Top 10 2019

(most played music this year ;
subject to change on a daily basis)

1. CUIR
"Demo Demo Demo"
Raw punk with synths, just what the doctor ordered...
Literally the best demo I’ve heard all year.

2. KOHTI TUHOA
"Ihmisen Kasvot"
Wish I hadn’t missed this raging Finnish HC maelstrom when they played Paris a while back..

3. ORODRUIN
"Ruins Of Eternity"
Best comeback album of the year!
Favourite doom metal album as well.

4. INSTITUTE
"Readjusting The Locks"
Don’t know why really but this rocking power punk album impressed me A LOT...

5. BLOOD INCANTATION
"Hidden History Of The Human Race"
The hype is well deserved.
Death metal from beyond!

6. ALTIN GUN
"Gece"
I love this one so much...
Perfect Turkish delight!

7. ARCH-MATHEOS
"Winter Ethereal"
I hadn’t kept in touch with those guys since the Fates Warning days... this one caught me totally by surprise!

8. DEVIL MASTER
"Satan Spits On Children Of Light"
They may be well overhyped but this kind of occult post-punk/black metal is exactly my cup of tea

9. AMULET
"The Inevitable War"
Why didn't this powerful heavy metal album with one of the best singers ever get more acclaim?

10. L.O.T.I.O.N.
"World Wide W.e.b."
Like listening to GGFH in a Berlin sauna surrounded by military men with strange mustaches.

Runner-ups:
(these bad boys all made it to the list at one point and just keep jumping in and out)

AESOP ROCK & TOBACCO Malibu Ken
AGNOSY When Daylight Reveals The Torture
ALDOUS HARDING Designer
AMYL AND THE SNIFFER s/t
ANTIMOB II
AXERASH s.t.
BACKXWASH Deviancy
BLEACH BIRTH Caesarean Tapestries
CEMENT SHOES Too
CEREAL KILLER The Beginning & End Of Cereal Killer
CERISE DREAM Breathless
COM TRUISE Persuasion System
CRUX Moon Tooth
DARKTHRONE Old Star
DETRVIRE Tovt Detrvuire
DIPLODOCUS Slow And Heavy
ELECTRIC CHAIR Performative Justice
F.EMASCULATA Take Me Home
FILTHDIGGER Deified Mummified
FVNERAL FVKK Carnal Confessions
FUNEREAL PRESENCE Achatius
GAME No One Wins
GROTTO OF LOURDES EP
HERETICAL SECT Rotting Cosmic Grief
HIVE Most Vicious Animal
HOT LUNCH Seconds
HORRID APPARITION Evil Reigns
QUAYDE LAHÜE Love Out Of Darkness
KATE TEMPEST The Book Of Traps & Lessons
KRYPTS Cadaver Circulation
LIGHTNING BOLT Sonic Citadel
LINGUA IGNOTA Caligula
MAR DE RABIA El Pais de las Canteras
MAZOUNI Un Dandy en Exil, Algérie-France 1969-1983
NEDXXX s.t.
NOCTURNUS AD Paradox
ONE STEP CLOSER From Me To You
OOZING WOUND High Anxiety
POSSESSED Revelations Of Oblivion
RIOT CITY Burn The Night
SHANA CLEVELAND Night Of The Worm Moon
SKELETHAL Antropomorphia
SÖDRA SVERIGE Död Musik
STATE FUNERAL Built For Destruction
SUBVERSIVE RITE Songs For The End Times
TANITH In Another Time
THE COMET IS COMING Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
THE DROWNING The Radiant Dark
THE MINNEAPOLIS URANIUM CLUB BAND The Cosmo Cleaners
THE RESTARTS Uprising
TOMB MOLD Planetary Clairvoyance
TRAVELER s.t.
TUONO Ho Scelto La Morte
UBIK Next Phase
USA NAILS Life Cinema
VRENTH Demo
WOLFBRIGADE The Enemy Reality
WORKSHED s.t.
WRAITH Absolute Power
ZIG ZAGS They’ll Never Take Us Alive
ZORN (USA/PA) Hardcore Zorn