My favourite albums from 2019

1. 50

   Infest the Rats' Nest

   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

   

   

   Stoner metal | Hevay psych

   Tracks:

   1. Planet B
   2. Mars for the Rich
   3. Organ Farmer ●
   4. Superbug
   5. Venusian 1
   6. Perihelion
   7. Venusian 2
   8. Self-Immolate
   9. Hell

2. 49

   Kollong

   Nunca Seremos Dichosos

   

   

   Groove metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Mawiza Ñi Piwke ●
   2. Killari
   3. Kumbagüe
   4. Küxtal
   5. Acnestral
   6. ¡¡Nunca!!
   7. Prescindible
   8. Bruma escóndome
   9. Meil Witxan

3. 48

   Union

   Ihlo

   

   

   Progressive metal | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Union
   2. Reanimate
   3. Starseeker
   4. Hollow
   5. Triumph
   6. Parhelion
   7. Coalescence ●

4. 47

   The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

   Obsequiae

   

   

   Folk metal | Melodic black metal

   Tracks:

   1. L'autrier m'en aloie
   2. Ceres in Emerald Streams
   3. In the Garden of Hyacinths
   4. Palästinalied
   5. The Palms of Sorrowed Kings ●
   6. Morrigan
   7. Per tropo fede
   8. Lone Isle
   9. Asleep in the Bracken
   10. Quant voi la flor novele
   11. Emanations Before the Pythia
   12. In hoc anni circulo

5. 46

   Ategnatos

   Eluveitie

   

   

   Folk metal | Melodic death metal

   Tracks:

   1. Ategnatos
   2. Ancus
   3. Deathwalker
   4. Black Water Dawn
   5. A Cry in the Wilderness ●
   6. The Raven Hill
   7. The Silvern Glow
   8. Ambiramus
   9. Mine Is the Fury
   10. The Slumber
   11. Worship
   12. Trinoxtion
   13. Threefold Death
   14. Breathe
   15. Rebirth
   16. Eclipse

6. 45

   Rock'n'Roll Baby

   Wolfmother

   

   

   Garage rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Higher
   2. Rock'n'Roll Survivor
   3. Hot Night
   4. Kick Ass
   5. Spanish Rose
   6. Freedom Is Mine
   7. Special Lady ●

7. 44

   Get the Money

   Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders

   

   

   Art rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Crossed the Line
   2. Don't Look at Me That Way
   3. You're No Good at Life No More
   4. I Really Blew It
   5. Queen of the Clowns
   6. Get the Money ●
   7. C U in Hell
   8. Middle Child
   9. Kiss the Ring
   10. Shapes of Things

8. 43

   Love Is All You Love

   Band of Skulls

   

   

   Alternative rock | Garage rock revival

   Tracks:

   1. Carnivorous ●
   2. That's My Trouble
   3. Love Is All You Love
   4. Not the Kind of Nothing
   5. Cool Your Battles
   6. Sound of You
   7. Thanks a Lot
   8. We're Alive
   9. Speed of Light
   10. Gold

9. 42

   Ghosteen

   Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

   

   

   Ambient

   Tracks:

   1. Spinning Song
   2. Bright Horses ●
   3. Waiting for You
   4. Night Raid
   5. Sun Forest
   6. Galleon Ship
   7. Ghosteen Speaks
   8. Leviathan
   9. Ghosteen
   10. Fireflies
   11. Hollywood

10. 41

    I, the Mask

    In Flames

    

    

    Alternative metal | Melodic metalcore

    Tracks:

    1. Voices
    2. I, the Mask
    3. Call My Name
    4. I Am Above ●
    5. Follow Me
    6. (This Is Our) House
    7. We Will Remember
    8. In This Life
    9. Burn
    10. Deep Inside
    11. All the Pain
    12. Stat With Me

11. 40

    The Goat

    Puppy

    

    

    Alternative metal | Power pop

    Tracks:

    1. Black Hole
    2. Vengeance
    3. Poor Me
    4. Just Like You
    5. And So I Burn ...
    6. Entombed
    7. World Stands Still ●
    8. Bathe in Blood
    9. Nightwalker
    10. I Feel an Evil
    11. Handlebard
    12. Demons

12. 39

    Sound & Fury

    Sturgill Simpson

    

    

    Blues rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ronin
    2. Remember to Breathe ●
    3. Sing Along
    4. A Good Look
    5. Make Art Not Friends
    6. Best Clockmaker on Mars
    7. All Said and Done
    8. Last Man Standing
    9. Mercury in Retrograde
    10. Fastest Horse in Town

