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2018 - My Best To Worst
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Welcome to my 2018 list. If you have recommendations for albums, feel free to message in the comments section. Or, if you see anything on the list you liked or found something you want to check out, feel free to give a thumbs up

Every album on this list has been listened to fully at least 3 (or more) times.

Rating guide:
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly AOTY
✮✮✮✮½ - Excellent
✮✮✮✮ - Praiseworthy
✮✮✮½ - Good
✮✮✮ - Meets Expectations
✮✮½ - Nothing Special
✮✮ - Disappointing
✮½ - Bad
✮ - Terrible

I rarely rate an album ✮✮✮✮✮ so if you see an album with 5 stars, you can bet each song on that album has been played A LOT. More albums will appear as the year goes on. Some albums get bumped up/down, depending on how they hold up.

Please feel free to see my lists from previous years:

2017 - http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=4872
2016 - http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=4451
2015 - http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=4063
2014 - http://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=3787

Created by: Sword_Chant | 12.01.2018


1. Вѣдьмa - История отречения
(Not on Metal Storm) Style: Black Doom Metal / Country: Russia / Rating: ✮✮✮✮✮
2. Stormbane - Eldritch Devotion
(Not on Metal Storm) Style: Blackened Thrash Metal / Country: Australia / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
3. Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold
Style: Melodic Death Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
4. The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques
Style: Extreme Djent / Country: France / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
5. High On Fire - Electric Messiah
Style: Sludge Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
6. Kalmah - Palo
Style: Melodic Death Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
7. Sargeist - Unbound
Style: Black Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
8. Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Style: Experimental Avantgarde Metal / Country: Hungary / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
9. Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood
Style: Celtic Folk Metal / Country: Ireland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
10. Soulfly - Ritual
Style: Groove Thrash Metal / Country: Brazil / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
11. Mesarthim - The Density Parameter
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal / Country: Australia / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
12. Amorphis - Queen Of Time
Style: Melodic Death Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
13. Master Boot Record - Direct Memory Access
Style: Instrumental Electronic Metal / Country: Italy / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
14. Euphoreon - Ends Of The Earth
Style: Extreme Power Metal / Country: New Zealand / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
15. Earth And Pillars - Towards The Pillars
Style: Dark Ambient / Country: Italy / Rating: ✮✮✮✮½
16. Thaurorod - Coast Of Gold
Style: Power Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
17. Master Boot Record - Virus​.​DOS
Style: Instrumental Electronic Metal / Country: Italy / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
18. Judas Priest - Firepower
Style: Heavy Metal / Country: UK / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
19. Battlesoul - Sunward And Starward
Style: Thrash Folk Metal / Country: Canada / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
20. Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 1
Style: Progressive Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
21. Long Distance Calling - Boundless
Style: Post Rock / Country: Germany / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
22. Wolftooth - Wolftooth
Style: Doom Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
23. Imperial Age - The Legacy Of Atlantis
Style: Symphonic Power Metal / Country: Russia / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
24. Elderwind - The Colder The Night
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal / Country: Russia / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
25. Bloodshot Dawn - Reanimation
Style: Melodic Death Metal / Country: UK / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
26. Violet Cold - Sommermorgen (Pt. III) - Nostalgia
Style: Instrumental Shoegaze / Country: Azerbaijan / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
27. Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret De La Guillotine
Style: Thrash Metal / Country: Spain / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
28. Pestilence - Hadeon
Style: Death Metal / Country: Netherlands / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
29. Harm's Way - Posthuman
Style: Hardcore Sludge Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
30. Dagon - Back To The Sea
Style: Thrash Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
