Sorry about the delay and the lack of anything vidja game writing wise lately. Last couple days have seen me getting my ass absolutely kicked by some sort of tropical weapon grade illness or something. I’m finally back to te world of the living though, so let us continue!

Honorable Mentions
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45-41

40

Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest

Heavier than the fucking pyramids. Nothing says death metal like Egyptian deity worship from South Carolinian dudes. Technical, full of thrash, and dark as all hell. Nile has never really gone wrong, maybe one CD wasn’t very good but the rest were killer. This CD is more metal than Pete’s Moms head.

39

The Fall of Troy – In the Unlikely Event

This is another example of me apparently liking a band backwards. I was never into The Fall of Troy, they had a couple songs I was into, but not a whole CDs worth. Oddly enough, while I couldn’t stand their full lengths, all their EPs are great. I figured maybe this band just couldn’t do full lengths. Thats fine I guess. But then they came out with this, which I thought was fantastic, and apparently I’m horribly wrong. Their fans hate this album so much they could create diamonds with their clenched fists due to how angry they are it is on a Top 50 list. I don’t get it. It’s definitely the best album they’ve ever done.

38

Iron Age – The Sleeping Eye

“Constant Struggle” was an awesome hardcore album, but Iron Age clearly wasn’t content with that. I was super surprised by the direction they took, because this is almost straight thrash. There are still hardcore breakdowns and you can still hear their original influence, but Christ. This is as good a thrash album as “Constant Struggle” was a hardcore album. Honestly, it is better. I think I like Iron Age with the thrash worship more than I liked them before.

37

Oh, Sleeper – Son of the Morning

I didn’t expect to like this at all- I had heard it described as pretty by the numbers metalcore and, I had assumed, I would be fairly tired of that genre by now. Apparently not. Oh, Sleeper figures out how to keep it interesting. They remind me a little bit of a heavier Hopesfall, but a heavier good Hopesfall from like 8 years ago. They do some spacey stuff, and the Between the Buried and Me influence is pretty noticeable, so it definitely isn’t as generic as it was made out to be. It sounds more like what the genre would be if we just skipped everything between “Opposite of December” and now.

36

Archives – Decline

Ah here we go, it took me a while but here is the first post-rock/screamo hybrid to make the list. Archives heavier than most bands who started getting post-rock in their screamo and screamo in their post-rock. They remind me a lot of Envy if Envy was Scottish. At least I think Archives is Scottish, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of information about them anywhere. So get on this on the ground floor and then act cool when you don’t like the next album!