best albums of 2019

[droidspawn]

list time. ill probably be the only one like usual to make one

only thing left im waiting on coming out this year yet is death atlas. im pretty sure itll make my top 10

[jawn galliano]

2019 highlights for me are:

gum takes tooth - arrow
bibio - ribbons
tim hecker - anoyo
deathspell omega - furnaces of palingenesia
operators - radiant dawn
cave-in - final transmission
lingua ignota - caligula
purple mountains - s/t
tool - fear inoculum
kayo dot - blasphemy
blut aus nord - hallucinogen
nick cave - ghosteen
caina - gentle illness
have a nice life - sea of worry
swans - leaving meaning

i'm missing a few from here

still looking forward to the new blood incantation which will probably make the list

it's been a great year for new music

[droidspawn]

I feel like you have a Tim Hecker album in your year end list every year. He must be a workaholic

[droidspawn]

In order:

sleep token - sundowning
tool - fear inoculum
slipknot - we are not your kind
rammstein - rammstein
vitriol - to bathe from the throat of cowardice
3teeth - metawar
lingua ignota - caligula
devourment - obscene majesty
thy art is murder - human target
batushka - panihida

honorable mentions:

knocked loose - a different shade of blue
exhorder - mourn the southern skies
of mice and men - earthandsky
deathspell omega - the furnaces of palingenesia
life of agony - the sound of scars

[rhino]

Probably the most underwhelming year of music in recent times

[droidspawn]

[jawn galliano]

I feel like you have a Tim Hecker album in your year end list every year. He must be a workaholic

he puts out stuff relatively frequently, but this is actually the first time he's had back to back releases. konoyo & anoyo were recorded together i think, just released with a 7-8 month gap

[droidspawn]

It’s probably that he’s made an album every year you choose to do a list. my memory is just shit.

[jawn galliano]

very possible! his last album before those pairs was in 2016, which from memory had enough good releases that i would've put a list together

[Ninny]

Cattle decapitation
Earth
Maybe Blood Incantation

[Corpsepyre]

Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
SLOW - VI - Dantalion
Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
Chelsea Wolfe - Birth of Violence
Cigarettes After Sex - Cry
Heilung - Futha
ISON - Inner Space
Larska - Can't Steal It
Klone - Le Grand Voyage
Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1
Mortiferum - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths

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Some more too.

It's been a very good year.

[droidspawn]

Shit I forgot heilung. I add them to my hms

[Ninny]

only thing left im waiting on coming out this year yet is death atlas. im pretty sure itll make my top 10

It's taking so long

[droidspawn]

I know

[happiness and harmony]

i have six more weeks to think about this

[Ninny]

I know

They're doing some european summer festivals

[Paste Human]

Incidentally earlier today I heard the only two albums that came out in 2019 that I like. Granted I don't really check out much new stuff anymore so obviously there's probably plenty out there I would enjoy if I wasn't too lazy to go looking for it. Anyway:

Mortiferum - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvtbYISZUA

Oath of Cruelty - Summary Execution at Dawn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scnuG_ujXp4

I could see myself eventually buying the Mortiferum album. The Oath of Cruelty one more than anything jumped out at me as a respectable throwback album, which doesn't happen often. I think the fact that the band members have been around for a while is what enabled them to pull it off as well as they did, especially for a debut.

A kid I work with listens to a lot of metal and travels to Europe kind of a lot to see shows, so I've started getting a little more up to date with what's going on. It's always fun chatting with him but I feel like an old fart only ever talking about shit that came out 25-35 years ago

[shadowalk]

the new tool was pretty much the only new thing i listened to last year

that and a compilation of electronic chillout music

[vO)))id]

Sleep Token
DsO
Cattle Decap

Prolly some other stuff too...

[droidspawn]

my okahoma slamma

[Dr. Gonzo]

That Possessed, Imperium Dekadenz, MGLA record's though....

[vO)))id]

Oh dang thats right.