It's Grind Time, and I need mine.

Ever-expanding. There's no such thing as too much Grind. 💪

1.The Afternoon Gentlemen - The Afternoon Gentlemen

2.Agathocles - Theatric Symbolisation Of Life

3.Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope

4.Anal Trump - That Makes Me Smart!

5.ACxDC - Antichrist Demoncore

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Grindcore is not one of my favorite subgenres, but I like it well enough on the whole. My experience with it has not been particularly broad, as I don't listen to it with much regularity, and so I have a lot of empty spaces. Of all my genre lists, this is possibly the most practical, because I do need help remembering what grindcore I like and how much I've heard.

Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to dictate for all time and all purposes what is and is not grindcore; there may be bands that are borderline or adjacent or individual albums by grindcore bands that are not in themselves grindcore. This is just for my own organization and reference.

I originally included Anaal Nathrakh and Melt-Banana on the grounds that grindcore forms part of the basis for their styles (and, more critically, because it was getting lonely at the top of the list), but considering either of them a grindcore act without heavy qualification would be quite a stretch. I already know that I like them anyway, so their inclusion on this list was not helpful to me in terms of making this a resource; on revision, I decided to nix them (and also the non-grind Carcass albums).

The first portion of the list contains albums that I count among my favorite grindcore releases. From then on, the list is broken into tiers of ratings 9/10 down to 6/10. If it isn't on the list, I haven't heard it or I didn't like it.

Last updated December 28, 2023.

1.Gridlink - Longhena

2.Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

3.Contrastic - Contrastic

4.Contrastic - Mamun

5.Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

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Here is a list of all the bands who received at least one write-in vote during MSA 2019.

Following the annoucement of the results, this information is lost, I post it here so you can continue to explore your favorite genres !

I'm still working on fixing links, if you find errors, feel free to notify in the comments !

1.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

2.Cave In - Final Transmission

3.Mother Of Millions - Artifacts

4.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

5.Soen - Lotus

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1.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

2.Cave In - Final Transmission

3.Mother Of Millions - Artifacts

4.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

5.Soen - Lotus

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Favourite metal/rock LPs anno Domini 2019. Admittedly, this list is highly subjective. Still, it's better than yours. Or your mother's. Or Lucifer's. You get the point.
Albums in alphabetical order (top 12 first).

1.Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk

2.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

4.Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia

5.Inter Arma - Sulphur English

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1.Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

2.Gatecreeper - Deserted

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

5.Mortiferum - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths

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Albums that I listened to in 2019
The Albums are ordered from best to worst but the List is changing till the end of the year.
This is just my opinion.

1.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

2.Cloak - The Burning Dawn

3.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

4.Darkthrone - Old Star

5.Midnight Priest - Aggressive Hauntings

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1.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Frostveil - Ephemeral Visions

5.Thank You Scientist - Terraformer

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1.Abbath - Outstrider

2.Amon Amarth - Berserker

3.As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire

4.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

5.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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It may have been a slow start to 2019, but May and June have started to kick things into high gear. I recently decided to start collecting vinyl, which has lead me to start a list. It's been a couple years since I've done one, so I figured I'm due. Enjoy.

1.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

2.Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia

3.Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light

4.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

5.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

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The best metal albums and EPs for 2019.

1.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

2.Lord Gore - Scalpels For Blind Surgeons

3.Nucleus - Entity

4.Denner's Inferno - In Amber

5.Exhumed - Horror

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

3.Devin Townsend - Empath

4.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

5.Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

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1.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

2.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

3.Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites

4.Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

5.Witch Vomit - Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave

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1.Lingua Ignota - Caligula

2.Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir

3.Cloud Rat - Pollinator

4.Serpent Column - Mirror In Darkness

5.Sadness (USA) - Circle Of Veins

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Spiritual guide to a very musical and probably sexless 2019.
Scores:
10 = Best ever, and probably thinking on getting it on vinyl
9 = Best of the year, will revisit frequently even on years to come
8 = Excellent, on heavy rotation this year
7 = Great, will re-listen one or two times
6 = Good, but won't listen again
5 = Worth a mention, but not for me
1-4= Not worth a mention so they won't be here
TBR = to be rated

1.Strigae - I : Collision

2.Comma - And Deeper Than Oblivion Do We Bury

3.Grusig - Dr Ahfang Vor Misäärä

4.Obed Marsh - Dunwich

5.Krallice - Wolf EP

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