
The Decayist 017: Albums Of The Year 2018
2018 is at an end and that means it’s list season, and our Top 20 Albums Of The Year.
2018 is at an end and that means it’s list season, and our Top 20 Albums Of The Year.
It’s always a sad event when a band departs the stage for the final time. Notable examples from recent times include HECK, Letlive. and The Dillinger Escape Plan.
And it’s been a while since I could say that I wasn’t addicted. It’s been a while since I could say I loved myself as well.
After far too long we have another episode of our occasional podcast for you, and this time around it’s Chris who’s recommending a record for Dave.
Our occasional podcast returns this weekend and it’s Dave in the driving seat. We’re turning back the clock by eleven years to revisit a record that’s brimming with artistic experimentation and packs hooks for days.
Let’s begin with an apology, shall we? It’s been a little while since our last episode. We’re sorry about that.
In our last episode, we picked over an album of pure metal from 1988. This time around, we’re jumping ahead a full 20 years and genre-hopping to one of the 21st century’s biggest rock bands.
When a metalhead knows and appreciates their history, you won’t know them for very long before they mention the album that’s the subject of this episode.
Well, what a year it’s been. After hints of a creative revival in rock music in recent years and the realisation of that in 2016, 2017 has been an artistic triumph in almost every corner of heavy music.
Rx Bandits emerged from California as part of the Drive-Thru generation that made such a mark on the pop-punk scene in the UK in the early 2000s.
With the Old Wounds machine cranking back into action, the latest episode of our exploration into records one of us knows and one of us doesn’t is fortuitously timed.