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”