We even voted the album as the best Finnish release of 2018. “Queen of Time” by AMORPHIS immediately caught our attention in 2018. Since its release, “ Hardwired…To Self-Destruct” has been met with immense praise, so no wonder our readers thought this album deserved a spot in the top 10 of the decade. Make no mistake “ Hardwired… to Self-Destruct” is easily METALLICA’s best album since 1991’s landmark self-titled LP. Metallica – Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (2016) With “Shadows Of The Dying Sun” INSOMNIUM reached a new level of excellence in their songwriting and performance, becoming one of the most interesting melodic death metal releases of the decade.Ĩ. Insomnium – Shadows Of The Dying Sun (2014)
With “Veil Of Imagination”, WILDERUN have established themselves as one of the most exciting young voices in the modern progressive metal scene, blending elements from genres such as folk, symphonic metal, with melodic death metal.ĩ. Hailing from the States, WILDERUN came to our attention with their latest release “Veil Of Imagination”, which turn out to be one of the best progressive metal releases of the year. We also included a top 10 with only Finnish releases below. The votes are in, and now we’ll check what were your favorites albums of 2019. Stained Glass Revelations is available from The Ajna Offensive.A couple of weeks ago we asked you to vote your favorite of a list of 50 albums that we thought were pretty cool during the decade. That doesn't make Stained Glass Revelations any less bizarre, just that its abstract Romanticism is every bit as black metal as Darkthrone. Or take any of the Possessed guitar solos from Seven Churches, back it into a corner and put it in one of those stretching torture devices. But strip away the relentless reverb from Negative Plane's second album, Stained Glass Revelations, and what's left is a blackened King Crimson experiment. And just barely making the cut was Kurdaitcha by global-beat-trance-freaks Mamaleek, seriously one of the strangest black metal records I've heard in years. Look elsewhere on this list and you'll notice the one-man-hammered-dulcimer faunaphiliac Botanist. Sometimes black metal is at its best when it's bonkers-gone-mad weird. Negative Plane, 'Stained Glass Revelations' As always, I couldn't possibly hear every metal record released in 2011 (though I damn sure tried), which is why reading other year-end lists (and your comments) makes for good filling-in of the gaps.ħ. You can listen to the top ten of those picks below and let Google guide the rest. It makes me ask myself what I really loved and what will still spin on the turntable (or iPod) years from now.
That's unheard of.įor some reason, I always limit myself to 25 albums. Grindcore Karaoke, in particular, is to be commended for over 100 (!) releases in 2011 alone that are actually all worth hearing. There are many more, but these labels have shown that great music doesn't always need a heavy publicity push or a physical product to show merit. I'd be remiss to not acknowledge the free-for-all efforts of Bandcamp-based labels like Grindcore Karaoke, Throatruiner, Seventh Rule and, recently, Handshake Inc. Tombs, Ulcerate and Flourishing illustrate this aspect best, each exploring the extremities of sound to all ends, tempering blast beats with caustic melody, gutteral darkness with post-punk misery and all sorts of seamless, unlikely pairings. Metal's urge to cross genres was also strong in 2011. The year's best black-metal goes to bands that I hesitate to categorize as such: Altar of Plagues is far too spacious and wandering, Ash Borer is the promising next step beyond American innovators Weakling (far more than other copycats), and Negative Plane seems to get at the genre's inherit weirdness more than most, but doesn't care. (And after much contemplation, Aesthetica was a solidly good, but not revolutionary, record). It created some of the most interesting, albeit tiring, conversation around the genre in some time. All Songs Considered Hear The Year-End Discussion On All Songs Consideredīlack-metal had a strange year: Liturgy pissed off everybody over a thoughtful philosophy that was dwarfed by Hunter-Hunt Hendrix's outsized personality (surprise, an opinionated metalhead!).