31. Angra - ØMNI
Style: Progressive Power Metal / Country: Brazil / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
32. Black Space Riders - Amoretum Vol. 2
Style: Stoner Metal / Country: Germany / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
33. Black Space Riders - Amoretum Vol. 1
Style: Stoner Metal / Country: Germany / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
34. Grimner - Vanadrottning
Style: Folk Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
35. Avatar - Avatar Country
Style: Avantgarde Nu Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
36. Weedpecker - III
Style: Stoner Metal / Country: Poland / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
37. Acherontas - Faustian Ethos
Style: Black Metal / Country: Greece / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
38. Antlers - Beneath.Below.Behold.
Style: Black Metal / Country: Germany / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
39. Violet Cold - Sommermorgen (Pt. II) - Joy
Style: Instrumental Shoegaze / Country: Azerbaijan / Rating: ✮✮✮✮
40. Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
Style: Death Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮½
41. Magnum - Lost On The Road To Eternity
Style: Progressive Rock / Country: UK / Rating: ✮✮✮½
42. Powerglove - Continue?
Style: Video Game Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮½
43. Melted Space - Darkening Light
Style: Symphonic Metal / Country: France / Rating: ✮✮✮½
44. Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Style: Celtic Black Metal / Country: Ireland / Rating: ✮✮✮½
45. Kontinuum - No Need To Reason
Style: Post Metal / Country: Iceland / Rating: ✮✮✮½
46. Sojourner - The Shadowed Road
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal / Country: Mixed (International) / Rating: ✮✮✮½
47. Dimmu Borgir - Eonian
Style: Symphonic Black Metal / Country: Norway / Rating: ✮✮✮½
48. Ghost - Prequelle
Style: Heavy Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮½
49. Violet Cold - Sommermorgen (Pt. I) - Innocence
Style: Instrumental Shoegaze / Country: Azerbaijan / Rating: ✮✮✮½
50. Arkona - Khram
Style: Black Folk Metal / Country: Russia / Rating: ✮✮✮½
51. Sleep - The Sciences
Style: Stoner Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮½
52. Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Style: Technical Death Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮½
53. Decaying - To Cross The Line
Style: Death Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮½
54. Nekrogoblikon - Welcome To Bonkers
Style: Death Folk Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮½
55. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
Style: Progressive Folk Metal / Country: Israel / Rating: ✮✮✮½
56. Afgrund - The Dystopian
Style: Grindcore / Country: Sweden (orignally) / Rating: ✮✮✮½
57. Shining - X - Varg Utan Flock
Style: Progressive Black Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮½
58. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Style: Blackened Sludge Metal / Country: UK / Rating: ✮✮✮
59. Heidevolk - Vuur Van Verzet
Style: Folk Metal / Country: Netherlands / Rating: ✮✮✮
60. Megaton Leviathan - Mage
Style: Drone Doom Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮✮✮
61. Nydvind - Tetramental I: Seas Of Oblivion
Style: Pagan Black Metal / Country: France / Rating: ✮✮✮
62. Apathy Noir - Black Soil
Style: Progressive Doom Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮
63. Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Style: Death Doom Metal / Country: Finland / Rating: ✮✮✮
64. Tribulation - Down Below
Style: Death Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮
65. Lechery - We Are All Born Evil
Style: Heavy Metal / Country: Sweden / Rating: ✮✮✮
66. Hantaoma - Malamòrt
Style: Folk Metal / Country: France / Rating: ✮✮✮
67. Sinistro - Sangue Cássia
Style: Post Metal / Country: Portugal / Rating: ✮✮✮
68. Abigor - Höllenzwang (Chronicles Of Perdition)
Style: Black Metal / Country: Austria / Rating: ✮✮½
69. Dirge - Lost Empyrean
Style: Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Country: France / Rating: ✮✮
70. Machine Head - Catharsis
Style: Groove Thrash Metal / Country: USA / Rating: ✮


Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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Comments: 3   Visited by: 91 users
14.06.2018 - 02:32
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Too commercial for me but I tasted #20 a bit. Gotta dig a little deeper with it.
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14.06.2018 - 11:20
Sword_Chant

Written by tea[m]ster on 14.06.2018 at 02:32

Too commercial for me but I tasted #20 a bit. Gotta dig a little deeper with it.


Cool man, Stormbane - Eldritch Devotion is a bit more unknown, sounds kinda like early era Sepultura... would also recommend Вѣдьмa - История отречения if your into BM
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15.06.2018 - 23:32
tea[m]ster
Au Pays Natal
Thanks for the recs. Give Conjurer - Mire a shot.
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