2018
I’ll leave out the personal misfortunes, you’re here for the lists.
Music
New albums
These were released in 2018 and that’s when I gave them a listen.
Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse (JAN 5, 2018)
Sumac – WFMU (FEB 2, 2018)
Harms Way – Posthuman (FEB 9, 2018)
Turnstile – Time & Space (FEB 23, 2018)
Trail of Lies - W.A.R. (FEB 28, 2018)
Ilsa – Corpse Fortress (MAR 2, 2018)
Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic (MAR 2, 2018)
Between The Buried And Me – Automata I (MAR 9, 2018)
Conjurer – Mire (MAR 9, 2018)
Twitching Tongues – Gaining Purpose Through Passionate Hatred (MAR 9, 2018)
Wolfpack – Loath (MAR 16, 2018)
Casey – Where I go when I am sleeping (MAR 16, 2018)
Nightmarer – Cacophony of Terror (MAR 23, 2018)
DVNE – Live At Nø Studio
Gozu – Equilibrium (APR 13, 2018)
Poison the Well – I/III II/III III/III (APR 18, 2018)
Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III (APR 20, 2018)
Parkway Drive – Reverence (MAY 4, 2018)
CHRCH – Unanswered Hymns (MAY 17, 2018)
Burn The Priest – Legion: XX (MAY 18, 2018)
The Baptists – Beacon of Faith (MAY 23, 2018)
Svalbard – It’s hard to have hope (MAY 25, 2018)
Ghost – Prequelle (JUN 1, 2018)
Raum Kingdom – Everything & nothing (JUN 1, 2018)
Snakehound – Imitation Crown (JUN 1, 2018)
YOB – Our Raw Heart (JUN 8, 2018)
Khemmis – Desolation (JUN 22, 2018)
Converge – Beautiful Ruin (JUN 29, 2018)
Bury Tomorrow – Black Flame (JUL 13, 2018)
Between The Buried And Me – Automata II (JUL 13, 2018)
Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (JUL 13, 2018)
Hopesfall – Arbiter (JUL 13, 2018)
Regulate - In the Promise of Another Tomorrow (JUL 20, 2018)
Radiant Knife – Science Fiction (AUG 8, 2018)
Black Tusk – TCBT (AUG 17, 2018)
Jesus Piece – Only Self (AUG 24, 2018)
Counterparts – Private Room (SEP 7, 2018)
Peace Of Mind – Penance (SEP 7, 2018)
Downpour – Downpour (SEP 7, 2018)
Stoned Jesus – Pilgrims (SEP 7, 2018)
Aphex Twin – Collapse (SEP 14, 2018)
Future Usses – The Existential Haunting (SEP 14, 2018)
Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses (SEP 14, 2018)
Bangladeafy – Ribboncutter (SEP 21, 2018)
Therapy? – CLEAVE (SEP 21, 2018)
Sumac – Love In Shadow (SEP 21, 2018)
Terror – Total Retaliation (SEP 28, 2018)
Poison the Well – Distance Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (OCT 3, 2018)
Whispering Sons – Image (OCT 16, 2018)
Soulfly – Ritual (OCT 19, 2018)
Daughters – You won’t get what you want (OCT 26, 2018)
City Hunter – Deep Blood (OCT 26, 2018)
Twitching Tongues – Disharmony Zero (OCT 30, 2018)
Black Tongue – Nadir (OCT 31, 2018)
Drug Chruch – Cheers (NOV 2, 2018)
Elefant – Konark und Bonark (NOV 5, 2018)
Cult Leader – A Patient Man (NOV 9, 2018)
Ohhms – Exist (NOV 9, 2018)
King Nine – Death Rattle (NOV 16, 2018)
Unearth – Extinction(s) (OCT 23, 2018)
MF DOOM x Cookin Soul - DOOM XMAS 🎄 (Full Album) (DEC 18, 2018)
Cult Leader on Audiotree (youtube) (DEC 20, 2018)
Lubbert Das – De Plagen (DEC 26, 2018)
Some favourites: Svalbard, Bury Tomorrow, Cult Leader, Black Tongue, Turnstile, Sumac (x2), and of course: Daughters
Newly Discovered
Backtrack – Bad to my world (2017)
Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief (2017)
SubRosa
Svalbard
The Clearing Path – Watershed Between Firmament And The Realm Of Hyperborea (2017)
Cloudkicker – Live with Intronaut (2014)
Poison the Well – The Tropic Rot (2009)
Smallman, Yvan Shopov – Inner Oceans (2016)
Juan Bond – Juan Bond EP (DEC 30, 2017)
Catharsis – Samsara (1997)
Harakiri for the sky – Aokigahara (2014)
Altar of Plagues – Teethed Glory And Injury (2013)
Morrow – Covenant Of Teeth (2016)
Bacchus – Self titled (2011)
Trap Them
His Hero is Gone – Fifteen Counts of Arson (1996)
Tragedy – Nerve Damage (2006)
