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The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List December 28, 2011 04:18PM |
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2011 was a huge year for Deathwish.
Special thanks to all of you who supported the collective efforts of Deathwish and our Affiliated Artists.
With that said, here is a huge year end list from us for you to peruse at your leisure.
Fuck all the other lists out there, this one is the best.
Feel free to add your own lists/comments to this thread as well.
See you in 2012.
Aaron Horkey
Graveyard, "Hisingen Blues" (Nuclear Blast)
I Hate The Art of Todd Bratrud (Mark Batty)
Gaylord Schanilec
Ken Mode, "Venerable" and live in Mankato, Minnesota
Cottonwood County Road 56
"Get In The Routan" Horkey 6 West Coast Tour
Veggie Grill, Irvine, CA
The Devil's Blood, "The Thousandfold Epicentre" (Van)
BEC trail system and the miles accrued
Museum of Osteology. Oklahoma City, OK
Deluxe Moebius reissues (Humanoids)
Cold Cave, "Cherish The Light Years" (Matador)
Andy/Victims. Some good stuff 2011.
Baroness - live @ Best Friends Day
Saviours - live @ Kafé 44
Coliseum - Parasites 12"
True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens And From The Center To The Circumference Of The Earth
All Pigs Must Die - God Is War
Roffe Ruff - Barrabas
Death Evocation – Relentless 7"
Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
Pyramido - Sand
Switchblade - live @ Kafé 44
Aye Jay!
www.ayejay.com
- kill all redneck pricks, a movie about KARP.
Bill Bradley (from Federation X) makes a doc about my favorite indie metal band of all time. A story of inspiration, addiction, and redemption. Highly recommended.
-I hate: the art of Todd Bratrud
The modern master of skateboard art's first book is a stunner. It's everything you'd want in an art book. Plus he gave me my first chance to do deck art and I am forever grateful.
-Das Racist, relax
White it may be their "pop" album, I stand by my opinion that nobody doing hip hop is doing anything close to this good, OFWGKTA included.
-Pushead and Aaron Horkey, collaboration prints.
Two of my favorite artists old and new are a match made south of heaven. I say goddamn.
Rare Exports, DVD.
-Finnish Xmas film that may be the best movie I've seen all year. Finally answers the question: if an excavation team unearthed Santa Claus would he be naughty or nice? You guess.
- WTF podcast
I was late to the game on Marc Maron's podcast. Comedian based interviews from an insider. Engrossing and entertaining. I've listened to over 100 episodes!
-John Dyer Baizley, shirts
One of my favorite artists goes for dolo and does an all art, no text shirt series with amazing results. Check em out at www.aperfectmonster.com
-stay gold, real: since day one, shake junt DVDs
Lumped together here, but these are three skate videos you should see. Now.
-Sierra Nevada brewery: Hoptimum
My hometown heroes makes the best, most potent IPA ever. Delicious.
-trader joe's cookie butter.
Though I risk ridicule for including this, it's amazingness cannot be denied. Ever think "I'd love a peanut butter that tasted like cookies?"
Me neither. But oh man, I'm glad they did.
Brian Izzi - Trap Them
Audio:
Burzum - Fallen
Midnight - Satanic Royalty
Virus - Agent That Shapes the Desert
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Converge - live shows
Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre
Drive soundtrack
Craft - Void
APMD - God Is War
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Visual:
Lucio Fulci Blu-Ray re-issues
Drive
Boardwalk Empire
I Saw The Devil
Outrage
Skin I Live in
Hobo With a Shotgun
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
A Dangerous Method
Brian Murphy: Noize Corp. (Tee Til Death, Vinyl Noize, etc.)
1. Earth Balance Soy Nog - organic and delicious. Into it.
2. Xs To Os Vegan Bakery Troy NY - Jesus, so freaking good. Canoes for everyone! Give me some more of those cinnamon rolls.
3. Wahoos Veggie Burrito - after a long day of Sound And Fury 2011, this burrito was perhaps the best thing I've ever ate in my entire life. Loved it.
4. Trader Joe's Cookie Spread - Is it peanut butter, is it dessert? No idea, but it tastes stupid good in a toasted sandwich with banana.
5. Starbursts UK - Starbursts in America have gelatin. Fuck gelatin. Starbursts in the UK have "vegetable fats." WIN! Shared these with some long time vegans at a Bane gig in Worcester. They were beyond psyched, and weren't even aware that the UK variety were vegan. The same was once true for Skittles as well. But if you're into black currant skittles, you'll still have to get those from the UK.
6. Junior Mints Holiday Edition - that's right, no gelatin in these either. Remember that rumor years ago where someone knew someone who knew someone who called the Junior Mint people and confirmed the gelatin was veg-friendly? I loved pre internet vegan rumors.
7. Veggie Galaxy in Cambridge Mass - this is what the east coast needs. A for real diner with all the usual diner eats. Get the onion rings and malted frappe. You'll thank me for it.
8. Pulse Cafe - RIP. This was a good spot to hit up before shows at the Middle East. No longer. I'll miss your sandwiches.
9. Making your own granola - I eat cereal EVERY morning. Do you know how expensive that is? And how much crap I was stuffing in my gullet? Yuck. Now I make my own. It's all part of a typical sunday night. Oats, cinnamon, nuts, coconut flakes, brown sugar, vanilla and a little vegetable oil. Now we're talking.
10. Being vegan. Do it for the animals. It's easy. No more gross, brown water soy milk in weird anti-septic containers. In 2011, you have no excuse NOT being vegan.
Bjorn / Rise And Fall
- Ending up in the same parallel universe as Bobby Liebling and Pentagram, twice in one year.
- Recording "Faith", the upcoming Rise And Fall album, the way I'd always hoped an album recording would/could be. A truly awesome experience. Thanks again to everyone involved.
- Vince and Chrissie made a baby, named her Sophia and asked me to be her godfather. So cool. I bought her her first pair of jeans.
- Feist - "Metals" LP. This lady can do no wrong.
- Converge, live in June 2011. Relentless and inspiring.
- Listening to Patrick Kindlon's babbling, in real life, on YouTube and on Deathwish Podcasts.
- Finding a new indoor soccer team to play with.
- All Pigs Must Die - "God Is War" LP.
- Hawks And Doves - "Year One". I had been waiting for this since "Mercy" came out and it did not disappoint.
- Morrissey, always.
Clayton / Touche Amore
Top 10 LP's of 2011
1. Balance and Composure- Separation
Easily my most listened to album of the year. I have no band to compare them to they stand 100% on their own and that's why I love them. One of the best live bands around right now as well.
2. Panda Bear- Tomboy
3. Pianos Become The Teeth- The Lack Long After
4. Washed Out- Within and Without
5. James Blake- James Blake
6. La Dispute- Wildlife
7. Bon Iver- Bon Iver
8. Radiohead- King of Limbs
9. Joyce Manor- Joyce Manor
10. The Weeknd- House of Balloons
Top 5 7"s
1. Code Orange Kids- Cycles
Hands down hardcore's most exciting young band. Catch them on tour with Xerxes January 2012. Imagine a noisy ThreeOneG band playing His Hero Is Gone style hardcore. Gets my highest of recommendations.
2. Ryan Adams- Come Home/Starsign
3. Joyce Manor/Big Kids split
4. Converge/Dropdead split
5. Victims/Kylesa split
And Drive and Hesher were my 2 favorite movies hands down.
Chris Colohan
Claim to Fame: Burning Love, Cursed, etc.
Timber Timbre - Creep On Creepin' On
Void - Sessions 1981-1983
True Widow - As High...
Double Negative - Daydreamnation (2010? Don't care!)
Rotten Sound - Cursed
Omegas - Blasts of Lunacy
Psychic Limb - Queens
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light
Loss - Despond
Career Suicide at Death House (MTL) and Soybomb (TO)
Stiff Little Fingers at Lee's Palace
Nicholas Winding Refn - Drive
Getting the City Limits LP out and other good stuff in line
Touring a lot and catching up with old friends
Moving. Gaining a backyard, a BBQ and a hammock
Getting back on top of my shit.
Daiki from Alliance Trax (http://www.alliance-trax.com/)
Best 10 bands/releases A-Z
BALANCE AND COMPOSURE "Separation"
COMEBACK MY DAUGHTERS "Outta Here"
DIAMOND "s/t", "Don't Lose Your Cool"
FOUNDATION "When The Smoke Clears"
INSIDE "Tokyo Straight Edge E.P."
