My favourite albums from 2018

1. 50

   Silent Killer

   Mustasch

   

   

   Heavy metal | Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. Givin'
   2. Winners
   3. Libertà ●
   4. Barrage
   5. Lawbreaker
   6. Fire
   7. Silent Killer
   8. The Answer
   9. Grave Digger
   10. Burn

2. 49

   You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll

   Hardcore Superstar

   

   

   Hard rock | Glam metal

   Tracks:

   1. AD/HD
   2. Electric Rider
   3. My Sanctuary
   4. Hit Me Where It Hurts
   5. You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll ●
   6. The Others
   7. Have Mercy on Me
   8. Never Cared for Snobbery
   9. Baboon
   10. Bring the House Down
   11. Medicine Man
   12. Goodbye

3. 48

   Exile Amongst the Ruins

   Primordial

   

   

   Doom metal | Pagan metal | Folk metal

   Tracks:

   1. Nail Their Tongues
   2. To Hell or the Hangman
   3. Where Lie the Gods
   4. Exile Amongst the Ruins
   5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed
   6. Stolen Years
   7. Sunken Lungs
   8. Last Call

4. 47

   Vicious

   Halestorm

   

   

   Hard rock | Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Black Vultures
   2. Skulls
   3. Uncomfortable ●
   4. Buzz
   5. Do Not Disturb
   6. Conflicted
   7. Killing Ourselves to Live
   8. Heart of Novocaine
   9. Painkiller
   10. White Dress
   11. Vicious
   12. The Silence

5. 46

   The Sciences

   Sleep

   

   

   Stoner metal | Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Sciences
   2. Marijuanaut's Dream ●
   3. Sonic Titan
   4. Antarcticans Thawed
   5. Giza Butler
   6. The Botanist

6. 45

   Saboteurs of the Sun

   Limb

   

   

   Stoner metal

   Tracks:

   1. Wych Elm
   2. Death in absentia
   3. Survival Knife
   4. Rising Tides ●
   5. The Astronaut
   6. Love Has No Name
   7. Curse Tablet
   8. Man on the Outside
   9. Truth Be Damned
   10. 100 Years

7. 44

   On Dark Horses

   Emma Ruth Rundle

   

   

   Post-rock | Ethereal wave

   Tracks:

   1. Fever Dreams
   2. Control
   3. Darkhorse ●
   4. Races
   5. Dead Set Eyes
   6. Light Song
   7. Apathy on the Indiana Border
   8. You Don't Have to Cry

8. 43

   Sonder

   TesseracT

   

   

   Progressive metal | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Luminary
   2. King
   3. Orbital
   4. Juno ●
   5. Beneath My Skin
   6. Mirror Image
   7. Silent
   8. The Arrow

9. 42

   Vector

   Haken

   

   

   Progressive metal | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Clear
   2. The Good Doctor
   3. Puzzle Box ●
   4. Veil
   5. Nil by Mouth
   6. Host
   7. A Cell Divides

10. 41

    Ascend

    Vodun

    

    

    Stoner rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Spirits Past
    2. Started From
    3. Providence of Ancestors
    4. Ogun's Fight ●
    5. Time Honoured
    6. New Doom
    7. Elusive Freedom
    8. Ascend
    9. Rituals
    10. For Your Kin

11. 40

    True Rocker

    Monster Truck

    

    

    Southern rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. True Rocker
    2. Thundertruck
    3. Evolution
    4. Devil Don't Care
    5. Being Cool Is Over
    6. Young City Heart
    7. Undone
    8. In My Own World
    9. Denim Danger
    10. Hurricane
    11. The Howlin' ●

12. 39

    Our Raw Heart

    YOB

    

    

    Doom metal | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ablaze ●
    2. The Screen
    3. In Reverie
    4. Lungs Reach
    5. Beauty in Falling Leaves
    6. Original Face
    7. Our Raw Heart

13. 38

    Applause of a Distant Crowd

    Vola

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. We Are Thin Air
    2. Ghosts
    3. Smartfriend
    4. Ruby Pool
    5. Alien Shivers ●
    6. Vertigo
    7. Still
    8. Applause of a Distant Crowd
    9. Whaler
    10. Green Screen Mother

