Music Tracking 2018: Metal
These are 2018 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically
by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are
in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range). Lines in
blue indicate that I have a physical copy
(albeit sometimes just a promo CDR); in green
are records that I graded based on a Rhapsody stream or other such
source. Most records have release dates and a brief generic note
(usually taken from AMG).
Unheard records are prioritized 0-3 (graded records are 4-5).
The priotization is based subjectively on personal interests,
reviews I've noticed, reviewers I particularly respect, what
I know about the artists, etc. Roughly speaking: 0 is something
I have no reason to consider (default page omits 0); 1 has been
noted as having some cred somewhere; 2 is something I have some
specific reason to search out; 3 is something I'll listen to
ASAP.
Option selectors:
Genre switches (no data for Indie Rock, Pop, Singer-Songwriter):
New Releases
- Abhorrence: Megalohydrothalassophobic (Svart) [09-14] - metal
- Abstracter: Cinereous Incarnate (Sentient Run Laboratories) [06-08] - sludge metal
- Agrimonia: Awaken (Southern Lord) [01-26] - sludge metal
- Ails: The Unraveling (The Flenser) [04-20] - metal
- Akhenaten: Golden Serpent God (Satanath) [05-31] - metal
- Alice in Chains: Rainier Fog (BMG) [08-24] - alt metal
- Alter of Perversion: Intra Naos (Norma Evangelium Diaboli/The Ajna Offensive) [04-23] - metal
- Altars of Grief: Iris (self-released) [03-21] - death metal
- Amorphis: Queen of Time (Nuclear Blast) [05-18] - progressive metal
- Ancestors: Suspended in Reflections (Pelagic) [08-24] - metal
- Anicon: Entropy Mantra (Vendetta) [06-19] - metal
- Aorlhac: L'Esprit Des Vents (Les Acteurs De L'Ombre) [03-02] - metal
- Architects: Holy Hell (Epitaph) [11-09] - metalcore
- At the Gates: To Drink From the Night Itself (Century Media) [05-18] - death metal
- The Atlas Moth: Coma Noir (Prosthetic) [02-09] - metal
- Author & Punisher: Beastland (Relapse) [10-05] - metal
- Azusa: Heavy Yoke (Solid State) [11-16] - metal
- Band-Maid: World Domination (JPU) [03-02] - metal
- Beastmaker: EP 10 - EP80 (self-released) [12-17] - doom metal
- Behemoth: I Loved You at Your Darkest (Metal Blade) [10-05] - death metal
- Between the Buried and Me: Automata I (Sumerian) [03-09] - progressive metal
- Between the Buried and Me: Automata II (Sumerian) [07-13] - progressive metal
- Black Label Society: Grimmest Hits (Entertainmenet One) [01-19] - metal
- Black Tongue: Nadir (self-released) [10-31] - metal
- Bleeding Through: Love Will Kill All (SharpTone) [05-25] - metal
- Blood of the Sun: Blood's Thicker Than Love (Listenable/Border) [10-19] - metal
- The Body: I Have Fought Against It but I Can't Any Longer (Thrill Jockey) [05-11] - metal
- Body Void: I Live Inside a Burning House (Crown and Throne) [05-11] - sludge metal
- Bone Sickness: Theater of Morbidity (self-released) [07-01] - death metal
- Bongripper: Terminal (Great Barrier) [07-06] - metal
- Bosse-de-Nage: Further Still (The Flenser) [09-14] - metal
- Brainoil: Singularity to Extinction (Tankcrimes) [10-19] - metal
- Don Broco: Technology (Nuclear Blast) [02-02] - metal
- Bullet for My Valentine: Gravity (Spinefarm) [06-29] - alt metal
- Bury Tomorrow: Black Flame (Music for Nations) [07-13] - metal
