Last year was pretty great. Some personally long-awaited releases this year, so let's see what it brings...

Releases listened to: 382

EP of the Year
🥇 - Elder - Liminality / Dream State Return
🥈 - Even If We Lose - Even If We Lose
🥉 - Faidra - Dies Irae

Debut of the Year
🥇 - Brévine - Lhotse
🥈 - Changeling (GER) - Changeling
🥉 - Nihilvm - Ancient Cosmic Emanation

Song of the Year:
🥇 - Messa - Reveal
🥈 - Aephanemer - La Règle du Jeu
🥉 - Dessiderium - Dover Hendrix



February
In:
Am I In Trouble? - Spectrum (05/02)
Cyanide Grenade - Cannibal Era (06/02)
Saor - Amidst The Ruins (08/02)
Obscura - A Sonication (08/02)
Majestica - Power Train (10/02)
Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker (10/02)
Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (10/02)
Vermilia - Karsikko (14/02)
Septicflesh - Amphibians (14/02)
Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis (21/02)
Apocalypse Orchestra - A Plague Upon Thee (21/02)
Dawn Of Solace - Affliction Vortex (21/02)
Synaptic - Enter The Void (25/02)
Havukruunu - Tavastland (28/02)
Axetasy - Withering Tides (28/02)
Out:
Lumnos - Na Santa Paz Da Aurora (05/02)
Nox Doloris - Konstantinopolis (06/02)
Fleshbore - Painted Paradise (08/02)
Burn Down Eden - Dismal Epiphany (08/02)
Thy Kingdom Will Burn - The Loss And Redemption (10/02)
Taliesin - Chains (10/02)
Tremonti - The End Will Show Us How (10/02)
Cyanide Grenade - Cannibal Era (14/02)
Häxkapell - Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp (14/02)
Obscure Sphinx - Emovere (21/02)
Septicflesh - Amphibians (21/02)
Magnum - Live At KK's Steel Mill (21/02)
Apocalypse Orchestra - A Plague Upon Thee (25/02)
Veil Of Conspiracy - Shape Of Grief (28/02)
Obscura - A Sonication (28/02)



March
In:
Istapp - Sól Tér Sortna (06/03)
Decline Of The I - Wilhelm (06/03)
Grima - Nightside (06/03)
Wÿntër Ärvń - Sous L'orage Noir - L'astre Et La Chute (17/03)
Nephylim - Circuition (17/03)
Ingrown - Idaho (17/03)
Nightstalker - Return From The Point Of No Return (17/03)
Aran Angmar - Ordo Diabolicum (22/03)
Dessiderium - Keys To The Palace (22/03)
Saurom - El Principito (22/03)
Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger (22/03)
Avantasia - Here Be Dragons (22/03)
Tower - Let There Be Dark (22/03)
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (28/03)
Out:
Axetasy - Withering Tides (06/03)
Century - Sign Of The Storm (06/03)
Wardruna - Birna (06/03)
Harvst - Mahlstrom (17/03)
Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker (17/03)
Am I In Trouble? - Spectrum (17/03)
Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead (17/03)
Besna - Krásno (22/03)
Decline Of The I - Wilhelm (22/03)
Vermilia - Karsikko (22/03)
Wÿntër Ärvń - Sous L'orage Noir - L'astre Et La Chute (22/03)
Synaptic - Enter The Void (22/03)
Grima - Nightside (22/03)
Nephylim - Circuition (28/03)



April
In:
Valhalore - Beyond The Stars (11/04)
Messa - The Spin (11/04)
Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across The Fog (11/04)
Karg - Marodeur (18/04)
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail (18/04)
Out:
Patriarkh - Пpopoк Илия (11/04)
Saor - Amidst The Ruins (11/04)
Faidra - Dies Irae (11/04)
Ingrown - Idaho (18/04)
Dawn Of Solace - Affliction Vortex (18/04)



May
In:
Under Ruins - Age Of The Void (06/05)
Structure - Heritage (10/05)
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings (16/05)
Erocis - The Sunken Lands (16/05)
Feversea - Man Under Erasure (23/05)
Out:
Nightstalker - Return From The Point Of No Return (06/05)
Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis (10/05)
Tower - Let There Be Dark (16/05)
Aran Angmar - Ordo Diabolicum (16/05)
Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger (23/05)



June
In:
Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds Of Scorn (01/06)
Cytotoxin - Biographyte (01/06)
Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack (13/06)
Out:
Karg - Marodeur (01/06)
Saurom - El Principito (01/06)
Obsidian Tongue - Eclipsing Worlds Of Scorn (13/06)



August
In:
Blackbraid - Blackbraid III (31/08)
Grayceon - Then The Darkness (31/08)
Baest - Colossal (31/08)
Out:
Cytotoxin - Biographyte (31/08)
Under Ruins - Age Of The Void (31/08)
Avantasia - Here Be Dragons (31/08)



September
In:
Pillars Of Cacophony - Paralipomena (06/09)
Suotana - Ounas II (07/09)
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia (08/09)
Autrest - Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves (11/09)
Krigsgrav - Stormcaller (19/09)
Grima - Nightside (19/09) - RE-ENTRY
Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void (23/09)
Vintersorg - Vattenkrafternas Spel (26/09)
Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence (26/09)
Out:
Istapp - Sól Tér Sortna (06/09)
Structure - Heritage (07/09)
Cave Sermon - Fragile Wings (08/09)
Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across The Fog (11/09)
Grayceon - Then The Darkness (19/09)
Valhalore - Beyond The Stars (19/09)
Feversea - Man Under Erasure (23/09)
Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth (26/09)
The Great Old Ones - Kadath (26/09)



October
In:
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Innern (10/10)
Spectral Sorcery - Hyperspace Odyssey (16/10)
Khan - That Fair And Warlike Form // Return To Dust (16/10)
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City (17/10)
Coroner - Dissonance Theory (17/10)
Out:
Suotana - Ounas II (10/10)
Deafheaven - Lonely People With Power (16/10)
Dessiderium - Keys To The Palace (16/10)
Black Sword Thunder Attack Black Sword Thunder Attack (17/10)
Majestica - Power Train (17/10)



November
In:
Kauan - Wayhome (10/11)
Astronoid - Stargod (10/11)
Out:
Khan - That Fair And Warlike Form // Return To Dust (10/11)
Erocis - The Sunken Lands (10/11)



December
In:
Brévine - Lhotse (21/12)
Out:
Astronoid - Stargod (21/12)