I’ve reviewed a decent amount of metal records, I’ve made four Black (Metal) Mixmas mixes, and last year’s non-genre list had a few metal records in it, but I’ve never done a full metal-only list (except for the little thing in Black (Metal) Mixmas IV), so I hope this doesn’t seem too out of place, but honestly I listen to wayyyyy more metal than I ever write about on AGB, so this sort of makes up for that I guess. I’m not as deep into the metal scene as I am the drone one, so I’m sure there’s way more awesome obscure metal records that would’ve made it onto this list had I heard them, but whatever. If you’ve got any recs, let me know in the comments or email!
And in case you’re not a huge metal fan, know that there’s plenty of stuff on this list that A: is only debatably metal (see: numbers 15, 13, 12, 1) and B: has plenty of AGB friendly elements aka drone, noise, etc (see: numbers 9, 6, 5, 4, 1).
Have fun. Thanks for reading/listening/appreciating.
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One song from each of my 10 favorite drone collaborations this year. Nothin but the best.
AGB Radio 2015/11/23 – Top 10 Collaborations Drone Countdown
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Background music: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma – Strange Dreams (from We Know Each Other Somehow)
00:00:00 Spheruleus And Friends – Upper Wharfdale (from William Barber)
00:07:16 Talk break
00:09:23 Chihei Hatakeyama & Federico Durand – Cordelia (from Magical Imaginary Child)
00:25:08 Walks On The Beach – Colorization from Adoption Tapes)
00:36:58 Talk break
00:38:01 Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci – The Joy Of Loneliness (from The Prelude To)
00:48:32 The Humble Bee & Aaron Martin – Blood And Fold (from Dialog Tapes)
00:57:42 Talk break
00:59:22 EUS, Postdrome & Saåad – The Only Path (from Different Streams)
01:07:37 Rvnes & Mass – Untitled (from All Men Are Prey To The Same Beast)
01:25:31 Talk break
01:26:19 High Aura’d & Mike Shiflet – Covered Bridge (from Awake)
01:35:06 Celer & Nicholas Szczepanik – IV (from Here, For Now)
01:52:58 Perils – Leveled (from Perils)
01:59:08 Talk break
There was so much amazing fucking music this year, I had to put together not one, not two, but FOUR lists, this is the first of em, and it’s a fuckin doozy, since there were wayyyy too many killer drone records, I split it up and made a more niche list of drone collaborations, and as usual, this isn’t even all of em. My main rule for this list was that the collaborations had to be people working together for the first time, so the new From The Mouth Of The Sun was out. And since I didn’t review any of these originally, I can’t link you to the review which has a streaming song, which is why I decided to include a song for each of these.
Have fun. Thanks for reading/listening/appreciating.
UPDATE: I have no idea how I didn’t realize that EUS, Postdrome, & Saåad broke the only rule I had for this list. I didn’t even realize it when I was linking to my previous Top Drone list from 2012 that had their first record. So, oops. I’m an asshole and I’m sorry.
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I almost dropped the ball on the new Ian William Craig. That would’ve been disastrous. Also, watch out for the DIS & GTT collab halfway through. It might kill ya.
AGB Radio 2015/11/16
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Background music: Ensemble Economique – From The Train Window, Red Flowers On The Mountain (from Blossoms In Red)
00:00:00 Dan Friel – Life (Pt. 2) (from Life)
00:05:35 Talk break
00:06:58 Ian William Craig – Habit Worn And Wandering (from Cradle For The Wanting)
00:13:54 Cinchel – The Computer Ate My Homework (Part 1) (from Steps³ (Bonus Day))
00:24:13 Andrew Weathers And The Real Life Rock & Roll Band – The Reason Young People Use Drugs (from Omaha b/w The Reason Young People Use Drugs)
00:29:57 Talk break
00:31:54 PC Worship – Done (from Basement Hysteria)
00:41:01 Gates – A Mask Hidden In Memory (from Palace Of Mirrors)
00:51:31 The Fates – Who Am I? (from Furia)
01:00:09 Talk break
01:02:00 Arca – Mutant (from Mutant)
01:09:27 Dragged Into Sunlight & Gnaw Their Tongues – Absolver (from N.V.)
01:17:21 Panopticon – Into The North Woods (from Autumn Eternal)
01:23:37 Mary Lattimore – Luciferin Light (from Luciferin Light)
01:31:17 Talk break
01:32:31 bvdub – No Glory For The Risen (from Safety In A Number)
01:41:48 Hakobune – Yamagata (from Mizukagami)
01:50:26 Stephan Mathieu – Stasis 1 (Dallas’ Dream) (from Before Nostromo)
01:58:34 Talk break
Little trio of brand new Room40 releases to start off and end with some 100% brainfuckery courtesy of the debut Indek record.
AGB Radio 2015/11/09
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Background music: Hilde Marie Holsen – Alkali (from Ask)
00:00:00 Sustainer – Radio 06 (from Radiolas)
00:07:12 Talk break
00:07:57 Norman Westberg – Frostbite Falls (from 13)
00:18:58 Rafael Anton Irisarri – Secretly Wishing For Rain (from A Fragile Geography)
00:26:53 Talk break
00:28:59 Ami Shavit – Alpha 6 (from In Alpha Mood)
00:37:15 Benoît Pioulard – Npyaux (from Noyaux)
00:46:24 Zelienople – Don’t Stop Until You Die (from Show Us The Fire)
00:53:18 Tropic Of Cancer – I Woke Up And The Storm Was Over (from Stop Suffering)
00:59:21 Talk break
01:00:51 Steve Flato – Section 1 (from Exhaust System)
01:20:11 Levantis – Jamaica Greek Style (from Romantic Psychology 1)
01:29:57 Talk break
01:31:31 Weather Warlock – Sleep Six Lil Soldier (from Sunset Waits For No Man)
01:49:28 Christopher Bissonnette – Textbooks Of The Elites (from Pitch, Paper, & Foil)
01:54:43 Indek – Mastoid (from Ghost Archive)
01:59:01 Talk break
Oh wow so much awesome shit in this episode. New FTMOTS! New Andrew Weathers! New My Disco! Arash Moori debut!
AGB Radio 2015/11/02
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Background music: Joshua Davison with The Origin Of the Cosmos Ensemble – Oyster Smiling (from Deep Field)
00:00:00 U.S. Girls – Sororal Feelings (from Half Free)
00:02:53 Talk break
00:04:24 Siavash Amini – Subsiding (from Subsiding)
00:19:14 Anna Von Hausswolff – Come Wander With Me (from The Miraculous)
00:29:56 Talk break
00:30:52 Le Berger – sgfoj;dfsgoj;bdgafe (from Music For Guitar & Patience)
00:48:45 Expo ’70 – Static Harmonic Pendulum (from Kinetic Tones)
00:59:28 Talk break
01:00:37 From The Mouth Of The Sun – Braid & Tomb (from Into The Well)
01:06:15 Arash Moori – Tantalum March (from Heterodyne)
01:17:50 Chihei Hatakeyama & Federico Durand – María (from Magical Imaginary Child)
01:29:55 Talk break
01:31:04 Andrew Weathers – For Peace And Harmony Free Titans (from I Am Happy When I Am Moving)
01:38:24 Sóley – While I Sleep (Scary Adventures) (from Don’t Ever Listen)
01:40:24 My Disco – Recede (from Severe)
01:48:55 Dirk Serries & Rutger Zuydervelt – Buoyant One: Lost Trail (from Buoyant)
01:59:16 Talk break
