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2022 TOP 100 TRAD METAL ALBUMS
Vintage doom to power metal, mostly traditional heavy metal! This is the result of countless hours spent listening to these albums....
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Emil
Jan 15, 20239 min read
2022 TOP 100 ROCK ALBUMS
Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Sleaze, Southern & AOR ... everything goes! 2022 was by far the best year for rock music in the last three...
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Emil
Dec 29, 20223 min read
2022 TOP 30 PROG ALBUMS
Rock & Metal albums with progressive music as the core element! Ranking the thirty best prog albums released this year was not an easy...
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Emil
Dec 22, 20222 min read
2022 TOP 25 MODERN METAL ALBUMS
Genre-fluid non-traditional metal: pop to melodeath ... all at once! It takes real talent in order for musicians to be able to navigate...
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Emil
Dec 19, 20222 min read
2022 TOP 25 RETRO ROCK ALBUMS
Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Here we have twenty-five best examples of modern acts taking on the heyday sounds of...
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Emil
Dec 15, 20222 min read
2022 TOP 20 BLUES/ROCK ALBUMS
Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock One of the oldest forms of secular music, "The Blues", is the pillar of much of the music we hear...
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Emil
Jul 6, 20222 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 6th (Extended) Edition. Many of these albums will climb high on this...
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Emil
Jun 29, 20222 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 5th (Extended) Edition. I've ditched this week's "... in the event...
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Emil
Jun 23, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 15th edition. Unfortunately I had no spare time to write individual...
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Emil
Jun 22, 20221 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 4th Edition. Three debutants and two veteran acts round up this 4th...
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Emil
Jun 15, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 14th edition. The 10 titles on this week's edition cover a lot of ground....
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Emil
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 13th edition. Here are ten recently released titles that for whatever...
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Emil
Jun 6, 20221 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 3rd Edition. I won't be surprised if all these records will find their...
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Emil
May 31, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 12th edition. European rock and metal reign supreme on this 12th weekly...
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Emil
May 25, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 11th edition. Standard ten titles weekly edition of ... in the event they...
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Emil
May 18, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 10th edition. With the hard rock getting its own spotlight this week...
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Emil
May 16, 20222 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 2nd Edition. When facing all the daily incertitudes, we once again...
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Emil
May 10, 20223 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 9th (MEGA) edition. The second half of April was rather generous with its...
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Emil
May 3, 20222 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 8th edition. In this week's edition, I will focus on hard rock and the...
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Emil
Apr 25, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 7th edition. Perhaps not the most popular metal releases of the last...
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Emil
Apr 19, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 6th edition. Another week has gone by. Here are ten recent albums. Some...
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Emil
Apr 12, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 5th edition. Standard, ten titles, mix bag (5th) edition. In the event...
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Emil
Apr 5, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. MEGA (4th) edition. The month of March was particularly generous with the...
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Emil
Apr 3, 20221 min read
ROCK AIN'T DEAD!
Recommended new releases with hard rock as the common denominator. 1st Edition. Sweden alone will keep the flame of melodic rock music...
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Emil
Mar 28, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. MEGA (3rd) edition. Only very few titles contained here had some level of...
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Emil
Mar 21, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 2nd edition. As another week rolls by, here are ten rock & metal albums...
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Emil
Mar 17, 202212 min read
D&L's IMMINENT CARNAGE
Forthcoming extreme metal albums! New edition of Imminent Carnage! Ten upcoming extreme metal albums set to be released in the next 45...
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Emil
Mar 14, 20221 min read
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Weekly synopsis of recent releases that deserve your attention. 1st edition. Most readers are most likely already familiar with my...
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Emil
Dec 30, 20213 min read
2021 TOP 50 EXTREME METAL ALBUMS
... from the abysmal depths of eternal damnation! ... and here it is! 2021 Top 50 Extreme Metal albums! No individual...
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Emil
Dec 29, 20213 min read
2021 TOP 50 TRAD METAL
Traditional metal: Heavy Metal, Power Metal & Doom Metal! Splitting the top metal albums list into two distinct lists was absolutely...
