Pitchfork's Best Metal Albums of 2019

From the return of Sunn O))) to Blood Incantation’s death-metal space odysseys to anarcha-feminists Ragana, these are the metal records we loved this year.

Published: December 18, 2019 14:00 Source

# 1

Hidden History of the Human Race by Blood Incantation

Album • Nov 22 / 2019 Death Metal Progressive Metal

# 2

The Door to Doom by Candlemass

Album • Feb 22 / 2019 Epic Doom Metal Doom Metal

# 3

Pollinator by Cloud Rat

Album • Sep 13 / 2019 Grindcore

# 4

The Ruins of Fading Light by Crypt Sermon

Album • Sep 13 / 2019 Epic Doom Metal Traditional Doom Metal

# 5

Behold Sedition Plainsong by Dawn Ray'd

Album • Oct 25 / 2019 Black Metal

# 6

Sulphur English by Inter Arma

Album • Apr 12 / 2019 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Death Doom Metal

# 7

Crux by Moon Tooth

Album • Mar 29 / 2019 Progressive Metal Alternative Metal

# 8

The Palms of Sorrowed Kings by Obsequiae

Album • Nov 22 / 2019 Melodic Black Metal Folk Metal

# 9

Posthumous Humiliation by Pissgrave

Album • Mar 01 / 2019 Death Metal

# 10

The Sadness of Time Passing by Profetus

Album • Nov 22 / 2019 Funeral Doom Metal

# 11

We Know That the Heavens Are Empty by Ragana

EP • Dec 21 / 2019 Sludge Metal

# 12

Life Metal by sunn O)))

Album • Apr 26 / 2019 Drone Metal

# 13

The Baneful Choir by Teitanblood

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Death Metal War Metal

# 14

Planetary Clairvoyance by Tomb Mold

Album • Jul 19 / 2019 Death Metal