awesome death metal exploration. And I like Cattle Decapitation, but to me, this is like a definitive album to me.

03:56:00.100 --> 03:56:01.540
Well, they're grown and grown and grown.

03:56:02.650 --> 03:56:02.840
Yeah.

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Yeah, no, whatever you're going to say, I was done, Jay, so go ahead. Just only that they have so consistently, first off, the early several records are all almost focused on different hyper subgenres, and then they've just, then they started to hit this kind of thing, maybe like on the Killing Floor, and the Monolithian Humanity, and that was where they started walking in this direction, and they've just taken master leaps every time they put a record out, so.

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No, I mean, it's familiar and new at the same time, you know. I feel like they just keep bringing something up to another level every time they come out. And to me, this is just the best record they've done. I love it. It's, well, it's number two, and it's the most, it's the second most listened to record that I've put on this year. So there you go. Awesome. Yeah. Nurodos.

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"Blood Incantation." It takes a minute. We're a little slow in Spanish. Hidden History of the Human Race via Dark Descent. I really do love this album. I feel like somewhere in there I hear like kind of the, I don't know, more the second half of Death's career, a little bit more progier Death. And just love the shit out of it. Did you, are they out there by you aren't they?

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I feel like they're out of Colorado. Oh, why did I think it was? Okay. Fair enough. They're Colorado. That's right. Yeah. That's another. This one's going to have another good showing for us, too. I feel like everyone. No, it's going to be a top top two or three. Yeah. John. In the past, I've always said when I've got to number one, there's only one album to rule all. Unfortunately, this year, there are two albums to rule all.

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Two Towers!

03:58:05.760 --> 03:58:15.880
This album, George may know this expression, "This album will drive you hard into the atmosphere, only to let you drift off to your demise in deep space."

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"Blood incantation, hidden history of the human race."

03:58:21.160 --> 03:58:23.960
"To slay all under death metal as far as I'm concerned."

03:58:23.990 --> 03:58:32.000
Will actually said it, and I would expect that I would have said what he said, which is they are definitely doing something that's way different.

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for death metal right now, which they are. And I like the 18-minute songs. I don't have a problem with them. Yeah, it never gets boring to me. There's nothing. It doesn't take any turns I can't take with it. Yeah. It's because of the variety in the songs, you know. And also, like Tumult, they also have these super memorable riffs. Yes. And I know they're cliche right now, and everyone's jumping on the bandwagon because they've got a lot of hype. But tell me a band that's got bigger balls to say, our album just came out. We are not touring in 2020.

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They're not playing any shows in the US minus two in New York and they're doing European fest dates and that's it for the whole year. What do you want to bet? What do you want to bet? They might get added to decibel though. I'll put money on sale about that. It was their number one record. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I know that they're going to probably work on Spectral Voice or whatever that other band is. Oh yeah. Spectral Voice is really good. They're not going to do any touring in the US for the whole year and it just came out. That's pretty ballsy.

03:59:32.020 --> 03:59:33.540
a hit band right now.

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Wow, it's a really close between Tomb Wold and Blood Incantation.

03:59:40.290 --> 03:59:40.700
Of course.

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Not to cut Jeff Markisan it.

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They play up at St. Vitus in New York.

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I don't know why somebody we don't know couldn't say,

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hey, come down to my brewing play maybe for some of my friends.

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I'm saying two people may show up beside you.

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Yeah.

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I think you might be busy that night. Ouch. Well, number two. So this is my third installment of a band that I know is not on anyone's list. But I think of all the people who would like this, it would probably be Jay. You keep saying. You always say that. Because we love each other. Jay's like, it's not on my list. I know it's not on my list, but if there was a possibility that if he heard this album, he would like it.

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Funeral Fuck, Carnal Confessions out of Germany. These guys remind me a lot of Ordos. It is just like spooky, kind of creepy, doom metal. All their songs are about the sins of the Catholic Church and priests and just... So their name is a pretty literal. Yes. I bought that album. Just saying. Did you like it? Yeah. Okay.

