I won't bore you with all the gory details and explanations about the bands and their albums, if they made the year end list, you know that they are pretty excellent no matter what. Take some time to listen to the music attached and you will get the idea. Look for a Spotify playlist and listen to The Metal Podcast End of Year Wrap Up to get some deeper descripts of the top 10.
It was kind of a lame year overall for metal, not a lot of fighting for the top spots, but clearly there were 25 bands who distinguished themselves above the rest. *note: I didn't include EPs on this list, that may be separate list for later...missing from that would be bands like Zao and Perturbator, but I wanted to have full-length albums listed here.
So without further ado, Starting at the top:
1. Mors Principium Est – Embers Of A Dying World (AFM)
2. Igorr - Savage Sinusoid (Metal Blade)
3. Junius – Eternal Rituals For The Accretion Of Light (Prosthetic)
4. The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers (Metal Blade)
5. King Woman – Created In The Image Of Suffering (Relapse)
6. Power Trip – Nightmare Logic (Southern Lord)
7. Royal Thunder – Wick (Spinefarm)
8. Paradise Lost - Medusa (Nuclear Blast)
9. Toothgrinder - Phantom Amour (Spinefarm)
10. Suffocation - Of Dark Light (Nuclear Blast USA)
11. Unsane – Sterilize (Southern Lord)
12. Converge - The Dusk In Us (Epitaph Records)
13. Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence (Roadrunner)
14. Cloak - To Venomous Depths (Season Of Mist)
15. Mastodon – Emperor Of Sand (Reprise)
16. Kreator - Gods Of Violence (Nuclear Blast USA)
17. Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & The
Migrant Flora (Southern Lord)
18. Septicflesh - Codex Omega (Prosthetic Records)
19. Miss
May I – Shadows Inside (Sharptone)
20. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Sargent House)
21. Hundred Suns - The Prestaliis (New Damage
Records)
22. Thy Art Is Murder - Dear Desolation (Nuclear
Blast)
23. Leng Tch’e – Razorgrind (Season Of Mist)
24. We Came As Romans - Cold Like War (SharpTone)
25. Ne Obliviscaris – Urn (Season Of Mist)
