Steve Howe Top 25 Albums Of 2015

Steve Howe's Top 25 Albums Of The Year.

1. With The Dead - S/T

2. KIND - Rocket Science

3. Drowning Horse - The Sheltering Sky

4. Beesus - The Rise Of Beesus

5. Egypt - Endless Flight

6. Monster Magnet - Cobras And Fire (Mastermind Redux)

7. Torche – Restarter

8. Baroness – Purple

9. Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise

10. Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse

11. Ufomammut - Ecate

12. Elder - Lore

13. High On Fire - Luminiferous

14. Kowloon Walled City - Grievances

15. Caustic Casanova - Breaks

16. Galvano - Trail Of The Serpent

17. OXEN - The Vanishing

18. Goatsnake - Black Age Blues

19. The Moth - And Then Rise

20. OHHMS - Cold

21. Problem With Dragons - Starquake

22. Weedpecker - II

23. Red Mountains - Down With The Sun

24. Bad Guys - Bad Guynaecology

25. Mammoth Storm - Fornjot

Words by Steve Howe

Gavin Brown Top 25 Albums Of 2015

Here is Gavin Brown's Top 25 Albums of 2015.

1- High On Fire - Luminiferous
2- Baroness - Purple
3- Space Bong - Deadwood To Worms
4- Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig
5- Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
6- Torche - Restarter
7- Extreme Noise Terror - Extreme Noise Terror
8- Author & Punisher - Melk En Honig
9- Sonic Medusa - The Sunset Soundhouse Tapes
10- Lifer - Black Mountain Rising
11- My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery
12- Gentlemens Pistols - Hustlers Row
13- Satans Satyrs - Don't Deliver Us
14- Pentagram - Curious Volume
15- Napalm Death - Apex Predator Easy Meat
16- Carved Up - Matador
17- Steak Number Eight - Kosmokoma
18- Vreid - Solverv
19- Svalbard - One Day All This Will End
20- Theories - Regression
21-Vhol - Deeper Than Sky
22-Kampfar - Profan
23- Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I,II & III
24- Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things
25- Riwen - The Cold

Words by Gavin Brown 

Soshanna Scarsella Top 25 Albums Of 2015

Here is Soshanna Scarsella's Top 25 Albums Of 2015.

01. Freedom Hawk - Into Your Mind
02. All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker
03. Serpent - Neckromant
04. Elder - Lore
05. Sweat Lodge - Talismana
06. Blackwülf- Oblivion Cycle
07. Golden Void - Berkana
08. Baroness - Purple
09. Moon Curse - Spirit Remains
10. Glowsun - Beyond the Wall of Time
11. Black Oath - To Below and Beyond
12. Abrahma - Reflections In The Bowls of a Bird
13. Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence
14. Disenchanter - Strange Creations
15. Gingerpig - Ghost on the Highway
16. Grusom - Grusom
17. Sergeant Thunderhoof - Ride the Hoof
18. Valkyrie - Shadows
19. Hair of the Dog - The Siren's Song
20. The Black Wizards - Lake of Fire
21. Parasol Caravan - Para Solem
22. Kegan DeBoheme - Songs of Woe
23. Royal Thunder - Crooked Doors
24. Curse of the North - Curse of the North I
25. Age of Man - About Time

Words by Soshanna Scarsella

Håkan Nyman Top 25 Albums Of 2015

Here is Håkan Nyman's Top 25 Albums of 2015.

1 The Crown ­ Death Is Not Dead
2 Black Star Riders ­ The Killer Instinct
3 A.P.F. - Gold Lead Iron / King Giant - Black Ocean Waves4 Månegarm ­ Månegarm
5 Mangog ­ Daydreams Within Nightmares
6 Elder ­ Lore
7 Killing Joke ­ Pylon
8 Switchblade Jesus ­ Switchblade Jesus
9 Space Probe Taurus ­ Mondo Satan
10 My Sleeping Karma ­ Moksha
11 Clutch ­ Psychic Warfare
12 The Vintage Caravan ­ Arrival
13 Blackwülf ­ Oblivion Cycle
14 Carousel ­ 2113
15 My Home On Trees ­ How I Reached Home
16 Skraeckoedlan ­ Sagor
17 DoctoR DooM ­ This Seed We Have Sown
18 Michael Rudolph Cummings ­ Fall Tour EP 2015
19 Honeymoon Disease ­ The Transcendence
20 Howling Giant ­ Howling Giant
21 Horisont ­ Odyssey
22 Wired Mind ­ Mindstate Dreamscape
23 Wizard Eye ­ Wizard Eye
24 Isaak ­ Sermonize
25 Den Stora Vilan ­ Utsikt Mot Havet

Words by Håkan Nyman

Simon Ross Williams Top 25 Albums Of 2015

Here is Simon Ross Williams Top 25 Albums of 2015. Version 1 is his dream list and Version 2 is Simon's proper list. Check them out.

