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
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freshly added to the list, albums needing more spins
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(-) albums I won't listen to again

EDIT: the year is ending, I still have a couple of thing to check. So far the experiment was rewarding, I could find pretty good stuff and discover new things. However it took a lot of effort to go through ~700 albums and sort what's interesting from what's not. I don't think I'm ever gonna use the same approach and I'll try to be smarter with my picks.

I also noticed some trends and quickly got fed up with:
- DM bands mimicing Entombed/Dismember with jaded songwriting
- BM bands with spacy mix, guitars really far in the background, constant blastbeats and a tiny reverbed screaming toad on vocals
- DM/BM mimicing Portal. That's not a bad thing, I suppose it's a new sub-genre unfolding.
- doom/depressive/shoegaze boring stuff (a lot of that on this site, are you all depressed ?)
- commercial HM/PM keeping on selling the same shit over and over, with an overproduced sound and stupid clips
- PM/HM labeled as "progressive" while they do exactly the same as any other PM/HM labeled "progressive"
- BTDM/slam with all the same sound and no sense of songwriting
- songs with a small intro running directly into someone holding a big nasty scream, just to insure you you're listening to "extreme" music.
- albums with a mandatory 1:30 intro that isn't introducting the next song properly and is just there to extend the album length, or just for the sake of having a 1:30 without any real reason

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Ansercanagicus | 26.08.2018

	1.	Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep 2018 ★ (+++) Progressive Instrumental Metalcore. O boi it's good ! the musicianship and production are top-notch, and this album feels like a major event for the metal timeline, no doubt a lot of emule will spawn in the future years
	2.	Cauldron - New Gods 1988 ★ (+++) You know OSHM is my soft spot. Well, this has a good sound, a strong 4/4 beat, efficient riffs cycling for 5 minutes, melodic vocal lines. It's nothing new, but really enjoyable. - My wet HM dreams are fulfilled, thanks to awesomely stupid riffs, and stupid reverb and stupid lyrics and stupid dark mood arpeggios, aaahhhh...
	3.	Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 2018 ★ (+++) Portal-like DM with a brass ensemble. Great. I love the sound of the drums on this record, as much as the jazzy parts, deep growls and high shrieks. Everything is raw and perfectly molten together. That's my highlight concerning DM this year, alongside Chaos Echoes, Exlimitir and Convulsing. I could say that it's maybe a bit unfocused, with atmospheric, harsh noisy parts and more straight death metal parts intertwined, which leaves a bit confused concerning the direction the album might be taking at some point. To be clear the songwriting and album directing could be tightened. Part from that everything is perfect. I also like the lyrical content and imagery, quite refreshing for DM.
	4.	Messa - Feast For Water 2018 ★ (+++) I love Messa's ambiance, it's so fresh and relieving for doom/drone. The first songs are amazingly beautiful
	5.	OddZoo - Future Flesh 2018 ★ (+++) Electro/Noise. This is awesome, it's colorful, and truly atmospheric, and catchy all at once. Somehow it belongs next to Death Grips in the list, that's also noisy and catchy... Although it's not metal I find it really better than most atmospheric, post-metal, noise shoegaze whatever I encountered this year...
	6.	Gåte - Svevn 2018 ★ (+++) folk / alt-rock. I'm used to spitting on folk metal bands. Because I like folk, and I like metal, but to me, folk metal is often a bad mix of mediocre folk and mediocre metal. But this album, oh god ! it works so well! If only more bands could be so talented at mixing different genres. The blend of folk singing and rock/metal energy is perfect, and each element adds up their power to the whole thing. Well, this album is a late 2018 find, but wow. Thank MS Awards by the way.
	7.	Convulsing - Grievous 2018 (+++) The crushing Grevious experience, it has a sound, an atmosphere, personality, enough melody and harmony. It could sound like a boring underground album amongst similar acts but it's special to me, I can freely plunge into Convulsing.
