[moriez]

Whether it's a single, some 12", EP or album(s), top 3-10-25-50-100.. whatever! Just make sure it was released this year.

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[taffy2207]

Well, this took over 3 hours My top 10 are the Albums I listen to the most. 11-100 who knows? I lost the will to live at one point whilst linking and the Samaritans had to finish my post As many of you are aware I put on my Slippers and kick back in my happy pants in the Living Room of the obscure.

Bearing that in mind, here's my top 100 of 2019 (predominantly Rock & other Metal genres). :-

1 The Lunar Effect - Calm Before The Calm



2 Big Red Panda - Voyage



3 ROSK - Remnants



4 ISON Inner - Space



5 Fleshmeadow - Daymares



6 Mote - Samalas



7 Lucy In Blue - In Flight



8 YY CHROMOSOME - Teratology



9 Blues Arcadia - Carnival Of Fools



10 We Never Learned To Live - The Sleepwalk Transmissions



11 - 100 (LINKS Predominantly Bandcamp (95%)) :-

11 Hypno5e - A Distant (Dark) Source
12 Grief Ritual - Moments of Suffering
13 The Ivory Elephant - Stoneface
14 Fen - The Dead Light
15 Mgla - Age of Excuse
16 Omnerod - Arteries
17 The Moth Gatherer - Esoteric Oppression
18 Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
19 Nacho Mamba - Fuzzcinator
20 The Lachy Doley Group - Make Or Break
21 Abigail Williams - Way Beyond The Dark
22 Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue
23 ORM - Ir
24 Déhà - Cruel Words
25 D'un Autre Temps - Nos Mémoires
26 Monolord - No Comfort
27 Hippie Death Cult - 111
28 Stew - People
29 Birdstone - Seer
30 Their Methlab - The Last Second
31 Illyria - The Carpathian Summit
32 Plateau Sigma - Symbols -The Sleeping Harmony of the World Below
33 Latitudes - Part Island
34 The Fifth Alliance - The Depth Of The Darkness
35 Wiegedood - Live At Roadburn 2018
36 Autism - Have you found peace?
37 Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree - Grandmother
38 Cognizance - Malignant Dominion
39 Vale Of Pnath - Accursed
40 Periphery - IV : Hail Stan
41 NNRA - Incarne
42 Papir - VI
43 These Beasts - These Beasts
44 Whitechapel - The Valley
45 Ashbringer - Absolution
46 White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
47 God Alone - God Alone
48 Flesh of the Stars - Mercy
49 Spiral Guru - Void
50 Scarecrow - Scarecrow
51 Fink - Bloom Innocent
52 Villagers of Ioannina City - Age of Aquarius
53 Battle of Britain Memorial - We crave for our holy outsides
54 Max Tovstyi and Friends - Playing The Blues
55 While You Were Asleep - Nocturne Delirium
56 Shawn James - The Dark & The Light
57 Jouis - Mind Barn
58 Misþyrming - Algleymi
59 Crobot - Motherbrain
60 SÂVER - They Came With Sunlight
61 Monkey3 - Sphere
62 Kokomo - Totem Youth
63 VACIVUS - Annhilism
64 MORTIFERUM - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths
65 Stone Cold Fiction - Strange Times
66 RUNEMAGICK - Into Desolate Realms
67 One Eleven Heavy - Desire Path
68 Swörn - Swörn
69 Employed To Serve - Eternal Forward Motion
70 LowFlyingHawks - Anxious Ghosts
71 Netherlands - Hope Porn
72 Dead Feathers - All is Lost
73 Gévaudan - Iter
74 House Anxiety - All Wrong
75 The Drowning - The Radiant Dark
76 Pelegrin - Al-Mahruqa
77 The Cosmic Trip Advisors - Wrong again, Albert...
78 The Heavy Minds - Second Mind
79 King Solomon - King Solomon EP
80 Vanum - Ageless Fire
81 Monomyth - Orbis Quadrantis
82 Eternal Storm - Come The Tide
83 The Odious - Vesica Piscis
84 Astronoid - Astronoid
85 Véhémence - Par le Sang Versé
86 Skraekoedlan - Earth
87 TEMPLE KOLUDRA - Seven! Sirens! To A Lost Archetype
88 Monocluster - Ocean
89 Uneven Structure - Paragon
90 Atomic Time - Out of the loop
91 Kostnatění - Hrůza zvítězí
92 Shadow Limb - Burn Scar
93 The Devil And The Almighty Blues - TRE
94 Batushka - Hospodi
95 The River - Vessels Into White Tides
96 Avandra - Descender
97 Gates to the Morning - Return To Earth
98 Pyramid - Mind Maze
99 Ethereal Darkness - Smoke And Shadows
100 Vukari - Aevum

 

[moriez]

Amazing Taffy! People are gonna dig it.

 

[Redcarmoose]

Possessed -Revelations Of Oblivion

Candlemass -The Door To Doom

Cattle Decapitation -Death Atlas

Tool -Fear Inoculum

Mayhem -Daemon

Deathspell Omega -The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

Darkthrone -Old Star

Rammstein -Rammstein

Lacuna Coil -Black Anima




2019 Highlights In No Special Order:

Rings Of Saturn -Gidim
Rings Of Saturn-Gidim is their best album to date. IMO Kind of a mature and complete cohesive accomplishment for the sound they have always been going for. Now truly the word “cohesive” is not exactly the right description though. The album has so much going on from so many directions that it’s better to maybe walk around listening to it and not focus on it. After a day of repeating it, it kind of gets memorable? Just insanely good musicianship and song writing. There has never been anything like it.

