Roughly in order of most to least favorite albums from this year:
- Mutoid Man - Bleeder
- Future - DS2
- Black Tongue - The Unconquerable Dark
- Blacklisted - When People Grow, People Go
- Caspian - Dusk and Disquiet
- Highly Suspect - Mister Asylum
- Milo - So the Flies Don’t Come
- Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death
- Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
- Stray From The Path - Subliminal Criminals
- Lord Dying - Poisoned Altars
- Oddisee - The Good Fight
- And So I Watch You From Afar - Heirs
- Torche - Restarter
- Fit For An Autopsy - Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell
- Purity Ring - Another Eternity
- Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
- A$AP Rocky - At.Long.Last.A$AP
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Abysmal
- Robb Bank$ - Year of the Savage
- Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
- Twitching Tongues - Disharmony
- The Weeknd - Beauty Beyond Madness
- Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things
- High On Fire - Luminiferous
Other good albums that I liked but didn’t quite make the cut:
- Senses Fail - Pull The Thorns From Your Heart
- Xibalba - Terra Y Libertad
- Thundercat - The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam
- Hopsin - Pound Syndrome
- Miss May I - Deathless
- Trivium - Silence In The Snow
- Veil of Maya - Matriarch
All of these albums have been added, in order, to a Spotify playlist for you to enjoy: