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
