My favourite albums from 2018

1. 50

   Silent Killer

   Mustasch

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Givin'
   2. Winners
   3. Libertà ●
   4. Barrage
   5. Lawbreaker
   6. Fire
   7. Silent Killer
   8. The Answer
   9. Grave Digger
   10. Burn

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Stoner metal

2. 49

   You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll

   Hardcore Superstar

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. AD/HD
   2. Electric Rider
   3. My Sanctuary
   4. Hit Me Where It Hurts
   5. You Can't Kill My Rock 'n Roll ●
   6. The Others
   7. Have Mercy on Me
   8. Never Cared for Snobbery
   9. Baboon
   10. Bring the House Down
   11. Medicine Man
   12. Goodbye

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Glam metal

3. 48

   Exile Amongst the Ruins

   Primordial

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Nail Their Tongues
   2. To Hell or the Hangman
   3. Where Lie the Gods
   4. Exile Amongst the Ruins
   5. Upon Our Spiritual Deathbed
   6. Stolen Years
   7. Sunken Lungs
   8. Last Call

   Genres

   • Doom metal
   • Pagan metal
   • Folk metal

4. 47

   Vicious

   Halestorm

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Black Vultures
   2. Skulls
   3. Uncomfortable ●
   4. Buzz
   5. Do Not Disturb
   6. Conflicted
   7. Killing Ourselves to Live
   8. Heart of Novocaine
   9. Painkiller
   10. White Dress
   11. Vicious
   12. The Silence

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Alternative rock

5. 46

   The Sciences

   Sleep

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Sciences
   2. Marijuanaut's Dream ●
   3. Sonic Titan
   4. Antarcticans Thawed
   5. Giza Butler
   6. The Botanist

   Genres

   • Stoner metal
   • Doom metal

6. 45

   Saboteurs of the Sun

   Limb

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Wych Elm
   2. Death in absentia
   3. Survival Knife
   4. Rising Tides ●
   5. The Astronaut
   6. Love Has No Name
   7. Curse Tablet
   8. Man on the Outside
   9. Truth Be Damned
   10. 100 Years

   Genres

   • Stoner metal

7. 44

   On Dark Horses

   Emma Ruth Rundle

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Fever Dreams
   2. Control
   3. Darkhorse ●
   4. Races
   5. Dead Set Eyes
   6. Light Song
   7. Apathy on the Indiana Border
   8. You Don't Have to Cry

   Genres

   • Post-rock
   • Ethereal wave

8. 43

   Sonder

   TesseracT

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Luminary
   2. King
   3. Orbital
   4. Juno ●
   5. Beneath My Skin
   6. Mirror Image
   7. Silent
   8. The Arrow

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Progressive rock

9. 42

   Vector

   Haken

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Clear
   2. The Good Doctor
   3. Puzzle Box ●
   4. Veil
   5. Nil by Mouth
   6. Host
   7. A Cell Divides

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Progressive rock

10. 41

    Ascend

    Vodun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Spirits Past
    2. Started From
    3. Providence of Ancestors
    4. Ogun's Fight ●
    5. Time Honoured
    6. New Doom
    7. Elusive Freedom
    8. Ascend
    9. Rituals
    10. For Your Kin

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Doom metal

11. 40

    True Rocker

    Monster Truck

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. True Rocker
    2. Thundertruck
    3. Evolution
    4. Devil Don't Care
    5. Being Cool Is Over
    6. Young City Heart
    7. Undone
    8. In My Own World
    9. Denim Danger
    10. Hurricane
    11. The Howlin' ●

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Blues rock

12. 39

    Our Raw Heart

    YOB

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ablaze ●
    2. The Screen
    3. In Reverie
    4. Lungs Reach
    5. Beauty in Falling Leaves
    6. Original Face
    7. Our Raw Heart

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Stoner metal

13. 38

    Applause of a Distant Crowd

    Vola

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. We Are Thin Air
    2. Ghosts
    3. Smartfriend
    4. Ruby Pool
    5. Alien Shivers ●
    6. Vertigo
    7. Still
    8. Applause of a Distant Crowd
    9. Whaler
    10. Green Screen Mother

