LIST OF CAIN make me come alive-ah - Best of 2019

[Don Gately]

Mystifier and Tomb Mold are my favourites this year but really digging Coffins new one also.

[Scáthach]

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.

[Vadge]

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

[Pentagrimes]

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.

[ResidentOfBok]

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.

[Carnage]

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.

[Thorn]

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.

[Pentagrimes]

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

[Mower Liberation Front]

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

[Thorn]

Borknagar?! Surprised me there, cool list, well eight of them anyway   

[Trev]

Had the new Nile on a fair bit the last few days, best stuff they've put out in a long time

[Thanatos]

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