While we recently revealed the top-selling rock and metal of the year thus far, Metal Hammer went ahead and made a list of ‘The 50 Best Metal Albums of The Year So Far.’ We can only assume this list will change as we are expecting to see albums from Coheed and Cambria, Deafheaven, Omnium Gatherum, Obscura, Skeletonwitch, Doro, and many more arrive. Metal Hammer alphabetically listed the LP’s that includes Amorphis, Dimmu Borgir, Ihsahn, Judas Priest, Primordial, Watain, Zeal & Ardor, and more. Check out the list below, and read about their selections here.

01) Agrimonia, Awaken

02) Amorphis, Queen Of Time

03) Andrew WK, You’re Not Alone

04) Anna Von Hausswolff, Dead Magic

05) At The Gates, To Drink From The Night Itself

06) Auri, Auri

07) Autopsy, Puncturing The Grotesque

08) Baptists, Beacon Of Faith

09) Between The Buried And Me, Automata I

10) Boss Keloid, Melted On The Inch

11) Burgerkill, Adamantine

12) Conjurer, Mire

13) Corrosion Of Conformity, No Cross No Crown

14) Dark Buddha Rising, II

15) Deströyer 666, Call Of The Wild

16) Dimmu Borgir, Eonian

17) Erdve, Vaitojimas

18) Fucked And Bound, Suffrage

19) Ghost, Prequelle

20) GosT, Possessor

21) Harm’s Way, Posthuman

22) Ihsahn, Àmr

23) Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik, Hugsjá

24) Judas Priest, Firepower

25) Kamelot, The Shadow Theory

26) Legend Of The Seagullmen, Legend Of The Seagullmen

27) Lik, Carnage

28) LLNN, Deads

29) Møl, Jord

30) Monotheist, Scourge

31) Necrophobic, Mark Of The Necrogram

32) Oceans Of Slumber, The Banished Heart

33) Orange Goblin, The Wolf Bites Back

34) Orphaned Land, Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

35) Parkway Drive, Reverence

36) Portal, Ion

37) Primordial, Exile Amongst The Ruins

38) Shining, X – Varg Utan Block

39) Svalbard, It’s Hard To Have Hope

40) TesseracT, Sonder

41) The Body, I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer

42) The Faceless, In Becoming A Ghost

43) The Good, The Bad And The Zugly, Misanthropical House

44) Visigoth, Conquer’s Oath

45) Voices, Frightened

46) Watain, Trident Wolf Eclipse

47) Will Haven, Muerte

48) Winterfylleth, The Hallowing Of Heirdom

49) YOB, Our Raw Heart

50) Zeal & Ardor, Stranger Fruit

 

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Zenae Zukowski