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Mid-year best-of lists and complex pattern analysis (or lack thereof)

With the forward-thinking festival returning after a COVID-fueled break, we’ve taken the time to run down the best of the best performing over this week and weekend.

Venetian grinds

The Ocean’s latest and potentially greatest album “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic” emerges later this month — we unveil a new single “Pleistocene” (in music video form) and then catch up at length with founder Robin Staps about what’s to become.

All the new metal (or otherwise) to spin (or skip) releasing between February 17 and February 23, 2019, plus a handful of surprise releases from last week.

We get deep (and hilarious) with Scalzi about the newest Slough Feg album, the project’s tenth full-length to date and a real rocker if there ever was one, out today. Bonus: live shots from their recent Philly set.

Chaos to chaos

Exhumed bassist Ross Sewage gives us a peek at his extensive Chuck Taylor collection in the fourth edition of Metal Shoebox.

Andrew Sacher’s top metal picks for the year, including Knocked Loose, Brutus, Alcest, Cult of Luna, and more.

If you bookmark one list on this site this year, make it this one