My favourite albums from 2015

1. 50

   Found in Far Away Places

   August Burns Red

   

   

   Melodic metalcore | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Wake
   2. Martyr
   3. Identity
   4. Separating the Seas
   5. Ghosts
   6. Majoring in the Minors ●
   7. Everlasting Ending
   8. Broken Promises
   9. Blackwwood
   10. Twenty-One Grams
   11. Vanguard

   tbc

2. 49

   I / [Time]

   Vly

   

   

   Progressive rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. Circles
   2. Time
   3. Time Elapsed
   4. Headache
   5. Out of the Maze
   6. Hypnotic
   7. Time Remembered
   8. Silver Beaches
   9. Message in Water
   10. Dark Days ●
   11. Perfect Place
   12. Time Forgotten

   A dreamy, genre-bending debut from former members of Crippled Black Phoenix, Diet Kong, and Tormé.

3. 48

   Mister Asylum

   Highly Suspect

   

   

   Alternative rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Mister Asylum
   2. Lost
   3. Lydia ●
   4. Bath Salts
   5. 23
   6. Mom
   7. Bloodfeather
   8. Fuck Me up
   9. Vanity
   10. Claudeland

   A rough-around-the-edges, Grammy-nominated debut that is high on emotion and grit.

4. 47

   High Country

   The Sword

   

   

   Stoner rock | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Uniciorn Farm
   2. Empty Temples
   3. High Country ●
   4. Tears Like Diamonds
   5. Mist & Shadow
   6. Agartha
   7. Seriously Mysterious
   8. Suffer No Fools
   9. Early Snow
   10. The Dreamthieves
   11. Buzzards
   12. Silver Petals
   13. Ghost Eye

   Album blurb pending

5. 46

   Condition Hüman

   Queensrÿche

   

   

   Heavy metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Arrow of Time
   2. Guardian
   3. Hellfire
   4. Selfish Lives
   5. Eye 9
   6. Bulletproof ●
   7. Hourgalss
   8. Just Us
   9. All There Was
   10. The Aftermath
   11. Condition Hüman

   Album blurb pending

6. 45

   Atom by Atom

   Satan

   

   

   Heavy metal | Speed metal

   Tracks:

   1. Farewell Evolution
   2. Fallen Saviour
   3. Ruination
   4. The Devil's Infantry ●
   5. Atom by Atom
   6. In Contempt
   7. My Own God
   8. Ahriman
   9. Bound in Eternity
   10. The Fall of Persephone

   Album blurb pending

7. 44

   Havulinnaan

   Havukruunu

   

   

   Pagan metal | Melodic black metal

   Tracks:

   1. Talven mustat tuulet ●
   2. Kuvastaja
   3. Rautalintu
   4. Aavevalo
   5. Terhen
   6. Uni kuin unho
   7. Tuuletar
   8. Havulinnaan

   Album blurb pending

8. 43

   Ten Commandos

   Ten Commandos

   

   

   Alternative rock | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Staring Down the Dust
   2. War on the Peace ●
   3. Outermost Sky
   4. Come
   5. You Might Forget
   6. Sketch 9
   7. Sporthalle
   8. Four on the Floor
   9. Aware
   10. Invisibility

   Album blurb pending

9. 42

   Blessed & Possessed

   Powerwolf

   

   

   Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Blessed & Possessed
   2. Dead Until Dark
   3. Army of the Night ●
   4. Armata Strigoi
   5. We Are the Wild
   6. Higher Than Heaven
   7. Christ & Combat
   8. Sanctus Dominus
   9. Sacramental Sister
   10. All You Can Bleed
   11. Let There Be Light

   Album blurb pending

10. 41

    Zipper Down

    Eagles of Death Metal

    

    

    Garage rock revival | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Complexity
    2. Silverlake (K.S.O.F.M.)
    3. Got a Woman
    4. I Love You All the Time
    5. Oh Girl
    6. Got the Power
    7. Skin-Tight Boogie ●
    8. Got a Woman (Slight Return)
    9. The Deuce
    10. Save a Prayer
    11. The Reverend