- Candy: Good to Feel (Triple-B) [09-28] - metal
- Cane Hill: Too Far Gone (Rise) [01-19] - metal
- Cantique Lepreux: Paysages Polaires (Eisenwald Tonschmiede) [11-30] - metal
- Chaos Echoes: Mouvement (Nuclear War Now!) [01-24] - metal
- Chapel of Disease: . . . And as We Have Seen the Storm We Have Embraced the Eye (Van) [11-23] - metal
- Chelsea Grin: Eternal Nightmare (Rise) [07-13] - metal
- Choral Hearse: Mire Exhumed (self-released) [04-16] - metal
- Chthe'ilist: Passage Into the Xexanotth (Profound Lore) [06-15] - metal
- Churchburn: None Shall Live . . . The Hymns of Misery (Armageddon Label) [07-13] - metal
- Cloud Rat: Clipped Beaks//Silk Panic (Colline Noire) [07-13] - metal
- Clutch: Book of Bad Decisions (Weathermaker) [09-07] - stoner rock
- Conjurer: Mire (Holy Roar) [03-09] - metal
- Converge: Beautiful Ruin (Epitaph) [06-29] - metalcore
- Corrosion of Conformity: No Cross No Crown (Nuclear Blast) [01-12] - metal
- Cosmic Church: Tayttymys (Kuunpalvelus) [05-23] - metal
- Craft: White Noise and Black Metal (Season of Mist) [06-22] - metal
- Cult Leader: A Patient Man (Deathwish) [11-09] - metal
- The Dali Thundering Concept: Savages (self-released) [04-13] - progressive metall
- Dark Sarah: The Golden Moth (Inner Wound) [09-21] - metal
- Dawnbreaker: Deus Vult (1022919 DK) [05-25] - metal
- Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti-) [07-13] - blackgaze
- Devouring Star: The Arteries of Heresy (Dark Descent) [10-26] - metal
- Dimmu Borgir: Eonian (Nuclear Blast) [05-06] - metal
- Distorted Harmony: A Way Out (self-released) [07-18] - metal
- Dodsrit: Spirit Crusher (Prosthetic) [09-28] - black metal
- Dopethrone: Transcanadian Anger (Totem Cat) [05-25] - metal
- Drudkh: They Often See Dreams About the Spring (Seasons of Mist) [03-08] - atmospheric black metal
- Eagle Twin: The Thundering Herd (Southern Lord) [03-30] - metal
- Evoken: Hypnagogia (Profound Lore) [11-09] - metal
- Extremity: Coffin Birth (20 Buck Spin) [07-20] - metal
- Faustcoven: In the Shadow of Doom (Nuclear War Now) [07-31] - metal
- Five Finger Death Punch: And Justice for None (Prospect Park) [05-18] - metal
- Follow the Cipher: Follow the Cipher (Nuclear Blast) [05-11] - metal
- For King & Country: Burn the Ships (Word Entertainment) [10-05] - CCM
- Frontierer: Unloved (self-released) [07-27] - metal
- Funeral Mist: Hekatomb (Horma Evangelium Diaboli) [06-15] - metal
- Furze: The Presence . . . (Polytriad Fingerprints) [09-17] - black metal
- Ghost: Prequelle (Loma Vista) [06-01] - hard rock
- Glorior Belli: The Apostates (Season of Mist) [04-06] - metal
- Graveyard: Peace (Nuclear Blast) [05-25] - metal
- Gyre of Incandescents: Gyre of Incandescents (Wolfspell) [03-20] - metal
- Harm's Way: Posthuman (Metal Blade) [02-09] - metal
- Hate Eternal: Upon Desolate Sands (Season of Mist) [10-26] - metal
- Haunt: Burst Into Flame (Shadow Kingdom) [08-10] - metal
- High on Fire: Electric Messiah (Entertainment One) [10-05] - stoner metal
- Hooded Menace: Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (Seasons of Mist) [01-26] - doom metal
- Hopesfall: Arbiter (Graphic Nature/Equal Vision) [07-13] - post-hardcore
- Horrendous: Idol (Season of Mist) [09-28] - metal
- Huntsmen: American Scrap (Prosthetic) [02-23] - metal
- Ice Nine Kills: The Silver Scream (Fearless) [10-05] - metal
