My favourite albums from 2019

1. 50

   Infest the Rats' Nest

   King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Planet B
   2. Mars for the Rich
   3. Organ Farmer ●
   4. Superbug
   5. Venusian 1
   6. Perihelion
   7. Venusian 2
   8. Self-Immolate
   9. Hell

   Genres

   • Stoner metal
   • Hevay psych

2. 49

   Kollong

   Nunca Seremos Dichosos

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Mawiza Ñi Piwke ●
   2. Killari
   3. Kumbagüe
   4. Küxtal
   5. Acnestral
   6. ¡¡Nunca!!
   7. Prescindible
   8. Bruma escóndome
   9. Meil Witxan

   Genres

   • Groove metal
   • Progressive metal

3. 48

   Union

   Ihlo

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Union
   2. Reanimate
   3. Starseeker
   4. Hollow
   5. Triumph
   6. Parhelion
   7. Coalescence ●

   Genres

   • Progressive metal
   • Progressive rock

4. 47

   The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

   Obsequiae

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. L'autrier m'en aloie
   2. Ceres in Emerald Streams
   3. In the Garden of Hyacinths
   4. Palästinalied
   5. The Palms of Sorrowed Kings ●
   6. Morrigan
   7. Per tropo fede
   8. Lone Isle
   9. Asleep in the Bracken
   10. Quant voi la flor novele
   11. Emanations Before the Pythia
   12. In hoc anni circulo

   Genres

   • Folk metal
   • Melodic black metal

5. 46

   Ategnatos

   Eluveitie

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Ategnatos
   2. Ancus
   3. Deathwalker
   4. Black Water Dawn
   5. A Cry in the Wilderness ●
   6. The Raven Hill
   7. The Silvern Glow
   8. Ambiramus
   9. Mine Is the Fury
   10. The Slumber
   11. Worship
   12. Trinoxtion
   13. Threefold Death
   14. Breathe
   15. Rebirth
   16. Eclipse

   Genres

   • Folk metal
   • Melodic death metal

6. 45

   Rock'n'Roll Baby

   Wolfmother

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Higher
   2. Rock'n'Roll Survivor
   3. Hot Night
   4. Kick Ass
   5. Spanish Rose
   6. Freedom Is Mine
   7. Special Lady ●

   Genres

   • Garage rock
   • Hard rock

7. 44

   Get the Money

   Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Crossed the Line
   2. Don't Look at Me That Way
   3. You're No Good at Life No More
   4. I Really Blew It
   5. Queen of the Clowns
   6. Get the Money ●
   7. C U in Hell
   8. Middle Child
   9. Kiss the Ring
   10. Shapes of Things

   Genres

   • Art rock
   • Hard rock

8. 43

   Love Is All You Love

   Band of Skulls

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Carnivorous ●
   2. That's My Trouble
   3. Love Is All You Love
   4. Not the Kind of Nothing
   5. Cool Your Battles
   6. Sound of You
   7. Thanks a Lot
   8. We're Alive
   9. Speed of Light
   10. Gold

   Genres

   • Alternative rock
   • Garage rock revival

9. 42

   Ghosteen

   Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Spinning Song
   2. Bright Horses ●
   3. Waiting for You
   4. Night Raid
   5. Sun Forest
   6. Galleon Ship
   7. Ghosteen Speaks
   8. Leviathan
   9. Ghosteen
   10. Fireflies
   11. Hollywood

   Genres

   • Ambient

10. 41

    I, the Mask

    In Flames

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Voices
    2. I, the Mask
    3. Call My Name
    4. I Am Above ●
    5. Follow Me
    6. (This Is Our) House
    7. We Will Remember
    8. In This Life
    9. Burn
    10. Deep Inside
    11. All the Pain
    12. Stat With Me

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Melodic metalcore

11. 40

    The Goat

    Puppy

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Black Hole
    2. Vengeance
    3. Poor Me
    4. Just Like You
    5. And So I Burn ...
    6. Entombed
    7. World Stands Still ●
    8. Bathe in Blood
    9. Nightwalker
    10. I Feel an Evil
    11. Handlebard
    12. Demons

    Genres

    • Alternative metal
    • Power pop

12. 39

    Sound & Fury

    Sturgill Simpson

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ronin
    2. Remember to Breathe ●
    3. Sing Along
    4. A Good Look
    5. Make Art Not Friends
    6. Best Clockmaker on Mars
    7. All Said and Done
    8. Last Man Standing
    9. Mercury in Retrograde
    10. Fastest Horse in Town

