2018 was a great musical year for me as I finally had enough pocket money to satisfy my CD mania... It took me only three decades...

So here is my top 50 of 2018

Album count: 140
Average rating: 7.13

1.Ihsahn - Àmr

2.Skuggsjá - Hugsjá

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

5.Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment

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One band, one album in alphabetical order. No EPs, demos, etc.
Favourite album: Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
Favourite song: Schammasch - "Above The Stars Of God"

1.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Aenaon - Hypnosophy

5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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These are the 30 albums I listened to the most in 2018. I haven't paid much attention to the albums' order. It's been a pretty good year for metal, just like every year; if you are willing to search, you will find. I'd love to hear how good or bad you think this list is.

Best EP: Cleõphüzz - Wizard Of Phüzz

1.Et Moriemur - Epigrammata

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Varathron - Patriarchs Of Evil

4.Dee Snider - For The Love Of Metal

5.Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye

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Heavy, Doom, Black, Death, Thrash, Prog, Power...these are my favorite 100 albums of 2018... STAY METAL!!!

25 Honorable Mentions:

Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew
Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light
Cosmic Church - Täyttymys

1.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

2.Shylmagoghnar - Transience

3.Altars Of Grief - Iris

4.Horrendous - Idol

5.Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror

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1.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Tribulation - Down Below

4.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

5.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

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Cigars, Craft beer and whisky, in your 20's you party, get leid, after 30 only what left in life is metal, cigars, craft beer, whisky and metal, because rest of freaks are old, whit family, children and boring life. And yes after 30 real men grows beard and dont shave we have no reason why.

1-5 is in order!! As I like and best albums of the year.

1.Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

2.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

3.Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood

4.Forest Of Shadows - Among The Dormant Watchers

5.Chrome Division - One Last Ride

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2018 albums repos

1.Tribulation - Down Below

2.Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

3.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

4.Therion - Beloved Antichrist

5.The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Summoning - With Doom We Come

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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I'm trying to find as many albums as I can this year, and I'm building the list day after day. It should end as a top list, but now it's under construction and I'm just tracking a couple of stuff. I'm not focusing on "good" records, but more on whatever strongly catches my attention.

(+) favorites
★ most played

1.Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep

2.Cauldron - New Gods

3.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

4.Messa - Feast For Water

5.OddZoo - Future Flesh

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Limted to mostly unknown, unsigned and obscure Extreme metal releases.

For more recs, check out the 2018 releases from the labels in this list.

Non-metal

Listen queue: Haeiresis, Eosphoros, Carpe Noctem, Psicosfera, Ars Magna Umbrae, Dysylumn, Sorcier Des Glaces, Dauþuz, Mare, Imperial Triumphant, Aseroe, Spite, Wolvennest, Mask, Plaguestorm, Mahr, Kosmogyr, Foehammer, Bismarck, Famyne, Morphinist

1.Cult Of Occult - Anti Life

2.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

3.Esoctrilihum - Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness)

4.Esoctrilihum - Inhüma

5.Entropia (POL) - Vacuum

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

3.Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch

4.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

5.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

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Every metal album from 2018 I've heard and liked enough to play more than a couple of times.

1.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

2.Mike LePond's Silent Assassins - Pawn And Prophecy

3.Grá - Väsen

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Ihsahn - Àmr

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1.Drudkh - Їм Часто Сниться Капіж (They Often See Dreams About The Spring)

2.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

3.Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye

4.Judas Priest - Firepower

5.Shining - X - Varg Utan Flock

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1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Thou - Magus

3.The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

4.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

5.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

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1.Fifth Quadrant - Vision

2.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

3.Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

4.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

5.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

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