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I like that Will pause there to let you follow it up he's like I don't give a fuck if you bought it did you listen to it well no I think the point was he's the reason why Will likes it so much don't you remember so that is my numero dos carnal confessions all right my number two comes with the you know a little bit of a pre-ramble here because there are bands out there like Mastodon and stuff that I wish would come

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They can do whatever they want. It's fine with me. Go have your career. And I have no qualms with what the choices you make. I just will or won't like it. But the truly master musicians, the guys I love the most, who I've been fanboys of in the past, are always capable of writing something, especially if they're constantly growing, that I love. That stated Opeth released an album this year that I fucking loved. Opeth and Cauda Vaninam. No qualms. We're putting that number two.

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I thought that writing on this was exemplary. It's a moving record. It's a heavy record. It's fucking great. And now I know what your number one is. Everybody knows what it is, but it wasn't. It went back and forth, but in the end it went out. Nice. My number two little band. Most people don't know this band. ZZ Top? They're called Cattle Decapitation.

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Well, Death Atlas.

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Ooh.

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Cattle Dehabitation making a play for top five.

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I feel like their last album was my number two as well.

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Hmm.

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Yeah, we both had it.

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I think we had it.

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I'll tell you, George.

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Death Atlas is a really great album.

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I'm really impressed by it.

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Every time I listen.

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I'll find it, George.

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But I had gone back to find it a while back. And we were both real close to that. In any case, please. All right. Well, I guess it's time for the number ones. Oh, my God. Are we here? We've arrived, gentlemen. Number one. Well, I Matt guessed it on the last round. And it is Atlantean Codex, The Course of Empire from Van Records. A long while ago, my friend Garrett played the first Atlantean Codex album.

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for me in his metal basement because he thought I would dig the band and he was right it's the kind of metal I really love and after that record came the White Goddess which was an absolute triumph and one of my most recommended metal albums of all time and it took six years for Atlantean Codex to release the follow-up because the band is very meticulous about the way they craft their music but obviously for me it was more than worth

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because not only is The Course of Empire my album of the year, but I think it's one of the all-time great epic metal albums. It's like Iron Maiden married Manowar inside a medieval cauldron during the Battle of Helms Deep. It's beautifully crafted, mountainous guitar riffs, soaring choruses, and some of the best vocals and metal this year from Marcus Becker. And the lyrics, they have the kind of breath and scope that make me feel

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I feel like the ancient worlds of my dreams, worlds defined by blood and steel, are calling for me to pick up my sword and make them real once more. I forgot what the record was. Atlantean Codex, The Course of Empire. Not to have a come down to that with a little factoid here, but George, you had Anthropocene Extinction as five and I had it as four that year.

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Fine, we're both lame. And my memory sucks ass. We're awesome. Will. Nope, Matt. Hey, Will. Sorry, I'm still here. I just mystified everybody with my words. Not at all. Yes, but. I will say that considering that you're number one, five of us just jaded the shit out of that album. Sorry, man.

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I know. I don't understand why. Actually, it makes me a little sad knowing that you guys, you know, you love like Maiden and other bands like that. I'm a little bit sad about that. But hey, what are you going to do? Not a goddamn thing. Matt, what's your number one? Well, I'm a bitch. And my number one was previously my number 15. Okay. And that is Crowhurst 3. Oh, wow. That's a jump, Matt.

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I just I had not had enough time with it like I heard it I thought man this is

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something good but I just did not go back and spend the time with it and once I did and once we did the

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interview I realized like this is a fucking opus I mean this is this is not this is not unlike

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anything I've heard this year it's an opus I remember when we did the interview and you're like

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you know I I kind of fucked up Markisan I kind of fucked up I should have higher on my list I

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I remember you saying that on the interview. So I didn't expect it to be your number one, but awesome. I'm glad that you represented it. And the best part of that interview, I remember him saying like, I don't like my metal smart. And you're like, but you make smart metal. And it was like, oh, like that is the epiphany. Like that is the statement to kind of define the whole thing. Like the man who doesn't like smart metal makes smart metal, you know? Right. Right. Yeah. I think I even called him out on that in the interview.