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Psychedelic rock

13. 38

    Veil of Imagination

    Wilderun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Unimaginable Zero Summer ●
    2. O Resolution!
    3. Sleeping Ambassadors of the Sun
    4. Scentless Core (Budding)
    5. Far From Where Dreams Unfurl
    6. Scentless Core (Fading)
    7. The Tyranny of Imagination
    8. When the Fire and the Rose Were One

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

14. 37

    Apoptosis

    Allagaeon

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Parthenogenesis
    2. Interphase // Meliosis
    3. Extremophiles (B)
    4. The Secular Age
    5. Exothermic Chemical Combustion
    6. Extremophiles (A)
    7. Metaphobia
    8. Tsunami and Submergence
    9. Colors of the Currents
    10. Stellar Tidal Disruption ●
    11. Apoptosis

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

15. 36

    I Am Easy to Find

    The National

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. You Had Your Soul with You
    2. Quiet Light
    3. Roman Holiday ●
    4. Oblivions
    5. The Pull of You
    6. Hey Rosey
    7. I Am Easy to Find
    8. Her Father in the Pool
    9. Where Is Her Head
    10. Not in Kansas
    11. So Far So Fast
    12. Dust Swirls in Strange Light
    13. Hairpin Turns
    14. Rylan
    15. Underwater
    16. Light Years

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Post-punk revival

16. 35

    We Are Not Your Kind

    Slipknot

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Insert Coin
    2. Unsainted
    3. Birth of the Cruel
    4. Death Because of Death
    5. Nero Forte ●
    6. Critical Darling
    7. A Liar's Funeral
    8. Red Flag
    9. What's Next
    10. Spiders
    11. Orphan
    12. My Pain
    13. Not Long for This World
    14. Solway Firth

    Genres

    • Groove metal
    • Alternative metal

17. 34

    SOS

    Millencolin

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. SOS
    2. For Yesterday ●
    3. Nothing
    4. Sour Days
    5. Yanny & Laurel
    6. Reach You
    7. Do You Want Her
    8. Trumpets & Putine
    9. Let It Be
    10. Dramatic Planet
    11. Caveman's Land
    12. Carry on

    Genres

    • Punk rock

18. 33

    F & M

    Lindemann

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Steh auf
    2. Ich weiß es nicht
    3. Allesfresser
    4. Blut
    5. Knebel ●
    6. Frau & Mann
    7. Ach so gern
    8. Schlaf ein
    9. Gummi
    10. Platz eins
    11. We weiß das schon

    Genres

    • Neue Deutsche Härte
    • Industrial metal

19. 32

    Holy Shit

    Nebula

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Man's Best Friend
    2. Messiah
    3. It's All Over
    4. Witching Hour ●
    5. Fistful of Pills
    6. Tomorrow Never Comes
    7. Gates of Eden
    8. Let's Get Lost
    9. The Cry of a Tortured World

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Psychedelic rock

20. 31

    Periphery IV: Hail Stan

    Periphery

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Reptile
    2. Blood Eagle
    3. Chvrch Bvrner
    4. Garden in the Bones
    5. It's Only Smiles
    6. Follow Your Ghost
    7. Crush ●
    8. Sentient Glow
    9. Satellites

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Djent

21. 30

    Threshold

    Dhidalah

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Neuer Typ ●
    2. Adamski
    3. Jovian Sky
    4. A.U.M.

    Genres

    • Psychedelic rock
    • Space rock

22. 29

    Moving Backwards

    Wheel

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Vultures
    2. Wheel ●
    3. Tyrant
    4. Up the Chain
    5. Skeletons
    6. Where the Pieces Lie
    7. Lacking

    Genres

    • Progressive metal

23. 28

    Hallucinogen

    Blut Aus Nord

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Nomos Nebulaem ●
    2. Nebeleste
    3. Sybelius
    4. Anthosmos
    5. Mahagma
    6. Haallucinälia
    7. Cosma Procyris

    Genres

    • Atmospheric black metal
    • Progressive metal

24. 27

    OK, I'm Sick

    Badflower

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. x Ana x
    2. The Jester
    3. Ghost
    4. We're in Love
    5. Proomise Me
    6. Daddy ●
    7. 24
    8. Heroin
    9. Die
    10. Murder Games
    11. Girlfriend
    12. Wide Eyes
    13. Cry

    Genres

    • Alternative rock
    • Emo-pop

25. 26

    Love Exchange Failure

    White Ward

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Love Exchange Failure
    2. Poisonous Flowers of Violence ●
    3. Dead Heart Confession
    4. Shelter
    5. No Cure for Pain
    6. Surfaces and Depths
    7. Uncanny Delusions

    Genres

    • Blackgaze
    • Dark jazz

26. 25

    Home

    The Offering

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Waste Away
    2. Lovesick
    3. Ultraviolence ●
    4. A Dance with Diana
    5. Failure (S.O.S.)
    6. Hysteria
    7. Glory
    8. Home
    9. Violets

    Genres

    • Power metal
    • Groove metal

27. 24

    Gold & Grey

    Baroness

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Front Toward Enemy
    2. I'm Already Gone
    3. Seasons
    4. Sevens
    5. Tourniquet ●
    6. Anchor's Lament
    7. Throw Me an Anchor
    8. I'd Do Anything
    9. Blankets of Ash
    10. Emmett — Radiating Light
    11. Cold-Blooded Angels
    12. Crooked Mile
    13. Broken Halo
    14. Can Oscura
    15. Borderlines
    16. Assault on East Falls
    17. Pale Sun

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Space rock

28. 23

    Nattfiolen

    Jordsjø

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Ouverture
    2. Stifinner
    3. Solens sirkulære sang
    4. Septemberbål
    5. Mine templer II
    6. Til Våren ●
    7. Ulvenatt

    Genres

    • Symphonic prog
    • Progressive rock

29. 22

    Garden of Storms

    In Mourning

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Black Storm
    2. Yields of Sand
    3. Hierophant ●
    4. Magenta Ritual
    5. Huntress Moon
    6. Tribunal of Suns
    7. The Last Outpost

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal
    • Progressive metal

30. 21

    Humanicide

    Death Angel

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Humanicide
    2. Divine Defector
    3. Aggressor
    4. I Came for Blood ●
    5. Immortal Behated
    6. Alive and Screaming
    7. The Pack
    8. Ghost of Me
    9. Revelation Song
    10. Of Rats and Men

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

31. 20

    When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light

    Swallow the Sun

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light
    2. The Crimson Crown
    3. Firelights
    4. Upon the Water ●
    5. Stone Wings
    6. Clouds on Your Side
    7. Here on the Black Earth
    8. Never Left

    Genres

    • Doom metal
    • Gothic metal

32. 19

    True North

    Borknagar

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Thunderous
    2. Up North ●
    3. The Fire That Burns
    4. Lights
    5. Wild Father's Heart
    6. Mount Rapture
    7. Into the White
    8. Tidal
    9. Voices

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Folk metal

33. 18

    Anesthetic

    Mark Morton

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Cross off
    2. Sworn Apart
    3. Axis
    4. The Never
    5. Save Defiance
    6. Blur
    7. Back from the Dead
    8. Reveal
    9. Imaginary Days ●
    10. The Truth Is Dead

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Hard rock

34. 17

    Rewind, Replay, Rebound

    Volbeat

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Last Day under the Sun
    2. Pelvis on Fire
    3. Rewind the Exit
    4. Die to Live ●
    5. When We Were Kids
    6. Sorry Sack of Bones
    7. Cloud 9
    8. Cheapside Sloggers
    9. Maybe I Believe
    10. Parasite
    11. Leviathan
    12. The Awakening of Bonnie Parker
    13. The Everlasting
    14. 7:24

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Heavy metal
    • Rockabilly

35. 16

    The Body Cosmic

    Iapetus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Body Cosmic ●
    2. Dark Matter Genetics
    3. I Contain Multitudes
    4. Galaxy Collective
    5. For Creatures Such As We
    6. Hadean Heart
    7. Moonwatcher
    8. The Star of Collapse
    9. Angelis Novus

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Melodic death metal

36. 15

    Beneath the Eyrie

    Pixies

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. In the Arms of Mrs. Marc of Cain
    2. On Graveyard Hill
    3. Catfish Kate
    4. This Is My Fate
    5. Ready for Love ●
    6. Silver Bullet
    7. Long Rider
    8. Los surfer muertos
    9. St. Nazaire
    10. Bird of PRey
    11. Daniel Boone
    12. Death Horizon

    Genres

    • Indie rock
    • Gothic rock

37. 14

    Free

    Iggy Pop

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Free
    2. Loves Missing ●
    3. Sonali
    4. James Bond
    5. Dirty Sanchez
    6. Glow in the Dark
    7. Page
    8. We Are the People
    9. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
    10. The Dawn

    Genres

    • Ambient
    • Jazz fusion

38. 13

    Mana

    Unto Others

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Nightfall ●
    2. Jackie
    3. Cosmic Overdrive
    4. Don't Waste Your Time
    5. Give Me to the Night
    6. Blade and the Will
    7. Dragon, Why Do You Cry?
    8. Double Negative
    9. It'll Be Over Before You Know It
    10. A SIngle Solemn Rose
    11. Mana

