Brother, listened to THE SMILE, CUTOUTS.... Enjoyed it!!! Thanks for the info!!!!

Thanks for including us!

appreciate all your work!

I've looked at the full list of 419 albums, I rate just 19 of them. There are only about 3 or 4 thrash metal albums on the list. I've heard at least 40 good thrash albums this year. The majority of bands I've never heard of, so I'm out of touch with modern metal trends I guess!

Hey mate, Whatever genre\ sub genres you decide to do, they're all worth checking in for. One of the only channels I come back to for quality and thoughtful reviews all throughout the year. Especially 'end of year' lists. Rock on...🤘

I'm a chronic skipper and it would be cool if you added names & album covers for each of the albums you're talking about 😊

If you listened to 34 instrumental albums I doubt there's many people who listened to more! As always, a bunch of bands I've never heard of and need to check out. Can you list the bands / albums in your video description? Would help me find these albums..

loved that you liked WIZRD!

I wasn’t sure what I was expecting but it sure wasn’t this album. Maybe that’s why I’m digging it so much!!!

Not sure if these are up your alley enough to check out, but: Cameron Winter - Heavy Metal - Dec 6 - Lead singer of Geese with singer songwriter debut solo album The Chilling Alpine Adventure - Dec 27 - Indie rock with some prog sensibilities

Great list! Still some I need to listen to. Thanks for the recommendations. Here's my favorite albums October 2024: Balance And Composure- "with you in spirit" Blood Incantation- "Absolute Elsewhere" Frost*- "Life in the Wires" Grand Magus- "Sunraven" Great Lake Swimmer- "In Pieces: An Acoustic Retrospective (2024 Acoustic Retrospective)" Hazlett- "Goodbye to the Valley Low (Side B)" Leon Bridges- "Leon" Rob Tait- "At The End Of The World" Soccer Mommy- "Evergreen" Yasmin Williams- "Acadia"

I have spent literally my entire year making a point to explore bands/artists I havent heard, as I got into metal in my late teens and have gaps in what ive heard. And I've still not heard of any of these artists except for Devin Townsend. I will never hear everything I need to lmao.

my wife and I went to the Tears for Fears concert film the other day. Good stuff. They played a lot from The Tipping Point, their newest record. They also showed music/lyric videos for the new tunes off the new EP. I liked the last Von Vertzen Brothers album, I mean to check it out. never heard of Iotunn, but I'll have to check it out. I love Fates Warning, however Kings of Mercia's debut album was pretty forgettable. I may not get around to this new album for that reason.

Thanks for the Kite Parade mention, glad you're enjoying the album and thanks for spreading the word !

nice you're enjoying the new Akphaezya.

The Native Howl?.may have to check it out.

Have subbed and favortied this till ive listened to them

Here's a couple that I loved from that same weekend: 🇺🇸 Sungazer - Against the Fall of Night (Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz, Livetronica) (42m) 🇺🇸 Interloper - A Forgotten Loss (Progressive metalcore) (46m)

here's some that you've might've missed that I liked last weekend: 🇺🇸 Consider the Source - The Stare (Prog-rock) (42m) 🇬🇧 Tim Bowness - Powder Dry (Art Pop, Electropop) (40m) 🇺🇸 House of Protection - Galore (Post-Hardcore, Alt-metal) (20m) and this one that I loathed: 🇦🇷 Charly García - La Lógica del Escorpión (Pop rock, Art rock) (35m)

Highly recommended you check out Rudess' 00s albums since IMO they are much more concise in their composition than the current ones: Feeding the Wheel & Rhythm of Time

cool to see you're enjoying the Circe Link & Christian Nesmith record. Yeah, I would guess you'll enjoy Cosmologica as well. I have only checked out a few tracks from the Bent Knee album and found them ok, but your point about Ben Levin's absence I am still wary about. I wasn't aware the Tigran Hamasayan album was so long, although from memory, his other records haven't been short. But I still have yet to hear the new one.

thanks for the video, I'm more just confused on how to listen ton prog metal and stuff since I'm a metallica fan and I love Genesis, I just don't know how to enter this new genre of post hardcore.

