2016 Oh Christ

Lots of bad things happened in 2016. But you don't need this blog to tell you that, you probably already know it. So let's skip to all the good things that happened this year, namely all the absolutely fantastic music that came this year, brought to you by some of Nashville's finest artists. Thanks to everyone who contributed!

Chris Click- Greywoods

In no order

Iggy Pop- Post Pop Depression

Inter Arma- Paradise Gallows

John Carpenter- Lost Themes II

Helms Alee- Stillicide

Trap Them- Crown Feral

True Widow- AVVOLGERE

A Tribe Called Quest- We Got it From Here

White Lung- Paradise

Throane-Derrière-nous, la lumiere

Descendents- Hypercaffium Spazzinate

Metz- Eraser EP

Psalm Zero- Stranger to Violence

Ultha- Pain Cleanses Every Doubt

Derek Martin - Greywoods

Autolux - PUSSY'S DEAD

B Boys - No Worry No Mind

Blood Incantation - Starspawn

Bolzer - Hero

Dead Congregation - Sombre Doom EP

Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones

Gatecreeper - Sonoran Deprevation

GOST - Non Paradisi

Helms Alee - Stillicide

Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows

Holy Sons - In The Garden

Jim James - Eternally Even

Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered

King Dude - Sex

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity

Legowelt - Laundromat Of Your Mind

The Lion's Daughter - Existence Is Horror

Perturbator - The Uncanny Valley

Porches - Pool

Trap Them - Crown Feral

True Widow - AVVOLGERE

Wormrot – Voices 

Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression

OVERLOOKED Local Bands that killed it last year:

Watcher

Forest of Tygers

Sheep Shifter

Holy Mountaintop Removers

Seawitch

Rifft

Black Tar Prophet

Act of Impalement

Cannomen

Ascent of Everest

Commoner

Battlepath

The Jag

Thetan

Erin Rae & The Meanwhiles

Greg Swinehart – Black Tar Prophet

Dark Funeral-where shadows forever reign

Archgoat-the apocalyptic triumphator

Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas-Mariner

Asphalt Graves-The New Primitive

Destroyer 666-Wildfire

I think Archgoat was 2015. Can't remember 

Top local release Holy Mountaintop removers

Michael Mikey Owin - Ascent of Everest, Lawndry, Boo Dudes, Aborticide

Best albums: Batushka, Goat, Bowie.

Best in show: Mikey

John Judkins -The Protomen, Seafood Hotline, Laser Flames, Rwake

Spirit Adrift - Chained to Oblivion

Kvelertak - Nattesferd

Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire

Neurosis - Fires Within Fires

Cass McCombs - Mangy Love

Opeth - Sorceress

Holy Mountain Top Removers - The Ones     Disappearing You

Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust

Virus - Memento Collider

40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Netherlands - Audubon

Family - Future History

Danimal Cannon - Lunaria

Sumac - What One Becomes

Metallica - Hardwired...

William Tyler - Modern Country

Margaret Glaspy - Emotions and Math

Deftones - Gore

Charles Bradley – Changes

Stan Richardson II - Skoolgirl

Omni - "Deluxe"

Butthole - "Butthole"

https://buttholeband.bandcamp.com/album/butthole

Free Pizza - "Berlin, DE"

People Zoo - "People Zoo"

Spencer Moore - Phobos, Chasm of Teeth, Animality

Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason

Sumac - What One Becomes

Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Obscura - Akroasis

Car Bomb - Meta

Aborted - Retrogore

Zhrine - Unortheta

Khemmis - Hunted

Fallujah - Dreamless

Revocation - Great Is Our Sin

Barishi - Blood From the Lion's Mouth

Wayfarer - Old Souls

Virvum - Illuminance

Vermin Womb - Decline

Mithras - On Strange Loops

Mikey Allred – Holy Mountaintop Removers, head honcho at Dark Art Audio

Let’s just go with “Bowie tho”

Jim and Rachel Valosik – Forest of Tygers

Top 5 records:

Ustalost - Spoor of Vipers

Anicon - Exegeses

Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason

The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

Pyrolatrous - EP

Top 5 Nashville Live Performances:

Die Choking

Pyrrhon

Meshuggah

Shellac

Hivelords

Top 5 2016 Movies:

