Another year, and another shitload of albums released. I ended up listening to around 115, and made a top 50 out of it. I listened to a ton of different genres, so if you see some surprises… welp, that’s just my taste anyway. Slipknot and Killswitch really battled it out, and I’m only going with Slipknot by a literal ball hair on them taking #1 for me. Some of the other staff weren’t able to listen to a whole lot, so there’s not as many contributions from us this go round.

Marcus Miller’s Top 50 of 2019:

  1. Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
    2. Killswitch Engage – Atonement
    3. As I Lay Dying – Shaped by Fire
    4. Soilwork – Verkligheten
    5. Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
    6. Cattle Decapitation – Death Atlas
    7. KoRn – The Nothing
    8. Soen – Lotus
    9. Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
    10. Swallow the Sun – When a Shadow is Forced into the Light

11. Insomnium – Heart Like a Grave
12. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
13. King 810 – Suicide King
14. Novembers Doom – Nephilim Grove
15. Devin Townsend – Empath
16. In Flames – I, The Mask
17. Whitechapel – The Valley
18. Carnifex – World War X
19. War of Ages – Void
20. Rammstein – Untitled (aka Rammstein)

21. Tool – Fear Inoculum
22. Motionless in White – Disguise
23. Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell
24. Chelsea Wolfe – Birth of Violence
25. Norma Jean – All Hail
26. Bad Wolves – N.A.T.I.O.N.
27. Arrival of Autumn – Harbinger
28. Born of Osiris – The Simulation
29. Crashdiet – Rust
30. Mark Morton – Anesthetic

31. Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
32. Norah Jones – Begin Again
33. Silversun Pickups – Widow’s Weeds
34. The Who – Who
35. Darkthrone – Old Star
36. Oomph! – Ritual
37. Rotting Christ – The Heretics
38. Lindemann – F&M
39. Thy Art is Murder – Human Target
40. Hellyeah – Welcome Home

41. The Agonist – Orphans
42. Mynas – Dead to the Unknown
43. Within Temptation – Resist
44. Exhorder – Mourn the Southern Skies
45. Children of Bodom – Hexed
46. After the Burial – Evergreen
47. Skinlab – Venomous
48. Northlane – Alien
49. Crown the Empire – Sudden Sky
50. Carly Rae Jepsen – Dedicated

 

Bobby Mansfield’s Top 25 of 2019 (in no particular order):

Tool – Fear Inoculum
Sabaton – The Great War
Devin Townsend – Empath
Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
The Damned Things – High Crimes
Amon Amarth – Berserker
Rammstein – Untitled
Korn – The Nothing
Killswitch Engage – Atonement
Lacuna Coil – Black Anima

Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
Jinjer – Macro
Babymetal – Metal Galaxy
Kobra and the Lotus – Evolution
Whitechapel – The Valley
September Mourning – Volume III
Skinny Powers – What’s a Genre?
Rusty Shipp – Liquid Exorcist
Sleep for the Weary – Theoria
Emerge – A New Horizon

Them Fixes – Electric Prophetic
The Skeleton Krew – The Fall
Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
Baroness – Gold & Grey
Fever 333 – Strength in Numb333rs

 

Steven Jeffries’ Top 40 of 2019 (In no order until the Top 10):

40. Allegeon – Apoptosis
39. In Flames – I, The Mask
38. Eye of The Enemy – Titan
37. Motionless In White – Disguise
36. Insomnium – Heart Like a Grave
35. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
34. Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
33. Gamma Sector – Sanctum of Vivisection
32. APNEA – Nullius In Verba
31. As I lay Dying – Shaped By Fire
30. Delain – Hunters Moon
29. Enterprise Earth – Luciferous
28. Nile – Vile Nilotic Rights
27. Norma Jean – All Hail
26. Daywalker – Leviathan
25. Northlane – Alien
24. Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
23. Soilwork – Verklighten
22. The Obnoxious Boot – Rebuilt
21. November’s Doom – Nephilim Grove
20. Toothgrinder – I Am
19. Evergrey – The Atlantic
18. Put To Rest – Coupe De Grace
17. Nekrowinter – Arctic Armageddon
16. Despised Icon – Purgatory
15. Hollow Valley – Misconceptions
14. Jinjer – Micro & Macro
13. Deadculture – Bitter
12. Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea Of Tragic Beasts
11. Carnifex – World War X
10. Sarah Tolley – 3 AM On The Bathroom Floor
9. Heartist – Sleep
8. Korn – The Nothing
7. Ingested – The Call of The Void
6. Prison – Still Alive
5. StormToker – Toke Two
4. Killswitch Engage – Atonement
3. Glassworld – Breathe
2. Shadow of Intent – Melancholy
1. Whitechapel – The Valley

 

Bryan Bardes’ Top 10 of 2019:

  1. Misery Loves Co – Zero
    2. Mark Morton – Anesthetic
    3. Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
    4. Tool – Fear Inoculum
    5. Killswitch Engage – Atonement
    6. KoRn – The Nothing
    7. Lacuna Coil – Black Anima
    8. Evergrey – The Atlantic
    9. Alter Bridge – Walk the Sky
    10. Sacred Reich – Awakening