Top Albums 2012-2018

I went back and rounded up all my year end lists since 2012 and also made a Top 20 for the past 7 years. Maybe I'll write some reviews for the ones appearing on that list that I haven't covered before.

2012

1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
2. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
3. Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal
4. The Contortionist - Intrinsic
5. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror
6. Abigail Williams - Becoming
7. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
8. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega
9. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (III)
10. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity


2013

1. Paramore - Paramore
2. Gorguts - Colored Sands
3. Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
4. Deafheaven - Sunbather
5. Protest the Hero - Volition
6. Washed Out - Paracosm
7. múm - Smilewound
8. Fallujah - Nomadic
9. Astronoid - The Stargazer
10. Maeth - Oceans Into Ashes


2014

1. The Contortionist - Language
2. The Red Threat - Violent Love
3. Job For A Cowboy - Sun Eater
4. Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
5. Nobel - The River’s Rise
6. iamamiwhoami - Blue
7. Animals As Leaders - The Joy of Motion
8. Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails
9. Whispered - Shogunate Macabre
10. spookyblack - Leaving


2015

1. Senses Fail - Pull the Thorns From Your Heart
2. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
3. Veil of Maya - Matriarch
4. Native Construct - Quiet World
5. The Dear Hunter - Act IV: Rebirth In Reprise
6. Clarence Clarity - No Now
7. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
8. Marianas Trench - Astoria
9. Pyramids - A Northern Meadow
10. So Hideous - Laurestine


2016

1. Slice the Cake - The Odyssey
2. The 1975 - ILIWYS
3. Fallujah - Dreamless
4. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
5. David Bowie - Blackstar
6. Sleigh Bells - Jessica Rabbit
7. Mei - Partura
8. Mistki - Puberty 2
9. Moor Mother - Fetish Bones
10. Departe - Failure, Subside


2017

1. The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers
2. Sleep Token - Two
3. Violet Cold - Anomie
4. Chaos Moon - Eschaton Memoire
5. Paramore - After Laughter
6. Planning For Burial - Below the House
7. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
8. Carbon based Lifeforms - Derelicts
9. Paleons - Hyperborean
10. Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained


2018

1. Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
2. Black Tongue - Nadir
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
4. Pale Waves - My Mind Makes Noises
5. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
6. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
7. Between the Buried and Me - Automata
8. Irreversible Mechanism - Immersion
9. Ihsahn - Ámr
10. Toby Driver - They Are the Shield


Top 20 2012-2018

1. Slice the Cake - The Odyssey
2. The Contortionist - Language
3. The 1975 - I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
4. Senses Fail - Pull the Thorns From Your Heart
5. Between the Buried and Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence
6. Paramore - Paramore
7. Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
9. Violet Cold - Anomie (Instrumental)
10. Veil of Maya - Matriarch
11. Chelsea Wolfe - Pain Is Beauty
12. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation
13. Black Tongue - Nadir
14. Gorguts - Colored Sands
15. Fallujah - Dreamless
16. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith of Inhumanity
17. The Contortionist - Clairvoyant
18. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp A Butterfly
19. Marianas Trench - Astoria
20. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Derelicts