Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - March 2021 - Genghis Tron I had a really hard time deciding which album I was going to pick this month; there were two albums that I thought were really amazing. Because of this I figure I should at least tell you to also go listen to Mirrors by Pupil Slicer. It's an
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - February 2021 - Cult of Luna Cult of Luna is a band that I hadn't ever listened to before I came across Mariner, their collaborative album with Julie Christmas. Mariner quickly became one of my favourite albums of all time; Julie's vocal style goes perfectly their their style of music. Although I
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - January 2021 - The Body If you've never listened to The Body before, you're in for an experience. They're often referred to as "experimental metal" or "sludge metal" but I don't really think either of those describe them that well; in my opinion
Featured Albums My Top Albums of 2020 Going to stick with the arbitrary number of albums in my top albums list like I did last year. This year my list contains 21 albums that I enjoyed. I've also decided that I'm probably just going to list the albums and not say a bunch
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - November 2020 - Fuck the Facts After five years, one of my favourite bands of all time has finally returned. I'm not aware of why they were away for so long, but it seems to have been worth it, because this album is awesome, one of their best in quite some time. One thing
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - October 2020 - Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou Honestly it took me a little while to appreciate Thou. I always really expected to like them, but for some unknown reason I just didn't at first. The more music they put out the more I listened, and eventually they hooked me, and now they're one
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - September 2020 - The Ocean It's no secret that I've been a big fan of The Ocean ever since I first listened to Heliocentric a decade ago. While I do think this is a strong album, there also isn't really anything new or exciting going on here. The Ocean
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - August 2020 - Cavern This is an album (and band) that I randomly discovered because it came up on my Release Radar playlist on Spotify. I really enjoy it and it's a lot less heavy than what I usually listen to. The number of plays this band has on Spotify in ridiculously
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - July 2020 - A.A. Williams I've found that I've been listening to quite a bit of post-rock/metal-adjacent, female singers lately, and A.A. Williams is probably one of the best in that category. I came across her self-titled debut by chance last year and really enjoyed it. Forever Blue is
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - June 2020 - Vile Creature Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm! is far and away the best album I've heard in a long time. It's ridiculous how good this album is. Somehow I'd never even heard of Vile Creature before they released the preview singles for this album. If you
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - May 2020 - Old Man Gloom Also featured two months ago in March, Old Man Gloom has put out the second part of their double album. They're one of my favourite bands of all time, and I think this album is significantly stronger than Seminar IX from March. The songs check all the boxes.
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - April 2020 - Oranssi Pazuzu Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin kynsi Genre: Psychedelic Black Metal Hometown: Tampere, Finland Track Listing: 1. Ilmestys 2. Tyhjyyden sakramentti 3. Uusi teknokratia 4. Oikeamielisten sali 5. Kuulen ääniä maan alta 6. Taivaan portti This band always seems to be getting a ton of love, and I get why. They'
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - March 2020 Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness of Being Genre: Sludge Metal / Post-metal Hometown: Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA Track Listing: 1. Procession of the
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - February 2020 Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions Genre: Progressive Metal Hometown: Los Angeles, CA, USA Track Listing: 1. Procurement of the Victuals 2. Cubensis 3. The Cull
Featured Albums Sten's Album of the Month - January 2020 - Leeched Sten's Album of the Month is a monthly post where I mention an album that I either really liked or just found interesting. Leeched - To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse Genre: Hardcore Home Town: Manchester, UK Track Listing: 1. The Hound's Jaw 2. The
Featured Albums My Top 20 Albums of 2019 Yeah yeah I know it's already February. What can I say? Life gets busy. This year I decided to try out a slightly different format with my post. When I was compiling my shortlist it came out to exactly twenty albums, so I decided to just list all
Featured Albums Featured Album - September 2019 - Chelsea Wolfe Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence Genre: Folk / Experimental From: California, USA Track Listing: 1. The Mother Road 2. American Darkness 3. Birth of Violence 4. Deranged for Rock & Roll 5. Be All Things 6. Erde 7. When Anger Turns to Honey 8. Dirt Universe 9. Little Grave 10.
Featured Albums Featured Album - August 2019 - Russian Circles Russian Circles - Blood Year Genre: Post-Metal / Instrumental
Featured Albums Featured Album - July 2019 - Wear Your Wounds Wear Your Wounds - Rust on the Gates of Heaven Genre: Post-Rock / Metal Origin: Essex, Massachusetts, USA Track Listing: 1. Mercifully 2. Rust on the Gates of Heaven 3. Paper Panther 4. Tomorrow's Sorrow 5. Brittle Pillar 6. Truth is a Lonely Word 7. Rainbow Fades 8. Love
Featured Albums Featured Album - June 2019 - Jambinai Jambinai - ONDA Genre: Experimental / Post-Rock / Korean Folk Origin: Seoul, South Korea Track Listing: 1. Sawtooth 2. Square Wave 3. Event Horizon 4. Sun, Tears, Red 5. In the Woods 6. Small Consolation 7. ONDA Prelude 8. ONDA Jambinai is another recently discovered band for me. Like Big Brave last
Featured Albums Featured Album - May 2019 - Big Brave This album has everything I want from an experimental album. Heavy distortion, while still being super chill and laid back; paired with haunting vocals. I hadn't heard of Big Brave before this but I'm definitely a fan now. Being Canadian is always a bonus as well.
Featured Albums Featured Album - April 2019 - Suldusk Suldusk - Lunar Falls Genre: Dark Folk / Atmospheric Black Metal Origin: Melbourne, Australia Track Listing: 1. Eleos 2. Solus Ipse 3. The Elm 4. Aphasia 5. Three Rivers 6. Autumnal Resolve 7. Catacombs 8. Nazaré 9. Drogue 10. Sovran Shrines This is a one-woman project I stumbled upon recently which
Featured Albums Featured Album - March 2019 - Devin Townsend Devin Townsend - Empath Genre: Metal Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Track Listing: 1. Castaway 2. Genesis 3. Spirits Will Collide 4. Evermore 5. Sprite 6. Hear Me (ft. Chad Kroeger) 7. Why? 8. Borderlands 9. Requiem 10. Singularity I've loved almost everything Devin has put out for
Featured Albums Featured Album - February 2019 - Ithaca Ithaca - The Language of Injury Genre: Hardcore Origin: London, UK Track Listing: 1. New Covenant 2. Impulse Crush 3. Secretspace 4. Slow Negative Order 5. (No Translation) 6. The Language of Injury 7. CLSR 8. Youth vs Wisdom 9. Gilt 10. Better Abuse I think I said this sometime
Featured Albums Featured Album - January 2019 - MONO MONO - Nowhere Now Here Genre: Instrumental Post-Rock/Post-Metal Origin: Tokyo, Japan Track Listing: 1. God Bless 2. After You Comes the Flood 3. Breathe 4. Nowhere, Now Here 5. Far and Further 6. Sorrow 7. Parting 8. Meet Us Where the Night Ends 9. Funeral Song 10. Vanishing, Vanishing
