It’s the end of the year again, as usual, we have the musical taste of every member of our team together to compile what we want to put forward as some of the best releases of the year. It gives us a list with a nice diversity in genres and bands (from “big ones” to “underground”) and hopefully covers most of the releases that are worth spending some time on listening to. So without further-ado… here is GRIMM’s list of albums of the year 2019!
Because at some point one needs to make hard choices, there are some great releases that haven’t made it to out top 10 list of 2019. But since there are many great releases still that have been brought up by our writers, we don’t want to keep these from you. You never know you discover something awesome still. So from highest ranking to lowest ranking, here is the list of those who didn’t score high enough to make it to the top:
| Lindemann – Frau & Mann |
| Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race (review) |
| Brutus – Nest |
| Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas |
| Despised Icon – Purgatory (review) |
| Infected Rain – Endorphin |
| In Flames – I, The Mask (review) |
| Avantasia – Moonglow (review) |
| Stake – Critical Method |
| Sunn O))) – Life Metal |
| Arch/Matheos – Winter Ethereal |
| Altarage – The Approaching Roar (review) |
| Profetus – The Sadness of Time Passing (review) |
| Borknagar – True North (review) |
| Frank Carter and The Rattlesnakes – End of Suffering |
| Gatecreeper – Deserted (review) |
| Numenorean – Adore |
| Hamelin – Hamelin |
| Crobot – Motherbrain (review) |
| Amon Amarth – Berserker |
| Jinjer – Macro (review) |
| Gloryhammer – Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (review) |
| Atlantean Kodex – The course of Empire |
| Memoriam – Requiem for Mankind (review) |
| Sum 41 – Order in Decline |
| Ataraxie – Resignes |
| Devourment – Obscene Majesty (review) |
| Rotting Christ – The Heretics (review) |
| Fifth Alliance – The Depth of the Darkness |
| Ison – Inner Space |
| Yungblud – Hope For The Underrated Youth |
| Tool – Fear Inoculum |
| Sisters of Suffocation – Humans Are Broken (review) |
| Fever 333 – Strength of Numb333rs |
| While She Sleeps – So What? (review) |
| Brand Of Sacrifice – God Hand |
| Black Sites – Exile |
| Mgla – Age of Excuse (review) |
| Krater – Venenare |
| Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence |
| Martyrdöd – Hexhammaren (review) |
| Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance (review) |
| Witch Trail – The Sun Has Left The Hill |
| The Royal – Deathwatch (review) |
| Earupt – Elements |
| The Offering – Home (review) |
| Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings (review) |
| Counterparts – Nothing Left to Love |
| Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites (review) |
| Carino Cat – Attraction of Heat |
| Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go |
| Obsidian Tide – Pillars of Creation |
| Aoratos – Gods Without Name (review) |
| Alter Bridge – Walk The Sky (review) |
| Insomnium – Heart Like a Grave |
| Spirit Adrift – Divided by Darkness |
| Krypts – Cadaver Circulatin (review) |
| Mephorash – Shem Ha Mephorash |
| Esoteric – A Pyrrhic Existence (review) |
| Lewis Capaldi – Divinely Uninspired To a Hellish Extent |
| Falls of Rauros – Patterns in Mythology |
| Wederganger – Voortekenen |
| Periphery – Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Brothers Till We Die – Touch These Wounds, I Came Back From Death |
| Hellripper – Black Arts & Alchemy |
| Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Pahlingenesia (review) |
| Akrotheism – The Law of Seven Deaths |
| Ethereal Darkness – Smoke and Shadows |
| The Sound That Ends Creation – Music Designed To Give You Ideas… Incase You Should Run Out Of Ideas |
| As I Lay Dying – Shaped By Fire |
| Throatsnapper – About the Dead |
| Danheim – Hringrás |
| Thank You Scientist – Terraformer |
| Northlane – Alien |
| Versperith – Vesperith |
| King Hiss – Earthquaker |
| The New Roses – Nothing But Wild (review) |
| After the Burial – Evergreen |
| Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fires |
| Sinmara – Hvisl Stjarnanna (review) |
| Lagwagon – Railer |
| Ultar – Pantheon MMXIX |
| Lingua Ignota – Caligula (review) |
| Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror |
| Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen |
| Skillet – Victorious (review) |
| Buckcherry – Warpaint |
| Richard Henshall – The Cocoon |
| Spoil Engine – Renaissance Noir (review) |
| Venom Prison – Samsara |
| Distant – Tyrannotophia |
| Magic Circle – Departed Souls |
| Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In (review) |
| Nocturnal Breed – We Only Came for the Violence |
| Benthik Zone – Omni Quantum Univers (review) |
| Hypno5e – A Distant (Dark) Source |
| Hate – Auric Gates of Veles (review) |
| Candlemass – The Door to Doom (review) |
| Bring Me The Horizon – AMO |
| Monolord – No Comfort (review) |
| Steel Panther – Heavy Metal Rules (review) |
| Soilwork – Verklegheten |
| Gideon – Out of control |
| Traveler – Traveler (review) |
| Exhumed – Horror |
| Une Misère – Sermon |
| Fawn Limbs – Harm Remissions |
| Of Mice and Men – Fever Dream |
| Black Mass – Warlust |
| Dolch – Feuer |
| Mark Morton – Anesthic |
| Windrose – Wintersaga (review) |
| Green Lung – Woodland Rites |
| Gardsghastr – Slit Throat Requiem (review) |
| Abigail Williams – Walk Beyond The Dark |
| Fuming Mouth – The Grand Descent |
| Abbath – Outstrider (review) |
| Papa Roach – Who Do You Trust? (review) |
| Evergrey – The Atlantic |
To start reading our actual top 10 list, go to the next page…
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