01. Def Con Sound System – Silver Bullets This may have not been my most played album of 2019 but it was the one that really blew my mind. It was like nothing I ever heard before. It was intense, stimulating, interesting and original. There were elements of different genres…
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Best of 2019: Kieron Hayes
01. Beast in Black – From Hell With Love Much like last year, Beast in Black might not be the most original album of the year, but I simply can’t deny how god-damned effective it is. From Hell With Love effortlessly, skilfully, beautifully melds classic heavy metal swagger with Europop…
Best of 2019: Robert Cavuoto
Top Albums of 2019 1. Whitesnake – Flesh and Blood 2) Michael Schenker – Revelation 3) Airbourne – Boneshake 4) Black Star Riders – Another Side of Grace 5) Overkill – Wings of War 6) Beasto Blanco – We are 7) Altitudes & Attitudes – Get it out Top Concerts…
Best of 2019: John Haseltine
Personal Top 20 1. Death Angel – Humanicide Death Angel delivers a brand of thrash metal that is all their own. It is something they have done since their very beginning that sets them apart from the pact. Now, I do know that not all their tracks are truly set…
Best of 2019: Erich
Erich’s Top 20 Metal Albums 2019 2019 is one of those years that will be bittersweet for many metal fans as several bands that could be considered institutions launched or completed farewell tours. Obviously, the question for some is how long these retirements will last, but with Slayer, Kiss, UFO…
Best of 2019: Anders Sandvall
Personal top 20 for 2019 01. Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia “Moonglow” Sammet and his project keeps on going, this is the eight release by the symfonic/progressive/heavy metal constellation and features performances by previous singers in Jorn Lande, Michael Kiske, Bob Catly as well as some new contributions by Hansi Kursh, Mille…
Best of 2019: Aaron Yurkiewicz
Top 20 Studio Albums of 2019 1. Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas Death Atlas is every bit as good as the hype surrounding it suggests. Heavy doesn’t even been to describe the magnitude of this album; it’s an equally melodic and mercilessly brutal collection of tunes that’ll raise the social…
Best of 2019: Brat
Brat’s (Sydney Australia) best of 2019 2019 was a great year with so many brilliant album releases I had a very hard time putting them in some sort of ‘I like this better’ order. While this is a metal website and some of my choices are not technically metal, they’re…
Best of 2019 – Peter Atkinson
Personal Top 20 01. Torche – Admission The fifth album by Miami’s Torche is a veritable cavalcade of cascading guitar, a wondrous wall of riffage that so many bands boast about or promise, but rarely deliver – at least in the sheer volume, meaning both quantity and decibel level, that…
Best of 2019: InfamousButcher
Personal Top 20 Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance Malevolent Creation – The 13th Beast Exhumed – Horror Possessed – Revelations of Oblivion Imprecation – Damnatio Ad Bestias Entrails – Rise of the Reaper Overkill – The Wings of War Sacred Reich – Awakening Death…
Best of 2019: EvilG
Personal Top 20 1. Sabaton – The Great War Sabaton are one of the best of the “newer” bands that have emerged post 2000’s. Their latest album was perhaps the single album that I listened to the most in 2019. Seeing them live in the fall where they played so…
Best of 2019
Top 20 Metal Albums of 2019 As always, the top albums of the year are for full albums (no EP’s or demos) released in 2019. They are new studio albums for the year, not re-recordings, re-releases, cover songs, or live albums. Below the combined top 20 you will find links…
Best of 2019: JP
When you consume, buy and enjoy as much Metal as I do there has never been a bad year. 2019 was no different with hundreds of enjoyable albums released in all genres. No matter what your style or preferences there was something good to hear. This is what caught my…
Best of 2019: Marko Syrjälä
BEST ALBUMS OF 2019 WHITESNAKE FLESH & BLOOD David Coverdale and his snakes return with FLESH AND BLOOD. The album is the band’s most fresh and vital album since SLIP OF THE TONGUE (1989). The renewed line-up sounds just fantastic together. Reb Beach and Joel Hoekstra make a great guitar…
Best of 2019: Arto Lehtinen
Personal Top 20 01. Possessed – Revelations Of Oblivion Possessed came and released one hell of a great death metal album. Needless to add anything else. 02. Candlemass – The Door To Doom …