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After a bit of a holiday break, we return this week with a conversation about some of our favorite albums of the year! We discuss the following categories: best debut, best comeback, worst disaster, best solid album, best boring album, most opaque album, most underrated album, best non-metal album, and best album. Enjoy!
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150 – AOTY 2018
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Show notes:
Intro/Outro – NYN
Best debut
- The Dark Third – Even As the Light Grows
- Mask of judas – The Mesmerist
Best comeback
- Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections
- Augury – Illusive Golden Age
Worst disaster
- Orphaned Land – Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
- Machine head – Catharsis
Best solid album (not necessarily “good” but fun)
- Sojourner – The Shadowed Road
- Nekrogoblikon – Welcome to Bonkers
Best boring album
- Oceans of Slumber – The Banished Heart
- Unreqvited – Stars Wept to the Sea
Most opaque
- Sunless Dawn – Timeweaver
- Lychgate – the contagion in nine steps
Most underrated
- Howling Sycamore – Howling Sycamore
- Arkona – Khram
Best non metal
- Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol 1.
- Four Fists – 6666
Best album
- Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections
- Immortal Guardian – age of revolution
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