POLAR BEAR CLUB "Clash Battle Guilt Pride"
TITLE FIGHT "Shed"
TOUCHE AMORE "Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me"
TRAPPED UNDER ICE "Big Kiss Goodnight"
TWITCHING TONGUES "Insane & Inhumane", "Sleep Therapy"
Daniel Rosen
Claim to Fame: Bitter End
10 Albums released in 2011 that helped keep me somewhat sane:
Trapped Under Ice - big kiss goodnight
Take Offense - tables will turn
Noi!se - this is who we are
London Diehards - there's lies, there's damn lies, and there's ....
Stoney Larue - velvet
Jason Boland and the Stragglers - Rancho Alto
Whiskey Myers - firewater
Robert Earl Keen - Ready for Confetti
Mike Mcclure - fifty billion
Cody Canada and the Departed - this indian land
Reckless Kelly - good luck and true love
10 people who played on stage with Bitter End in 2011 that helped keep me somewhat sane:
Jacob Henderson
Ely Castillo
Griffin Jarzombek
Jason Wallace
Blake Ibanez
Shane Woodman
Andrew Morrissey
Travis Bennington
Ethan Raese
Cody Cox
Dave Walling
Claim to Fame: Blacklisted, Six Feet Under Records, etc.
My daughter being born
Getting a sweet new apartment with my girlfriend
American Nightmare reissues and reunion
Oathbreaker LP
Going to Japan with Floorpunch
Spending a week in Iceland
Mother of Mercy IV
Tear It Up reunions
War Hungry LP
Joe Hardcore benefit show in Philly
Veggie Galaxy opening
Plow United reunion (even though i havent seen it yet)
Cold World (everything)
Going to Veggie Grill 3 times
elijah h. horner, esq.
KTD/tre's favorite dude ever
best of 2k11
- carrier/all teeth euro-madness
- semi-annual usa/canada party conference in las vegas, nv
- ONE! OF! EVERYTHING!
- j. cole- sideline story
- KTD's last two shows ever in july...both equally special, for different reasons
- edward harris, jr. middle school class of 2011- best kids ever
- tyreke evans' half-court game winner vs. memphis
- tre mccarthy. honestly one of the coolest, most loyal, good humans i've ever met
- skyzoo- great debater
- finally watching the wire
- fairweather reunion
- miami NOT winning the chip + nba NOT missing the entire season
- meeting mark curry of hangin' with mr. cooper fame
NEXT YEAR:
- i will marry a girl from san diego. bet.
- dear sacramento kings- please don't move to anaheim
g.
Claim to Fame: Blacklisted
Of The Wand And The Moon- The Lone Descent(LP)
Cult Of Youth-Cult Of Youth(LP)
Arctic Flowers- Reveries(LP)
War Hungry-War Hungry(LP)
Death Token- All Dreams Are Nightmares(LP)
Terrible Feelings- Impending Doom (7)
Thurston Moore- Demolished Thoughts(LP)
Chelsea Wolfe- Apokalypsis(LP)
Waxahatchee- American Weekend(LP)
Iceage- New Brigade(LP)
Soul Swallower- Devoured(LP)
Gods And Queens- Untitled 3:Ep 2(7)
The Killer-Volume 3: Modus Vivendi(Comic)
This Is England '88(Television)
Redwood Art space/Wilkes Barre, Pa.(Sticky Boys, D.E.P, United Youth,
Deckers Pool Party, Brothers Russin old & new etc etc.)
Cult Of Youth Live at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia
Citizens Arrest Live at Kung Fu Necktie in Philadelphia
Zola Jesus Live at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia
Swans & David Eugene Edwards(Woven Hand) Live at Music Hall of Williamsburg
Touring with and seeing Nails whenever the opportunity presents itself
George C.
Claim to Fame: Deafheaven
This entire year has been nothing but memorable experiences so my list is not dedicated to things I've done, bands I've listened to, or albums I've listened to, but simply fifteen songs that carried me through the year. Each reminds me of a certain time.
