I welcome anyone’s personal top 10 list, but when it comes to outlets that are SUPPOSED to know about music, nobody puts out an end of year list more basic than Loudwire. So much so that it’s become an annual tradition to livestream my reaction to their picks. Last year was admittedly a slight improvement… what will 2023 bring for Loudwire’s Best Rock & Metal Albums of the year list?
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00:00 Setting Up
00:31 Intro & Explanation
02:26 The List Begins
04:49 The First BRUH Moment
06:08 Some Solid Picks
08:56 The Pumpkin Spiced Latte Of This List
10:55 Two Albums More INTERESTING than GOOD
16:35 Really?
18:30 Predictable but Acceptable
20:10 So Obvious
21:36 The Biggest Shock Of All
25:41 My Suggested Alternatives
32:30 Best Rock and Metal SONGS from Loudwire
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Yep…. Still bad. See previous lists: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGt4fzX5jyucdNjLlCaLxh0YSwSnsrop9&si=Jk23yRBcRWFRQMPL
GOOD Music this year: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGt4fzX5jyufj2Gg6UfXn3hY360XyD7B7&si=-rbdvCaWOBZUhZY8
I wouldn’t be surprised if huge publications like this just sell these slots as ads.
the bias for the big names is blatant with a few lesser know bands like Zulu, Jesus Piece and Drain included to try and mask their bias
King Gizzard, Dying fetus, Horrendous and Hellripper should've definitely been on there
Loudwire prove once again how much of a joke they are. No Horrendous, Hellripper, Enslaved, Enforced, or Cattle Decapitation on this also. They instead put the most overrated and overhyped albums 72 Seasons, Take Me Back to Eden, and Life Is But a Dream. Not to mention Godsmack’s new album which is bad even by their standards.
Probably the most mid list in years. Metallica's new album was a solid 5/10. Not bad, not great. Loved the new Cannibal Corpse. Where's the new Harm's Way album? Common Suffering is probably my favorite album of the year. Shit's just an unstoppable force.
My top 10 of the year (will post it again when your video is out)
and it's not exclusively metal:
1. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown- Scaring the hoes
2. Dødheimsgard- Black medium current
3. Thantifaxath- Hive mind narcosis
4. Billy Woods- Maps
5. Liturgy- 93696
6. 100 Gecs- 10,000 Gecs
7. Killer Mike- Michael
8. Hemlock Springs- Going…going…gone!
9. Fire toolz- I am upset because I see something that is not there
10. Travis Scott- Utopia
My top 25:
25. Helmet – Left
24. Baroness – Stone
23. Ulthar – Helionomicon
22. Ulthar – Anthronomicon
21. Chepang – Swatta
20. Suffocation – Hymns from the Apocrypha
19. Go Ahead and Die – Unhealthy Mechanisms
18. Cognizant – Inexorable Nature of Adversity
17. Green Lung – This Heathen Land
16. Anachronism – Meanders
15. Cadaver – The Age of the Offended
14. Ahab – The Coral Tombs
13. Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific
12. Godflesh – Purge
11. Rotten Sound – Apocalypse
10. Forgotten Silence – Vemork Konstrukt
9. Khanate – To Be Cruel
8. Drain – Living Proof
7. Snuffed on Sight – Smoke
6. Cryptopsy – As Gomorrah Burns
5. Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg for Death
4. Tomb Mold – The Enduring Spirit
3. Gridlink – Coronet Juniper
2. Afterbirth – In but Not Of
1. Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite
I haven't figure out the order, but one album I haven't seen mentioned by anyone at all this year was TesseracT – War Of Being. Easily my top pick of the year.
Lmfao I cant tell you how many times I've watched a list video or browsed a list article from loudwire and just thinking "these people don't know what the fuck they're talking about"
Godsmack on this list actually made me spit out my drink
I think the only reason it's a little better than a few of the previous years is because some of these big names have made much better albums this year than they have in the past. So they got saved by that.
I know they're almost obligated to put in the big names, because that's what their normie, always up-in-the-arms audience demands; but they could at least have the decency of seperating the rock and metal lists and then further splitting them into popular rock and underground rock and then popular metal and underground metal lists so that we could at least make sure that these are writers and not AI
Entheos should've been on that list. Time Will Take Us All is awesome!!
Loudwire's lists are always somewhat awkward. They'll have a handful of actually good picks that are more on the underground side mixed in with any turd the arena level bands gift us in their respective years.
Lol this is incredibly basic! But it makes sense since they're a paparazzi site. Therefore, they have to focus on the biggest names and the legacy acts. They can't really comment or shed light on bands in the underground or that are putting out the best music. Every now and then, they may, but it's usually met with less clicks and engagement (unless something really bad happens to a band.)
Trenches is too kind. This list is horrific. Zulu is interesting, but none of these albums make my top 25, top 50, top 100…
No cattle decap is wild
Such pretentious losers. Half the bands they say, ’maybe not considered heavy metal, but….’
They only put the most basic and even garbage stuff on their list. They need to branch out and listen to some more lesser known bands
I’m happy we have got youtubers like you who actually try to dig out great music! Keep up the good work!
No Lovebites, Frozen Crown or Smoulder. Screw Loudwire
I really dug Marduk and Suffocations newest efforts. One of my personal favorites was Almost Human by Wormhole. Its Slam and i know the new technical kinda clean sounding slam isnt everyones cup of tea (including my own) but there is something so melonchalic about the album i couldn't put my finger on. Great album that one.
I get why it's there, But I don't think Godsmack's Lighting Up The Sky should be on the list objectively speaking. It's not a terrible album by any means, And I liked it better than anything they've put out after Faceless. But it's carried entirely off of the fact that it's the final album.
And if that's the reason why it made the list then ok, But it's a good send off to their career and everyone who liked all of their previous material, Not so much album of the year.
Though I'd rather have that on here instead of Puddle Of Mudd's Ubiquitous which I expected to be included given Welcome To Galvania made the 2019 list. Though even actual fans of the band will agree that Ubiquitous was a mess.
New Weregoat is the…goat
It would help Loudwires case if they hired multiple people with different tastes to put effort into finding music and at the end of the year collaborating to make 1 big cohesive list but they'll never do that sadly
If Buzzfeed was still around, this would definitely double as their list. No one should be going to Loudwire to find Paramore, a band who your mom would jam out to today, on the same list as Cannibal Corpse or Creeper.
Just the fact that Godsmack was on the list but Hellriper and Cattle Decap were not makes me extremely confused
Like most metal media stuff (including this channel) power metal is snubbed. Silent Knight, Temperance, Frozen Crown, Theocracy, Angra all put out great albums and never make any of these lists
Big name put out album, big name end up on list🤣 So true
You had Metallica on your top Thrash Metal list. 🤔 So why are you so surprised and disappointed by this?