Year End List : Joe Eldridge

Occult/Doom Rock
Crypt Trip - Rootstock
Graveyard - Peace
Merlin - The Wizard
The Skull - The Endless Road Turns Dark.
The Watchers - Black Abyss

Heavy/Stoner Rock
ASG - Survive Sunrise
Foghound - Awaken to Destroy
Fu Manchu - Clone of the Universe
The Sword - Used Future
Wolftooth - Wolftooth

Heavy Psych
All Them Witches - ATM
Black Elephant - Cosmic Blues
King Buffalo - Longing to be the Mountain
REZN - Calm Black Water
Seedy Jeezus - Polaris Oblique

Stoner/Doom/Sludge
Black Tusk - T.C.B.T.
Churchburn - None Shall Live...
Coffin Torture - Dismal Planet
Conjurer - Mire
Domkraft - Flood
Eagle Twin - The Thundering Heard
Forming the Void - Rift
Godmaker/Somnuri split
Sleep - The Sciences
Thou - Magus

Funeral/Slow Doom
CHRCH - Light Will Consume Us All
Dark Buddha Rising - II
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma
Shallow Grave - Threshold Between Worlds
UN - Sentiment

Post Metal/Doom
Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch
Conan - Existential Void Guardian
Khorada - Salt
Orphans of Doom - Strange Worlds/Fierce Gods
Sumac - Love in Shadow

Trad/Dad Metal
Behemoth - I Loved Your at Your Darkest
Haunt - Burst into Flame
Judas Priest - Firepower
Khemmis - Desolation
Tribulation - Down Below

Southern/Groove Metal
CoC - No Cross, No Crown
Ektomorf - Fury
Havok - Conformicide
Soulfly - Ritual
Wasted Theory - Warlords of the New Electric

Thrash/Death
Gruesome - Twisted Prayers
Iron Reagan/Gatecreeper split
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light
Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms

Tech/Prog Stuff
Grayceon - IV
Haken - Vektor
Horrendous - Idol
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Voivod - The Wake

Black/Blackened
Drudkh - They Often See Dreams…
Our Place of Worship Is Silence - With Inexorable Suffering
Portal - ION
Ragana/Thou split - Let Our Names Be Forgotten
Uada - Cult of a Dying Sun

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: High on Fire - Electric Messiah.