15. Enslaved - "In Times" (3/6/15, Nuclear Blast)
Sounds like: Opeth, Obituary, Darkthrone
Choice cuts: One Thousand Years Of Pain, Building With Fire, Thurisaz Dreaming
14. Lone Wolf - "Lodge" (5/11/15, Sharing Needles With Friends)
Sounds like: Matt Elliott, The National, Shearwater
Choice cuts: Art Of Letting Go, Give Up, Mistakes
13. Baroness - "Purple" (12/18/15, Abraxan Hymns)
Sounds like: Mastodon, The Sword, Torche
Choice cuts: Chlorine & Wine, Morningstar, Desperation Burns
12. Refused - "Freedom" (6/30/15, Epitaph)
Sounds like: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Every Time I Die
Choice cuts: Dawkins Christ, Thought Is Blood, Francafrique
11. Ghost - "Meliora" (8/21/15, Loma Vista)
Sounds like: Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Mercyful Fate
Choice cuts: Cirice, He Is, The Pinnacle And The Pit
10. Chris Stapleton - "Traveller" (5/5/15, Mercury)
Sounds like: Eric Clapton, Jamey Johnson, The Highwaymen
Choice cuts: Tennessee Whiskey, Traveller, Outlaw State Of Mind
9. High On Fire - "Luminiferous" (6/23/15, eOne/Universal)
Sounds like: Motorhead, Slayer, Big Business
Choice cuts: The Falconist, Slave The Hive, The Dark Side Of The Compass
8. Iron Maiden - "The Book Of Souls" (9/4/15, BMG)
Sounds like: IRON MAIDEN
Choice cuts: The Book Of Souls, Death Or Glory, The Red And The Black
7. The Sword - "High Country" (8/21/15, Razor & Tie)
Sounds like: Clutch, Wolfmother, Kyuss
Choice cuts: Tears Like Diamonds, Ghost Eye, The Bees Of Spring
6. William Elliott Whitmore - "Radium Death" (3/31/15, Anti-)
Sounds like: Sean Rowe, The Devil Makes Three, Justin Townes Earle
Choice cuts: Civilizations, Go On Home, Trouble In Your Heart
5. Leprous - "The Congregation" (6/2/15, Inside Out)
Sounds like: Haken, Ihsahn, Opeth
Choice cuts: Within My Fence, The Flood, Moon
4. Faith No More - "Sol Invictus" (5/19/15, Reclamation/Ipecac)
Sounds like: FAITH NO MORE
Choice cuts: Matador, Cone Of Shame, Sunny Side Up, Superhero
3. Graveyard - "Innocence & Decadence" (9/25/15, Nuclear Blast)
Sounds like: Witchcraft, Kadavar, The Sword
Choice cuts: Exit 97, Stay For A Song, Too Much Is Not Enough, Never Theirs To Sell
2. Kadavar - "Berlin" (8/21/15, Nuclear Blast)
Sounds like: Graveyard, The Black Keys, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Choice cuts: Circles In My Mind, Filthy Illusion, Last Living Dinosaur, Stolen Dreams
1. Horrendous - "Anareta" (10/30/15, Dark Descent)
Hailing from Philadelphia by-way-of South Carolina, Jamie Knox, Damian Herring and Matt Knox are the leaders of the New Wave of Old-School Death Metal/Swedish Death Metal movement. Horrendous have dropped an absolute bomb of an album in 2015 (and only one year after releasing my #5 album of 2014; "Ecdysis.") Infusing elements of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, Floridian death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal, "Anareta" has everything any metal fan could ask for. With lyrical themes of science fiction horror (see 1997's "Event Horizon") and album art H.R. Giger would be proud of, this landmark release is wrapped up in a package with a huge METAL bow. 2015 has been an unbelievable year for music, however Horrendous easily runs away with album of the year honors. An absolutely perfect album that ranks among the greatest albums of all time (metal or otherwise.) Cheers to you guys. Go 'Merica! \m/ \m/
Sounds like: Death, Entombed, Autopsy
Choice cuts: Acolytes, Sum Of All Failures, Ozymandias, The Nihilist
Best Songs of 2015:
1. The Tallest Man On Earth - "Little Nowhere Towns"
2. Faith No More - "Matador"
3. Sean Rowe - "Soldier's Song"
4. Kadavar - "Circles In My Mind"
5. Iron Maiden - "The Book Of Souls"
6. Horrendous - "Acolytes/Sum Of All Failures"
