Xephyr's AOTY 2019

2019 Album of the Year (1st Draft)

1.	Inter Arma – Sulphur English (Sludge Metal)
2.	Devin Townsend – Empath (Avant-Garde Metal)
3.	Wilderun – Veil of Imagination (Symphonic Folk Metal)
4.	Avantasia – Moonglow (Symphonic Metal)
5.	Cult of Luna – A Dawn to Fear (Atmospheric Sludge Metal)
6.	Funereal Presence – Achatius (Black Metal)
7.	Twilight Force – Dawn of the Dragonstar (Symphonic Power Metal)
8.	Runemagick – Into Desolate Realms (Death Doom Metal)
9.	Weeping Sores – False Confession (Progressive Death Doom Metal)
10.	Blood Incantation – Hidden History of the Human Race (Progressive Death Metal)

11.	Opeth – In Cauda Venenum (Progressive Rock)
12.	Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Yn Ol I Annwn (Stoner Sludge Metal)
13.	Serpent Column – Mirror In Darkness (Black Metal)
14.	Troll – Legend Master (Traditional Doom Metal)
15.	Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance (Death Metal)
16.	Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Divination (Folk Power Metal)
17.	Tool – Fear Inoculum (Progressive Metal)
18.	Esoteric – A Pyrrhic Existence (Funeral Doom Metal)
19.	Saor – Forgotten Paths (Folk Metal)
20.	Lord Vicar – The Black Powder (Doom Metal)

21.	Obsequiae – The Palms of Sorrowed Kings (Medieval Folk Black Metal)
22.	Insomnium – Heart Like A Grave (Progressive Death Metal)
23.	Deathspell Omega – The Furnaces of Palingenesia (Progressive Black Metal)
24.	Waste of Space Orchestra – Syntheosis (Atmospheric Sludge Metal)
25.	Inculter – Fatal Visions (Thrash Metal)
26.	Gloryhammer – Legends From Beyond the Galactic Terrorvortex (Power Metal)
27.	Merlin – The Mortal (Heavy Pysch Rock)
28.	Turilli/Lione Rhapsody – Zero Gravity (Power Metal)
29.	Soen – Lotus (Progressive Metal)
30.	King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rats’ Nest (Stoner Thrash Metal)

31.	Stormlord – Far (Symphonic Black Metal)
32.	Lunar Shadow – The Smokeless Fires (Heavy Metal)
33.	Pulchra Morte – Divina Autem et Aniles (Death Metal)
34.	Fvneral Fvkk – Carnal Confessions (Doom Metal)
35.	Allegaeon – Apoptosis (Progressive Death Metal)
36.	Asphodelus – Stygian Dreams (Death Doom Metal)
37.	H.A.Q.Q. – Liturgy (Avant-Garde Metal)
38.	Grima – Will of the Primordial (Atmospheric Black Metal)
39.	Evergrey – The Atlantic (Progressive Metal)
40.	Crypt Sermon – The Ruins of Fading Light (Traditional Doom Metal)

41.	The Moth Gatherer – Esoteric Oppression (Atmospheric Sludge Metal)
42.	Myrath – Sehili (Progressive Metal)
43.	Eluveitie – Ategnatos (Melodic Death / Folk Metal)
44.	Epitaphe – I (Death Doom Metal)
45.	In Mourning – Garden of Storms (Melodic Death Metal)
46.	Ossuarium – Living Tomb (Death Metal)
47.	Manegarm – Fornaldarsagor (Viking Metal)
48.	Hath – Of Rot and Ruin (Death Metal)
49.	Invicta – Halls of Extinction (Thrash Metal)
50.	The Hu – The Gereg (Mongolian Folk Rock)

51.	Tanith – In Another Time (Hard Rock)
52.	Belzebubs – Pantheon of the Nightside Gods (Melodic Death Metal)
53.	Mgla – Age of Excuse (Black Metal)
54.	Galneryus – Into The Purgatory (Power Metal)
55.	Richard Henshall – The Cocoon (Progressive Metal)
56.	Fen – The Dead Light (Atmospheric Black Metal
57.	The Great Old Ones – Cosmicism (Atmospheric Black Metal)
58.	Thank You Scientist – Terraformer (Progressive Rock)
59.	Barshasketh – Barshasketh (Black Metal)
60.	Tyr – Hel (Power Metal)

61.	Alcest – Spiritual Instinct (Blackgaze)
62.	Orodruin – Ruins of Eternity (Traditional Doom Metal)
63.	Mayhem – Daemon (Black Metal)
64.	Misþyrming – Algleymi (Black Metal)
65.	Blut aus Nord – Hallucinogen (Atmospheric Black Metal)
66.	Disillusion – The Liberation (Progressive Metal)
67.	Seer – Vol. 6 (Doom Metal)
68.	Monkey3 – Sphere (Space Rock)
69.	Cellar Darling – The Spell (Folk Metal)
70.	Beast in Black – From Hell with Love (Power Metal)

71.	Steel Prophet – The God Machine (Power Metal)
72.	Borknagar – True North (Progressive Metal)
73.	Children of Bodom – Hexed (Melodic Death Metal)
74.	Iron Savior – Kill or Get Killed (Power Metal)
75.	Ancient Bards – Origine: The Black Crystal Sword Saga Part 2 (Power Metal)
76.	Atlantean Kodex – The Course Of Empire (Heavy Metal)
77.	Batushka – Panihida (Black Metal)
78.	Quercus – Verferum (Funeral Doom Metal)
79.	Whitechapel – The Valley (Deathcore)
80.	Sadistic Ritual – Visionaire of Death (Thrash Metal)

81.	Traveler – Traveler (Heavy Metal)
82.	Russian Circles – Blood Year (Progressive Metal)