I'm looking forward to the new Pure Reason Revolution this week. And if you've never heard their other albums, you may want to. Especially The Dark Third, their debut. The The I know had Johnny Marr from The Smiths at 1 point, and actually Steve Hogarth of Marillion almost became their live keyboardist, but decided to take the Marillion gig instead back in 1989. I have 2 of The The's cds, but have never listened to them (borrowed them from a girl I was dating, and never gave them back, lol). This September see releases from Circe Link & Christian Nesmith - Arcana. Really great retro/70's style Prog Rock, that just came out yesterday officially. Also this week, Doom Flamingo has an EP titled "Measurements." Doom Flamingo is the side project of Ryan, the bassist of Umphrey's McGee. The 1st single "Blind Spots" is really good and catchy. Vocals are kind of Soulful from a female singer. Christian (FranticDav) passed that single on to me and I have been pretty hooked by it, so the EP is definitely something I'm looking forward to. The David Gilmour album of course is worth looking forward to. Like you, On an Island is the only 1 of his solo albums that has ever resonated with me well, but we'll see if this new album might also. God is an Astronaut, Weather Systems, Kimbra, Serj Tankian, Circuline, Myth of Logic, and maybe Motorpsycho I'm also anticipating. I'm sure there will be other stuff I'm not aware of yet that also will be coming to check out this month.

i'm slowly checking out Jon Anderson and Band Geeks MEER liking both, but haven't heard them enough yet (less than 1 listening). and I was sent an advanced download after preordering Circe Link & Christian Nesmith I wishlisted the Simone Simons album, although not being as into Ayreon/Arjen Lucassen, I'm unsure how much time I may give it. My friend Josh with Heavy Debriefings and his gf The Metal Faerie will likely love that Fleshgod Apocalpyse album as they talk about them frequently on his podcast.

YES!!!! And what happened to Square The Circle???

I'm again amazed how you know all this music. You are introducing so many interesting bands to me.

hey, nice you enjoyed the new Cloud Cult. I do like it, but haven't listened to it enough yet, but I likely will try and do a review on my channel soon about it. "I Am a Force Field" is up there among many of their great tunes for sure. There were a few other releases that also came out this past week beyond the ones you mentioned. King Gizzard doing Blues Rock? I never spent a lot of time with the Fishing for Fishies release, but my feeling about KGATLW is not what it once was. A bit like Toehider. So many albums (now 27?), etc. But afa other new releases: SJS - A Sequence of Mistakes Airlands - Strange Beast Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding - Milton + esperanza that SJS album I am really liking a lot, just hearing it once. Super Pink Floyd and Space/Ambient/Melancholy vibe at times. Unsure, but this could be a sleeper for me. Airlands in checking it out was spotty. They're Art Rock of a sort. I saw them open for Bent Knee years ago and liked them anyway. Milton & Esperanza is nice, mostly acoustic, jazzy of course coming from Esperanza Spalding and this Brazilian musician Milton Nascimento. They even do some orchestrated covers from The Beatles and Michael Jackson.

Great video, I enjoyed your rankings, but I don't agree with Alon and Signify last, no no no :D

Thanks for the reminder about Al Di Meola. Although his output of the last 10+ years hasn't done as much for me as much of his early work. Part of it is just how much he puts out and keeping up with it. But I have enjoyed when he uses flamenco at times. Of course I LOVE a lot of his early stuff and the albums he played with Return to Forever. Great to see Ours on your list. I did a review of Rocket's Red Glare this past week and I'm really warming up to it, despite it mostly being tracks from other, recent releases. I think it works as an album, maybe better than their last S/T release actually. Given that, I would anticipate it being pretty high on my AOTY list come December. I guess we'll see, and curious where you have it.

Dude your videos are just unreal good! SO much knowledge. I'm gonna check out Coming of Age cuz that sounds like good stuff.

I did check out the Cory Wong record that Christian was suggesting, and like I mentioned in the chat, I do really like Cory's collaboration with Dirty Loops. However, I only found this collaboration spotty. It's a bit overly orchestrated and in mostly major key arrangements. I liked a couple of the tracks, but found a lot of it a bit safe. It could use vocals; beyond Dirty Loops, I suppose the likes of Jazzkamikaze or The Reign of Kindo might falll in that category (or even Esperanza Spalding or Willow to a degree with the Jazzy-Pop with vocals while being progressive).