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Art rock

14. 37

    Please Don't Be Dead

    Fantastic Negrito

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Plastic Hamburgers
    2. Bad Guy Necessity
    3. A Letter to Fear
    4. A Boy Named Andrew ●
    5. Transgender Biscuits
    6. The Suit That Won't Come off
    7. A Cold November Street
    8. The Duffer
    9. Dark Windows
    10. Never Give up
    11. Bullshit Anthem

    Genres

    • Blues rock

15. 36

    Eländes Elände

    Second Sun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Vems Fel
    2. Förneka Allt
    3. Noll Respekt
    4. Sång Till En Slagen Kämpe
    5. Enda Sunda Människan i Världen
    6. Ingen Tid För Allting
    7. Du Ska Se Att Det Blir Sämre ●
    8. Det Betyder Allt
    9. Panikångesattack
    10. Eländes Elände

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Hard rock

16. 35

    Automata II

    Between the Buried and Me

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Proverbial Bellow ●
    2. Glide
    3. Voice of Trespass
    4. The Grid

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Avant-garde metal

17. 34

    Desolation

    Khemmis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bloodletting
    2. Isolation ●
    3. Flesh to Nothing
    4. The Seer
    5. Maw of Time
    6. From Ruin

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Epic doom metal

18. 33

    The Arrow of Satan Is Drawn

    Bloodbath

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Fleischmann
    2. Bloodicide ●
    3. Wayward Samaritan
    4. Levitator
    5. Deader
    6. March of the Crucifiers
    7. Morbid Antichrist
    8. Warhead Ritual
    9. Only the Dead Survive
    10. Chainsaw Lullaby

    Genres

    • Death metal
    • Blackened death metal

19. 32

    Family Tree

    Black Stone Cherry

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bad Habit
    2. Burnin'
    3. New Kinda Feelin'
    4. Carry Me on Down the Road
    5. My Last Breath
    6. Southern Fried Friday Night
    7. Dancin' in the Rain
    8. Ain't Nobody
    9. James Brown
    10. You Got the Blues
    11. I Need a Woman
    12. Get Me Over You
    13. Family Tree ●

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Hard rock

20. 31

    Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

    Deafheaven

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. You Without End
    2. Honeycomb ●
    3. Canary Yellow
    4. Near
    5. Glint
    6. Night People
    7. Worthless Animal

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Black metal

21. 30

    Starcrawler

    Starcrawler

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Train
    2. Love's Gone Again
    3. I Love L.A.
    4. Different Angles
    5. Chicken Woman ●
    6. Pussy Tower
    7. Full of Pride
    8. Let Her Be
    9. Tears
    10. What I Want

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Art punk

22. 29

    Elastic Days

    J Mascis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. See You at the Movies
    2. Web So Dense
    3. I Went Dust
    4. Sky Is All We Had ●
    5. Picking out the Seeds
    6. Give It off
    7. Drop Me
    8. Cut Stranger
    9. Elastic Days
    10. Sometimes
    11. Wanted You Around
    12. Everything She Said

    Genres

    • Folk

23. 28

    Art of Doubt

    Metric

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dark Saturday
    2. Love You Back
    3. Die Happy
    4. Now or Never Now
    5. Art of Doubt
    6. Underline the Black
    7. Dress to Suppress ●
    8. Risk
    9. Seven Rules
    10. Holding out
    11. Anticipate
    12. No Lights on the Horizon

    Genres

    • Synth pop
    • New wave

24. 27

    The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness

    Panopticon

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Watch the Lights Fade
    2. En hvit ravns død
    3. Blåtimen
    4. Sheep in Wolves Clothing
    5. A Ridge Where the Tall Pines Once Stood
    6. En generell avsky
    7. The Singing Wilderness ●
    8. Snow Burdened Branches
    9. The Moss Beneath the Snow
    10. The Wandering Ghost
    11. Four Walls of Bone
    12. A Cross Abandoned
    13. Beast Rider
    14. Not Much Will Change When I'm Gone
    15. Echoes in the Snow
    16. The Itch
    17. At the Foot of the Mountain
    18. The Devil Walked in the Woods

    Genres

    • Atmospheric black metal
    • Americana

25. 26

    Electric Messiah

    High on Fire

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Spewn from the Earth
    2. Steps of the Ziggurat / House of Enlil
    3. Electric Messiah ●
    4. Sanctioned Annihilation
    5. The Pallid Mask
    6. God of the Godless
    7. Freebooter
    8. The Witch and the Christ
    9. Drowning Dog

