Best Metal of 2024

Full of Hell & Andrew Nolan – Scraping the Divine

Full of Hell - Coagulated Bliss
Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory
Necrot – Lifeless Birth
Undeath – More Insane
Couch Slut – You Could Do It Tonight
Krallice – Inorganic Rites
Judas Priest – Invincible Shield
Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus
Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God
Oranssi Pazuzu – Muuntautuja
Frail Body – Artificial Bouquet
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
High on Fire - Cometh the Storm
Knocked Loose - You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To
Gatecreeper - Dark Superstition
Chat Pile - Cool World
Drug Church - Prude
Devin Townsend - PowerNerd
Opeth - The Last Will and Testament
Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
Ihsahn - Ihsahn

Aborted - Vault of Horrors 

Lucifer - Lucifer V

Zeal and Ardor - Greif 

Job for a Cowboy - Moon Healer

Tribulation - Sub Rosa In Aeternum 

Benighted - Ekbom 

Akhlys - House of the Black Geminus 

Black Lava - Savage Winds to Wisdom

Cognizance - Phantazein 

Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera

Ingested - The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams

Ministry - Hopiumforthemasses

Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death

Thou - Umbilical

Best Metal Music of 2022

-(16)- - Into Dust

Abhorrent Expanse - Gateways To Resplendence
Acephalix - Theothanatology
Acid Witch - Rot Among Us
Aenimus - Sacrificial
Aethereus - Leiden
Allegaeon - Damnum
Alunah - Strange Machine
Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army
Amorphis - Halo
An Abstract Illusion - Woe
AngelMaker - Sanctum
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
The Antichrist Imperium - Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory
Antropofagus - Origin
Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
Author & Punisher - Krüller
Autophagy - Bacteriophage
Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
Baest - Justitia
Bastard Noise / Merzbow - Retribution By All Other Creatures
Bastions - Acres Of Love
Begrime Exemious - Rotting In The Aftermath
Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram

Black Lava - Soul Furnace
Bleed From Within - Shrine
Bleeding Through - Rage
Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero
Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
Carrion Vael - Abhorrent Obsessions
Castrator - Defiled In Oblivion
Catalyst - A Different Painting For A New World
Cave In - Heavy Pendulum
Clutch - Sunrise On Slaughter Beach
Come To Grief - When The World Dies
Corpsessed - Succumb To Rot
De Profundis - The Corruption Of Virtue

Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Devil Master - Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night
Devin Townsend - Lightwork

Doldrum - The Knocking. or the Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance

Drudkh - All Belong To The Night
Electric Callboy - Tekkno
Full Of Hell - Aurora Leaking From An Open Wound
Gaerea - Mirage
Ghost - Impera
Goatwhore - Angels Hung From The Arches Of Heaven
Hällas - Isle Of Wisdom
Hath - All That Was Promised
HEALTH - Disco 4: Part II
Horndal - Be Evil
Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
Ingested - Ashes Lie Still
Inhuman Condition - Fearsick
Jungle Rot - A Call To Arms
Lamentations - Passion Of Depression
Liturgy - As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time
Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
Mass Worship - Portal Tombs
Massacre - Mythos
Meshuggah - Immutable
Midnight - Let There Be Witchery
Misery Index - Complete Control
Molder - Engrossed In Decay
The Monolith Deathcult - V4 - Verbittering
Nebula - Transmissions From Mothership Earth
Nekrogoblikon - The Fundamental Slimes and Humours
Oceans Of Slumber - Starlight And Ash
Origin - Chaosmos
The Otolith - Folium Limina
Primitive Man - Insurmountable
Primus - Conspiranoid
Psycroptic - Divine Council
Rammstein - Zeit
Revocation - Netherheaven
Ripped To Shreds - 劇變 (Jubian)
Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
Savage Master - Those Who Hunt At Night
Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
Slugcrust - Ecocide
SOEN - Atlantis
Spirit Adrift - 20 Centuries Gone
Stray From The Path - Euthanasia
Sumerlands - Dreamkiller
Sylvaine - Nova
Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
Tombs - Ex Oblivion
Trial - Feed The Fire
Tzompantli - Tlazcaltiliztli

Undeath - It's Time ... To Rise From The Grave
Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
Warforged - The Grove

Witchery - Nightside
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor

Best Metal Music of 2021

Lorna Shore - And I Return To Nothingness

Gojira - Fortitude

Mastodon - Hushed & Grim

Cerebral Rot - Excretion of Mortality

Rivers of Nihil - The Work

Full of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

Obscura - A Valediction

Archspire - Bleed The Future

Hooded Menace - The Tritonus Bell

Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality

Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

Devin Townsend - The Puzzle & Snuggles

Jinger - Wallflowers

Ministry - Moral Hygiene

Carcass - Torn Arteries

Bongzilla - Weedsconsin

Four Stroke Baron - Classics 

Krallice - Demonic Wealth

AEnigmatum - Deconsecrate

The Absence - Coffinized

Heavy Sentence - Bang To Rights

Worm - Foreverglade

Brand of Sacrifice - Lifeblood

Slaughter to Prevail - Kostolom

Succumb - XXI

Heavy Sentence - Bang to Rights

Vomit The Soul - Cold

Lucifer's Fall - III: From The Deep

Mega Colossus - Riptime

Bewitcher - Satanic Magick Attack

Warrior Path - The Mad King

Kayo Dot - Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike

Bummer - Dead Horse

ATVM - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Crypta - Echoes of the Soul

Lucifer - Lucifer IV

Alien Weaponry - Tangora

Cynic - Ascension Codes

Harakiri For The Sky - Maere

Inferi - Vile Genesis

Iron Maiden - Senjutsu

Soen - Imperial

1914 - Where Fear and Weapons Meet

Best Metal Albums 2019

Tool Fear Inoculum
Allegaeon Apoptosis
Gatecreeper Deserted
Creeping Death Wretched Illusions
3Teeth Metawar
Devourment Obscene Majesty
Jinjer Macro
Opeth In Cauda Venenum
Ghost Seven Inches Of Satanic Panic
Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan
Soen Lotus
Devil Master Satan Spits on Children of Light
Cattle Decapitation Death Atlas
Spirit Adrift Divided by Darkness

Cerebral Rot Odious Decent Into Decay

Astronoid Astronoid

Despised Icon Purgatory

Nocturnal Departure Cathartic Black Rituals

Blut Aus Nord Hallucinogen

Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno

Obsequiae The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

Cult Of Luna A Dawn of Fear

Cloudkicker Unending

Baroness Gold & Grey

Devin Townsend Empath
Tomb Mold Planetary Clairvoyance
Candlemass The Door To Doom
Full Of Hell Weeping Choir
Immortal Bird Thrive On Neglect
Blood Incantation Hidden History of the Human Race
Mark Morton Anesthetic
Misery Index Rituals Of Power
Oath Of Cruelty Summary Execution At Dawn
1349 The Infernal Pathway
Warforger I: Voice
Cryptic Sermon The Ruins of Fading Light

Sanhedrin The Poisoner

Funereal Presence Achatius
Green Lung Woodland Rites
MGLA Age Of Excuse
Babymetal Metal Galaxy
Hath Of Rot And Ruin