Weekly Recap (Dec 30th 2024 - Jan 5th 2025)

Discover Weekly

- Manntra - Sin (I liked the chanting in the beginning. The rest is ok. Apparently the language is Croatian.)

- Skorn x Shade Apollo x $witchblade - deadZone (I liked the screamer, very nice even tone. Talented person. The rappers sound annoying.)

- Istasha - Unholy Meat Obelisk (Istasha always kills it. A bit soft for The Vibe, but great for the Rap & Hiphop list.)

- Bitterwood - Paradigm (Talented singer! I enjoyed this.)

- Artificial Language - Endless Naught (He sounds like Einar Solbeg, but is not Einar Solberg.)

- Straight Line Stitch - Black Veil (I like her screams but not her cleans.)

I see what Spotify tried to do with this. There was a lot of dark trap / trap metal -esque stuff here and that's what I've been into lately, especially Grim Salvo. A lot of ok songs, but no that many that stood out.

Release Radar

- The Browning - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (Me: I hate covers. The Browning: I'm blue da ba de da bu dee Me: ...fine. Proceed. 💙)

- MEWONE! - Overlord (His music is so cool <3)

- Unlike Pluto - After the Rain

- Banshee - You are what you fear in me.

- Bloodywood ft. BABYMETAL - Bekhauf (WHAT IS GOING ON WITH MY LIFE, OMG!! Such an unexpected collab!)

- Will Ramos x Nik Nocturnal - Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd (lol)

- Cassyette - Disease (🤘)

- Poni ft. Satin Puppets - Leeches (I got completely lost in the song, I love it!)

- Enter The Animus ft. Berried Alive, Unsolicited & Mobbs Radical - Berry The Hatchet

- Elliot Lee x Lucky Dog - Shy Guy (Very catchy pop song, old-timey vibes in a way...)

- Groundbreaking - The Window (Ok! Maybe a bit mainstream at times for my taste, but underrated as fuck at the same time! Very modern metal vibes, very talented screams... They should have WAAAAY more than 12 300 monthly listeners! Closer to a million, if not several millions!)

- Trail Way Circus - Light's Out (Fun Metal Things.)

- Haunted House - TRAUMA BOND (Meh. Not as good as the first song. And I still hate TWENTYTHREE's voice. -- It got better at the latter half.)

- GADA - Hatkat (Pretty dope.)

- Dino James x Shah Rule - Kamina (Lol. "Kamina" is a certain type of woodburning stove in Finnish and he's saying he's "hot", lmao 😂 He's Indian, he doesn't mean he's a hot like a stove. This song could be a meme in Finland, if other Finns new about this.)

- Xmies ft. Paleface & Pimu - Sataa lunta (Oh wow. PALEFACE IS BACK! Such great lyricism. I need to listen to this more and translate it, if he releases the lyrics...)

- Nicezera ft. ParagonX9 - nz'DEFECTION (Oh cool, ParagonX9! I've missed her!)

I heard Otep Shamaya retired from music. I don't know her reasons, they're probably different than what I'm gonna say now, but... I'm glad about this decision. I loved her in my teen years. She can rap, she can scream, she's badass and a feminist and a lesbian. Definitely some kind of a role model for me growing up, in hindsight. But lately, in the past decade or so, her musical choices and her lyrical content have dragged after the important topics of the day and the trends by like 5-10 years. She can't keep up anymore and is outdated. And I don't mean this in a mean way, it's just a fact. Heck, I'm 32 and can't keep up with the youth fashion trends and slang anymore. And that's fine, because I'm not the youth. It's completely fine that she can't keep up either. Her trying to, though, or seemingly trying... I felt second hand embarrassment. So, I'm glad, for her sake, that she decided to retire. May she find fulfillment in some other area of her life. <3