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

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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.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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Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.Equipoise - Demiurgus

2.Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex

3.Disentomb - The Decaying Light

4.Týr - Hel

5.Rotting Christ - The Heretics

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Yes, I know, Black Sabbath... But they was completely before their time.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Saint Vitus - Born Too Late

3.Trouble - Psalm 9

4.Candlemass - Nightfall

5.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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The impossible task of choosing top 25 albums for this year... so many of them are not even on MS. But here they are, top 10 are kinda in order, the remaining 15 are not sorted by importance.

1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Judas Priest - Firepower

5.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

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1.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Tribulation - Down Below

4.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

5.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

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Strychnia - Into the catacombs

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Heavy Metal as a way of life. From Spain with love and hate.

1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Khemmis - Desolation

3.Dead Shape Figure - Cacoëthes

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

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The best albums of 1980

1.AC/DC - Back In Black

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Judas Priest - British Steel

4.Motörhead - Ace Of Spades

5.Rush - Permanent Waves

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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.
- in order from best to worst
- rated on a scale from 0 to 10
- few lines so I remember wtf it was about

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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1.Amoral - In Sequence

2.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

3.Delain - Moonbathers

4.Evergrey - The Storm Within

5.Jorn - Heavy Rock Radio

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**DISCLAIMER: The following list is based on my own opinions and musical diversity, and should not be taken as Metalstorm's input on any artist/record/band whatsoever.
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With no further ado,
Let 2019 BEGIN!

1.Leprous - Pitfalls

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

3.Devin Townsend - Empath

4.Týr - Hel

5.The Dark Element - Songs The Night Sings

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In no real particular order. These albums are all great.

1.Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

2.Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy

3.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

4.Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny And Mutation

5.Deep Purple - Who Do We Think We Are

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In no real particular order. These albums are all great.

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

2.Deep Purple - Machine Head

3.Budgie - Squawk

4.Bang - Bang

5.Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult

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