Favorite Metal & Hard Rock 2018

[Vader]

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JUDAS PRIEST ~ FIREPOWER

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[Lynch]

For my money, the #1 metal album of the year is easily

Judas Priest - Firepower

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My next favorite would probably be

Halestorm - Vicious (not metal, but it is hard rock)

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[Vader]

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HIGH ON FIRE ~ ELECTRIC MESSIAH

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My # 11 Lucifer - II , is more of a Hard Rock album as well. @Lynch

@Arkie Malija & @Cadleson , I'm Curious to see your lists if you have one. I know that Cadleson must have a short one at the very least.

 

[Lynch]

My # 11 Lucifer - II , is more of a Hard Rock album as well. @Lynch

Thanks, I'll have to check them out when I pull out my headphones in a bit.

 

[Riff Raff]

My top 50 of 2018. Not all choices people may like but I don't particularly care as it's my list.

• Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns
• Judas Priest - Firepower
• Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
• Decaying - To Cross The LIne
• Corpsessed - Impetus of Death
  
• Witherfall - A Prelude To Sorrow
• Battlegrave - Relics of a Dead Earth
• Aeonian Sorrow - Into The Eternity A Moment We Are
• Deicide - Overtures of Blasphemy
• Whoretopsy - Take My Breath Away
  
• Krisiun - Scourge Of The Enthroned
• Lord of Pagathorn - Daimono Philia
• Divine Ascension - The Uncovering
• Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
• Architects - Holy Hell
  
• Unearth - Extinction(s)
• Parkway Drive - Reverence
• Evoken - Hypnagogia
• Joe Bonamassa - Redemption
• Portal - ION
  
• Summoning - With Doom We Come
• Between the Buried and Me - Automata I
• Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
• Stone Temple Pilots - Stone Temple Pilots (2018)
• Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
  
• Kataklysm - Meditations
• Dimmu Borgir - Eonian (Limited Edition)
• Jonathan Davis - Black Labyrinth
• Amorphis - Queen Of Time
• TesseracT - Sonder
  
• Monuments - Phronesis
• Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot
• Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
• Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
• Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold
  
• Black Majesty - Children of the Abyss
• Voivod - The Wake
• Otep - Kult 45 [Explicit]
• Riverside - Wasteland
• Beyond Creation - Algorythm
  
• Disturbed - Evolution
• Revocation - The Outer Ones
• Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
• The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
• Oceans of Slumber - The Banished Heart
  
• Ministry - AmeriKKKant
• Deceased - Ghostly White
• Obscura - Diluvium
• Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
• Five Finger Death Punch - And Justice for None (Deluxe)

 

[Vader]

I don't think I've ever seen a list
that everyone liked so who cares.
Haha

 

[Riff Raff]

It's been the year for discovering more obscure and local releases as well as the big names for me. The ones I will note as especially recommended.

Whoretopsy - Take My Breath Away is really good Death Metal from Australia with great brutal riffs and groove.

Corpsessed - Impetus of Death is an awesome Death Metal release from Finland with darker and near doomy riffs and tempos throughout.

Battlegrave have been an awesome Aus thrash band for years and debut album Relics of a Dead Earth hits home nicely with killer riffs and harsh vocals.

Black Majesty - Children of the Abyss is another awesome Power Metal record people need to check out.

Decaying - To Cross The Line is just superb Finnish Death Metal riffs and grooves that prove their underground scene is more than kicking.

 

[SanguineRemedy]

Satan - Cruel Magic

Judas Priest - Firepower

Visigoth - The Conqueror's Oath

Sleep - The Sciences

Lucifer - II

So many bands could have taken that fifth spot, but I love that woman so much..