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Yep. So yeah, no, it was a fun interview and man, that Alma's so good. Yeah. So yeah, I'm glad you recognize it and went back and holy shit. I'm actually surprised it's your number one. Get a room, you two. A room in the same state. Go WLB 2020. I think about it. We're on Skype. Get a chat room, you two. Let's book that decibel hotel room, Matt. Growl.

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Oh, not really is, John. I'm just waiting for the steam to kind of blow off here after that. All right. My second album to rule all, which actually, if I'm not mistaken, I am a repeat offender for number ones since 2015. I have no idea how this band is unsigned. This sounds like it has massive production from, you know, some super producer.

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This was your number one in 2015. Yes, it was. Literally became my number one after the first full listen on the day it was released, even though I had heard a good portion of the album. That is Wilderun, Veil of Imagination. I knew it. I knew it, John. Boom. Did you never say it, Marcus? Wilderun's on my list, but I was saying that John, like, Wilderun, I accept

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I expected it to be as number one. Where was it on your list? I don't remember you saying. 20. I think it was 20 for me. Yeah, 20. John, where do you rank this in progressive metal albums? Because to me, I don't think I've ever heard a better progressive metal album. But you're the progressive metal expert. It's too hard to compare now. It'd be like saying, hey, let's compare

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a death metal album to death from the 80s or 90s. I mean, I don't know how you do it anymore. They're definitely... I think they're getting mischaracterized as like some symphonic band because they have symphonics on the album, but I don't know. I mean, we'll see the test of time. We'll see if they can follow it up, but each album they've done has been a little different because when we interviewed them in 2015, we were talking about them being like a folky band. It's all gone completely on this album.

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Yes, that's true. I don't know. Maybe they shouldn't get signed. Maybe they should just keep doing what they're doing. I hope they get signed, John, though, just because I would like to see them get greater visibility, because I have not seen a lot of mentions about this, and I just feel like... Oh, really? This is all over tons of lists, this album. You have? I haven't seen it on many lists. I've seen it on at least 10 or 15 different lists this year. That's good. I'm glad. So, yeah. I want them to get signed on the label.

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so we get some vinyl yeah so that's my number one awesome

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well

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my number one sorry i'm i'm like fading fast um

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the um i don't think it's going to be a big surprise everyone knows i love this album i love this band i

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haven't mentioned yet crypt sermon the ruins of fading light um it's interesting because uh someone

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that we got this a little early. Not on here, we didn't. No, no, no, no, no. We got it at Atlas when they played the decibel pre-show. So we got to see some of that stuff, which was one of my favorite shows and performances ever at Atlas. When I got the album at first, there was some aspects of it that I'm like, oh, you know, it's just not out of the garden.

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their last album which I just absolutely

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loved

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but as I listened to this and I

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listened to this and I found little aspects

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of the album that I just thought was

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great and weirdly enough I think now my favorite

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song is the last song of the album

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the title track Ruins of Fading

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Light and there's just such like a catchiness

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to that

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vocal when he sings that

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vocal it's just I won't

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butcher it by trying it but it's just

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when Brooks does it it's really

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It gets to me. I like it. I like the lyrical content. I always liked the biblical stuff. If anyone listened when we interviewed them when we were at Atlas, they're kind of like ambivalent, not ambivalent, ambiguous about whether they're actually religious or not. I was going to ask you that question to be honest with you. They really don't say. Brooks kept saying he likes to delve into history. Fair enough.

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But if you can read between the lines, it's talking about a lot of the stuff about the Crusades and what happened with Christianity. So if I had to guess, they're definitely not in the yay Christianity realm. But they certainly like talking about some of the interesting darker sides of Christianity, which I think a lot of it revolves around the Crusade. Anyway, which you can kind of see from all their album covers too. Knights Templar and all that kind of stuff.

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So anyway, Ruins of Fading Light by Crip Sermon is my number one album. I absolutely love this album. Cool. Well, my number one was not a foregone conclusion, though I could be accused of that. There was a couple of the things in my top five replaced it throughout the course of the year, and at that time I would think those guys are going to shit. They're going to be like, I thought that was your number one. Well, you thought, right, it is my number one, this thing that I'm about to say, but it's, well, it's possessed. But I will just say this, they got it exactly fucking right.