13. 38

    Veil of Imagination

    Wilderun

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Unimaginable Zero Summer ●
    2. O Resolution!
    3. Sleeping Ambassadors of the Sun
    4. Scentless Core (Budding)
    5. Far From Where Dreams Unfurl
    6. Scentless Core (Fading)
    7. The Tyranny of Imagination
    8. When the Fire and the Rose Were One

14. 37

    Apoptosis

    Allagaeon

    

    

    Technical death metal | Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Parthenogenesis
    2. Interphase // Meliosis
    3. Extremophiles (B)
    4. The Secular Age
    5. Exothermic Chemical Combustion
    6. Extremophiles (A)
    7. Metaphobia
    8. Tsunami and Submergence
    9. Colors of the Currents
    10. Stellar Tidal Disruption ●
    11. Apoptosis

15. 36

    I Am Easy to Find

    The National

    

    

    Art rock | Post-punk revival

    Tracks:

    1. You Had Your Soul with You
    2. Quiet Light
    3. Roman Holiday ●
    4. Oblivions
    5. The Pull of You
    6. Hey Rosey
    7. I Am Easy to Find
    8. Her Father in the Pool
    9. Where Is Her Head
    10. Not in Kansas
    11. So Far So Fast
    12. Dust Swirls in Strange Light
    13. Hairpin Turns
    14. Rylan
    15. Underwater
    16. Light Years

16. 35

    We Are Not Your Kind

    Slipknot

    

    

    Groove metal | Alternative metal

    Tracks:

    1. Insert Coin
    2. Unsainted
    3. Birth of the Cruel
    4. Death Because of Death
    5. Nero Forte ●
    6. Critical Darling
    7. A Liar's Funeral
    8. Red Flag
    9. What's Next
    10. Spiders
    11. Orphan
    12. My Pain
    13. Not Long for This World
    14. Solway Firth

17. 34

    SOS

    Millencolin

    

    

    Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. SOS
    2. For Yesterday ●
    3. Nothing
    4. Sour Days
    5. Yanny & Laurel
    6. Reach You
    7. Do You Want Her
    8. Trumpets & Putine
    9. Let It Be
    10. Dramatic Planet
    11. Caveman's Land
    12. Carry on

18. 33

    F & M

    Lindemann

    

    

    Neue Deutsche Härte | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Steh auf
    2. Ich weiß es nicht
    3. Allesfresser
    4. Blut
    5. Knebel ●
    6. Frau & Mann
    7. Ach so gern
    8. Schlaf ein
    9. Gummi
    10. Platz eins
    11. We weiß das schon

19. 32

    Holy Shit

    Nebula

    

    

    Stoner rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Man's Best Friend
    2. Messiah
    3. It's All Over
    4. Witching Hour ●
    5. Fistful of Pills
    6. Tomorrow Never Comes
    7. Gates of Eden
    8. Let's Get Lost
    9. The Cry of a Tortured World

20. 31

    Periphery IV: Hail Stan

    Periphery

    

    

    Progressive metal | Djent

    Tracks:

    1. Reptile
    2. Blood Eagle
    3. Chvrch Bvrner
    4. Garden in the Bones
    5. It's Only Smiles
    6. Follow Your Ghost
    7. Crush ●
    8. Sentient Glow
    9. Satellites

21. 30

    Threshold

    Dhidalah

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Neuer Typ ●
    2. Adamski
    3. Jovian Sky
    4. A.U.M.

22. 29

    Moving Backwards

    Wheel

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Vultures
    2. Wheel ●
    3. Tyrant
    4. Up the Chain
    5. Skeletons
    6. Where the Pieces Lie
    7. Lacking

23. 28

    Hallucinogen

    Blut Aus Nord

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Nomos Nebulaem ●
    2. Nebeleste
    3. Sybelius
    4. Anthosmos
    5. Mahagma
    6. Haallucinälia
    7. Cosma Procyris

24. 27

    OK, I'm Sick

    Badflower

    

    

    Alternative rock | Emo-pop

    Tracks:

    1. x Ana x
    2. The Jester
    3. Ghost
    4. We're in Love
    5. Proomise Me
    6. Daddy ●
    7. 24
    8. Heroin
    9. Die
    10. Murder Games
    11. Girlfriend
    12. Wide Eyes
    13. Cry

25. 26

    Love Exchange Failure

    White Ward

    

    

    Blackgaze | Dark jazz

    Tracks:

    1. Love Exchange Failure
    2. Poisonous Flowers of Violence ●
    3. Dead Heart Confession
    4. Shelter
    5. No Cure for Pain
    6. Surfaces and Depths
    7. Uncanny Delusions

