Best Sounding Metal Albums of Last 3-5 Yrs?

[NickL]

I have been out of the metal production game for a while, working mostly on rock music. What are some really kickass sounding albums that have been on your headphones recently? Any/all subgenres

 

[He's Dead, Jim]

For glossy stuff, IMO:

Unearth - Darkness in the Light
The Acacia Strain - Wormwood
The last 3 Amon Amarth records

Natural sounding stuff:

Deafheaven - Sunbather
Every Time I Die - From Parts Unknown
Norma Jean - Wrongdoers

 

[AntonioPetrole]

Architects - Lost Together, Lost Forever
Thy Art Is Murder - Hate

 

[HCL]

 

[Random3]

Some of my favourites since 2010, some of these don't seem to get a huge amount of recognition and some of them I have no idea who actually mixed them. This is purely my view on how good they sound regardless of if I like the music:

August Burns Red - Rescue And Restore
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
Born Of Osiris - Tomorrow We Die Alive
Dream Theater - Dream Theater
Enslaved - RIITIIR
Machine Head - Unto The Locust (haven't heard Bloodstone yet)
Monuments - The Amanuensis
Northlane - Singularity
Periphery - Periphery II
Protest The Hero - Volition
Tesseract - Altered State
Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

 

[indecizo]

 

[Ermz]

Architects - Lost Together, Lost Forever
Xerath - III
Dead by April - Incomparable
Confession - The Long Way Home
Behemoth - Evangelion
Underoath - Disambiguation

I'd throw Juggernaut in there too, but that'd be bias.

 

[B36arin]

 

[crillemannen]

I usually reference check against my own mixes these days but there are some productions I really like!

Chimaira - Chimaira Tight as hell!
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Decent Very dynamic and some killer vocal production!
Confession - The long way home Fredman/Henke at it's best. just a compact wall of sound with some crazy good lowend!

I always find myself liking Sneap productions, where some top engineers tend to slack off after they reached their peak Sneap always seems to be pusing it. Getting better every year! Colin Richardson is also a favorite of mine. Very in your face and always crazy good drums and guitars!

 

[cfh11]

I'd throw Juggernaut in there too, but that'd be bias.

ill do it for you! definitely one of my favorite mix/masters over the past couple of years.

also

thy art is murder - hate
exodus - blood in blood out
killswitch engage - disarm the descent
testament - dark roots of the earth (see a pattern here )
machine head - bloodstones and diamonds

 

[P-E]

Architects - Lost Together, Lost Forever
Job For A Cowboy - Sun Eater
Underoath - Disambiguation

 

[Terminus]

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
At The Gates - At War With Reality
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Desultory - Counting Our Scars

 

[NickL]

I'd throw Juggernaut in there too, but that'd be bias.

Is this one of your productions? Would love a link to something!

Keep em coming, this is great stuff. I had no idea there was a new Carcass album.

 

[Vice//Versa]

Is this one of your productions? Would love a link to something!

Keep em coming, this is great stuff. I had no idea there was a new Carcass album.

He mastered it. Did a great job at it, too

 

[nezvers]

I never seen Becoming The Archetype mentioned there in forum. Physics of Fire is one of my top listened albums even in this year
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[AllanD]

I'm trying to get what ya'll hear in the Architects album. The vocals sound REALLY ugly, and the drums in general are super clicky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LCT-uCuoE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XREUI7EQUtI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2oCfKUvwRk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48dyqpkRV8

Hardcore is fun, but jesus that Power Trip album sounds terrible. The other ones sound whatever at best.

 

[GeertSamuel]

Behemoth - Evangelion
Extol - Extol
Kvelertak - Kvelertak
The Psyke Project - Guillotine
Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

 

[plague_rider]

Battlecross - War of Will

 

[FarBeyondMetal]

Seems like these weren't the most popular production wise here, but I enjoyed the mix on Unearth Watchers of Rule, and Sylosis Dormant Heart. A bit different maybe, but these are some fantastic mixes in my ears.

Kreator Phantom Antichrist as well.

 

[MetalMiller]