
The Decayist 036: Albums Of The Year 2020
Well, this year has been shit. But what about the music?
More…Well, this year has been shit. But what about the music?
More…Our podcast returns with another dive into the world of mid-00s alternative metal.
More…The 2000s feel old now. Horrifying.
More…And so our podcast reaches Nine Inch Nails, finally. It was inevitable.
More…Music is an essential escape from reality in bleak times, and never more so than when that music is freshly discovered.
More…Limp Bizkit were massive, once. Like, seriously huge. Fred Durst was larger than life but the guitarist who flanked him, Wes Borland, was able to garner respect in the scene beyond the cartoony nature of his main project.
More…The mid-00s might be more infamous for its abominable, vacuous indie bands, but for those of us who wouldn’t be seen dead in a pork pie hat, there wasn’t a great deal to enjoy in the mainstream.
More…Every year we gorge on new music, rattling through hundreds of albums between us with this annual podcast episode in mind.
More…It’s funny how these things work out. No sooner had we decided what our December podcast would be about, and recorded the episode, than the very band we discussed announced a new, rare UK tour.
More…Black Sabbath. They’re an enormous source of pride for us West Midlands metalheads, and their compelling claim to have invented the genre we love centres on the guitar player.
More…Before the passing of the late Keith Flint, The Prodigy had become a regular topic of conversation here at This Decay.
More…Weaving a narrative through an album is a surefire way to at least make it noteworthy. Most bands are shite at it. Some are better.
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