OK, gosh it's about time to get started on (and then perpetually change and update) our lists for the year. Here are some of the 2019 releases we’re pretty sure about being likely year-end-best-of-listers so far.
Allan
• Apprentice Destroyer Permanent Climbing Monolith (Apprentice Destroyer Records)
• Maria Chavez Plays (Stefan Goldmann's Ghost Hemiola) (Macro)
• Carla dal Forno Look Up Sharp (Kallista)
• Darkthrone Old Star (Peaceville)
• DEAFKIDS Metaprogramação (Neurot)
• Efdemin New Atlantis (Ostgut Ton)
• Ex Hex It's Real (Merge)
• Grendel's Sÿster Myrtle Wreath/Myrtenkranz (self-released)
• Rolf Hansen Elektrisk Guitar (Karaoke Kalk)
• Id M Theft Able 2 Autoharps, A Snowmobile, Some Snowplows, A Premature Snowblower (Feeding Tube)
• Idle Hands Mana (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
• The Lord Weird Slough Feg New Organon (Cruz Del Sur)
• Lorelle Meets The Obsolete De Facto (Sonic Cathedral)
• L.O.T.I.O.N. World Wide W.E.B. (Toxic State)
• Megaton Sword Niralet (Dying Victims Productions)
• OTTO Over The Top Orchester (Bureau B)
• Pharaoh Overlord 5 (Ektro)
• Praed Doomsday Survival Kit (Akuphone)
• Pulver Kings Under The Sand (Gates Of Hell)
• Tanith In Another Time (Metal Blade)
• TOY Happy in the Hollow (Tough Love)
• Wishfield Wishfield (Sound Of The Northwoods)
• Worshipper Light In The Wire (Tee Pee)
• Xoth Interdimensional Invocations (Creature Of The Northwest)
reissues and suchlike:
• Fief I-IV (Out Of Season/Foreign Sounds)
• Fred Gales Het Jakoba Prieel (Black Sweat)
• Maggot Heart Dusk To Dusk/City Girls (Caligari)
• Majestic Mass Savage Empire Of Death (Iron Fist Productions)
• Moon On The Water Moon On The Water (Black Sweat)
• Pyracanda Two Sides Of A Coin (Divebomb)
• Reynols Minecxio Emanations 1993-2018 (Pica Disk)
• Mammane Sani La Musique Électronique Du Niger (Sahel Sounds)
• v/a Think About Music - Musik von Harmönia 2006-2014 (Svart)
Andee
• TBA TBA
reissues and so forth:
• Duster Capsule Losing Contact (Numero Group)
• Reynols Minecxio Emanations 1993-2018 (Pica Disk)
ReplyDeleteFavorite Release of 2019:
Old Horn Tooth - From the Ghost Grey Depths
Metal:
1349 - The Infernal Pathway
Abduction - All Pain Is Pennance
Abraded - Descendants of the Swamp
Ails - The Unraveling
Altarage - The Approaching Roar
Belenos - Argoat
Black Fucking Cancer / Gloam - Boundless Arcane Invokations
Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen
Casket Huffer - Filth Ouroboros
Coroza - Chaliceburner
Darkthrone - Old Star
Death Worship - End Times
Dö - Astral Death Cult
Drastus - La croix de sang
False - Portent
Geistaz'ika - Trolddomssejd i skovens dybe kedel
Grafvitnir - Venenum Scorpionis
Heretical Sect - Rotting Cosmic Grief
Imperial Cult - Spasm of Light
Keres - Ice, Vapor and Crooked Arrows
LVTHN / Häxenzijrkell - LVTHN / Häxenzijrkell
Mayhem - Daemon
Messiah in the Abyss - Evocation
Misþyrming - Algleymi
Moonstone - Moonstone
Nocturnal Departure - Cathartic Black Rituals
Nothing Is Real - Only the Wicked Are Pure
Ombrage - Witchsickle Swung Low
Rotting Christ - The Heretics
Sanctvs - Mors Aeterna
Schammasch - Hearts of No Light
Slutvomit - Copulation of Cloven Hooves
Sordide - Hier déjà mort
Svadilfare - Fortapte roetter
Toadeater - Codex
Toxic Carnage - Doomed from the Beginning
Tyhjä - Tästä kuolevasta maailmasta
Vanum - Ageless Fire
Verheerer - Monolith
Vomit Forth - Northeastern Depravation
Vosbúð - Almannagjá
Vukari - Aevum
Wallfahrer - Rattenritual
Warmoon Lord - Burning Banners of the Funereal War
Weedsnake - Cannabinoide
Witchbones - The Seas of Draugen
Worsen - Cursed to Witness Life
Non-Metal:
Aldous Harding - Designer
Czarface & Ghostface Killah - Czarface Meets Ghostface
Grotto - Lantern of Gius
L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Complicate Your Life with Violence
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen
Oil Thief - The Colony
Okinawa Electronic Girl Saya & AX - Mayhem
Scattered Purgatory - Lost Ethnography of the Miscanthus Ocean
SRSQ - Unreality
Urschmerz - Misery Plan
Valhall - Grim / More
Reissues:
Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
Nox Coven - De las sombras misterios ocultos
Tulus - Evil 1999
+ Mavorim - Aasfresser
Delete+ Detrvire - Tovt Detrvire
DeleteCan't believe I forgot this one, which I raved about when it came out in Oct.
+ Senketsu No Night Club - Ejiki
Delete+ Funereal Presence - Achatius
DeleteDigging the Old Horn Tooth, "Morbii"! Lots more on your list for me still to check out as well, thanks...
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Glad you like it. There's a vinyl Indiegogo campaign too (easily found with Google), if you're interested (it already met it's limit like 3 days in).
DeleteYour list has a lot for me to check out too, so thank you as well! I even see some names that are familiar to me, but that I didn't realize had a release, so great!