Another year and another massive selection of releases, and once again - another anguish time of culling, or as some would say - not culling since there’s 150 albums here.
Of course, as usual - there’s also a great many releases I’ve missed, or just not heard, or accidentally left off the list when building the images so just went with it (Beardfish I’m talking about you, a most excellent return release).
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Last night the mighty Nile decimated Auckland's new Double Whammy Bar venue, a sold out show with blistering technical death metal, and the stench of mummified slaves all enthralled by what they witness.
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It's a hot, wet muggy Friday night, and where do we go? A hot wet muggy Galatos….
A three-punch assault from Florida Death metal legends Obituary, Tasmanias Psycroptic, and our own Dunedin-based Utilize The Remains, I’m surprised the floor at Galatos didn't cave in.
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Somehow it seems I never actually published my Top Albums of 2022 here, which I must rectify soon - however, after much anguish and culling and pulling 50 albums into the “Top of 2023 Runners Up” overflow list, here’s my favourite 100 albums (that I managed to get around to listening to) split into two alphabetical lists - no rankings here!
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I may not agree with them lyrically, but I've always admired Nergal’s (Adam Darsky) lyricism - the interplay of words that twist the biblical on its head.
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A small selection of Clæmus, Coridian, and Pull Down The Sun videos from BigFan on Friday night.
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Last Night was a small, intimate show with Wellington’s BULLETBELT, Christchurch’s 3000 A.D, and the live debut of Aucklands DEADHOUSE GATES at Aucklands Whammy Bar - whilst the turnout to the was less than desirable on a cold, wet, miserable night - it was a great night of metal and catch ups with friends.
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Blackgaze - a genre so perplexingly out of sorts with itself that it somehow works, and works in a beautiful wave of soundscapes that leave the senses in an odd trans-dimensional euphoria.
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