Dang, this IS pretty awesome.  Thanks for the heads up, I'm totally buying this too.  These guys owe you a beer or something.

Dang, this IS pretty awesome.  Thanks for the heads up, I'm totally buying this too.  These guys owe you a beer or something.

@wolfmansRazor:disqus  Yeah, it's not the most original thing ever.  Warning/40 Watt Sun + Viking-era Bathory + maybe Candlemass or Cathedral, and you're pretty much there.  People complain about doom being trendy but nobody else is really doing this particular style well at the moment - it's all death/doom or crusty…

@wolfmansRazor:disqus  Yeah, it's not the most original thing ever.  Warning/40 Watt Sun + Viking-era Bathory + maybe Candlemass or Cathedral, and you're pretty much there.  People complain about doom being trendy but nobody else is really doing this particular style well at the moment - it's all death/doom or crusty…

Yeah, Monnos, that's where it's at right there.

Yeah, Monnos, that's where it's at right there.

No, but there's plenty of shitty garage bands out there. He's not wrong.

No, but there's plenty of shitty garage bands out there. He's not wrong.

One of the things I really liked about Pallbearer was the resemblance to 40 Watt Sun vocally - both of those bands (in my opinion) do the  clean vocal thing better than nearly anybody, in a time when seemingly everybody has to do it.  Ahab, Enslaved, Daylight Dies, freaking Glorior Belli…it all just sounds like…

One of the things I really liked about Pallbearer was the resemblance to 40 Watt Sun vocally - both of those bands (in my opinion) do the  clean vocal thing better than nearly anybody, in a time when seemingly everybody has to do it.  Ahab, Enslaved, Daylight Dies, freaking Glorior Belli…it all just sounds like…

His best of 2013 list is killer.

His best of 2013 list is killer.

Yeah, I kind of couldn't stand that new Witchcraft, but you're not alone in liking it.  I guess it depends on your tolerance for stuff like Queens of the Stone Age and Mastodon, which is what I felt they were going for.  Luckily Kadavar and Troubled Horse put out good-to-great albums that filled the hole it left when…

Yeah, I kind of couldn't stand that new Witchcraft, but you're not alone in liking it.  I guess it depends on your tolerance for stuff like Queens of the Stone Age and Mastodon, which is what I felt they were going for.  Luckily Kadavar and Troubled Horse put out good-to-great albums that filled the hole it left when…

I don't think the new one is nearly as throwback-y as the other two -  it's actually pretty modern compared to a lot of stuff in the same ballpark.  It's definitely more mellow,  but I don't think it's less intense for it.

I don't think the new one is nearly as throwback-y as the other two -  it's actually pretty modern compared to a lot of stuff in the same ballpark.  It's definitely more mellow,  but I don't think it's less intense for it.

Both of the number one albums in this article are extremely melodic.  In fact, nearly all of Semley's list is melodic in one way or another.  

Both of the number one albums in this article are extremely melodic.  In fact, nearly all of Semley's list is melodic in one way or another.  

Every single sentence in this post is dead wrong.

Every single sentence in this post is dead wrong.