I really hope for the best for them. Cancer is awful for everyone involved. My dad has been going through it for almost four years and it seems like a never-ending battle. All you can do is keep fighting.
Best luck to you and your dad. My dad has been fighting cancer for 16 years now, and as of last year, he’s been battling two different kinds of cancer. It’s a continuous fight, and I think it’s his support system that has kept him going for as long as he has. He needs you and you’ve got this!
I haven’t stopped listening to that song. It’s fucking incredible and as someone who would be in the grave with my wife if something happened to her, I feel with Chris more than anything.
Bro for some reason I thought they were like…idk beatdown or something? Not that I’d have an issue with that, but that album was sick and unique and I guess I just had never given them a chance because I didn’t realize they sounded like that.
I think they started more beatdown/hardcore and have progressed into this more experimental metal sound as each album has released. I feel like they really started experimenting with the MC sound in ‘People watching’ and when they realized that people really fucked with their clean vocals it gave them the green light to progress into ‘From a distance’s’ sound
I am a bigger fan of Boundaries but to me that record didn’t do anything they haven’t done before- same for 156/Silence.
Static Dress had some insane quality songs on that album (Treading and human props are incredible), Loathe really tried some different stuff and did well.
Boundaries album has already taken over as my most streamed of the year and I heard of them for the first time like a week after it dropped. Incredible album.
This album wasn't even on my radar until it dropped. Was for sure thinking my AOTY was gonna be Boundaries or Loathe, but man, I Guess It Was Nowhere is flawless.
Not even a question. ERRA gets pretty close, but I Guess It Was Nowhere is so unbelievably dense that it’s kept me replaying it way more than I otherwise would
I swear I listened to it all the way through twice a day for like 60 days in a row after it came out. My wife surprise bought me the vinyl too which was awesome as I live in Canada and the shipping wasn’t cheap
Some great albums this year for sure.
I have The Gloom in the Corner, Boundaries, Loathe, What Lies Below, 156/Silence, Varials, Banks Arcade, Static Dress, concealer., all on regular rotation as well
Never heard of No Cure. Definitely the best album I’ve heard so far and I love boundaries, 156, and above below. Brain matter displacement goes fucking hard
ERRA just keeps improving. And they started off good. They’re amazing live (much more confident today than a few years ago) and their releases are consistently phenomenal. They might be my favorite band ever. It feels like everyone works their ass off to up their game, which is not common.
Hands down. So much good stuff this year but I just keep coming back to it over and over. To be fair, I beat CURE to a pulp and it got stale but somehow SOTE has been in my daily rotation and somehow it just gets better.
This is still my pick. The Wage War singles have both been heaters, but i didn't think their album will match the depth and complexity of ERRA. I think WW will be my favorite album to blast at the gym.
Can we get some more love around here for their other killer single they released this year with Night Rider? (also, side note: go listen to Night Rider if you like Midwinter and haven’t checked them out too! They sound like sister bands.)
Shortlist so far is:
No Cure - It Is Going To Get Dark
Temple Guard - Citadel In Flames
A Winter's Remorse - The Day Our Gods Abandoned Us
Roman Candle - Unadulterated
Converge - Love Is Not Enough
Varials - Where The Light Leaves
Living Weapon - Death In The Family
Soulprison - The More I See, The More I Bleed
Burner's record literally came out today, so probably a bit early, but it's going to come into contention I'm sure.
Really close right now between Converge - Love is Not Enough and Boundaries - Yearning. Just got done listening to Burner - No One is Coming to Save Us, and holy shit it's definitely gonna be a contender. It scratches a very specific itch, and I can already tell I'm gonna be spending a lot of time with that album in the coming days.
Not metalcore, but the new Neurosis and Sigh albums are strong contenders for me also.
Insane I had to scroll over 30 comments just to find a single mention of Converge, especially with a lot of those comments not even being metalcore (not even being gatekeepy, just straight up not metalcore)
This new album I’ve had on repeat since it released. It’s so cohesive yet the songs are so distinct. Just a fun listening experience all around. One of the best albums of the 2020s let alone the year
Some very unique, awesome songs on that album. I think it you told me a year ago that a metal album would have a Nickelback feature, I'd have looked at you like you had two heads
Don Broco easily right now. What a fun and unique record! True Believers is probably my most listened to song this year.
Northlane is on track to take that title though, all three singles have been some of my favorite material they've ever done. Windwaker and Wage War still have albums I'm really looking forward to also, and I still gotta listen to the new Holding Absence record, so we'll see what happens a month from now.
i LOVE both albums but i rate 156 higher too, i feel like i had to manage my expectations with Loathe after ILIIAITE cuz that was just flawless front to back, so i wanted to be happy with whatever they put out bc there’s really no way to really live up to that project imo. but 156 i had high expectations after People Watching and they fully blew em out of the water.
Most of mine are ep’s, and I have a few toss ups, but so far Temple Guard, Contention, Gods Hate, Day of Salvation, Sin Against Sin, Indication/Watch You Fall/Seasons End and Bleach to Death all have releases that are toss up’s for my favourite.
Sadly not that much special stuff for me other than that album, MiW was decent but sadly not an AOTY contender even though i though it would have no competation
Nothing is beating boundaries - yearning for me. I've been addicted to 156/silence - from a distance but that would be in 2nd place with a decent gap between them. Other than that i don't really enjoy anything else that seems to be popular in this sub.
156 for sure. Took me a few listens but I just keep coming back. I love how atmospheric it sounds and unpopular opinion but I love the cleans.
I really expected to like the boundaries album more but I’ve barely come back to it. It’s heavy, but that’s about all it does for me. Feels like it’s just being heavy just for the sake of.
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u/RShadow98 22d ago
Its an ep but I keep coming back to Like Moths to Flames new release. Its so gut wrenching