best of 2019
Album Artwork From 2019 Worth Worshipping
We pick a handful of our favorite album cover artworks to unabashedly worship, ones we consider top-tier visualizations of the metal spirit and generally just fucking awesome.
Doomed to the Underground: Three Underheard Behemoths Released in 2019
Death metal may have taken the cake last year, but doom was the tedious labor that went into baking it. Here are three monster doom albums you may have missed during a frenzied year of releases.
From Above (and Below): Five Easily Missed Death Metal Bangers from Last Year
Last year saw the dawn of a new age for death metal; here are five wild death metal albums which we felt were underheard and worthy of some additional recognition.
Writers' Choice: 11 Top Metal Albums of 2019 + 73 Other Surefire Bangers
We crunched the numbers across our individual year-end lists and arrived at #1; then we said “fuck it” and “all these albums rule,” so here those are in one handy spot.
Chris Rowella's Top Albums of 2019
Our noise-rock aficionado bursts through the seams of genre classifications with his year-end picks, featuring 20 eclectic picks from across the heavy spectrum.
Andrew Rothmund's Top Albums of 2019
Featuring Car Bomb, Heilung, Cosmic Putrefaction, and more, here are Invisible Oranges Editor-in-Chief Andrew Rothmund’s top albums of the year.
Chris Butler's Top Albums of 2019
Chris Butler lists out his top picks for the year, including Herod, Tool, Wormwitch, and more.
Rhys Williams' Top Albums of 2019
Rhys presents his death-and-war-metal-forward picks of the year.
Jon Rosenthal's Top Albums of 2019
Associate Editor Jon Rosenthal’s unexpected picks for the year at large.
Langdon Hickman's Top Albums of 2019
The “I’m Listening to Death Metal” mastermind likes more than just death metal… but still loves death metal.