Best music of 2015

by HellHammer • 24 Dec 2015, 15:41 • Journals
Mandatory yearly music journal! Post your picks, etc.

My top 50 (a lot of metal like always):

  1. ItalyAd Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est (avant-garde/technical death metal)
  2. United KingdomSatan - Atom By Atom (NWOBHM)
  3. GermanyMax Richter - Sleep (ambient/minimalism)
  4. United States of AmericaHorrendous - Anareta (death metal)
  5. United States of AmericaTimbre - Sun & Moon (chamber folk)
  6. United KingdomSarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (melodic/brutal death metal)
  7. United States of AmericaSufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (singer/songwriter)
  8. IcelandMisþyrming - Söngvar elds og óreiðu (black metal)
  9. United States of AmericaJulia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (art pop)
  10. United States of AmericaBlack Fast - Terms of Surrender (thrash metal)
  11. AustraliaMidnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade (atmospheric black metal/ambient)
  12. United KingdomAbyssal - Antikatastaseis (death metal)
  13. United States of AmericaTempel - The Moon Lit Our Path (atmospheric sludge/progressive metal)
  14. United States of AmericaAkhlys - The Dreaming I (black metal)
  15. PolandStara Rzeka - Zamknęły się oczy ziemi (psychedelic folk)
  16. United States of AmericaLeviathan - Scar Sighted (black metal)
  17. PolandRiverside - Love, Fear and the Time Machine (progressive rock)
  18. United States of AmericaPanopticon - Autumn Eternal (atmospheric black metal)
  19. HungaryThy Catafalque - Sgùrr (avant-garde metal)
  20. AustraliaMesarthim - Isolate (atmospheric black metal/ambient)
  21. FranceVI - De Praestigiis Angelorum (black metal)
  22. RussiaPinkshinyultrablast - Everything Else Matters (shoegaze)
  23. GermanyDer Weg einer Freiheit - Stellar (black metal)
  24. FinlandTyranny - Aeons in Tectonic Interment (funeral doom metal)
  25. PolandMgla - Exercises in futility (black metal)
  26. United States of AmericaColin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld - Never Were the Way She Was (minimalism)
  27. GreeceMacabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War (melodic black metal)
  28. Hong Kong2814 - 新しい日の誕生 (ambient)
  29. United States of AmericaChelsea Wolfe - Abyss (gothic rock)
  30. United States of AmericaKamasi Washington - Epic (spiritual jazz)
  31. United States of AmericaEarthside – A Dream In Static (progressive metal)
  32. SwedenEnshine - Singularity (melodic death/doom metal)
  33. NorwayLeprous - The Congregation (progressive metal)
  34. SwedenTribulation - Children of the Night (heavy/gothic metal)
  35. PolandBatushka - Litourgiya (black metal)
  36. FinlandSwallow the Sun - Songs From the North I, II & III (doom metal)
  37. United KingdomNapalm Death - Apex Predator – Easy Meat (grindcore)
  38. ItalyAlessandro Cortini - Risveglio (progressive electronic)
  39. United KingdomParadise Lost - The Plague Within (doom metal)
  40. United KingdomUncle Acid - The Night Creeper (heavy psyche)
  41. FinlandShape of Despair - Monotony Fields (funeral doom metal)
  42. CanadaAdversarial - Death, Endless Nothing and Black Knife of Nihilism (death metal)
  43. AustriaAmestigon - Thier (atmospheric black metal)
  44. United States of AmericaLow - Ones and Sixes (indie rock)
  45. United States of AmericaXibalba - Tierra Y Libertad (metalcore)
  46. FranceGlaciation - Sur les Falaises de Marbre (atmospheric black metal)
  47. NorwayArcturus - Arcturian (avant-garde metal)
  48. United States of AmericaElder - Lore (stoner rock)
  49. United States of AmericaBell Witch - Four Phantoms (funeral doom metal)
  50. United States of AmericaObsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs (melodic black/folk metal)
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Hummingnerd 24 Dec 2015, 18:06
Needs more sludge and doom, otherwise good list.
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HellHammer 24 Dec 2015, 18:33
The only sludge albums I liked this year other than Tempel's was Regarde les Hommes Tomber - Exile and Ufomammut - Ecate. Sludge was pretty meh overall for me.

I got ~6 doom albums in my top 50. That's huge, considering I don't listen to much doom.
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Hummingnerd 27 Dec 2015, 18:25
I still consider your "playlist" to be the most similar in CF to my music taste, respect for sharing good taste. \m/
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Oxy 24 Dec 2015, 19:53
Took you long enough
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Robert 24 Dec 2015, 22:26
PolandGang Albanii finest music in 2015
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ZaD 25 Dec 2015, 08:07
JOHN WILLIAMS
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Panda 31 Dec 2015, 09:50
Few nice stuff, I also listened to a lot more.
Don't have time next few days I think to look up a few to add but off the top of my head a few stuff I enjoyed were:
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard - Noeth Ac Anoeth
Mytherine - Dawn Of A New Era
Spartan - The Fall Of Olympus
Swallow The Sun (loved the older doom stuff!)
All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
Vreid - Sólverv
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