Om du bara har lyssnat på femtio nya album i år (knappt en skiva i veckan, alltså) hoppas jag att du har lyssnat på följande. Profound Lore var visst världens bästa skivbolag i år också.
Alcest: Les voyages de l'âme
Aluk Todolo: Occult rock
Anaal Nathrakh: Vanitas
Ash Borer: Cold of ages
Asphyx: Deathhammer
Atriarch: Ritual of passing
Baroness: Yellow & green
Bell Witch: Longing
Bosse-de-Nage: III
Christian Mistress: Possession
Converge: All we love we leave behind
Dawnbringer: Into the lair of the sun god
Devin Townsend Project: Epicloud
Dragged Into Sunlight: Widowmaker
Dysrhythmia: Test of submission
Evoken: Atra mors
Family: Portrait
God Seed: I begin
Graveyard: Lights out
Hooded Menace: Effigies of evil
Ihsahn: Eremita
Incantation: Vanquish in vengeance
Indesinence: Vessels of light and decay
Katatonia: Dead end kings
Krallice: Years past matter
Lord Mantis: Pervertor
Mgla: With hearts towards none
Marduk: Serpent sermon
Mutilation Rites: Empyrean
Nachtmystium: The silencing machine
Nekromantheon: Rise, vulcan spectre
Neurosis: Honor found in decay
Nile: At the gate of Sethu
Nitad: Rastlös och vild
Occultation: Three & seven
Okkultokrati: Snakereigns
Old Man Gloom: NO
Pallbearer: Sorrow & extinction
Pig Destroyer: Book burner
Rhapsody: Ascending to infinity
Royal Thunder: CVI
Spiders: Flash point
Swans: The seer
Switch Opens: Joint clash
Switchblade: Switchblade
This Gift Is A Curse: I, guilt bearer
Unsane: Wreck
Weapon: Embers and revelations
Witchcraft: Legend
Wreck and Reference: No youth