14. 37

    Please Don't Be Dead

    Fantastic Negrito

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Plastic Hamburgers
    2. Bad Guy Necessity
    3. A Letter to Fear
    4. A Boy Named Andrew ●
    5. Transgender Biscuits
    6. The Suit That Won't Come off
    7. A Cold November Street
    8. The Duffer
    9. Dark Windows
    10. Never Give up
    11. Bullshit Anthem

15. 36

    Eländes Elände

    Second Sun

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Vems Fel
    2. Förneka Allt
    3. Noll Respekt
    4. Sång Till En Slagen Kämpe
    5. Enda Sunda Människan i Världen
    6. Ingen Tid För Allting
    7. Du Ska Se Att Det Blir Sämre ●
    8. Det Betyder Allt
    9. Panikångesattack
    10. Eländes Elände

16. 35

    Automata II

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Proverbial Bellow ●
    2. Glide
    3. Voice of Trespass
    4. The Grid

17. 34

    Desolation

    Khemmis

    

    

    Doom metal | Epic doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bloodletting
    2. Isolation ●
    3. Flesh to Nothing
    4. The Seer
    5. Maw of Time
    6. From Ruin

18. 33

    The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn

    Bloodbath

    

    

    Death metal | Blackened death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fleischmann
    2. Bloodicide ●
    3. Wayward Samaritan
    4. Levitator
    5. Deader
    6. March of the Crucifiers
    7. Morbid Antichrist
    8. Warhead Ritual
    9. Only the Dead Survive
    10. Chainsaw Lullaby

19. 32

    Family Tree

    Black Stone Cherry

    

    

    Southern rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bad Habit
    2. Burnin'
    3. New Kinda Feelin'
    4. Carry Me on Down the Road
    5. My Last Breath
    6. Southern Fried Friday Night
    7. Dancin' in the Rain
    8. Ain't Nobody
    9. James Brown
    10. You Got the Blues
    11. I Need a Woman
    12. Get Me Over You
    13. Family Tree ●

20. 31

    Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

    Deafheaven

    

    

    Blackgaze | Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. You Without End
    2. Honeycomb ●
    3. Canary Yellow
    4. Near
    5. Glint
    6. Night People
    7. Worthless Animal

21. 30

    Starcrawler

    Starcrawler

    

    

    Blues rock | Art punk

    Tracks:

    1. Train
    2. Love's Gone Again
    3. I Love L.A.
    4. Different Angles
    5. Chicken Woman ●
    6. Pussy Tower
    7. Full of Pride
    8. Let Her Be
    9. Tears
    10. What I Want

22. 29

    Elastic Days

    J Mascis

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. See You at the Movies
    2. Web So Dense
    3. I Went Dust
    4. Sky Is All We Had ●
    5. Picking out the Seeds
    6. Give It off
    7. Drop Me
    8. Cut Stranger
    9. Elastic Days
    10. Sometimes
    11. Wanted You Around
    12. Everything She Said

23. 28

    Art of Doubt

    Metric

    

    

    Synth pop | New wave

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Saturday
    2. Love You Back
    3. Die Happy
    4. Now or Never Now
    5. Art of Doubt
    6. Underline the Black
    7. Dress to Suppress ●
    8. Risk
    9. Seven Rules
    10. Holding out
    11. Anticipate
    12. No Lights on the Horizon

24. 27

    The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness

    Panopticon

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Watch the Lights Fade
    2. En hvit ravns død
    3. Blåtimen
    4. Sheep in Wolves Clothing
    5. A Ridge Where the Tall Pines Once Stood
    6. En generell avsky
    7. The Singing Wilderness ●
    8. Snow Burdened Branches
    9. The Moss Beneath the Snow
    10. The Wandering Ghost
    11. Four Walls of Bone
    12. A Cross Abandoned
    13. Beast Rider
    14. Not Much Will Change When I'm Gone
    15. Echoes in the Snow
    16. The Itch
    17. At the Foot of the Mountain
    18. The Devil Walked in the Woods

25. 26

    Electric Messiah

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Spewn from the Earth
    2. Steps of the Ziggurat / House of Enlil
    3. Electric Messiah ●
    4. Sanctioned Annihilation
    5. The Pallid Mask
    6. God of the Godless
    7. Freebooter
    8. The Witch and the Christ
    9. Drowning Dog

26. 25

    Queen of Time

    Amorphis

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Bee ●
    2. Message in the Amber
    3. Daughter of Hate
    4. The Golden Elk
    5. Wrong Direction
    6. Heart of the Giant
    7. We Accursed
    8. Grain of Sand
    9. Amongst Stars
    10. Pyres on the Coast

27. 24

    Blackout

    Audrey Horne

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. This Is War
    2. Audrevolution ●
    3. Blackout
    4. This One
    5. Midnight Man
    6. Light Your Way
    7. California
    8. Satellite
    9. Naysayer
    10. Rose Alley

28. 23

    Ruins

    First Aid Kit

    

    

    Folk | Indie folk

    Tracks:

    1. Rebel Heart
    2. It's a Shame
    3. Fireworks ●
    4. Postcard
    5. To Live a Life
    6. My Wild Sweet Love
    7. Distant Star
    8. Ruins
    9. Hem of Her Dress
    10. Nothing Has to Be True

29. 22

    Ritual

    Soulfly

    

    

    Thrash metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ritual ●
    2. Dead Behind the Eyes
    3. The Summoning
    4. Evil Empowered
    5. Under Rapture
    6. Demonized
    7. Blood on the Street
    8. Bite the Bullet
    9. Feedback!
    10. Soulfly XI

30. 21

    Attention Attention

    Shinedown

    

    

    Hard rock | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Entrance
    2. Devil
    3. Black Soul
    4. Attention Attention
    5. Kill Your Conscience
    6. Pyro
    7. Monsters
    8. Darkside
    9. Creatures
    10. Evolve
    11. Get up
    12. Special
    13. The Human Radio ●
    14. Brilliant

31. 20

    Wasteland

    Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

    

    

    Heavy psych | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. I See Through You
    2. Shockwave City
    3. No Return
    4. Blood Runner
    5. Stranger Tonight
    6. Wasteland
    7. Bedouin ●
    8. Exodus

32. 19

    Hear the Rivers

    Greenleaf

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Let It out!
    2. Sweet Is the SOund
    3. A Point of a SSecret
    4. Good Ol'goat
    5. The Rumble and the Weight
    6. We Are the Pawns
    7. Oh My Bones
    8. In the Caverns Below ●
    9. High Fever
    10. The Rivers Lullaby

33. 18

    Northern Sun Sessions

    The Virginmarys

    

    

    Garage rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Look out for My Brother
    2. S.O.S.4.U.N.I.
    3. Eye for an Eye
    4. For the Two of Us
    5. Blind Lead the Blind
    6. Get Me Back Home
    7. Northern Sun ●
    8. Wanna Be Free
    9. Flags
    10. Step up
    11. All Fall Down

34. 17

    Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

    Sylvaine

    

    

    Blackgaze | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
    2. Mørklagt ●
    3. Abeyance
    4. Worlds Collide
    5. Severance
    6. L'appel du vide

35. 16

    Firepower

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Firepower
    2. Lightning Strike
    3. Evil Never Dies
    4. Never the Heroes ●
    5. Necromancer
    6. Children of the Sun
    7. Guardians
    8. Rising from Ruins
    9. Flame Thrower
    10. Spectre
    11. Traitors Gate
    12. No Surrender
    13. Lone Wolf
    14. Sea of Red

36. 15

    Resonant Sun

    Earth Ship

    

    

    Sludge metal | Stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. A Handful of Flies
    2. Smoke Filled Sky
    3. Barren
    4. Resonant Sun
    5. Dormant ●
    6. Whiplash
    7. Crimson Eyes
    8. River of Salt

37. 14

    Civilisation

    Southern Empire

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Goliath's Moon ●
    2. Cries for the Lonely
    3. Crossroads
    4. Innocence & Fortune

38. 13

    Rainier Fog

    Alice in Chains

    

    

    Alternative metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. The One You Know
    2. Rainier Fog
    3. Red Giant
    4. Fly
    5. Drone
    6. Deaf Ears Blind Eyes
    7. Maybe
    8. So Far Under
    9. Never Fade
    10. All I Am ●

39. 12

    Geometria

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive electronic

    Tracks:

