Steve Howe - Best Albums Of 2018

Here is my Top 25 Albums of 2018. It's been a great year for music and we couldn't run this blog without your support. Same goes for the bands, record labels and PR Reps who allows us to do what we do.

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Best Albums Of 2018

1. Sleep - The Sciences 
2. Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch 
3. High On Fire - Electric Messiah 
4. YOB - Our Raw Heart 
5. Weedpecker - III 
6. Forming The Void - Rift 
7. Bast - Nanoangstrom 
8. OHHMS - Exist 
9. Dead Now - Dead Now 
10. CONAN - Existential Void Guardian 
11. Yawning Man - The Revolt Against Tired Noises 
12. PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS - King Of Cowards 
13. Morag Tong - Last Knell Of Om 
14. Black Rainbows - Pandaemonium 
15. Belzebong - Light The Dankness 
16. Estuary Blacks - Estuary Blacks 
17. Fu Manchu - Clone Of The Universe 
18. Monster Magnet - MindFucker 
19. Orphans Of Doom - Orphans Of Doom 
20. Sergeant Thuderhoof - Terra Solus 
21. Henry Blacker - The Making Of Junior Bonner 
22. River Cult - Halcyon Daze 
23. Barbarian Hermit - Solitude And Savagery
24. Domkraft - Flood 
25. Earthless - Black Heaven

Håkan Nyman - Best Albums Of 2018

1. Pale Divine - Pale Divine
2. Forming The Void - Rift
3. Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch
4. Kingnomad - The Great Nothing
5. Joecephus And The George Jonestown Massacre - Death Rattle Shake
6. Ozone Mama - Cosmos Calling
7. Craneium - The Narrow Line
8. Flummox - Intellectual Hooliganism
9. Plainride - Life On Ares
10. Lord - Desperation Finds Hunger In All Men

End of the year lists are always fun to compile but also a general pain in the ass. Simply because the older <I get the harder it is to remember all the new album’s I am fortunate to listen to every year. This year, however, that wasn’t really a problem, instead the close line between positions 1-3 was the difficult part. Still, my heroes Pale Divine held out for number one with their brand new amazing self-titled album. 

Forming The Void had to settle for a very close number two with ‘Rift’, while the truly breathtaking Brits Boss Keloid claimed an even closer number three. All the other releases on my list are wonderful recordings and deserve just as much accolade, however, when lists like this are made, some albums has to settle for a lower position when they should rank higher. 

Hope all you readers enjoy this!

Cheers

Håkan Nyman

Todd Stealey - Best Albums Of 2018

Greetings All,

All in all a pretty killer year for Rock. After a ton of listening and some serious self editing. Here are my 25 favs of the year. Enjoy!

1. Haunt - Burst into Flame

2. High on Fire - Electric Messiah

3. Backwoods Payback - Future Slum

4. Sleep - The Sciences

5. Beastmaker - eps 1-8

6. Brundle Haze - Zardoz

7. Yob - Our Raw Heart

8. Saint Karloff - All Heed the Black God

9. Monster Magnet - Mindfucker

10. Brant Bjork - Mankind Woman

11. Black Lab - Under the Strawberry Moon 2.0

12. Burn Ritual - Blood of the Raven

13. Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician

14. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Wasteland

15. Alastor - Slave to the Grave

16. Conan - Existential Void Guardian

17. Domkraft - Flood

18. Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross, No Crown

19. Graveyard - Peace

20. Mos Generator - Shadowlands

21. Greenleaf - Hear the Rivers

22. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions

23. Druglord - New Day Dying

24. Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits

25. Black Rainbows - Pandaemonium

- Todd S

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