    Genres

    • Gothic metal
    • Gothic rock

39. 12

    Spiritual Instinct

    Alcest

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Les jardins de minuit
    2. Protection
    3. Sapphire ●
    4. L'île des morts
    5. Le miroir
    6. Spiritual Instinct

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Blackgaze

40. 11

    A Dawn to Fear

    Cult of Luna

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Silent Man ●
    2. Lay Your Head to Rest
    3. A Dawn to Fear
    4. Nightwalkers
    5. Lights on the Hill
    6. We Feel the End
    7. Inland Rain
    8. The Fall

    Genres

    • Post-metal
    • Progressive metal

41. 10

    Club Majesty

    Royal Republic

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Fireman & Dancer
    2. Can't Fight the Disco
    3. Boomerang
    4. Under Cover
    5. Like a Lover
    6. Blunt Force Trauma
    7. Fortune Favors
    8. Flower Power Madness
    9. Stop Movin'
    10. Anna-Leigh ●
    11. Bulldog

    Genres

    • Disco punk
    • funk rock

42. 9

    Berserker

    Amon Amarth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Fafner's Gold
    2. Crack the Sky
    3. Mjölner, Hammer of Thor
    4. Shield Wall ●
    5. Valkyria
    6. Raven's Flight
    7. Ironside
    8. The Berserker at Stamford Bridge
    9. When Once Again We Can Set Our Sails
    10. Skoll and Hati
    11. Wings of Eagles
    12. Into the Dark

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

43. 8

    Heart Like a Grave

    Insomnium

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wail of the North
    2. Valediction
    3. Neverlast
    4. Pale Morning Star
    5. And Bells They Toll
    6. The Offering
    7. Mute Is My Sorrow
    8. Twilight Trails
    9. Heart Like a Grave ●
    10. Karelia

    Genres

    • Melodic death metal

44. 7

    Hidden History of the Human Race

    Blood Incantation

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Slave Species of the Gods
    2. The Giza Power Plant ●
    3. Inner Paths (to Outer Space)
    4. Awakening from the Dream of Existence to the Multidimensional Nature of Our Reality (Mirror of the Soul)

    Genres

    • Technical death metal
    • Psychedelic rock

45. 6

    Feral Roots

    Rival Sons

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Do You Worst
    2. Sugar on the Bone
    3. Back in the Woods
    4. Look Away
    5. Feral Roots
    6. Too Bad
    7. Stood by Me
    8. Imperial Joy
    9. All Directions
    10. End of Forever
    11. Shooting Stars ●

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Soul 'n' roll

46. 5

    Sugar & Joy

    The Dead South

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Act of Approach
    2. Diamond Ring
    3. Blue Trash
    4. Black Lung
    5. Fat Little Killer Boy
    6. Broken Cowboy ●
    7. Snake Man Pt. 1
    8. Snake Man Pt. 2
    9. Heaven in a Wheelbarrow
    10. Crawdaddy Served Cold
    11. Alabama People
    12. Spaghetti
    13. Distance Oneself

    Genres

    • Bluegrass
    • Folk

47. 4

    Vulture Culture

    Bombus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. A Ladder — Not a Shovel
    2. (You Are All Just) Human Beings
    3. Mama
    4. It's All Over
    5. In the Shadows ●
    6. We Lost a Lot of Blood Today
    7. Vulture Culture
    8. Two Wolves and One Sheep
    9. Feeling Is Believing

    Genres

    • Stoner rock
    • Hard rock

48. 3

    In Cauda Venenum

    Opeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Livets trädgård / Garden of Earthly Delights
    2. Svekets prins / Dignity
    3. Hjärtat vet vad handen gö / Heart un Hand
    4. De närmast sörjande / Next of Kin
    5. Minnets yta / Lovelorn Crime ●
    6. Charlatan / Charlatan
    7. Ingen sanning är allas / Universal Truth
    8. Banemannen / The Garroter
    9. Kontinuerlig drift / Continuum
    10. Allting tar slut / All Things Will Pass

    Genres

    • Progressive metal
    • Progressive rock

49. 2

    Rammstein

    Rammstein

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Deutschland
    2. Radio
    3. Zeig dich ●
    4. Ausländer
    5. Puppe
    6. Was ich liebe
    7. Diamant
    8. Weit weg
    9. Tattoo
    10. Hallomann

    Genres

    • Neue Deutsche Härte
    • Industrial metal

50. 1

    Fear Inoculum

    Tool

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Fear Inoculum
    2. Pneuma
    3. Litanie contre la peur
    4. Invincible ●
    5. Legion Inoculant
    6. Descending
    7. Culling Voices
    8. Chocolate Chip Trip
    9. 7empest
    10. Mockingbeat

    Genres

    • Progressive metal