There was an immense amount of good music this year, I do believe we have entered a new golden age of heavy metal. If you didn't find something you're into this year, well you must be really damn picky, or you just weren't interested in looking. Anyway, here are my top 100 albums of the year. Even this wasn't easy. I would have added Bandcamp links but this took all the energy for this I have left. Hope you check these out and let me know if you find your next favorite band! Also, I know this isn't a traditional list format, but it's how I could make sense of all this stuff.
TOP 5
1. Ozymandias- Cake
2. Kingnomad- The Great
Nothing
3. A Forest Of Stars-
Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
4. Pale Divine- S/T
5. Cauldron- New Gods
Heavy and Hateful
- Shadowmaster-S/T
- Brainoil- Singularity to Extinction
- Religious Observance- Utter Discomfort
- Thou-Magus
- Body Void- I live Inside a Burning House
- P.H.O.B.O.S. - Phlogiston Catharsis
- Vile Entity- S/T
- Tritonica- Disforia
- When The Deadbolt Breaks- Angels Are Weeping…God Has Abandoned…
- Gutter-Underneath
Funeral Doom
- Evoken- Hypnagogia
- Mournful Congregation- The Incubus of Karma
- Un- Sentiment
- RuneMagick- Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
- Beneath Oblivion- The Wayward and the Lost
- Hooded Menace- Ossuarium Silhouettes of the Unhallowed
Traditional Doom/Death Doom
- Pale Divine- S/T
- Dunbarrow- Dunbarrow II
- Son of the Morning- S/T
- Tempelheks- Midnight Mirror
- Conan- Existential Void Guardian
- Saint Karloff- All Heed The Black God
- Iron Void- Excalibur
- Psychedelic Witchcraft- The Sound of The Wind
- Alastor- Slave to The Grave
- Confusion Master- Awaken
- Purification- 1455
- Dawn of Winter- Pray For Doom
- Black Lotus- Sons of Saturn
- Abysmal Grief-Blasphema Secta
- Angel of Damnation-Heathen Witchcraft
Stoner/Alt
- Hazytones- Monarchs of Oblivion
- Craneium- The Narrow Line
- Ruff Magik - Seasons
- Mudfinger- Psychonaut
- Ape Machine- Darker Seas
- Leviathan Cross- All Is Dust
- Holy Grove- S/T
- Ozone Mama- Cosmos Calling
Desert Rock/Heavy Psych
- Kingnomad- The Great Nothing
- Sergeant Thunderhoof- Terra Solis
- Demonauta- Temaukel The Spirit Before Time
- Magmakammer- Mindtripper
- Foghound- Awaken to Destroy
- Mr. Plow - Maintain Radio Silence
- Wasted Theory - Warlords of The New Electric
- Freedom Hawk- Beats Remains
- Killer Boogie -Acid Cream
- Z28- Nobody Rides For Free
- Black Elephant- Cosmic Blues
- Black Salvation- Uncertainty is Bliss (Psych/Rock)
- Alms-Act One
- Rezn- Calm Black Water
- King Bolete- A Deal With The Dark Ones
- Black Willows- Bliss (Heavy Psych)
- Black Rainbows- Pandaemonium
- The Watchers- Black Abyss
- Supercaos- Underdog
- Burn Ritual- Blood Of The Raven
- Near Dusk- S/T
Traditional Heavy Metal/Thrash/Speed Metal
- Cauldron- New Gods
- Gatekeeper- East Of Sun
- Ashbury- Eye Of The Stygian Witches
- Electric Citizen- Helltown
- Lucifer- Lucifer 2
- White Wizzard- Infernal Overdrive
- Battleroar- Codex Epicus
- Metal Church- Damned If You Do
- U.D.O. -Steelfactory
- Flight- A Leap Through Time
- Saxon- Thunderbolt
- Haunt- Burst Into Flame
- Black Viper- Hellions of Fire
- Traveler- Demo 2018
- Ross The Boss- By Blood Sworn
- Robespierre- Garden of Hell
- Necronomicon- Unleashed Bastards
- Attacker- Armor of The Gods
Black/Death Metal
- A Forest of Stars- Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
- Chaos Invocation- Reaping Season-Bloodshed From Beyond
- Funeral Mist-Hekatomb
- In The Woods…-Cease The Day
- Helrunar- Vanitas Venitatum
- Azhagal- Valo Pohjoisesta
- Deathbeast-The Onslaught
- Clandestine Blaze -Tranquility of Death
- Skogen- Skuggorna Kallar
- Spectral Wound- Infernal Decadence
- From The Bogs of Aughiska- Mineral Bearing Veins
- Corpsessed-Impetus Of Death
- 1914- The Blind Leading The Blind
- Ritual Necromancy- Disinterred Horror
Fun/Energetic/Weird
- Lowen- A Crypt In The Stars (Progressive/Doom/Heavy Metal)
- Professor Electric- The Akashic Record (Blues/Acid/Funk)
- Fvzz Popvli - Magna Fvzz (Psych/Garage Rock/Fuzzed Out to Fuck)
- Earthling Society- Mo-The Demon (Psych/Space Rock/Noise)
- Madder Mortem- Marrow
Rock
- Ozymandias- Cake
- Ghost- Prequelle
- Death Alley- Superbia
- Jamestown Pagans- Grimoire
Bonus Eps
Bong Cauldron- Tyke
Lewis and The
Strange Magics- The Ginger Sessions
Willow Ash- Vvitches
Grand Delusion- On
The Line
Worry- Humiliation
Psalms
Church of Mental
Enlightenment- Forces of The Underground
