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You can laugh at me and call me a poseur all you want but I love Five Finger Death Punch's album The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1; Volume 2 disappointed me, and the title is cheesy and overdone, but the music on the first volume really entertains me.

I think it has been a superb year for death metal in particular
I will agree with this, while it hasn't been the best year overall, the Death Metal scene stuck out to me.
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You can laugh at me and call me a poseur all you want but I love Five Finger Death Punch's album The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Volume 1; Volume 2 disappointed me, and the title is cheesy and overdone, but the music on the first volume really entertains me. I will agree with this, while it hasn't been the best year overall, the Death Metal scene stuck out to me.
Haha, poser. :D Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Best metal albums: Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn The Flight of Sleipnir - Saga Falkenbach - Asa Red Fang - Whales and Leeches Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daymona Eaytoy Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance Caladan Brood - Echeos of Battle Carpe Noctem - In Terra Profugus Non-metal: Wardruna - Runaljod Yggdrasil Daemonia Nymphe - Psychostasia Disappoitments: New Carcass (total failer, I don't know what people see in it), Watain, Burzum, Amon Amarth (again...), Kvelertak (it's actually not bad, but surely not as good as the debut album. My expactations were higher). There is pretty big possibility that I missed something.
Man, it's weird seeing people I know on best of lists. My band played with The Flight of Sleipnir last year at the Denver Doomfest, I dug their set and they were nice enough guys, haven't heard their new one though. I was a little underwhelmed by Essence of Nine, hopefully it's a bit better. Caladan Brood was a band I heard of via internet forums, despite that I see one of the two guys at local shows and have played multiple gigs with his other band, so it was weird to find out his band was getting so much hype. I've only heard a track or two, but it sounded like some good epic Summoning/Rivendell type stuff. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Man, it's weird seeing people I know on best of lists. My band played with The Flight of Sleipnir last year at the Denver Doomfest, I dug their set and they were nice enough guys, haven't heard their new one though. I was a little underwhelmed by Essence of Nine, hopefully it's a bit better. Caladan Brood was a band I heard of via internet forums, despite that I see one of the two guys at local shows and have played multiple gigs with his other band, so it was weird to find out his band was getting so much hype. I've only heard a track or two, but it sounded like some good epic Summoning/Rivendell type stuff.
Well, what can I say? For me it is especially weird to read an interview with somebody you know personally - once I've read an intie with a local death metal band Bestiar on big website here in Poland and I was kinda surprised by it :P Anyway the bands I've mentioned are really great and they deserve bigger support.
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For me only two first albums of CoB are worth listenning (and partly Follow the Reaper). Now their music seems to be played for teens and I don't like it. I prefered heavier stuff with organic sound. I like some of Amon Amarth's album, despite that they have bad reputation amongst 'true' metalheads... Yet I don't like their newer stuff, it's too melodic for me. I prefered rawer stuff in vain of their debut or Fate of Norns. I don't know the Savage Playground, never heard of them. What kind of music they play?

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I'm I the only one around here that actually liked Bodom's Halo Of Blood? Amon Amarth was.. well not big dissapointment but.. The Savage Playground from Crashdiet was also nice (one of my favorites of 2013)
I liked 'Halo of Blood' too.
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Tribulation - Formulas of Death (!!!!!!) Svart Crown - Profane Nails - Abandon All Life Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy Blockheads - This World Is Dead Guttural Secrete - Nourishing the Spoil P.L.F. - Devious Persecution and Wholesale Slaughter Iron Reagan - Worse Than Dead Progenie Terrestre Pura - U.M.A. Ulcerate - Vermis Black Sabbath - 13

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