Rammstein -Rammstein
Of course another perfect example of 2019 being the greatest year for metal in history. A self titled masterpiece (almost) with a farther out, yet real tribute to their own sound. The future of Rammstein shows it’s simply the same basic foundation yet taken to the ultimate creative level with song writing and amazing production. It’s just totally “them” with an added dose of “them” injected. Just think if you ever saw the word “fun” on the cover sticker of a CD in a store? Well fun IS this!

Cattle Decapitation -Death Atlas
While not their best ever it’s a smoothed-out and highly listenable affair. The band is so good that even with Death Atlas being their third best album it’s still better than most. They are taking what they do and continuing, not different, but maybe slightly more commercial? Hard to pinpoint but Death Atlas has me bring out the prior two releases tor multiple listens just because of the curiosity it created. Death Atlas is recorded super well, has perfect pace and feel. It’s just earlier albums were maybe more 100% quality and explosive. Again the wrong word here as Death Atlas is the most explosive album in this post, it’s just not as explosive as their prior work. Still the band is so unique and special this is an absolute star of 2019!

Lacuna Coil -Black Anima
What their best album ever? Yes. They re-evaluated what they wanted to be in the end and remade themselves for 2019. They are the hardest and darkest, the fastest and loudest. Common what more do you want? Well they offer top sound here.....literally sound fireworks throughout!

Mayhem -Daemon
Continuing with bands basically being their best ever? Again another. Another album and another time Mayhem have reinvented themselves. Only this time they found their essence from days past. That essence was contemplated and discovered again. That essence was brought forth for youngsters to carry with them onto 2030. Another statement album that metal is alive and well in 2019. Surprisingly........modern and powerful underneath....getting stronger and more pure........more real-life and darker. The end result is a must listen, a sophisticated future music still holding the elements which were and are important. A stepping stone of classic music once again making 2019 a year to remember and to gaze upon in awe.

Candlemass -The Door To Doom
Not their best work but consistent with the last album. Something you hear but then remember and go back to. Nice to hear an old style get buffed-up and sparkly!

Possessed -Revelations Of Oblivion
Truly the unexpected here. With metal getting points for being original, how is it that a band can come back with only one original member yet channel the sound they were known for to perfection? But yes, anything is possible if you want it bad enough, but you need to truly want it.....bad! Bringing the past back and again showing the kids how it’s supposed to be done. Like every album on this page, this music is played with such effortless perfection it really stands out. The old sound carried into the future here. The guitars were some of the most interesting, unique and darn best of the year. Such well done and well thought out accomplished sounds and songs.

Revel In Flesh- The Hour Of The Avenger
Take an old Death-metal guitar sound from Entombed era, combine it with old song structures and normally you would get boring. Somehow the opposite happens here. Exciting and new, fun and modern. Again another example of metal for 2019 building on the past and getting stronger not weaker.

 

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I'm impressed by other responses here so far. And I'm goin to break my selections down into different categories, which could take awhile. Hence the steam shovel. The song links are all YouTube videos fyi.

AZERI - These are mostly on the brighter side.
Aydan Ibrahimli - "Gunahkar"
Damla - "Camadan", "Sansin Yox", "Yara"
Gunay Ibrahimli - "Mehriban"
Mina Huseyn - "Lay Lay"
Miri Yusif - "Sene Qurban"
Nahide Babashli - "Sozun Var"
Nefes - "Qefesdeyem"
Nermin Kerimbeyova - "Bele Derd Olmaz"
Nigar Abdullayeva - "Meni Niye Tanimirsan"
Nigar (Nikki) Jamal - "Get Heyatimdan"
Nigar Muharrem - "Deymeduser"
Roya - "Dedin Yox"
Sebnem Qehremanova - "Heyatimin Belasi"
Sebnem Tovuzlu - "Unut Meni"
Sevda Alekbarzadeh - "Istemirem", "Virane"
Sevda Yahyayeva - "Son Xeber"
Vefa Serifova - "Anam Olsaydi", "Tek Qalmisan"
Zeyno - "Dedi"

CHINESE & TAIWANESE BALLADS
Cyndi Wang - "Dao Chu Bu Cun Zai De Wo"
Evan Lin - "Imperfect Love"
Kar Fun - "Insincerity"
Rima Zeidan - "Courage to Be Vulnerable"
Xu Shiyin - "Baiyi Shaonian"

CHINESE & TAIWANESE R&B - More to come...
Diane Wang - "Intertwined"
JJ Lin - "Wonderland"
Lay - "Honey"
Rainie Yang - "Love Is Love"
7Senses (SNH48) - "Like a Diamond"
Tia Lee - "Believe in You"
Vinida Weng - "Blood Moon"
Zhang Bichen - "My Way"

CUMBIA
Camila Gallardo - "Aqui Estoy"
Los Ángeles Azules (ft. Horacio Palencia), Belinda, Lalo Ebratt - "Amor A Primera Vista"

DISCO
Alicia Keys - "Time Machine"
Dua Lipa - "Don't Start Now"
Sam Smith & Normani - "Dancing with a Stranger"
Tinashe - "Save Room for Us" - Starts loud