Here's 4 albums from July 2024 that you might be interested in: - Vulvodynia - Entabeni: my album of the month, really did not expect a slam album to get this recognition kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_moitCWmr9gimmS2BfwNRErb_ZJy2Q58ac - The Radicant - We Ascend: my EP of the month, very electronic bass heavy vibes kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_nrn5dkNxpKUfWN2qA-Wl77j9X1RzhUB6M - Arka'n Asrafokor - Dzikkuh: interesting prog metal from Togo, Africa kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_krS9kJvgJmspD8M_ieB0eGU8EoJvHhC20 - Al Di Meola - Twentyfour: a legacy guitarrist comes back from the brink of a heart attack kzbin.info/aero/OLAK5uy_m0LRU2VA-3ieulExZRZzxR1qzCvFKy9ws

Dude...very good video! I am so ignorant of modern music and it's mostly bc every time I try to listen to suggested bands I come away unimpressed. Am hoping this list will prove useful. You've got to be pretty in touch to have this many albums to rank just in last 6 months. Will start giving a listen and will let you know what I think!

Ok, you’re not a fan of the ‘Turning to Crime’ covers album, but do you know the reason why Purple did it? The ‘normal’ process for Purple to make a record is to get together for a writing session (they don’t actually ‘write’ they jam) they come up with a bunch of ideas that can potentially become songs. They then get together for a second session, refine and develop those ideas further into being ‘almost’ songs. The next stage, just prior to recording, is a final session, which includes their producer, Bob Ezrin, who helps put the final polish onto those ideas, they then record the music (without lyrics). Gillan has been in all of these sessions, listening, contributing and writing down ideas for lyrics. After the instrumental tracks are mixed and completed, Gillan and Glover sit down and write the lyrics, Gillan then records the lyrics over the music. They were planning to start on a new studio album, then Covid hit..... They couldn’t tour (as they normally do continuously), they couldn’t get together for a writing session, they were in different parts of the world sitting on their bums doing nothing (like the rest of us). What do they do? They came up with the idea for a covers album, it was remotely recorded from their respective places around the world and the end result was ‘Turning to Crime’. It is what it is. Anyway..... As the world was starting to get back to ‘normal’ Steve Morse decided to retire from the band to look after his seriously ill wife, enter new guitarist Simon McBride. Purple is back recording and back on the road, and currently touring Europe. *Ian Paice, drums - age 76, since 1968 *Ian Gillan, vocals - age 78, since 1969 *Roger Glover, bass - age 78, since 1969 *Don Airey, Hammond organ - age 76, since 2002 - (Don replaced the late Jon Lord when he retired in 2002) *Simon McBride, guitar - age 45, since 2022 - (Simon replaced Steve Morse when he left the band to look after his wife who had terminal cancer, she recently passed away. Morse was in the band for 28 years, from 1994-2022, much longer than Blackmore who quit mid tour in 1993) Still making and playing good solid rock n roll! Cheers, PS, and yes ’= 1’ is a very good album too.

cool you're checking out Ours. They actually were on a tour many years ago (2008?) with The Dear Hunter, and I had a ticket to see that show, but the show in my town got cancelled due to 1 of the other bands on the tour, Circa Survive, had a death to 1 of the member's family. I like the new Ours album, however Alan was right in that nearly all of it are new mixes of previously released songs. Mostly from EPs though. Since you've never heard their previous records, I would recommend albums like Distorted Lullabies and Mercy certainly.

1. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime 2. Metallica - And Justice for All 3. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son 4. Danzig - Danzig 5. King's X - Out of the Silent Planet 6. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys II 7. Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos 8. King Diamond - Them 9. Scorpions - Savage Amusement 10. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

looking to sample these tracks Izz - There's Hope! Red Handed Denial - One More Night Triton's Project - Messenger's Quest ALMO - Reconciliation Professor Caffine - That's a Chunky Vicinity - The Singularity Reliqa - Killstar (The Cold World) Turbulence - Binary Dream Loch Vostok - Children of Science Dvne - Eleonora Caligula's Horse - Mute

Listened to them all. Really like Sunburst a lot!

I'm really liking We Ascend from The Radicant, probably more than I expected. I'm also curious about the Weather Systems album that Danny Cavanagh from Anathema is behind.