	8.	Emma Ruth Rundle - On Dark Horses ★ 2018 (+++) great singing and atmosphere
	9.	Covet - Effloresce 2018 (+++) Awesome math rock, sprung from the talentuous Yvette Young.
	10.	Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name 2018 (++) tech death with a sense of modernity (at last !). It has a great sound, djenty moments, and a sax player.
	11.	Death Grips - Year Of The Snitch 2018 (++) This is my first time hearing Death Grips. I don't like everything, but I'm transcended... EDIT: Alright I like everything now :) wtf though
	12.	Chaos Ech?s - Mouvement 2018 (++) Atmospheric death. I like the raw sound of it, and also how the songs transitions into each other very swiftly, just like the album is a single piece with different acts. This record goes in the same drawer as Imperial Triumphant, Portal, Convulsing
	13.	Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye 2018 (++) very good songwriting. This album sounds like Edge Of Sanity crossed with softer rock.
	14.	Exlimitir - It Weighed Itself In Silver 2018 (++) Nespithe fetish band, very funny to listen to.
	15.	Cynic - Humanoid 2018 (++)
	16.	Hardcore Anal Hydrogen - HyperCut 2018 (++) Aah... French metal has become so weird... In a so good way. This album contains: breakcore, grindcore, atmospheric experimentations, thrash, electro, hardcore, brutech... It's something. Also it's pleasantly varied, and if a track would be bothering, the next one would surely not. If you liked the latest Igorrr this is strongly recommended.
	17.	Marmozets - Knowing What You Know Now 2018 (++) Marmozets was a mathcore band, before turning towards a more "mainstream" audience. This album is full of radio-friendly tunes but they stayed true to their sound and character. Some songs are great, others less, it's only kinda good album, but it's Marmozets' so it's cool.
	18.	Master's Hammer - Fascinator ★ 2018 (++) MH delivering a new dose of MH, with refined songwriting and more Indian influences
	19.	Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth 2018 (++) Synth wave. Cool. Flashbacks of Billy Idol, Turbo, Dead Or Alive, John Carpenter's OST...
	20.	A Pregnant Light - Lucky All My Life 2018 (++) Obscure post BM act, with a lot a reverb and bad production but neat melodies. In fact it reminds me of old Agalloch demos, I've got the same feelings from it
	21.	Chasing Dots - Past.Present.We 2018 (+)
	22.	Long Distance Calling - Boundless 2018 (+) instrumental album, very Gilmour-esque
	23.	Sumac - Love In Shadow 2018 (+) frightening sludge, with some strange atmospheric segments... It's percussive, has a roary bass, the songwriting really takes its time and stretches to very long but coherent songs.
	24.	Teleport - The Expansion 2018 (+) black metal with a droplet of Portal ; as opposed to the latter, the riffs are pretty nice sounding and the structure is followable.
	25.	Kero Kero Bonito - Time'n'Place 2018 (+) Yes this album is in my list... Problem ? The British J-Pop band with cute songs about pink things, well they tried to break their image this year. There's more rock in the formula, and the tone has shifted to darker themes. The maneuvers succeeded, and it's still catchy! Well the album is a bit weak to be frank, and the noisy effects unpleasant, but I like the mood
	26.	Thérapie Taxi - Hit Sale 2018 (+) Fresh french pop. It's pop with the obvious pop flaws (repetitive, simple, frivolous... 4 chords etc), but it's likable, the lyrics are frank and direct when not totally cheeky, the sound is a bit retro, some tunes are really catchy... It's something, the band has a strong personality. As an album, I think the momentum isn't conducted well, ballads bump into hits stumbling upon fillers... Better listen to the singles.
	27.	Cult Leader - A Patient Man 2018 (+) great play with rythm and dissonant riffs
	28.	Sarah Longfield - Disparity 2018 (+) the songwriting is odd, but the music incorporates a lot of diverse elements, from math to prog and ambient. It shines with personnality.
