Go and live your passion

Here we are again - my little (elitist? nah, absolutely not!) selection of albums that left me a solid impression from the needlessly huge pile of releases during the given month. I won't repeat again and again what I say every time about quantity and quality. For me July'22 was a mediocre month but now looking at this present list here, I find it somewhat a solid one. I'm sure there are some more solid albums that I left in my notes, but they are now into the grinder and I guess I won't return to them anymore. Another month will come, other hundreds will arrive, and there is no time to go back for the forgotten ones. I hate this spiral! The list below includes a number of titles that go straight into my AOTY list too. Like my album of the month, that is Greg Puciato's Mirrorcell. Has Reeking Aura just delivered the best death metal album of 2022 so far? And isn't it the best Grima album to date? Everyone to his/her own.  But there are more good stuff included i...

The first half of 2022 is gone. I still hope my distinguished readers bear with me and find my lists usable rather than useless... Why am I still doing these? I really don't know but they give a momentary picture in time and serve as a good reminder.

I always write the same in these intros. Too much new realease, not enough quality, dificult to pick the real standouts. May 2022 didn't differ from the status quo. Plenty of death metal.  From the below list, probably very few are going to take higher rankings in my end of year AOTY list.

A very solid month, with tons of new albums and some very good albums that will go straight into my AOTY list. Some of my all-time favorite bands released fantastic music. Well, my list below includes more or less the obvious. Not surprisingly. Naturally, my shortlist was much longer, but I had to pick the best of the best and just stop at a certain point.  I noticed the trend that my lists are becoming more and more mainstream, but I just pick what I really like and listen to the most over the month.

March 2022 was a very solid month. Tons of new releases, and at least 25 very good albums. I feel many of them will stay longer with me and will land on my AOTY list. I found a good time with these. Below I give you my selection of the finest albums of March - in total 25 incl mandatory honorable mentions. This could easily be a Top 25 actually...

February brought us a lot of music and WAR. I must admit that I listened to a lot of old/klassik albums rather than new music in February 2022. And of course a lot of Ukranian black metal. From each crazy week with releases there were 3-4 albums that stayed with me and made it to the present list. I listed some left outs too. Sometimes the left outs grow, you know. And as usual, I always wonder what did I miss?...

2022 started. I continue here again...The year started slowly for me in terms of new releases. After the complete burnout in 2021, I was very picky in listening to new albums in January 2022, and I did prefer the older stuff.   For the below list I selected those twenty I enjoyed the most in the past month. I can tell that probably half of them I'll forget in one month's time. It might happen that an album that I missed here will grow....Anyhow, I leave these 20 here for the sake of history and as a reminder of what I've been into.  So here we go again. The first monthly list with my recomendations for 2022 in no particlular order. Or not? Enjoy in any case! Oh, yes, one more thing - Blogger sucks! I'll migrate everything to another platform very soon. And it may end up to being motivate in creating more content. Fuck it! ABYSSUS - Death Revival Release Date: 21 January 2022 Bandcamp NIGHT HAG - Phantasmal Scourge Release Date: 28 January 2022 Bandcamp STANGARIGEL - Na ...

Continuing my travel back in time. This turned to be a regular publication over the last years on the blog. In 1992 I witnessed some fantastic metal releases that I randomly listed below. Some of them became one of the greatest albums ever released.  Back then I was a teenager and I was digging into the genre to the best I could, discovering bands after bands, and albums after albums, as many as were available on the local pirate market...Great times that I'll always remember. I got my first CD audio player, first OP t-shirts, got in high school, and yes - all the parties began. Life was absolutely careless... If we just think for a moment, in 1992 albums like The Number of the Beast, Black Metal, Screaming for Vengeance, Saints and Sinner, Restless and Wild, Blackout, Combat Rock etc, they all turn 40!!! So let's go 30 years back in time now. 44 listed and lots of mandatory honorable mentions. 44 that stayed a lot with me and all honorable mentions that I often return to and l...