Queensway – Swift Minds of the Darkside (2017)
We Are Heathens – The Blood Behind the Dam (2016)
The Hope Conspiracy – Death Knows Your Name (2006)
Bathsheba – Servus (2017)
Only Living Witness – Prone Mortal Form (2010)
Diapsiquir — A.n.T.I
Origin – Antithesis (2008)
Immortal – Pure Holocaust (1993)
Year of the Goat
The Carrier
Black Mare – Death Magick Mother (2017)
Body Count – Bloodlust (2017)
Callisto – True Nature Unfolds (2004)
Itra
Gaza
Envy
Fit For An Autopsy
Black Anvil
I also thought this was amazing:
VIDEO
Back from never being away
Kickback
Congress
Ancient Rites
Liar
Rise And Fall
Gigs
St John Passion (J.S. Bach) – deChorale, Saint Carolus Borromeus church Antwerp
AYS (de), Blacklisted (us) – Kavka, Antwerp
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night live soundtrack (The Black Heart Rebellion) – deStudio, Antwerp
Terror (us) – Jh De Klinker, Aarschot
Loma Prieta (us), Every Stranger Looks Like You, JH Zenith, Dendermonde
Harm’s Way (us), Merauder (us), Kavka, Antwerp
Carmen – Frank Van Laecke (George Bizet Opera), Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp
Desertfest – Trix, Antwerp
Killing Joke (uk) – De Roma, Antwerp
Steak Number Eight – Vooruit, Ghent
Emma Ruth Rundle (us) – Trix, Antwerp
Pettersson, Schumann, Berlioz – Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding – Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp
Counterparts (ca), Stick to Your Guns (us) – Trix, Antwerp
Theater
Gonzo – Abbatoir Fermé, Monty, Antwerp
Movies
Movies I’ve seen in 2018
I reckon I watch over 200 movies per year, these were new to me:
Haute Cuisine
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
No Strings Attached
Belgica
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Focus
Frank
BlacKkKlansman
Apostle
The House That Jack Built
Meeting Evil
The Bad Batch
The Nice Guys
Mute
Marina
Deadpool 2
The Gambler
Bone Tomahawk
Sabotage
The Revenant
Pusher
Hart’s War
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Contempt
Murder on the Orient Express
The Invention of Lying
Red Sparrow
Be Kind Rewind
Shot Caller
Paterson
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Het Tweede Gelaat
Isle of Dogs
The Siege
The Prince
7 Seconds
Dead Man’s Burden
Atomic Blonde
John Wick: Chapter 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Justice League
The Happening
The Pacifier
Black Panther
Horrible Bosses
Frits & Franky
The Pyramid
Out of the Furnace
Broken City
D’Ardennen
Three to Tango
Darkest Hour
Bowling Balls
Batman vs. Two-Face
Blade Runner 2049
Favourite movie of this year, by far: The House That Jack Built.
Most people don’t realize that the man at the beginning of the movie is Virgil from Dante’s Inferno . Seeing that this masterpiece more or less shaped our current idea of heaven and hell: read some world literature every once in a while, you dimwit.
Books
I excluded most comic books (things like XIII, XIII Mystery, Largo Winch, and Storm).
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Ibicus – Pascal Rabaté
Echt – Guillaume Van der Stighelen
The Peripheral – William Gibson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror – Robert Louis Stevenson
Domain Driven Design Quickly – Floyd Marinescu
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns – Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley
Really looking foward to Willam Gibson’s new book Agency .
2019
I already planned to go to three plays.
Gigs
La Muerte + Dool + Hangman’s Chair: Love-Sex-Fear-Death
Clckws / Defined By Nature / Rain
Modeselektor
Whispering Sons
Dylan Carlson
Roadburn
Anna Von Hausswolff
Daughters
Emma Ruth Rundle
Old Man Gloom
…
Zimerman
Tool
Ieperfest
Antwerp Metal Fest
Desertfest
Albums
I’m rooting for a new Tool album
03 January 2019