Metal 2015

[End of Glory]

I'm too lazy to rank mine and I haven't kept myself updated on new releases this year but here we go.

Cut Up - Forensic Nightmares
Corrosive Carcass - Forsaken Lands
Marduk - Frontschwein
Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed
Gruesome - Savage Land
Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere
Grave - Out of Respect For the Dead
Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
Jungle Rot - Order Shall Prevail
Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art

Edit: spelling

 

[Luoto]

Here's my current top 10. Doesn't look like there's going to be much changes anymore, though November still gave some serious life to this list.

1. Amorphis - Under the Red Cloud
2. Wilderun - Sleep at the Edge of the Earth
3. Pressure Points - False Lights
4. Anomalie - Refugium
5. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
6. Cain's Offering - Stormcrow
7. Elder - Lore
8. Chaos Divine - Colliding Skies
9. Turbid North - Eyes Alive
10. Leprous - The Congregation

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Definitely need to check out that Elder album. They were killer live last weekend and super nice guys to drunkenly chat with.

 

[CiG]

I don't think my list has changed from when this question was last asked.

 

[JontRevolting]

Paradise Lost was a highlight and I still have the new My Dying Bride box at home which I haven't even opened yet.

 

[Baroque]

Finally got around to skimming through my lists. Here's my top 20 of 2015 so far:


Skeletal Remains - Condemned to Misery
Vhol - Deeper Than Sky
Hatchet - Fear Beyond Lunacy
Black Fast - Terms of Surrender
Ufomammut - Ecate
Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
Mendel - Oblivion
Symphony X - Underworld
Gorod - A Maze of Recycled Creeds
Sadist - Hyaena
Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art
Velaraas - The Gilded Age
Gama Bomb - Untouchable Glory
Sycamyre - Sycamyre
Vampire - Cimmerian Shade
Leprous - The Congregation
Satyrasis - ...Of The Dead
Dystopian - A Renaissance of Thought
Exarsis - The Human Project
Droid - Disconnected

 

[CiG]

Ironsword - None But The Brave
Nocternity - Harps Of The Ancient Temples
Iron Kobra - Might & Magic
Visigoth - The Revenant King
Deathhammer - Evil Power
Merciless Death - Taken Beyond
Uruk-Hai ‎– Elbenstahl
Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War
Black Force - Spirit Of Ancient Writings
Terminus - The Reaper's Spiral

Honourable mention:

Grime - Circle Of Molesters
Bulldozing Bastard - Under The Ram

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Solid lists, everyone. I'm going to check out a lot of these that I didn't get around to this year.


Hey @Baroque if you like the Symphony X album you should definitely check out the new Pyramaze that came out earlier in the yaer. IMO it's far superior. Excellent progressive metal from a band that managed to reinvent themselves yet again but not lose any intensity or emotion in their song writing.

 

[Draehl]

I tried pyramaze after seeing it mentioned several times before. Way too poppy for me- are their non music video tracks better?

 

[JontRevolting]

Forgot to mention the new Ares Kingdom, it's hard to pick a favourite album of theirs because it's all great but this is probably it solely because of the improvement in the production, also the last Deathhammer.
Also Zombi has a new one called 'Shape Shift' which I'll have to get.

 

[End of Glory]

I forgot about the Chapel of Disease album... I'll have to edit it to my list.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

I tried pyramaze after seeing it mentioned several times before. Way too poppy for me- are their non music video tracks better?

I haven't seen any of their music videos so I have no idea. I don't know what you listened to either. They've changed lineups a lot. Generally speaking, fans correctly point to their debut as the best. They had a singer, Lance King, who did a great job on that album. Same lineup for the second album but it's not quite as strong, though still good. Then some guys left (King included) and They got Matt Barlow for one record, which was a good idea in theory but it just wasn't the same. Their new album that came out this year is I think written and performed by an entirely new lineup save one original member (could be wrong). It's a great record...heavy, dark melodies, great songs...

 

[Draehl]

Outre, mgla and drowning the light may be fight for a spot...

 

[chuj666]

December releases


01.12 Stielas Storhett - Drownwards
01.12 Hammer Horde - Fed To The Wolves
02.12 Aldious - Radiant A
04.12 Helheim - raunijaR
04.12 Enthrallment - Eugenic Wombs
04.12 Messenger - Starwolf - Pt. 2: Novastorm
04.12 Intervals - The Shape Of Colour
04.12 Sunn O))) - Kannon
04.12 Vorna - Ei Valo Minua Seuraa
04.12 Aderlating - Hell Follows
04.12 Secrets Of The Moon - Sun
04.12 Coronatus - Raben Im Herz
04.12 Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes
04.12 Cloak Of Altering - Manifestation
07.12 Ur Draugr - With Hunger Undying
07.12 Nachtlieder - The Female Of The Species
07.12 Nar Mattaru - Ancient Atomic Warfare
09.12 Galneryus - Under The Force Of Courage
11.12 Mortal Infinity - Final Death Denied
11.12 Elizium - Elysium
11.12 Pomegranate Tiger - Boundless
11.12 Monolithe - Epsilon Aurigae
12.12 Bucovina - Nestrămutat
14.12 Vader - Future Of The Past II - Hell In The East
15.12 Ego Depths - Dýrtangle
15.12 Ashen Horde - Nine Plagues
18.12 Christian Death - The Root Of All Evilution
18.12 Jack Frost - Mélaina Cholé
18.12 Baroness - Purple
18.12 Against The Plagues - Purified Through Devastation
24.12 Blliigghhtted - Kosmoskampf
25.12 Magister Dixit - Opus Astral
25.12 Degial - Savage Mutiny
25.12 Kartikeya - Samudra

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

Not much in December catching my eye except for Sunn 0))) and Baroness and Secrets of the Moon and Messenger (which should both be awesome).

 

[CiG]

Yeah nothing in that list for me.

 

[no country for old wainds]

Yeah nothing in that list for me.

just listen to this instead dude (if you haven't already, that is)

 

[CiG]

just listen to this instead dude (if you haven't already, that is)

I have this beast.

 

[EspaDa]

Guys, how's the newest Maiden album? I didn't bother to give it a spin and I don't really know why, I only heard Speed of Light but it didn't really impress me.

 

[CiG]

I don't recall seeing this record mentioned here.