Album of the Year 2019

Passenger

It's tradition for this time of year to see what albums Boardsies have rated highly during the year.

Not gonna bother with the whole nominating/voting like previous years as interest was waning.

What were your standout Rock & Metal releases in 2019?

lord lucan

Not much for me this year so I'm going to go with Beserker from Amon Amarth,belter of an album.

RayCon

Opeth : In Cauda Venenum

Jelle1880

For me it has to be Atlantean Kodex- The Course of Empire

greedygoblin

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination

baamus

Couldn't say I spent much time listening this year but here's a few I liked

Candlemass
Nile
Soilwork
Sunn O)))

Liked Opeth too, surely will add more later

One_More_Mile

Insomnium- Heart like a grave
Amon Amarth -Berserker

Gonzo

Acid Reign - Age of Entitlement
Sacred Reich - Awakening
Slipknot - We are not your kind
Tool - Fear Inoculum
Jinjer - Macro

nacho libre

Blood Incantation- Hidden History of the Human Race

Lithium93_

Just off the top of my head...

Death Angel - Humanicide
Overkill - The Wings Of War
Amon Amarth - Berzerker
Devin Townsend - Empath
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind
Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
Baroness - Gold & Grey
Whitesnake - Flesh & Blood
Airbourne - Boneshaker

Mushy

The Darkness- Easter Is Cancelled

LillySV

Kill switch engage atonement and tool fear innoculum

Say Your Number

The Spell by Cellar Darling is my favourite album of the year, it's rare a 60 minute album feels more like a 40 minute album, followed closely by Legends from Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex by Gloryhammer, as cheesy as it gets, but great fun.

Others for me:

Volbeat - Rewind, Replay, Rebound
Beast in Black - From Hell With Love
Airbourne - Boneshaker
Joanne Shaw Taylor - Reckless Heart

Vudgie

Tool - Fear Inoculum

Dargull

The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
Whiskey Myers - Whiskey Myers
The Dark Element - Songs the Night Sings
Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave

LoughNeagh2017

Tonight Alive's 2 albums before they turned pop, not a bad song on them. They are a pop rock female fronted band.

Anesthetize

Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Mgla - Age of Excuse
Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces of Palingenesia

Also a special mention to Lingua Ignota - Caligula. Despite not being rock or metal, it makes the vast majority of metal seem warm and cuddly in comparison.

Parkman77

Tool - Fear Inoculum.
Amon Amarth - Berserker.

Special Mentions :
Killswitch Engage - Atonement
Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

Ravenholm

Tool - Fear Inoculum
Gatecreeper - Deserted
Devin Townsend - Empath

machiavellianme

Top 5:
Slipknot - we are not your kind
Bad Religion - age of unreason
Amon Amarth - berserker
Lagwagon - railer
Refused - War music

Most over rated:
Tool - fear innoculum

GLaDOS

I found it a weak enough year tbh

Rammstein and Tool's albums were...good. Not amazing by their own very high standards.

Decent releases from Pelican, 65daysofstatic and The Aristocrats as well.

Struggle to rate any of them much higher than 7.5/10.

Haven't listen to Devin Townsend's latest but tbh I've found his last few albums very samey...

Didn't know Alcest had a new release, will give it a listen.

machiavellianme

GLaDOS wrote: »

I found it a weak enough year tbh

Rammstein and Tool's albums were...good. Not amazing by their own very high standards.

Decent releases from Pelican, 65daysofstatic and The Aristocrats as well.

Struggle to rate any of them much higher than 7.5/10.

Haven't listen to Devin Townsend's latest but tbh I've found his last few albums very samey...

Didn't know Alcest had a new release, will give it a listen.

Completely agree. In fact I actually preferred the Lindemann album to the Rammstein one.

LoughNeagh2017

LoughNeagh2017 wrote: »

Tonight Alive's 2 albums before they turned pop, not a bad song on them. They are a pop rock female fronted band.

I misread the title.
Album of the year is probably Lacuna Coil - Black Anima, there is nothing great about metal these days, the most interest bands are the ones deep in the underground like Draconian or something. Slipknots album was ok but nothing that would get you sweating with excitement, fanboys worship Corey Taylor and praise him when he gets his average scream back, there are tiny bands in the underground with far superior screams that his cigarette burnt scream. Sometimes it is painful to listen to, especially live back in 2015/16.

s8n

Tool - Fear Inoculum

machiavellianme

Dargull wrote: »

The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men
Whiskey Myers - Whiskey Myers
The Dark Element - Songs the Night Sings
Insomnium - Heart Like a Grave

Gave it a spin. Great shout. Its no Earth vs or Phuq but pretty decent.
Strongly considering going to the gig in Belfast on the back of it.

Dargull

machiavellianme wrote: »

Gave it a spin. Great shout. Its no Earth vs or Phuq but pretty decent.
Strongly considering going to the gig in Belfast on the back of it.

Glad you liked it. I think they’re a band that constantly release decent to very good records almost always under the radar. I won’t make it to the Belfast gig myself. I wish they’d come and play in Dublin sometime. Haven’t been down here since 2004.

Nea

Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
Soen- Lotus
Opeth - ICV
Borknagar - True North

sentient_6

Im really surprised no one has said Rotting Christ - The Heretics. Definitely album of the year for me.

RicketyCricket

Strange year of music for me, not a lot grabbed my attention. Sadly the Tool album did nothing for me, two good songs on it imo and I hated the Slipknot album. Didn't know Nile had released anything last year so will definitely check that out. Best albums I've heard are:

Rival Sons - Feral Roots
The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men.

Nothing else comes to mind.