We covered a lot on our best of the year episodes. Here’s all 4 of our written lists in case you missed or forgot anything!
Phil
15 Hellish – The Dance Of The Four Elemental Serpents – The Ancient Entity Of The Darkest Light
14 Freedom of Fear – Carpathia – Carpathia
13 Esoctrilihum – Saopth’s – Hkl’rf
12 Strigoi – Viscera – Byzantine Tragedy
11 Suppression – The Sorrow Of Soul Through Flesh – Lifelessness
10 Grave Lines – Communion – Carcini
9 Ancient Mastery – Chapter Two: The Resistance – City Of Broken Dreams
8 THANATOPHOBIA – Rebirth Through Destruction – Entities Of A Dead Planet
7 LIVE BURIAL- Curse of the Forlorn – The Ordeal of Purification
6 Darkest Era – Wither On The Vine – A Path Made of Roots
5 Vórtize – ¡Tienes Que Luchar! – Mundo Bipolar
4 Aara – Triade II: Hemera – Phantasmagorie
3 Satan – Earth Infernal – Burning Portrait
2 Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture – The Law of Asbestos
1 Voivod – Synchro Anarchy – Planet Eaters
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Evil J Dog
Morbific – Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm
14. Faceless burial – At the Foothills of Deluration
13. Mortuous – Upon Desolation
12. Innumerable forms – Philosophical Collapse
11. Autonoesis – Moon of Foul Magics
10. Cosmic Putrefaction- Crepuscular Dirge for the Blessed Ones
9. Desecrecy – Unveiling – the Abyss
8. Spiritworld – Deathwestern
7. Mother of graves – Where the Shadows Adorn
6. Immolation – Acts of God
5. Nechochwen – Kanawha Black
4. Black Fucking Cancer – Procreate Inverse
3. Pharmacist – Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds
2. Dream Unending – Song of Salvation
1. Sumerlands – Dreamkiller
Honorables:
Ripped to Shreds – Jubian
Licht des Urteils – Uhraamo
Phobophillic – Enveloping Absurdity
Osserp – Els nous cants de la Sibil·la
Ard – Take up my Bones
Undeath – It’s Time…to Rise From the Grave
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Shadie
15. Carpathia – Freedom of Fear https://evp-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/carpathia
14.Still as the Night, Cold as the Wind – Vital Spirit
https://vitalspirit.bandcamp.com/album/still-as-the-night-cold-as-the-wind
13. Shiki – Sigh
https://peaceville.bandcamp.com/album/shiki
12. Reverence – Det Eviga Leendet
https://detevigaleendet.bandcamp.com/album/reverence
11. I am All That Has Gone Lost – Opus Diaboli https://opusdiaboli.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-all-that-has-gone-lost
10. It Often Befalls Those – Oferwintran
https://oferwintran.bandcamp.com/album/it-often-befalls-those
9. Cascading Darkness – Nihilum
https://nihilum.bandcamp.com/album/cascading-darkness
8. Shadow of the Raventhrone – Funeral Mass https://funeralmass.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-of-the-raventhrone
7. Moon of Foul Magics – Autonoesis
https://autonoesis.bandcamp.com/album/moon-of-foul-magics
6. Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity – Moonlight Sorcery
https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/piercing-through-the-frozen-eternity
5. Equinox Vigil – Inexorum
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/equinox-vigil
4. Striving Toward Oblivion – Vorga
https://vorgaband.bandcamp.com/album/striving-toward-oblivion-black-metal
3. Ash in Realms of Stone Icons – Tomarum https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/ash-in-realms-of-stone-icons
2. Blackbraid I – Blackbraid
https://blackbraid.bandcamp.com/album/blackbraid-i
1. Sacred Rites & Black Magic – Stormruler https://stormruler.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-rites-black-magick
Honorable Mentions:
Hostile Architecture – Ashenspire
Live in Valley Sound Studio – In Mourning Abyss Rising – Nightrage
Acts of God – Immolation
DAMNUM – Allegaeon
Freindship, Love and War – GUDSFORLADT The Great Below – Kvaen
Metanoia – Persfone
Sult – A Different Cloud
Voices in the Sky – Brymir
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Stan the Man
5) Wolfheart “King Of The North”
4) Nechowen “Kawanha Black”
3) The Halo Effect “Days Of The Lost”
2) Spiritworld “Deathwestern”
1) Desecresy “Unveil In The Abyss”