    Genres

    • Stoner metal
    • Sludge metal

26. 25

    Queen of Time

    Amorphis

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Bee ●
    2. Message in the Amber
    3. Daughter of Hate
    4. The Golden Elk
    5. Wrong Direction
    6. Heart of the Giant
    7. We Accursed
    8. Grain of Sand
    9. Amongst Stars
    10. Pyres on the Coast

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

27. 24

    Blackout

    Audrey Horne

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. This Is War
    2. Audrevolution ●
    3. Blackout
    4. This One
    5. Midnight Man
    6. Light Your Way
    7. California
    8. Satellite
    9. Naysayer
    10. Rose Alley

    Genres

    • Hard rock

28. 23

    Ruins

    First Aid Kit

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Rebel Heart
    2. It's a Shame
    3. Fireworks ●
    4. Postcard
    5. To Live a Life
    6. My Wild Sweet Love
    7. Distant Star
    8. Ruins
    9. Hem of Her Dress
    10. Nothing Has to Be True

    Genres

    • Folk
    • Indie folk

29. 22

    Ritual

    Soulfly

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ritual ●
    2. Dead Behind the Eyes
    3. The Summoning
    4. Evil Empowered
    5. Under Rapture
    6. Demonized
    7. Blood on the Street
    8. Bite the Bullet
    9. Feedback!
    10. Soulfly XI

    Genres

    • Thrash metal
    • Groove metal

30. 21

    Attention Attention

    Shinedown

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Entrance
    2. Devil
    3. Black Soul
    4. Attention Attention
    5. Kill Your Conscience
    6. Pyro
    7. Monsters
    8. Darkside
    9. Creatures
    10. Evolve
    11. Get up
    12. Special
    13. The Human Radio ●
    14. Brilliant

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Alternative metal

31. 20

    Wasteland

    Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I See Through You
    2. Shockwave City
    3. No Return
    4. Blood Runner
    5. Stranger Tonight
    6. Wasteland
    7. Bedouin ●
    8. Exodus

    Genres

    • Heavy psych
    • Stoner rock

32. 19

    Hear the Rivers

    Greenleaf

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Let It out!
    2. Sweet Is the SOund
    3. A Point of a SSecret
    4. Good Ol'goat
    5. The Rumble and the Weight
    6. We Are the Pawns
    7. Oh My Bones
    8. In the Caverns Below ●
    9. High Fever
    10. The Rivers Lullaby

    Genres

    • Stoner rock

33. 18

    Northern Sun Sessions

    The Virginmarys

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Look out for My Brother
    2. S.O.S.4.U.N.I.
    3. Eye for an Eye
    4. For the Two of Us
    5. Blind Lead the Blind
    6. Get Me Back Home
    7. Northern Sun ●
    8. Wanna Be Free
    9. Flags
    10. Step up
    11. All Fall Down

    Genres

    • Garage rock
    • Blues rock

34. 17

    Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

    Sylvaine

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
    2. Mørklagt ●
    3. Abeyance
    4. Worlds Collide
    5. Severance
    6. L'appel du vide

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Post-metal

35. 16

    Firepower

    Judas Priest

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Firepower
    2. Lightning Strike
    3. Evil Never Dies
    4. Never the Heroes ●
    5. Necromancer
    6. Children of the Sun
    7. Guardians
    8. Rising from Ruins
    9. Flame Thrower
    10. Spectre
    11. Traitors Gate
    12. No Surrender
    13. Lone Wolf
    14. Sea of Red

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

36. 15

    Resonant Sun

    Earth Ship

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. A Handful of Flies
    2. Smoke Filled Sky
    3. Barren
    4. Resonant Sun
    5. Dormant ●
    6. Whiplash
    7. Crimson Eyes
    8. River of Salt

    Genres

    • Sludge metal
    • Stoner metal

37. 14

    Civilisation

    Southern Empire

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Goliath's Moon ●
    2. Cries for the Lonely
    3. Crossroads
    4. Innocence & Fortune

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

38. 13

    Rainier Fog

    Alice in Chains

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The One You Know
    2. Rainier Fog
    3. Red Giant
    4. Fly
    5. Drone
    6. Deaf Ears Blind Eyes
    7. Maybe
    8. So Far Under
    9. Never Fade
    10. All I Am ●

