
But they aren’t Ghost, Judas Priest and Machine Head, like last year. Tool comes to mind, and maybe Opeth and Devin Townsend. What is also remarkable is this year there weren’t really a lot of disruptive ‘big’ bands to slurp up a lot of votes just by being big and famous. Not everyone loved the new Tool, but the ones who do, really love it. Lingua Ignota, Spirit Adrift, Inter Arma, Cult of Luna, Obsequiae, Crypt Sermon and Darkthrone all were on more lists, just with less points. Tool are the least-mentioned top-ten band with just 18 lists. Devin Townsend’s Empath on the other hand is at #7 (109 points) with no less than six number one positions - just as many as Blood Incantation, but with just twenty mentions in total. A lot of publications apparently think it’s a great record, just not the best of the year. Remarkably enough Blut Aus Nord got so high while not making a single number one spot on any end of the year list. I actually had a version of this piece with Opeth at second place for a long time. The battle between those two was tight as a duck's behind: only one point difference. I've counted 778 records in total.īlood Incantation were put on 49 lists and that’s a lot: runner-up Blut Aus Nord were on 31 lists, and Opeth on 30. Blood Incantation follows in the footsteps of Yob (2018), Converge (2017) and Vektor (2016). Sweden’s Opeth got 138 points with their bilingual, heavy prog album In Cauda Venenum and make it to place #3. Number #2, French’s Blut Aus Nord, follow at a distance, with 139 points for their trippy Hallucinogen. The death metal foursome from Denver, Colorado already landed their saucer on a third place in 2016 with their Starspawn, but this year’s sophomore record really didn’t have competition with 249 points. That’s the result of analyzing 117 end of the year lists by 32 international critics, magazines, blogs and other publications.
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