Version 1 is

1-25) Ahab - The Boats Of The Glenn Carrig

Version 2 is

1 Ahab - The Boats Of The Glenn Carrig
2 With The Dead - With The Dead
3 Witchsorrow - No Light Only Fire
4 My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery
5 Undersmile - Anhedonia
6 Ohhms - Cold (ep)
7 Diesel King - Concrete Burial
8 Limb - Terminal
9 Gurt - DIYMCA (ep)
10 Dopethrone - HOCHELAGA
11 UN - The Tomb Of All Things
12 Workin' Man Noise Unit - Play Loud
13 Indian Handcrafts - Creeps
14 Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
15 Crawl - Old Wood And Broken Dreams (CD re-issue)
16 High On Fire - Luminiferous
17 Cybernetic Witch Cult - Morlock Rock
18 Elder - Lore
19 Slomatics - Kalceanna (Digital reissue)
20 Slomatics - Flooding The Weir (Digital reissue)
21 Tides Of Sulfur/The Air Turned To Acid - The Last Words Of A Dying Planet
22 Nomad/Wort - Split CD
23 Shepherd - Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
24 Mammoth Storm - Fornjot
25 Ufomamut - Ecate

Words by Simon Ross Williams

Simon is Bass Guitarist/Vocals of UK Sludge Metallers - Greenhorn.

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Niels Fuzz Bartholdy Top 25 Albums Of 2015

There is no denying it, 2015 has been an absolute smashing year with regard to both underground/DIY bands and bigger, well-established names. A swarm of killer releases from all over the Globe have swamped this year with badass tunes within the Stoner/doom/psych/fuzz/blues/hard rock/metal realm. 

Pinning down your top25 or even 50 favorite releases from the passing year is a tough task under normal circumstances, but given the aforementioned horde of top-shelf albums released this year it has been a near impossible task to complete. So in order to ease the selection of the best this year had to offer, I needed to narrow the perspective to include only full-length albums released on vinyl although this inevitable would rule out some magnificent digital/CD only releases. Furthermore is not included albums released before 2015 as digital/CD only and that saw a vinyl reissue this year.

However, the list below at best tries to outline the releases of 2015 that ranked the highest with me, and stood the test of multiple listens and thus managed to remain intriguing, vibrant and that kept me coming back for another spin. So based on number of listens and magnitude of joy the Top 25 of 2015 according to my humble opinion: 

1. DoctoR DooM – ‘The Seed We Have Sown’ (STB Records)
2. Elder – ‘Lore’ (Stickmann Records)
3. Sweat Lodge – ‘Talismana’ (Ripple Music)
4. Brothers Of The Head – ‘Light The Night And Feed The Flame (xx)
5. The Devil And The Almighty Blues – ‘The Devil And The Almighty Blues’ (Blues For The Red Sun)
6. Windhand – ‘Grief’s Infernal Flower’ (Relapse Records)
7. Spelljammer – ‘Ancient Of Days’ (Riding Easy Records)
8. Uncle Acid – ‘The Night Creeper’ (Rise Above Records)
9. The Heavy Eyes – ‘He Dreams Of Lions’ (Bilocation Records)
10. Nocturnalia – ‘Above*Below*Within (Gaphals Records)
11. Kadavar – ‘Berlin’ (Nuclear Blast)
12. Horisont – ‘Odyssey’ (Rise Above Records)
13. Clutch – ‘Psychic Warfare’
14. Freedom Hawk – ‘Into Your Mind’ (Small Stone Records)
15. Demon Eye – ‘Tempora Infernalia’ (Soulseller Records)
16. Bison Machine – ‘Hoarfrost’ (Bilocation Records)
17. Old Man’s Will – ‘Hard Times – Troubled Man’ (Riding Easy Records)
18. Captain Crimson – ‘Ageless Times’ (Nasoni Records)
19. Palm Desert – ‘Pearls From The Muddy Hollow’
20. Libido Fuzz – ‘Kaleido Lumo Age’ (Pink Tank Records)
21. We Hunt Buffalo – ‘Living Ghosts’ (Fuzzorama Records)
22. Red Mountain – ‘Red Mountain’ (Nasoni Records)
23. Limb – ‘Terminal’ (New Heavy Sounds)
24. Ruby The Hatchet – ‘Valley Of The Snake’ (Tee Pee Records)
25. Sacri Monti – ‘Sacri Monti’ (Tee Pee Records)

Words by Niels Fuzz Bartholdy