Southbound

Baskin

The Witch

Train to Busan

Neon Demon

Blake Dellinger - Flummox

The Claypool/Lennon Delirium - Monolith of Phobos

Opeth - Sorceress

Beardfish - 4626 Comfortzone

Howling Giant - Black Hole Space Wizard

Black Sabbath - The End

Elias MacDonald - Ex-Altar of Complaints, Chasm of Teeth, Phobos, Cull

Car Bomb - Meta

Meshuggah - Violent Sleep of Reason

Dysrhytmia - The Veil of Control

Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution

Jace of Two-9 - Jace tape

Lil Uzi Vert - Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World

Lil Uzi Vert/Gucci Mane - 1017 vs. The World

TTNG - Disappointment Island

Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows

Guerrilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer

Full of Hell/The Body - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache

Tigran Hamasyan and other dudes - Atmosphères

Piss Vortex - Future Cancer

Knife Hits - Eris

Watcher - به پایان رسید

Palm - Audiotree live session

Yautja - Audiotree live session

Scotty Rockwell - Viva La Rockwell

Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones

Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

Blake Edward Conley- lucy stoner, the minor second, droneroom

no order coz music is not a competition (though clipping, tacocat, and blonde redhead were the two albums i listened to the most, so do with that what you will)

tacocat- lost time

mount moriah- how to dance

autolux- pussy's dead

matmos- ultimate care II

horseback- dead ringers

licht-akiyama trios- tomorrow outside tomorrow

jim o'rourke/fennesz- it's hard for me to say i'm sorry

william tyler- modern country

jenks miller and rose cross NC- blues from WHAT

heron oblivion- s/t

the gotobeds- blood//sugar//secs/traffic

clipping- splendor and misery

true widow- avvolgere

the body- no one deserves happiness

papa m- highway songs

white lung- paradise

savak- best of luck in future endeavors

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honourable mention

steve gunn- eyes on the line

tribe called quest- we got it from here...thank you 4 your service

blood orange- freetown sound

minor victories- s/t

body/head- no waves

angel olsen- my woman

reissues-

tad- god's balls/salt lick/8-way santa

blonde redhead- masculin feminin

mike watt- ring spiel '95

personal bias favs-

ladyshark- monsters

cøurtney- when this flesh is not enough

new cowboy builders- pentre alexandra deaths head orpheans

coordinated suicides- false pleasure

Josh Cochran – Billy Castro

My Top 5 Albums of 2016

1. Ustalost - The Spoor of Vipers

2. Cough - Still They Pray

3. Deftones - Gore

4. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

5. The Body - No One Deserves Happiness

Other Releases I Enjoyed (In No Particular Order)

Krallice - Hyperion

Nails - You Will Never Be One Of Us

Day Wave - Headcase/Hard To Read

Anicon - Exegeses

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Pallbearer - Fear and Fury

Ghost - Popestar

Khemmis - Hunted
Conan - Revengeance

Elias MacDonald - Ex-Altar of Complaints, Chasm of Teeth, Phobos, Cull

Car Bomb - Meta

Meshuggah - Violent Sleep of Reason

Dysrhytmia - The Veil of Control

Gorguts - Pleiades' Dust

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D+Evolution

Jace of Two-9 - Jace tape

Lil Uzi Vert - Lil Uzi Vert vs. The World

Lil Uzi Vert/Gucci Mane - 1017 vs. The World

TTNG - Disappointment Island

Plebeian Grandstand - False Highs, True Lows

Guerrilla Toss - Eraser Stargazer

Full of Hell/The Body - One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache

Tigran Hamasyan and other dudes - Atmosphères

Piss Vortex - Future Cancer

Knife Hits - Eris

Watcher - به پایان رسید

Palm - Audiotree live session

Yautja - Audiotree live session

Scotty Rockwell - Viva La Rockwell

Deathspell Omega - The Synarchy of Molten Bones
Ulcerate - Shrines of Paralysis

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ME: #3

This record just did everything right for me. Black metal, doom, bits of drone, perfect. It came out in March and I think I've nearly worn the record out already. Side A ends in a locked groove of a drone so perfect it took me 5 minutes the first time I listened to realized it was at the end. #2

I fell in love with this Finnish psychedelic black metal band since I heard their first record. This is one of the few albums that I wish I could have wiped from my memory so I could hear it for the first time again. Odd, strange, hypnotic, with what one would traditionally consider to be black metal only showing up to highlight the most intense moments, but the overall effect is like no other albums from this or any other year.  #1

By adding dance-y beats and emphasized the female vocals/choir on some the tracks, The Body have made the most intense, oppressive pop music ever to be released. The Body are doing heavy music unlike anyone else, which has earned them my top spot this year.

