Kerrang!'s 50 Best Albums of 2019

We count down the 50 best rock and metal albums of 2019...

Published: December 31, 2019 12:00 Source

# 1

We Are Not Your Kind by Slipknot

Album • Aug 09 / 2019 Alternative Metal

# 2

Fear Inoculum by TOOL

Album • Aug 30 / 2019 Progressive Metal

# 3

amo by Bring Me The Horizon

Album • Jan 25 / 2019 Pop Rock Alternative Rock Electropop

# 4

Gold & Grey by Baroness

Album • Jun 14 / 2019 Stoner Rock Stoner Metal

# 5

A Different Shade of Blue by Knocked Loose

Album • Aug 23 / 2019 Metalcore

# 6

STRENGTH IN NUMB333RS by FEVER 333

Album • Jan 18 / 2019 Rap Metal Alternative Metal

# 7

Samsara by Venom Prison

Album • Mar 15 / 2019 Deathcore Death Metal

# 8

Rammstein by Rammstein

Album • May 17 / 2019 Neue Deutsche Härte

# 9

Almost Free by FIDLAR

Album • Jan 25 / 2019 Alternative Rock Garage Rock

# 10

Eternal Forward Motion by Employed To Serve

Album • May 10 / 2019 Metalcore

# 11

Hello Exile by The Menzingers

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Pop Punk

# 12

Berkeley's On Fire by SWMRS

Album • Feb 15 / 2019 Alternative Rock

# 13

Surviving by Jimmy Eat World

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Alternative Rock Power Pop

# 14

The Nothing by Korn

Album • Sep 13 / 2019 Nu Metal

# 15

End of Suffering by Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes

Album • May 03 / 2019 Alternative Rock Indie Rock

# 16

Amyl and The Sniffers by Amyl and The Sniffers

Album • May 24 / 2019 Garage Punk Punk Rock

# 17

Spiritual Instinct by Alcest

Album • Oct 25 / 2019 Post-Metal Blackgaze

# 18

Barriers by Frank Iero and The Future Violents

Album • May 31 / 2019 Alternative Rock Post-Hardcore

# 19

FANDOM by Waterparks

Album • Oct 11 / 2019 Pop Rock

# 20

An Obelisk by Titus Andronicus

Album • Jun 21 / 2019 Punk Rock Indie Rock

# 21

Birth of Violence by Chelsea Wolfe

Album • Sep 13 / 2019 Singer-Songwriter Gothic Country Dark Folk

# 22

Morbid Stuff by PUP

Album • Apr 05 / 2019 Pop Punk

# 23

SO WHAT? by While She Sleeps

Album • Mar 01 / 2019 Alternative Metal Melodic Metalcore

# 24

How Do You Love? by The Regrettes

Album • Aug 09 / 2019 Indie Rock Pop Rock

# 25

War Music by Refused

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Post-Hardcore

# 26

Primrose Path by Dream State

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Post-Hardcore

# 27

Cut & Stitch by Petrol Girls

Album • May 24 / 2019 Post-Hardcore

# 28

METAL GALAXY by BABYMETAL

Album • Oct 08 / 2019 Alternative Metal Trance Metal

# 29

CALIGULA by Lingua Ignota

Album • Jul 19 / 2019 Death Industrial

# 30

Celebrity Mansions by Dinosaur Pile-Up

Album • Jun 07 / 2019 Post-Grunge Alternative Rock

# 31

Order in Decline by Sum 41

Album • Jul 19 / 2019 Melodic Hardcore

# 32

NINE by blink-182

Album • Sep 20 / 2019 Pop Rock Alternative Rock

# 33

High Crimes by The Damned Things

Album • Apr 26 / 2019 Hard Rock

# 34

This is Not the End by Spielbergs

Album • Feb 01 / 2019 Indie Rock Noise Pop

# 35

F & M by Lindemann

Album • Nov 22 / 2019 Neue Deutsche Härte Industrial Metal

# 36

In the Spirit World Now by Ceremony

Album • Aug 23 / 2019 Post-Punk New Wave

# 37

American Football by American Football

Album • Jan 01 / 1999 Midwest Emo

# 38

Internal Atomics by Stray from the Path

Album • Nov 01 / 2019 Metalcore Rap Metal

# 39

Life Metal by sunn O)))

Album • Apr 26 / 2019 Drone Metal

# 40

Don't Wait 'Til Tomorrow by Yonaka

Album • May 31 / 2019 Alternative Rock Pop Rock

# 41

Atonement by Killswitch Engage

Album • Aug 16 / 2019 Melodic Metalcore

# 42

Valediction by Gost

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Darkwave Darksynth

# 43

A Dawn to Fear by Cult Of Luna

Album • Sep 20 / 2019 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Post-Metal

# 44

TRAUMA by I Prevail

Album • Mar 29 / 2019 Alternative Metal Trancecore Nu Metal

# 45

Behold Sedition Plainsong by Dawn Ray'd

Album • Oct 25 / 2019 Black Metal

# 46

Deserted by Gatecreeper

Album • Oct 04 / 2019 Death Metal

# 47

Kind Heaven by Perry Farrell

Album • Jun 07 / 2019 Alternative Rock

# 48

Wasted Energy by Press Club

Album • Aug 16 / 2019 Indie Rock Punk Rock

# 49

The Language of Injury by Ithaca

Album • Feb 01 / 2019 Metalcore Mathcore

# 50

Admission by Torche

Album • Jul 12 / 2019 Stoner Metal