Long list, but these were my favorite albums of 2018

• Arsis - Visitant (tech / melodic death)
• Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest (blackened death)
• Between the Buried and Me - Automata I/II (tech / prog )
• Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (post-black / blackgaze)
• Drudkh - They Often See Dreams About the Spring (black)
• Ghost - Prequelle (spooky pop)
• Haken - Vector (progressive)
• Harikari for the Sky - Arson (melodic death)
• High On Fire - Electric Messiah (stoner / heavy / prog) *:Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (death / doom)
• Hoth - Astral Necromancy (melodic death)
• Ihsahn - Amr (symphonic black / progressive)
• Inferi - Revenant (melodic death)
• Kalmah - Palo (melodic death)
• Khemmis - Desolation (stoner / doom)
• MØL - Jord (blackgaze)
• Ne Obliviscaris - Urn (death / progressive)
• Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep (post-black)
• Obscura - Diluvium (technical death / thrash)
• Revocation - The Outer Ones (technical death / thrash)
• Riverside - Wasteland (progressive / atmospheric)
• Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name (technical death / progressive)
• Sear Bliss - Letters from the Edge (atmospheric black)
• Shylmagoghnar - Transience (melodic death)
• Skeletonwitch - Devouring Radiant Light (thrash / melodic death)
• Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology(sludge / progressive / blackened death)
• Tesseract - Sonder (progressive)
• The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic (progressive / sludge)
• The Sciences - Sleep (stoner)
• Tomb Mold - Manor of Infinite Forms (death)
• Tribulation - Down Below (death /black /goth)
• Vola - Applause of a Distant Crowd (progressive)
• Visigoth - Conquerors Oath (power / heavy)
• Vreid - Lifehunger (melodic black)
• Wolfheart - Constellation of the Black Light (melodic death)
• Yob - Our Raw Heart (stoner / doom)