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It's a revival, not a reunion, because there's only one original member. This is a band that meant a lot to me when I was a kid, but there's so much more here than just a nostalgic reaction to this record. It is one of the most brutal records of the year, by my account. It's heavy and fast all the way through, but the second side just gets heavier and faster as it goes. There's a song called Shadow Cult that's fucking amazing. Ritual, those two songs are almost back-to-back, and it's just like eight to ten minutes of just pummeling in your face. But with hooks, it's catchy.

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It's an amazing comeback story, and he's one of my favorite death-style vocalists of all time. And the fact that we even got to hear his voice again in this lifetime is meaningful to me. And the fact that it was put on top of such a fine, fine record. And I bet you it'll be years and years before they ever do another one again if they do one. So I really enjoyed this year as the year of Possessed. What a great fucking record they made. Hey, Jay, aside from the obvious reasons that Jeff Becerra got shot,

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is crippled. But is there any other reason why he just hasn't done anything in whatever, 30 years? Well, it's funny. I watched an interview with him. And probably, you know, let's not forget that for some of those 30 years, metal was kind of not in vogue and stuff. And so probably was no real reason for him to do it. But he went to, he got this education, I think, at San Francisco State University. And he's really active.

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in like worker rights or something like that. And so he's like this really hardworking advocate dude that. So I think he's just he just does the job he loves. And so he was doing that more than than thinking about music. And it was up to the guys who were in Possessed before the record came out because it was a different group. They reached out to him and they were like, please, man, bring this back. We'll play the music. You just come and sing. And then long story short, now it's pretty much all new members after that.

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So what is going on with the other members? Well, strangely, one of them is the guitar player in Primus. Larry Lalonde. Yeah, he wouldn't own up to Possessed for years. I mean, there was no way to hide that he was in Possessed, but he used to see it as a joke. But now they kind of embrace it. And when I just saw Slayer, they were selling Primus t-shirts, and one of them was patterned after Beyond the Gates.

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the second Possessed album. It was like Primus written as Possessed. I'm sure they were

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obviously trying to be tongue-in-cheek with that. Then the other dudes probably just

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fucking work jobs around the city or something. I don't know what happened to the rest of them.

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Nobody else went on to do anything that I know of. Anyway, I love him to death. I'd love to have him on the show.

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Reached out to him a couple times, never heard back, but definitely my album of the year, man.

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Cool. Awesome.

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My number one is Niall. Vile Niallotic Rights. Wow! There it is. Wow. Okay. No, I didn't know that was going to happen. Yeah, man. That was pretty crushing. I don't understand why it's so low on everybody else's list, but whatever. It's fucking brutal. It's on another number of lists, George. But yeah, not in the top ten. Oh, it was my six. Yeah, you're right. Was it six? No, it was in my top ten. Yeah, I had a six.

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Fair enough. Oh, wow. That's a surprise. George was a fine choice. Let me see. Yes, I know. Thank you. I never would have expected that. I didn't expect it either. I mean, I was one of the people that was like, oh, this album's going to suck. You know, you know what? You do that to us every year. You get your number one and then you don't say a fucking word about it. All right. Has he talked to any of you guys about Niall? I have. Pretty good. No, he's definitely mentioned Niall a few times. No, I know. But you know,

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but not in a way that you would know it's his number one. He's like, yeah, I listen to it. It's really good. I think you're on to something, Jay, here. I think you're kind of right. He places cards close to his team. He knows when it's going to be his number one. He just stops talking about it. I didn't know it was going to be his number one. I knew it would be high on his list just by the way he was talking about it. Well, my head is off to him. Yeah. Very different list, boys. I'm really fascinated to see what the

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the combined top 40 is going to be. I'm sure John will put that down, but I have no idea. We know a couple. Flooding, Kentation, Tumult, they're going to be high. Other than that, though, what the fuck? Cattle Decap will be way up there, too. Yeah. Did everybody have Cattle Decap on their list? No, but it was so high for so many people. Who did not have it on their list? John. John Jaded. I jaded it. I did that with Gate Creepers, not even on my honorable mentions. Where was it?