1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Anne With an E
2. Low - Sunflower
3. Neil Young - Philadelphia
4. Cold Cave - Icons of Summer
5. Tamaryn - Love Fade
6. Yuck - Georgia
7. Chelsea Wolfe - Moses
8. Thursday - No Answers
9. DNF - Hunger Pains
10. Drake - Over My Dead Body
11. KEN Mode - Never Was
12. Low - Shame
13. Russian Circles - Mladek
14. Radio Dept. - Every Time
15. Anne - Perfect Teeth
give up.
these are the things that went hardest for me in 2011, in no particular order:
1. wolves in the throne room - "celestial lineage"
2. rot in hell - "as pearls before swine"
3. horders/rot in hell split 7" (thanks feast of tentacles)
4. alex already having the french press going when i wake up
5. horseback
6. george strait live
7. open sight .30-30
8. irons/pulling teeth split
9. king dude
10. this new telex machine
J. Bannon (Converge, Wear Your Wounds, Deathwish, etc)
Marriage, Friends, and Family
All things Deathwish (shameful I know, but it is true for me)
J. Mascis "Several Shades of Why"
How To Dress Well "Just Once"
40 Watt Sun "The Inside Room"
Leviathan "True Traitor, True Whore"
Cold Cave "Cherish The Light Years"
Thurston Moore "Demolished Thoughts"
Harm's Way "Isolation"
Omegas "Blasts of Lunacy"
Morne "Asylum"
Janelle Bannon
Best. Year. Ever.
Married my best friend this summer.
Deathwish Christmas Party.
Lykki Li "Wounded Rhymes"
Bon Iver "Bon Iver"
Feist "Metals"
Thurston Moore "Demolished Thoughts"
Cold Cave "Cherish The Light Years"
J Mascis "Several Shades Of Why"
Judas Priest @Tsongas Center in Lowell, MA
J Mascis @ The Beachcomber in Wellfleet, MA
James
Claim to Fame: Roxys Grilled Cheese
1. Quitting the real world and opening a food truck
2. Cabot "Private Stock" Cheddar
3. Manhattan, Kansas
4. Lardo crostini from Coppa
5. Losing "The Great Food Truck Race"
6. Staff Meal Food Truck in Boston
7. Literally every single thing Dickie from The Carrier says
8. Traveling the country with my brother (again)
9. Homeland on Showtime
10. Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Jeremy Bolm
Claim to Fame: Touche Amore
Top 10 Records
01) Thursday – No Devolución
02) Pianos Become The Teeth – The Lack Long After
03) Bright Eyes – The People’s Key
04) La Dispute – Wildlife
05) Balance and Composure – Separation
06) Joyce Manor – S/t
07) Birds in Row - Collected
08) Title Fight – Shed
09) O’Brother – Garden Window
10) Rival Schools - Pedals
Top 10 Highlights
01) The 162 shows we’ve played this year and the friends we’ve made along the way.
02) Deathwish Inc.
03) Recording in Eudora, KS at the Black Lodge with Ed Rose.
04) Boardwalk Empire Season 2
05) The band Single Mothers
06) Hesher and Drive
07) Converge / TA House of Vans show in Brooklyn, NY
08) Australia / Europe /UK / Canada (specifically the Maritimes)
09) Raising Canes opening more locations across the states.
10) Spending time with inspiring people.
Jodie Cox
Claim to Fame: Narrows
• PJ HARVEY - “Let England Shake”
• RETOX - “Ugly Animals”
• PSYCHIC LIMB - “Queens”
• EARTH - “Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light Vol.1”
• CHELSEA WOLFE - “?????????? (Apokalypsis)”
• TOM WAITS - “Bad As Me”
• TIM HECKER - “Ravedeath 1972”
• DUSTIN O’HALLORAN - “Lumiere”
• †HYMNS† - “Cardinal Sins / Contrary Virtues”
• LOW - “C’mon”
PBoy
Claim to Fame: New Lows
1. You
2. Will
3. Always
4. Be
5. Awake
6. During
7.The Worst
8.Parts
9.Of
10.Life
John Pettibone
Claim to Fame: Heiress, Converge Tour Manager
- Turning 40
- Birthday trip to SF w/sis and mom
- Birthday show w/ Converge, Narrows, Black Breath, Heiress, Devotion, Cascabel
- Jesuit in NYC
- Astoria trip - life changing!
