10. Aversions Crown: “With a thematic fixation on dystopian nightmares and hostile extraterrestrial encounters, the relentless barrage AVERSIONS CROWN churn out across these ten songs will soundtrack either a solid Halo session or the coming invasion.”
9. Wardruna: “Runaljod – Gap Var Ginnunga incorporates some of the oldest of Nordic instruments such as primitive deer-hide frame drums, kraviklyra, tagelharpe, mouth harp, goat horn and lur, poetic metres and lyrics written in Norwegian, Old Norse and Proto-Norse tongue.”
8. Ancient VVisdom: “Each hymn comprising Sacrificial is hummable and infectious.”
7. Malpractice: “The lyrical theme of the album is about a guy who is very well educated. In fact so educated and talented that he can’t land a job for himself due to over education,” collectively issued the members of MALPRACTICE. “He kind of falls in-between things and ends up in the suburbs unemployed and frustrated. He is ‘the best kept secret’ since no one wants to hire him. His life and sanity starts to fall apart due to his frustration and depression. He tries to fight the system but always ends up deeper and deeper in apathy. The story can be somewhat related to MALPRACTICE’s struggle to make it for two decades already. The question is: ‘Is the guy me? You? Or every one of us?'”
6. Posthum: “…The Black Northern Ritual is seven track, forty-minute offering of audio hate, acrimony and disease bedecked in a cold, callous atmosphere that’s difficult to dismiss.”
5. Der Blaue Reiter: “Following the release of their critically-lauded, Nuclear Sun long player, Barcelona-based neoclassical darkwave project, DER BLAUE REITER, returns from the pillars of oblivion with a new collection of mirthless hymns centered on post-apocalyptic desolation.”
4. Bloodtruth: “The ten tracks engulfing BLOODTRUTH’s Obedience tap into a wealth of unadulterated lyrical hatred released through incinerating waves of limb-removing, guttural metal.”
3. Crematory: “As homogeneous as the final result may sound, a great deal of concentration was invested throughout to produce the desired result.”
2. Omnihility: “Titled Deathscapes Of The Subconscious, the follow-up to their blistering Biogenesis debut, which Technicaldeathmetal.com dubbed, ‘top-notch techdeath,’and No Clean Singing christened, ‘a bruising, decimating, jolting, incinerating assault of brutal, dragstrip death metal,’was tracked by famed producer Zack Ohren (Animosity, Suffocation, All Shall Perish) at Castle Ultimate and flaunts nine tracks of meticulously arranged, surgically precise, extreme metal mastery fit for devout fans of Origin, Hate Eternal and Decrepit Birth.”
1. Einherjer: “EINHERJER’s derives comes from a spoken culture — a musical culture — and it is from the stage where it is most accurately conveyed.” 