	29.	Plini - Sunhead 2018 (+) shred/prog/jazz, very good
	30.	Toundra - Vortex 2018 (+) not much to say about this, it's just a great instrumental album, good to listen to when I've got nothing on mind.
	31.	Modern Day Babylon - Coma 2018 (+) Very nice prog/djent instrumental. A bit reminiscent of Animals As Leaders sometimes. Try it if you liked Night Verses, even though this one isn't as innovative, and may even be generic if it wasn't for the sweet atmosphere around djenty 0-0-00-lines. And then jump to Arsafes
	32.	Soreption - Monument Of The End 2018 ★ (+) Quality TBDM, song after song it's just a marvelous display of crazy riffs with very nice grooves
	33.	Deceased - Ghostly White 2018 ★ (+) Typical DM/TM except they managed to set a mood, especially with the lot of reverbed crazy solos, used as a texture for the songs rather than climactic leads. So the music is wildly melodic. The songstructures are interesting too.
	34.	Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists 2018 ★ (+) Repetitive BM, but somewhat psychedelic, and with a groove. The drums are crazy in this one
	35.	Khanus - Flammarion 2018 (+) Death+Black metal, raw like I like it to be.
	36.	Sigh - Heir To Despair 2018 (+) avantgarde. I love the acoustic parts of the album, and its hypnotic qualities. The album is overall very funny, and incorporates all lot of ideas in the music without losing coherence. And this without the lack of grooves and loud riffs, yeah!
	37.	Irreversible Mechanism - Immersion 2018 (+) Atmospheric tech death. It mixes saturated and clean parts, helped by distant reverb and beautiful melodies. It tops Obscura in my opinion, and I should try a comparison with Augury too...
	38.	Holiness - Missing Pieces In Time 2018 (+) Very good PM with a prog speck
	39.	Voivod - The Wake (+)
	40.	Thy Catafalque - Geometria 2018 (+) gothic, slightly psychedelic, nice atmosphere slowly developed
	41.	TTNG - Animals Acoustic 2018 (+) acoustic math rock. Nice melodic groovy and emotional.
	42.	Weedpecker - III 2018 (+) Great Stoner !!! More like psychedelic rock in fact, some moments really sound like Pink Floyd
	43.	Set And Setting - Tabula Rasa 2018 ?
	44.	Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn (+) good ol' hard rock. It's basic but efficient. I like the dated tone and dual vocals, it sounds like Pagan Altar
	45.	Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages 2018 ? Reminds me of Devin Townsend sometimes, the riffing, the sounds used, the mix of growls and clean vocals... That's just my random thoughts, Barren Earth is a band on their own of course, it's a pleasant album, with a lot of melodies.
	46.	Elvellon - Until Dawn 2018 ★ Pff... one more Nightwish clone... Oh their introduction track is neat and well-groomed. The songwriting in general is very good, everything flows well. Track after track, yes, yes it's good. And that's a debut album ?? well, it's great for sure. The singer has a cutting edge when going in the highs, that's cool too.
	47.	Benighted - Dogs Always Bite Harder Than Their Master 2018 ★ TBDM. Not a fan of the studio mix, but the live tracks are really great
	48.	Arkona - Khram 2018 ? great, it sounds more bm than folk, a bit long however
	49.	Khôrada - Salt 2018 ? Agalloch's heir. The music goes in a different direction but you can hear it shares a lot of similarities with Agalloch, the mood in particular. This album is noteworthy, but eventually drags and turns out be a bore. Or I need to let it grow too
	50.	Vôdûn - Ascend 2018 (+) I hope you like the cowbell... Once again this is hard to describe, it's stoner, plus soul influences, plus extra-percussions, plus a somewhat progressive take too. I like that the song structures can be unexpected, even though some moments sound like fillers. Vodun can pull out awesome riffs or longer neat segments in a unique atmosphere. I also appreciate the effort inputted to the lyrical themes. It's great overall
	51.	Kontinuum - No Need To Reason 2018 ? post, gothic. It's very nice but maybe a bit boring overall. Although I really like Erotika and Stargaze
	52.	Lenore S. Fingers - All Things Lost On Earth 2018. For a gothic album, the production is a bit odd, with the vocals overlapping everything, and overdone, but the music is very pleasant, and one can easily run through all tracks without noticing. It has something a bit 'pop' to it, idk what...
