listmania 2020

6 min read 2021-03-18 20:43:41

SHIT I SLEPT ON IN 2020 (A LATE LIST BY SEB PAINCHAUD)

Spanish Love Songs (Seb Painchaud, the main man behind the Montréal band Tumbleweed Dealer, has very expansive and eclectic musical tastes,

8 min read 2021-01-12 23:09:18

Editor’s Note: Once upon a time, and for many years in the earlier life of NCS, Seattle-based Joseph Schafer wrote with us under the pseudonym

2 min read 2021-01-05 22:50:18

Unless I’m forgetting something (always a possibility) it’s time to wrap up our 2020 LISTMANIA series. As in years past we posted an

2 min read 2021-01-04 23:03:37

Honestly, in recent years the only reason I’ve continued to post year-end lists by Rolling Stone magazine as part of our Listmania series is to

5 min read 2021-01-02 00:19:55

To the Teeth is the name of a Facebook-based metal blog that began life in May of 2016, and has expanded into a newsletter format. The

10 min read 2021-01-01 22:37:35

(This is Part II of a “Top 20 of 2020” year-end list compiled by NCS writer Gonzo. It counts down from No. 10 through No. 1. You can find

9 min read 2020-12-31 23:58:46

EDITOR’S NOTE: Our annual LISTMANIA series includes re-posts of lists from “big platform” music sites and selected print zines, but we

5 min read 2020-12-31 22:57:44

(Below our Norway-based contributor Karina Noctum presents her own year-end list of 2020 favorites.) 2020 was awful. I retreated for several

5 min read 2020-12-31 22:00:44

(Along with Andy Synn and DGR, TheMadIsraeli has been on the NCS staff the longest, and although a tough year reduced his writing, he didn’t

10 min read 2020-12-31 00:02:31

(This is Part I of a “Top 20 of 2020” year-end list compiled by NCS writer Gonzo. It counts down from No. 20 through No. 11, and in Part II

8 min read 2020-12-30 21:59:05

(Holy hell, it has been 10 years. For the 10th year in a row, our friend Johan Huldtgren of the Swedish black metal band Obitus — whose 2017

10 min read 2020-12-29 23:37:36

(For the 10th (!) year in a row, we asked our old friend SurgicalBrute to weigh in with his year-end list of favorite albums and/or EPs. As

16 min read 2020-12-29 22:11:02

(Seb Painchaud, the main man behind the Montréal band Tumbleweed Dealer, has very expansive and very eclectic musical tastes, and a way with

11 min read 2020-12-28 22:13:00

(For the 9th year in a row, here’s our friend Vonlughlio’s list of the best brutal death metal albums of the year that’s about to

35 min read 2020-12-26 21:56:53

(Morbidly worrying whether the combined tonnage of words and music might finally sink the site, today we publish the fifth and final Part of