Kvadrat, Toadliquor, and Yakor top my list this year. But I think Darkened have now released my AOTY

I'm mostly shocked by Svavar's new haircut. That'll take some getting used to :D

Köld to me. But that's complaining at an extremely high level. Solstafir just had two statistically impossibly good releases that everything new is now measured against.

Same here @no one. Svartir Sandar was last good album imo. Having said that I don't want to get to exited. I don't want to get high on singles only to get meh album (like it was with In Flames)

Looks like Winterfylleth has new album, usually boring but ill give it a try because I like the cover art

Taste is a strange thing. I really liked Solstafir and saw them in sthlm with Otta, but now it doesnt matter if they make a great album, probably wouldnt care. Its quite hard to keep old taste, probably individual though.

Aquilus and Cave Sermon have made this year awesome so far, though there hasn't been much in between for me