ninehertz

It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's time to reflect what has basically been an overwhelmingly amazing year for metal.

We've put our heads together and come up with ten albums we think you need to hear before the year is out.

In order, we're spinning:

Big Business - People Behave (From 'The Beast You Are')

Wallowing- Phosgene (From 'Planet Loss')

Body Void - Die Off (From 'You Will Know the Fear You Forced Upon Us')

Blind Monarch - Blind Monarch (from 'What Is Imposed Must Be Endured')

Cloud Rat - Last Leaf (From 'Pollinator')

Opium Lord - Centurion (From 'Vore')

11PARANOIAS - Loss Portal (From 'Asterismal')

Hey Colossus - Carcass (From 'Four Bibles')

Torpor - Mouths Full of Water, Throats Full of Ice (From 'Rhetoric of the Image')

Dawn Ray'd - The Smell of Ancient Dust (From 'Behold Sedition Plainsong')