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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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.Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God

2.Akitsa - Credo

3.All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Antlers - Beneath.Below.Behold.

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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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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.
- in order from best to worst
- rated on a scale from 0 to 10
- few lines so I remember wtf it was about

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.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence

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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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In alphabetical order, by band name with subgenres for easier browsing
Updated when I hear new good shit
Enjoy

1.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

2.Abhorrence - Megalohydrothalassophobic

3.Aborted - TerrorVision

4.Abysmal Torment - The Misanthrope

5.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

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1.Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands

2.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

3.Pestilence - Hadeon

4.Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence

5.De Profundis - The Blinding Light Of Faith

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1.Striker - Play To Win

2.Between The Buried And Me - Automata II

3.Soreption - Monument Of The End

4.Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch

5.Turnstile - Time & Space

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Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

2.Beyond Creation - Algorythm

3.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

4.Alterbeast - Feast

5.Khemmis - Desolation

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