    1. Hajnali csillag
    2. Szamojéd freskó
    3. Töltés ●
    4. Gőte
    5. Sárember
    6. Hajó
    7. Lágyrész
    8. Sík
    9. Balra a nap
    10. Tenger, tenger
    11. Ének a búzamezőkről

40. 11

    Survive Sunrise

    ASG

    

    

    Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Survive Sunrise ●
    2. Execution Thirst
    3. Up from My Dreams
    4. Lightning Song
    5. Hawks on the Run
    6. The Heaven Moon
    7. Kubrick Colors
    8. God Knows Me
    9. Heavy Scars
    10. Weekend Money
    11. Lamb Song
    12. Florida Sleep on

41. 10

    [untitled]

    mewithoutYou

    

    

    Avant-garde rock | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. 9:27a.m., 7/29
    2. Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
    3. Another Head for Hydra
    4. [doormouse sighs]
    5. Winter Solstice
    6. Flee, Thou Matadors! ●
    7. Tortoises, All the Way down
    8. 2,459 miles
    9. Wendy & Betsy
    10. New Wine, New Skins
    11. Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
    12. Break on Through (to the Other side) [pt. Two]

42. 9

    Vacuum

    Entropia

    

    

    Post-metal | Atmospheric sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Poison ●
    2. Wisdom
    3. Astral
    4. Vacuum
    5. Hollow
    6. Endure

43. 8

    Gateways

    The Vintage Caravan

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Set Your Sights
    2. The Way
    3. Reflections
    4. On the Run ●
    5. All This Time
    6. Hidden Streams
    7. Reset
    8. Nebula
    9. Farewell
    10. Tune out
    11. The Chain

44. 7

    Cleave

    Therapy?

    

    

    Alternative metal | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Wreck It Like Beckett
    2. Kakistocracy ●
    3. Callow
    4. Expelled
    5. Success? Success Is Survival
    6. Save Me form the Ordinary
    7. Crutch
    8. I Stand Alone
    9. Dumbdown
    10. No Sunshine

45. 6

    ... As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye

    Chapel of Disease

    

    

    Death 'n' roll | Death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Void of Words
    2. Oblivious — Obnoxious — Defiaant ●
    3. Song of the Gods
    4. Null
    5. 1,000 Different Paths
    6. The Sound of Shallow Grey

46. 5

    Reverence

    Parkway Drive

    

    

    Heavy metal | Metalcore

    Tracks:

    1. Wishing Wells
    2. Prey ●
    3. Absolute Power
    4. Cemetery Bloom
    5. The Void
    6. I Hope You Rot
    7. Shadow Boxing
    8. In Blood
    9. Chronos
    10. The Colour of Leaving

47. 4

    Book of Bad Decisions

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Gimme the Keys
    2. Spirit of '76
    3. Book of Bad Decisions
    4. How to Shake Hands
    5. In Walks Barbarella
    6. Vision Quest
    7. Weird Times
    8. Emily Dickinson
    9. Sonic Counselor
    10. A Good Fire
    11. Ghoul Wrangler
    12. H.B. Is in Control
    13. Hot Bottom Feeder
    14. Paper & Strife
    15. Lorelei ●

48. 3

    I'll Be Your Girl

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Folk rock | Synth-pop

    Tracks:

    1. Once in My Life
    2. Cutting Stone ●
    3. Severed
    4. Stairwatcher
    5. Tripping Along
    6. Your Ghost
    7. Everything Is Awful
    8. Sucker's Prayer
    9. We All Die Young
    10. Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
    11. I'll Be Your Girl

49. 2

    Eat the Elephant

    A Perfect Circle

    

    

    Progressive rock | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Eat the Elephant
    2. Disillusioned
    3. The Contrarian
    4. The Doomed
    5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ●
    6. TalkTalk
    7. By and down the River
    8. Delicious
    9. DLB
    10. Hourglass
    11. Feathers
    12. Get the Lead out

50. 1

    Prequelle

    Ghost

    

    

    Hard rock | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ashes
    2. Rats
    3. Faith
    4. See the Light
    5. Miasma
    6. Dance Macabre ●
    7. Pro Memoria
    8. Witch Image
    9. Helvetesfönster
    10. Life Eternal