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What did you keep on yours, Will? 23. Okay, so you kind of jaded too, because the rest of us, I think it was top five. To be honest, the fact that it's on my list, I think you guys should be like, hey, thanks, man, because I really had some hard time with the vocal patterns. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for sure. Didn't know you hated Metal Church so much. Well, they did have a few different vocalists, so he can kind of worm his way out of that one. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know how the list is going to come out.

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If I had to guess, 2-mold will be at the top. 2-mold and Blade Cantation are going to be pretty high if they're not 1-2. But other than that, dude, do you know? Who did not have Vastum? I jaded it. You jaded it. I jaded it by putting it at 25. So that's kind of a J. But it's still probably pretty high because most of us had it in the top 10. Yeah, it made a reasonable showing.

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I think so. Interesting year. So one album that none of us had that I saw on a ton of lists was Devil Master. That's because they suck ass. Right, right, right, right. She did have it on his mid-year list. I don't know if it's on my mid-year, but I declared my love for it. I'm happy to own up to that. I got what people got about that, but it

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It wasn't strong enough, but once the field got as rough as it did. Sure. They definitely, they played Atlas, and they put on a hell of a visual show. I mean, it's a fun, fun show. Great show to watch. Very visual. Sonically, it sounds super interesting, but yeah, not something I'm going to just put on leisurely while I'm making dinner with my kids. Is it tough for you, Will, because you see so many

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And then you get to meet them. But maybe it's not your cup of tea. Does that change your mind after you see them live? How many bands have really... But you didn't like that you saw live and you're like, all right, I kind of get this now. Before you answer that, I have to say face to tell you it was not on my list. But I did say I liked it. Oh, we have to do honorable mentions. Yep. Anyway, what do you have to say for yourself, Will? Oh, you know, they're like,

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Chemist is my best example of a band I just didn't really get all the hype about until I saw him live and it wasn't live at Atlas or anything like that I just I think it was at a festival fest yeah and then just blew me away and it's funny because my friend shop who I mentioned earlier who I figured out by process of elimination got me the yellow eyes beer he just saw a Crip sermon out in California he lives in LA and he just saw a Crip sermon out in California not Crip sermon Chemist out in California and the same thing

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with him like he saw them live and just like this is sonically amazing just like how tight they play and just like everything about it and you actually get to meet them a little bit and he said they were super nice guys as they are um so for me like there's like i'll admit immortal bird was one of those that i liked i mean i liked them last time i like them this time but i think um i was thinking that they're gonna be lower my list but then when you meet them and then you see them play live which is more important you just see them

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play live and it's like wow this is just it's pretty amazing just to see them perform and yeah i mean

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that's why when you said earlier um by the way this is the most cohesive i've ever been this late

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too bad everyone else left to appreciate it um but when you said earlier about like does

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seeing a band live or knowing them or at least being friendly with them or having a good interaction

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with them, how that affects your ranking. And I said, yeah, I think it absolutely does, because you get to appreciate the art form a little bit more when you know a little bit more personal behind the story about it, behind the scenes story about it. No, you always bring it up. You frequently mention that in your rankings. Well, and you're a little different, Will, because you see so many bands, you meet so many bands. And I think that's different from us. Like, we definitely meet some bands when they come on the podcast,

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Yes, but you, it's almost every week that you're meeting a different band. So you have a different perspective, I think, than we do. Yeah, I get to meet a lot of people in the bands, but sometimes my interactions are a lot more personal. Like, you get more time with them because they just have more time. Sometimes I make it a point, if it's a band I really like to try and talk to them more. Sometimes you have a band, like I don't, I may, aside from introducing myself in the beginning of the night, like I don't really talk to them a whole

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a whole lot unless they need something and then they come over and ask me.

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So it's kind of hit or miss.

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And to be honest, like there was a show last night.

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I didn't go because I'm sick.

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There's a great show.

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Vorum, Torvos, and Sick Deer are playing tonight.

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Sick Deer is my number 20 and they're playing tonight at Atlas.

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But there's no way I'm going.

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So there's a lot of shows.

