I don’t recall having seen this pop up in this community. Give a rundown of your favorite albums. Top slot, top 3, top 5, 10… whatever’s easiest to you since I know it can be tough to narrow things down to a specific degree.
It’ll be interesting to see where everyone is coming from in this regard. Could create for a good opportunity to discuss albums, find people with similar tastes, argue that a different album from someone’s catalog is better, etc.
I’ll throw mine down in a separate comment once I get it figured out.
Recent favourites, in no particular order:
Prog or adjacent : The ocean - Pelagial
Kglw - petrodragonic apocalypse (was my album of the year last year and one of the most fun albums I’ve heard in a long time. Felt like listening to painkiller or master of puppets for the first time. Legit top 10 all time album for me, I think)
Katatonia - the fall of hearts
Haken - affinity
Pain of salvation - in the passing light of day (or remedy lane or perfect element)
Soen - Lotus
Opeth - Ghost reveries (or any of the preceding albums, really)
Leprous - the congregation
Mastodon - crack the skye (or leviathan or emperor of sand)
Doom and adjacent: Warning - watching from a distance
Yob - our raw heart
My dying bride - feel the misery
Anathema - judgement
High on fire - death is this communion
Bongripper - Satan worshipping doom
Black and adjacent: Agalloch - the mountain
Negură bunget - virstele pamintilui (or OM)
Blackbraid - Blackbraid I or II
Bucovina - Sub stele (folk metal, really)
Power metal and such:
Dragony - viribus unitis
Blind Guardian - nightfall in middle earth (altho most of their stuff is awesome)
Adamantis - Far flung realm
Sellsword - unto the breach
Ominous Glory - the elven dream
And maaaaany more that would take me ages to list. If anyone vibes with any of the lists and wants more, hit me up, would be happy to talk more.
Yeeeah, some new doom to download! 🤟
Awesome :D enjoy!