- Glass Throat Recordings/your cell:yourself ritual performance
- 40 Watt Sun, Winter, Rorschach playing Seattle
- UFC in Seattle and Dan Hardy benefit afterparty for WM3
- Heiress recording w/ Jack Endino.... thank you DW!
- Dan Henderson and Josh Barnett
- Gonz named most influential skater of all time by TWS
- Grant Taylor... Thrasher's Skater of the Year
- Troll Hunter, Drive, Super 8, Rare Exports (dvd release)
- teetilldeath.com/ Hard Stance shirt
- Death in June jacket by Mishka NYC
- Game of Thrones 1, SOA 4,
- SF 49ers
- Music: 40 Watt Sun, Sol Invictus, Trap Them, Thou, Touche Amore, Converge - runaway, Tombs, Off with their Heads, Jesuit Discog.
- DW podcast w/ Chris Colohan
- The Asps demos... here we come!!!
Alex
Claim to Fame: Lambgoat.com
Things I enjoyed in 2011:
- Destination Truth
- Roy Buchanan discography
- Mastodon – The Hunter
- Ben & Jerry’s Cinnamon Buns
- reading free classics on the Amazon Kindle
- Merle Haggard – Sing Me Back Home
- Midnight In the Garden of Good & Evil (movie/book)
- GarageBand on iPad2
- David Bowie – Low
Marco Walzel
Claim to Fame: Avocado Booking
1. Woods Of Ypres – The Green Album
2. Death Wolf – Death Wolf
3. Citizens Arrest - Colossus
4. Harms Way - Isolation
5. SFA – The New Morality
6. Toxic Holocaust – Conjure And Command
7. Ghost Brigade – Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
8. Wolves Like Us – Late Love
9. Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling
10. Junius - The Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist
Matt Pike (not of High on Fire)
Office down the hall
Balance and Composure - Separation
Pearl Jam - PJ20 (the weekend, the movie, the book, the vinyl) / Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
Pianos Become the Teeth - The Lack Long After
2011 Stanley Cup Champions Boston Bruins
La Dispute - Wildlife
††† (Crosses) - EP
Luke Wessman, Mike Lussier, Dan Smith, Mike Shea tattoos
American Nightmare reunion shows
Touche Amore - PBTBAM
The Kenmore Agency somehow turning TEN YEARS OLD
Really everything 59 Park Street related rules...
Max G. Morton
2000 Tons Of TNT
Cold Cave - Cherish The Light Years
Condemned 84 - In From The Darkness
Drive
Give - I Am Love
New Lows - Harvest Of The Carcass
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Void - Sessions 1981-83
Winter - Into Darkness (Reissue)
Yellow Stitches - Good Times Violent Crimes
Meghan (Punch)
Things that made 2011 great, in no particular order
-Touring Europe for a month with my brother
-Graveyard- Hisingen Blues
-My boyfriend
-Seeing Prince
-The Men- Leave Home
-Traveling/Touring 100+ days, especially returning to Japan and kayaking in Sweden
-Returning to school to continue my nursing education
- Puerto Rico Flowers-7
-Getting to be a part of my friend Mike's Channel 101 show, Googy (episode 2)
-Fluff Fest, especially Black Breath, Raein, Beyond Pink, and Battle of Wolf 359
Merrick
Claim to Fame: The Kenmore Agency
Top 10 Reasons to Stay Home on Friday Night.
10. You're broke. Or you're not, but THEY don't have to know that. Isn't it a little more endearing to be poor? Especially when you aren't.
09. High speed internet. There is an endless amount of ignorant shit on the internet. You should be well versed in it all.
08. The general public sucks. Why leave when you can invite the few people you like in? This seems obvious to me.
07. Call of Duty. Why worry about the war going on outside when you can fight an inconsequential war inside?
06. You should be booking house shows. Invite 100 people over at $6 a head to front flip off your couch, dummy.
05. Your pet needs your attention. After a long work/school week, assuming you're not a complete asshole, your pet misses you.
04. They haven't figured out how to play vinyl via iPod yet. You claim you love music, right? Love it like it show be loved. Sit in front of a record player and listen to music you paid for.
