2015 according to SWNK

Niels:
Albums
1. Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
2. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
3. Sweet Jesus – You Destroy Yourself
4. Sumac – The Deal
5. Wiegedood – De Doden hebben het Goed
6. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss
7. The Body & Thou – Whom I Have Always Hated
8. Windhand – Griefs Internal Flower
9. Baroness – Purple
10. Panopticon – Autumn Eternal
11. Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go
12. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly
13. Ghost – Meliora
14. Torche – Restarter
15. Terror – The 25th Hour

EP’s
1. Super Unison – s/t
2. True Identity – Demo ’15
3. Protester – No Identity
4. Union of Faith – s/t

L’eau Oui Que
I’ve had a shitty year and therefore an also shitty musical year…. These are the only albums within the genre I can remember as being solid enough…

Deafheaven – New Bermuda
Night Birds – Mutiny at muscle beach
Turnstile – Nonstop feeling
Leftover Crack – Constructs of the state
Teenage Bottlerocket – Tales from Wyoming

Shows are even worse….

Lagwagon @ de Melkweg was brilliant

Maurice
Full lenghts in no particular order:
Ahklys – The Dreaming I
Jaga Jazzist – Starfire
Petrels – Flailing Tombs
High on Fire – Luminiferous
Refused – Freedom
Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
Lindemann – Skills in Pills
Uncle Acid – The Night Creeper
Kadavar – Berlin
Ghost – Meliora
Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving – Yield To Despair
Saturnalia Temple – To the Other
Hangman’s Chair – This is not supposed to be positive
Dan Terminus – The Wrath of Code
Enablers – The Rightful Pivot
Ahab – The Boats of Glenn Carrig
Max Richter – From Sleep
Blanck Mass – Dumb Flesh
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Loin Des Hommes
Nightslug – Loathe
Fister – IV
Etienne Jaumet –La Visite
Toundra – IV
Weedeater – Goliathan
Windhand – Grief’s Eternal Flower
Zombi – Shape Shift
Noisem – Blossoming Decay
Pyramids – A Northern Meadow
Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress
Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat

EPs:
Oneida / Teeth Of The Sea – Split 7”
Gnod & John Doran – Live At Islington Mill split tape
Ólafur Arnalds, Nils Frahm – Life Story Love And Glory 7”
Primitive Man – Home Is Where The Hatred Is 12”
Eternal Sleep – Belief In The Truth of Nothing 7

Jakov
here’s my top fifteen full lengths, in no particular order:
Gallows – Desolation Sounds
Archy Marshall – A New Place 2 Drown
CHVE – Rasa
Birds in Row – Personal War
Steve Von Till – A Life Unto Itself
Tempest – s/t
Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed
Old Wounds – The Suffering Spirit
Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes – Blossom
Cowards – Rise to Infamy
Windhand – Grief’s Eternal Flower
Action Bronson – Mr. Wonderful
Harms Way – Rust
Sleaford Mods – Key Markets
Disterror – Catharsis

ep’s:
Jesus Piece – s/t
Aesop Rock – Cat Food
Lost Baron – Kelder
Ratking – 700 Fill
Cigarettes After Sex – Affection

Dennis
My favorite albums of 2015 (in particular order):
1. Calabrese – Lust for sacrilige
2. Fonija – …bez ime
3. Terrible Feelings – Tremors
4. Noah Gundersen – Carry the ghost
5. Beaten To Death – Unplugged
6. Svffer – Empathist
7. Esc Life – Access all areas
8. We Never Learned To Live – Silently I threw them skywards
9. Royal headache – High
10. Goatsnake – Black age blues
11. Clutch – Psychic warfare
12. Blacklisted – When people grow, people go
13. Noviot Pochetok – Jas zum zemja
14. Black Sails – What belongs to the gallows
15. Spirits – Discontent

Just outside of this list are great albums like: Svalbard – One day this will end; Cloud Rat – Qliphot; My Dying Bride – Feel the misery; Iron Maiden – Book of souls; Sulphur Aeon – Gateway to the antisphere; The Eye Of Time – Anti; Planks – Perished bodies; Vhol – Deeper than sky; Orange Goblin – Back from the abyss; Make Do And Mend – Don’t be long; In Cauda Venenum – s/t.
And there’s so much more I need to look into…

EP
The Record Collection – Revolutions
Ends Meet – Nothing to show
Spirits – s/t
RunningLate – Spectators
Deceit – Disconnect

Pim
Releases (in no particular order):
Beach Slang – The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
Kurt Cobain – Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings
Into Another – Omens
Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
Muse – Drones (mainly in here because of that Psycho song)

Best show
Off With Their Heads @ Winstom, Amsterdam
Nick Cave @ World Forum Theater, Den Haag
Chuck Ragan @ Doonroosje, Nijmegen

Best 7 inch/EP
Kurt Cobain – And I Love Her / Sappy

Best song
Weezer – Thank God For Girls

Best movie/DVD
Easy. Montage Of Heck. That was expected right? “The Martian”,”Legend” (Tom Hardy is great in this one and they score a zillion points for their poster with the 2 star rating looking like a 5 star rating), “Mad Max”, “It Follows” & “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (and I’m totally not into Star Wars) need a mention too. Still need to watch a couple, so I might be forgetting some. “The Walking Dead” & “Gotham” are still going strong too.

Best game
Arkham Knight without a doubt. Until Dawn was fun too.

Best zines/books
Like last year: The Walking Dead / Batman comics.

The good… (World Peace)
+ Proposing to my girl and her saying yes. Best.thing.ever.
+ Making plans for a trip to the USA. Plane tickets and places to stay are booked. Can’t wait.
+ Becoming uncle of another little one (my little sis her daughter). Nathalie even got asked to be the godmother 🙂
+ Seeing Jax (my godson) growing up to be even more awesome. We have the best of times.
+ 03 Webdesign doing really great in 2015. The new partnership (Lift 3) and office are doing really well.
+ Discovering Beach Slang
+ 2015 was the year of 7 (or something?) trips to Disneyland Paris too. Year subscription go!

The bad… (Can’t Be Done)
– The world is on fire.
– Even less time for SWNK
– Uncharted 4 delayed 🙂