	53.	Unreal Overflows - Latent 2018 ? Let's focus on The Sound Of Perseverance by Death and especially on each harmonized riffs with tricky patterns. Also the contrapuntal riffs. Also the way of playing long backing chords with reverb. Also the riffs including tremolo picking... Well this album clearly tried to copy that (may I say Chuck's singing too maybe). And it works, I like those nice melodic riffs... It also reminds me of Decrepit Birth... A shame that the vocals sound so weak.
	54.	Satan - Cruel Magic 2018 ? Not really "efficient" compared to other 2018's HM releases, but this album really sticks to an old-school NWOBHM sound, and eventually offers really good moments hither and yon
	55.	Huntsmen - American Scrap 2018 ? stoner/sludge/folk. The record alternates between clean acoustic parts and sludgy ones, hence really breathes. I finally sat through the 40-minute clip. I'm sorry it felt like a random montage of "American scrap" I guess... On the other hand, the music is really good
	56.	Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd 2018 ? I want to like this, it has an interesting sound and input, but I'm a bit underwhelmed, mostly by the dragging pop/post elements
	57.	Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It 2018 ? I'm not sure about this one. It starts splendidly, with such an intricate rhythm and sound texture, but eventually goes back to some more generic vibe, it's like only the first song makes it for me. I have to let it grow maybe... So yeah it's been 4 spins, I still dig Towards Dawn / Aftermath a lot, and completely lose it when it goes metal, I don't like those stale growls, the album has great potential to create an atmosphere but it fails at it by throwing high and low dynamics songs quite randomly.
	58.	Ostura - The Room ? Good symphonic metal, with a lot of sweet instrumental parts
	59.	Horizon Ablaze - The Weight Of A Thousand Suns 2018 ? That's what I call great melodeath. Nice work with drums. Nice guitar tone. Crazy riff on "Delusion Of Grandeur". A bit dragging here and there.
	60.	Reviving Waves - A Leap Through Time ? good ol' heavy metal
	61.	Impellitteri - The Nature Of The Beast 2018 ? This could have been a totally generic HM album if not for some reminiscence of Racer X, in some guitar licks, and the way the vocals are mixed. I don't think this album can be excellent, but I give it a try. - As expected nothing stands out, and the drums are a bit too straightforward. But it's fun though, stay for the shreddy riffs.
	62.	Augury - Illusive Golden Age 2018 ? TBDM: Great musicianship, the solos and riff ideas are impressive and melodious, all instruments complement one another perfectly.
	63.	Elysian Blaze - The Virtue Of Suffering 2018 ? doom/BM with grand instrumentation
	64.	Ænimus (SWE) - The Final Warning 2018 ? Good HM, quite doomy, easy but pounding riffs, and with epic moments, on choruses and solos notably. I like the singer, who's got a distinct voice. Unfortunately, the pace is a bit dragging, songs quickly lose momentum, and I'd rather shorten the songs, or the album, because 55min is too long.
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	66.	Forgotten Silence - Kras 2018 prog/exp. I could just listen to song previews but this seems definitely interesting. Sounds a bit Zappa inspired.
	67.	Un - Sentiment doom
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	69.	Aborted - TerrorVision 2018 (-) TBDM
	70.	Agrimonia - Awaken 2018 (-)
	71.	Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy 2018 (-)
	72.	Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew 2018 (-) The brew tasted funny.