    Album blurb pending

11. 40

    American Spring

    Anti-Flag

    

    

    Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Fabled World
    2. The Great Divide
    3. Brandenburg Gate
    4. Sky Is Falling ●
    5. Walk Away
    6. Song for Your Enemy
    7. Set Yourself on Fire
    8. All of the Poison, All of the Pain
    9. Break Something
    10. Without End
    11. Believer
    12. To Hell with Boredom
    13. Low Expectation
    14. The Debate Is Over (If You Want It)

    Album blurb pending

12. 39

    Autumn Eternal

    Panopticon

    

    

    Atmospheric black metal | Post-metal | Folk metal

    Tracks:

    1. Tamarack's Gold Returns
    2. Into the North Woods
    3. Autumn Eternal ●
    4. Oaks Ablaze
    5. Sleep to the Sound of the Waves Crashing
    6. Pale Ghosts
    7. A Superior Lament
    8. The Wind's Farewell

    Album blurb pending

13. 38

    The Wolves Are Whispering

    Bang Gang

    

    

    Dream pop | Alt-pop

    Tracks:

    1. The Sin Is Near
    2. Out of Horizon
    3. My Special One ●
    4. Silent Bite
    5. A Lonely Bird
    6. Sabazios O
    7. A Letter Carved in Stone
    8. Wait by the Lake
    9. We Will Never Get Along

    Album blurb pending

14. 37

    Golgotha

    W.A.S.P.

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Scream ●
    2. Last Runaway
    3. Shotgun
    4. Miss You
    5. Fallen Under
    6. Slaves of the New World Order
    7. Eyes of My Maker
    8. Hero of the World
    9. Golgotha

    Album blurb pending

15. 36

    Inmazes

    VOLA

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Same War
    2. Stray the Skies
    3. Starburn
    4. Owls
    5. Your Mind Is a Helpless Dreamer
    6. Emily
    7. Gutter Moon
    8. A Stare Without Eyes
    9. Feed the Creatures
    10. Inmazes ●

    Album blurb pending

16. 35

    Money Shot

    Puscifer

    

    

    Alternative rock | Industrial rock

    Tracks:

    1. Galileo
    2. Agostina ●
    3. Grand Canyon
    4. Simultaneous
    5. Money Shot
    6. The Arsonist
    7. The Remedy
    8. Smoke and Mirrors
    9. Flippant
    10. Life of Brian
    11. Autumn

    Album blurb pending

17. 34

    The Transcendence

    Honeymoon Disease

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Higher
    2. Stargazer ●
    3. Imperial Mind
    4. Gotta Move
    5. You're Too Late
    6. Break up
    7. Bellevue Group
    8. Fast Love
    9. Rock 'N' Roll Shock
    10. Brand New Ending
    11. Keep Me Spinning

    Album blurb pending

18. 33

    Two Hands

    Turbowolf

    

    

    Stoner rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Invisible Hand
    2. Rabbits Foot
    3. Solid Gold ●
    4. American Mirrors
    5. Toy Memaha
    6. Nine Lives
    7. Good Hand
    8. MK Ultra
    9. Twelve Houses
    10. Rich Gift
    11. Pale Horse

    Album blurb pending

19. 32

    Into the Wild Life

    Halestorm

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Scream
    2. I Am the Fire ●
    3. Sick Individual
    4. Amen
    5. Dear Daughter
    6. New Modern Love
    7. Mayhem
    8. Bad Girl's World
    9. Gonna Get Mine
    10. The Reckoning
    11. Apocalyptic
    12. What Sober Couldn't Say
    13. I Like It Heavy

    Album blurb pending

20. 31

    Lore

    Elder

    

    

    Progressive metal | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Compendium
    2. Legend
    3. Lore ●
    4. Deadweight
    5. Spirit at Aphelion

