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:
Thanks for posting it, missed you guys this morning. Great list!!
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