best of 2019

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 lists out his top picks for the year, including Herod, Tool, Wormwitch, and more.

Rhys presents his death-and-war-metal-forward picks of the year.

Associate Editor Jon Rosenthal's unexpected picks for the year at large.

The "I'm Listening to Death Metal" mastermind likes more than just death metal... but still loves death metal.