03. Did you know that if you spent every night at home practicing how to breakdance...you could eventually breakdance?
02. Global warming. It's probably unseasonably cold, hot, rainy, etc. Be comfortable in a climate controlled environment that further ruins the climate outdoors.
01. Isn't everything disappointing all the time? What a disappointing #1 for instance. But, every time you go out, don't you have some expectation of it being really fun and it is just mediocre at best? Be honest. Just stay home and watch the friends you really don't like make drunken assholes of themselves on Twitter.
***This list is mostly a joke. You should go out every night possible in support of art and community and maybe even occasionally with less altruistic motives. Be kind to everyone who is tolerable enough to be kind to. Love.***
Nanouk
Claim to Fame: Avocado Booking
DEAFHEAVEN - Roads To Judah
PUNCH - Nothing Lasts
KVELERTAK – Live, always and everywhere
RED FANG - Murder The Mountain
THE TIDAL SLEEP – Demo
CASPER – XOXO
WOLVES LIKE US – Late Love
COLD WORLD (Black Metal) – Melancholie
TRIAL / RUN WITH THE HUNTED / ANCHOR European Tour
DEFEATER – Empty Days and Sleepless Nights
Nate Newton (Converge, Doomriders, Old Man Gloom)
here are my top records of 2011. not saying they're the best, just the ones i kept coming back to. i think it says something about the state of music when 3 of the records on my list are unreleased anthologies that were recorded 30 years ago.
Chelsea Wolfe "apokalypsis"
Graveyard "hisingen blues"
Gillian Welch " the harrow and the harvest"
six organs of admittance "asleep on the flood plain"
void "sessions 1981-83"
200 years "200 years"
uncle acid and the deadbeats "bloodlust"
skull defekts "peer amid"
skull defekts "2013-3012"
executioner 'anthology"
wild flag "wild flag"
ryan adams "ashes and fire"
atelecine 'the falcon and the pod"
boris "new album"
charles manson "air"
dag nasty "dag with shawn"
david lynch "crazy clown time"
low "c'mon"
zola jesus "conatus"
Oathbreaker's selection of 10 records that stood out in 2011 in no particular order
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM - Celestial Lineage
"Astral Blood" - [www.youtube.com]
TOMBS - Path Of Totality
"Passageways" - [www.youtube.com]
RISE AND FALL - Deceiver
"Deceiver" [www.youtube.com]
TRAP THEM - Darker Handcraft
"The Facts" [www.youtube.com]
DEAFHEAVEN - Roads To Judah
"Language Games" [www.youtube.com]
TRUE WIDOW - As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
"Boaz" [www.youtube.com]
PJ HARVEY - Let England Shake
"The Glorious Land" [www.youtube.com]
LOW - C'mon
"Nothing But Heart" [www.youtube.com]
J MASCIS - Several Shades Of Why
"Is It Done" [www.youtube.com]
TITLE FIGHT - Shed
"Flood of '72" [www.youtube.com]
Reid Haithcock (Photographer)
In no particular order:
Young and in the Way - I am not what I am & V. Eternal Depression
The Body/Braveyoung - Nothing Passes
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah
Fucked Up - David comes to life
Thou - To the Chaos Wizard Youth & Big City & The Archer and the Owle
Bon Iver - Bon Iver
Beau Navire - Hours
The Chris Colohan interview Deathwish Pod Cast
Tombs - Path of Totality
All Pigs Must Die - God is War
Pygmy Lush - Old Friends
Morne - Asylum
Chelsea Wolfe - ??????????
True Widow - As High As the Highest Heavens and from the Center to the Circumference of the Earth
Khann - Erode
Soul Control - Get out Now
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
And the two best records of the year in my book:
Cold Cave - Cherish the Light Years
Giles Corey - Giles Corey
Seeing PG.99 during a hurricane
Seeing Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Being honored to have photos featured everywhere from local 7"s to NPR music and working with all the rad bands, labels, ladies, and dudes in the process.
