What kind of a board would this be without a list thread? Especially one started by me.
I'm more interested in seeing everyone elses though as I feel like I haven't had the ear to the ground quite as much this year. As far as my memory serves though, here is what I have thoroughly enjoyed thus far:
Knelt Rote - Alterity
Hissing - Permenent Destitution
Entropia - Vacuum
Will Haven - Muerte
Abstracter - Cinerous Incarnate
Infernal Coil - Within A World Forgotten
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
Esoctrilihim - Inhuma
Cult Leader - A Patient Man
Enjoyed this lot;
Necros Christos - Domedon Doxmedon
Solstice – white horse hill
Abysmal Grief - Blasphema Secta
Mournful Congregation – Incubus of karma
Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth
Ataraxy - Where all hope fades
Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
Innumerable Forms - Punishment in Flesh
Extremity - Coffin Birth
Ritual Necromancy - Disinterred Horror
Tomb Mould - Manor of Infinite Forms
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Skeletal Remains - Devouring mortality
Sleep – the sciences
Cerebral Rot - Cessation of Life demo
Still want to hear new ones by Horrendous, Corpsessed and a few other things...
That Kriegsmaschine is the drummer from MGLA, yeah? Been meaning to give it a spin. I've been way off the pulse this year, was Spite's Antimoshiac this year though? That's killer, and Yob too, of course.
These have been getting the most spins for me this year.
Primordial -Exile amongst the ruins.
Behemoth - I loved you at your darkest.
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb.
Sigh - Heir to despair.
HI KARL
Maggot Heart - Dusk to Dusk - absolute favourite of the year for me
Voivod - The Wake
Horrendous - Idol
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms ( & Cerulean Salvation demo)
Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis
Kuilu - Monumentti
Void Eater - II/III
Mob Terror - Superstimulus
The Body - I Have Fought Against It..
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Thou - Inconsolable (ironically their least metal release)
Howling Sycamore s/t
Mortuous - The Dead Yet Dream
Taphos - Come Ethereal Sombreness
Chrch - Light Will Consume Us All
Innumerable Forms - Punishment in Flesh
Vargrav - Netherstorm
Demos by Evulse, Cerebral Rot, Warp Chamber, Omega Vortex, Chaotian, Caustic Wound, Seclusion, Aeviterne
I kinda wanna put Daughters, Elizabeth Color Wheel and Echo Beds in there but they're perhaps a little too far left field
Disappointed by the Yob, Tribulation, Portal & Cult Leader albums. Jury still out on Zealot Cult (sorry General Lee). Sleep was a fucking stinker, easily my least favourite this year. Haven't heard Obliteration, Sulphurous, Sepulcher or Corpsessed yet but they might all be on there by January
Quote from: Pentagrimes on November 22, 2018, 02:02:09 PM
Maggot Heart - Dusk to Dusk - absolute favourite of the year for me
Voivod - The Wake
These two definitely belong together anyway. Must give the former some more time - loved it on first listen and then forgot about it :/
My biggest regret this year was not making it to any of the Voivod/Maggot Heart tour.
I saw Voivod in Amsterdam, but the support was some Greek modern thrash bollocks called Bio-Cancer.
Ride for Revenge - Sinking the Song
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Solstice - White Horse Hill
Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Clandestine Blaze - Tranquility of Death
Paara - Ritti
Blasphamagoatachrist - Black Metal Warfare demo
Edit:
Marduk - Viktoria
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
I haven't gotten round to checking out anywhere near the amount of new music this year as I'd like, I've a lot of catching up to do. These would be my few standouts so far.
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Marduk - Viktoria
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Yob - Our Raw Heart
Still looking forward to Svartidaudi and Vircolac (if the latter is coming before the year's out).
Need to have a good think about this again and will probably revise the list. Plenty of real quality releases this year. Not all metal, but mostly, so not splitting my list. So far these are my favourites, with the first 10 or so being the top of the pile and most listened to:
Sumac - "Love In Shadow"
Conan - "Existential Void Guardian"
Coilguns - "Millenials"
Daughters - "You won't get what you want"
Yob - "Our Raw Heart"
Will Haven - "Muerte"
The Body - "I have fought against it..."
Malthusian - "Across Deaths"
Author & Punisher - "Beastland"
Scientist - "Barbelith"
Spaceslug - "Eye the Tide"
Sleep - "The Sciences"
Slomatics / MWWB - "Totems"
Dark Matter - "The Sovereign Night"
Maeth - "Whaling Village"
We Come In Pieces - "Stop the Rot"
NIN - "Bad Witch"
Still listening to these bands' releases and they will most likely end up on the list at the end of the year: Zealot Cult, Split Cranium, Yurt, Thou, Slidhr, Iona Death Cult, Melvins, Converge.
Also looking through this thread already, and a few lists of 2018 releases to remember which of these were released this year, I see a heap of stuff I have yet to listen to at all. Will be a busy December.
Skeletal Remains
Behemoth
Deicide
Horrendous
Ghost
Pestilence
Zealot Cult
Quote from: M Void on November 22, 2018, 02:20:56 PM
Ride for Revenge - Sinking the Song
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Solstice - White Horse Hill
Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Clandestine Blaze - Tranquility of Death
Paara - Ritti
Blasphamagoatachrist - Black Metal Warfare demo
Edit:
Marduk - Viktoria
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step -Good shout,never heard of them til I read this thread.
