BEST OF 2019 – THE BEST RELEASES OF THE YEAR

Here’s the result of our BEST OF 2019 readers poll (thanks to everyone who sent in their lists).

01. NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
02. POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
03. BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
04. PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
05. TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance
06. KRYPTS – Cadaver Circulation
07. TEITANBLOOD – The Baneful Choir
08. FUNEREAL PRESENCE – Achatius
09. DEATHSPELL OMEGA – The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
10. DARKTHRONE – Old Star

And, as usual, here’s what the VOICES FROM THE DARKSIDE staff enjoyed the most in 2019 (in alphabetical order)…

Anders Peter Jørgensen

• ARES KINGDOM – By The Light Of Their Destruction
• BLUT AUS NORD – Hallucinogen
• CAPILLA ARDIENTE – The Siege
• DEATHSPELL OMEGA – The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
• DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass
• FLAMEKEEPER – We Who Light The Fire
• FVNERAL FVKK – Carnal Confessions
• SARGEIST – Death Veneration
• TRIUMVIR FOUL – Urine Of Abonimation
• VANUM – Ageless Fire

Alfonso Perez

• ALTARAGE – The Approaching Roar
• CLOUD RAT – Pollinator
• EXHORDER – Mourn The Southern Skies
• FETID – Steeping Corporeal Mess
• MAYHEM – Daemon
• NEKRO DRUNKZ – Terminal Perversion
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• PROFANATICA – Rotting Incarnation Of God
• VLTIMAS – Something Wicked Marches In

David Simonton

• ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE – Schism Perpetration
• ASAGRAUM – Dawn Of Infinite Fire
• EXHUMED – Horror
• GAAHLS WYRD – GastiR – Ghosts Invited
• GATECREEPER – Deserted
• MAYHEM – Daemon
• NYOGTHAEBLISZ – Abrahamic Godhead Besieged By Adversarial Usurpation
• PROFANATICA – Rotting Incarnation Of God
• SLAUGHTBBATH – Alchemical Warfare
• TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance

Frank Stöver

• BLASPHEMATHORY – War, Blasphemy & Divine Destruction
• BONES – Diseased
• CONCRETE WINDS – Primitive Force
• DREADFUL FATE – Bringer Of Damnation
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• PROFANATICA – Rotting Incarnation Of God
• SIJJIN – Angel Of The Eastern Gate
• TRIBE OF PAZUZU – Heretical Uprising

Giorgio Trombino

• ANATOMIA – Hollowed Cadaver
• BUNKER 66 / WHIPSTRIKER – Four Deadly Bites
• EKPYROSIS – The Abysmal Chapter
• FORDOMTH / MALAURIU – Twin Serpent Dawn
• FUNERAL MOTH – Polar
• GOTHIC STONE – Haereticus Empyreum
• NAGA – Void Cult Rising
• SUPERSTITION – The Anatomy Of Unholy Transformation
• UMBRA CONSCIENTIA – Yellowing Of The Lunar Consciousness
• VORDR – Vordr

Jaime Perez

• ARCKANUM – Forsta Trulen
• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• BONES – Diseased
• CIANIDE – Unhumanized
• FERAL – Flesh For Funerals Eternal
• FUNERAL STORM – Arcane Mysteries
• GRAVEYARD – Hold Back The Dawn
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• NUCLEUS – Entity
• PAGANIZER – The Tower Of The Morbid

Julián Nuñez

• DEATHSPELL OMEGA – The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
• DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass
• DESASTER – Black Celebration
• IDLE HANDS – Mana
• INFERNAL CONJURATION – Infernale Metallum
• MUSMAHHU – Reign Of The Odious
• OATH OF CRUELTY – Summary Execution At Dawn
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• SLAUGHTBBATH – Alchemical Warfare
• TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance

Kat “Shevil” Gillham

• ANGEL WITCH – Angel Of Light
• CRESTFALLEN QUEEN – Queen Of Swords
• IDLE HANDS – Mana
• LORD VICAR – The Black Powder
• MARTYRDÖD – Hexhammaren
• ORODRUIN – Ruins Of Eternity
• RINGWORM – Death Becomes My Voice
• SMOULDER – Times Of Obscene Evil And Wild Daring
• SWALLOW THE SUN – When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light
• WOLFBRIGADE – The Enemy: Reality

László Dávid

• ARCH/MATHEOS – Winter Ethereal
• CANDLEMASS – The Door To Doom
• DREAM THEATER – Distance Over Time
• METAL INQUISITOR – Panopticon
• PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• ROTTENDAWN – Occult
• ST.VITUS – St.Vitus
• STEEL NIGHT – Fight Till The End
• THRASHFIRE – Into The Armageddon

