The Editors Picks: The best releases of 2020 (July-December)
13.03.21 | Alex Sievers
Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
Having a powerful opener is sometimes all you need. And few opening songs in 2020 come as powerful as ‘
Open Wound‘ kicking off
Svalbard’s third album. What is overall a familiar, expected and perhaps unadventurous record for this U.K. band still cannot hope to diminish what a solid offering it was. Following an esteemed style of melodic hardcore, shoegaze, black metal and post-metal in the same school of thought as bands like
Envy,
Oathbreaker, and
Alcest, it’s a fucking consistent listen. Generating some of their best songs to date. It’s an impassioned album that can be read as either being about feeling like death might cure one’s own mental anguish; individuals – artists, actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians, your mate down the road – getting placed upon tall golden pedestals once they shuffle off this mortal coi
Marlborough post-rock band Circus Trees, sisters takes center stage
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Collaborative single titled for the inability to feel pleasure
Video of Chelsea Wolfe & Emma Ruth Rundle "Anhedonia" (Official Audio) January 28, 2021
Labelmates and kindred spirits, Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle have long seemed destined to join forces. That dream collaboration has finally come to fruition with Wolfe s haunting new song Anhedonia, featuring guest vocals and guitar from Rundle. The title is a psychiatric term for the inability to feel pleasure, and the concept takes gorgeous melancholic shape on the single, which is available now via digital retailers now. Listen above. I wrote Anhedonia after I experienced it during summer of 2019, then tucked the song away and moved forward with my acoustic album and subsequent North American tour, Wolfe said of the single. When COVID-19 hit and stay-at-home orders began in 2020, my European tour was canceled and I had to fly home. Restless, I started listening through my archives of
Kez Whelan
, January 20th, 2021 09:23
Don t worry about the metal whoppers taking part in the recent attempted coup, says Kez Whelan, there are a lot more relevant statements being made out there.
Asphyx
Any hopes 2021 would see a return to relative normality have been dashed in record time as Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer made headlines for the first time in, ooh, well over a decade this week, after being snapped amongst the armed, riotous mob of MAGA terrorists that stormed the US capitol.
It’s depressing, but hardly surprising; Schaffer has always been a reactionary right-wing idiot, as anyone who’s had the misfortune of sitting through his unbearably maudlin 9/11-themed ballad, When The Eagle Cries will attest.