On this year a lot of unstoppable juggernaut of stellar metal albums invaded our ears once again and it’s time to name the greatest achievements of 2018. Indeed this year is remarkable for metal music albums because plenty of excellent, engrossing, spectacular, rich albums released. I’ll say on this year especially black metal albums slays though this year is excellent too for other genre albums. Basically, I’ve focused on critical acclaim, creative progression, originality, songwriting prowess, technical achievements, and many more dynamics. so, it’s kinda hard to sort out. well, here is my top listed albums, Demo, Ep, Split of 2018 from a vast checked out list. Though it's lengthy I’m pretty damn sure you’ll enjoy it. cheers.
Top Listed Albums :
A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
Abigor - Höllenzwang - Chronicles of Perdition
Acherontas - Faustian Ethos
Adaestuo - Krew Za Krew
Aeonian Sorrow - Into The Eternity A Moment We Are
Amorphis - Queen Of Time
Anicon - Entropy Mantra
Archgoat - The Luciferian Crown
Ars Magna Umbrae - Lunar Ascension
Ascension - Under Ether
Augury - Illusive Golden Age
Aura Noir - Aura Noire
Autokrator - Hammer Of The Heretics
Automb - Esoterica
Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
Beyond Creation - Algorythm
Carpe Noctem - Vitrun
Chaos Invocation - Reaping Season - Bloodshed Beyond
Clandestine Blaze - Tranquility Of Death
Convocation-Scars Across
Convulsing - Grievous
Craft - White Noise And Black Metal
Crescent - The Order Of Amenti
Cultes des Ghoules - Sinister, or Treading the Darker Paths
Death Karma - The History Of Death & Burial Rituals, Part II
Decaying - To Cross The Line
Decline of the I - Escape
Devouring Star - The Arteries Of Heresy
Djevelkult - Når avgrunnen åpnes
Extremity - Coffin Birth
Eye of Solitude - Slaves Of Solitude
Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
Funerary Bell - Undead Revelations
Gaerea - Unsettling Whispers
Galvanizer - Sanguine Vigil by necroscum
Ghastly - Death Velour
Glorior Belli - The Apostates
Grave Upheaval - Untitled
Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
Hoth - Astral Necromancy
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
Inferi - Revenant
Infestus - Thrypsis
Inquinamentum - 8342
Ion - A Path Unknown
Irreversible Mechanism - Immersion
Kriegsmaschine - Apocalypticists
Krisiun - Scourge Of The Enthroned
Kult - The Eternal Darkness I Adore
Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
Mallephyr - Womb Of Worms
Malthusian - Across Deaths
Marduk - Viktoria
Mare - Ebony Tower
Master's Hammer - Fascinator
Memoriam - The Silent Vigil
Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Mournful Congregation - The Incubus Of Karma
Necrophobic - Mark of The Necrogram
Necros Christos - Domedon Doxomedon
Nocturnal Graves-Titan
Obliteration - Cenotaph Obscure
Of Feather And Bone - Bestial Hymns Of Perversion
One Tail, One Head - Worlds Open, Worlds Collide
Ophe - Litteras Ad Tristia Maestrum Solitude
Oubliette - The Passage
Outre - Hollow Earth
Ov Shadows - The Darkness Between Stars
Panegyrist - Hierurgy
Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness I And II
Portal - ION
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
Ride for Revenge - Sinking the Song
Ripped to Shreds - 埋葬
Ritual Necromancy - Disinterred Horror
Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Rur - Rur IV
Sadistik Forest - Morbid Majesties
Sargeist - Unbound
Shibalba - Stars Al-Med Hum
Shylmagoghnar - Transience
Skeletal Remains - Devouring Mortality
Slidhr - The Futile Fires of Man
Sojourner - The Shadowed Road
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
Summoning - With Doom We Come
Svartidauði - Revelations of the Red Sword
Taphos - Come Ethereal Somberness
Temple Nightside - Recondemnation
The Order of Apollyon - Moriah
Tribulation - Down Below
Uada - Cult of a Dying Sun
Unleashed - The Hunt for White Christ
Urfaust - The Constellatory Practice
Voidhanger - Dark Days of the Soul
Watain - Trident Wolf Eclipse
Whoredom Rife - Nid- Hymner Av Hat
Wilt - Ruin
Winterfylleth - The Hallowing Of Heirdom
Top-Listed EP, Split and Demo:
Above Aurora - Path to Ruin
Cult Of Fire - Kali Fire Puja
Cultum Interitum - Temple Of Triumphant Death
Dominus Ira / Precaria / Deathspiral of Inherited Suffering - Metamorphosphoros
Darvaza - Darkness in Turmoil
Deströyer 666 - Call of the Wild
Dire Omen - Formless Fire Embodied
Foothill Roots - Nature Resonates
From the Void - Hänen Valonsa
Gevurah - Sulphur Soul
Imber Luminis - Variations
Inferno/Devathorn - Zos Vel Thagirion
Mephorash - The Third Woe
Mortuus Umbra - Omnipraesent
Nechochwen - The Ancient Pulse
Ritual Death - Ritual Death
Unanimated - Annihilation
Published by Souvik Basu. Dated - 30/12/2018