Needles & Grooves

@Woob_woob
funny you mention blood incantation, that's what I'm listening to right now. Loving the shit out of it. I'll add the other album to my list

Yea I rarely buy metal on vinyl, but I had to get Blood Incantation. It's really good.

@NoToneStraw where ya at pal?

WITCH VOMIT!

Also - paging @Goatfish - my metal escort.

Monte Luna - Drowners' Wives. A great wee stoner/doom album.

My top 3 for this year:
Suhnopfer - Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism

There are TONS of other great albums this year, but those are my faves.

I really enjoyed:
Hippie Death Cult - 111
Monolord - No Comfort
Merlin - The Mortal

I had like 50 typed and it gave me too many characters, now it's lost and I'm sobbing

Consolidated list, many more where this comes from:

Death Metal:
1. Blood Incantation - Hidden History
2. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance
3. Vastum - Orificial Purge
4. Creeping Death - Wretched Illusions
5. Ossuarium - Living Tomb
6. Musmahhu - Reign of the Odious
7. Gatecreeper - Deserrted
8. VLTIMAS - Something Wicked This Way Comes

Black Metal:
1. Kaleikr - Heart of Lead
2. Misthyrming - Algleymi
3. Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark
4. False - Portent
5. Mgla - Age of Excuse
6. Kvelgeyst - Alkahest
7. Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling
8. Soen - Lotus
9. Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
10. Obsequiae - The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

Doom/Stoner/Sludge:
1. Asthma Castle - Mount Crushmore
2. Yatra - Death Ritual
3. Crypt Sermon - The Ruins of Fading Light
4. Magic Circle - Departed Souls
5. Troll - Legend Master
6. Torche - Admission
7. Lo-Pan - Subtle

Thrash:
1. High Command - Beyond the Wall f Desolation
2. Ravager - Thrashletics
3. Critical Defiance - Misconception
4. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion

Experimental/Prog:
1. Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA
2. Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
3. Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
4. Opeth - In Cauda Venenum
5. Tool - Fear Inoculum

Heavy Metal/Traditional/Power:
1. Atlantean Kodex - The Course of Empire
2. Spirit Adrift - Divided By Darkness
3. Haunt - If Icarus Could Fly
4. Smoulder - Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
5. Gygax - High Fantasy

Core/Core Heavy Hybrids:
1. Noisem - Cease to Exist
2. Full of Hell - Weeping Choir
3. Misery Index - Rituals of Power
4. Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent
5. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue

Holy shit @Goatfish... I got some homework to do I guess...

Forgot a bunch, lost a few, but the ones immediately that need to be mentioned are Cattle Decapitation, Calyx, Schammasch and Vukari. I'll stop spamming you now ;-). Tell me which above resonate and I can provide a lot more in that vein.

@Goatfish - 2 tracks into Asthma Castle, and this is my jam! Might have to smash that entire Doom/Sludge/Stoner section...

I wasn't lying. Goat is the metal escort. So much knowledge.

Looks like I've got a few new albums to check out. Thanks @Goatfish