With that said, here are some of the other albums this year that I really enjoyed:
ALL PIGS MUST DIE - Nothing Violates This Nature
Amiensus - Restoration
Anciients - Heart of Oak
Antigama - Meteor
Avatarium - Avatarium
Black Cap Miner - The Formative Years
Black Crown Initiate - Song of the Crippled Bull
Blood Ceremony - The Eldritch Dark
Byzantine - Byzantine
Carcass - Surgical Steel
Church of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum
Clutch - Earth Rocker
Condition Critical - Operational Hazard
Craven Idol - Towards Eschaton
Dead In The Dirt - The Blind Hole
Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
Divinity - The Immortalist, Part One - Awestruck (EP)
Exhumed - Necrocracy
Exivious - Liminal
Extol - Extol
Fallujah - Nomadic (EP)
Feared - Vinter
Fit For An Autopsy - Hellbound
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE - Labyrinth
Gorguts - Colored Sands
Hail Of Bullets - III: The Rommel Chronicles
Haken - The Mountain
Hate - Solarflesh
Hatesphere - Murderlust
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose
Hatriot - Heroes of Origin
Hypocrisy- End of Disclosure
In Solitude - Sister
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
IRON REAGAN - Worse Than Dead
Izegrim - Congress of the Insane
Jungle Rot - Terror Regime
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent
Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
Man Must Die - Peace Was Never an Option
The Modern Age Slavery - Requiem For Us All
The Monolith Deathcult - Tetragrammaton
Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live
Nails - Abandon All Life
Necrophobic - Womb of Lilithu
Nekroflith - Devil's Breath
Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte
Nocturnal Graves - ...From the Bloodline of Cain
Noisem - Agony Defined
Oblivion - Called to Rise
The Ocean - Pelagial
Onslaught - VI
Oranssi Pazuzu - Valonielu
Orator - Kapalegnosis
Orchid - Mouths of Madness
A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH - Lay My Soul To Waste
Persefone - Spiritual Migration
Perversifier - Perverting the Masses
Pestilence - Obsideo
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals - Walk Through Exits Only
Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
Primitive Man - Scorn
Pro-Pain - The Final Revolution
Protest The Hero - Volition
Pyrithion - The Burden of Sorrow (EP)
Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
Quest of Aidance - Misanthropic Propaganda
Ramming Speed - Doomed to Destroy, Destined to Die
Revocation - Revocation
Rivers of Nihil - The Conscious Seed of Light
Robot Lords of Tokyo - Virtue and Vice
Scale The Summit - The Migration
Shaded Enmity - Forsaken and Forgotten
Skeletal Spectre - Voodoo Dawn
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Soulless - In Death's Grip
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing
Stomach Earth - Stomach Earth
Strychnia - Reanimated Monstrosity (EP)
Svart Crown - Profane
Take Over And Destroy - Endless Night
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry of Consciousness
Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Vhol - Vhol
Vicious Rumors - Electric Punishment
Violator - Scenarios of Brutality
Vorum - Poisoned Void
Warbeast - Destroy
WATAIN - The Wild Hunt
Weekend Nachos - Still
Witherscape - The Inheritance
Wormed - Exodromos
Oh and BTW, thank you to any of you that introduced me into any of these fine albums this year! Cheers to you!