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7 February 2023 / 777

Top Seven Album Openers of the 2010s

The 2010s were a decade of great fecundity for metal. For a while, it looked like deathcore and djent would be the new torchbearers for heavy music in pop culture,…

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7 January 2023 / 777

Top Seven Metal Albums Ahead of their Time

We all marvel at those times when artists come from nowhere to produce a new sound and a new movement overnight. Think of the impact Venom, Metallica, Death and Napalm…

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29 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Vocalists of 2022

For the past two years, we acknowledged the best male and female vocalists as separate categories. A question we can no longer dodge is why the accolades should be split…

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28 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Musicians of 2022

Who were the men and women that astounded us with their musical talents this year? We look for the best songwriters, multi-instrumentalists, and visionaries when compiling this annual award. But…

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28 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Guitarists of 2022

Who longs for the day when the axeman cometh? The chances are you’re partial to fretwankery and insane shredding if you read Scream Blast Repeat. Or you might be a…

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22 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Extreme Albums of 2022

Every year we produce a list of the seven most extreme albums as if this is a badge of honour. As Terrorizer magazine once said of Anal C*nt: “Any idiot…

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18 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Black Metal Albums of 2022

Black metal in 2022 is a diverse genre with many branches in its family tree. The bands that play fast tremolo rhythms with lo-fi blast beats and no hint of…

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17 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Avant-Garde Metal Albums of 2022

How do you create a shortlist for a genre that is hard to define and has no agreed boundaries? Does something qualify on the basis of being weird and abstract?…

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14 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Prog Metal Albums of 2022

Scream Blast Repeat followers will know that we enjoy our progressive metal more than most. Indeed, the last two winners of the SBR album of the year were Haken (2020)…

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12 December 2022 / 777

SBR Top 7 Death Metal Albums of 2022

Death metal saw some big releases in 2022. Legendary names such as Immolation, Autopsy, and Exhumed produced new records, none of them besmirching their legacy with mediocre albums. The technical…

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