Nick's Top Albums Of 2015

In no particular order, here are my top 25 albums of the year.

#1 Iwrestledabearonce - Hail Mary

 

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#2 The Afterimage - Lumiere - EP

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 #3 Born Of Osiris - Soul Sphere

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#4 Castiel - Exitium - EP

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#5 Currents - Life // Lost

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#6  Dawn Of Leviathan - Emergence - EP

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 #7 Enterprise Earth - Patient 0

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#8  Entities - Novalis

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#9 A Legacy Unwritten - Vanitati Mortem

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#10 Nemertines - Bird Murder

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#11 A New Heaven Arise - White Cave - EP

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#12 Novelists - Souvenirs

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#13 Oceano - Ascendants

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#14 Prime Meridian - Prime Meridian

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#15 Sirens - Surge

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#16 Stand Alone Complex - Dreamstate - EP

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#17 Superior - (Sad) Earth

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#18 Traitors - The Hate Campaign

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#19 Vitalism - Causa - EP

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 #20 Wage War - Blueprints

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#21 xKingx - The Gathering

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#22 Slaughter To Prevail

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#23 A Wake In Providence - Insidious

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#24 Make Them Suffer - Old Souls

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#25 Keepsake - Suspended In Obscurity - EP

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Traitors - Night Terrors - EP (2015)

 Artist: Traitors

Album: Night Terrors - EP

Genre: Deathcore/Beatdown

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps 

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Tracklist:
1. Phantasm
2. Intruder
3. Cold
4. Dead in the Head
5. Sleep Disorder
6. Burnout (feat. Trevor Strnad of The Black Dahlia Murder)

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Already a new Traitors EP and its just as heavy as you would expect. Check it out!

211 - Debut - EP (2015)

 

Artist: 211

Album: Debut - EP

Genre: Deathcore/Metalcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Isolation
2. Silence In The Sky
3. Hollow
4. Shallow Grave

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This is a pretty cool album, lots of grooves and some sick breakdowns. This album had me headbanging all the way through, looking forward to more new material from these guys. Check them out!

Inminente Destruccion - Live Session (2015)

 

Artist: Inminente Destruccion

Album: Live Session

Genre: Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Distopía
2. Tiempos de Inercia
3. Sin Miedo A Sangrar
4. Entre Cenizas

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This ep is pretty fucking brutal. Lots of blast beats and some sick vocals along with the occasional but brutal breakdown. Check them out! 

Internal Nightmare - The Great Manipulator - Single (2015)

 

Artist: Internal Nightmare

Album: The Great Manipulator - Single

Genre: Death Metal

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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1. The Great Manipulator

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This is a pretty sick new single from these guys. Lots of blast beats and brutal vocals and just a straight up headbanger. They also have an ep and a full length album available on bandcamp. Check it out! 

Grind Of The Dead - Pussy Jamz (2015)

 

Artist: Grind Of The Dead

Album: Pussy Jamz

Genre: Grindcore/Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Welcum To Pussy Jamz
2. Ernest Saves The Day
3. Bitch, You Done Lost Your Mind
4. #thestruggleisntrealifyouhaveaniphoneyoufirstworldprivelagedfaggot
5. Close Your Eyes And Open Your Mouth, I Got A Surprise For You
6. From One Butthole To Another
7. Fingerpainting With Feces

 8. Sluts Fluts//Fuck Sluts

9. Burn The Bible, Piss Out The Fire

10. White Trash Holocaust

11. Do You Swallow? Because The Last two Bitches Said They Did And They Lied

12. You Honor Student Will Be Dead In 5 Years From A Heroin Overdose

 13. This Is Not The Title Of This Song

14. This Is

15. Where'd You Learn To Drive, The Driving School For Women?

16. ¡Whoop-De-Fucking-Do!

17. I Don't Care What Happens In The World Unless It Involves Me 

18. Juicy Milf Pussy 

19. Pigs Roam Free In Ferguson

20. Poor Koro 

21. Unfuckingsatisfied 

22. Shut Up Before I Fuck You In Your Pumpkin Spice 

23. If God Hates Fags, He Must Hate Himself The Most 

24. Lesbian Abortion Party

25. Kill Kanye West

26. Your Dick Reminds Me Of A Sad Frightened Turtle 

27. Anal Persuasion

28. Nice Earrings You Fucking Trashbag

29. Wanna Go Behind The Dumpster And Get Fuckin' Real?

30. 1980's Coke Habit 

31. Ratchet Bitch Rollcall 

32. Call Me Bae One More Time And You'll Be Dead Before Anyone Else 

33. Maximum Ennui 

34. Caught Between A Dick And A Hard Place 

35. Meth Mouth Rot 

36. Grindcore Doesn't Suck, Sonic Youth Does 

37. Die Hipster Die 

38. Cunt City//America Is Dead 

39. Pizza Pussy Party

40. Remember, The Universe Is Infinite And You Mean Absolutely Nothing

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This album is the definition of a grindcore album. Tons of short songs and some random longer ones. There's lots of cool bits in here and some funny/savage short skits as well. This album is definitely a headbanger pretty much all the way through, check them out!

