Best Metal Albums of 2018

The Top Ten
1 Firepower - Judas Priest

I'd place this one between Defenders and Painkiller. A great return to form!

This was a great album. My favorite song here is actually Sea of Red.

Gotta say, I really enjoyed this one. Well done Judas Priest.

Priest are still the metal gods they were back in the 70's.

2 Diluvium - Obscura

This band... Hands down.
I liked a YouTube comment on Obscura's new album: "It is ironic that a band named OBSCURA has made everything so clear."
100% true.

Such prog, Such feels.

3 Illusive Golden Age - Augury
4 Queen of Time - Amorphis

The combination of folk element and death metal is SUPERB.
The vocals are perfect too.
Definitely recommend it.

That's a pretty good album, guys. It sounds quite poppy at times but it's good for beginner metal fans.

5 Where Owls Know My Name - Rivers of Nihil

Prog death with sax

6 The Outer Ones - Revocation

That's a really really good album!

Great is our sin is the best.

Best album cover art!

7 Northern Chaos Gods - Immortal
8 Algorythm - Beyond Creation
9 Devouring Radiant Light - Skeletonwitch
10 Meditations - Kataklysm
The Contenders
11 The Sciences - Sleep
12 Trident Wolf Eclipse - Watain

Cool that this album is getting love.

13 Jungle Rot - Jungle Rot
14 Ion - Portal

This is a really heavy album from Australia - contains Experimental Death Metal.
Sounds like Gorguts meets Morbid Angel meets Nile, and more.

15 The Arrow of Satan is Drawn - Bloodbath

In my humble opinion this album is better than their last album.
Good album not bad. Will have fun while listening, but it's not on the level of their first three albums.

Best 1 so far, old Nick sounds possessed, and the brutal riffs crush the old bloodbath albums into dust period.

Brutal, Holmes is a freak.

16 Wasteland - Riverside
17 The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness - Panopticon
18 Stranger Fruit - Zeal & Ardor

An interesting combination of black metal and spiritual/gospel music. Sounds silly on paper, but in practice, you'd be surprised by just how good it is. The lead single "Gravedigger's Chant" is both catchy and powerful, and the closing track "Built on Ashes" is honestly one of the most beautiful tracks I've heard in a long time.

19 Eonian - Dimmu Borgir
20 Astral Necromancy - Hoth
21 Holy Hell - Architects
22 Damned If You Do - Metal Church
23 The Sacrament of Sin - Powerwolf

Absolutely perfect power metal!

24 Sonder - Tesseract
25 Our Raw Heart - Yob
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