Ah, the end of the year. That special time where I compile the Metal Injection year-end list, feel pretty good about it, and then ultimately I hear something that lays everything else to waste like two months later. It is what it is.
Right now, these are the 25 top records we here at Metal Injection really, truly cannot tear ourselves away from this year.
No. 25: Lamp Of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy
No. 24: Havukruunu – Tavastland
No. 23: Primitive Man – Observance
No. 22: Testament – Para Bellum
No. 21: Blackbraid – Blackbraid III
No. 20: Obstruktion – The End Takes Form
No. 19: One of Nine – Dawn of the Iron Shadow
No. 18: Warbringer – Wrath And Ruin
No. 17: Spite – New World Killer
No. 16: Deftones – private music
No. 15: Coroner – Dissonance Theory
No. 14: Cryptopsy – An Insatiable Violence
No. 13: Gaahl’s Wyrd – Braiding The Stories
No. 12: Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution
No. 11: Revocation – New Gods, New Masters
No. 10: Igorrr – Amen
No. 9: Propagandhi – At Peace
No. 8: The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort
No. 7: Sangsuigabogg – Hideous Aftermath
No. 6: Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar
No. 5: Messa – The Spin
No. 4: Der Weg Einer Freiheit – Innern
No. 3: Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services
No. 2: Paradise Lost – Ascension
No. 1: Deafheaven – Lonely People with Power




