    Album blurb pending

21. 30

    Bridging Realms

    Dreadnought

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ode to Ether ●
    2. Odyssey
    3. Minuet de Lune
    4. Transpiration
    5. Bridging Realms

    Album blurb pending

22. 29

    In Times

    Enslaved

    

    

    Progressive black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Thurisaz Dreaming
    2. Building with Fire
    3. One Thousand Years of Rain
    4. Nauthir Bleeding ●
    5. In Times
    6. Daylight

    Album blurb pending

23. 28

    Coma Ecliptic

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Node
    2. The Coma Machine
    3. Dim Ignition ●
    4. Famine Wolf
    5. King Redeem / Queen Serene
    6. Turn on the Darkness
    7. The Ectopic Stroll
    8. Rapid Calm
    9. Memory Palace
    10. Option Oblivion
    11. Life in Velvet

    Album blurb pending

24. 27

    Holding All the Roses

    Blackberry Smoke

    

    

    Southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. Let Me Help You (Find the Door)
    2. Holding All the Roses ●
    3. Living in the Song
    4. Rock and Roll Again
    5. Woman in the Moon
    6. Too High
    7. Wish in One Hand
    8. Randolph County Farewell
    9. Payback's a Bitch
    10. Lay It All on Me
    11. No Way Back to Eden
    12. Fire in the Hole

    Album blurb pending

25. 26

    Sgùrr

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Zúgó
    2. Alföldi kozmosz
    3. Oldódó formák a halál titokzatos birodalmában ●
    4. A hajnal kék kapuja
    5. Élő lény
    6. Jura
    7. Sgùrr Eilde Mòr
    8. Keringő
    9. Zúgó

    Album blurb pending

26. 25

    The Congregation

    Leprous

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Price ●
    2. Third Law
    3. Rewind
    4. The Flood
    5. Triumphant
    6. Within My Fence
    7. Red
    8. Slave
    9. Moon
    10. Down
    11. Lower

    Album blurb pending

27. 24

    Luminiferous

    High on Fire

    

    

    Stoner metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Black Plot
    2. Carcosa
    3. The Sunless Years
    4. Slave the Hive
    5. The Falconist ●
    6. Dark Side of the Compass
    7. The Cave
    8. Luminiferous
    9. The Lethal Chamber

    Album blurb pending

28. 23

    Bleeder

    Mutoid Man

    

    

    Speed metal | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    1. Bridgeburner ●
    2. Reptilian Soul
    3. Sweet Ivy
    4. 1000 Mile Stare
    5. Surveillance
    6. Beast
    7. Dead Dreams
    8. Soft Spot in My Skull
    9. Deadlock
    10. Bleeder

    Album blurb pending

29. 22

    VII: Sturm und Drang

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Still Echoes
    2. Erase This
    3. 512 ●
    4. Embers
    5. Footprints
    6. Overlord
    7. Anthropoid
    8. Engage the Fear Machine
    9. Delusion Pandemic
    10. Torches

    Album blurb pending

30. 21

    M

    Myrkur

    

    

    Black metal | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. Skøgen skulle dø
    2. Hævnen ●
    3. Onde børn
    4. Vølvens spådom
    5. Jeg er guden, I er tjenerne
    6. Nordlys
    7. Mordet
    8. Byssan lull
    9. Dybt i skoven
    10. Skaði
    11. Norn

    Album blurb pending

31. 20

    Sol Invictus

    Faith No More

    

    

    Alternative metal | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Sol Invictus
    2. Superhero
    3. Sunny Side up
    4. Separation Anxiety ●
    5. Cone of Shame
    6. Rise of the Fall
    7. Black Friday
    8. Motherfucker
    9. Matador
    10. From the Dead

    Album blurb pending

32. 19

    Berlin

    Kadavar

    

    

