Your favorite CDs for 2018.

Yep, it's December.
What are your favorite CDs you have bought in 2018?

Aha well I'll copy/paste what I put in the thread I mistook for this one. 

Full Lengths:
Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn
Leonov - Wake
Sardonyx - Sons Of The Kingdom
Children Of Wrath - Supernatural Dimensions

EPs:
The Slave Eye - Unto Hades
Vials Of Wrath - Ataraxia
Parakletos - Se Guds Lamm
Throne Of Awful Splendor - All Lights Relinquished

I think/hope Death Therapy is still planning on releasing their new one this year which will most certainly be on this list.

I knew this was coming and I've been thinking about it for weeks.  I think I'm going to have to go back and re listen to the new albums I got this year.  Seems like a third of them were reissues.

Virgin Black's Requiem: Pianissimo is definitely my number one this year.  I'd add Frosthardr's self-titled, Tourniquet's Gazing at Medusa, Jimmy P. Brown's Eraserhead and Mad At The World's Hope rounds out my top 5.

Ooooh how's the new Frosthardr?  I have it preordered from Metal Helm but don't know when I'll receive it.

n no particular order...

Impellitteri - Nature of the Beast  (maybe #1)
Sardonyx - Sons of the Kingdom
Jimmy P Brown's - Eraserhead
Grave Robber - Escaping the Grave
Millennial Reign - The Great Divide
Primal Fear - Apocalypse (secular)  (maybe #1)
Judas Priest - Firepower
Narnia - Made in Brazil
Luke Easter - The Pop Disaster

Favorite Reissue... No contest... SOLDIER "BABYLON 30 Years and Beyond" ... for deeply personal reasons!!


However I did pickup a small boatload of stuff this year... just not all released this year...

Are we talking about 2018 albums we bought, or albums we bought in 2018?

Albums from 2018 that we have bought this year.  They can be new albums or albums that were reissued this year.  If you bought albums from another year, those do not count unless they were reissued this year as a remaster or anthology.

Then... I got nothing, I'm pretty sure. Unless the TRYTAN uploads to Apple Music count as a re-release. Well, that, and a friend of mine released a nice indie album in the fall.

Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band - Man Over Board.
Bride - Snake Eyes
Stryper - God ... Evil.

That's it for this year.
Some other Cds I've bought are not released this year.

My favorites for the year...

Limberlost - Volume 1 
Wytch Hazel - II:Sojurn
Big Chris & D'BBB - Man Overboard
Millennial Reign - The Great Divide
Lorchain Praise - For the love of God
Angelic Force - Soldiers of the Cross (reissue/remaster...first time on CD)
Stryper - God Grr Evil 

Almost left Stryper off the list.  Overall kind of disappointing compared to the last two, but at least half of the tracks are really good.

Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band - Man Overboard.
Bride - Snake Eyes
Stryper - God ... Evil
Chaotic Resemblance - Covenant

kerrick wrote:

Ooooh how's the new Frosthardr?  I have it preordered from Metal Helm but don't know when I'll receive it.

Played both the vinyl and CD today and the album is fantastic!!! 

Oh man I am jealous!  I hope my CD will ship soon...  How would you compare it to their two EPs?

kerrick wrote:

Oh man I am jealous!  I hope my CD will ship soon...  How would you compare it to their two EPs?

The album contains some of the songs from the EPs but only a few.  The rest are completely Frosthardr!!!

OK, I've got mine.  While I bought several reissues, none of those were really big deals for me.  I enjoyed them, but none were favorites.  Angelic Force was hard to listen to as far as sound quality goes.  Malachia was cool, but there were so many repeated tracks.  I cut all that out of the MP3 version.  Max Blam Jam was cool, but by the end of the album all the tracks sounds the same as they are mostly in the same key and tempo.

Newer releases?  Well, there was a lot I found forgettable.  Who would go on that list?  Sardonyx, Deny The Fallen, Sleepy Ray, As We Ascend, Random Hero, Millennial Reign, etc.  Much of the music I bought this year was good but not great.

So, who made the cut?  Well, I tried to do a top ten, but I ended up with a top TWELVE:


1.  BRIDE - SNAKE EYES
2. Jimmy P. Brown's Erasurehead (the Deliverance album I've wanted for years)
3.  Chaotic Resemblance - Covenant
4.  Stryper - God, grrrrrr Evil (Still needs that comma)
5.  Impelletteri - The Nature Of The Beast
6.  Big Chris & D'Bare Bones Band - Man Overboard
7.  Apologetix - Nichey (they had another album this year, but it wasn't as good)
8.  Wytch Hazel II:Soujourn
9.  Altar Boys - No Substitute
10.  Luke Easter - The Pop Disaster (would have been higher if not an EP)
11.  Limberlost Vol. 1 (Also would have scored higher if not an EP)
12.  The Crimson Bridge Ministry - The Solution (Again, would have been higher if not an EP)

I've thought things over and have modified my top albums for 2018.

10. Narnia - We Still Believe: Made in Brazil
9. Tourniquet - Gazing at Medusa (would be higher but the vocalist took some getting used to)
8. Bride - Snake Eyes
7. Luke Easter - The Pop Disaster (I really like the variety that it has since no two songs are the same)
6. Jimmy P. Brown II's - Eraserhead
5. Stryper - GDE
4. Altar Boys - No Substitute
3. Deliverance - The Subversive Kind
2. Frosthardr - Frosthardr
1. Virgin Black - Requiem: Pianissimo

Just TQT and that Bare Bones Band in Christian music.

Secular was Metal Church and Witherfall. No money means no new music.

I think the only new album I purchased in 2018 was Evans & Stokes, Valley of the Kings.