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There's some really phenomenal epic shows that I miss just because I do have a family and I've got other stuff to do.

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My wife travels a lot.

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It's kind of hit or miss. But I mean, overall, yeah, I get to meet a lot of people. And there's definitely some highlights of band members that I've met who have just been, weirdly enough, they've made a point to even just talk to me. Just not for any reason other than, hey, you're the host. Hey, thanks for having us. The two mold guys are like that. Just like super personal. They'll remember stuff from the last time. Like, hey, how's your kids? You know, and stuff like that.

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I remember having like a really great conversation with the guy from high spirits. I think his name is Mike. I may be wrong. But we just had a lot in common. He's a working, you know, working dad. We have kids the same age and you know, just like talking about how getting your kids into metal or music and you know, so you remember some of the conversations. Remember meeting some of the people and some of them's like they're just so many it's a blur. And so there's a lot of times where people go, Hey, man, how you doing? Good to see you again. I'm like, who are you?

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Another stocky guy with long hair and a beard. Are you a brewer? Are you a musician? Anyway, that's all I got to say about that. Hey, Jeff and Steph had lunch with Trevor. Oh, nice. I guess Steph was out there with him. Yeah. So, Mark's on honorables. Okay. I did these in alphabetical order.

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I'll just go through them pretty fast but um because I got a lot of them but um um the first one is Ataraxy uh Resignes from Deadlight Entertainment uh Black Sights Exile uh from Hoof Child Records uh Blood Red Throne Fit to Kill Throne uh Bluthaus Nor Hallucinogen I think I think John had that on his list Bork Gagnar uh True North Car Bomb

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I know Matt likes that one. Semecan. This is a really cool one. This was like an Aztec-inspired death metal. So, you know, you think like Nile, they use Egyptian, but they do Aztec stuff in it. And I really quite enjoyed that one. What was the name of it? Semecan. Okay. It's C-E-M-I-C-A-N. Oh, shit, I just lost my place here.

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Ceremony of Silence, Audis. Man, I like that record quite a bit. Cloud Rat, Pollinator. Coffins, another good death metal record, Beyond the Circular Demise. Dawn Raid, Behold Sedition, Plain Song. That's a really big, poetic, interesting black metal album. Dreadnought, Emergence. John, did you have that one on your list? It was on my mid-year, but it fell off. It fell off mine too, but still, what a great album that is.

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Fenn, the Deadlight. I know you had that one on your list. Frosthelm, Pyrrhic. I quite like that. Thrashin' Black Sorcery. Did you say Frosthelm? No, Frosthelm. No, I was kidding. You said Thrashin' something. Thrashin' Black. Thrashin' Black Sorcery? Yeah. You know, I'm actually a little surprised, George, you didn't try and put in that acoustic album on your list somehow. Yeah, it's true. I don't do live albums.

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Glare of the Sun, John mentioned, and I told him I had my honorable mention that's on there, Hath of Rotten Ruin, I believe Jay mentioned that one, Hellevorn, Amamata, that was my album for January, it was like a gothic doom based on real life tragic tales from Mediterranean history, it fell off, it was one I tried to get in the list, but it just didn't fit,

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Idle Hands, I believe somebody mentioned that, Mana, that was the unique blend of heavy metal, goth rock, and new wave. Illimitable Delore, Lead and Light, this was on my mid-year list, I believe, as well, Atmospheric Death Doom. Labyrintho, I love this album from Pelagic Records and Descento Records, and it's instrumental, really heavy album.

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The Mothgatherer, I think that came up as well actually. Sludgy Postmetal with some really meaty riffs on it. Opeth and Kata Veninum, that came up on some lists. I like Opeth. Yeah, I don't know. I don't like them as much as the older stuff, but I still dig that. Ossuarium, Living Tomb, really good death metal, but to me just too basic to make my list compared to the other death metal albums.

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Possessed, Jay's number one. Yeah, I just don't have the affection for it that he has, but I have to recognize how good that album is, especially after all those years, like 30 years of being away. Psychosphere, Beta. This is the album that I had on my metal albums cover list, and I listened to it and I really like it. It's another instrumental. It's like a black metal hybrid. Pulcra Morte. Really good Death Doom that we've talked about.