Some of the songs on The Warning's Keep Me Fed had me on the fence at first, I'll admit. I'll also gladly admit that after repeated listens, I'm full-bore into the album. The six songs that were held back until Keep Me Fed was released are the ones I listen to the most, both because of unfamiliarity AND because the songs are in many ways better than the ones released earlier.

Ulcerate for sure. I also love Alcest, Wormwood and Cistvaen. Judas Priest also put out a banger.

Would be helpful, IMO, if you listed the albums/artists in the description with time stamps. Would allow users to see the bands/albums easily and jump to the portion of the video. Just a suggestion.

The Warning album I do like as well, although I'm unsure if I will like it as much as their last record Error. A lot of the songs the mix seems loud, and they do resemble Muse more more than on some of their other records. Dave Foster Band..didn't you mention before? I forget. The only other thing that came out this past week were some singles from Kimbra, Pure Reason Revolution, Paul Meany (of Mutemath), and Capital Cities. And the Toehider EP..which the song selection I really like, however the covers were pretty straight forward, which I'm unsure will lend to going back. Curious, where you are with your 2024 list? I concluded I have 36 or maybe 37 releases now, 9 of which are EPs. But there's not much of anything scheduled over the next few weeks before we are looking to make the Midseason Zoom.

Good to hear you're checking out Pepe Deluxe. I have a huge fanboy bias, but I'vw come to conclude they're not going to be everyone's cup of tea due to the way they incorporate so many styles. And this new album and their last one are maybe a bit more schizophrenic than my favorite, Queen of the Wave, from 2012. That being said, I am really enjoying a lot of Comix Sonix, but I'm not assuming others will necessarily. It does have a lot of enjoyable moments though. Saddle That Wind, Earth Boys Are Easy, Wise Monkeys and the Devil.. The others you mentioned, I may want to check out Alcest as I know and even have 1 of their records on vinyl. Replacire I still mean to check out. I do enjoy some of The Faceless music (Akeldama especially). Pond? they sound interesting. I'll have to check them out.

The Barock Project album is quite good. I like it more than their last album "Seven Seas" already. Sax solo in Propaganda is maybe mt favorite part. That's great you're enjoying The Crooked Fiddle Band's new album. It has a lot of great parts to it. I enjoy the bands who use strings in dynamic ways. Some of it does get a little heavy even, which reminds me a little of the great all-instrumental string group Judgement Day (or Apocalyptica, who maybe you know?). The driving Cello and violin parts. The Kind City previous record "Light Show" was a Christmas Themed release that I think was just Marshall Bolin, per "This" may be their 1st proper *band* album. But I'm glad you're enjoying some of it. I'm not sure if they will have a different singer necessarily, or at least if Marshall will stop singing in the future per he has sang in previous bands like A Series of Clicks and Beeps and Run at the Dog. He has a little bit of a Mike Patton approach to style and comedic/ironic approach. "This" has a lot of lyrics that are ironic sort of being into Death or Morbid topics, yet the songs are sort of happy and poppy in points. I saw them 1st live back in March open for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and they also include Blake from Bubblemath who you might know? also a Minnesota-based Prog band.

gonna follow the template that I do when @AllMediaReviewsPodcast post a year albums list: here are 5 releases from June 2024 that I am excited about checking out: Sunburst - Manifesto Black Country Communion - V Rendezvous Point - Dream Chaser Kaipa - Sommargryningsljus Anvil - One and Only

I do like Akeldama especially from The Faceless, so I may want to check out that band Replacire. Dave Foster Band..I just noticed how Steve Rothery of Marillion played on at leasr 1 of his albums. You covered most of what I have, other than maybe 1 release that is Local to me, The Kind City with their debut album "This." It was released officially on Sunday June 2nd and is on both Spotify and Bandcamp. It's Kind of lyrical, quirky proggy Art Rock. Unsure how much you'd go for it, although you may like elements. Lot of vocals and horns. Sort of Faith No More influenced at times, but it's not super heavy. Although they opened for Sleepytime Gorilla Museum back in March. otherwise, it is a big month for me with titles you included. Barock Project The Crooked Fiddle Band The Decemberists Pepe Deluxe The Warning among a few others.

FYI today 06/07 DarWin -“Five Steps On the Sun” whoo!! Demands a Listen. Dig it

Azure is clearly talented and are extremely high level musicians but its just not for me. I gave it a shot and I'm sure it is a masterwork but I just cant.