Top 200 Albums of 2019
Following on from last years Top Albums of 2018 list comes a much larger Top 200 list for 2019 (in purely alphabetical order). With so much killer music coming out this year it's been hard limiting what really struck something within me in some shape of form.
This year brings some great returns with In Flames releasing what is one of their best albums in years, The Young Gods and their industrial sonic masterpiece, Arch/Matheos returning with another "not Fates Warning" progressive metal epic along some some fine solo albums from Bruce Soord, Ray Aldar, Richard Henshall and the overly long awaited new release Fear Innoculum from Tool - throwing in Opeth's latest opus In Cauda Venenum and who could not pass up mentioning Death Atlas from Cattle Decapitation - there's so much material that this year that it's near impossible to catch up with it all.
- 1349 - The Infernal Pathway
- A Pale Horse Named Death - When The World Becomes Undone
- A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices
- Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond The Dark
- Abyssic - High The Memory
- Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
- Alunah - Violet Hour
- Amon Amarth - Berserker
- Angel Width - Angel of Light
- Anifernyen - Augur
- Arch Matheos - Winter Ethereal
- Arctos - Beyond The Grasp of Mortal Hands
- Avantasia - Moonglow
- Avatarium - The Fire I Long For
- Baest - Venenum
- Barock Project - Seven Seas
- Baroness - Gold & Grey
- Beastwars - IV
- Beheaded - Only Death Can Save You
- Big Big Train - Grand Tour
- Borknagor - True North
- Bruce Soord - All This Will Be Yours
- Candlemass - The Door To Doom
- Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
- Cloak - The Burning Dawn
- Coffin Rot - A Monument The The Dead
- Cognizance - Malignant Dominion
- Collapse of Light - Each Falling Step
- Concerto Moon - Oroboros
- Crashdiet - Rust
- Creeping Death - Wreched Illusions
- Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light
- Cult of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
- Cynic - Tranced In Air Remixed
- Daniel Tompkins - Castles
- Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition Plainsong
- Death Angel - Humanicide
- Deerhunter - Why Hasn't Everything Already Dissapeared
- Demon Hunter - Peace
- Demon Hunter - War
- Der Rote Milan - Moritat
- Descravity - Anathema
- Destrage - The Chosen One
- Devin Townsend - Empath
- Dö - Astral Death Cult
- Dog Fashion Disco - Commited To A Bright Future
- downcross - What Light Covers Not
- Dreadnought - Emergence
- Dream Theater - DIstance Over Time
- Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
- E-L-R - Maenad
- Elder - The Gold & Silver Sessions
- Entombed AD - Bowls of Earth
- Ereb Altor - Jartecken
- Esogenesi - Esogenesi
- Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
- Evergrey - The Atlantic
- Exhumed - Horror
- Fallujah - Undying Light
- False - Portent
- Firespawn - Abominate
- Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno
- Flying Colours - Third Degree
- Friendship - Undercurrent
- Front Line Assembly - Wake Up THe Coma
- Funeral Fvkk - Carnal Confessions
- Gatecreeper - Deserted
- Goatess - Blood And Wine
- Gost - Valediction
- Grand Magus - Wolf God
- Gygax - High Fantasy
- Hammerfall - Dominion
- Hanging Garden - Into That Good Night
- Haunter - Sacrental Death Qualia
- Heart Of A Coward - The Disconnect
- Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed
- Hellyeah - Welcome Home
- High Command -Beyond The Wall Of Desollation
- Hour Of Penance - Misotheism
- Howling Synacore - Seven Pathways to Annihilation
- Idle Hands - Mana
- Illimitable Dolor - Leaden Light
- Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
- In Flames - I The Mask