- Ihsahn: Amr (Spinefarm) [05-04] - metal
- Ilsa: Corpse Fortress (Relapse) [03-02] - doom metal
- Immortal: Northern Chaos Gods (Nuclear Blast) [07-06] - black metal
- Imperial Triumphant: Vile Luxury (Gilead Media) [07-13] - avant-garde metal
- Ineffable Demise: Beyond the Marrow Gates (Realityfade) [ 07-20] - metal
- Inferi: The Revenant (The Artisan Era) [04-20] - metal
- Insect Ark: Marrow Hymns (Profound Lore) [02-23] - metal
- Jesus Piece: Only Self (Southern Lord) [08-24] - metal
- JIRM: Surge Ex Monumentis (Small Stone) [03-16] - hard rock
- JOY: No Light Below (Blood and Ink) [10-23] - metal
- Judas Priest: Firepower (Columbia) [03-09] - heavy metal
- Karg: Dornenvogel (AOP) [11-16] - death metal
- Ken Mode: Loved (New Damage/Season of Mist) [08-31] - noise rock
- Khemmis: Desolation (20 Buck Spin/Nuclear Blast) [06-22] - metal
- Knelt Rote: Alterity (Headspin) [02-28] - black metal
- Legend of the Seagullmen: Legend of the Seagullmen (Dine Alone) [02-09] - metal
- Limbs: Father's Son (UNFD) [04-27] - metal
- Lucifer: Lucifer II (Century Media) [07-06] - metal
- Lychgate: The Contagion in Nine Steps (Blood Music) [03-30] - metal
- Madder Mortem: Marrow (Karisma) [09-21] - metal
- Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway: Dictator (Scarred for Life) [07-20] - alt metal
- Mammoth Grinder: Cosmic Crypt (Relapse) [01-26] - metal
- Mesarthim: The Density Parameter (Avantgarde Music) [05-02] - black metal
- Messa: Feast for Water (Aural) [04-06] - doom metal
- Ministry: AmeriKKKant (Nuclear Blast) [03-09] - industrial metal
- Moab: Through (Falling Dome) [10-19] - psych metal
- Mol: Jord (Holy Roar) [04-13] - blackgaze
- Monster Magnet: Mindfucker (Napalm) [03-23] - metal
- Mortuous: Through Wilderness (Tankcrimes) [06-22] - metal
- Mournful Congregation: The Incubus of Karma (Osmose/20 Buck Spin) [03-23] - doom metal
- Obscura: Diluvium (Relapse) [07-13] - metal
- The Ocean: Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (Metal Blade) [11-02] - metal
- Of Mice & Men: Defy (Rise) [01-19] - metal
- Old Wounds: Glow (Good Fight Music) [11-09] - metal
- Omnium Gatherum: The Burning Cold (Century Media) [08-31] - metal
- Orphaned Land: Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs (Century Media) [01-26] - folk metal
- Our Hollow Our Home: In Moment//In Memory (//Hollow Music) [10-19] - metal
- Outer Heaven: Realms of Eternal Decay (Relapse) [10-12] - metal
- Pale Divine: Pale Divine (Shadow Kingdom) [11-23] - metal
- Palm Reader: Braille (Silent Cult) [04-06] - metal
- Panopticon: The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness Part I and II (Nordvis) [04-06] - atmospheric black metal
- Pig Destroyer: Head Cage (Relapse) [09-07] - metalcore
- Portal: Ion (Profound Lore) [01-26] - death metal
- Portrayal of Guilt: Let Pain Be Your Guide (Gilead Media) [11-16] - metal
- Powerwolf: The Sacrament of Sin (Napalm) [07-20] - metal
- Primal Rite: Dirge of Escapism (Revelation) [01-26] - alt/indie
- Primitive Man & Unearthly Trance: Split (Relapse) [08-17] - metal
- Reverorum Ib Malacht: Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble (AnnapumA) [05-11] - metal
- Revocation: The Outer Ones (Metal Blade) [09-28] - death metal
- Ritual Necromancy: Disinterred Horror (Dark Descent) [05-25] - metal
- River Cult: Halcyon Daze (Cats on Amps) [02-09] - metal
