Consequence of Sound's Top 25 Metal & Hard Rock Albums of 2018

The Heavy Consequence staff selects the best metal and hard rock albums from an eclectic year of heavy music.

Published: December 05, 2018 20:30 Source

# 1
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Doom Metal
# 2
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Black Metal Death Metal
# 3
Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Blackgaze Post-Metal
# 4
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock
# 5
Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Heavy Metal
# 6
Album • Apr 20 / 2018 Stoner Metal Doom Metal
# 7
Album • Feb 23 / 2018 Hardcore Punk New York Hardcore
# 8
Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Progressive Metal
# 9
Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Metalcore Mathcore
# 10
Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Hard Rock
# 11
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Avant-Garde Metal Spirituals
# 12
Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Doom Metal Epic Doom Metal
# 13
Album • Apr 20 / 2018 Alternative Rock
# 14
Album • Oct 19 / 2018 Gothic Country Singer-Songwriter
# 15
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Gothic Metal Heavy Metal
# 16
Album • Jul 27 / 2018 Hard Rock
# 17
Album • Mar 16 / 2018 Technical Death Metal Death Metal
# 18
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Doom Metal
# 19
Album • Nov 09 / 2018 Sludge Metal Mathcore
# 20
Album • Oct 05 / 2018 Sludge Metal Stoner Metal
# 21
Album • Mar 09 / 2018 Industrial Metal
# 22
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Death Metal
# 23
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Hard Rock Stoner Rock
# 24
Ion by Portal
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal
# 25
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Metalcore