Your Favorite Songs from 2015...

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December is always the month when I start really cramming to listen to everything I've missed before the new year rolls around, and it's the month when everyone drops their choices for best album of the year. Let's hear yours!  If enough people participate (but it will take quite a few of you), I'll tally the totals and announce the BotRH's collective top ten favorite albums on January 1st.

 

I've posted some sort of year-end top albums list since 2002.  Looking back, some years my choices have been embarrassingly bad, others I still largely agree with.  A few years back I decided to limit my own list strictly to metal albums, because I don't feel informed enough in other genres to merge them all together.  Here's where I'm at for 2015, and this is subject to some pretty heavy fluctuation over the next week and change:

 

1. Liturgy - The Ark Work

2. Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror

3. Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours

4. Sumac - The Deal

5. Enslaved - In Times

6. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

7. A Forest of Stars -  Beware the Sword You Cannot See

8. Krallice - Ygg Huur

9. Korpiklaani - Noita

10. Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs

 

I think there will be a lot of movement in this, and I might expand it to a top 15.  Cheers!

 

Albums I really loved that stylistically don't qualify (but I might stick them in somewhere for point purposes if a lot of BotRH members participate): "To Pimp a Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar and "Key Markets" by Sleaford Mods.

[Nolder]

I...don't think I listened to music this year.

Last thing I remember is Taylor Swift's 1989.

[Taborline]

My musical knowledge ends somewhere around 1995 :( I'll have a look at these, though!

[Guest]

My fav albums for 2015

 

1. BFMV - Venom

 

aaaand

 

2. Kamelot - Haven

 

 

I didn't really pay attention to other albums this year lol

[Thane Vakarian]

A lot of good music has been released this year. Too much to list

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Getting closer. I'll have my order finalized for good in a day or two and I'll edit accordingly. So if you're curious to explore 2015 from the perspective of a guy who likes his metal black and artsy, have fun:
 
(I snuck in the two non-metal albums I enjoyed the most this year to make it a nice easy 20)
 
1. Liturgy - The Ark Work
2. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
3. Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
4. Obsequiae - Aria of Vernal Tombs
5. Bosse-de-Nage - All Fours
6. Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror
7. A Forest of Stars - Beware the Sword You Cannot See
8. Sumac - The Deal
9. Ghost Bath - Moonlover
10. Krallice - Ygg Huur
11. Sleaford Mods - Key Markets
12. Enslaved - In Times
13. Botanist - Hammer of Botany
14. Veilburner - Noumenon
15. Mgła - Exercises in Futility
16. Peste Noire - La Chaise-Dyable
17. Deafheaven - New Bermuda
18. Korpiklaani - Noita
19. Hive Destruction - Hive Destruction
20. Ensiferum - One Man Army

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I actually somehow missed that there was a new Deafheaven album this year, but I'm about half way through a first listen and it would probably miss the top 15 anyway. /snob

 

Edit: "Baby Blue" is making me rethink this statement hard. 

 

Edit 2: ok so where Sunbather was frontloaded this album's worth is totally all crammed into the second half

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(ok, I did give Sunbather the #2 slot in 2013, I just think they're a pretty good band that gets mislabeled as the incontestable best thing in post-bm because some dude on Pitchfork loves them.)

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If wonder if Liturgy is really my favorite or if I'm only hesitating to give the award to Panopticon because he already got my album of the year in 2012 and 2014.  <_<

 

Anyway, list is where it's going to stay.  gg 2015.

[F Horn of Valere]

This might seem odd for a musician, but I'm in the camp that hasn't really been keeping up with new stuff. I barely listen to the radio and don't really enjoy listening to new songs very often unless I come across a new band that I wish I'd heard of earlier, then I'll jump off the deep end. (I found Eisley in 2008 then suddenly bought three albums and overdosed on them.)

 

I guess my favorite 2015 album was John Williams Star Wars soundtrack.