GMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 2018

[TechnicalBarbarity]

2018
RYM ALBUMS LIST
RYM EP LIST

Reminder of the rules:
- please submit at least *5* releases. But just remember, real men vote at 10.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.
- if you're so much of a dick that you have to post more than 10 unranked picks, only the first 10 will count. In other words, go back to rule #3

please try to submit your lists by January 19th

Oh and happy holidays everyone!

 

[CiG]

 

[Slammed]

Fuck I have some listening to do.

 

[rms]

shouldn't we wait awhile to do a current year? or have we always done this?

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

There's always a top 10 thread at the end of the year.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Communion - At the Announcement
2. Panphage - Jord
3. Invocation Spells - Spread Cruelty in the Abyss
4. Communion - The Communion
5. Blood Rites - Demo I
6. House of Atreus - From the Madness of Ixion
7. Apostasy - The Sign of Darkness
8. Nachash - Phantasmal Triunity
9. Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror
10. Garotted - Of Damnation And Abyssal Terrors

HM:

Deathwards - Towards Death
Unanimated - Annihilation
Blasfemia - Nocturnal Astral Visions
Caedes Cruenta / Cult of Eibon - The Wizard of Yaddith / The Sleeper of R'Lyeh
Mooncitadel - Moon Calls to Wander the Winter's Majesty
Vargrav - Netherstorm

 

[Phylactery]

Thought the Disembowel full length might make your list.

 

[CiG]

Came out last year.

 

[Phylactery]

Oh shit, so it did. Was convinced it was a 2018 release. Well there goes one of my picks!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I can just barely make a top 5 right now of music I think is at least above average:

1. Superstition - Surging Throng of Evil's Might
2. Satan - Cruel Magic
3. Judas Priest - Firepower
4. Voïvod - The Wake
5. Refuge - Solitary Men
6. Horrendous - Idol
7. Ancestor - Lords of Destiny
8. Deceased - Ghostly White
9. Rapture - Paroxysm of Hatred
10. Zealotry - At the Nexus of All Stillborn Worlds

But there's a lot of stuff that I think I'll like that I haven't heard yet.

EDIT: Added a few

 

[The Ozzman]

No Jungle Rot?

People think Dave Ingram is shit too. Well, at least his voice didn't get BTFO like Willetts'

 

[CiG]

Willetts at his peak was godly, Ingram was always very average by contrast but his vocals have held up. Willetts sounds awful these days. It's a shame, Memorium were robbed of two potentially great albums because of his terrible performance.

Sorry, no Jungle Rot. I liked their new album a lot, but I ended up with so many 9/10's this year that Jungle Rot didn't even make the honourable mentions, since I decided to not list anything below a 9/10.

 

[Phylactery]

This cover art!

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Runemagick - Evoked From Abysmal Sleep
2. Voidod - The Wake
3. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
4. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
5. Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
6. High on Fire - Electric Messiah
7. Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
8. Faustcoven - In the Shadow of Doom
9. Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician
10. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions

HM:

Abysmal Grief - Blasphema Secta
Ferum - Vergenece
Craft - White Noise and Black Metal

 

[no country for old wainds]

the communion albums are both technically 2017 as well, not sure if it was possible to hear them in 2017 tho

 

[Baroque]

I have a ton of listening to do, fell behind this year. Skeletal Remains holy shit, I’ll probably end up listening to that a few times. Might be one of the last voters this time

 

[Phylactery]

My list is gonna be filled with black metal I feel. Some death metal I need to revisit like the Tomb Mold (surprised it isn't on your list CIG actually). Although I wasn't huge on it when a few people here were raving about it.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

I'm so burned out from blasting through 2014, but I'll get to the task at hand.

 

[Baroque]

1. Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
2. Exmortus - The Sound of Steel
3. Artillery - The Face of Fear
4. Black Fast - Spectre of Ruin
5. Judas Priest - Firepower
6. Azusa - Heavy Yoke
7. Deceased - Ghostly White
8. Teleport - The Expansion
9. Amorphia - Arms to Death
10. Mindwars - Do Unto Others
Voivod - The Wake
Black Cyclone - Death Is King
Blood Tsunami - Grave Condition
Gama Bomb - Speed Between the Lines
Voight Kampff - Substance Rêve
The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques
Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret de la Guillotine
Hatchet - Dying to Exist
Tantara - Sum of Forces
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds Pt. 1
Xenoblight - Procreation

 

[Baroque]

Skeletal Remains holy shit,

This might steal the #1 spot from Exmortus