Highlights of the year - 2018 edition

MadTinus

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So what's been tickling yer musical fancy so far this year? For me:

1. IN VAIN - Currents (amazing band, discovery of the year so far!)
2. FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb (great black metal album!)
3. HINAYANA - Order Divine (amazing newcomer, for lovers of Slumber/Enshine, very strong album)
4. ALICE IN CHAINS - Rainier Fog (just released this past Friday, but I really like it so far, all albums since Layne's death have been pure gold i.m.o.)
5. UNANIMATED - Annihilation EP (great comeback EP after 9 nice years! Promising great things for the upcoming 4th full-length, old school heroes! \,,/)
6. THE SPIRIT - Sounds from the Vortex (really good German newcomer, keeping the Dissection flame burning bright with some Tribulation sounds incorporated as well)

Good, but not great:
AT THE GATES - To Drink from the Night Itself (At War With Reality was awesome, this, although solid and at times entertaining, doesn't live up i.m.o.)
NECROPHOBIC - Mark of the Necrogram (really enjoyed the last two albums, this new album is getting good critics, but it hasn't really clicked with me yet)
DEMONICAL - Chaos Manifesto (solid, but not near as killer as 2013's Darkness Unbound (!!!))
 
In no particular order :
Harakiri for the Sky - Arson
The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
Fractal Gates - The light that shines
On Thorns I Lay - Aegean Sorrow
Barren Earth - A Complex of Cages
Judas Priest - Firepower


Good but not great :
Kamelot - The Shadow Theory
A perfect circle - Eat the Elephant

Disappointments :
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
 
2018 has been a fantastic year for great album releases so far!

Judas Priest - Firepower
Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
Necrophobic - Mark of the Necrogram
The Crown - Cobra Speed Venom
Necros Christos - Domedon Doxomedon
Solstice - White Horse Hill
Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath
Panphage - Jord
The Ugly - Thanatology
Marduk - Viktoria
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Craft - White Noise and Black Metal
Turbonegro - Rock n Roll Machine
Dreadful Fate - Vengance
Ad Hominem - Napalm for all
Amorphis - Queen of time
Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
 
New Deicide is awesome, the closest to a Stench of Redemption sequel of all the albums since then. Mark English is an underrated guitarist.
 
Most likely the final outcome will be:

1. ALICE IN CHAINS - Rainier Fog (9,5/10)
2. IN VAIN - Currents (9/10)
3. HINAYANA - Order Divine (8,5/10)
4. FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb (8,5/10)
5. THE SPIRIT - Sounds from the Vortex (7,5/10)

EP:
UNANIMATED - Annihilation (8,5/10)

Some other OK but not great albums:
AT THE GATES - To Drink from the Night Itself (6,5/10)
BEHEMOTH - I Loved You at your Darkest (7/10)
NECROPHOBIC - Mark of the Necrogram (6,5/10)
DEMONICAL - Chaos Manifesto (7/10)
BLOODBATH..? (6/10)
 
Second year in a row that I listened to more podcasts than music, so I'm continuing simply listing music I enjoyed most alphabetically.

Due to the aforementioned podcast distraction, and my general attention issues, the list of music I still want to check out is nearing 200 releases. Sigh. Good problem to have, I suppose.

Metal (etc.) LP
  • Agrimonia – Awaken
  • The Body – I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer
  • Dakhma – Hamkar Atonement
  • Esoctrilihum – Inhüma
  • Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands
  • High on Fire – Electric Messiah
  • Hissing – Permanent Destitution
  • Horrendous – Idol
  • Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury
  • Judas Priest – Firepower
  • Khôrada – Salt
  • Lychgate – The Contagion in Nine Steps
  • The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
  • Pig Destroyer – Head Cage
  • Portal – Ion
  • Portrayal of Guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide
  • Ritual Necromancy – Disinterred Horror
  • Sigh – Heir to Despair
  • Sinistro – Sangue Cassia
  • Sumac – Love in Shadow
  • Thou – Magus
  • Tomb Mold – Manor of Infinite Forms
  • Voivod – The Wake
  • Wake – Misery Rites
  • Yob – Our Raw Heart
Non-Metal (etc.) LP
  • Alias & Doseone – Less is Orchestra
  • Alice in Chains – Rainier Fog
  • Anna von Hausswolff – Dead Magic
  • Anthony Green – Would You Still be in Love
  • Ben Chisholm & Felix Skinner – Burgeoning Verse
  • Buñuel – The Easy Way Out
  • Carl Gene – Mourning
  • Cursive – Vitriola
  • Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want
  • Dessa – Chime
  • Drug Church – Cheer
  • Emma Ruth Rundle – On Dark Horses
  • Grouper – Grid of Points
  • Insect Ark – Marrow Hymns
  • Jaye Jayle – No Trail and Other Unholy Paths
  • Lucy Dacus – Historian
  • Marissa Nadler – For My Crimes
  • mewithoutYou – [Untitled]
  • Mount Eerie – Now Only
  • Rope – Come Closer Now
  • Sangre de Muerdago – Noite
  • Self Defense Family – Have Your Considered Punk Music
  • Tim Hecker – Konoyo
  • Toby Driver – They Are the Shield
  • Wrekmeister Harmonies – The Alone Rush

EPs/Splits
  • Aeviterne – Sireless
  • Aphex Twin – Collapse
  • Crawl/Leviathan Split
  • Devouring Star/Caesus – Apostasis
  • Dispirit – Enatiodromian Birth
  • Hebosagil – Kevät
  • Jute Gyte/Spectral Lore – Helian
  • Maryanna Devlin – Gravedigger
  • mewithoutYou – [untitled] e.p.
  • Porcupine – Zomia
  • Ragana/Thou – Let Our Names Be Forgotten
  • Rotten Sound – Suffer to Abuse
  • Starkweather/Concealment Split
  • Twilight – Trident Death Rattle
  • Virginia Creep – Dark Corners
  • Zoë Keating – Snowmelt
 
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