moj drug metalika

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As always, I’m dating myself with my taste in music, but so be it. Sumerlands is an unheralded act set to explode on the nostalgia-core scene with their self-titled release and let’s just say, I’m fully on board. Featuring Phil Swanson (Hour of 13, Briton Rites, et al) on vocals, Sumerlands plays exactly the kind of music I couldn’t get enough of in the late 80s/early 90s. It’s dark, brooding, traditional American metal with traces of prog and doom around the edges. The best way to describe them is early Queensrÿche mixed with the proggy quirks of Wicked Maraya and Lord Bane. Another obscure comparison, and the one the music keeps bringing me back to is the short-lived, wildly overlooked Cities. If asked to describe this debut in one word, I’d be forced to go with “classy,” for this is some seriously serious, elegant metal with both feet in a bygone decade. Some wags dubbed the style “sport coat metal” and I suppose that’s fair in the sense it’s very cerebral, introspective and heady stuff, but what matters is that the songs kick copious booty, and that they do, friends. That they do. As soon as the opening strains of “Seventh Seal” greet your ears you’ll be transported back to the olden days via the style and vintage production which truly captures the sound of the era. It’s so precise it seems like an album from 88-89 I somehow overlooked and am only now discovering.

After a few minutes discussing the heaviest records we can think of including Gluey Porch Treatment by Nightmare Before Christmas curators, The Melvins ("That is a heavy fucking record") and Roots by Sepultura ("It’s a fucking crazy record sonically – nothing like that had ever been done before with all that Brazilian drumming"), it occurs to us to ask if everyone in Nirvana felt the same way about this sort of music. He declares: "Kurt and Kris loved Celtic Frost as well as me. It’s weird because people only really know Nirvana from 1991 onwards. Nobody realises that the people who made ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ were totally into Flipper and the Butthole Surfers. That was the music we grew up with and it didn’t necessarily surface in Nirvana’s music but the spirit of it was there. We all grew up listening to the same music. It was one of the first conversations that I had with Kurt and from Celtic Frost to Neil Young to Public Enemy, we all loved the same music."

Fenriz's Top 15 Of 2016
1. Hexvessel - When We Are Death
2. Eternal Champion – The Armor Of Ire
3. Sumerlands – s/t
4. Demon Bitch – Hellfriends
5. Black Viper – Storming With Vengeance
6. Virus – Memento Collider
7. Malokarpatan – Stridzie Dni
8. Rust -   Raw Shredding Death
9. Ripper (Chile) – Experiment Of Existence
10. Blood Ceremony – Lord Of Misrule
11. Spell - For None And All
12. Tarot - Reflections
13. Naevus -   Heavy Burden
14. Temisto – s/t
15. Vulture - Victim To The Blade

ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2016

[*]Vektor - Terminal Redux: 8-2-5-2-2-4-2-2-2-0 = 411pts

[*]Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones: 3-3-2-2-3-1-0-1-2-2 = 231pts

[*]Blood Incantation - Starspawn: 3-2-2-3-2-1-2-3-0-1 = 230pts

[*]Avantasia - Ghostlights: 5-4-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-0 = 201pts

[*]Sumerlands - Sumerlands: 2-2-3-3-1-1-2-0-0-0 = 197pts

[*]Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire: 2-2-2-0-2-1-1-1-1-1 = 157pts

[*]Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis: 2-1-2-1-0-2-1-1-1-1 = 137pts

[*]Mithras - On Strange Loops: 1-1-2-1-2-3-0-1-1-2 = 137pts

[*]Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika: 2-0-0-2-3-2-1-1-1-0 = 132pts

[*]Inquisition - Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith: 1-1-2-3-1-0-1-1-0-1 = 130pts