LISTMANIA 2015: A TOP 50 (MOSTLY) METAL LIST FROM NOISEY

 

Although we’re getting deep into our site’s own year-end lists, there are still a few more “big platform” sites whose year-end lists I’ve been waiting for, and this is one of them.

Vice Media, Inc. traces its origins back to a punk magazine called Vice Montreal that was started in 1994. Since then, Vice has grown into a multimedia network that includes not only Vice.com but also nine other digital channels. One of those is Noisey, which was launched in 2011 and focuses on music across a range of genres, including rock, rap, metal, and punk. Noisey proclaims that it “reaches millions and millions of readers and subscribers a month, a must-stop source for new music, investigative journalism, and artist-sourced content.”

This year, Noisey brought metal journalist Kim Kelly on board as a writer and member of its editorial staff, and yesterday the site published her ranked list of “Top 10 (Mostly) Metal Albums of 2015”, followed by an additional un-ranked list of “40 Favorite (And Occasionally Not Metal) Albums of 2015”. Here they are (and to read Kim’s comments about all the albums and listen to music streams, go HERE).

 

TOP 10:

1. Misthyrming – Söngvar elds og óreiðu

2. Cloud Rat – Qlipthoth

3. Vastum – Hole Below

4. Mgla – Exercises in Futility

5. Death Karma – The History Of Death & Burial Rituals Part I

6. Chrch – Unanswered Hymns

7. Yellow Eyes – Sick with Bloom

8. Genocide Shrines – Manipura Imperial Deathevokovil (Scriptures Of Reversed Puraana Dharmurder)

9. Cosmic Church – Vigilia

10. Disemballerina – Poison Gown

 

THE NEXT 40:

Spectral Wound – Terra Nullius

Black Cilice – Mysteries

Abyssion – Luonnon harmonia ja vihreä liekki

False – Untitled

Eye of Nix – Moros

Leila Abdul-Rauf – Insomnia

Obsequiae – Aria of Vernal Tombs

Khemmis – Absolution

Bell Witch – Four Phantoms

Ares Kingdom – The Unburiable Dead

Locrian – Infinite Dissolution

Pyramids – A Northern Meadow

Christian Mistress – To Your Death

Ethereal Shroud – They Became the Falling Ash

Gloam – Hex of Nine Heads

Tribulation – The Children of the Night

Revenge – Behold.Total.Rejection

Nachtlieder – The Female of the Species

Tovarish – This Terrible Burden

Vattnet Viskar – Settler

Macabre Omen – Gods of War – At War

Chaos Echoes – Transient

Abominor – Opus: Decay

Sivyg Yar – Burial Shrouds

Lluvia – Eternidad Solemne

Magic Circle – Journey Blind

Tyranny – Aeons in Tectonic Internment

Nightfell – Darkness Evermore

RAM – Svbversvm

Skepticism – Ordeal

Thou & The Body – You, Whom I Have Always Hated

Blood Incantation – Interdimensional Extinction

Dark Buddha Rising – Inversum

Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat

Devouring Star – Through Lung and Heart

Cult of Occult – Five Degrees of Insanity

Cruciamentum – Charnal Passages

Primitive Man – Home Is Where the Hatred Is

Corrupted – Loss

Saturnine – Mors Vocat