Here’s a list of the releases I’ve enjoyed the most this year in this genre:
TOP 15 ALBUMS:
1) Veil Of Maya – Matriarch
2) Northlane – Node
3) Iwrestledabearonce – Hail Mary
4) Press To Meco – Good Intent
5) DVSR – DVSR
6) Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction
7) Reflections – The Color Clear
8) TesseracT – Polaris
9) Chon – Grow
10) Make Them Suffer – Old Souls
11) Burning Down Alaska – Values And Virtues
12) Native Contruct – Quiet World
13) Born Of Osiris – Soul Sphere
14) Fear Factory – Genexus
15) Mestis – Polysemy
Honorable mentions:
Between The Buried And Me; Crystal Lake, Nemertines, Stray From The Path, Novallo, Oceano, Novelists; Change Of Loyalty, Bermuda, Coheed And Cambira, Soilwork, Heart Of A Coward, Periphery (even though very disappointing), Scale The Summit, Intervals; No Consequence, Lorn Shore, Sworn In, Sylosis
TOP 8 EPS:
1) SikTh – Opacities
2) Plini – The End Of Everything
3) The Voynich Code – Ignotum
4) Nemertines – Bird Murder
5) Despite Exile – Disperse
6) Picturesque – Monstrous Things
7) Vitja – Your Kingdom
8) Strains – Redifine(d)