Metal Injection

There are dozens of factors that go into creating a "great" record, and I try to consider them all while listening to music of any sub-genre, in any time period, from any geographical location (3 important elements that play a roll in critiquing music as far as I'm concerned). It's easy to simply write something [...]

When I first began the thought process of this list I feared I wouldn't even be able to think of ten albums I liked. However, when browsing through my iTunes of all the releases that came out this year, I narrowed it down to far more than far more than 20 albums that I loved. So, a [...]

I offer these up with one of those typical "in no particular order" disclaimers.  That may seem chickenshit to some, but there are just too many disparate strands of metal these days to draw rational lines between whether, say, the best funeral doom album of 2011 was superior to the best progressive death album, for [...]