A couple months back, when Chris mentioned to me the prospect of ten years of BGM and if we wanted to mark the occasion, I was enthusiastic but admittedly a little stuck on how I wanted to celebrate. I didn’t want to write something that would come off as bloviated or self-important (first time for everything, I know.) I was trying to think of a way to encapsulate what this journey has meant for me, in the context of the music that’s been the medium which enabled me to have so many experiences over the years. Naturally, I started thinking about the last decade as we embarked into the cold void boarded on the good ship Bloody Good Music…but then, that was just the largest benchmark on what’s truly been a longer journey, dating all the way back to 2008 or so, when we began on another website with a similar name.
Since I couldn’t begin to assemble words that felt like they would do that journey justice, and definitely couldn’t do it in a way that celebrated all the bands and musicians and relationships that have gotten us here, I decided to cop out (sorry, Chris!) And as we all know, everybody (me) loves making a good list.
A brief aside - first, I’d like to take a moment to thank all of the generous labels and promoters and press folk who have helped Chris and I get this far. Without all of you, we might literally have had nothing to write about. Many (perhaps even most) of them prefer to remain anonymous, so I won’t take the time to list them here. But if you’re reading this, thank you.
To make a list of all the bands I’ve studied, explored and contemplated as a result of these many years of music editorialism (if I dare ascribe myself to so lofty a position,) would have been a fool’s errand.
So, instead, here’s a list (alphabetical) of all the bands I now consider myself a fan of as a result of my time spent wandering down this extraordinary, unusual and thoroughly enjoyable path:
6:33, The 69 Eyes, A Pale Horse Named Death, Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, Alestorm, Alien Weaponry, Anti-Mortem, Arch Enemy, As They Sleep, The Ashers, Battlecross, Beartooth, Blackguard, Blood Ceremony, Blues Pills, Bokassa, BRKN Love, The Browning, Cancer Bats, Cave of Swimmers, Combichrist, Cradle of Filth, Cripper, Crowned By Fire, CueStack, Dampf, Darkthrone, Dead Poet Society, Deadlock, Destrage, Destruction, Devil to Pay, Diamond Plate, Ego Fall, Emigrate, Escape the Fate, Evile, Exumer, Fear of Domination, Finntroll, Galaktikon, John Garcia, Goatwhore, Graveyard, Gypsyhawk, Halestorm, Hammers of Misfortune, Hatriot, The Hawkins, The Heavy Eyes, Hell Within, Hellevate, The Hellfreaks, Indestructible Noise Command, John 5 & The Creatures, Kiberspassk, Kontrust, Kreator, Lazarus AD, Lord of the Lost, Mayan, Meldrum, Midnight Dice, The Midnight Ghost Train, Mollo Rilla, Monster Truck, Mothership, Mountain of Wizard, Nachtblut, Nim Vind, Nothnegal, Orphaned Land, PAIN, Power Trip, Powerwolf, Priestess, Pro-Pain, Prototype, Red Dragon Cartel, Red Eleven, Red Fang, Royal Republic, Royal Thunder, Rxptrs, Scorpion Child, Selfish Needy Creatures, Shawn James & The Shapeshifters, The Showdown, Shroud Eater, Sick Puppies, Spit Like This, Static-X, Sundrifter, Taking Dawn, Tengger Cavalry, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Tossers, Toxic Holocaust, Transit Method, Troubled Horse, Turisas, Unearth, Vaelmyst, Vampires Everywhere!, The Veer Union, Viking Skull, Volbeat, Warbringer, The Warning, We Butter the Bread With Butter, Within the Ruins, Wolfmother, DJ Zardonic
To say that my life has been enriched is a dramatic understatement.
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