| 4.5 superb |
| ...and Oceans The Regeneration Itinerary |
| Advent Sorrow Kali Yuga Crown |
| Man these guys hit the nail on the head with pulling off DSBM without being whiney, which is usually my biggest complaint with the genre. Vocals to me are a big selling point for these guys and the atmosphere they create is intoxicating. |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Akhlys Melinoe |
| Amon Amarth Once Sent from the Golden Hall |
| Amon Amarth Versus the World |
| Amorphis Queen of Time |
| Atlantean Kodex The Course Of Empire |
| Batushka Litourgiya |
| Be'lakor Coherence |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Blood Incantation Hidden History Of The Human Race |
| Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh |
| Brutus (BE) Nest |
| Burzum Filosofem |
| Carcass Heartwork |
| Carnosus Dogma of the Deceased |
| Yea this shit rules. Thicc riffs and damn good production. |
| Cattle Decapitation Terrasite |
| Children of Bodom Something Wild |
| Children of Bodom Hatebreeder |
| Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy |
| Cult of Luna A Dawn to Fear |
| Cytotoxin Nuklearth |
| Dark Tranquillity Damage Done |
| Dark Tranquillity Character |
| Darkthrone Panzerfaust |
| Darkthrone Old Star |
| Deafheaven Ordinary Corrupt Human Love |
| Der Rote Milan Moritat |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Finisterre |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Live in Berlin |
| Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn |
| Descend The Deviant |
| The whole album from start to finish is amazing. These guys have come out of now where and produced one hell of an album. |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Drudkh Blood In Our Wells |
| Dungeon Serpent World of Sorrows |
| Duskmourn Fallen Kings and Rusted Crowns |
| Dvne Etemen Ænka |
| Dying Fetus Make Them Beg for Death |
| Dying Wish Symptoms of Survival |
| Edge of Sanity Crimson |
| Emperor Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Ensiferum Ensiferum |
| Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini |
| Enslaved RIITIIR |
| Enslaved Heimdal |
| Falls of Rauros Patterns in Mythology |
| Firelink The Inveterate Fire |
| Frosthelm Pyrrhic |
| One of my top picks of the year so far. Seem to come out of no where. |
| Gaerea Limbo |
| Gaerea Mirage |
| Gatecreeper Deserted |
| Yea this fucking rules. I haven't listened to much of their backlog, but this is a straight up banger. |
| Gorgoroth Under the Sign of Hell |
| Greyhaven Empty Black |
| Grima Frostbitten |
| Hath Of Rot And Ruin |
Oh man, this album gets the juices flowing. Their song 'Currents' is probably the best song I've
heard all year long. I think this album is going to be hard to beat this year. We truly are living in the
best of times.
Also, A+ for the Dark Souls references throughout the album! |
| Hooded Menace The Tritonus Bell |
| Horn Turm am Hang |
| Don't know if it was intentional, but this is some really catchy black metal with a pagan twist. Album is a blast to listen to through and through. AOTY candidate for me. |
| Hypocrisy The Final Chapter |
| Immortal At the Heart of Winter |
| Immortal Pure Holocaust |
| In Flames Colony |
| In Flames Clayman |
| Insomnium Above the Weeping World |
| Insomnium Across the Dark |
| Kalmah Swamplord |
| Kalmah Swampsong |
| Loss Despond |
| Misthyrming Algleymi |
| Moonsorrow Jumalten Aika |
| Mors Principium Est Darkness Invisible |
| Mountaineer Bloodletting |
This is a fucking fantastic record. So much emotion. Might have to bump up.
edit: I bumped.
edit x2: The last half of the song "To Those We've Said Goodbye" sounds like it was ripped
straight from a Deafheaven album.
edit x3: Nvm, its ripped straight from Panopticon - Pale Ghosts (Autumn Eternal). Like same riff
and everything. |
| Neander Eremit |
| Necrophobic The Nocturnal Silence |
| Nornir Skuld |
| Novarupta Disillusioned Fire |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Paradise Lost Obsidian |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Primordial To The Nameless Dead |
| Psychonaut Unfold the God Man |
| Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Saidan Onryo II: Her Spirit Eternal |
| Sargeist Unbound |
| Senses Fail Let It Enfold You |
| Shabti Trembling and Shorn |
| Shadow Of Intent Melancholy |
| Slugdge Esoteric Malacology |
| Slugdge Born of Slime |
| Slugdge Gastronomicon |
| Strapping Young Lad Alien |
| Suhnopfer Hic regnant borbonii manes |
| Suhnopfer Nous sommes d'hier |
| If you enjoyed his previous effort, this a slam dunk. |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Miasma |
| The Devils of Loudun Escaping Eternity |
| Tombstoner Victims of Vile Torture |
| Tribulation Where The Gloom Becomes Sound |
| Ulcerate The Destroyers of All |
| Vindland Hanter Savet |
| Viscera (UK) Obsidian |
| White Death White Death |
| Wintersun Wintersun |
| Wolves in the Throne Room Black Cascade |
| Wormwitch Heaven that Dwells Within |
After stumbling across Hath early today, i thought to myself, no way anything will top that for a
while, maybe not even for the rest of year.
Then I found this record.
The record is fast, aggressive and just a ton of fun. Serious Skeletonwitch vibes here. We truly are
in the best of times. |