Purge - Conjure The Dead EP (2015)

Artist: Purge

Album: Conjure The Dead EP

Genre: Deathcore/Down-Tempo/Beatdown

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Serpent

2. Worthless

3. Bringer Of Death

4. Animosity

5. Entities (feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher & Jordan LeGore of xKINGx)

6. Malice

7. III Faith (feat. Davis Rider of Immoralist)

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Heavy af, tons of breakdowns, cool feats and fat riffs.

Feign - The New World Order (2015)

Artist: Feign

Album: The New World Order

Genre: Deathcore/Down-Tempo

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Hatriotism

2. Untouchable

3. Fall Behind

4. Intent

5. The New World Order (ft. Dan Watson & Jim Martin)

6. Exile

7. Neverest

8. Quatered

9. Decay

10. The Less Fortunate

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Fuck yeah!!!!

This record puts to shame the whole down-tempo scene.

Too stoked.

Grab it while it's hot!!!

Dawn Of Leviathan - Emergence EP (2015)

Artist: Dawn Of Leviathan

Album: Emergence EP

Genre: Progressive Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Enervate

2. A Place Far Beyond

3. Emergence

4. Flux

5. Hollowed

6. Adrift With Knowledge

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Drag The Lake - Live Together - Die Alone EP (2015)

Artist: Drag The Lake

Album: Live Together - Die Alone EP

Genre: Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Disgust

2. 314

3. Carcossa

4. Forked Tongues (ft. Alexander Leech)

5. Dead Friends

6. Judgement

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NovaThrone - Revenants EP (2015)

Artist: NovaThrone

Album: Revenants EP

Genre: Progressive/Technical Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. The Charlatan's Mirror

2. Hands Of Gaia

3. The Elder Grave

4. Triplanetary Alignment

5. The Black Mass Monastry

6. Hollow Sea

7. Voyager

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Enterprise Earth - Patient 0 (2015)

Artist: Enterprise Earth

Album: Patient 0

Genre: Progressive Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Shallow Breath

2. Theophany

3. Hollow Face

4. Amid Vultures

5. Procelain Whore (ft. Dickie Allen)

6. Kiss Of The Recluse (ft. Orion Stephens of In Dying Moments)

7. Sus Cibum

8. Transorbital Awakening (ft. Joel Omans)

9. Patient Zero

10. Amorphous (ft. Adam Warren of Oceano)

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xKINGx - The Gathering (2015)

Artist: xKINGx

Album: The Gathering

Genre: Deathcore/Down-Tempo/Beatdown/Atmospheric/Ambient
Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Lifeless

2. Feign [Feat. Devin Sockwell of Feign]

3. Deliver Us From Evil [Feat. Julian Kersey of Aegaeon]

4. Flesh Wounds [Feat. Nick Arthur of Molotov Solution]

5. Deceiver [Feat. Anthony Alexander of REX]
6. Dead Remission [Feat. Davis Rider of Immoralist]
7. Contaminated [Feat. Denis Shalnykh of Shivers]
8. Reckoning [Feat. Kyle Medina of Bodysnatcher]
9. Deranged Diagnosis [Feat. Mitch Howie of The Dialectic]
10. The Collector [Feat. Adam Warren of Oceano]
11. Genocide [Feat. Aiden Versteegh of Falsifier]
12. Foul Cleansing [Feat. Jamie Hanks of I Declare War]
13. Conclusion [Feat. Dickie Allen, Dustin Mitchell of Filth and Justin Wilson of Invoker]

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This is a brutal hour long beatdown album featuring tons of amazing artists, it has tons of eery atmosphere, brutal breakdowns and filthy vocals. This is a must listen for beatdown fans!

Spite - Self-Titled (2015)

Artist: Spite

Album: Self-Titled

Genre: Deathcore/Down-Tempo/Nu Metal

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist;

1. The Black

2. Morning String

3. Leeches

4. Death Sentence

5. Snap

6. Intruder

7. Night Tremors

8. Digging Pt. 1

9. Digging Pt. 2

10. Outsiders

11. Free For All

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Lorna Shore - The Absolution Of Hatred [Single] (2015)

Artist: Lorna Shore
Album: Single 2015
Genre: Progressive/Blackened Deathcore
Bit Rate; 228 kbps
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Tracklist:
1. The Absolution Of Hatred

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Sentenced - Drowned By Blood EP (2015)

Artist: Sentenced

Album: Drowned By Blood EP

Genre: Slamming Beatdown/Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Exordium Mortem

2. Hellbound (Featuring Jason Evans of Ingested)

3. Putrefaction (Featuring Alex Taylor of Malevolence)

4. Infinite Pain

5. Led To Sin

6. Bloodstained Butchery

7. Drowned By Blood

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Impaler - Foul Ignorance EP

Artist: Impaler

Album: Foul Ignorance EP

Genre: Beatdown/Deathcore/Hardcore

Bit Rate: 128 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Welcome

2. Look Hood

3. You Know Ft. Rhys Gahan (Dropbears)

4. Foul Ignorance

5. Kill Bill Ft. Caluum McGivern (Sanctions)

6. Disposapien

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This is so mad man!

