Pitchfork's Best Metal Albums of 2015

Pitchfork's Best Metal Albums of 2015

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25.

Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower
September 18, 2015
Critic Score
78
9 reviews

24.

Myrkur - M
August 21, 2015
Critic Score
78
13 reviews

This time ... Bruun has sealed many of the foundational cracks in her compositions and owned the audacity of the project and the form at large.

23.

Noisem - Blossoming Decay
April 28, 2015
Critic Score
80
1 review

21.

False - Untitled
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
80
1 review

20.

Pinkish Black - Bottom of the Morning
October 30, 2015
Critic Score
85
3 reviews

18.

High on Fire - Luminiferous
June 16, 2015
Critic Score
78
12 reviews
These nine tracks are among the most enthusiastic and bracing of High on Fire’s career, with mammoth riffs and hooks spurred on by a momentous band.

17.

Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
October 9, 2015
Critic Score
72
4 reviews

16.

VHÖL - Deeper Than Sky
October 23, 2015
Critic Score
83
7 reviews

15.

Skepticism - Ordeal
September 18, 2015
Critic Score
50
1 review

12.

Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls
May 12, 2015
Critic Score
80
11 reviews

With Niagara, he's taken strengths from his entire oeuvre to reach deeper into himself and produce what may be his best record yet, one that brings all the fulfillment of noise and transcends them all the same.

11.

Locrian - Infinite Dissolution
July 24, 2015
Critic Score
80
8 reviews

The more music Locrian create, the less sense the metallurgists seem to make: That is the implicit lesson of Infinite Dissolution, the most adventurous and accessible album the once-prohibitively esoteric band have ever made.

9.

Horrendous - Anareta
October 30, 2015
Critic Score
86
4 reviews

8.

Mgła - Exercises in Futility
September 4, 2015
Critic Score
78
1 review

It's rare to see two players so clearly meant for each other, and Mgła's accomplished performance on Futility transforms the lyrical content into a call to action. Great metal can harness strength from hopelessness; turning that strength into art is a blustering triumph.

7.

Dead To A Dying World - Litany
August 18, 2015
Critic Score
81
2 reviews

6.

December 18, 2015
Critic Score
82
26 reviews
These are some of the biggest, strongest songs the Baroness have written; it's rock music that folds in their more metal leanings, along with something more delicate and spare.

5.

Khemmis - Absolution
July 7, 2015
Critic Score
80
1 review

4.

Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
October 16, 2015
Critic Score
79
5 reviews

3.

Bell Witch - Four Phantoms
April 28, 2015
Critic Score
72
3 reviews

1.

Deafheaven - New Bermuda
October 2, 2015
Critic Score
79
24 reviews

At a moment when guitar-centric music feels less central to the conversation, and great indie-rock bands have retreated into hardy local scenes, Deafheaven play like a beautiful, abstracted dream of guitar music's transportive power.

Original Source: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9772-the-best-metal-albums-of-2015/
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