Rennie Resmini / Starkweather
Ulcerate - Destroyers of All
Moloken - Rural
Revok - Grief is My New Moniker
Sektor 304 - Subliminal Actions
Blut Aus Nord - 777: Sects and 777: the Desanctification
Aosoth - III
Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
Obscure Sphinx - Anaesthetic Inhalation Ritual
Woburn House - Sleep Summer Storm
Rob Moran / Narrows, Unbroken
Top 5 Best
1-Suede at Coachella
2-Veggie Grill
3-Morrissey's encore at The Shrine in LA
4-The band Hoax
5-Fun Fun Fun Fest
6-Living Eyes
7-Punch
8-Common/Nas-Ghetto Dreams
9-Pettibone doing a flying punch off the stage at a wild hessian on 12/9/11 during Narrows set.
10-Einsturzende Neubauten at Primavera Sound
Name: Ryan Mattos
Claim to Fame: Toast
2011 was the best year of my life.
- I don't have to go to Canada to see my girlfriend anymore, because now she lives here and we're married.
- Living Eyes finally existing. Also, releasing a record on Deathwish after years of doing these lists.
- Skin Like Iron getting to do a split with Nails.
- The Cure - "Reflections" in Los Angeles
- Final Destination 5
- Permanent Ruin demo
- The Raveonettes - Raven in the Grave
- Noose at React!!! Showcase
- My cats
- Stability without normality
Thanks guys I love doing these. I didn't get a Christmas card this year but I still love you.
Ryan Patterson - Coliseum, Shirt Killer, etc.
Good stuff from 2011 and beyond:
The best new records I heard this year:
Boris - New Album
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Deerhoof - Vs Evil
OffIce Of Future Plans - Self Titled
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
Pygmy Lush - Old Friends
Reigning Sound - Abdication (For Your Love)
Shaved Women - Self Titled
The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid
True Widow - As High As...
Records from last year that I listened to a lot this year:
The Austerity Program - Backsliders...
Merchandise - Strange Songs In The Dark
Milk Music - Beyond Living
Album from last year that has now entered my list of all-time favorites:
Complications - Self Titled LP
The best new movies I saw this year:
Beginners - Mike Mills
Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn
Hanna - Joe Wright
Hugo - Martin Scorsese
Midnight In Paris - Woody Allen
13 Assassins - Takashi Miike
The Tree Of Life - Terrence Malick
X-Men First Class - Matthew Vaughn
The good things in life:
California hangout tour + Twin Infinities
My first solo art show at Static Age in Cincinnati
Releasing a split 7" with Superchunk
Many great tours with wonderful folks
A safe and healthy extended family
Great friends and bandmates
Awesome new house with my awesome wife
Humanity managed to stave off extinction for yet another year
Tadashi Hamada
Claim to Fame: Daymare Recordings
TRAP THEM / Darker Handcraft
PJ HARVEY / Let England Shake
ALTAR OF PLAGUES / Mammal
MASTODON / The Hunter
CHELSEAWOLFE / Apokalypsis
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER / Replica
NIRVANA / Nevermind (super deluxe edition)
NYC MAYHEM / Metal Days/Crossover Days
DEAFHEAVEN at Red 7, Austin TX, Nov.5th
MELVINS at Club Quattro, Nagoya JPN, Mar.10th
To be fair, no choice from Daymare releases.
Todd Jones / Nails
1. Disma "Towards The Megalith"
2. Soul Swallower "Devoured"
3. New Lows "Harvest Of The Carcass"
4. Skin Like Iron "Arrival"
5. Acephalix "Interminable Night"
6. Rotten Sound "Cursed"
7. Merdoso "In Silence"
8. Harms Way "Isolation"
9. Permanent Ruin "Demo"
10. Brutal Supremacy compilation
Tomas Lindberg
At The Gates, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, etc.
zola jesus - conatus
disma – towards the megalith
atlas sound – parallax
esben and the witch – viloet cries
encoffination – oh, hell shine in thy whited sepulchres
mogwai – hardcore will never die, but you will
mogwai – earth division
fucked up – david comes to life
explosions in the sky – take care, take care, take care
gridlink – orphan
krallice – diotima
timer timbre – creep on creepin´ on
battles – gloss drop
the middle east – i want that you are always happy
liturgy – aesthethica
locrian – the clearing
vaz – chartreuse bull
the twilight singers – dynamite steps
krisiun – the great execution
opeth – heritage
deerhunter – halcyon digest
robin guthrie - emeralds
ulcerate – the destroyers of all
noisear – subvert the dominant paradigm
crocodiles – sleep forever
beirut – the rip tide
russian circles – empros
toxic holocaust – conjure and command
florence and the machine - ceremonials
brutal truth – end time
rotten sound – cursed
autopsy – macabre eternal
trap them . draker handcraft
tombs – path to totality
the black lips – arabia mountain
immolation - providence
low – c´mon
craft – void
pj harvey – let england shake
Tre (Deathwish)
1 - All things that go on in, or come out of this office.
