PopMatters' Best Metal Albums of 2018

Amidst all the global socio-political unrest and the personal trials of 2018, metal has had a noticeably strong and positive year in terms of the albums...

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# 1
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Doom Metal
# 2
Album • Sep 21 / 2018 Atmospheric Sludge Metal
# 3
Album • Mar 23 / 2018 Funeral Doom Metal
# 4
Album • Mar 02 / 2018 Death Metal Progressive Metal
# 5
Album • Jun 08 / 2018 Death Metal
# 6
Album • Apr 20 / 2018 Stoner Metal Doom Metal
# 7
Album • Feb 15 / 2018 Avant-Garde Metal Death Metal
# 8
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Progressive Metal
# 9
Album • Apr 27 / 2018 Stoner Metal Progressive Rock
# 10
Album • Sep 07 / 2018 Metalcore
# 11
Album • Sep 28 / 2018 Progressive Metal Death Metal
# 12
Album • Jul 13 / 2018 Avant-Garde Metal Black Metal Dissonant Death Metal
# 13
Album • Oct 26 / 2018 Noise Rock Industrial Rock
# 14
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Gothic Metal Heavy Metal
# 15
Album • Jun 01 / 2018 Hard Rock
# 16
Ion by Portal
Album • Jan 26 / 2018 Technical Death Metal Dissonant Death Metal
# 17
Album • Mar 16 / 2018 Hardcore Punk
# 18
Album • Jul 20 / 2018 Melodic Black Metal
# 19
Magus by Thou
Album • Aug 31 / 2018 Doom Metal Sludge Metal
# 20
Album • Jun 22 / 2018 Metalcore Mathcore