It combines all this nasty things every heavy band should have,

slams, breakdowns, beatdown moshing, cool feats.

Everything!

Lordis - Thin Line EP (2015)

Artist: Lordis

Album: Thin Line EP

Genre: Nu Metalcore/Down-Tempo/Hardcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Grave (feat. Devin McGillivray of Yueth Forever)

2. The Dull End

3. Hangman

4. Identity Issue

5. Thin Line

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Full EP Stream (YouTube)

Thirteen Bled Promises - The Black Legend (2015)

Artist: Thirteen Bled Promises

Album: The Black Legend

Genre: Brutal Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. The Irrevocable Judgement Of The Inner World

2. Species Landfill

3. Sons Of The Northward Clash

4. Year 666 (The First Arrival)

5. A Fully Stabbed Face

6. Beeldenstorm

7. Cosmic Depletion

8. Biblephagy Slender Phytobezoars

9. Death Of An Alien

10. The Day After Roswell

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Nailgun - Sick/Tired EP (2015)

Artist: Nailgun

Album: Sick/Tired EP

Genre: Deathcore/Beatdown/Hardcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Sick

2. Silence (feat. Nathan Zorn)

3. Replaced (feat. Keon Zuckewich)

4. Scared (feat. Jake Kerr)

5. Burden

6. Tired

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Another heavy hitter for today guys.

This time hailing from Canada.

Timeless Wounds - Cultus Profanum Sordes EP (2015)

Artist: Timeless Wounds

Album: Cultus Profanum Sordes EP

Genre: Beatdown/Deathcore

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Beheaded

3. Indominus

4. I, Putrid

5. Sovereign

6. Altars Of Rust

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This slams so hard that I was forced to change my pants =)

Respect to Bulgaria for birthing such a juggernaut.

Grab it while it's hot

Messenger Of The Covenant - We Demolish EP (2012)

Artist: Messenger Of The Covenant

Album: We Demolish EP

Genre: Deathcore/Beatdown

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Oppression

2. We Demolish

3. Rats Among Kings

4. xWolfe Manorx

5. The Condult Is Closing

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Year Of Loss - Self Titled - EP (2015)

 Artist: Year Of Loss

Album: Self Titled - EP

Genre: Melodic Metalcore/Hardcore 

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:

1. Forgetting The World Forgotten

2. A Monumental Disappointment

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This is a cool project from a bunch of dudes from various bands. It has lots of hardcore elements and some cool melodies. They also have some melodies that create a cool atmosphere to it all. Check it out!

Jenovavirus - Demo #1 (2006)

 Artist: Jenovavirus

Album: Demo #1

Genre: Brutal Death Metal/Grind

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Hexevildom
2. Deviding Cel
3. Primetive Aboxy
4. Scimetar
5. Sex Eyes Baby
6. Wring A Deep Brain

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This album is too brutal, tons of blast beats and some crazy vocals lots of which sound quite unique. Sadly this is their first and only demo but definitely worth checking out!

Veiyadra - Gehenna (2014)

 Artist: Veiyadra

Album: Gehenna

Genre: Slamming Brutal Death Metal

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Spiritual Chaos  2. Diabolical Aberration  3. Xeno Spawn  4. Remorseless Divinity  5. Cataclysmal World  6. Cacodemonic Perdition  7. Ebon Origin  8. Bones of Misery  9. The Defiling  10. Pulverizer  11. Absorb the Agonal  12. Dysgenic Enmity    Download   Bandcamp (1200 yen/$10USD)
 This album is brutal as fuck, tons of blast beats and brutal slam riffs. The vocals in this album are just ridiculous. Check them out 

Novallo - Novallo II (2015)

 Artist: Novallo

Album: Novallo II

Genre: Progressive/Experimental Metal/Mathcore/Djent

Bit Rate: 320 Kbps

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Tracklist:
1. Wake
2. Betty Phage Goes To Bronxton
3. I AM
4. Sideways Bird
5. Give Gravity a Choice
6. White Phoenix
7. Sleep

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These guys have a wide variety of genres mixed into this album. There are several progressive elements as well as some ambiance and jazz influences. There are lots of melodic/mathy parts as well. For fans of TesseracT, Protest The Hero, Between The Buried and Me and Periphery.