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out early in the year.

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Savor.

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Matt mentioned this one, and I told him I was on my honorable mentions list.

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I really like that.

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Sep Eternal Dusk, Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation.

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Another really good death metal album.

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That may have been on my mid-year.

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Was it?

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Yeah, it's a good one.

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That's another one I had a hard time.

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Like, I wanted to fit it in.

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Just couldn't get it in.

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That didn't come out until like September or something, I think. I thought it was later in the year, but I don't remember because so many metal albums. Spirit Adrift, Divided by Darkness, that was also mentioned. Towering, Obscuring Manifestation, another album that was on my mid-year list. Kieru, also mentioned Madness and Creation, really good Simmering a Pot of Black and Progressive Metal, just didn't quite make the list. Ultimas.

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Death Metal Jams. I believe Will mentioned this one on his list. Faraha, Passage for Lost Years. Really, almost an indescribable mix of atmospheric prog and black metal that I really enjoyed. And that's it. That's it for my honorable mentions. But that's, I mean, that's like 30 some hours. I was going to say, so that's what it's like to be on the other end of one of these.

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I really wanted to mention the similarities in there, but I just got my mouth shut.

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I get it.

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All right, Matt, you got any?

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I kept it to five.

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If anything, I'm just lazy and exhausted from hashing things out.

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Gates of the Morning, Return to Earth, Wilderun, Veil of Imagination, Arctic Sleep, Kindred Spirits, Car Bomb, Mordil.

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and swallow the sun when a shadow was forced into the light. Right on. John? Yeah, same. I don't even actually have one, but I could run through it real quick. Arctic Sleep, Kindred Spirits, the album Emergence from Dreadnought. I actually did like the new Dream Theater, Distance Over Time, Dysrhythmia, Terminal Threshold. Keep going here. Hold on. Almost done. Just running through my list.

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A Band in All Faith and Swallow the Sun. What is that? When a Shadows Force into Light. And I actually did also like the new Vandam Plus Like Jay, which is a ghost experiment awakening. All right. Will, you got me? Not many, but Witch Trial, self-titled from the D.C. area. Kind of a speed metal punk crossover band. Monolore, No Comfort.

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I did enjoy it but it's just not I just think the last two albums have not been up to snuff is the the I forget the other one has not vain here is the first one Empress Empress yeah Empress rising the 1349 the infernal pathway I liked venom prison Samsara I totally forgot about this album and then I thought on some let me check it out again like oh yeah this is pretty good and I remember the first time I thought about it I was like I heard it

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I don't know. Old Horntooth, which is some underground doom band, their album from the Ghost Grey Deep. Misery Index, Rituals of Power. I just didn't listen to it enough to feel comfortable putting on my list, but I did like it. Memoriam, Requiem for Mankind. I did enjoy that. Third Time's a Charm for them. And then Thonian Horde, local Richmond area band, their album Downfall. Cool. All right, I've got a few.

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Not nearly as much as Mark is on, but

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Full of Hell

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Surprising

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Full of Hell Weeping Choir

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Lord Manus

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Universal Death Church

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Mayhem Damon

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No One Knows What the Dead Think

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Self-titled

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Stellar Master Elite

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I would say this, I'm actually

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Sorry, I'm surprised

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I thought Mayhem would be like on everyone's list

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I didn't really listen to it much

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You did a reverse show?

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Yeah

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I did a

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I thought Rotting Christ would be on your list because you seem to really love that at Medio, Josh. Yeah, it's just, yeah, just didn't listen to it much the second half of the year.