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Emil
Dec 28, 20212 min read
2021 TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS
Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Sleaze, Southern & AOR ... everything goes! And they say rock is dead ... 50 BLACKØWL Fly Away Spain Released on...
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Emil
Dec 27, 20213 min read
2021 TOP 50 PROG ALBUMS
Rock & Metal albums with progressive music as the core element! Judging by the overwhelming number of quality debut and comeback...
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Emil
Dec 26, 20212 min read
2021 TOP 30 MODERN METAL ALBUMS
Genre-fluid non-traditional metal: pop to melodeath ... all at once! 2021 was an incredible year for rock and metal music with its...
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Emil
Dec 23, 20212 min read
2021 TOP 20 RETRO ROCK ALBUMS
Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Nothing dated here. Simple greatness that happens to sound as if was written and...
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Emil
Dec 22, 20213 min read
2021 TOP 20 BLUES/ROCK ALBUMS
Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock "The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a...
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Emil
Jul 4, 20211 min read
2021 D&L Q2 Top 10 Metal Albums
The only possible positive side to this miserable covid affair, for the past eighteen months or so, was the ample time musicians had to...
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Emil
Jul 3, 20212 min read
2021 D&L Q2 Top 10 Rock Albums
Is real rock maintaining potential? I'm not talking about the horseshit promoted as "rock" by the mainstream. No. Hell no! Seven out of...
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Emil
Jul 1, 20211 min read
2021 D&L Q2 Top 10 Prog Albums
Prog has continued to rise to the occasion during the 2nd quarter of 2021. Whereas Q1 was inclined more towards the prog-roots, Q2 was...
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Emil
Apr 11, 20217 min read
D&L's IMMINENT CARNAGE
Forthcoming Death Metal Albums Ten great forthcoming Death Metal albums scheduled to be released in the next 45 days. Mark your...
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Emil
Apr 8, 20211 min read
2021 D&L Q1 Top 10 Prog Albums
Prog rock is riding high this year! Its longevity surpassing any other contemporary rock or metal genres, prog, luring not only new fans...
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Emil
Apr 6, 20212 min read
2021 D&L Q1 Top 10 Rock Albums
Rock is also being well represented so far this year. Still not quite at the same volume of releases as its more aggressive counterparts,...
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Emil
Apr 5, 20212 min read
2021 D&L Q1 Top 10 Metal Albums
... music in the time of pandemic. With each passing week of 2021 we are witnessing tidal wave after tidal wave of new releases in the...
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Emil
Dec 29, 20203 min read
2020 TOP 50 METAL ALBUMS
From Faithful Trad to Avant-garde Black - All Delivered in Spades! From the Hellfire inferno the Metal army has risen once again! Despite...
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Emil
Dec 27, 20203 min read
2020 TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS
Hard Rock, Prog Rock, AOR & Glam Metal Thirty years ago the styles and sub-genres clearly exemplified by the following fifty titles were...
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Emil
Dec 25, 20201 min read
2020 TOP 10 EP/MLP
Often offering an alternate point-of-view, exploring new musical nuances, cover songs, different mixes, are all elements that make for...
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Emil
Dec 23, 20202 min read
2020 TOP 10 RETRO ROCK ALBUMS
Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Due to this year's tidal wave of quality releases, I've decided to expend not only...
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Emil
Dec 20, 20202 min read
2020 TOP 10 BLUES/ROCK ALBUMS
Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock Kicking off 2020 year's end festivities with a top ten of the most exciting electric blues and...
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Emil
May 2, 20203 min read
Straight Outta Catacombs
EMIL'S DEEP UNDERGROUND RECOS (part X) Thrash Metal ... and beyond ... Edition! Thrash metal without a message is just bogus. Whereas...
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Emil
Feb 9, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part V: Long Live Rock 'n' Roll ... the 2010s Our journey through 50 years of metal ends (for now) on a high note. Over the course of the...
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Emil
Jan 31, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part IV: A World Ablaze ... the 2000s Starting around the mid 1990s, alongside grunge, metal maintained a quasi-mainstream edge via...
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