Top 30 albums of 2018
As with the last few years I'm being lazy and just giving my personal album highlights with each album. Lazy is as lazy does! |
1 | | Anna von Hausswolff Dead Magic
Every damn song. They're all near flawless. |
2 | | Sinistro Sangue Cassia
"Cosmos Controle", "Lotus", "Abismo" and "Gardenia" |
3 | | Owl Nights in Distortion
Including the "Orion Fenix" EP as I listened to both releases back to back pretty much. Of the album, highlights are "Anamnesis", "Abortion of Empathy" and "Madness is the Glory in This Life" |
4 | | Conjurer Mire
"Choke", "Thankless", "The Mire" and "Hadal" |
5 | | Mol JORD
"Penumbra", "Bruma", "Vakuum", "Ligament" and the title track |
6 | | Panopticon The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
"Sheep in Wolves Clothing", "A Ridge where the Tall Pines Once Stood", "Snow Burdened Branches", "The Moss Beneath the Snow" and "The Devil Walked the Woods" |
7 | | Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
"Sempiternal Grotesqueries", "Cathedral of Labyrinthine Darkness" and "Cascade of Ashes" |
8 | | Thou Magus
Including the EP "Rhea Sylvia" as it was listened to at the same time as the full-length pretty much. Highlights are "Unfortunate Times", "The Changeling Prince", "Sovereign Self", "In the Kingdom of Meaning", "Elimination Rhetoric" and "Supremacy" |
9 | | The Body I have fought against it, But I can’t any longer
"Can Carry No Weight", "Nothing Stirs" and "Ten Times a Day, Every Day, A Stranger" |
10 | | Exocrine Molten Giant
"Hayato", title track, "Flamewalkers" and "Lavaburst" |
11 | | Alkaloid Liquid Anatomy
"Azagthoth", "Chaos Theory and Practice" and "Rise of the Cephalopods" |
12 | | Drudkh They Often See Dreams About The Spring
"Накрита неба бурим дахом..." and "Вечірній смерк окутує кімнати..." |
13 | | Vein Errorzone
"Old Data in a Dead Machine", "Doomtech" and the title track |
14 | | Arabrot Who Do You Love
"Sinnerman", "Look Daggers" and "The Sacrifice" |
15 | | Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
"Balancing the Dark", "A Flood of Light" and "Contretemps" |
16 | | Hegemone We Disappear
"Fracture" and "Тәңірі" |
17 | | YOB Our Raw Heart
"Ablaze", "Beauty in Falling Leaves" and the title track |
18 | | Monotheist Scourge
"Desolate, It mourns Before Me" |
19 | | A Forest of Stars Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
"Tombward Bound" and "Taken By the Sea" |
20 | | Ivar Bjornson and Einar Selvik Hugsjá
"Nytt Land" and "Heilage um Fjell" |
21 | | The Antichrist Imperium Volume II Every Tongue Shall Praise Satan
"Draw Down the Moon" and "Liturgy of the Iconoclast/Blood Sacrifice" |
22 | | Skeletonwitch Devouring Radiant Light
"Fen of Shadows", title track and "The Vault" |
23 | | Shylmagoghnar Transience
"No Child of Man could Follow" |
24 | | Finnr's Cane Elegy
"Strange Sun" and "Empty City" |
25 | | Sectioned (Metalcore) Annihilated
"Toothgrinder" and "Life's True Beauty" |
26 | | Thy Catafalque Geometria
"Toltés" and "Szamójed Freskó" |
27 | | Immortal Northern Chaos Gods
Title track and "Mighty Ravendark" |
28 | | Augury Illusive Golden Age
"Mater Dolorosa" and "Parallel Biospheres" |
29 | | Spectral Lore/Jute Gyte Helian
I prefer Spectral Lore's song by a margin. |
30 | | Ingested The Level Above Human
"Invidious" and "Better Off Dead" |
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