We close out our 2015 end-of-year list-a-thon with contributions from LIFE IS NOISE friends and contributors Sally Townsend, Louis Dunstan, Liam Matthews and Gram the Son of Sam.
Sally Townsend, Perth-based music photographer
I am a lover of music first of all, and firmly believe in supporting live music and local artists. I will travel for the indescribable magic that is live performance, and am trying to capture it the best I can with my camera. I’m a riff-worshipping, doom-loving, dedicated listener and participant in both the local and international heavy music scenes. There was too much good stuff released this year, so it seemed fitting to do a top 15 for 2015. In no particular order…
Bell Witch – Four Phantoms
High On Fire — Luminiferous
Windhand — Grief’s Infernal Flower
Uncle Acid — The Night Creeper
With The Dead — With The Dead
Dopethrone — Hochelaga
Monolord — Vaenir
Elder — Lore
Blackout — Blackout
Watchtower — Radiant Moon EP
Chelsea Wolfe — Abyss
Cult Of Occult — Five Degrees Of Insanity
Space Bong — Deadwood To Worms
Holy Serpent — Holy Serpent
Deafheaven — New Bermuda
Louis Dunstan (EXTORTION/Big Bread)
1. Ghost — Meliora
2. High On Fire — Luminiferous
3. Drowning Horse — Sheltering Sky
4. Tame Impala — Currents
5. Napalm Death — Apex Predator/Easy Meat
6. John Carpenter — Lost Themes
7. Jaakko Eino Kalevi — Jaakko Eino Kalevi
8. Elder — Lore
9. Ufomammut — Ecate
10. Ahab — The Boats of Glen Craig
Liam Matthews (Fourteen Nights At Sea, Old Bar/Public Bar, Melbourne)
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
2. Hope Drone — Cloak Of Ash
3. Self Defence Family — Heaven Is Earth
4. Deafheaven — New Bermuda
5. Nadia Reid — Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
6. Luke Howard – Two & One
7. Mogwai — Central Belters
8. Mares — Mares
9. Closer — Heartache/Lifted
10. The Electric Guitars — The Electric Guitars
Gram the Son of Sam’s top Oz doom, occult and stoner of 2015
1. Witchskull – The Vast Electric Dark
2. Tarot – The Warrior’s Spell
3. Aver – Nadir
4. Hydromedusa – Hydromedusa
5. Space Bong – Deadwood to Worms
6. Seedy Jeezus – Seedy Jeezus
7. Watchtower – Radiant Moon
8. Roundtable – Dread Marches Under Bloodied Regalia
9. Drowning Horse – Sheltering Sky
10. Little Desert – Saeva (This could have been #1 but just not enough time to shine)
