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Sean's Fave List for 2024
A little late but not worse for the wear, a list/ quick discussion of my favorite releases from the year 2024. Not much controvery here if you follow my older lists; much metal, much local. Without further...
Sean Talks About His Favorites From 2023
Apologies for the extreme lateness of this 2023 favorites list, but its been a hectic 2024 so far. You can check out the Heavy Metal Buddies metal top twenty (which is different from mine here) at this...
2022 Year End Faves
Better late than never, I have to admit the delayed nature of this year-end best of post is mostly thanks to me waiting for the perfect picture; so many vinyl records had delayed schedules and many of...
2021 Year End Faves
So 2021 was A LOT. As ususal my list of favorite albums I bought or just jammed is heavy on local stuff and metal/ adjacent fare. I managed to give about 400 albums/ EPs a go the past year, so getting...
Johnny K's Best Metal of 2021
1-a.) Wraith – Undo the Chains Blistering black-speed-thrash-whatever-the-heck from Indiana. I love it. On this follow-up to 2019’s fantastic Absolute Power, Wraith employ the best parts...
2020 Year End Faves
Well, it was a crazy year and I didn't get to listen to as much new music as I normally do (around 250 new releases test played front to back as compared to my usual 500-600) but I still found plenty...
Sean Knight's 2019 Favorites
Happy 2020 from IMG! We hope it will become an annual tradition here for writers to talk about their top favorite records at year's end. Johnny K sent in his best metal records of 2019 and I wrote...
Top Ten Metal of 2019
Metal fanatic Johnny K shares his favorite metal. hard rock releases of 2019: check it out! 1.) Hellripper - Black Arts and Alchemy. This was a late discovery for me, but it absolutely blew me away....