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Loudwire's 30 Best Metal Albums of 2018
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Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
July 13, 2018
Blackgaze
,
Post-Black Metal
Critic Score
82
32
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
29
.
Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods
July 6, 2018
Black Metal
Critic Score
76
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
28
.
Sigh - Heir To Despair
November 16, 2018
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
85
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
27
.
Craft - White Noise and Black Metal
June 22, 2018
Black Metal
Critic Score
65
2 reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
26
.
Unleashed - The Hunt for White Christ
October 26, 2018
Critic Score
78
3 reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
25
.
Lychgate - The Contagion in Nine Steps
March 30, 2018
Critic Score
78
2 reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
24
.
Ministry - AmeriKKKant
March 9, 2018
Industrial Metal
Critic Score
60
13
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
23
.
Pig Destroyer - Head Cage
September 7, 2018
Metalcore
Critic Score
83
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
22
.
Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
October 5, 2018
Black Metal
,
Blackened Death Metal
Critic Score
81
11
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
21
.
Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath
February 9, 2018
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
74
4
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
20
.
Sumac - Love in Shadow
September 21, 2018
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
Critic Score
78
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
19
.
Møl - JORD
April 13, 2018
Blackgaze
Critic Score
78
3 reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
18
.
Legend Of The Seagullmen - Legend of the Seagullmen
February 9, 2018
Alternative Metal
Critic Score
64
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
17
.
Akhenaton - Golden Serpent God
May 31, 2018
Amazon
16
.
High on Fire - Electric Messiah
October 5, 2018
Stoner Metal
,
Sludge Metal
Critic Score
80
15
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
15
.
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
March 16, 2018
Progressive Metal
,
Progressive Death Metal
Critic Score
86
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
14
.
Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands
October 26, 2018
Death Metal
Critic Score
80
5
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
13
.
Amorphis - Queen of Time
May 18, 2018
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
80
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
12
.
Daughters - You Won't Get What You Want
October 26, 2018
Noise Rock
,
Industrial Rock
Critic Score
86
13
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
11
.
The Ocean Collective - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
November 2, 2018
Progressive Metal
,
Sludge Metal
,
Atmospheric Sludge Metal
,
Post-Metal
Critic Score
80
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
10
.
YOB - Our Raw Heart
June 8, 2018
Doom Metal
,
Sludge Metal
Critic Score
83
13
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
9
.
Tribulation - Down Below
January 26, 2018
Gothic Metal
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
82
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
July 13, 2018
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
85
7
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
8
.
Between the Buried and Me - Automata I
March 9, 2018
Progressive Metal
Critic Score
79
10
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
7
.
Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits
January 19, 2018
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
74
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
6
.
Vein - Errorzone
June 22, 2018
Mathcore
,
Nu-Metalcore
,
Metalcore
Critic Score
81
6
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
5
.
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland
October 12, 2018
Heavy Psych
Critic Score
73
4
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
4
.
Zeal and Ardor - Stranger Fruit
June 8, 2018
Avant-Garde Metal
,
Black Metal
,
Blues Rock
Critic Score
80
9
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
3
.
Judas Priest - Firepower
March 9, 2018
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
79
14
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
2
.
Ghost - Prequelle
June 1, 2018
Hard Rock
,
Heavy Metal
Critic Score
82
14
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
1
.
Sleep - The Sciences
April 20, 2018
Stoner Metal
,
Doom Metal
Critic Score
84
11
reviews
Amazon
Music
Spotify
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