Gotta give a shoutout to the End of Year lists from Angry Metal Guy blog. They have a pretty good balance of popular and underground metal from a bunch of different writers with different genre preferences.

They introduced me to Warcrab and Xoth this year, at least.

A link for the lazy: https://www.angrymetalguy.com/one-list-to-debase-them-all-angrymetal-guy-coms-aggregated-top-20-of-2023/

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

Second AMG (I wrote an AMG Bot for this community that I can't get working due to some instances being behind cloudflare). They've exposed me to a lot of smaller bands that I wouldn't have known about otherwise. They're particularly helpful if you enjoy non-cvlt Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal.

Side note OP: I love your posts. Many's the time I've seen something I haven't listened to in years and have a good couple of hours going through their back catalogue.

[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I’m gonna third AMG! It’s one of the few review sites that I think has consistently good reviews of a decently wide array of metal. And I’m not just saying that because I agree with them…I’m saying that because they introduced me to Blood Incantation. Which anyone unfamiliar should absolutely give a listen!