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Top 20 Albums (Alphabetical Order)

Posted on December 22, 2015

  • Baroness – Purple (Abraxan Hyms)
  • Beach Slang – The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl)
  • Between The Buried – Coma Ecliptic (Metal Blade)
  • Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss (Sargent House)
  • Deafheaven – New Bermuda (Anti-)
  • Faith No More – Sol Invictus (Ipecac)
  • Frank Turner – Positive Songs For Negative People (Polyvinyl)
  • Ghost – Meliora (Loma Vista)
  • High On Fire – Luminiferous (E1 Music)
  • InAeona – Force Rise The Sun (Prosthetic)
  • Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls (BMG)
  • Jeff Rosenstock – We Cool? (Side One Dummy)
  • Lucifer – Lucifer I (Rise Above)
  • Mutoid Man – Bleeder (Sargent House)
  • Night Birds – Mutiny At Muscle Beach (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • Refused – Freedom (Epitaph)
  • Strung Out – Transmissions.Alpha.Delta (Fat Wreck Chords)
  • Teenage Bottlerocket – Tales From Wyoming (Rise)
  • Worriers – Imaginary Life (Don Giovanni)
  • Hop Along – Painted Shut (Saddle Creek)

Top 20 Bands I Saw Live

  • Faith No More (on 4/20 in SF, Epic!)
  • Pears (Thee Parkside is too small to contain the insanity… also somehow saw them 3 times this year)
  • Clutch (Southern Comfort at it’s best)
  • Ghost (Even the 7 year old girl on her dad’s shoulders was throwing up horns and headbanging)
  • Jeff Rosenstock (The BEST Dude!)
  • Pup (Beastie Boys cover with Jeff Rosenstock.. yes please!)
  • High On Fire (Sober Matt Pike > Drunk Matt Pike.. Keep it up man!!)
  • Night Birds (I done messed up by not seeing thier secret show at Fest this year)
  • Converge (I will mosh and rage forever for these guys)
  • Chumped (Farewell Show at Fest… Also the Saddest show ever seen)
  • Refused (The best dance moves a frontman has ever done)
  • Murder City Devils (Somehow, rain is the most complementary weather)
  • Turbo Negro (stupid sexy songs)
  • Sleep (Almost didn’t make the list because they didn’t play Dopesmoker.. remember when I did though?)
  • Napalm Death (Barney and Jello on stage singing Nazi Punks F*** Off!)
  • Insomnium (Hands down the best Melodic Death Metal band out there)
  • Lucifer (Hypnotic, They even slept on my couch!)
  • Beans & Toast (Who needs electricity to play a show)
  • Beach Slang (Where Morrisey fans meet Jawbreaker and Replacements fans)
  • Andrew WK (Literally Party)

Top 5 Anticipated Releases for 2016 (All Aboard the Hype Train!)

  • Pup
  • Gojira
  • Tool
  • Russian Circles
  • Crusades

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