Årets bästa musik 2025

 

ÅRETS 30 BÄSTA ALBUM 2025*

1. Yellow Eyes: Confusion Gate

2. Białywilk: Wniebowstąpienie

3. The Bug vs Ghost Dubs: Implosion

4. Kold: Det falmede håb

5. Ossuary: Abhorrent Worship

6. Panopticon: Songs of Hiraeth

7. Blut Aus Nord: Ethereal Horizons

8. This Gift is a Curse: Heir

9. Mick Harris: Culvert Dub Sessions Four

10. Tithe: Communion in Anguish 

11. Nihilvm: Ancient Cosmic Emanation

12. Phrenelith: Ashen Womb

13. Silver Knife: s/t

14. Martröđ: Draumsýnir Eldsins

15. Vacuos: In His Blood

16. CRYYS: Cry Yourself to Sleep (demos)

17. Morast: Fentanyl

18. LVTHN: The Devil's Bridge

19. Primitive Man: Observance

20. Scitalis: Maledictum

21. Filmmaker: Sanguinary

22. L/F/D/M: Night Sky Themes

23. Enevelde: Pandemonium

24. P.H.A.Z.E.R.: City Lights EP

25. Barshasketh: Antinomian Asceticism

26. Teitanblood: From the Visceral Abyss

27. Sargeist: Flame Within Flame

28.Pustulant Flesh: Gurgling Pustulence

29. Afsky: Fællesskab

30. Drudkh: Shadow Play

 

* Album måste vara längre än 25 minuter eller ha minst 15 spår (”grindcore-regeln”).

 

Annat bra från året: Adam X, Alpha & Omega, Bad Breeding, Balmog, Beenkerver, Blind Seagull, Boyd Schidt, Cancer Void, Clark, Coffin Mulch, Disaffected, Dougie Conscious, Drouth, Drudkh, Dungeon Acid, E.L.I., Earl Sixteen, Endlec, Faidra, Fluisteraars, Full of Hell, Glorior Belli, Hell, Identified Patient, Indica Dubs, Irie Ites, Jah Schulz, Jah Warrior, Järnbörd, Jo Bubbles, Kólga, Lake Haze, Laton Raver, LDWG, Luis Flores, Lurid, Mesh Convergence, Mgła, Mizmor, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Naram, NNHMN, P.E.A.R.L., Peder Mannerfelt, Poppy Wizard, Psychick Wound, Puteraeon, Ramon Judah, Rotten Sound, RTR, Salbany, Sarastus, Scalameriya, SCALP, Schwefelgelb, SHXCXCCHCXSH, Suffering Hour, Sunken, Svaveldioxid, Tapes, Tech Level 2, Tippa Lee, Tor.Ma in DuB, Vibronics, Woe Bather, Young Kulcha, Youth Code

 

Live: This Gift is a Curse, Black Birch, Full of Hell, Deng Deng Hi-Fi, Pets or Food, Axis of Despair, Napalm Death m.fl.

RIP: Douglas McCarthy, Ozzy Osbourne, Tomas Lindberg, Trånn Ciekals, Cocoa Tea, Max Romeo, Junior Byles, Bret Hinds, Vivian Jones m.fl.

 

Det blev en lista med hård musik även i år. Om du använder Spotify så hittar du den här:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FE2UugSwh1riGBXQmPcxl?si=4f331f3e44224abd

 

 

 

 

Årets bästa skivor 2024

 

ÅRETS 30 BÄSTA ALBUM 2024*

1. Ulcerate: Cutting the Throat of God

2. Whoredom Rife: Den vrede makt

3. Sun Worship: Upon the Hills of Divination

4. Necrowretch: Swords of Dajjal

5. Vanhelgd: Atropos Doctrina

6. Funeral Leech: The Illusion of Time

7. Akhlys: House of the Black Geminus

8. Beenkerver: De Rode Weduwe

9. Blaze of Perdition: Upharsin

10. Merrimack: Of Grace and Gravity

11. JK Flesh: Echo Chamber Music 01

12. Jesu: Hard to Reach

13. Misotheist: Vessels by Which the Devil is Made Flesh

14. Vafurlogi: Í Vökulli Áþján

15. Kontravoid: Detachment

16. Above Aurora: Myriad Woes

17. The Bug: Machines I-V

18. ACxDC: G.O.A.T.

19. Paysage d'Hiver: Die Berge

20. Spectral Wound: Songs of Blood and Mire

21. Invocation: The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures)

22. Tempestarii: A Constellation of Dead Stars

23. Gatecreeper: Dark Superstition

24. Spectral Voice: Sparagmos

25. Verberis: The Apophatic Wilderness

26. Portrayal of Guilt: Christfucker II

27. Jah Schulz: Dub over Science (Chapter 2)

28. Sarcophagum: The Grand Arc of Madness

29. Black Birch: s/t

30. Belong: Realistic IX

 

ÅRETS 10 BÄSTA KORTA SKIVOR*

1. Killjoy: Heat in the Dance

2. Locust Revival: Locust Haus EP

3. Casket Cassette: Losses

4. Fashion Cult: Desolation Sounds

5. Sunrise Patriot Motion: My Father Took Me Hunting in the Snow

6. Ansome: Knucklehead

7. Assembler Code & Jensen Interceptor: NRG LVLS

8. Ghost Dubs: Damaged Versions

9. Puteraeon: Quindecennial Horror

10. Lömsk: Act I

* Album måste vara längre än 25 minuter eller ha minst 15 spår (”grindcore-regeln”). Korta skivor alltså under 25 minuter i längd.

 

Annat bra från året: Abrahamic Liars, Alberta Balsam, Aphex Twin, Aristarchos, Bardo Pond, Birdflesh, Black Curse, Blood Pact, Bonjour Tristesse, Bush Chemists, Cantique Lépreux, CHILD, Codex Empire, Comfort Cure, Container, Crawl, Crypto Order, D'Arcangelo, DIIV, Djevel, Dougie Conscious, Dubateers, Endlec, Enforced, Filmmaker, Glassing, Gloomchurch, Godflesh, Gossip Cult, Horna, Infant Island, Inquisition, Jo Bubbles, Järnbörd, Karsten Pflum, Kim Gordon, Kmyle, Krieg, L/F/D/M, Lovers Guilt, Mýrdal, Nails, Neil Landstrumm, Nghtly, Phase Fatale, Plague Bomb, Posthuman, Ramon Judah, S.H.I.T., Sarin, Scalameriya, Schwefelgelb, Teeth, Terence Fixmer, Thou, Tin Man, Topographies, Udånde, Vredhe, Wolfbrigade.

Live: Afsky, Napalm Death, Ossuary, Undergang, Vanhelgd m.fl.

RIP: Andreas Catjar-Danielsson, Juan Mendez (Silent Servant), Luis Vasquez (The Soft Moon), Steve Albini m.fl.

 

I år blev det till sist två Spotifylistor med favoritlåtar. Först denna med hårda låtar från 2024 (och några få äldre):

2024+: THE BURNING MOUTH

och en med elektroniskt (techno, knaster, breakbeats, acid etc):

2024+: LIVING THE POINTLESS DREAM

Enjoy!

Årets bästa skivor 2023

 

ÅRETS TRETTIO BÄSTA SKIVOR 2023*

1. Kold: Intet Mere Er

2. Krieg: Ruiner

3. Panopticon: The Rime of Memory

4. Slidhr: White Hart!

5. Taake: Et Hav av Avstand

6. Tithe: Inverse Rapture

7. Woe: Legacies of Frailty

8. Rorcal: Silence

9. Białywilk: Zmora

10. Yellow Eyes: Master's Murmur

11. Faidra: Militant : Penitent : Triumphant

12. JK Flesh: NO EXITS

13. Downfall of Gaia: Silhouettes of Disgust

14. Afsky: Om hundrede år

15. Fearing: Destroyer

16. Malum: In Nauseam

17. Ragana: Desolation's Flower

18. Rotten Sound: Apocalypse

19. Locust Revival: Good Grief

20. Grafvitnir: Into the Outer Wilderness

21. Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium - Nahab

22. Mizmor: Prosaic

23. JK Flesh: PI11

24. One of Nine: Eternal Sorcery

25. Bastard Grave: Vortex of Disgust

26. Godflesh: Purge

27. Lathe of Heaven: Bound by Naked Skies

28. Beach Fossils: Bunny

29. Sól Án Varma: s/t

30. Kommand: Death Age

 

* längre än 25 minuter eller minst 15 spår (min s.k. ”grindcore-regel”)

 

Annat bra från året:

Ævangelist, Ancient Methods, The Arson Project, Autorhythm, Birdflesh, Bonjour Tristesse, The Bug, Choke Chain, Codex Empire, Comfort Cure, Crypto Order, Deafcult, Dougie Conscious, Dub Vizir, Ekman, Enevelde, Exit Electronics, Felsenmirror, Filmmaker, Fluisteraars, Foetal Juice, French Police, Full of Hell & Primitive Man, GEL, The Grifted, The Hanged Man, Harsh Symmetry, Hot Graves, Jah Warrior, Jaquarius, Krallice, L/F/D/M, Lowest Creature, Lunacy, Mānbryne, Manii, Marduk, Midnight Odyssey, Mungo's Hi Fi, Nashgul, Neil Landstrumm, Nghtly, Óreiða, Peder Mannerfelt, The Negative Bias, Runemagick, Scalameriya, Scáth Na Déithe, Schwefelgelb, Silent Servant, Terence Fixmer och Thomas P. Heckmann.

 

Jag har gjort en Spotifylista med hårda favoritlåtar från de två senaste åren (plus några äldre) som du hittar här

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2cHYBVQdoWFWG75l9CCP1z?si=G1tYZOgiQ7yoPOGbbBhxow&pi=e-ZX73xyJISdm0

 

Årets bästa skivor 2022

 

ÅRETS TRETTIO BÄSTA SKIVOR (25 minuter eller längre)

 

1. Det eviga leendet: Reverence

2. Ultha: All that has Never been True

3. Heltekvad: Morgenrødens Helvedesherre

4. Absent in Body: Plague God

5. JK Flesh: NEW RELIGIONS OLD RULES

6. Eschatology: s/t

7. Vanum: Legend

8. Scitalis: Doomed Before Time

9. Hell Militia: Hollow Void

10. Piołun: Rzeki Goryczy

11. Hexis: Aeternum

12. JK Flesh: Sewer Bait

13. Verberis: Adumbration of the Veiled Logos

14. Blut Aus Nord: Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

15. Asarhaddon: Thurofreminga

16. Au-Dessus: Mend

17. Holy Fawn: Dimensional Bleed

18. JK Flesh: Veneer of Tolerance

19. Mizmor & Thou: Myopia

20. Young Prisms: Drifter

21. Drudkh: All Belong to the Night

22. Grafvitnir: Tunes of Sitra Ahra

23. T.G.T.B.: Stockholm Soul

24. Cloud Rat: Threshold

25. Norna: Star is Way Way is Eye

26. Sisyphean: Colours of Faith

27. Schwefelgelb: Whirlpool-Gedanken

28. Ex-Heir: Body Scam

29. Faceless Entity: The Great Anguish of Rapture

30. Primitive Man: Insurmountable

 

ÅRETS BÄSTA KORTARE SKIVOR (under 25 minuter)

1. Silver Knife: Ring

2. Fearing: Desolate

3. Mungo's Hi Fi & Kiko Bun: Riddim General

4. Scalameriya: 47031

5. Forever Grey: Sympathy Garden

6. French Police: Onyx

7. Arbogakvinnan: Nervsnittad

8. Killing Pace: s/t

9. Silent Servant: Optimistic Decay

10. Doedsvangr: Koinonia

 

Annat som var bra:

Aara, Ante-Inferno, Antigama, Ashes, Beenkerver, Blackbraid, Blushing, Buzz Kull, Caustic Phlegm, Comfort Cure, Compassion, Crust, Deathspell Omega, Drvg Cvltvre, Eradicate, Exit Electronics, Filmmaker, Fugitive, Full of Hell, GEL, General Dynamics, Glemsel, Goon des Garcons*, Helpless, Hissing, Implore, Krallice, KUSS, L/F/D/M, Lacing, Locust Revival, Lurid, Maedon-X, Moy'noq, Neil Landstrumm, Orm, Phase Fatale, Pilori, Qual, Sickrecy, Sunrise Patriot Motion, The Bug, Udånde, Vermin Womb, WAVRUNNR och Wolfbrigade

 

Jag har tyvärr inte hunnit göra mina listor med årets låtar så ni får hålla till godo med en lista med mina trettio favoritskivor (25 minuter och längre) som ni hittar här:

BÄSTA SKIVORNA 2022 enligt Isac

En väldigt varierad kompott...

Mina favoritskivor från 2021

 

ÅRETS BÄSTA LP’S (skivor längre än 25 min.)

1. Portrayal of Guilt: We Are Always Alone

2. Funeral Mist: Deiform

3. Youth Code & King Yosef: A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression

4. Ustalost: Before the Glinting Spell Unvests

5. Misotheist: For the Glory of Your Redeemer

6. Spectral Wound: A Diabolic Thirst

7. Teeth: Finite

8. G36 vs JK Flesh: Disintegration Dubs

9. Amenra: De Doorn

10. Asphyx: Necroceros

11. Fluisteraars: Gegrepen door de geest der zielsontluiking

12. Udånde: Life as a Purist

13. Panopticon: …And Again Into the Light

14. Forhist: s/t

15. Hellish Form: Remains

16. Djevel: Tanker Som Rir Natten

17. Whoredom Rife: Winds of Wrath

18. King Woman: Celestial Blues

19. Białywilk: Próżnia

20. Iskandr: Vergezicht

21. Groza: The Redemptive End

22. Paysage d'Hiver: Geister

23. Burial: Inner Gateways To The Slumbering Equilibrium At The Center Of Cosmos

24. Phrenelith: Chimaera

25. Kold: s/t

26. Enevelde: Gravgang

27. Sigsaly: Arrival

28. Abstracter: Abominion

29. Filmmaker: Screening Plexus

30. Lock Up: The Dregs of Hades

 

ÅRETS BÄSTA EP’S (skivor kortare än 25 min.)

1. Gnod/JK Flesh: Gnod vs. JK Flesh

2. Gatecreeper: An Unexpected Reality

3. Tech Level 2: Depths

4. Choke Chain: Endless Death

5. Vukari: Omnes Nihil

6. Schwefelgelb: Der Rest Der Nacht

7. Locust Revival: Mistakes

8. Ancient Methods: The Jericho Remixes

9. Choke Chain: Invoking Shadows

10. Acid Vatican: Holy See

Årets bästa skivor 2020 enligt mig

 

ÅRETS BÄSTA ALBUM

1. Regarde Les Hommes Tomber: Ascension

2. Ulcerate: Stare Into Death and Be Still

3. Afsky: Ofte jeg drømmer mig død

4. Aversio Humanitatis: Behold The Silent Dwellers

5. Dumal: The Confessor

6. Prison of Mirrors: De Ritualibus et Sacrificiis ad Serviendum Abysso

7. Choir Boy: Gathering Swans

8. Topographies: Ideal Form

9. Scáth Na Déithe: The Dirge of Endless Mourning

10. Svederna: Härd

11. Napalm Death: Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism

12. Jesu: Terminus

13. Sunken: Livslede

14. Fearing: Shadow

15. Tithe: Penance

16. Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: May Our Chambers Be Full

17. Funeral Leech: Death Meditation

18. Yaldabaoth: That Which Whets the Saccharine Palate

19. Svabhavat: Black Mirror Reflection

20. Soft Kill: Dead Kids, R.I.P. City

21. Winterfylleth: The Reckoning Dawn

22. ACxDC: Satan is King

23. Ondskapt: Grimoire Ordo Devus

24. Armagedda: Svindeldjup Ättestup

25. Anaal Nathrakh: Endarkenment

26. Svartsyn: Requiem

27. Make Them Die Slowly: Ferox

28. Fluisteraars: Bloem

29. Panzerfaust: The Suns of Perdition - Chapter 2: Render Unto Eden

30. Inquisition: Black Mass For A Mass Grave

31-50: Temple of Void, Puteraeon, Ett Dödens Maskineri, Uniform, Turia, Akhlys, Over The Voids…, Neon Lies, Calligram, Foetal Juice, Horna, Primitive Man, JK Flesh, Auđn, Selbst, Mrs. Piss, Public Memory, Vile Creature, Ante-Inferno, Pilori

ÅRETS BÄSTA EP’S

1. The Criminal World: We Spilled Blood For The Money

2. Topographies: Difference & Repetition

3. Holy Fawn: The Black Moon

4. Schwefelgelb: Die Stimme Drängt

5. Tech Level 2: Revolve

6. Portrayal of Guilt: A Tempting Pain

7. Thomas P. Heckmann: Release The Pain

8. NNHMN: Deception Island 2

9. Cardopusher: Fed With Lies

10. Panopticon: s/t

Min årslista 2017

Bästa albumen 2017

1. Wiegedood: De Doden Hebben Het Goed II

2. Aosoth: V: The Inside Scriptures

3. Au-Dessus: End of Chapter

4. Spectral Voice: Erode Corridors of Unbeing

5. Phrenelith: Desolate Endscape

6. Rebirth of Nefast: Tabernaculum

7. Amenra: Mass VI

8. Yellow Eyes: Immersion Trench Reverie

9. All Pigs Must Die: Hostage Animal

10. Death Fortress: Triumph of the Undying

                                                      

11. Godflesh: Post Self

12. Taake: Kong Vinter

13. JK Flesh: Suicide Estate Antibiotic Armageddon

14. Dälek: Endangered Philosophies

15. Lorn: Arrayed Claws

16. Chaos Moon: Eschaton Mémoire

17. Grift: Arvet

18. Belus: Apophenia

19. Necrowretch: Satanic Slavery

20. Pyrolatrous: Teneral

                                                      

21. Woe: Hope Attrition

22. Ofermod: Sol Nox

23. Auđn: Farvegir Fyrndar

24. Celeste: Infidèle(s)

25. Over the Voids: s/t

26. Solbrud: Vemod

27. Krallice: Go Be Forgotten 

28. Primitive Man: Caustic

29. Slowdive: s/t

30. A$AP Twelvyy: 12

                                                      

31-50: Planning For Burial, Amantra, Lock Up, Full of Hell, Domgård, Wode, Altarage, Svartsyn, Get Your Gun, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Throane, Manetheren, Phobia, Forteresse, Acrimonious, Undergang, Hexis, Author, With The Dead, Chelsea Wolfe

Bästa EP's/splits 2017

                          

1. Sinmara: Within The Weaves Of Infinity

2. Svartidauđi: Untitled

3. Vanum: Burning Arrow

4. Fides Inversa: Rite of Inverse Incarnation

5. Sinmara / Misþyrming: Split

6. Tod Huetet Uebel: N.A.D.A.

7. Hyperdontia: Abhorrence Veil

8. $uicideboy$: DIRTIERNASTIER$UICIDE

9. JK Flesh: Exit Stance

10. Paramnesia/Ultha Split

                           

Mina favoritskivor från 2016

 

Bästa album

1. Vanhelgd: Temple of Phobos

2. Ulcerate: Shrines of Paralysis

3. Inquisition: Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith

4. Ash Borer: The Irrepassable Gate

5. Death Fortress: Deathless March of The Unyielding

6. Murg: Gudatall

7. Altarage: Nihl

8. Rorcal: Creon

9. Pyramido: Vatten

10. Ast: Fraktale

11. Panphage: Drengskapr

12. Unru: Als Tier Ist Der Mensch Nichts

13. Mizmor: Yodh

14. Bölzer: Hero

15. Anicon: Exegeses

16. Zhrine: Unortheta

17. Predatory Light: s/t

18. Skáphe: Skáphe 2

19. Krypts: Remnants of Expansion

20. Downfall of Gaia: Atrophy

21. Rotten Sound: Abuse To Suffer

22. Vermin Womb: Decline

23. Glorior Belli: Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes)

24. Urzeit: Anmoksha

25. Antaeus: Condemnation

26. Deathspell Omega: The Synarchy Of Molten Bones

27. Seven Sisters of Sleep: Ezekial's Hags

28. Sun Worship: Pale Dawn

29. Ultha: Converging Sins

30. Wode: s/t

31. Domkraft: The End of Electricity

32. Uada: Devoid of Light

33. Forteresse: Thèmes Pour La Rébellion

34. Ravencult: Force of Profanation

35. The Underachievers: It Happened In Flatbush

36. Angry Gods: The Clearing

37. Asphyx: Incoming Death

38. Gadget: The Great Destroyer

39. Cara Neir: Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition

40. Phantom Winter: Sundown Pleasures

41. Necrot: The Labyrinth

42. Magrudergrind: II

43. Trap Them: Crown Feral

44. Roffe Ruff: Och han älskade dom alla

45. Hermóðr: The Darkness of December

46. Halshug: Sort Sind

47. Surya: Apocalypse A.D.

48. Wormrot: Voices

49. Anaal Nathrakh: The Whole of The Law

50. Oranssi Pazuzu: Värähtelijä


Bästa splits och EP:s

1. Martröð: Transmutation of Wounds

2. Drudkh/Grift: Betrayed By The Sun/Hägringar

3. Krallice: Hyperion

4. Nachtzeit: Sagor i Natten

5. Teitanblood: Accursed Skin

6. Almyrkvi: Pupil of The Searing Maelstrom

7. Verwoed: Bodemloos

8. Chelsea Wolfe: Hypnos/Flame

9. Tombs: All Empires Fall

10. Full of Hell: Amber Mote In The Black Vault