This was a very hard year to pick only 20 albums as my favorites. Some of the ones I left out would have definitely made the cut other years. But for what it’s worth, this is my top 20 favorite albums of 2018:

20. Steorrah – “The Altstadt Abyss”

19. Thumpermonkey – Make Me Young Etc.

18. The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

17. The Pineapple Thief – Dissolution

16. Howling Sycamore – Howling Sycamore

15. Barren Earth – A Complex of Cages

14. Perfect Beings – Vier

13. In the Woods… – Cease the Day

12. Ihsahn – Amr

11. Spock’s Beard – Noise Floor

10. Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy

9. The Night Flight Orchestra – Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough

8. Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name

7. Komie – Afterglow

6. Ring Van Mobius – Past the Evening Sun

5. Between the Buried and Me – Automata

4. Antimatter – Black Market Enlightenment

3. Umphrey’s McGee – It’s Not Us, It’s You

2. Amorphis – Queen of Time

1. Voivod – The Wake

If you missed the radio show where I played a track from each album, here’s a link to the show: