Top 10 2018

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Alright. It is here. Our Top 10 of 2018. Pushing an end of the year roundup into the thick of January has been something we have been doing for many years. This not only gives people a chance to listen to December releases but it also allows people to take a cool off period before putting that hot November release right up front. It is also meant to see if other big name blogs follow suit since they cant use us for quick underground cred picks. Ha, listen to me acting like we matter. In any case it is time to say goodbye to 2018 the best way possible -- with needless lists.


Top 10 of 2018

Albums / Position Vote Count Third Quarter Position Second Quarter Position First Quarter Position Genre
1. Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms 103 1 1 -- Death
2. Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology 90 2 3 1 Progressive Blackened Death / Sludge
3. Horrendous - Idol 69 5 -- -- Death
4. Varathron - Patriarchs Of Evil 66 7 ## -- Black
5. Sleep - The Sciences 65 3 4 -- Stoner / Doom
6. Ripped To Shreds - 埋葬 56 4 2 -- Death
7. Yob - Our Raw Heart 54 8 6 -- Stoner / Doom
8. Black Viper - Hellions of Fire 51 ## -- -- Speed
9. Satan - Cruel Magic 48 10 -- -- Heavy
10. Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword 48 -- -- -- Black
Judas Priest - Firepower 46 6 7 4 Heavy
Solstice - White Horse Hill 46 ## ## ## Heavy / Doom
1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind 46 -- -- -- Blackened Death Reenactment
Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure 45 -- -- -- Death
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name 45 ## ## 6 Tech Death
Khemmis - Desolation 45 ## ## -- Doom
Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness 43 9 5 -- Black
Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath 40 ## ## 8 Heavy
Death Fortress - Reign of the Unending 39 -- -- -- Black
Tribulation - Down Below 34 ## ## 5 Gothic / Black
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos 34 -- -- -- ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Amorphis - Queen of Time 31 ## ## -- Progressive
Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed 31 ## 10 2 Death / Doom
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown 26 ## -- -- Black / Death
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence 23 ## -- -- Black
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic 23 -- -- -- Progressive / Post Metal
Torture Rack - Malefic Humiliation 22 ## 8 -- Death
Portal - Ion 22 ## 9 3 ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
High on Fire - Electric Messiah 22 ## ## ## Whisky & LSD
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury 22 ## -- -- Avant Black / Death
Revocation - The Outer Ones 21 ## -- -- Tech Death / Thrash
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy 20 ## 8 -- I fucking love the Alien movies
Behemoth - Loved you At Your Darkest 20 ## -- -- Blackened Death
Chapel of Disease - ...and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye 20 -- -- -- Death
Voivod - The Wake 20 ## -- -- Progressive / Thrash
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods 19 ## -- -- Black
Haunt - Burst into Flame 18 ## -- -- Heavy
Deceased - Ghostly White 18 -- -- -- Death
Hyperdontia - Nexus of Teeth) 18 ## ## ## Death
Sacral Rage- Beyond Celestial Echoes 17 -- -- -- Speed / Heavy
UNGFELL - Mythen, Mären, Pestilenz 17 ## ## -- Black
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists 17 -- -- -- Black
Zeal & Ardor - Strange Fruit 17 ## ## -- Experimental
Shylmagoghnar - Transience 16 ## -- -- Blackened Death
Summoning - With Doom We Come 16 ## ## 7 Epic / Atmospheric Black
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness 16 ## ## -- Death
Galvanizer - Sanguine Vigil 16 ## ## -- Death / Grind
Slægt - The Wheel 16 -- -- -- Heavy / Black
Thou - Magus // The House Primordial // Inconsolable // Rhea Sylvia 16 ## -- -- Sludge / Hardcore / Hate
Infernal Coil - Within a World Forgotten 15 ## -- -- Death / Grind
Mammoth Grinder - Cosmic Crypt 15 ## ## 6 Death / Hardcore
Massive Retaliation - Arms of the War God 15 ## ## -- Death / Bulldozers
Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light 15 ## -- -- Melodic Death / Thrash
Outer Heaven - Realms of Eternal Decay 15 -- -- -- Death / Doom / Hardcore
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn 14 ## -- -- Heavy
Cosmic Church - Täyttymys 14 ## 10 -- Black
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love 14 ## -- -- Avant / Black
Ihsahn - Amr 14 ## ## -- Progressive / Extreme
Siege Column - Inferno Deathpassion 14 ## -- -- Death / Thrash
Sargeist - Unbound 14 -- -- -- Black
Conan - Existential Void Guardian 14 ## -- -- Doom / Sludge
Transilvania - The Night of Nights 14 ## ## -- Black / Thrash
Windhand - Eternal Return 13 -- -- -- Stoner / Doom
Akitisa - Credo 13 -- -- -- Black
Panphage - Jord 13 ## ## 10 Black / Folk
Ritual Necromancy - Disinterred Horror 13 ## ## -- Death
Demonomancy - Poisoned Atonement 12 ## ## ## Black / Death
Bongripper - Terminal 12 ## -- -- Sludge / Stoner Doom
Ghost - Prequelle 12 ## ## -- Spooky Genesis
Outre-Tomb - Necrovortex 12 -- -- -- Death
Scorched - Ecliptic Butterfly 12 ## -- -- Death
Sigh - Heir To Despair 12 -- -- -- Avant / Extreme
Conjurer - Mire 10 -- -- -- Sluge / Doom / Post Metal
Harakiri for the Sky - Arson 11 ## ## ## Post Black
Cultes Des Ghoules - Sinister, Or Treading Darker Paths 10 ## -- -- Black ?
Obscura - Diluvium 10 ## ## 8 Tech Death / Progressive
Ulthar - Cosmovore 10 -- -- -- Black / Death / Grind
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb 10 ## ## -- Black
Gaerea - Unsettling Whipsers 10 ## -- -- Black
Hoth - Astral Necromancy 10 ## -- -- Melodic Black / Death
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma 10 ## ## ## Funeral Doom
Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality 10 ## ## -- Death
Weigedood - De doden hebben het goed III 10 -- -- -- Black
Beyond Creation - Algorythm 9 -- -- -- Progressive / Tech Death
Inferni - Revanant 9 ## ## ## D&D Death
King Goat - Debt of Aeons 9 ## ## -- Progressive Doom
Spaceslug - Eye The Tide 9 ## ## -- Stoner Doom / Post Metal
Wayfarer - World's Blood 9 ## ## -- Atmospheric Black
Altars Of Grief - Iris 9 -- -- -- Blackened Doom
Annal Nathrakh - A New Kind of Horror 9 -- -- -- Industrial / Black
Convulsing - Grevious 9 ## -- -- Black / Death / Avant
Golgothan Remains - Perverse Offerings To The Void 9 ## ## ## Death
Moenen of Xezbeth - Ancient Spells of Darkness​.​.​. 9 ## -- -- Black / Candles
Ovygen Destoyer - Bestial Manifestations of Malevolence and Death 9 -- -- -- Death / Kaiju
Ironflame - Tales of Sorrow and Splendor 9 -- -- -- Power / Heavy
KHôRADA - Salt 9 -- -- -- Progressive / Sludge
Lethean - The Waters of Death 9 -- -- -- Heavy / Doom
Mare - Ebony Tower 7 -- -- -- Black
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice 7 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black / Ambient
Messa - Feast For Water 7 ## -- -- Doom / Ambient
Necrophobic - Mark of the Necrogram 7 ## -- -- Black / Death
Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns 7 -- -- -- Death / Tech
Ride For Revenge - Sinking The Song 7 ## -- -- Black
Sojouner - The Shadowed Road 7 ## ## ## Epic / Atmospheric Black
Spite - Antimoshiach 7 ## -- -- Black
Vomitor - Pestilent Death 7 ## -- -- Black / Death
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes 7 -- -- -- Black / Avant
Acathexis - Acathexis 7 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black
Anicon - Entropy Mantra 7 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black / Death
Augury - Illusive Golden Age 7 -- -- -- Progressive / Tech Death
Eneferens - the Bleakness of Our Content 7 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black / Post Metal
Kalmah - Palo 7 -- -- -- Melodic Death
Midnight Force - Dunsinane 7 -- -- -- Heavy
Nachash - Phantasmal Triunity 7 -- -- -- Black / Death
Necros Christos - Domedon Doxomedon 6 -- -- -- Black
OF Feather and Bone - Bestial Hymns Of Perversion 6 ## ## ## Death / Grind
PLF - Jackhammering Deathblow of Nightmarish Trepidation 6 ## -- -- Grind / Thrash
Sumac - Love In Shadow 6 ## -- -- Atmospheric Sludge
Thy Catafalque - Geometria 6 ## -- -- Avant
Uada - Cult of a Dying Sun 6 ## ## -- Melodic Black]
Vilkacis - Beyiond the Mortal Gate 6 ## ## -- Black
Agrimonia - Awaken 6 -- -- -- Sludge / Post Metal / Crust
At the Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself 5 -- -- -- Melodic Death
Ataraxy - Where All Hope Fades 5 -- -- -- Death
Burial Invocation - Abiogenesis 5 -- -- -- Death
Craft - Total Soul Rape 5 -- -- -- Black
Deathhammer - Chained To Hell 5 -- -- -- Thrash
Drudkh - Їм часто сниться капіж 5 ## ## 9 Atmospheric Black
Haken - Vector 5 -- -- -- Progressive
Judicator - The Last Emperor 5 -- -- -- Power
Manacle - No Fear to Preserve 5 -- -- -- Power
Mortuous - Through Wilderness 5 -- -- -- Death
Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens 5 -- -- -- Melodic Death
Purity Renaissance - Promo 5 ## ## -- Black
Solar Temple - Fertile Descent 5 -- -- -- Atmospheric Black
Uncle Acid - Wasteland 5 -- -- -- Psych / Doom
Weedpecker - III 5 -- -- -- Psych / Stoner
Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It 5 -- -- -- Progressive / Shoegaze
Outlaw - Marauders 5 -- -- -- Heavy / Speed
Pig Destroyer - Headcage 5 -- -- -- Grind
Madder Morten - Marrow 5 -- -- -- Progressive
Grave Upheaval - -- 5 -- -- -- Death / Doom
Jesus Piece - Only Self 5 -- -- -- Metalcore / Sludge
Barren Earth - Complex of Cages 5 -- -- -- Progressive / Melodic Death
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins 5 -- -- -- Folk / Black
Funerary Bell - Undead Revelations 5 -- -- -- Black / Death / Candles

(##) = Charted but outside of the Top 10 of the Quarter

( -- ) = Not Released for the Quarter (Or Did Not Chart)

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