26. 25

    Home

    The Offering

    

    

    Power metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. Waste Away
    2. Lovesick
    3. Ultraviolence ●
    4. A Dance with Diana
    5. Failure (S.O.S.)
    6. Hysteria
    7. Glory
    8. Home
    9. Violets

27. 24

    Gold & Grey

    Baroness

    

    

    Progressive metal | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Front Toward Enemy
    2. I'm Already Gone
    3. Seasons
    4. Sevens
    5. Tourniquet ●
    6. Anchor's Lament
    7. Throw Me an Anchor
    8. I'd Do Anything
    9. Blankets of Ash
    10. Emmett — Radiating Light
    11. Cold-Blooded Angels
    12. Crooked Mile
    13. Broken Halo
    14. Can Oscura
    15. Borderlines
    16. Assault on East Falls
    17. Pale Sun

28. 23

    Nattfiolen

    Jordsjø

    

    

    Symphonic prog | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ouverture
    2. Stifinner
    3. Solens sirkulære sang
    4. Septemberbål
    5. Mine templer II
    6. Til Våren ●
    7. Ulvenatt

29. 22

    Garden of Storms

    In Mourning

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Storm
    2. Yields of Sand
    3. Hierophant ●
    4. Magenta Ritual
    5. Huntress Moon
    6. Tribunal of Suns
    7. The Last Outpost

30. 21

    Humanicide

    Death Angel

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Humanicide
    2. Divine Defector
    3. Aggressor
    4. I Came for Blood ●
    5. Immortal Behated
    6. Alive and Screaming
    7. The Pack
    8. Ghost of Me
    9. Revelation Song
    10. Of Rats and Men

31. 20

    When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light

    Swallow the Sun

    

    

    Doom metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
    2. The Crimson Crown
    3. Firelights
    4. Upon the Water ●
    5. Stone Wings
    6. Clouds on Your Side
    7. Here on the Black Earth
    8. Never Left

32. 19

    True North

    Borknagar

    

    

    Progressive metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Thunderous
    2. Up North ●
    3. The Fire That Burns
    4. Lights
    5. Wild Father's Heart
    6. Mount Rapture
    7. Into the White
    8. Tidal
    9. Voices

33. 18

    Anesthetic

    Mark Morton

    

    

    Heavy metal | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Cross off
    2. Sworn Apart
    3. Axis
    4. The Never
    5. Save Defiance
    6. Blur
    7. Back from the Dead
    8. Reveal
    9. Imaginary Days ●
    10. The Truth Is Dead

34. 17

    Rewind, Replay, Rebound

    Volbeat

    

    

    Hard rock | Heavy metal | Rockabilly

    Tracks:

    1. Last Day under the Sun
    2. Pelvis on Fire
    3. Rewind the Exit
    4. Die to Live ●
    5. When We Were Kids
    6. Sorry Sack of Bones
    7. Cloud 9
    8. Cheapside Sloggers
    9. Maybe I Believe
    10. Parasite
    11. Leviathan
    12. The Awakening of Bonnie Parker
    13. The Everlasting
    14. 7:24

35. 16

    The Body Cosmic

    Iapetus

    

    

    Progressive metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Body Cosmic ●
    2. Dark Matter Genetics
    3. I Contain Multitudes
    4. Galaxy Collective
    5. For Creatures Such As We
    6. Hadean Heart
    7. Moonwatcher
    8. The Star of Collapse
    9. Angelis Novus

36. 15

    Beneath the Eyrie

    Pixies

    

    

    Indie rock | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. In the Arms of Mrs. Marc of Cain
    2. On Graveyard Hill
    3. Catfish Kate
    4. This Is My Fate
    5. Ready for Love ●
    6. Silver Bullet
    7. Long Rider
    8. Los surfer muertos
    9. St. Nazaire
    10. Bird of PRey
    11. Daniel Boone
    12. Death Horizon

37. 14

    Free

    Iggy Pop

    

    

    Ambient | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Free
    2. Loves Missing ●
    3. Sonali
    4. James Bond
    5. Dirty Sanchez
    6. Glow in the Dark
    7. Page
    8. We Are the People
    9. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
    10. The Dawn

38. 13

    Mana

    Unto Others

    

    

    Gothic metal | Gothic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Nightfall ●
    2. Jackie
    3. Cosmic Overdrive
    4. Don't Waste Your Time
    5. Give Me to the Night
    6. Blade and the Will
    7. Dragon, Why Do You Cry?
    8. Double Negative
    9. It'll Be Over Before You Know It
    10. A SIngle Solemn Rose
    11. Mana

