Our Top 15 Albums of the Year

Ben:

1. YOB - Clearing the Path to Ascend [doom]
2. Solar Halos - S/T [psych/stoner]
3. Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise [black]
4. Young and In the Way - When Life Comes to Death [black/crust]
5. Chain Gang Grave - When Your Friends Become Cops [sludge/noise-rock]
6. Coffinworm - IV.I.VIII [sludge/black]
7. Dead Register - TRVNS BVLK [doom/industrial/ambient]
8. Electric Wizard - Time to Die [stoner-doom]
9. Lord Mantis - Death Mask [sludge/black/industrial]
10. Trap Them - Blissfucker [grind/crust]
11. Yautja - Songs of Descent [grind/sludge]
12. Yellow Eyes - The Desert Mourns [black]
13. Abest - Asylum [black/grind]
14. Tombs - Savage Gold [black/doom]
15. Atriarch - An Unending Pathway [black/deathrock]

AJ:

1. The Contortionist - Language [prog]
2. Black Crown Initiate - The Wreckage of Stars [prog/death]
3. Origin - Omnipresent [death]
4. Soen - Tellurian [prog]
5. Revocation - Deathless [death/thrash]
6. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails [death/prog]
7. Wings Denied - Mirrors for a Prince [djent/prog]
8. Cormorant - Earth Diver [prog/black]
9. Unearth - Watchers of Rule [metalcore]
10. Wayfarer - Children of the Iron Age [black]
11. Job For A Cowboy - Sun Eater [death/prog]
12. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny of Will [crossover/hardcore]
13. Monuments - The Amanuensis [djent]
14. The Antikythera Mechanism - Pathos (EP) [death/prog]
15. Allegaeon - Elements of the Infinite [melodic/death/prog]