Compiled by: Andrei Moose
Artwork by: Josh
Mashesh
When we started the SATAN’S DOZEN back in
July of this year, for those folks new to the blog or this feature, the idea
was to present the very best music the underground scene has to offer to you
the reader/listener. Whilst we make
every effort to review every album we can, we also receive band submissions,
not to mention the countless recommendations you send our way, so in
practical terms it is just not possible to review everything.
Therefore
because we don’t want killer music to pass you by, each and every month Andrei Moose painstakingly sifts through the
music labelled “all killer riffs” and chooses 13 of the best new albums released via
bandcamp and bundles them together into the mightiest riff sandwich.
Whilst
all the albums we included are top tier stuff, we have compiled the albums into
a chart on a sliding scale of 13 - 1. So with the year coming to end,
we thought it was appropriate to choose
our favourites of the year, in what we like to call THE BEST OF SATAN’S
DOZEN 2017, so we hope you
dig our selections and enjoy The Best Unearthly Hymns Unearthed 2017.
These
bands need more exposure, so go “like” “share” and “follow” their pages, but
most of all enjoy some of the best music the underground has to
offer. THE
SLUDGELORD most sincerely approves. Now, go heavy
or go home.
13)
Idlegod – “Idlegod”
(Tuscany, Italy)
Stoner / doom / Sludge
12) Lord Crow – “Gods Among Man” EP (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Sludge / Stoner
11) Shadowmaster – “Shadowmaster” (Sundsvall, Sweden)
Stoner / doom / Sludge
10)
AIAUASCA – “Rise of
the Molecule” (Montreal, Québec)
Stoner / doom / Sludge
9)
Have Blue – “Melted
Mind” (Berlin, Germany)
Garage / psychedelic
/ blues / rock
8)
Presumption – “Presumption”
(Le Mans, France)
Stoner / Doom / Metal
7)
Masterhand – “Mind
Drifter” (Oklahoma)
Garage / psychedelic
/ stoner / rock
6) Void Commander – “Shrooming Widow” (Karlskrona, Sweden)
5) Coughdust - “Worldwrench” (Finland)
Stoner-doom / Sludge
/ death doom
4) DROID – “Province” (Melbourne, Australia)
Sludge / Stoner /
Doom / Metal
3)
Blame God – “Strategically
Confined” (Oneonta, New York)
Noise / Grindcore / Powerviolence
2) Bone Church – “Bone Church” (Connecticut)
Psychedelic / stoner
/ doom / metal
1)
Monte Luna – “Monte
Luna”
Stoner / Doom / Sludge
Band
info: Idle God || Lord Crow
|| Shadowmaster || Aiauasca
|| Have Blue
|| Presumption
|| Masterhand
|| Void Commander
|| Coughdust
|| Droid
|| Blame God
|| Bone Church
|| Monte Luna
