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Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2018

What a year it’s been! There is no way a top 50 album is enough to truly express the fantastic year of music that was 2018. Nevertheless, check it out, comment, agree, argue, enjoy!

Night Vapor – 1000 Miles of Mud

clashing notes, sporadic beats, quavering distortion, and chain-smoking vocals

Skraeckoedlan – Äppelträdet

a sludgy, distorted bass tone that is as viscous as the deadly muck of a WWI Flanders battlefield.

The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Paleozoic

massive songs which are perfectly crafted in every way, but the execution is deceptively simple; in some ways minimalist

Northern Crown – Northern Crown

plenty in the way of deliberate and crunchy groove, dynamic usage of riff and tempo changes, and compelling vocal melodies that rival their doomy forefathers

Spearhead – Pacifism is Cowardice

some battlefield somewhere in the history of mankind, bodies strewn as far as the eye can see, the sun baking the littered corpses and making mere silhouettes of the circling vultures as they wheel around tirelessly above. You can almost feel it’s heat and smell the stench, it’s that good.