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Brendan’s Top 50 Albums of 2018: Part 4 (20 to 11)

December 29, 2018December 19, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher album of 2018, Album of the Year, Alien Weaponry, Amr, At The Gates, best metal album, Bloodstock, Bloodstock Festival, BOA, Candlelight, catharsis, Century Media Records, Deicide, Dominion, Down Below, Dragonlord, Head Cage, Ihsahn, machine head, Make Them Bleed, Minus Head Records, Napalm Records, Nuclear Blast, Omnium Gatherum, Overtures of Blasphemy, Pig Destroyer, Relapse Records, Rock, Spinefarm Records, Terror Universal, The Burning Cold, To Drink From the Night Itself, Top 50, Top Lists, Top Ten, Tribulation, Tû, Universal

Welcome to part 4 of Brendan, from Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life’s, best rock and heavy metal albums of 2018, numbers 20 to 11.

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Top Lists - Music

Brendan’s Top 50 Albums of 2018: Part 2 (40 to 31)

December 27, 2018December 18, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Aborted, Album of the Year, Anti-, APF Records, Barbarian Hermit, Best album of 2018, best metal album, Black Flame, Breaching, Bury Tomorrow, Century Media Records, Conjurer, Deafheaven, Exist, Gizeh Records, Holy Roar Records, Hundred Year Old Man, Krisiun, Metal Blade Records, Mire, Music for Nations, OHHMS, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, Phanerozoic 1 - Palaeozoic, Relapse Records, Savagery, Scourge of the Enthroned, Skinless, Solitude and Savagery, TerrorVision, The Ocean, Top 50, Top Lists

This is part 2 of Brendan from Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life’s best rock and heavy metal albums of 2018, numbers 40 to 31.

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2018 Single Slam

Single Slam – Juniper by Myrkur (Juniper)

November 17, 2018November 16, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Album of the Year, Amalie Bruun, Atmospheric, Cathedral, cello, classically trained, composer, critical acclaim, Danish, England, Folk, ghost, Golden Gods Awards, Jaime Gomez Arellano, Juniper, m, Mareridt, Mausoleum, Melancholy, Metal hammer, multi instrumentalist, Myrkur, Orchestral, Orgone Studios, Paradise Lost, Relapse Records, Solstafir, strings, vocalist

Danish composer, vocalist and classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Myrkur, has released a new single called Juniper.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review – Head Cage by Pig Destroyer (Relapse Records)

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher Adam Jarvis, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, America, American, Blake Harrison, Book Burner, Doom, Grindcore, Groove, Head Cage, J.R. Hayes, John Jarvis, Kat Katz, Mass and Volume, Metal, Metalcore, New Metal, New Music, Pig Destroyer, Relapse Records, Scott Hull, Thrash

American grindcore outfit, Pig Destroyer, have released their long awaited 6th studio album, called Head Cage. Head Cage was released on the 7th of September via Relapse Records.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review – Savagery by Skinless (Relapse Records)

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher 0 Comments America, Bob Beaulac, Dave Matthews, Death metal, Foreshadowing Our Demise, From Sacrifice to Survival, Hurdle the Dead, Joe Keyser, Logs of Brutality, Metal, Miscreant, New York, Noah Carpenter, Only the Ruthless Remain, Progression Towards Evil, Relapse Records, Savagery, Sherwood Webber IV, Skinless, Thunder Wheel, Trample the Weak

American death metallers, Skinless, have released their latest album, called Savagery. Savagery came out on the 11th of May via Relapse Records. Savagery is a dark and crushingly heavy assault on the senses. You could even say, it’s savage.

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Album Reviews 2018

Album Review – Hellbender by Zeke (Relapse Records)

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Brendan 'Unholydarklotus' Fisher 0 Comments Blind Marky Felchtone, Dayne Porras, Energy, GBHBL, hardcore, Hellbender, Kurt Kolfelt, Kyle Whitefoot, Motörhead, New Metal, New Music, PGR, Project Gotham Racing, Punk, Relapse Records, Seattle, Thrash, Tony Hawks, Zeke

Returning with their first new full length album since 2014’s ‘Til The Living End, are Zeke with Hellbender. Released on the 30th of March via Relapse records, the Seattle based hardcore punk band show they still have all the energy and attitude that made them so popular back in the late 90’s, early 2000s.

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