Tier 4: Honorable mentions
Before we delve into the proper list, I first wanted to present you with a list of honorable mentions. These are all the albums we rated at least an 8/10, but for whatever reason didn’t end up on the list. Each of these is a clickable link to the original review. I have no idea how this list ended up as large as it did. Either we overrate stuff, or the music we come across to is just that good. I guess a big reason for its size is that it has nearly everything Jonah (too busy atm) and Tyler (left the blog) reviewed. But whatever the reason for exclusion is, these albums are also certainly good. They’re presented as I keep my bookmarks, which uses the following naming system:
mm-dd Band - Album (type of prog metal, country)I apologize if they don’t look all that appealing with this presentation, but it can serve as a good resource to navigate what we reviewed over the year.
01-01 The Band Royale – The Band Royale (rock, US-IL)
01-03 Karfagen – Birds of Passage (rock/traditional, Ukraine)
01-15 Sea – Impermanence (post/doom, US-MA)
01-17 Holy Fawn – The Black Moon (post rock, US-AZ)
01-17 Gloe – Dead Wait (shoegaze/mathcore, US-UT)
01-17 Oberst – Paradise (post-hardcore, Norway)
01-20 Dunkelstorm – Finsternis (symphonic black, Argentina)
01-24 Elden – Nostromo (stoner rock, Sweden)
01-31 Dead Kosmonaut – Gravitas (heavy, Sweden)
01-31 死 – Depressive Suicidal Stoner Doom (do I need to say anything??, US-KY)
02-02 Ainsoph – Ω – V (post black, The Netherlands)
02-07 Sons of a Wanted Man – Kenoma (post-black, France)
02-20 Skyforest – A New Dawn (atmoblack/folk, Russia)
02-21 Hex A.D. – Astro Tongue in the Electric Garden (doom/psych, Norway)
02-21 InTechnicolour – Big Sleeper (psych/desert rock, UK)
02-21 Xenobiotic – Mordrake (deathcore, Australia)
02-22 The Motion Mosaic – Avant-Garbage (mathcore, US-MN)
02-25 Sectile – Falls Apart (groove, Ireland)
02-28 Drown – Subaqueous (funeral doom, US-OR)
02-28 Red\shift – Grow. Decay. Transform. (sludge/post-rock, US-MN)
03-01 Inner Odyssey – The Void (synthpop/prog metal, Canada)
03-13 Bury the Rod – Crisis (deathcore, US-TE)
03-20 Back to R’lyeh – Chosen (avantgarde, Spain)
03-25 Lamentari – Missa Pro Defunctis (symphonic black, Denmark) [EP]
04-01 Moura – Moura (stoner rock/psych, Spain)
04-03 Ritual Dictates – Give in to Despair (black/thrash, Canada)
04-10 Azusa – Loop of Yesterdays (metalcore, Greece/Norway/US-PN)
04-10 Læment – Holy Man (sludge/OSDM, US-CA)
04-11 Acatonia – Война (traditional/power, Russia)
04-13 Cryptic Ruse – Unfertile (microtonal metal, US-WA)
04-13 Abysslooker – Burden (post/doom, Russia)
04-13 Roman Khrustalev – Contemplating the Beksinski (instrumental/ambient, Kazakhstan)
04-15 Vampire Squid – Reinventing the Eel (grindcore, US-CA)
04-17 Ignea – The Realms of Fire and Death (symphonic, Ukraine)
04-17 Sugar Horse – DRUGS (doomgaze/post, UK) [EP]
04-24 Together to the Stars – As We Wither (post black, Sweden)
04-29 Abduction – Jehanne (black, France)
05-01 Parallel – Entropy (hardcore punk/sludge, US-NJ)
05-07 Yriel – In Retrospect (alternative, Estonia)
05-20 Никто Не Против – Время уезжать? (post, Russia)
05-22 Mountaineer – Bloodletting (post sludge/doomgaze, US-CA)
05-26 Agora – Imperio (power, Mexico)
05-29 Silverkord – Liquid Air (alternative/stoner, UK)
06-02 Hail the Void – Hail the Void (doom/psych, Canada)
06-05 ZILF – The Album (mathcore/avantgarde, UK)
06-16 Firelink – Firelink (atmo black, US-GA)
06-18 Opus V – Universe of Truths (traditional, Brazil)
06-19 Alarum – Circle’s End (wanky thrash, Australia)
06-19 Eye of Nix – Ligeia (avant doom, US-WA)
06-19 Eyes Fly – Eyes Fly (stoner doom, UK)
06-25 Behold the Void – Disintegration (blackened djentcore, Russia)
06-26 Creature – Ex Cathedra (black/avant, France)
06-26 Neptunian Maximalism – Éons (avant/drone/jazz, Italy)
06-26 Thætas – Shrines to Absurdity (tech/brutal death, US-NY)
06-30 Paul Wardingham – Day Zero I : Rise of the Horde (shred, Australia)
07-03 Transit Method – The Madness (grunge/psych, US-TE)
07-24 Stilema – Utopia (folk, Italy)
08-07 Sergeant Thunderhoof / Howling Giant – Turned to Stone, Chapter 2: Masamune & Muramasa
08-21 Glass Ocean – The Remnants of Losing Yourself in Someone Else (rock/alternative, Australia)
08-21 Palehorse/Palerider & Lord Buffalo – Legends of the Desert: Volume 1 (post/shoegaze/desert rock, US-NM)
08-28 Luna’s Call – Void (death, UK)
08-28 Wills Dissolve – Echoes (extreme/post, US-TX)
09-18 Cody Clegg – Tomorrow Is Moments Away (instrumental post/prog, US-NY)
09-18 Fires in the Distance – Echoes from Deep November (melodeath/doom, US-CT)
10-01 Bound – Haunts (post/shoegaze, US-MD)
10-01 Greg Puciato – Child Soldier: Creator of God (alternative/experimental, US-CA)
10-02 Echolot – Destrudo (psych/post, Switzerland)
10-02 Holmgang Ov Gensokyo – 1.5 ~ Night Festival of Ten-Thousand Demons (Touhou, international)
10-23 Coexistence – Collateral Dimension (prog/tech death, Italy)
11-16 Alustrium – Insurmountable [EP] (tech death, US-PA)
11-20 Onségen Ensemble – Fear (post-rock, Finland)
11-20 Avandra – Skylighting (traditional, Puerto Rico)
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