Favorite Releases For 2018???

What are your favorite albums from 2018?  These can be live albums, reissues, or new releases as long as they were released in 2018.

What were yours?

Full Lengths:
Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn
Leonov - Wake
Sardonyx - Sons Of The Kingdom
Children Of Wrath - Supernatural Dimensions
*Frosthardr - Frosthardr

EPs:
The Slave Eye - Unto Hades
Vials Of Wrath - Ataraxia
Parakletos - Se Guds Lamm
Throne Of Awful Splendor - All Lights Relinquished

*I haven't received my copy yet but I have no doubt it'll be fantastic!

Luke Easter - The Pop Disaster

I'm really digging the Shawl live record that The Prayer Chain just released. Marty Friedman's new live record is pretty great as well.

My favorites from this year (in no particular order) include:

Impending Doom - The Sin And Doom Vol II
Fit For A King - Dark Skies
Silent Planet - When The End Began
Sleeping Giant - I Am
Earth Groans - Rahab
Dens - No Small Tempest
Convictions - Hope For The Broken
Tourniquet - Gazing At Medusa
Impelliteri - The Nature of the Beast
Stryper - God Damn Evil

Altar Boys - No Substitute

Honorable mentions to Stryper, Deliverance, Tourniquet & Virgin Black

A Top 20:


Impellitteri "The Nature of The Beast"
Drottnar "Monolith" (this was a series of 3 Eps but will be be released as a full length in a few months)
Taking The Head Of Goliath "Taking The Head Of Goliath" Ep
Altar Boys "No Substitute"
Grave Robber "Escaping The Grave"
Stryper "God Damn Evil"
Death Requisite "Threnody" Ep (Only 3 songs but love this band)
Temple of Perdition "Tetragrammaton"
Tourniquet "Gazing At Medusa"
Sardonyx "Sons of the Kingdom"

Panegyrist "Heirurgy"
Ecthirion "Psalms of the Risen Dead"
Azusa "Heavy Yoke" (This will rise as time goes on)
Millennial Reign "The Great Divide"
Bismoth "Psalmic Peace"
Wytch Hazel "Sojourn II"
Vials of Wrath "Ataraxia" Ep
My Epic "Ultraviolet" Ep
Throne of Awful Splendor "All Lights Relinquished" Ep
Sleeping Giant "I Am"

Not metal but easily would be in my top 5 Andrew Peterson "Prologue/Resurrection Letters Vol 1" Lyrics are so good. Love Andrew as a nice simple singer songwriter with a Rich Mullins bend.

Albums I enjoyed that didn't make the list:

Enemy of Satan "Enemy of Satan"
Deliverance "The Subversive Kind"
Impending Doom "The Sin and Doom Vol II"
Virgin Black "Requiem Pianissimo" (Not enough time to absorb this at this point)

I forgot to mention The Altar Boys No Substitute album. I think it's one of the best albums I heard this year.

Kind of a lean year for my tastes, but I'll go w/Stryper, Tourniquet, and Jimmy Brown.

Is rock dead? Now I'm beginning to wonder. New releases use to be just that. But in the past couple years re-issues are out numbering all new material. Perhaps fodder for a new thread. https://www.angelicwarlord.com/release%20dates/releasedates.html

(no specific order)

Orationem - When We Are Wounded
Panegyrist - Hierurgy (not necessarily a 'Christian' release, but.. Christianity-inspired and friendly lyrics..)
Vials of Wrath - Ataraxia
Temple of Perdition - Tetragrammaton
The Slave Eye - Unto Hades
Alstadt - Climes of Northern Sorrow
Parakletos - Se Guds Lamm

Frosthardr would almost certainly be on this list, but I haven't received it yet to listen.

Favorites (listed alphabetically):
Jimmy P Brown - Eraserhead
The Choir - Bloodshot
Luke Easter - Pop Disaster
Stryper - GDE
Tourniquet - Gazing at Medusa

Next Tier:
Bride - Snake Eyes
Grave Robber - Escaping the Grave

Honorable Mentions (too soon to tell but I like them so far):
Biogenesis - Black Widow
Virgin Black - Requiem: Pianissimo

oldschooldoom wrote:Is rock dead? Now I'm beginning to wonder. New releases use to be just that. But in the past couple years re-issues are out numbering all new material. Perhaps fodder for a new thread. https://www.angelicwarlord.com/release%20dates/releasedates.html

Start that thread!!!

Kerrick wrote:The Slave Eye - Unto Hades

2017 bro, or it woulda been on my list..

Ah, I have 2018 noted in my iTunes probably because the CD version got released in 2018, even though it first got released digitally in 2017.  Eh, this way I can have it in my 2017 AND 2018 favorite lists!  

Kerrick wrote:Ah, I have 2018 noted in my iTunes probably because the CD version got released in 2018, even though it first got released digitally in 2017.  Eh, this way I can have it in my 2017 AND 2018 favorite lists!  

Well, that's a great point/idea. Edited my post MUAHAHAHA

I put together a list on a facebook page I'm co admin of since a few months. Let's see if I can remember (I don't want to log in with facebook at the moment).

1) Nahtram - An Ominous Journey
2) Arion - Life Is Not Beautiful
3) Angra - OMNI
4) Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
5) Eunomia - The Chronicles of Eunomia Part 1
6) Visigoth - Conquerer's Oath
7) Arcane Tales - Legacy of the Gods
Chris Bay - Chasing the Sun
9) Marius Danielsen's Legend of Valley Doom - Legend of Valley Doom Part 2
10) Thaurorod - Coast of Gold
11) Victorius - Dinosaur Warfare: Legend of the Powersaurus (EP)


Honorable mention:

Blind Guardian - The Tides of War (promotional EP with Rock Hard magazine in Germany, including a previously unreleased song from my favourite BG album, Nightfall in Middle-Earth)

^^Great list

I ll also add Ironflame - Tales of Splendor and Sorrow

Thanks  

There are plenty of releases from 2018 that I haven't picked up yet, but still want to do so. Or at least deserve a further listen IMO. Ironflame would belong to the latter category.