Top 25 Metal Albums of 2015 - Will

I don’t claim to be a professional album reviewer. I just like what I like. I’ve been a metal head for about 33 years now, so that is my claim of legitimacy to provide a year-end album list (and the guys asked me so I complied). My top five are pretty solid. The order of albums 6 through 25 could be rearranged with more time to delve into each album. Regardless, I love all these records. Yes, I am friends with or had personal interactions with some of the bands on this list. I know this clouds my objectivity. I heavily considered this conflict of interest, but not including some of these phenomenal albums for the same reason would be heavy metal heresy. With all these caveats, I present you with my top 25 albums of 2015. Enjoy, love, or hate. Cheers! - Will

#25 Lord Dying Poisoned Altars	#24 Chapel Of Disease The Musterious Ways of Repetitive Art	#23 Morgoth Ungod
#22 Sea Witch The Blackened Sea	#21 Tempel The Moon Lit Our Path	#20 Cattle Decapitation The Anthropocene Extinction
#19 Battlecross Rise To Power	#18 Torche Restrter	#17 Hate Eternal Infernus
#16 Exgenesis Aphotic Veil	#15 With The Dead With The Dead	#14 Immortal Bird Empress/Abscess
#13 Ingested The Architect of Extinction	#12 Skepticism Ordeal	#11 Paradise Lost The Plague Within
#10 Temple of Void Of Terror & the Supernatural	#9 High On Fire Luminiferous	#8 Sulphur Aeon Gateway to the Antisphere
#7 Nile What Should Not Be Unearthed	#6 Odetosun The Dark Dunes of Titan	#5 Slayer Repentless
#4 Gruesome Savage Land	#3 King Giant Black Ocean Waves	#2 Yesterday's Saints Generation of Vipers
	#1 Clutch Psychic Warfare

HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Alustrium - A Tunnel to Eden
• Black Fast - Terms of Surrender
• Gorilla Monsoon - Firegod: Feeding the Beast
• Monolord - Vaenir
• Powermad - Infinite
• Warhorse - As Heaven Turns to Ash
• Windhand - Grief Infernal Flower