    Psychedelic rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lord of the Sky
    2. Last Living Dinosaur
    3. Thousand Miles Away from Home
    4. Filthy Illusion
    5. Pale Blue Eyes
    6. Stolen Dreams
    7. The Old Man
    8. Spanish Wild Rose ●
    9. See the World With Your Own Eyes
    10. Circles in My Mind
    11. Into the Night

    Album blurb pending

33. 18

    Archangel

    Soulfly

    

    

    Thrash metal | Groove metal

    Tracks:

    1. We Sold Our Sould to Metal
    2. Archangel
    3. Sodomimtes
    4. Ishtar Rising
    5. Live Life Hard!
    6. Shamash
    7. Bethlehem's Blood
    8. Titans ●
    9. Deceiver
    10. Mother of Dragons

    Album blurb pending

34. 17

    Ire

    Parkway Drive

    

    

    Metalcore | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Destroyer
    2. Dying to Believe
    3. Vice Grip
    4. Crushed ●
    5. Fractures
    6. Writings on the Wall
    7. Bottom Feeder
    8. The Sound of Violence
    9. Vicious
    10. Dedicated
    11. A Deathless Song

    Album blurb pending

35. 16

    After It All

    Delta Rae

    

    

    Folk rock | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Anthem
    2. Run
    3. Outlaws
    4. The Dream
    5. Scared
    6. Chasing Twisters
    7. Bethlehem Steel
    8. Dead End Road
    9. You're the One for Me
    10. Cold Day in Heaven
    11. I Will Never Die ●
    12. The Meaning of It All
    13. My Whole Life Long
    14. After It All

    Album blurb pending

36. 15

    The Direction of Last Things

    Intronaut

    

    

    Progressive metal | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fast Worms
    2. Digital Gerrymandering
    3. The Pleasant Surprise
    4. The Unlikely Event of a Water Landing ●
    5. Sul Ponticello
    6. The Direction of Last Things
    7. City Hymnal

    Album blurb pending

37. 14

    Hand. Cannot. Erase.

    Steven Wilson

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. First Regret
    2. 3 Years Older
    3. Hand Cannot Erase
    4. Perfect Life ●
    5. Routine
    6. Home Invasion
    7. Regret #9
    8. Transience
    9. Ancestral
    10. Happy Returns
    11. Ascendant Here on ...

    Album blurb pending

38. 13

    The Night Creeper

    Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

    

    

    Doom metal | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Waiting for Blood
    2. Murder Nights
    3. Downtown
    4. Pusher Man ●
    5. Yellow Moon
    6. Melody Lane
    7. The Night Creeper
    8. Inside
    9. Slow Death
    10. Black Motorcade

    Album blurb pending

39. 12

    Arrival

    The Vintage Caravan

    

    

    Hard rock | Stoner rock | Space rock

    Tracks:

    1. Last Day of Light
    2. Monolith
    3. Babylon ●
    4. Eclipsed
    5. Shaken Beliefs
    6. Crazy Horses
    7. Sandwalker
    8. Innerverse
    9. Carousel
    10. Winter Queen
    11. Say Hello
    12. Five Months

    Album blurb pending

40. 11

    A Life Unto Itself

    Steve Von Till

    

    

    Folk | Gothic Americana

    Tracks:

    1. In Your Wings
    2. A Life Unto Itself
    3. A Language of Blood ●
    4. Night of the Moon
    5. Birch Bark Box
    6. Chasing Ghosts
    7. Known but Not Named

    Album blurb pending

41. 10

    Disquiet

    Therapy?

