No sign of this thread in the top pages, so with December upon us I'll get it started. Feel free to contribute or nuke this thread due to the list wars over the years.
As per usual, I've been mad behind on new releases but these have been great.
Quayde LaHue - Love Out of Darkness
Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings
Moon Tooth - Crux
Mortiferum - Disgorged from Psychotic Depths
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Ebony Pendant - Sempiternal Passage Through Realms of Suffering and Hatred
Riot City - Burn the Night
Aggressive Perfector - Havoc at the Midnight Hour
Traveler - S/T
Lankum - The Livelong Day
I'm shit at remembering what I bought this year and which items I bought are even from this year but off the top of my head...
Funereal Presence 'Achatius'. Outstanding piece of music.
Sacrilegia 'The Triclavian Advent'. Simple, direct and powerful black thrash with heaps of character.
Vircolac 'Masque'. Killer full length from de bize. Catchy and darkly evocative.
Dold Vorde Ens Navn 'Gjengangere I Hjertets Mørke'. Really exciting black metal from scene veterans that dips into the respective members' early work to construct something that sounds modern and relevant.
Terminus 'A Simple Point of Light' CD landed today so looking forward to getting stuck into it.
Also looking forward to the new Bölzer EP. High hopes for that.
The new Lankum stuff sounds great but I haven't grabbed the CD yet.
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1. Denial Of God - The Hallow Mass
2. Diocletian – Amongst The Flames Of A Bvrning God
3. Terminus - A Single Point of Light
4. Gaahls Wyrd - GastiR – Ghosts Invited
5. Vircolac - Masque
6. Sacrilegia - The Triclavian Advent
7. Angel Witch - Angel of Light
8. Ravensire - A Stone Engraved in Red
9. Mayhem - Daemon
10. Midnight Priest - Aggressive Hauntings
The top two spots were a no brainer. Number 3 to eight could have been in any order really.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen is album of the year for me by a long way, I'll have a think and put a list together.
In no particular order....
KXM - Circle of Dolls
Acid Reign - The Age of Entitlement
Worshipper - Light in the Wire
Ketzer - Cloud Collider
The End Machine - s/t
Derange - Senses Part One
Honourable mention to E.S.T. - Live in Gotherburg even though it's not Metal and was recorded in 2001 but only released this year. No Geography by The Chemical Brothers was good stuff too.
Queensryche and the Pixies put out albums I just cannot get into.
Off the top of my head,been a good year for DM.
Tomb Mold
Blood Incantation
Vastum
Bastard Grave
Nile
Nocturnus
Cancer
Sacrilegia
Rotting Christ
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Reido - Anātman
Sunn O))) - Life Metal / Pyroclasts
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Aria - Guest from the Realm of Shadows (live album)
Non-metal:
Adaptatsiya - Oruell
Big Thief - UFOF / Two Hands
Sharon Van Etten - Remind Me Tomorrow
Shannon Lay - August
I'll give When We Are Forgotten by Imperium Dekadenz my AOTY shout.
Inter Arma's "Sulphur English" needs to go on mine as well
Love the thread title :laugh:
In no order...
1. Warforged - I: Voice. Amazing blackened death album, just wish the production was slightly better at times.
2. Vitriol - To Bathe from the Neck of Cowardice. Tough work to get through this but it seems to get better every listen, super intense.
3. Full of Hell - Weeping Choir. Not their best, but the usual savage grindcore I love to hear from them. Saw them live in Berlin which was also great.
4. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race. Might be recency bias but I absolutely loved this.
5. Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q. Possibly another recency bias pick. Took everything I looked from Aesthetica and did it again and even better.
Will probably update this next week and add Cattle Decapitation to the list, time will tell.
Devin Townsend - Empath
Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations
I think that's actually the only two releases from his year I've really listened to
Slutvomit - Copulation of Cloven Hooves takes the number one spot for sure. Incredible album.
Achatius at a close second , echoing McLove's sentiments.
Area Kingdom - By The Light of Their Destruction. Probably the best thing they've done since Return To Dust.
I have a lot of stuff to catch up on, as per every fuckin year, so will post an updated list next month. But on a quick jog of the memory:
Lingua Ignota - "Caligula" (AOTY)
Torche - "Admission"
Kayo Dot - "Blasphemy"
Inter Arma - "Sulphur English"
Spotlights - "Love and Decay"
...I definitely listened to more new albums than that, must look through them.
Mystifier and Tomb Mold are my favourites this year but really digging Coffins new one also.
Sinmara - Hvísl Stjarnanna, excellent melodic, dynamic BM.
