Incarnate showcased a far more introspective KSE than we were used to. The metalcore veterans have been on rare form since the return of Jesse Leach, but it hasn’t all been plain sailing. This resulted in a seamless balancing act, from masterful beginnings to its restful end. Sumptuous, refined songwriting, expert pacing, and Jonas Renkse’s spellbinding vocals set the scope towards cinematic vistas while additionally, the Swedish innovators held their metallic roots firmly. Katatonia’s creative spark burned bright once again on this follow- up to 2012’s Dead End Kings.
The album itself was a surprise what shocked even more was Avenged’s ability to rewrite their own rulebook yet again. Leaving behind the no-nonsense heavy metal simplicities of Hail To The King, Avenged Sevenfold crafted a wondrous journey through shifting tones and moods, progressive, exploratory sounds and, in the 15-minute conceptual epic Exist, the boldest sonic leap of their career. Epic, dramatic and surprisingly accessible thanks to its heavy metal influences, the band crafted a moody yet uptempo masterpiece and one of their most powerful works to date. Rotting Christ’s decade-long return to the cutting edge of extreme metal has been characterised by a dynamic and bombastic approach to songwriting and Rituals epitomised that approach from its opening number. Wardruna’s music awakens something primal and universal within the human spirit and the energy here suggested that broader success is more than within the band’s reach. Its esoteric ambience was all-encompassing yet its songwriting surprisingly tight, despite the ritualistic magick of the whole affair. The third and final part of the Wardruna’s first trilogy proved their most focused to date. 21) Neurosis - Fires Within FiresĪ legend 30 years in the making, Fires Within Fires, Neurosis’s 12th album was a crucible of existential frustration. 22) Alcest - Kodamaįrance’s ‘blackgaze’ pioneers revisited earlier records and reinvigorated their sound, with a spellbinding, Far Eastern feel. The tech-metal heroes inundated their fifth album with epic hooks and irresistible choruses.
23) Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty We could almost smell the pyres while immersed in this Enslaved/Wardruna collaborative brooding canon of folk and metal. Gut-wrenching melody and scorching post-hardcore musicianship merged in perfect form on Oathbreaker’s finest album yet.
More epic than ever, Dream Theater whipped out a double-disc conceptual rock opera of staggering proportions.
We needed every aspirin in the bottle to recover from the neck-snapping intensity of this blackened-thrash beatdown. Thank the Fox God! 29) Deströyer 666 - Wildfire The sugar-coated Japanese powerhouse chucked us another tank-load of massive, catchy hooks.
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