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Doom metal

39. 12

    Geometria

    Thy Catafalque

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Hajnali csillag
    2. Szamojéd freskó
    3. Töltés ●
    4. Gőte
    5. Sárember
    6. Hajó
    7. Lágyrész
    8. Sík
    9. Balra a nap
    10. Tenger, tenger
    11. Ének a búzamezőkről

    Genres

    • Avant-garde metal
    • Progressive electronic

40. 11

    Survive Sunrise

    ASG

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Survive Sunrise ●
    2. Execution Thirst
    3. Up from My Dreams
    4. Lightning Song
    5. Hawks on the Run
    6. The Heaven Moon
    7. Kubrick Colors
    8. God Knows Me
    9. Heavy Scars
    10. Weekend Money
    11. Lamb Song
    12. Florida Sleep on

    Genres

    • Stoner rock

41. 10

    [untitled]

    mewithoutYou

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. 9:27a.m., 7/29
    2. Julia (or, 'Holy to the LORD' on the Bells of Horses)
    3. Another Head for Hydra
    4. [doormouse sighs]
    5. Winter Solstice
    6. Flee, Thou Matadors! ●
    7. Tortoises, All the Way down
    8. 2,459 miles
    9. Wendy & Betsy
    10. New Wine, New Skins
    11. Michael, Row Your Boat Ashore
    12. Break on Through (to the Other side) [pt. Two]

    Genres

    • Avant-garde rock
    • Post-hardcore

42. 9

    Vacuum

    Entropia

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Poison ●
    2. Wisdom
    3. Astral
    4. Vacuum
    5. Hollow
    6. Endure

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Atmospheric sludge metal

43. 8

    Gateways

    The Vintage Caravan

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Set Your Sights
    2. The Way
    3. Reflections
    4. On the Run ●
    5. All This Time
    6. Hidden Streams
    7. Reset
    8. Nebula
    9. Farewell
    10. Tune out
    11. The Chain

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

44. 7

    Cleave

    Therapy?

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wreck It Like Beckett
    2. Kakistocracy ●
    3. Callow
    4. Expelled
    5. Success? Success Is Survival
    6. Save Me form the Ordinary
    7. Crutch
    8. I Stand Alone
    9. Dumbdown
    10. No Sunshine

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Punk rock

45. 6

    ... As We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye

    Chapel of Disease

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Void of Words
    2. Oblivious — Obnoxious — Defiaant ●
    3. Song of the Gods
    4. Null
    5. 1,000 Different Paths
    6. The Sound of Shallow Grey

    Genres

    • Death 'n' roll
    • Death metal

46. 5

    Reverence

    Parkway Drive

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wishing Wells
    2. Prey ●
    3. Absolute Power
    4. Cemetery Bloom
    5. The Void
    6. I Hope You Rot
    7. Shadow Boxing
    8. In Blood
    9. Chronos
    10. The Colour of Leaving

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Metalcore

47. 4

    Book of Bad Decisions

    Clutch

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Gimme the Keys
    2. Spirit of '76
    3. Book of Bad Decisions
    4. How to Shake Hands
    5. In Walks Barbarella
    6. Vision Quest
    7. Weird Times
    8. Emily Dickinson
    9. Sonic Counselor
    10. A Good Fire
    11. Ghoul Wrangler
    12. H.B. Is in Control
    13. Hot Bottom Feeder
    14. Paper & Strife
    15. Lorelei ●

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Hard rock

48. 3

    I'll Be Your Girl

    The Decemberists

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Once in My Life
    2. Cutting Stone ●
    3. Severed
    4. Stairwatcher
    5. Tripping Along
    6. Your Ghost
    7. Everything Is Awful
    8. Sucker's Prayer
    9. We All Die Young
    10. Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
    11. I'll Be Your Girl

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Synth-pop

49. 2

    Eat the Elephant

    A Perfect Circle

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Eat the Elephant
    2. Disillusioned
    3. The Contrarian
    4. The Doomed
    5. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish ●
    6. TalkTalk
    7. By and down the River
    8. Delicious
    9. DLB
    10. Hourglass
    11. Feathers
    12. Get the Lead out

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Avant-garde rock

50. 1

    Prequelle

    Ghost

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ashes
    2. Rats
    3. Faith
    4. See the Light
    5. Miasma
    6. Dance Macabre ●
    7. Pro Memoria
    8. Witch Image
    9. Helvetesfönster
    10. Life Eternal

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Doom metal