2015 and its beautiful music, as told by its beautiful musicians

Another year come and gone! This one was busy for me in and out of the music world, I wrote a couple reviews for Cvlt Nation in the spring, I continued playing bass with my heavy shoegaze/post-rock trio Cosmic Yawn, I screamed about the gods of Chaos in Great Unclean Ones (coming soon), and I wrote FREE BITCH on my stomach as I screamed a Lady Gaga cover into a mic’d warhorn with Cøurtney. Outside of music, I played some sweet video games and then got hired on as a Research Assistant in a lab. But enough ado, here are the lists of top albums from some of Nashville’s finest:

OK FINE WE CAN HAVE AN END OF 2014 LIST GOD

YES HERE WE ARE AGAIN YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DEAD AND MAYBE WE WERE BUT NOW WE ARE BACK AGAIN but yeah this one is late too no surprises there really. 

By all accounts, 2014 was balls-out insane, starting with #SochiProblems and ending with #ICantBreathe. Personally, The first half of the year consisted of somehow managing to snag a Biology degree (cue Final Fantasy victory music) and the rest of the year was spent working nights. 2014 was an amazing year in heavy noisy music, and without further ado, here are the year's best from the local scene's finest musicians that responded to emails and/or posted a list on facebook that I am summarily pirating here:

2013 was a year that had music

Another year has come and gone, and all sorts of crazy shit happened. For me personally, I took on the hardest year of schooling I've ever had and managed to come away without any Cs, I studied gibbons at the zoo and salamander DNA in a lab, I was elected secretary of my college's biology club, and I joined, recorded with, and was booted from Act of Impalement because I was too busy with school.

More to the point though, 2013 was an incredible year for extreme music both locally and globally. Without further ado, here are the lists from local artists, as well as my own at the bottom.

NashVile: now with more birdcalls!

For all one of you who's been waiting with bated breath at what I'm going to post next, I'm tremendously sorry for not keeping up with this blog. I've become very busy with DNA research this summer at Belmont, and I've somehow managed to join Act of Impalement on bass.

In lieu of trying to write up whole blog posts for each show that end up incredibly late, I've decided to make a NashVile twitter account so I can promote all these fantastic local bands on the fly. I'll still try to write up full reviews when I can, but when I can't, I'll post blurbs on twitter.

Follow me here: https://twitter.com/Nash_Vile
Edit: Look what I can make! Here's account itself, in action:
Tweets by @Nash_Vile

Sun Wheel, Motherplant, Black Tar Prophet, Holy Mountain Top Removers at Springwater (+Shroud Eater)

After a quite pregnant pause, it is time to give birth to some much-delayed show reviews! I think, for my own sake, I'm going to group the past shows I've seen by month (which means that May is going to end up the disproportionately large triplet due to that week of shows I attended.). Fuck it, I'll just do it one show at a time. It's easier to read and write this way. Enough with the weird birth jokes though, let's get these writeups going!

I considered not writing anything up the last show I saw in February due to the headlining band not really needing any press from me. The trio that is Shroud Eater has begun to blow up enough to be covered by legitimate metal news sites. I changed my mind when I heard their new release however. Everybody needs to hear it. If Matt Pike was secretly two women and a Scott Ian lookalike in disguise, that would be awesome. Also it would sound kind of like this.


ooh and I just learned about this "jump break" thing, I guess you have to click on the link headline if you want to read about the other shows in March the bands listed in the header. Unless you've already clicked. I'm not sure how it works yet.

May 4-10 full res picture and video uploads

Just a forewarning, the sound quality on the videos is terrible.


EDIT: Added a jump break so those running MS-DOS don't crash and burn when loading the main page. Click something nearby to see the videos.