	73.	Ars Magna Umbrae - Lunar Ascension 2018 (-)
	74.	Arsafes - The Silk Road Experience Pt​.​1 2018 (-) Proggy, djenty, very good
	75.	ASG - Survive Sunrise 2018 (-)
	76.	Auri - Auri 2018 (-) This is supposedly folk but it focuses on singing and orchestration rather than folk elements. I must say I'm surprised and pleased
	77.	Avatar - Avatar Country 2018 (-) Really solid guitar work and effort to consistently mix a bunch of stuff together with this efficiency. Fundamentally not my thing, but it's really good. idk why the site labels this Nu metal, it's not.
	78.	Barús - Drowned 2018 (-) boring? nice cover anyway
	79.	Below A Silent Sky - A View From Afar 2018 (-)
	80.	Black Fast - Spectre Of Ruin 2018 (-) good blackened thrash
	81.	Black Wizzard - Livin' Oblivion 2018 (-)
	82.	Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn 2018 (-) poor songwriting
	83.	Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch 2018 (-) Nice prog stoner in the vein of Mastodon. Nice singing
	84.	Burial In The Sky - Creatio Et Hominus 2018 (-) I don't like the vocals, nor the compressed drums. The guitar work saves it, and it tries to bring that special atmosphere that's Cynic's or Obscura's, with lancinant open chords. I like the arrangement of piano, harp, and saxophone too. Nautilus' Cage is a great track
	85.	Chaostar - The Undivided Light 2018 (-)
	86.	Conjurer - Mire 2018 (-) Really good sludge
	87.	Cosmic Atrophy - The Void Engineers 2018 (-) Morbid Angel's "Gateways" + Pestilence's "Spheres". Good but a bit dragging
	88.	Cryptopsy - The Book Of Suffering - Tome 2 2018 (-) I don't like the vocals. It's so gibberish. Why do I love Lord Worm then? ... :/ On the musical side, it kicks ass like always, regular Cryptopsy
	89.	Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want 2018 (-) This is not meant to be enjoyed. However curious, I'm not enjoying it
	90.	Dirge - Lost Empyrean 2018 (-)
	91.	Dirty Shirt - Folkcore Detour 2018 (-) Transylvanian folk metal, live, with the band and a traditional ensemble
	92.	Divine Ascension - The Uncovering 2018 (-) prog-pm. Cool but not really interesting
	93.	Dol Ammad - Cosmic Gods: Episode II - Astroatlas 2018 (-) This is original: symphonic PM focused on litanic choirs and spacey keyboards. Worth the listen. But it's not really my thing.
	94.	Dreyelands - Stages 2018 (-)
	95.	Drudkh - Їм Часто Сниться Каl (They Often See Dreams About The Spring) 2018 (-) Nice BM but too repetitive
	96.	Convocation - Scars Across 2018 (-) death doom
	97.	Finnr's Cane - Elegy 2018 (-)
	98.	Fórn - Rites Of Despair 2018 (-) death/doom with a great sense of dynamics; may drag a bit sometimes
	99.	Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers 2018 (-)
	100.	Greenleaf - Hear The Rivers 2018 (-) really good and enjoyable stoner album, just one I don't think I could listen eternally without getting bored ... it's already starting somehow
	101.	Halestorm - Vicious 2018 (-) hard rock
	102.	Harakiri For The Sky - Arson 2018 (-)
	103.	Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands 2018 (-) the sonic quality reminds me of Morbid Angel, or Imperial Triumphant, with very raw drums and murky tone, hence I like it, but I'm a bit annoyed by the songwriting, especially those lame repetitive riffs and goofy melodies when the band attempts to add a layer of guitar. For the first songs at least, I think it gets better later on.
