Obligatory Mid-Year Highlights Thread

[stefan86]

stickochlyssnapåghostrågörebara

 

[nizzon]

Im adding Raised Fist - From The North to my list.

 

[stefan86]

New Vehemence sounds pretty cool

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

It is. And the new Horrendous is great too.

 

[Animaltracks]

New Vehemence sounds pretty cool

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[stefan86]

amehdurå

 

[Animaltracks]

almendras?

 

[stefan86]

almenduråcomprendeabou?

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

Well hell, you bastards. By this time I'm just going to have to wait till the end of the year to unveil ze list.

 

[nizzon]

aww

 

[DarkGift]

aw, i've been waiting all year for your list jason (i really haven't)

 

[stefan86]

I really haven't either

 

[PowerBlade]

 

[MadTinus]

Not a very spectacular year.. My top 3 is still (in no particular order)

SOILWORK, CRUCIAMENTUM and ARCTURUS.

Also nice, but nothing more than that:
PARADISE LOST, TRIBULATION and KEEP OF KALESSIN.

The fact that I can't remember any other albums worth mentioning says enough.

 

[PhlegethonVeins]

 

[stefan86]

HELLO JASON

 

[DarkGift]

HI JASON

 

[stefan86]

HOLA JASOÑ

 

[stefan86]

A lot of meh stuff this year, and no Deftones But these albums still caught my attention (best ones in boldpest):

Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
Antimatter - The Judas Table
Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
Danny Cavanagh - Memory & Meaning
Enshine - Singularity
Exgenesis - Aphotic Veil
Katatonia - Sanctitude
Leprous - The Congregation
Noah Gundersen - Carry the Ghost
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
Port Noir - Neon (EP)
Soulsavers - Angels & Ghosts
Team Sleep - Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4
Vehemence - Forward Without Motion

 

[winters epilogue]

Lots of great stuff this year, so I'm sticking with an alphabetical order.

(As is true every year, there was plenty of music I didn't get to listen to or was unable to listen to thoroughly...but holding off from posting this is as silly as my compulsion to makes these lists in the first place.)

Metal(ish)

• Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
• Ævangelist - Enthrall To The Void Of Bliss
• Akhyls - The Dreaming I
• Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
• The Body/Thou - Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated
• Cloud Rat - Qliphoth
• Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
• Dead to a Dying World - Litany
• Death Karma - The History of Death & Burial Rituals Part I
• Dendritic Arbor - Romantic Love
• Dragged Into Sunlight / Gnaw Their Tongues - N.V.
• Dødheimsgard (DHG) - A Umbra Omega
• Endon - MAMA
• Fuck the Facts - Desire Will Rot
• Hate Eternal - Infernus
• Immortal Bird - Empress/Abscess
• Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods
• Jute Gyte - Ship of Thesus
• Krallic - Ygg huur
• Leviathan - Scar Sighted
• Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
• Lychgate - An Antidote for the Glass Pill
• Mastery - VALIS
• Napalm Death - Apex Predator/Easy Meat
• Obsequiae - Aria Of Vernal Tombs
• Öxxö Xööx - Nämïdäë
• Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable
• Terzij De Horde - Self
• Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr
• Tyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment

Non-Metal

• Björk - Vulnicura
• Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss
• Corpo-Mente - s/t
• Disemballerina - Poison Gown
• Doomtree - All Hands
• Gamardah Fungus - Hidden By The Leaves
• Anna von Hausswolff - The Miraculous
• Insect Ark - Portal/Well
• Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
• Killing Joke - Pylon
• King Dude - Songs of Flesh & Blood - In The Key of Light
• Mamaleek - Via Dolorosa
• Marriages - Salome
• mewithoutYou - Pale Horses
• Oakeater - Aquarius
• Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
• Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
• Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
• Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
• Wrekmeister Harmonies - Night of Your Ascension

EPs/Splits

• | - Сплетение [Plexus]
• Aosoth/Order of Orias - Split
• Arms and Sleepers - Force Majeure
• Dispirit - Separation
• FKA twigs - M3LL155X
• Andrew Hock - Crystalline Privative Opulence
• Self Defense Family - When The Barn Caves In b/w Alan
• Predatory Light/Vorde - Split
• Pyrrhon - Growth Without End
• Team Sleep - The Woodstock Sessions Vol. 4