    

    

    Aternative metal | punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Still Hurts
    2. Tides
    3. Good News Is No News
    4. Fall Behind
    5. Idiot Cousin
    6. Helpless Still Lost
    7. Insecurity
    8. Vulgar Display of Powder
    9. Words Fail Me
    10. Torment Sorrow Misery Strife ●
    11. Deathstimate

    Album blurb pending

42. 9

    Under the Red Cloud

    Amorphis

    

    

    Folk metal | melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Under the Red Cloud
    2. The Four Wise Ones
    3. Bad Blood ●
    4. The Skull
    5. Death of a King
    6. Sacrifice
    7. Dark Path
    8. Enemy at the Gates
    9. Tree of Ages
    10. White Night

    Album blurb pending

43. 8

    Purple

    Baroness

    

    

    Sludge metal | progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Morningstar
    2. Shock Me
    3. Try to Disappear
    4. Kerosene ●
    5. Fugue
    6. Chlorine & Wine
    7. The Iron Bell
    8. Desperation Burns
    9. If I Have to Wake up (Would You Stop the Rain?)
    10. Crossroads of Infinity

    Album blurb pending

44. 7

    Sorni Nai

    Kauan

    

    

    Post-rock | Post-metal

    Tracks:

    1. Akva ●
    2. Kit
    3. Khurum
    4. Nila
    5. At
    6. Khot
    7. Sat

    Album blurb pending

45. 6

    Songs from the North I, II & III

    Swallow the Sun

    

    

    Death-doom | Neofolk | Gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. With You Came the Whole of the World's Tears
    2. 10 Silver Bullets ●
    3. Rooms and Shadows
    4. Heartstrings Shattering
    5. Silhouettes
    6. The Memory of Light
    7. Lost & Catatonic
    8. From Happiness to Dust
    9. The Womb of Winter
    10. The Heart of a Cold White Land
    11. Away
    12. Pray for the Winds to Come
    13. Songs from the North
    14. 66°50´N,28°40´E
    15. Autumn Fire
    16. Before the Summer Dies
    17. The Gathering of Black Moths
    18. 7 Hours Late
    19. Empires of Loneliness
    20. Abandoned by the Light
    21. The Clouds Prepare for Battle

    Album blurb pending

46. 5

    What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Progressive folk | indie folk

    Tracks:

    1. The Singer Addresses His Audience
    2. Cavalry Captain
    3. Philomena
    4. Make You Better
    5. Lake Song
    6. Till the Water's All Long Gone
    7. The Wrong Year
    8. Carolina Low ●
    9. Better Not Wake the Baby
    10. Anti-Summersong
    11. Easy Come, Easy Go
    12. Mistral
    13. 12/17/12
    14. A Beginning Song

    Album blurb pending

47. 4

    Psychic Warfare

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Affidavit
    2. X-Ray Visions
    3. Firebirds
    4. A Quick Death in Texas
    5. Sucker for the Witch
    6. Your Love Is Incarceration
    7. Doom Saloon
    8. Our Lady of Electric Light
    9. Noble Savage
    10. Behold the Colossus
    11. Decapitation Blues
    12. Son of Virginia ●

    Album blurb pending

48. 3

    The Book of Souls

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Progressive metal | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. If Eternity Should Fail
    2. Speed of Light
    3. The Great Unknown
    4. The Red and the Black ●
    5. When the River Runs Deep
    6. The Book of Souls
    7. Death or Glory
    8. Shadows of the Valley
    9. Tears of a Clown
    10. The Man of Sorrows
    11. Empire of the Clouds

    Album blurb pending

49. 2

    Meliora

    Ghost

    

    

    Doom metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Spirit
    2. From the Pinnacle to the Pit
    3. Cirice
    4. Spöksonat
    5. He Is
    6. Mummy Dust
    7. Majesty
    8. Devil Church
    9. Absolution ●
    10. Deus In Absentia

    Album blurb pending

50. 1

    The Plague Within

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Death-doom | gothic metal

    Tracks:

    1. No Hope in Sight ●
    2. Terminal
    3. An Eternity of Lies
    4. Punishment Through Time
    5. Beneath Broken Earth
    6. Sacrifice the Flame
    7. Victim of the Past
    8. Flesh from Bone
    9. Cry out
    10. Return to the Sun

    Album blurb pending