Number Five: Warring Monk – 僧兵 VIDEO
Number Four: Vildhjarta – Måsstaden under vatten VIDEO Måsstaden ended up being, but the under vatten follow-up is still really freaking good!
Number Three: Employed to Serve – Conquering VIDEO Conquering continues their legacy of top quality metalcore!
Number Two: Every Time I Die – Radical VIDEO Radical !
Number One: Sentinels – Collapse by Design VIDEO Collapse by Design is twisted, heavy, and quite creative! It was definitely the metalcore album I’ve had the most fun with this year!
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Friday, 19 March Erra – Erra 53:16USA
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Snowblood [0:04:13]
2. Gungrave [0:04:00]
3. Divisionary [0:03:41]
4. House of Glass [0:04:20]
5. Shadow Autonomous [0:05:17]
6. Electric Twilight [0:04:25]
7. Scorpion Hymn [0:03:50]
8. Lunar Halo [0:05:51]
9. Vanish Canvas [0:04:46]
10. Eidolon [0:04:37]
11. Remnant [0:04:20]
12. Memory Fiction [0:04:07]
Friday, 18 June Hacktivist – Hyperdialect 43:30UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Anti Emcees [04:56]
2. Luminosity [03:16]
3. Lifeform [04:43]
4. Armoured Core (feat. Kid Bookie) [04:07]
5. Turning The Tables [03:29]
6. Currency [03:34]
7. Hyperdialect (feat. ten56.) [03:16]
8. Dogs of War [03:53]
9. Ultima Dies [01:57]
10. Planet Zero [02:46]
11. How Dare You Exist [03:22]
12. Reprogram [04:32]
Friday, 25 June Maitreya – Hyper Reels 48:52Whitby, Ontario
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Catalyst [07:23]
2. Departed [06:04]
3. Radical [05:31]
4. Summit [04:31]
5. Invaders [06:18]
6. Bloom [04:26]
7. Pilgrim [04:44]
8. Flesh Engine [04:31]
9. Hyper Reels [00:57]
10. Iswara [04:27]
Friday, 9 July Victims – Volume 4: Numb the Ache 39:02Streamwood, Illinois
Tracklist (click to display) 1. What Doesn’t Kill You [01:48]
2. Carefully // Caged [03:47]
3. Hell Is Other People [02:01]
4. Carve [03:35]
5. Pull From The Hurt [02:50]
6. Anger // Set [02:57]
7. Intoxication [02:57]
8. Hostage [03:02]
9. Stab // Twist [02:54]
10. Miserable In Mourning [02:36]
11. New Face // Same Loneliness [03:46]
12. Numb The Ache [02:49]
13. Suddenly Everything Changed [04:00]
Friday, 6 August Nothing Noble – Modern Dismay 47:29Denmark
Tracklist (click to display) 1. (of doom) [01:04]
2. Modern Dismay [03:48]
3. Bond of Blood (ft. Brendan Murphy) [03:27]
4. Rotting Away [04:14]
5. As Shadows Grow Long [04:05]
6. Black Earth [03:03]
7. Torn Asunder (ft. Kim Song) [04:26]
8. Carnation [05:05]
9. Eternal Change [03:36]
10. Risen [03:28]
11. Essence [01:41]
12. A Breath of the Dirt [03:37]
13. The Path to Peace [06:15]
Friday, 10 September Johari – 幽霊 58:28Louisville, Kentucky
Tracklist (click to display) 1. The Answer [04:40]
2. Fast & Heavy [04:30]
3. The Genesis Tree [04:31]
4. What Have We Done [03:54]
5. The Wandering Flame [04:58]
6. Eternal [03:57]
7. Blood, Sweat, & Beers [04:23]
8. Rejuvenate [03:58]
9. Ichimonji Double [04:36]
10. Insomnium I [03:44]
11. Insomnium II [02:07]
12. Insomnium III [04:07]
13. Circles [04:45]
14. Introspect (feat. Andromida) [04:18]
Friday, 17 Employed to Serve – Conquering 48:19Woking, UK
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Universal Chokehold [05:24]
2. Exist [03:21]
3. Twist The Blade [03:57]
4. Sun Up To Sun Down [03:30]
5. The Mistake [03:49]
6. We Don’t Need You [04:58]
7. Set In Stone [04:29]
8. Mark Of The Grave [04:23]
9. World Ender [04:40]
10. Conquering [05:05]
11. Stand Alone [04:43]
Spiritbox – Eternal Blue 43:04Canada
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Sun Killer [0:03:47]
2. Hurt You [0:03:46]
3. Yellowjacket (feat. Sam Carter) [0:03:18]
4. The Summit [0:03:57]
5. Secret Garden [0:03:39]
6. Silk In The Strings [0:02:57]
7. Holy Roller [0:02:53]
8. Eternal Blue [0:03:59]
9. We Live In A Strange World [0:02:48]
10. Halcyon [0:03:40]
11. Circle With Me [0:03:53]
12. Constance [0:04:30]
Friday, 15 October Vildhjarta – Måsstaden under vatten 80:01Sweden
Tracklist (click to display)
1. lavender haze [0:03:20]
2. när de du älskar kommer tillbaka från de döda [0:03:54]
3. kaos2 [0:04:01]
4. toxin [0:02:54]
5. brännmärkt [0:05:48]
6. den helige anden (under vatten) [0:05:26]
7. passage noir [0:04:27]
8. måsstadens nationalsång (under vatten) [0:05:33]
9. heartsmear [0:03:26]
10. vagabond [0:07:18]
11. mitt trötta hjarta [0:03:56]
12. detta drömmars sköte en slöja till ormars näste [0:03:06]
13. phantom assassin [0:02:58]
14. sunset sunrise [0:04:44]
15. sunset sunrise sunset sunrise [0:06:00]
16. penny royal poison [0:03:09]
17. paaradiso [0:10:02]
Monday, 18 Peculate – Your Own Personal Abyss 59:17USA
Tracklist (click to display) 1. A Safe Space to Rot [05:32]
2. Voluntary Solitary Confinement [04:11]
3. On Hold for Enlightenment [02:23]
4. Customer Communion [04:40]
5. Bury the False God [05:32]
6. One Size Fits All Prescription [03:13]
7. Giving the Mind a Cleanse [02:23]
8. The Proper Daily Routine [04:08]
9. Styrofoam Memories [03:31]
10. A Series of Series [03:47]
11. Rags or Riches [05:06]
12. Customized Chasm [02:18]
13. Transcending the External [06:24]
14. The Eternal Algorithm [06:09]
Friday, 22 Between Oceans – Renaissance 33:47Copenhagen, Denmark
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Intro [01:52]
2. Legacy [04:05]
3. Oblivion [04:18]
4. Pressure [03:57]
5. Signal [03:55]
6. Breaking Point [03:37]
7. Watercarrier [03:42]
8. Crossroads [03:55]
9. In Your Eyes [04:26]
Every Time I Die – Radical 51:09Buffalo, New York
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Dark Distance [02:54]
2. Sly [02:31]
3. Planet Shit [03:56]
4. Post-Boredom [03:16]
5. A Colossal Wreck [02:28]
6. Desperate Pleasures [03:11]
7. All This And War [03:10]
8. Thing With Feathers [03:38]
9. Hostile Architecture [02:36]
10. AWOL [02:10]
11. The Whip [02:30]
12. White Void [03:34]
13. Distress Rehearsal [03:13]
14. sexsexsex [03:27]
15. People Verses [03:33]
16. We Go Together [05:02]
Sentinels – Collapse by Design 46:27New Jersey
Tracklist (click to display)
1. Epitaph [0:02:31]
2. Inertia [0:04:15]
3. Comfort in Familiar Pain [0:04:15]
4. Embers [0:04:01]
5. Albatross [0:04:35]
