And yet another year of new releases…

Current Top 10:
1. Chapter V:F10 - Syndrome
2. Shape of Despair - Monotony Fields

Khors - Night Falls Onto the Fronts of Ours
Dekadent - Veritas
Lunae Lumen - The Words Unsaid
Lustre - Phantom
Hiki - Saturday Calm
Midnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade
Blurry Lights - Blurry Lights
Hemelbestormer - Portals

Listened:
A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
Basarabian Hills - Enveloped in the Velvet Cloak of Midnight
Ghost Bath - Moonlover
Urfaust - Apparitions

Disappointments:
Lustre - Blossom

Will listen:
Civil War -…

Taken from Monica's official statement about Kris' suicide.

He told me when we got together that I had saved his life because before we met he had been days away from ending it all.

He lived and breathed the music. (…) He had no hobbies, no other real interests. (…) He was dedicated to all so completely.

The music he was writing was different. I thought it was very good but to him it wasn't The Angelic Process so it was substandard.

Long version.
Yay perfectionist workaholism!

2010
Risen v0id - Voids v1 (26.08)
Risen v0id - Voids v2 (15.12)

2011
Risen v0id - Voids v3 (20.03)
Mealann - Der Wanderer (31.08)
Cold Womb Descent - Cold Womb Descent (25.09)
Mealann - Der Einsiedler (07.12)

2012
Mealann - Eine dunkle Seele (04.02)
Risen v0id - Voids v5 (01.06)
Risen v0id - Voids v6 (01.06)
Cold Womb Descent - Rise of Ldaovh (06.06)
Mealann - …von Stille und Ewigkeit (28.06)
Anfea Eutua - Idai Svoal (02.11)

2013
Phantom Mistress - Dreams of Laura (05.05)
Anfea Eutua - Anfea Eutua (18.05)
Cold Womb Descent…

My listening habits make me focus on artists who define me best and grind their discographies until I know every song very well and have enough of it (usually a very, very long process). This always prevents me from getting to know a lot of new music. In order to get familiar with bigger amount of artists at the same time, I started to pick excerpts of their discographies, treating the rest as a material "for later", which rarely comes. Here is the list of albums of my favourite artists, which are preserved for later. I don't mind those, who…

1. Everything I Love Is Suffering

Hey there, this is you
At the age halfway through
Your moment in your only lifetime
Mind me saying that
When you grow, you'll see
That you'll still be me
Ever

Now you're twice as old as me
And I assume you see
Time does not even heal
Here's how it goes for real
What we've done, is done
What we've not, we won't

Tissue once cut will be mend
But the scars, they compound
Into dark shells
All that we love, all we care about
Like everything else
Hide beneath the illusion of…

Bored with detox stuff, counting plays. This wasn't done via buggy Last.fm tag-based mechanism. I was adding plays of particular tracks. There are 47 albums above 1000 plays in general. Similarly to artists, which are 49.

Bergrizen - Autism 5134
ColdWorld - Melancholie2 4675
Psyclon Nine - Crwn Thy Frnicatr 3940
ColdWorld - TheStarsAreDeadNow 3536
Psyclon Nine - INRI 3412
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation… 3126
Psyclon Nine - We the Fallen 2941
Psyclon Nine - Divine Infekt 2779
Silencer - Death - Pierce Me 2764
Darkspace - Dark Space III 2557
Anaal Nathrakh - Passion 2288
Disturbed -…

Years 2010-2012 were years of great musical exploration of mine. I used to download hundreds of projects, mostly atmospheric black metal, but also plenty of other. 90% of what I love comes from that time. Regardless of that fact, I still had enough of time and will to listen to my favourites extensively. Since 2013, I stopped to explore new stuff. Nothing excites me anymore and I tend to stick to my favourites. In 2013, I had a cool playlist (see my 33:33:33 journal entry). Because of that, yearly stats distinguish 13 artists, which constitute my "musical pantheon". In 2014,…

This entry is sponsored by this link. It's not perfect, sometimes you have to add a country manually or change it in case of mistagged page / lack of information. Anyway, handy tool. Just as in case of grouping the top artists, here goes the nationalities chart.

I took entries with 50+ plays count. Some artists didn't make it to the list:

Country too obscure (less than 500 plays in general):