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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