2 - Pianos Become The Teeth "The Lack Long After"
3 - My memory foam mattress
4 - Walt Disney World
5 - A Song Of Fire An Ice by George R. R. Martin (Books 1-3 so far)
6 - Iceland
7 - Instagram
8 - Skyrim
9 - The Harvest Bowl at Rawbert's Organic Garden
10 - eBay
Best of 2011 - Vince - Rise And Fall
1. The birth and first 6 months of my daughter Sophia
2. My awesome girlfriend Chrissie
3. Playing music with friends in Rise And Fall & Blind To Faith
4. Writing & recording "Faith" with Kurt + getting DFJ on the record.
5. Playing St-Petersburg, Moscow, NYC (ABC No RIO) & the "Deceiver" weekend.
6. Ghent
7. Converge, Oathbreaker, Hessian, TUI, Nails, Amenra,...on and off stage
8. Multiple times breakfast at Red's, dinner at Cheesecake factory with US friends & 'tHoekske/Lepelblad in Ghent with Euro friends
9. Planning 2012
Wes Reed
Claim to Fame: Heiress
lps:
oathbreaker "maelstrom"
40 watt sun "the inside room"
defeater "empty days and sleepless nights"
septic flesh "the great mass"
title fight "shed"
griever "inferior"
owen hart "earth control"
ulcerate "the destroyers of all"
deceased "surreal overdose"
decapitated "carnival is forever"
rotten sound "cursed"
ringworm "scars"
eps:
pinback "information received pt. a"
enslaved "the sleeping gods"
reissues:
death "human remixed and remastered"
ressurection "I Am Not: The Discography"
favorite bands heiress got to play with in 2011:
converge
rorschach
40 watt sun
narrows
griever
black breath
owen hart
great falls
greatest food seen concocted and devoured in 2011:
big ole pile of pad thai mixed with a side order of chicken satay and a bag of cheetos.
Wesley Eisold
Cold Cave, Heartworm, Give Up The Ghost (American Nightmare)
Cut Hands- s/t LP
Cass McCombs- Wit's End LP
Bleached- Searching Through The Past/Electric Chair 7"
Veronica Falls- s/t LP
Ke/Hil- Hellstation LP
Weekend- Red EP
Salvation- Mortality Interactions LP
Alvarius B.- Baroque Primitiva LP
The Business live at 2000 Tons of TNT Fest
Anenzephalia live at Public Assembly
Prurient- Time's Arrow/ Bermuda Drain
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List December 28, 2011 06:05PM |
Yep, that was a good read 
Seems like George from Blacklisted knows whats up with Danish music
Seems like George from Blacklisted knows whats up with Danish music
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List December 28, 2011 06:19PM |
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List December 28, 2011 11:31PM |
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List December 31, 2011 08:47PM |
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List January 03, 2012 10:56AM |
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Thanks people.
-J.
-J.
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Re: The DEATHWISH Best of 2011 Year End List February 06, 2012 07:13AM |
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My end of year 2011 list:
1. Touche Amore - PTSBBAM
2. Trash Talk - Awake
3. The peace of mind in knowing that Converge will be releaseing a new album in 2012!
4. N.A Reforming.
5. Deaf Haven - Roads To Judah.
6. Getting my new Guitar amp. Also finally having the balls to tune down to Drop C.
7. NEW YEARS EVE!
1. Touche Amore - PTSBBAM
2. Trash Talk - Awake
3. The peace of mind in knowing that Converge will be releaseing a new album in 2012!
4. N.A Reforming.
5. Deaf Haven - Roads To Judah.
6. Getting my new Guitar amp. Also finally having the balls to tune down to Drop C.
7. NEW YEARS EVE!
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