39. 12

    Spiritual Instinct

    Alcest

    

    

    Post-metal | Blackgaze

    Tracks:

    1. Les jardins de minuit
    2. Protection
    3. Sapphire ●
    4. L'île des morts
    5. Le miroir
    6. Spiritual Instinct

40. 11

    A Dawn to Fear

    Cult of Luna

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Silent Man ●
    2. Lay Your Head to Rest
    3. A Dawn to Fear
    4. Nightwalkers
    5. Lights on the Hill
    6. We Feel the End
    7. Inland Rain
    8. The Fall

41. 10

    Club Majesty

    Royal Republic

    

    

    Disco punk | funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Fireman & Dancer
    2. Can't Fight the Disco
    3. Boomerang
    4. Under Cover
    5. Like a Lover
    6. Blunt Force Trauma
    7. Fortune Favors
    8. Flower Power Madness
    9. Stop Movin'
    10. Anna-Leigh ●
    11. Bulldog

42. 9

    Berserker

    Amon Amarth

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fafner's Gold
    2. Crack the Sky
    3. Mjölner, Hammer of Thor
    4. Shield Wall ●
    5. Valkyria
    6. Raven's Flight
    7. Ironside
    8. The Berserker at Stamford Bridge
    9. When Once Again We Can Set Our Sails
    10. Skoll and Hati
    11. Wings of Eagles
    12. Into the Dark

43. 8

    Heart Like a Grave

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wail of the North
    2. Valediction
    3. Neverlast
    4. Pale Morning Star
    5. And Bells They Toll
    6. The Offering
    7. Mute Is My Sorrow
    8. Twilight Trails
    9. Heart Like a Grave ●
    10. Karelia

44. 7

    Hidden History of the Human Race

    Blood Incantation

    

    

    Technical death metal | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Slave Species of the Gods
    2. The Giza Power Plant ●
    3. Inner Paths (to Outer Space)
    4. Awakening from the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)

45. 6

    Feral Roots

    Rival Sons

    

    

    Blues rock | Soul 'n' roll

    Tracks:

    1. Do You Worst
    2. Sugar on the Bone
    3. Back in the Woods
    4. Look Away
    5. Feral Roots
    6. Too Bad
    7. Stood by Me
    8. Imperial Joy
    9. All Directions
    10. End of Forever
    11. Shooting Stars ●

46. 5

    Sugar & Joy

    The Dead South

    

    

    Bluegrass | Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Act of Approach
    2. Diamond Ring
    3. Blue Trash
    4. Black Lung
    5. Fat Little Killer Boy
    6. Broken Cowboy ●
    7. Snake Man Pt. 1
    8. Snake Man Pt. 2
    9. Heaven in a Wheelbarrow
    10. Crawdaddy Served Cold
    11. Alabama People
    12. Spaghetti
    13. Distance Oneself

47. 4

    Vulture Culture

    Bombus

    

    

    Stoner rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. A Ladder — Not a Shovel
    2. (You Are All Just) Human Beings
    3. Mama
    4. It's All Over
    5. In the Shadows ●
    6. We Lost a Lot of Blood Today
    7. Vulture Culture
    8. Two Wolves and One Sheep
    9. Feeling Is Believing

48. 3

    Rammstein

    Rammstein

    

    

    Neue Deutsche Härte | Industrial metal

    Tracks:

    1. Deutschland
    2. Radio
    3. Zeig dich ●
    4. Ausländer
    5. Puppe
    6. Was ich liebe
    7. Diamant
    8. Weit weg
    9. Tattoo
    10. Hallomann

49. 2

    In Cauda Venenum

    Opeth

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Livets trädgård / Garden of Earthly Delights
    2. Svekets prins / Dignity
    3. Hjärtat vet vad handen gö / Heart un Hand
    4. De närmast sörjande / Next of Kin
    5. Minnets yta / Lovelorn Crime ●
    6. Charlatan / Charlatan
    7. Ingen sanning är allas / Universal Truth
    8. Banemannen / The Garroter
    9. Kontinuerlig drift / Continuum
    10. Allting tar slut / All Things Will Pass

50. 1

    Fear Inoculum

    Tool

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fear Inoculum
    2. Pneuma
    3. Litanie contre la peur
    4. Invincible ●
    5. Legion Inoculant
    6. Descending
    7. Culling Voices
    8. Chocolate Chip Trip
    9. 7empest
    10. Mockingbeat