SPIN's 20 Best Metal Albums of 2015

Continuing the domination of last year's hellish hopscotch between anarchy and orthodoxy, fortune — for 2015's best metal acts — has once again favored

Published: December 14, 2015 15:58 Source

# 1

New Bermuda by Deafheaven

Album • Oct 02 / 2015 Atmospheric Black Metal Blackgaze

# 2

Ygg Huur by Krallice

Album • Aug 06 / 2015 Black Metal Avant-Garde Metal

# 3

Four Phantoms by Bell Witch

Album • Apr 28 / 2015 Funeral Doom Metal

# 4

Anareta by Horrendous

Album • Oct 30 / 2015 Death Metal

# 5

Deeper Than Sky by VHOL

Album • Oct 23 / 2015 Heavy Metal Technical Thrash Metal

# 6

The Children of the Night by Tribulation

Album • Apr 21 / 2015 Gothic Metal Heavy Metal

# 7

Exercises in Futility by Mgła

Album • Sep 04 / 2015 Black Metal

# 8

Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated by The Body + Thou

Album • Jan 27 / 2015 Sludge Metal Doom Metal Drone Metal

# 9

Litany by Dead To A Dying World

Album • Oct 16 / 2015 Atmospheric Sludge Metal Post-Metal

# 10

Qliphoth by Cloud Rat

Album • May 29 / 2015 Grindcore

# 11

Aria of Vernal Tombs by Obsequiae

Album • May 26 / 2015 Melodic Black Metal Folk Metal

# 12

Luminiferous by High On Fire

Album • Jun 16 / 2015 Stoner Metal Sludge Metal

# 13

Restarter by Torche

Album • Feb 24 / 2015 Stoner Metal

# 14

M by Myrkur

Album • Aug 21 / 2015 Atmospheric Black Metal

# 16

All Fours by Bosse-de-Nage

Album • Apr 14 / 2015 Atmospheric Black Metal Post-Metal Black Metal

# 17

The Book of Souls by Iron Maiden

Album • Sep 04 / 2015 Heavy Metal

# 18

Revisionist by Sannhet

Album • Mar 03 / 2015 Post-Rock Post-Metal

# 19

Hole Below by Vastum

Album • Nov 03 / 2015 Death Metal