I never do lists but for what it's worth, here is my "Best of" list for 2018

in no particular order:


Dakhma - Hamkar Atonement
夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) "一期一会 (Ichi-go ichi-e)
Mylingar - Döda Drömmar
Mutilation Rites - Empyrean
Entropy Created Consciousness – Impressions of the Morning Star
Thou - Rhea Sylvia (and everything they put out this year)
Svartidauði - Revelations Of The Red Sword
Hissing - Permanent Destitution
Gazelle Twin - Pastoral
Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Gevurah - Sulphur Soul
Infernal Coil - Within A World Forgotten
Guttersnipe - My Mother The Vent
Here Lies Man - You Will Know Nothing
Graveyard - Peace
Funeral Chic - Superstition
HAAN - By The Grace Of Blood And Guts
Masquerade As Angels - The Stranger's Land
Abyssal / Carcinoma - Apanthropinization
Child Bite - Burnt Offerings
Shitty Person - Judgement
Mary Halvorson - Code Girl
In Chasms Deep - The Realm Between
Thumbscrew - Ours
Author & Punisher - Beastland
Sigh - Heir To Despair
One Tail. One Head - Worlds Open, Worlds Collide
Chaos Echœs - Mouvement
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
The Dwarfs of East Agouza - Rats Don’t Eat Synthesizers
Revororum Ib Malacht - Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble
Zeal & Ardor - Strange Fruit
Deus Vermin - Monument To Decay
Voivod - The Wake
Brainoil - Singularity to Extinction
Cult Leader - A Patient Man
Oh Sees - Smote Reverser
Violet Cold - Sommermorgen
(Pt. I) - Innocence
(Pt. II) - Joy
(Pt. III) - Nostalgia