TheSpirit's 20gr8teen
This year was a fantastic year for music. The top 10 is VERY loosely ranked (though my #1 is 1) and after that it's a free for all. |
| 1 |  | Malfet
The Snaking Path
Whimsical and enchanting dungeon synth. |
| 2 |  | Horrendous
Idol
This album makes me feel like a 15 year old again, when music -and particularly metal- still felt like it had that *magic* |
| 3 |  | The Spirit Of Iuvenium
Bequeath Thy Grievous Loss
The perfect Autumn album. Beautiful even in a state of death and decay. |
| 4 |  | Majestic Mass
Savage Empire of Death
What happens when crust punk era Darkthrone meets The Doors. |
| 5 |  | Convulsing
Grievous
Inspired by the death of sole member Brendan Sloan's grandmother, Grievous is multifaceted, atmospheric, and brilliantly executed. There are few death metal albums that retain the genre's heaviness while traversing into genuinely emotional and affective territory, but this is one of them. |
| 6 |  | Ariana Grande
Sweetener
After the disaster of Manchester, the newly(ish) anointed queen of pop returned with a tour de force of pop music. Surprisingly diverse from full-out bangers ("the light is coming") to relaxed bops (R.E.M.) to near cinematic thrillage ("god is a woman"), Sweetener was forged in fire but has transcended the tragedy. |
| 7 |  | Burial Invocation
Abiogenesis
Abiogenesis is the culmination of death metal's 30 year journey to out-extreme itself. |
| 8 |  | Lampir
The Alchemy of Cursed Blood
Raw USBM has always had a penchant for being punky and putrid, and there was no band who did this better in 2018 than Lampir. |
| 9 |  | Slavehouse / Krukh / Kostnatění / Sainte Marie des Loups /
Torment Is Flesh
A compilation of black metal bands who rarely break into uncharted territory but frequently impress using nothing but the basics. |
| 10 |  | Life
Demo II
Raw black metal with elements of 90's skramz/metalcore that comes off surprisingly sincere. |
| 11 |  | Portal
ION |
| 12 |  | Death Fortress
Reign of the Unending |
| 13 |  | Faceless Burial
Multiversal Abattoir |
| 14 |  | Ur Pale
Crystal Waves Orchestra |
| 15 |  | Drowning The LIght
Cursed Below the Waves |
| 16 |  | Cantique Lepreux
Paysages polaires |
| 17 |  | Mr Twin Sister
Salt |
| 18 |  | Cardi B
Invasion Of Privacy |
| 19 |  | Outer Heaven
Realms Of Eternal Decay |
| 20 |  | Old Tower
Drachenblut |
| 21 |  | Zwarte Drakk
Demo I |
| 22 |  | Hyperdontia
Nexus of Teeth |
| 23 |  | Ella Mai
Ella Mai |
| 24 |  | Hissing
Permanent Destitution |
| 25 |  | Esoctrilihum
Inhüma |
| 26 |  | Esoctrilihum
Pandaemorthium |
| 27 |  | Infernal Coil
Within a World Forgotten |
| 28 |  | Fief
IV |
| 29 |  | Pandiscordian Necrogenesis
Outer Supernal |
| 30 |  | Behemoth
I Loved You at Your Darkest |
| 31 |  | Mutilated by Zombies
Scripts of Anguish |
| 32 |  | Sanguine Relic
The Essence of Eternity's Despair |
| 33 |  | Tomb Mold
Manor of Infinite Forms |
| 34 |  | Volahn/Xaxamatza
Gods of Pandemonium |
| 35 |  | Slugdge
Esoteric Malacology |
| 36 |  | Cirrhus
Unimpeachable Madness |
| 37 |  | Sainte Marie des Loups
Sainte Marie des Loups |
| 38 |  | Time, The Valuator
How Fleeting, How Fragile |
| 39 |  | Dance Gavin Dance
Artificial Selection |
| 40 |  | Judas Iscariot
An Ancient Starry Sky |
| 41 |  | Akasha
Consuming The Soul |
| 42 |  | Pale
Pale |
| 43 |  | Taphos
Come Ethereal Somberness |
| 44 |  | Vilkacis
Beyond the Mortal Gate |
| 45 |  | Bleeding Through
Love Will Kill All |
| 46 |  | Ritual Necromancy
Disinterred Horror |
| 47 |  | Necros Christos
Domedon Doxomedon |
| 48 |  | Cosmic Church
Täyttymys |
| 49 |  | Panopticon
The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness |
| 50 |  | Ataraxy
Where All Hope Fades |
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