
The best, the tops, “the cream of the crop”, here are the Hated One Metal Reviews & Interviews “Best Fifty Albums of 2019”!
Consisting of genres, subgenres, and nations from across the metal universe, these fifty stellar offerings represent some of the finest metal released from January 1st to December 31st of this year. While it is impossible to hear every album released, this list is handpicked from well over two-thousand albums that were heard or sampled by Hated One Metal Reviews & Interviews in 2019!
So, without further ado, enjoy the list, and don’t forget, every band’s name is a link to music from the album, so if you’re not familiar or are curious, just click and listen! Here’s wishing all of you out there a very Happy New Year! \m/

#1. CATTLE DECAPITATION – Death Atlas (Metal Blade Records; Extreme Melodic Death; San Diego, California, USA)

#2. OBSEQUIAE – The Palms of Sorrowed Kings (20 Buck Spin; Atmospheric/Medieval Black; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

#3. VUKARI – Aevum (Vendetta Records; Atmospheric Black; Chicago, Illinois, USA)

#4. FAÇADE – The Eternal Dance (Independent; Doom/Post; Dordrecht, Netherlands, EUR)

#5. BEWITCHER – Under the Witching Cross (Shadow Kingdom Records; Blackened Thrash; Portland, Oregon, USA)

#6. IAPETUS – The Body Cosmic (Independent; Progressive/Melodic Death; Long Island, New York, USA)

#7. CRUSADIST – The Unholy Grail (Independent; Melodic Death; Chicago, Illinois, USA)

#8. EARTH AND PILLARS – Earth II (Avantgarde Music; Atmospheric Black; Italy, EUR)

#9. HELLEBORUS – Saprophytic Divinations (Redefining Darkness Records; Melodic Black; Manitou Springs, Colorado, USA)

#10. FROSTHELM – Pyrrhic (Revenger Records; Blackened Thrash; Minot, North Dakota, USA)
11. Pinewalker – Migration (Independent; Stoner/Sludge; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
12. Eluveitie – Ategnatos (Nuclear Blast; Folk Metal; Zürich, Switzerland, EUR)
13. Immortal Bird – Thrive on Neglect (20 Buck Spin; Blackened Sludge; Chicago, Illinois, USA)
14. Sadistic Ritual – Visionaire of Death (Unspeakable Axe Records; Blackened Thrash; Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
15. Warsenal – Feast Your Eyes (Svart Records; Thrash/Speed; Montreal, Quebec, CAN)
16. Warforged – I: Voice (The Artisan Era; Progressive/Blackened Death; Chicago, Illinois, USA)
17. Candlemass – The Door to Doom (Napalm Records; Classic Doom; Stockholm, Sweden, EUR)
18. Taiwaz – The Uninvited Guest (Psykofarmaka Records; Classic Doom; Uppsala, Sweden, EUR)
19. Asagraum – Dawn of Infinite Fire (Edged Circle Productions; Modern Black; Netherlands, EUR)
20. Abnormality – Sociopathic Constructs (Metal Blade Records; Technical Death; Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA)
21. Death Angel – Humanicide (Nuclear Blast; Classic Thrash; San Francisco, California, USA)
22. Raptvre – Monuments of Bitterness (Independent; Modern Black/Blackened Death; Cologne, Germany, EUR)
23. Skeletal Prison – Condemned to Flesh (Independent; Deathrash; Rockford, Illinois, USA)
24. Rhodium – Sea of the Dead (Sliptrick Records; Progressive Power Metal; Athens, Greece, EUR)
25. Casket Huffer – Filth Oroborus (Hibernation Release Records; Extreme Blackened Death; Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA)
26. Mist of Misery – Unalterable (Black Lion Records; Melodic Black; Stockholm, Sweden, EUR)
27. Karmatik – Unlimited Energy (Independent; Progressive Death; Quebec City, Quebec, CAN)
28. Singularity – Place of Chains (The Artisan Era; Symphonic Death; Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
29. Canyon of the Skull – Sins of the Past (Independent; Instrumental Doom; Chicago, Illinois, USA)
30. Exumer – Hostile Defiance (Metal Blade Records; Classic Thrash; Frankfurt, Germany, EUR)
31. Abominism – Abominism (Independent; Extreme Blackened Death; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
32. Unfathomable Ruination – Enraged and Unbound (Willowtip Records; Technical Death; London, United Kingdom, EUR)
33. Tragediens Trone – Tragediens Trone (Osmose Productions; Modern Black; Brekstad, Norway, EUR)
34. White Ward – Love Exchange Failure (Debemur Morti Productions; Atmospheric/Ambient Black; Odessa, Ukraine, EUR)
35. Gohrgone – In Oculis (Independent; Blackened Death; Paris, France, EUR)
36. Wells Valley – Reconcile the Antimony (Black Lion Records; Blackened Sludge/Doom; Portland, Oregon, EUR)
37. Bleeding Utopia – Where the Light Comes to Die (Black Lion Records; Melodic Death; Västerås, Sweden, EUR)
38. Spirit Adrift – Divided by Darkness (20 Buck Spin; Stoner/Sludge; Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
39. Black Sites – Exile (Hoove Child Records; Progressive Metal; Chicago, Illinois, USA)
40. Mortiferum – Disgorged from Psychotic Depths (Profound Lore Records; Blackened Doom n’ Death; Olympia, Washington, USA)
41. Goatess – Blood & Wine (Svart Records; Stoner/Doom; Stockholm, Sweden, EUR)
42. The Bleeding – Morbid Prophecy (World War Now Records; Classic Death; London, United Kingdom, EUR)
43. Cell – Ancient Incantations of Xarbos (Independent; “Cosmic Black Metal”; Winnipeg, Manitoba, CAN)
44. Nefarious Dusk – The Wanderer of the Cold North (Purity Through Fire; Modern Black; Cumbria, United Kingdom, EUR)
45. Equipoise – Demiurgus (The Artisan Era; Technical Death; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
46. Inter Arma – Sulphur English (Relapse Records; Blackened Sludge; Richmond, Virginia, USA)
47. Deivos – Casus Belli (Selfmadegod Records; Technical Death; Lublin, Poland, EUR)
48. Sleeping Ancient – There is No Truth but Death (Viridian Flame Records; Atmospheric Black; Houston, Texas, USA)
49. Depressed – Beyond the Putrid Fiction (Black Lion Records; Classic/Melodic Death; Sao Paulo, Brazil, SA)
50. Wraith – Absolute Power (Redefining Darkness Records; Thrash/Speed; Northwest Indiana, USA)