1.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

2.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3.Grima - Will Of The Primordial

4.Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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Heavy, Doom, Black, Death, Thrash, Prog, Power...these are my favorite 100 albums of 2018... STAY METAL!!!

25 Honorable Mentions:

Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew
Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light
Cosmic Church - Täyttymys

1.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

2.Shylmagoghnar - Transience

3.Altars Of Grief - Iris

4.Horrendous - Idol

5.Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror

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I am probably gonna stick to the weirdest albums and things not popular on the site.
Also some non-metal

After all, the popular things you probably already heard anyway...

1.J▲M▲T▲R - Midoritsuki

2.A_jiki - Manner Instructor Remixes

3.Child Abuse - Imaginary Enemy

4.Purple Pilgrims - Perfumed Earth

5.Kero Kero Bonito - Civilisation I

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Gone Fishin'

Music of 2019

More awesome 2019 artworks can be viewed here.

1.Rosetta - Sower Of Wind

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3.Decayos - Apterous

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5.Mz.412 - Svartmyrkr

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1.Hamferð - Támsins Likam

2.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

3.Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Smutnice

4.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

5.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

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This is a collection of duets with male and female singers. Listed in play order and not best order. I'm sure there are more that I have overlooked.

1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth

2.Therion - Lemuria

3.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

4.Imperanon - Stained

5.Draconian - Sovran

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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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The best death metal albums pre 2000, in alphabetical order.
Work in progress.

1.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

2.Amorphis - Privilege Of Evil

3.Asphyx - The Rack

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Asphyx - Embrace The Death

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No reviews for this year.

Non Metalstrom Bands

Anicon: https://anicon.bandcamp.com/
Antigone's Fate: https://antigonesfate.bandcamp.com/
Pure Wrath: https://purewrath.bandcamp.com/
Reprisal: https://reprisal.bandcamp.com/
The Beast of Nod: https://thebeastofnod.bandcamp.com/

Best Covers

Suotana - Land of The Ending Time https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2771423527_10.jpg

1.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

2.Elderwind - The Colder The Night

3.The Beast Of Nod - Vampira: Disciple Of Chaos

4.Wilds Forlorn - Sapiens

5.Antigone's Fate - Insomnia

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1.Judas Priest - Firepower

2.Ghost - Prequelle

3.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

4.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

5.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Witherfall - A Prelude To Sorrow

3.Soulfly - Ritual

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5.MaYaN - Dhyana

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1.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

2.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

3.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

4.Saor - Forgotten Paths

5.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

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1.Converge - The Dusk In Us

2.Sólstafir - Berdreyminn

3.Pharmakon - Contact

4.Oktoplut - Le démon normal

5.Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

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All the 2018 albums I listened to this year. Just like last year I always added the specific genre/subgenre so you can get an idea what might be of interest to you.

1.Sunnata - Outlands

2.Crescent - The Order Of Amenti

3.IAH - ll

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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1.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Megadeth - Youthanasia

4.Megadeth - Th1rt3en

5.Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

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