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”
Into The Combine 