[ Top "10s" 2018 ]

(Thus far...)

As always, it's never too soon (or too late) to start thinking about year-end best of lists! Here, already (ha), are some of the 2018 releases we’re pretty sure about being likely year-end-best-of-listers so far. Of course, we're still kind of working on our 2017 lists too... so probably won't be really done with these until, like, sometime in 2020. Never done, really. Think of these as 'living' lists, eh?

Allan

Bat Fangs s/t (Don Giovanni)
Black Salvation Uncertainty Is Bliss (Relapse)
Elektro Guzzi Polybrass (Denovali)
DMBQ Keeenly (Tsukumogami/God?)
Gatekeeper East Of Sun (Cruz Del Sur)
GRLwood Daddy (sonaBLAST!)
Howling Sycamore Howling Sycamore (Prosthetic)
Megaton Leviathan Mage (Blood Music)
New Light Choir Torchlight (Svart)
Oh Sees Smote Reverser (Castle Face)
Old Tower Stellary Wisdom (Profound Lore/Tour De Garde)
Satan Cruel Magic (Metal Blade)
Janek Schaefer What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing (Temporary Residence Limited)
Solar Temple Fertile Descent (Eisenwald Tonschmiede)
Starkweather/Concealment split (Translation Loss)
Turnstile Time & Space (Roadrunner)
Voïvod The Wake (Century Media)

reissues and suchlike:
The Nightcrawlers The Biophonic Boombox Recordings (Anthology)
Omit Enclosures 2011-2016 (Pica Disk/End Of The Alphabet)
v/a Gumba Fire! Bubblegum Soul & Synth - Boogie in 1980s South Africa (Soundway)
v/a Switched-On Eugene (Numero Group)

Andee

The Mistys Pregnant Mannequin (Plastique Influencer)
Drug Church Cheer (Pure Noise)
Urfaust The Constellatory Practice (Van)
Four Fists 6666 (Doomtree)
SHXCXCHCXSH OUFOUFOF (Rösten)
Svartidaudi Revelations Of The Red Sword (Van)
Ævangelist Matricide In The Temple Of Omega
Sierra Ferrell Pretty Magic Spell (Opika)
Legion Of Andromeda Fistful Of Hate (Bestial Burst/Fuck Yoga/AWWFN)
Visions & Phurpa Monad (Cyclic Law)
Thingy Morbid Curiosity (Joyful Noise)
MMMD Hagazussa (Antifrost)
Sainte Marie Des Loups s/t (Fallen Empire)
Ride For Revenge Sinking The Song
Negative Scanner Nose Picker (Trouble In Mind)
Windhand Eternal Return (Relapse)
Fatuous Rump Disposing Slobs Of Corporal Fatberg (Amputated Vein)
Book Of Sand Postmodern Witchcraft
Royce Da 5’9 Book Of Ryan
Reverorum Ib Malacht Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble (AnnapurnA)
Craft White Noise And Black Metal (Season Of Mist)
Hail Conjurer Dreams Of Serpent (Bestial Burst)
Skee Mask Compro (Ilian Tape)
Sloan 12 (Yep Roc/Murderecords)
Masayoshi Fujita Book Of Life (Erased Tapes)

reissues and so forth:
Omit Enclosures 2011-2016 (Pica Disk/End Of The Alphabet)

Michele Mercure Beside Herself (Rvng Intl.)
The Posies Amazing Disgrace (Omnivore)
Redd Kross Teen Babes From Monsanto Versión Especial (Merge)
Paternoster Die Ersten Tage (Now-Again)
Templum N.R. Magnetic Vision (Aural Hypnox)
The HIRS Collective The First 100 Songs (SRA Records)
The HIRS Collective The Second 100 Songs (SRA Records)
Pierre Henry Polyphonies (Decca)
David Shire Apocalypse Now (The Unused Score) (La-La Land Records)