MY TOP 20 FOR OCTOBER 2019

Another excellent month for metal music, full of new releases. It was a busy month for me but somehow I managed to get familiar with most of the new albums. Naturally, the heavy devastating tunes prevail on my list - so another 20 to consider for the AOTY list. Let's go, in no particular order.


ALCEST - Spiritual Instinct
Release Date: 25 October

The glorious new album by the duo. Always on the edge between mesmerizing black, shoegaze, and sadness...



TEITANBLOOD - The Baneful Choir
Release Date: 18 October

This is how the HELL sounds and makes you feel.


MAYHEM - Daemon
Release Date: 25 October

The best Mayhem record after DMDS.  This is how Mayhem should have sounded through all these years!


VACIVUS - Annihilism
Release Date: 25 October

Heavy AF death metal. Top-notch ranking along with the finest from the contemporary in the genre for 2019.



VASTUM - Official Purge
Release Date: 25 October

One of those DM releases of the year...

AEGRUS - In Manus Satanas
Release Date: 1 October

Misanthropic, cold, hateful, Aegrus are delivering again great Finish BM!
INSOMNIUM - Heart Like A Grave
Release Date: 4 October

I didn't believe Insomnium would release so good album. Yes, I'm not a big fan of theirs, especially after seeing them live in 2018. However, this new record is excellent!
GATECREEPER - Deserted
Release Date: 4 October

Entombed meets Dismember in 2019.

1349 - The Infernal Pathway
Release Date: 18 October

1349 as we all love them. I got what I expected. Absolute FIRE!
ECTOPLASMA - White-Eyed Trance
Release Date: 31 October

Ectoplasma did it again. After their fantastic 2018 release, now comes "White-Eyed Trance", creating an OSDM benchmark again. My review for Blessed Altar Zine here.
VULTUR - Drowned in Gangrenous Blood
Release Date: 31 October

Superb rotting OSDM. My review for Blessed Altar Zine here.


IN MOURNING - Garden of Storms
Release Date: 4 October

Very enjoyable melodic death metal by the Germans.




KONKHRA - Alpha and the Omega
Release Date: 18 October

I never thought Konkhra will return that strong.




VUKARI - Aevum
Release Date: 1 October

Hell of atmospheric black metal. Great stuff.


XOTH - Interdimensional Invocations
Release Date: 18 October

Technical, melodic, enjoyable



PROFANE ORDER - Slave Morality
Release Date: 18 October

Brutal, bestial, suffocating.
DJEVEL - Ormer Til Armer, Maane Til Hode
Release Date: 18 October

Trve Norwegian Black Fukin' Metal!



THE GREAT OLD ONES - Cosmicism
Release Date: 25 October 

Cosmic ride. Stellar.




CLERIC - Serpent Psalms
Release Date: 25 October

OSDM of high quality. This is just crushing as in the good old times!


VERHEERER - Monolith
Release Date: 1 October

Initially, I wasn't much impressed. Then I was hit. It's not inventing the wheel, and behind the simplicity and the primordiality, a great feeling lies.







Honorable mentions? There could be some. However, the list is long enough. I definitely skipped some albums, expected to be in such lists by many. These albums just didn't convince me. Let me know your thoughts and your October choices. Cheers!


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