I'm not narrowing this down to a Top Ten or ranking it, but if you like metal here are some worthy albums that came out this year:
- Behemoth, I Loved You At Your Darkest (Bandcamp link.)
- Chthonic, Battlefields of Asura (Official video.)
- Cultes des Ghoules, Sinister, Or Treading the Darker Paths (Bandcamp link.)
- Dimmu Borgir, Eonian (Official video.)
- Evoken, Hypnogogia (Bandcamp link.)
- Helllight, As We Slowly Fade (Bandcamp link.)
- High on Fire, Electric Messiah (Bandcamp link.)
- November's Doom, Hamartia (Official lyric video.)
- Opera IX, The Gospel (Bandcamp link.
- Portal, Ion (Bandcamp link.)
- Sleep, The Sciences (Youtube link.)
- Summoning, With Doom We Come (Bandcamp link.)
- Tribulation, Down Below (Youtube link - full album.)
- Wayfarer, World's Blood (Bandcamp link.)
- Windhand, Eternal Return (Bandcamp link.)
- Zeal & Ardor, Stranger Fruit (Bandcamp link.)