Best Of 2015

Time to sum up the year 2015.

It’s been one amazing musical year and let’s be honest, far too many good releases, the pile of records have grown alot! Sharing most of them has been a really fun. 

Regarding the growth of the record collection have this year been monitored, I have started to use Discogs ;) an excellent product to keep track of all the records. As during the years I lost the control of what I have, haha I guess that I starting to get senil :).
So from time to time I buy the same record that I already have, kind annoying. So Discogs is my best friend atm :) But so far I only have added the records that have been purchased under 2015, can announce that at first sight I started sweating heavily when I saw the number of all the records. It's more than last year, oops! Well all the records aren't brand new, many of them have been found on second hand shops etc if that's a relief :) Yeah for me it is. Think what a bunch of cash I would have if no records was bought, think what I could do with it. Wishful thinking indeed, but then, what a boring life it would be, no new music, no new records that I could sink into and feel that I'm alive.

2015 have been pretty good and not so messy on the personal level, the creativity have raised but not as much as planned, things in life have started to get in place. Work wise it have been as busy as always but the focus have been on other things that on single events. Some new employers has appeared and that I'm thankful for.

Did a fast look thru the Calender for 2015 and after a few pages I Lost the count of the gigs, haha. Anyway here is a picture to show a few of them.

2015 have been the festival year! I think if I count on top of my head I have visit +20 festivals all around Europe this year, fun oh yes. I won't list every single one and won't mention any artists this time, I guess the picture well say it all this time. (Ask if you have any questions in the comments.)

2016 looks like it could be an awesome year, the requests starting to come in already.

So let's wrap this up with list of the list, best of the best and so on. Here we go!

First the Top 50 of the best albums of 2015 at Tune Of The Day! 

50. Imperial State Electric - Honk Machine

49. Thunder - Wonder Days

48. Refused – Freedom

47. Blackberry Smoke - Holding all the Roses

46. Tallest Man on Earth - Dark Bird is Home

45. Vidunder - Oracles and Prophets

44. Enslaved - In Times

43. Danko Jones - Fire Music

42. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

41. Beardfish - +4626 – Comfortzone

40. Saxon - Battering Ram

39. The Night Flight Orchestra - Skyline Whispers

38. Uncle Acid - The Night Creeper

37. Black Vulpine - Hidden Places

36. Tau Cross - Tau Cross

35. Lik - Mass Funeral Evocation

34. Jess and the Ancient Ones – Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

33. Thåström - Den Morronen

32. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

31. Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask

30. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence

29. Sorcerer - In The Shadow Of The Inverted Cross

28.Intronaut - The Direction of Last Things

27.The Exploding Eyes Orchestra – I

26.Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors

25.Planet of Zeus – Vigilante

24.Skraeckoedlan – Sagor

23.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

22. Elder – Lore

21. Motörhead - Bad Magic

20. Draconian – Sovran

19. Anna Ternheim - For The Young

18. Year of the Goat - The Unspeakable

17. Behold! The Monolith - Architects of the Void

16 . High on Fire – Luminiferous

15. Faith No More - Sol Invictus

14. Kadavar – Berlin

13. Rivers of Nihil – Monarchy

12. Luna Sol - Blood Moon

11. Luciferian Light Orchestra - Luciferian Light Orchestra

10. Hong Faux - A Message from Dystopia

9. Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower

8. Clutch - Psychic Warfare

7. Leprous - The Congregation

6. Baroness – Purple

5. Monolord – Vænir

4. Ghost – Meliora

3. We Hunt Buffalo - Living Ghosts

2. Khemmis – Absolution

1. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

Honourable mentions:

Kult Of The Wizard - The White Wizard, Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed, Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic, Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers, Torche - Restarter,  Europe - War Of Kings, Lamb Of God - VII: Strum Und Drang, Soilwork - The Ride Majestic, Symphony - X Underworld, Mammoth Storm - Fornjot, Slayer - Repentless, Deafheaven - New Bermuda, Melechesh - Enki, Colossus - The Breathing World, Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud, Palace Of The King - White Bird/Burn The Sky, Raised Fist - From The North, Riverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine .

Best Cover Album - PRONG - Songs from the black hole

Best Foreign Rock- CLUTCH

Best Foreign Metal - RIVERS OF NIHIL

Best Swedish Metal - TRIBULATION

Best Swedish Rock - GHOST

Best tune - GHOST - "He Is"

Best Swedish Stoner rock - SKRAECKOEDLAN - Sagor

Best foreign Sludge/Stoner - KHEMMIS

Best Swedish Doom - MONOLORD

Best foreign Doom - WINDHAND

Best Debut & Biggest Suprise

Best Live Album - FLYING COLORS - Second Flight

Best Festival - Wacken 2015

Best Support Act Live - BOMBUS live in Frankfurt!

Best Festival Act - PATTI SMITH live at WAY OUT WEST

Best Concert - SAVATAGE and TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA at Wacken

2015 years sleeping pill, what happend with THE SWORD???

Best Cover Art

Best Tour Poster Art - Faith No More

Best Art - Mara Piccione

Best T-Shirt - BARONESS

Best Hoddie of 2015 - HONG FAUX

Best Christmas Gift, Thanks Thetania!

Best Movie

Best Whiskey - Highland Park - Einar

Best Beer - Ballast Point

Best non Alcoholic Beer - Mikkeller Drink'in the Sun

This years best blogg - A FAIR JUDGEMENT

This Year's most active concert-goer: LG-Petrov (Same procedure as last year)

This year instruments effort: Melancholia - TRIBULATION, whoa what a tune, what joy of playing.

 

Best Musical Country of 2015 - SWEDEN

This year vocal performance:  Mlny Parsonz

Biggest loss 2015 - R.I.P. Lemmy

Tune Of The Day wish you all a Happy New Year!! Today's tune will be released a bit later on today!

Best of 2014

Time to sum up the year 2014.

The year has been superb regarding music releases, crazy indeed.

I do not make any protocol or markings on a paper on all my purchase of records, but noted that most of what is purchased in 2014 remains on the floor and should be sorted in as soon as i get some time over. Lots of tiles are still covered in plastic, because time did not exist to sink into a new record. This may well be one of the reasons that the top 20 is so sprawling this year. I did a fast count and notice that I have baught ruffly 250 new records during 2014 and all this are Vinyls of course :)

A year that have been a bit messy on a personal level. Creativity has been quite low this year, that includes my painting that have remained completely stagnation, which is really not good. I guess that a "New Year" promisses must set to be albe to change it. I will snatch up and try to take in 2015 with open arms and create the best year I can.

A few musical adventures have been done 2014, not as far as massive as 2013 was but here is some sort of summery.

Lost count of the gigs that have been made, around 50 that I can count of top my head.

Here is a list of the gigs that have been made taken from the top of my head, impressive list huh?

1;st, various galas and other events, starting off with

Idrottsgalan, VK - Vinter Konferansen, Academic Work, Melodifestivalen, TV Producenternas Pris, Tele2 Awards, Monster Jam, OS Hjältarna, Bardiabetesfonden, . Where artists like Samantha Fox, Tomas Ledin, Titiyo, Darin, Eric Saade etc have performed at.

2;nd, the festivals,

Sthlm Fields, Summerburst, Bråvalla, Way Out West, Size The Park and Kent Fest where acts like Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, David Guetta, Avicii, Eric Prydz, Sebjak, Adrian Lux, John Dahlbäck, Anthrax, The Clutch, Ghost, Mastodon, Placebo among others.

3;rd some various shows, small club show to big arena concerts.

Craft, Black Stone Cheery, Clean Bandit, Morrissey, Peter Gabriel, Robin Williams, Monster Magnet among others 

And for last, 2 Tours have been made with Melodifestivalen and Hong Faux with D-A-D

So the part that is best during the 2014.

Best Arena Concert:

 Peter Gabriel - So - Globen, Stockholm. What a show, god damm.

Best Festival Concert:

Iron Maiden - Bråvalla Festivalen

Best Swedish Stoner:

Monolord - Empress Rising 

Best Swedish Rock:

Greenleaf - Trails & Passes   

Best Swedish Metal:

 Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation 

Best Looking T-shirt: Grizzlyman

Best Looking Hoodie 2014: Messhuggah

Best Beer: Mohawk Blizzard

Best Whiskey: Yamazaki.

Best Movie: Guardians of the Galaxy

Best Festival: Way Out West

This Year's most active concert-goer: LG-Petrov (Same procedure as last year, hehe. he is everywere)

Best Blog: Heavy Metale, With an incredible variation of posts were you can find your evening beer and record.

Best Art: Tomas Johansson

Best Tour Poster: Pearl Jam - Stockholm 2014

20. Accept - Blind Rage 

19. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel 

18. Electric Wizard - Time To Die 

17. Truckfighters - Universe 

16. Monolord - Empress Rising 

15. Ancient Ascendant – Echoes And Cinder 

14. At The Gates – At War With Reality 

13. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways 

12. Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral 

11. Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun 

10. Conan - Blood Eagle 

9. Crobot - Something Supernatural 

8. Vanhelgd - Relics Of Sulphur Salvation 

7. Opeth – Pale Communion 

6. Royal Blood - Royal Blood 

5. Greenleaf - Trails & Passes 

4. Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden 

3. Agalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere 

2. Rival Sons - Great Western Valkyrie 

1. Sólstafir - Ótta

This year instruments effort:

Chimes at Midnight - MASTODON where the whole band gets credit for their actions. Where great riff carries the song and intermingled with heavy slow melodic riffs, and an incredible drumming side by side with the bass and vocals that keep the course on track.

 

This year vocal performance:

Jay Buchanan in Rival Sons without a doubt. He takes a note and one gets goose bumps, powerful.

This year most twisted:

Jack White - Lazaretto vinyl !!

The album plays in three different speeds, ie, the standard 33 1/3, 45 rpm and 78 rpm. If not that would be enough. So does the A-side backwards, in addition there are hidden tracks under the label. How screwed is not this, So let me know.

This year flop:

"Aelita" of Mando Diao. That the band takes out their turns is something we found out at the previous release, it was a brilliant move and the album was exemplary, but now it has gone a little too far, this is not good.

This year most unexpected:

That AT THE GATES "At War With Reality" would keep such a high class after 19 years, would probably no one think it was possible.

This year's most anticipated:

That AC/DC released an album that sounds just like AC/DC.

This year personal findings:

Many discoveries have been made this year, putting my vote on the British Royal Blood and their self-titled debut, a cruel swing for being a duo.

This year sleeping pill:

Alcest - "Shelter", ugh what boring record this is.

This year cover / package:

"Tellurian" - SOEN, a magical cover that has nothing whatsoever to do with rock, move your eyes closer you understand, ingeniously good.

When it comes to packaging, then it goes without hesitation to re-release are on Led Zeppelin's first five, which are really nice and lavish, thinking of the deluxe box editions.

This year gig:

Monster Magnet at Klubben, Stockholm, January 21. Great to see that they are back with flag at the top.

This years tune:

Lágnætti of SÓLSTAFIR. So beautiful, I am so touched that the tears almost falls.

Tune Of The Day wish you all a Happy New Year!! Today's tune will be released a bit later on today!