Albums are much more calibrated, though I guarantee I'll decide before year's over that I'm vastly overrating some of these, since that's what always happens. I just don't know which ones yet. Also, I listen to way too much metal these days, thanks to my Rhapsody gig. Even stranger is how much I like so much of it.

1. Dev – The Night The Sun Came Up (Universal Republic)
2. Angel Witch – As Above, So Below (Rise Above)
3. Elfin Saddle – Devastates (Constellation)
4. 45 Grave – Pick Your Poison (Frontier)
5. Thunderkraft – Totentanz (Svarga)
6. Bushman’s Revenge – A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (Rune Grammofon)
7. Jerrod Niemann – Free The Music (Sea Gayle/Arista Nashville)
8. Mekong Delta – Intersections (Steamhammer)
9. 3 Inches Of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media)
10. Bible Of The Devil – For The Love Of Thugs & Fools (Cruz Del Sur)
11. Tim Berne – Snakeoil (ECM)
12. Christian Mistress – Possession (Relapse)
13. Pharaoh – Bury The Light (Cruz Del Sur)
14. The Shrine - Primitive Blast (Tee Pee)
15. Thomas Rhett – Thomas Rhett EP (The Valory Music Co. EP)
16. Bullet – Full Pull (Nuclear Blast)
17. Kix Brooks – New To This Town (Arista Nashville)
18. Mark Stewart – The Politics Of Envy (Future Noise Music Inc.)
19. Amy Gore & Her Valentines – Amy Gore & Her Valentines (Space Lion)
20. Larman Clamor – Frogs (Small Stone)
21. Saint Vitus – Lillie: F-65 (Seson Of Mist)
22. Grand Magus – The Hunt (Nuclear Blast)
23. Royal Thunder – CVI (Relapse)
24. El Doom & The Born Electric – El Doom & The Born Electric (Rune Grammofon)
25. E.via – E.viagradation Part 1: Black and Red (Dline Art Media Korea EP)
26. Goat – World Music (Rocket)
27. Abrahma – Through The Dusty Paths Of Our Lives (Small Stone)
28. Èva Polgár and Sádor Vály – Mondrian Variations: Piano And Samplerworks (Ektro)
29. Black Music Disaster – Black Music Disaster (Thirsty Ear)
30. Azaelia Banks – 1991 (Interscope EP)
31. Timmy’s Organism – Raw Sewage ROQ (In The Red)
32. Mary Halvorson/Weasel Walter/Peter Evans – Mechanical Malfunction (Thirsty Ear)
33. The Sword – Apocryphon (Razor & Tie)
34. King Mob – Force 9 (King Mob)
35. Bhi Bhiman – Bhiman (Boocoo Music)
36. Altar Of Oblivion – Grand Gesture Of Defiance (Shadow Kingdom)
37. Hellwell – Beyond The Boundardies Of Sin (Shadow Kingdom)
38. Lord Fowl – Moon Queen (Small Stone)
39. Skånska Mord – Paths To Charon (Small Stone)
40. Darrell Scott – Long Way Home (Thirty Tigers/Full Light)