It's that time of year again.
I personally have listened to a metric shitton of albums this year but very few of them were super duper totes amazeballs. A lot of them were good, yeah, but not game-changing or anything.
Top 10 albums:
1 - Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
No doubt the album I've listened to the most this year. Creative, fun and addictive, it's my album of the year with absolutely no contest.
2 - Mick Gordon - Killer Instinct Season One Soundtrack
It's not cheating, I hope, to put a video game soundtrack on the list. It makes me want to kick some Ultratech ass and I haven't even played the damn game!
3 - Gazpacho - Demon
Super chill prog rock full of nuances and a great concept. Also the subject of many a listen ever since it came out.
4 - Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Goddamn this album is fucking intense. Recommended listen when you want the world to fuck off.
5 - Panopticon - Roads to the North
Discombobulating black metal with ambient and somehow violins and what the heck is this, but it's so beautiful.
6 - Morbus Chron - Sweven
7 - Spectral Lore - III
8 - Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
9 - Falls of Rauros - Believe in No Coming Shore
10 - Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Honorable Mentions:
Voices - London
Misery Index - The Killing Gods
Revocation - Deathless
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Behemoth - The Satanist
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
The Algorithm - Octopus4
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Favorite songs (in no particular order):
Agalloch - Birth and Death of the Pillars of Creation
Hail Spirit Noir - Satan is Time
Black Crown Initiate - Great Mistake
Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun!
Allegaeon - Through Ages of Ice - Otzi's Curse
Alcest - Délivrance
Xanthochroid - Land of Snow and Sorrow (Wintersun cover)
Voices - The Antidote
Insomnium - The River
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Manimalism - Demons in Tuxedos
Kriegsmaschine - To Ashen Havens
I personally have listened to a metric shitton of albums this year but very few of them were super duper totes amazeballs. A lot of them were good, yeah, but not game-changing or anything.
Top 10 albums:
1 - Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi
No doubt the album I've listened to the most this year. Creative, fun and addictive, it's my album of the year with absolutely no contest.
2 - Mick Gordon - Killer Instinct Season One Soundtrack
It's not cheating, I hope, to put a video game soundtrack on the list. It makes me want to kick some Ultratech ass and I haven't even played the damn game!
3 - Gazpacho - Demon
Super chill prog rock full of nuances and a great concept. Also the subject of many a listen ever since it came out.
4 - Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Goddamn this album is fucking intense. Recommended listen when you want the world to fuck off.
5 - Panopticon - Roads to the North
Discombobulating black metal with ambient and somehow violins and what the heck is this, but it's so beautiful.
6 - Morbus Chron - Sweven
7 - Spectral Lore - III
8 - Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
9 - Falls of Rauros - Believe in No Coming Shore
10 - Beyond Creation - Earthborn Evolution
Honorable Mentions:
Voices - London
Misery Index - The Killing Gods
Revocation - Deathless
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Behemoth - The Satanist
Mors Principium Est - Dawn of the 5th Era
Casualties of Cool - Casualties of Cool
The Algorithm - Octopus4
Horrendous - Ecdysis
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry
Favorite songs (in no particular order):
Agalloch - Birth and Death of the Pillars of Creation
Hail Spirit Noir - Satan is Time
Black Crown Initiate - Great Mistake
Behemoth - O Father O Satan O Sun!
Allegaeon - Through Ages of Ice - Otzi's Curse
Alcest - Délivrance
Xanthochroid - Land of Snow and Sorrow (Wintersun cover)
Voices - The Antidote
Insomnium - The River
Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen
Manimalism - Demons in Tuxedos
Kriegsmaschine - To Ashen Havens