- In Mourning - Garden of Storms
- In-Sight - Enlightened by Shadows
- Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave
- Inter Arma - Sulphur English
- Iron Saviour - Kill Or Get Killed
- Isole - Dystopia
- Kadaver - For The Dead Travel Fast
- Kayo Dot - Blasphemy
- KING - Coldest of Cold
- Klone - Le Grand Voyage
- KMFDM - Paradise
- Kobra And The Lotus - Evolution
- Konkhra - Alpha And The Omega
- Korn - The Nothing
- KXM - Circle Of Dolls
- Lacuna Coil - Black Anima
- Leprous - Pitfalls
- Lingua Nada - Djinn
- Lonely Robot - Under Stars
- LORD - Fallen Idols
- Lord Dying - Mysterium Tremendum
- Maestus - Deliquesce
- Magic Circle - Departed Souls
- Magic Sword - Awakening
- Mantra - Medium
- Marco Minnemann - My Sister
- Mark Morton - Anesthetic
- Mayhem - Daemon
- Mefitis - Emberdawn
- Meliorist - Patterns
- Memorium - Requium For Mankind
- MGLA - Age of Excuse
- Michael Sweet - Ten
- Misbyrming - Algleymi
- Monochromatic Black - pneuma
- Monolithe - Okta Khora
- Monolord - No Comfort
- Moonskin - Farewell
- Narco Debut - Strange & Ever-Changing Depths
- Neal Morse - Jesus Christ The Exorcist
- Negator - Vnitas Pvritas Existenia
- Nightfell - A Sanity Deranged
- Nightrage - Wolf To Man
- Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites
- No One Knows What The Dead Think - No One Knows What The Dead Think
- no-man - Love You To Bits
- Noctem - The Black Consecration
- Novembers Doom - Nephilim Grove
- October Tide - In Splender Below
- Officium Triste - The Death of Gaia
- Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
- Ork - Ramagehead
- Panopticon - The Crescendo Of Dusk
- Parliament Owls - A Span Is All That We Can Boast
- Periphery - Hail Stan
- Plateu Sigma - Symbols
- Port Noir - The New Routine
- Profetus - The Sadness of Time Passing
- Prong - Age of Defiance
- Queensryche - The Verdict
- Ray Aldar - What The Water Wants
- Richard Henshall - The Cocoon
- Runemagick - Into Desolate Realms
- Sabaton - The Great War
- Sacha Paeths Masters Of Ceremony - Signs of Wings
- Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus
- Sarke - Gastwerso
- Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
- Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness
- SF59 - Young In My Head
- Signum Regis - Seal of a New World
- Skyblood - Skyblood
- Sleep Token - Sundowning
- Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
- Slow - Dantalion
- Slowmatics - Canyons
- SOEN - Lotus
- SOTO - Origami
- Spirit Adrift - Divided By Darkness
- Spirits of Fire - Spirits of Fire
- Starkill - Gravity
- Strigoi - Abandon All Faith
- Suhnopfer - Hic Regnant Borbonil Manes
- Sun of the Dying - The Earth Is Silent
- Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
- Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
- The 69 Eyes - Westend
- The Claypool Lennon Delirium - South of Reality
- The Dark Element - Songs The Night Sings
- The Ferry Men - A New Evil
- The Great Discord - Afterbirth
- The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism
- The Mute Gods - Athiests and Believers
- the Offering - Home
- The Red Widows - Fuzzifixion
- The Well - Death and Consolation
- The World Will Burn - Nothings As Read As It Seems
- The Young Gods - Data Mirage Tangram
- Tool - Fear Innoculum
- Toothgrinder - I Am
- Torpor - Rhetoric Of The Image
- Uneven Structure - Paragon
- Une Misère - Sermon
- Urn - Iron Will Of Power
- URZA - The Omnipresence of Loss
- Vader - Thy Messenger
- Vanden Plas - The Ghost Experiment
- Vascum - Orificial Purge
- Vestigial - Crown of Serpents
- Violet Cold - Kosmik
- Vision Divine - When All The Heroes Are Dead
- Weeping Sores - False Confession
- White Mantis - Sacrice Your Future
- White Ward - Love Exchange Failure
- Within Temptation - Resist
- Zonder Wehrcamp - If Its Real