- Rivers of Nihil: Where Owls Know My Name (Metal Blade) [03-16] - progressive metal
- Michael Romeo: War of the Worlds Pt 1 (Mascot) [07-27] - progressive metal
- Satan: Cruel Magic (Metal Blade) [09-07] - metal
- Sepulcher: Panoptic Horror (Edged Circle Productions) [09-14] - metal
- Serum Dreg: Lustful Vengeance (Vrasubatlat) [04-20] - death metal
- Sex Riders: Sex Riders (Magankiadas) [07-29] - speed metal
- Shields: Life in Exile (Long Branch) [04-20] - metal
- Sick of It All: Wake the Sleeping Dragon! (Century Media) [11-02] - metal
- Sigh: Heir to Despair (Spinefarm) [11-16] - metal
- Silent Planet: When the End Began (Solid State) [11-02] - metal
- Skeletonwitch: Devouring Radiant Light (Prosthetic) [07-20] - thrash metal
- Sleep: The Sciences (Third Man) [04-20] - stoner metal [*]
- Sleepwalker: [-X-X] (Sentient Ruin) [05-25] - metal
- Slugdge: Esoteric Malacology (Willowtip) [03-02] - death metal
- Dee Snider: For the Love of Metal (Napalm) [07-27] - heavy metal
- Soreption: Monument of the End (Sumerian) [08-03] - metal
- Soulfly: Ritual (Nuclear Blast) [10-19] - metal
- Spectral Wound: Infernal Decadence (Vendetta) [06-02] - black metal
- Sumac: Love in Shadow (Thrill Jockey) [09-21] - sludge metal
- Summoning: With Doom We Come (Napalm) [01-05] - metal
- Svalbard: It's Hard to Have Hope (Translation Loss) [05-25] - metal
- The Sword: Used Future (Razor & Tie) [03-23] - hard rock
- Tesseract: Sonder (Kscope) [04-20] - progressive metal
- Therion: Beloved Antichrist (Nuclear Blast) [01-26] - metal
- Thou: Magus (Sacred Bones) [08-31] - sludge metal
- Tomb Mold: Manor of Infinite Forms (20 Buck Spin) [06-08] - death metal
- Tommy and the Commies: Here Come . . . (Slovenly) [09-28] - metal
- Tragedy: Fury (Tragedy) [09-11] - metal
- Tribulation: Down Below (Century Media) [01-26] - gothic metal
- Turnstile: Time & Space (Roadrunner) [02-23] - hardcore punk [*]
- Uada: Cult of a Dying Sun (Eisenwald) [05-25] - melodic black metal
- Ulthar: Cosmovore (20 Buck Spin) [11-09] - metal
- Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats: Wasteland (Rise Above) [10-12] - metal
- Uniform & the Body: Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones) [06-08] - drone metal
- Unleashed: The Hunt for White Christ (Napalm) [10-26] - metal
- Varathron: Patriarchs of Evil (Agonia) [04-27] - metal
- Vein: Errorzone (Closed Casket Activities) [06-22] - metalcore
- Vermilia: Katkyt (self-released) [06-28] - atmospheric black metal
- Visigoth: Conqueror's Oath (Metal Blade) [02-09] - metal
- Voivod: The Wake (Century Media) [09-21] - progressive metal
- Vuur: In This Moment We Are Free: Cities (Inside Out Music) [10-20] - metal
- Wake: Misery Rites (Translation Loss) [02-23] - metal
- Wayfarer: World's Blood (Profound Lore) [05-25] - metal
- Wiegedood: De Boden Hebben Het Goed III (Century Media) [04-20] - metal
- Windhand: Eternal Return (Relapse) [10-05] -
- Wombripper: From the Depths of Flesh (Redefining Darkness) [06-22] - metal
- Yob: Our Raw Heart (Relapse) [06-08] - doom metal
- Yovel: [Hide'tu] (self-released) [04-01] - black metal
- Zeal and Ardor: Stranger Fruit (MVKA) [06-08] - avant metal [*]
Reissues, Etc.
Priority Counts
- Priority 1: 182
- Priority 2: 2
- Priority 3: 0
- Priority 4: 3
- Priority 5: 0
Total: 187
Grade Counts
Total: 3
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