2018 Year End Favorites

* Chrome Ghost - The Whip (from Shallows EP)
* Deathbell - Emerald Eyes Shine (from With The Beyond)
* Destroyer of Light - Nyx (from Hopeless EP)
* Godmaker - Over (Portishead cover, from split with Somnuri)
* Lesser Glow - Vacant Throne (from Ruined)
* Owlcrusher - Shinobi (EHG)
* Pillars - Pale Horse Rider (from Onward to Nothingness)
* Plague of Carcosa - Rats in the Wall
* Radien - Kaiken Kato (from Syvyys)
* Regress - In Shackles (from MMXVIII Demo)
* Ritual Service - Great Degradator (from Robustfellow Sampler 2018)
* Secret Cutter - Oblivion (from Quantum Eraser)
* SOL - Spheres (from Before we Disappear)
* Tekarra - Black Limbs (from Tekarra)
* The Great Machine - Doom Machine (from Respect)
* Tiger Nest - Raven/Ligeia (from Death Rattle)
* Ungraven - Targetted (from The Language of Longing (Demos))
* Windhand - Three Sisters (from split with Satan's Satyrs)
* Wytchgoat - Astral Orgy (from Kult of the Wytch Goat)
* Yob - The Screen (from Our Raw Heart)

Jetro Suo
Not a ranking list, but more like which releases I listened to the most through the year list.

1. Conjurer - Mire (hardcore/doom/black metal)
Best written album as a whole i've heard in a long time.

2. Baest - Danse Macabre ([old school] death metal)
Death metal at its best, no noodling, just pure death metal riffs.

3. Secret Cutter - Quantum Eraser (sludge)
Crushing, maybe slightly repeative but works with the right state of mind.

4. Cult Leader - A Patient Man (hardcore)
Loved that they brought more their slower and easier side on this record.

5. Belzebong - Light the Dankness (stoner doom)
Grand masters of groove.

6. Wake - Misery Rites (blackened grind)
Harsh but still accessible.

7. Baptists - Beacon of Faith (hardcore punk)
Not as 'punky' as i was expecting, but still loved it. Nick Yacyshyn is one of the best drummers out there right now.

8. Hebosagil - Kevät EP (noise-/indie rock)
Mind state of a Finnish person in spring, expressed in form of music.

9. Jon Armon-Jones - Starting Today (jazz-dub)
Great music to chill to, or do basically anything.

10. The Secret - Lux Tenebris EP (black metal/experimental)
Disappointed little bit on this one actually. The Secret needs a full lenght to really express the full emotional scale, that i need to get into their work. But still, they are one of the best bands to create this kind of haunting and dark atmosphere.


Clint Willis
Bast - Nanoangstrom
Belzebong - Light in the Dankness
Bismuth - The Slow Dying of the Great Barrier Reef
CHRCH - Light Will Consume Us All
Churchburn - None Shall Live...
Conan - Existential Void Guardian
Conjurer - Mire
Dirge - Lost Empyrean
Dopethrone - Transcanadian Anger
Drug Cult - Drug Cult
Forn - Rites of Despair
Garganua - Through the Void
Goblinsmoker - Toad King
High on Fire - Electric Mesiah
Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Huata - Lux Initiatrix Terrae
ILSA - Corpse Fortress
Jack Harlon and the Dead Crows - Hymns
Jamestown Pagans - Grimoire Vol 1
Kaiser - First Sound
Leechfest - Neon Crosses
Lucifungus - Akuma Kin
Messa - Feat for Water
Moloch - A Bad Place
Morne - To the Night Unknown
Okwaho - Okwaho
Olmeg - Maladies
Radien - Syvyys
Religion Observance - Utter Discomfort
Scientist - Barbelith
Secret Cutter - Quantum Eraser
Shallow Grave - Threshold Between Worlds
Shibboleth - Lairoscuro
Sleep - The Sciences
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Sumeru - Summon Destroyer
Talbot - Magnetismt
Thou - Magus
Un - Sentiment
Windhand - Eternal Return
Witchskull - Covens Will
YOB - Our Raw Heart

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