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It's interesting how that changes. I was like, man, I look back on what I really love, but it's not that. By the end of the year, your taste change. The things that you listen to over and over change. It doesn't even matter what your album of the month was. It's different by the end of the year. I think part of it is, too, we're just inundated with so much. Aside from the promos we get, and then us individually looking around places like Bandcamp or

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or new releases and it's just like there's just so much music it's kind of hard to focus and i guarantee there's probably 10 10 albums out there this year that if i actually heard of them you know they're not like not even clue they even exist but if i heard of them like yeah you may make my list but it's just there's just so much to that point i always enjoy like being done with this to just take two to three to four weeks off and just listen to whatever yeah yeah you know yep like i'm reading something of the universe and um like it's

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It's all information I know, but it's kind of interesting to see kind of where all those parts fall. And so I feel like I'm going to kind of do like a, I don't know, like kind of a spread of those Sabbath and Dio and Deep Purple and Aussie. And, uh, yeah, kind of see how all that fits together and what that timeline feels like musically, you know? No, no, it's, it's amazing. You know, like I said, I had in call on my list, which ended up being my favorite thrash metal album. And I just,

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And Coulter. I-N-C-U-L-T-E-R. Yeah, listen to it, man. It's fucking awesome. So good. Yeah, and I didn't even know about that until a few weeks ago. So, you know, there's definitely other albums out there. With everything we listen to, it's crazy, but there's just other albums that we haven't heard that could easily make the list if we just were exposed to them. But for whatever reason, you know, we don't get to hear them, or they're just

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not marketed well or they're just super

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indie or whatever.

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So, yeah.

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You know, I always feel like at the end of the year, like, you know, for 2020,

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you do a list like what what did you hear in like 2019 that you missed that you might have put on your list,

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you know, because you found it later.

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You know, that would be interesting category to do.

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We usually do a top five of that.

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Yeah, we've done that before.

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A lot of times it's just stuff from other people's lists. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's a lot, I think, to just go through our lists, you know. Either stuff that I've listened to that I maybe didn't give enough of an ear to or just stuff I just didn't really spend all that much that I'm going to go back and listen to just because it's on your guys' lists. Yeah. Do you guys feel like every album you listen to is like, is this going to be on my list or not? Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I keep a running tab throughout the year. Yeah. I do the same thing. It's almost like any album that I listen to that I remotely like, okay, I'll listen to this again. I actually put it on a list. Yeah. It's interesting. And then it's just a massacre for the next like several months. But also it feels like a job. I mean, it feels like a full time job. I mean, one that, I mean, don't get me wrong. I totally love it, but it's like, yeah.

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We've all mentioned it in some aspect where it's like exactly what you kind of said earlier is like you just after now you just kind of want to take this break and just like just either not listen to metal much or yeah I'm just gonna go listen to some old you know master of puppets. Yeah. Lady Gaga. I would still listen to Christmas music. Christmas music yeah. No it is a lot you know and I'm glad I kept a list throughout the year because I can't imagine just like going through everything at the very end of the year.

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Yeah.

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Again.

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Sure, I revisit stuff, but I don't have to listen to the whole album. I just need to listen to a few songs to remind myself of what I thought of that album because I've written it down already.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I think this year was one of the hardest years just because there's so many good albums. I don't feel that that's the case every year.

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You know what's funny is I almost have the opposite opinion.

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One is just because now that we said like we're gonna do a top 40 I didn't feel as bad making something my 27 or 28 you know it was kind of like a weird relief yep in a weird sort of way yep you know I'm the first one about doing anything longer well no it freed it up because you knew I think I said this earlier on the cast but you knew that you've got 40 albums so albums that you thought were gonna get cut from 25 they had a place on your list and

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And because you're doing that whole 40 list, you know that they're going to get their due. And I like that part of it, too. It did relieve a little bit of pressure. But, you know, there are just so many honorable mentions that I feel like could have made my list at any time, but I had to make a choice. And, you know, I always do. I've always done a top 40 list anyways, even before I even met you guys. So I'm kind of used to that. And like I said, this year, I just felt like, I don't know,

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Oh, man, I could have done a top C-list for bands that just deserve to be on a list. But there it is. We made our selections, and you know what? I feel good about it. I feel very good about it. Indeed. Well, shall we put this year to bed? Yeah. I do. Yeah, I'm in favor of that because I'm not feeling good. Oh, you've got to get some rest. Well, come on. All right. Well, thank you, everyone.

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We'll be back in, hopefully in January. 2020. Indeed. All right. Until next time. See ya. See ya. Bye. Yes.

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Ich habe, ich habe mich nicht mehr.

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