	104.	Hissing - Permanent Destitution 2018 (-) portal-like dm
	105.	Horrendous - Idol 2018 (-) 6 spins and I've got nothing to say... I'm sure this is great music, but it leaves no trace in my mind :/
	106.	Into Eternity - The Sirens 2018 (-) prog-hardcore, with different inflections: power, thrash, neo-classical, folk... It's very much compelling, until being fed up with the blast-beats and double kick course, generic deep growls, and cliché breakdowns or solos (there's even a C-D-E song). Quite enjoyable anyway
	107.	In Vain - Currents 2018 (-) nothing to say yet ; interesting riff and structure for the second song
	108.	Intercourse - Everything Is Pornography When You've Got An Imagination 2018 (-)
	109.	Íon - A Path Unknown 2018 (-) This album has very good moments of mixed bm and post and ambiance and dissonance, but dies several times in long repetitive segments. It's a shame
	110.	Kekal - Deeper Underground 2018 (-) Very good avantgarde BM
	111.	Khemmis - Desolation 2018 (-)
	112.	Kingcrow - The Persistence 2018 (-) I don't really like the singing (in the mix, and it sounds a bit out of tune ?), but the music is nice. In fact not unlike Kontinuum it's got great moments but smothers them amongst long and slow and boring tracks
	113.	King Witch - Under The Mountain 2018 (-)
	114.	Krisiun - Scourge Of The Enthroned 2018 (-) DM. Not that different
	115.	Lowen - A Crypt In The Stars 2018 (-) good doom with female vocals, creating an astral atmosphere
	116.	Maladie - Of Harm And Salvation 2018 (-) Supposedly BM, but with saxophone, thirsty-bat-growls and clean singing, spoken parts, in English and French and maybe other, melodeath moments, post-metal moments, folk-metal moments, noise moments, industrial moments... other stuff I don't find words to describe, synths/samples/choir in the background, songs over 10 min... The "avantgarde" tag wasn't a scam. When I say "moment" I mean it can switch briefly from a savour to another inside a song. It's a bit messy, but there's definitly a lot of things going on here. from other DM releases this year, but I like the general mood of it, those Bememoth-like blast-beat, tempo variations. Nothing too impressive.
	117.	Marduk - Viktoria 2018 (-)
	118.	Master Boot Record - Direct Memory Access 2018 (-) That's more electro than metal isn't it ? It's nice and all, but like most electro it goes over my head. The neoclassical vibe is rather bothering, as much as Oxxo's vocals.
	119.	Maudlin - Sassuma Arnaa 2018 (-) good stoner/sludge
	120.	Merlin - The Wizard 2018 (-) Cool sound, with sax, harsh fuzz and wahwah, but this is too repetitive
	121.	Mongrel's Cross - Psalter Of The Royal Dragon Court 2018 (-) melo bm
	122.	Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram 2018 (-)
	123.	NeuroWulf - Prototype 2018 electro, and not metal. This belongs at Carpenter's Brut's side I suppose. ...mmh it's fun for 5 minutes, but not my cup of tea
	124.	Nookie - Исключения 2018 (-) Energic, enjoyable.
	125.	Obscura - Diluvium 2018 (-) Good Obscura, not as colored as the previous one
	126.	Omit - Medusa Truth, Part 2 2018 (-) gothic focused on smooth singing
	127.	Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold 2018 (-) I'm not a fan of the current melodeath trend, but this record has some nice moments, amongst the generic growls and generic synths and cliche breaks
	128.	Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs 2018 (-) Nothing really stands out on this album, I prefer older albums. It's still a very good album, beautiful as Orphaned Land can make.
	129.	Panegyrist - Hierurgy 2018 (-)
	130.	Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness 2018 (-)
	131.	Parius - The Eldritch Realm 2018 (-)
	132.	Paul Wardingham - Electromancer 2018 (-) djent/electro/shred. Nothing I haven't heard in shred, mostly swept arpeggios and Jason Becker like trick sounds. The backing track sounds too mechanical, I wouldn't be surprised if everything was programmed. Anyway it has a spacey mood
	133.	Poem - Unique 2018 (-)
	134.	Portal - ION 2018 (-) I'm sorry, this is interesting, but that's also so boring...
	135.	Progenie Terrestre Pura - starCross 2018 (-) bm+cyber+choirs
	136.	Pryapisme - Epic Loon OST 2018 (-) That's a video game OST, and the game is as weird as the music. Also look at the song titles. It twirls with metal, electro, avant-garde, a bit of classical, a bit of folk... a bit of anything, it's crazy and fun.
	137.	Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day 2018 (-)
	138.	Revocation - The Outer Ones 2018 (-) Nice solos and nice riffs in between more generic tech death. It has some very good moments, a piece of bass or arpeggios here and there. Oh, and there's a Nespithe-like riff on The Outer Ones
	139.	Riverside - Wasteland 2018 (-)
	140.	Sathanas - Necrohymns 2018 (-) Blackened thrash, the job is done well. I like how the growls sound female even though they're not.
	141.	Scars On Broadway - Dictator 2018 (-) A fragment of System Of The Down. It's not really my kind of stuff, but it gives me good recollections. It's headbang-able enough too.
	142.	Serpent Column - Invicta 2018 (-) tm/bm
	143.	Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light 2018 (-) SW changed their style to a less thrashy black metal, with a slower tempo and longer songs. Which affects the song writing, since songs were previously around 3 minutes and worked as hit singles. Now they're more structured around the album. With this and their new singer it doesn't sound like SW at all, except a little something in the tone and some precise moment in the composition, more typical. I never digged SW a lot, and this neither.
	144.	Slave To Sirens - Terminal Leeches 2018 (-) good TM, reminds me a bit of Arch Enemy's Doomsday Machine sometimes, even though the singers differ from each other
	145.	Solstice - White Horse Hill 2018 (-)
	146.	Somali Yacht Club - The Sea 2018 (-)
	147.	Sorcier Des Glaces - Sorcier Des Glaces 2018 (-)
	148.	Spaceslug - Eye The Tide 2018 (-)
	149.	Striborg - Blackwave 2018 (-) This was the weirdest thing ever. Not for everyone. I don't even think it's good. It's just... so awkward
	150.	Subsignal - La Muerta 2018 (-)
	151.	TesseracT - Sonder 2018 (-)
	152.	The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques 2018 (-)
	153.	The Armed - Only Love 2018 (-) I usually like noise but this is going nowhere
	154.	The Bipolar Disorder Project - Unshipped Packages [Split] 2018 (-)
	155.	The Eternal - Waiting For The Endless Dawn 2018 (-)
	156.	The Men - Drift 2018 (-)
	157.	Them Moose Rush - Don't Pick Your Noise 2018 (-) Stoner/rock/alternative. Sounds fresh, great songwriting and dynamics
	158.	Uada - Cult Of A Dying Sun 2018 (-) melodic BM, songs are a bit long but the riffs are nice
	159.	Underøath - Erase Me 2018 (-) Advanced Linkin Park.
	160.	Vein - Errorzone 2018 (-) nu
	161.	Wagakki Band - Otonoe 2018 (-) folk metal / J-pop. Well it's still the same product, nice songs with flute, shamisen, wadaiko and koto. No surprise then. I guess they never gonna try to experiment further. It's still good, but I dread Japanese bands don't want to lose their market and just make the same album year after year until fans are fed up... (thinking about Onmyou-za too). Highlights: 沈まない太陽, パラダイムシフト
	162.	Wayfarer - World's Blood 2018 (-) Atmospheric BM with organic production and slightly dissonnant riffs
	163.	Winterfylleth - The Hallowing Of Heirdom 2018 (-) Acoustic folk with choirs. Great but a bit slow
	164.	Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit 2018 (-) I was surprised at first by the esthetic and radio-like sound, but on a second spin it's not that great...
	165.	虚极 - 森罗万象 2018 (-) post BM folk. I don't really like the post BM side but it has a bunch of traditionnal elements, notably the flute, along some drums and throat singing, and that's what struck my attention. The music is nice but also drags a bit...