An end-of-year report: our 2019 underground progressive metal albums of the year!

Tier 4: Honorable mentions

This one speaks for itself. These are all the albums from the year that had a score of at least 8/10 or were otherwise memorable enough that we didn’t want to highlight in particular. They are still great albums though, so I wanted to at least mention them. There is no Spotify playlist for these albums. With that said, here goes:

01-08 Althea – The Art of Trees (traditional/art rock, Italy)
01-13 Together to the Stars – An Oblivion Above (post black, Sweden)
02-01 Pensées Nocturnes – Grand Guignol Orchestra (avant black, France)
02-15 Herod – Sombre Dessein (sludge/djent, Switzerland)
03-01 Diviion – Journey of the Time Shaman (thrash, UK)
03-22 Ashen Horde – Fallen Cathedrals (black, US-CA)
04-19 Black Sites – Exile (heavy, US-IL)
04-20 Tillian – Lotus Graveyard (folk/experimental, Israel)
05-03 Karmatik – Unlimited Energy (melodeath, Canada)
05-17 Dawn of Nil – Culminating Ruins (death/black, France)
05-17 Summoner’s Circle – Become None (black/death/doom, US-TN)
05-31 Adrift – Pure (sludge/black, Spain)
06-07 Ascend the Hollow – Echoes of Existence (death, Ireland)
06-07 Embrace of Disharmony – De Rervm Natvra (symphonic/avant, Italy)
06-14 Atlas Entity – Beneath the Cosmic Silence (death, US-FL)
06-14 Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fires (heavy, Germany)
07-01 Gandalf’s Fist – The Clockwork Prologue (rock opera/folk, UK)
07-12 Arctic Sleep – Kindred Spirits (doom/shoegaze, US-WI)
07-20 Chaos over Cosmos – Chaos over Cosmos (power, Poland)
07-26 Throes – In the Hands of an Angry God (sludge/post-hardcore, US-ID)
08-16 Pijn & Conjurer – Curse These Metal Hands (sludge, UK) [EP]
08-23 Ivory Tower – Stronger (power, Germany)
08-30 The Spectre Beneath – The Downfall of Judith King (power/thrash, UK)
09-06 Foscor – Els sepulcres blancs (atmo black, Spain)
09-09 Serpent Column – Mirror in Darkness (black/math, US-??)
09-28 Odd Logic – Last Watch of the Nightingale (traditional, US-WA)
10-04 District 97 – Screens (prog-jazz, US-IL)
10-06 Aeons – A Tragic End (death/metalcore, Isle of Man)
10-11 Singularity – Place of Chains (tech death/black, US-AZ)
10-18 Vinsta – Drei Deita (death/Opeth, Austria)
10-22 Striatum – Unoneness (experimental, Canada)
10-24 Pripyat Escape – Antimateria (melodeath, Spain)
10-25 Lowcaster – Flames Arise (doom, US-CA)
10-25 Noveria – Aequilibrium (power, Italy)
11-07 ROSK – Remnants (folk/post rock, Poland)
11-09 Iapetus – The Body Cosmic (extreme, US-NY)
11-26 Hvøsch – Lovelorn (post black, Russia)
11-29 Öxxö Xööx – Ÿ (it’s from, France aka WTF)
12-?? Chronologist – Equinox I & II, Solstice I & II (instrudjental, US-TX)
12-06 Perihelion – Agg (post rock/metal, Hungary)
12-13 In Human Form – III (black, US-MA)
12-21 Amonkst the Trees – Amonkst the Trees (melodeath/doom, US-AR)

And now for the first missed albums edition:

01-25 Anabasis – Of Conviction (power/metalcore, US-NY)
02-08 Veil of Conspiracy – Me, Us and Them (metalcore?, Italy)
03-16 An Isolated Mind – I’m Losing Myself (avant black/death, US-CA)
04-05 Ceremony of Silence – Oútis (blackened death, Slovakia)
05-03 Dizzy Mystics – Wanderlost (hard rock, Canada)
06-07 Flub – Flub (tech death, US-CA)

And now for the second missed albums edition:

03-15 Now In Colour – Now In Colour (heavy prog rock, Australia)
04-06 Sublevels – La Muerte del Sol (post/death/doom, Argentina)
06-21 The Odious – Vesica Piscis (death/jazz/core, US-OR)
08-06 Brian Maillard – Stabilized (instrumental/shred, Italy)
08-16 Parallel Dimension – Angular Perceptions (traditional, Puerto Rico)
09-13 Centurion – Centurion (heavy/power, Serbia)
10-31 Herd of Instinct – Incantation (instrumental heavy prog rock, US-TE)

That was quite the list already! Now time for the actual albums we want to talk about.