I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Nibiru - Anamorphosis

5.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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Trophy Goats for 2018 B)…

1.Beartooth - Disease

2.Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy

3.Obscura - Diluvium

4.Bad Wolves - Disobey

5.Wolf King - Loyal To The Soil

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1.Overkill - The Electric Age

2.Vektor - Outer Isolation

3.Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination

4.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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Favourite albums of 2018 (including only those which I would rate 7+)…

1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

3.Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

4.Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

5.Berried Alive - Bearies Alive

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1.Aborted - TerrorVision

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Ihsahn - Àmr

4.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

2.Pestilence - Hadeon

3.Mantar - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Obscura - Diluvium

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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…

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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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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Since this is technically not a ranking, I've made this list alphabetical. These albums are all ones I am considering for Top 50 of the year and are worth your time.

1.Aboleth - Benthos

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

4.Agrimonia - Awaken

5.Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails

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1.Angra - ØMNI

2.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

3.Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

4.Borealis - The Offering

5.In Vain - Currents

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1.Elvellon - Until Dawn

2.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

3.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Seventh Wonder - Tiara

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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…

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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1.Shylmagoghnar - Transience

2.Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day

3.Dee Snider - For The Love Of Metal

4.Lucifer - Lucifer II

5.Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 1

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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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