Quote from: Blizzard Beast on November 23, 2018, 08:04:23 AM
Quote from: M Void on November 22, 2018, 02:20:56 PM
Ride for Revenge - Sinking the Song
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Solstice - White Horse Hill
Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Clandestine Blaze - Tranquility of Death
Paara - Ritti
Blasphamagoatachrist - Black Metal Warfare demo
Edit:
Marduk - Viktoria
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step -Good shout,never heard of them til I read this thread.
Yeah, it's a brilliant album, easily one of the best of the year.
QuoteDeicide
Chortle. Surprised to see that on anyones list. I thought it was dreadful, maybe not as bad as In the Minds of Evil but that's hardly saying anything. If ever there was a band that made a career of phoning it in it's Deicide.
I think the new Deicide has got a right raw deal on here tbh,i absolutely hated the last few albums,but i find myself listening to the new one a lot.Its nothing amazing,but a hell of a lot better than i expected.
I'd sooner take that last Morbid Angel album over it. Which isn't saying much.
Whilst the new MA isn't their best by a long shot either there's far more to it than the new Deicide. Deicide are on Six Feet Under's level at this stage.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 22, 2018, 01:50:36 PM
That Kriegsmaschine is the drummer from MGLA, yeah? Been meaning to give it a spin. I've been way off the pulse this year, was Spite's Antimoshiac this year though? That's killer, and Yob too, of course.
(all) both of them are from MGLA. they actually started Mgla as a side project.
Ya the MA and Deicide releases were poor overall. So much better music being produced by others these days that many of the old guard should call it a day...
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms
Scorched - Ecliptic Butchery
Torture Rack - Malefic Humiliation
Ghastly - Death Velour
Devil Master - Manifestations
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth
Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
Outer Heaven - Realms of Eternal Decay
Innumerable Forms - Punishment in Flesh
Cultes Des Ghoules - Sinister
1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Ataraxy - Where All Hope Fades
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
My best of the year are:
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
Pestilence - Hadeon
Napalm Death - Coded Smears and More Uncommon Slurs
Judas Preist - Firepower
Ghost - Prequelle
Disappointments are Alice In Chains, Clutch and COC
Beyond Creation - Algorythm
Horrendous - Idol
Obscura - Diluvium
Augury - Illusive Golden Age
Been a good year for proggy death metal
Been a strong year for black metal;
Immortal, Marduk, Watain, Craft, Wiegedood, Behemoth, Uada have all had strong releases so far
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojurn
Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
Cauldron - New Gods
Haunt - Burst Into Flame
Witchsorrow - Hexenhammer
Of Feather and Bone - Bestial Hymns of Perversion (probably my top for the year)
and more I've forgotten about
Think it has been a decent year for traditional metal. Priest, Eliminator, Gatekeeper, Seven Sisters, Haunt, and Cauldron were all good albums, especially the Eliminator, which is probably my favourite album of the year.
Quote from: chickenhut061 on November 26, 2018, 03:16:38 PM
Been a strong year for black metal;
Immortal, Marduk, Watain, Craft, Wiegedood, Behemoth, Uada have all had strong releases so far
The Marduk one wins the year for me. They have been on a roll album wise for the last twelve years or so. Still, they really upped their game for Viktoria.
Jaysus, how did I leave that High On Fire album out of my list?
Also, this absolute monster of a record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIfzO9a-O4
Now it's time to put together the list...
Voivod - The Wake
Ondt Blod - Natur
Therapy? - Cleave
Pestilence - Hadeon
69 Chambers - Machine
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
Ultraphonix - Original Human Music
Lygo - Schwerkraft
Windhand - Eternal Return
Bailer - Bailer
A decent year, I think, and I'll pretend AIC and Judas Priest didn't release anything to keep it that way.
Not many standouts for me but I would give Bloodbath a vote.
Gotta throw Cleric's "Retrocausal" on there
I am just so fucking far out of the loop it isn't even funny. Loads of stuff here I must check out.
Sigh - Heir to Despair
Gorod - Aethra
Haken - Vector
Madder Mortem - Marrow
Voivod - The Wake
Gama Bomb - Speed between the lines
Rivers of Nihil - Where owls know my name.
Very impressed by this, maybe a little two long, but, that's only gripe I have with it.
Sargeist - Unbound (Finland, Black)
Witch Mountain - Witch Mountain (US, Doom)
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness (US, Black/Bluegrass)
Necropole - Solarite (France, Black)
Gama Bomb - Speed Between the Lines (Ireland, Thrash/Speed)
Cosmic Church - Tayttymys (Finland, Black)
Svartknost - Devil's Blood (Sweden, Black)
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice (Netherlands, Black)
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown (Finland, Black/Death)
Funerary Bell - Undead Revelations (Finland, Black/Heavy)
Ungfell - Mythen, Maren, Pestilenz (Switzerland, Black)
Aorlhac - L'esprit des Vents (France, Black)
Outlaw - Marauders (Finland, Heavy)
Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins (Ireland, Black)
Nachash - Phantasmal Triunity (Norway, Black)
Couple EPs/Demos
Purity Renaissance - Promo
Clanaculum - A Gift for the Prince
Wolfblood - Nightriders
Morgal - Mistress of Blood
Tyrants of Hell - Perversion, Disease and Satanic Sleaze
Quote from: Makeshiftatomsmasher on December 30, 2018, 09:07:47 AM
Rivers of Nihil - Where owls know my name.
Very impressed by this, maybe a little two long, but, that's only gripe I have with it.
Great shout.