6. Desecration (Isolation) [0:03:50]
7. Solitude [0:02:37]
8. Tyrant [0:04:04]
9. To Wither Away [0:04:12]
10. Coalescence [0:04:08]
11. Obsolete [0:02:58]
12. Atlas [0:05:20]
Friday, 12 November Queen Kona – Lucid 44:31New York, New York
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Night Terrors [04:56]
2. Showdown Kings [03:59]
3. Humvees, Disease, and Killer Bees (feat. Alec Hank of Ratgod) [04:16]
4. The Black Sea [04:25]
5. Rise of the Shogunate [03:25]
6. Boundaries Dissolved 2.0 [03:46]
7. A Forest of Blind Men [04:52]
8. Magic Hour (feat. Devin Route) [04:17]
9. Sands of Time [04:56]
10. Lucid [05:39]
Friday, 19 Volumes – Happier? 40:06Los Angeles, California
Tracklist (click to display)
1. FBX [0:02:31]
2. Malevolent [0:03:39]
3. Bend [0:04:18]
4. Get Enough [0:03:16]
5. Lets Me Down [0:04:29]
6. Man On Fire [0:03:03]
7. Weighted [0:03:43]
8. See You Again [0:03:05]
9. Into You (Hurt) [0:04:13]
10. Void [0:02:43]
11. Happier? [0:05:10]
Friday, 26 November Wide Eyes – Oneironaut 121:47Akron, Ohio
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Fata Morgana [07:45]
2. Lucidity [05:35]
3. Rampancy (feat. Charles Caswell) [06:42]
4. Continuum [04:38]
5. The Traveler [06:19]
6. Obsidian [02:48]
7. Amygdala [06:04]
8. Graveward [05:26]
9. Ascension [01:52]
10. Vivid Perception [05:10]
11. The Illusory [04:20]
12. Timefall [03:47]
13. Mind Lapse [06:37]
14. Autokinesis [03:18]
15. Synesthesia [08:18]
16. Protosun [06:47]
17. Meridian [04:06]
18. Glimmer [06:28]
19. Cyanide [06:49]
20. Oblivion (feat. Stephen Taranto) [18:58]
Friday, 10 December Atlas – Ukko 42:32Finland
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Talvi [02:38]
2. Synti [03:54]
3. Taivaanranta [04:27]
4. Susi [04:03]
5. Ukko [04:32]
6. Henki [02:31]
7. Lehto [03:24]
8. Veri [03:37]
9. Joki [02:18]
10. Uhri [03:38]
11. Pohjannaula [07:30]
Tuesday, 21 The Standard Model – Visions of Fiction 45:27Edwardsburg, Michigan
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Brighter Horizons [04:14]
2. Hands Colored Crimson [04:53]
3. Kangaroo Wack [05:27]
4. Conundrum (ft. Josh Seguin) [03:55]
5. Faithbreaker (ft. Kenny Perry) [05:18]
6. Of the Void (ft. Natalie McKay) [04:38]
7. The Undulating Snake [06:45]
8. Dreamland [05:02]
9. A Byte of the Apple [05:15]
Friday, 24 Warring Monk – 僧兵 35:07Toms River, New Jersey
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Sé [04:57]
2. Yon Shi [03:48]
3. Conquer [03:26]
4. Harakiri [04:36]
5. Hellwalker [05:55]
6. Forever [06:57]
7. Simulacra [05:28]
Saturday, 25 December God – Ⅴ: Sin, Part Ⅰ 65:05USA
Tracklist (click to display) 1. Unbelief – Part I [03:50]
2. Sin – Part I – Temptation Leads To Sinful Desire [04:09]
3. Sin – Part II – Entertain Thoughts To Justify Sinful Desire [03:42]
4. Sin – Part III – Sin By Consent To Disobedience [03:31]
5. Sin – Part IV – Sin Leads To Death [05:59]
6. Sin – Parts I – IV [17:22]
7. Marriage [05:12]
8. Divorce [04:43]
9. Love – II [04:58]
10. Indifference [05:31]
11. Forgiven [02:14]
12. Unforgiveness [03:54]
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