Ghost Cult continues our “End of Year Guest Post Extravaganza” with a slew of posts from bands, industry, PR pros, and more! We’ll be sharing lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the globe. In this edition, we have a list from Portland Death Metal band Sea Sleeper. Their self-titled debut album is coming out soon via Metal Assault Records.
10. The Ocean – “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic Cenozoic”
This record is in my top 3 of The Ocean’s catalog, which presents evidence they are a great band.
9. Aseitas – “False Peace”
Great Pacific Northwest Representatives, and another band from Portland that released an AOTY candidate
8. Black Crown Initiate – “Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape”
This was my quarantine album, we spent many nights sulking in it dark thinking about our doomed escape and like any BCI album, criminally underrated.
7. Anaal Nathrakh – “Endarkenment”
This album is horror, but glimmers with hope and light, like a serial killer who treats his elderly mom extremely well.
6. Imperial Triumphant – “Alphaville”
I failed for two years to get this band, it took a pandemic to take myself to atonal hell, Alphaville found me at the perfect time.
5. Cattle Decapitation – “Death Atlas”
The implementation of the pitch screaming drew me to cattle decap and this album has so many brilliant movements.
4. Ulthar – “Providence”
Not a dull moment on this masterpiece, the production is loose and easy on the ears, every member of this band has moments of gold on Providence.
3. Haken – “Virus”
This was an album I tried not to like, but every time it would pop on my Spotify I’d go “oh, who is this?” It was Haken’s “Virus”…again
2. Calligram – “The Eye Is The First Circle”
Once in a while, I fall for a record that is full of grime and primordial raw meat, the listening experience has me daydreaming of riding the backs of mammoths in the ice frozen wasteland. This record is phenomenal.
1. Intronaut – “Fluid Existential Inversions”
I’m a sucker for most Intronaut albums. I just really enjoy the composition and melody they draw out of every idea while remaining incredibly fluid and innovative.