Deathspell Omega - the Furnaces of Palingenesia, probably my AOTY, love the menace of the music and the lyrical theme.
Vircolac - Masque, definitely in a field (or tomb) of its own.
Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk. Excellent murky death that took a while to click. Once approached like a musical short story it makes sense.
They would be my favourites for this year, with Honourable mentions to Mayhem and Mgla.
I do rather enjoy these threads this time of year as I often find stuff that I may have totally missed throughout the year. I FEEL this year I've listened to so much less than previous years but it's quite likely due to the sheer wealth of stuff that's shoved in our faces these days
Die Choking - IV
Child Abuse - Imaginary Enemy
Kostnatě - Hrůza zvítězí
Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Serpent Column - Mirror In Darkness
Fawn Limbs - Harm Remissions
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Avandra - Descender
Vacivus - Annihilsim
Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise To Power
No One Knows What The Dead Think
An Isolated Mind - I'm Losing Myself
Alessandro Cortini - Volume Massimo
Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
Wheel - Moving Backwards
I'm gonna throw a late submission in for Chat Pile's 'Remove Your Skin Please' and 'This Dungeon Earth' both of which came out this year and sound like a low-key Kiss It Goodbye summoning Incesticide-era Nirvana (noise rock fans please forgive this lazy comparison). Superb stuff and on constant rotation lately
Yep, Chatpile are a late entry for me, along with the new Skin Crime album.
Immortal Bird's latest one really should have a mention too.
Some very cool additions above. Enjoying Chat Pile's fucked-up vibe a lot. I'd forgotten about Departure Chandelier too, nice to see it come out after so many years gathering dust. I'll have to update my list in due course!
I have to say hats off to the new Vanum record too. I haven't listened to it enough yet, but it has one of the nicest and most organic drum productions I've heard on a record this year.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
Acid Reign: The Age Of Entitlement
Slomatics: Canyons
Chelsea Wolfe: Birth Of Violence
Konkhra: Alpha And The Omega
Geist: Swarming Season
Memoriam: Requiem For Mankind
Candlemass: The Door To Doom
Coroza: Chaliceburner
There's a few I need to catch upon but I enjoyed all of these, with the first three being my favourites this year. Overkill's album was OK, didn't really grab me. Death Angel's was a disappointment, I much preferred the two or three previous albums.
Bloody thing is wrecking my head but 40 odd albums battered down to this...
1. Vltimas - Something Wicked Marches In
2.Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingensia
3. Nocturnus - Paradox
4. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
5. Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
6. Soilwork - Verkligheten
7.Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies
8. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
9 Death Angel - Humanicide
10. Acid Reign - Age of Entitlement
11. 1349 - The Infernal Pathway
12. Inter Arma - Sulphur English
Disappointed with the Enthroned, Angel Witch and Darkthrone albums though 'Hardship of The Scots' is hands down my track of the year ,that riff is fucking godly.
In a shock last minute effort, REVEAL drop the actual album of the year at the last possible minute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwBdpxp5T0
Gloryhammer - Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex
Acid Reign - The Age of Entitlement
Borknagar - True North
Nocturnus AD - Paradox
Sabaton - The Great War
Ram - The Throne Within
Xentrix - Bury the Pain
Slough Feg - New Organon
Death Angel - Humanicide
Overkill - The Wings of War
Borknagar?! Surprised me there, cool list, well eight of them anyway :P
Had the new Nile on a fair bit the last few days, best stuff they've put out in a long time
Enjoyed this lot the most
Soul Grinder - Prophecy of Blight
Ogre - Thrice as strong
Orodruin - Ruins of Eternity
Slough Feg - New Organon
Cerebral Rot – Odious Descent Into Decay
Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess
Mortiferum - Disgorged from Psychotic Depths
The Good, the grand and the OK...
Pharmakon - Devour
Sanhedrin - The Poisoner
Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
Lennon Claypool Delierium - South of Reality
Nucleus - Entity
Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire
Sanguisugabogg - Pornographic Seizures
Carcinoid - Metastatic Declination
Blasphematory - Depths of the Obscurity
Rothadás - Demo 2019
Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous Gods
Total Isolation - Winfield demo
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
On the list, but still need to get a hold of/hear
Rattenfänger - Geisslerlieder
Hide- Hell is Here
Nocturnus AD -Paradox
Lingua Ignota - Caligula
Denial Of God - The Hallow Mass
Angel Witch - Angel of Light
Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Vastum - Orifcial Purge
Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
Coffin Rot - A Moniment to the Dead