Marco Stebich

• CRYPTIC BROOD – Outcome Of Obnoxious Science
• DREADFUL FATE – Bringer Of Damnation
• HAGZISSA – They Ride Along
• INITIATION – Demo
• KADAVAR – For The Dead Travel Fast
• KRINGA – Feast Upon The Glesm
• REVEAL – Scissorgod
• TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance
• TOWNES VAN ZANDT – Sky Blue
• VOLE – Dej Buh Pestí

Michael Kujawska

• BATUSHKA – Panihida
• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• DEATHSPELL OMEGA – The Furnaces Of Palingenesia
• GATECREEPER – Deserted
• MGLA – Age Of Excuse
• MISERY INDEX – Rituals Of Power
• MISÞYRMING – Algleymi
• OCTOBER TIDE – In Splendor Below
• SENTIENT HORROR – Morbid Realms
• THORMESIS – The Sixth

Miguel Negrón

• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• IMPRECATION – Damnatio Ad Bestias
• KRYPTS – Cadaver Circulation
• NECRORIPPER – Amulepe Taiñ Weichan
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
• RIPPER – Sensory Stagnation
• SMOULDER – Times Of Obscene Evil And Wild Daring
• SUPPRESSION – Repugnant Remains
• TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance

Mirco Szymyslik

• CRYPTIC BROOD – Outcome Of Obnoxious Science
• EXHUMED – Horror
• KRYPTS – Cadaver Circulation
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• TEITANBLOOD – The Baneful Choir
• TEMPLE OF DREAD – Blood Craving Mantras
• TRIUMVIR FOUL – Urine Of Abomination
• VLTIMAS – Something Wicked Marches In

Randolph Whateley

• BEASTMAKER – Eye Of The Storm
• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• CANDLEMASS – The Door To Doom
• DARKTHRONE – Old Star
• GAAHLS WYRD – GastiR – Ghosts Invited
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• OSSUARIUM – Living Tomb
• POSSESSED – Revelation Of Oblivion
• TOMB MOLD – Planetary Clairvoyance
• VASTUM – Orificial Purge

Ricardo Campos

• BLACKOWL – The Dark Side
• CAPILLA ARDIENTE – The Siege
• CHEVALIER – Destiny Calls
• DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass
• EXTIRPATION – A Damnation’s Stairway To The Altar Of Failure
• MIDNIGHT PRIEST – Aggressive Hauntings
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• RAM – The Throne Within
• TERMINUS – A Single Point Of Light

Rick Peart

• ANGEL WITCH – Angel Of Light
• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• DEVOURMENT – Obscene Majesty
• ENCENATHRAKH – The 2 Song Promo 19
• FILTHEATER – Birth Of Sempiternal Putrefaction
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• PISSGRAVE – Posthumous Humiliation
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• PROFANATICA – Rotting Incarnation Of God
• SAINT VITUS – Saint Vitus

Rodrigo Jimenez

• CREMATION PYRE – Cremation Pyre
• DARKTHRONE – Old Star
• DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass
• ENTOMBED – Clandestine Live
• HAYSTACK – The Sacrifice
• INFIDEL REICH – Reichenstein
• LVX CAELIS – Maher Shalal Hash Baz
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion
• THE DEATHTRIP – Demon Solar Totem

Steven Willems

• ALCEST – Spiritual Instinct
• BAT FOR LASHES – Lost Girls
• DARKTHRONE – Old Star
• EX:RE – Ex:Re
• LANA DEL REY – Norman Fucking Rockwell!
• NEW MODEL ARMY – From Here
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• PENTACLE – Spectre Of The Eight Ropes
• PIXIES – Beneath The Eyrie
• POSSESSED – Revelations Of Oblivion

Thomas Georg

• BELENOS – Argoat
• BLOOD INCANTATION – Hidden History Of The Human Race
• BLUT AUS NORD – Hallucinogen
• CROM DUBH – Firebrands And Ashes
• DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass
• DJEVEL – Ormer Til Armer, Maane Til Hode
• FUNEREAL PRESENCE – Achatius
• MISDYRMING – Algleymi
• NOCTURNUS AD – Paradox
• NUMEN – Iluntasuna Besarkatu Nuen Betiko

Thomas Meyer

• ALCEST – Spiritual Instinct
• CRYPTIC BROOD – Outcome Of Obnoxious Science
• EXHORDER – Mourn The Southern Skies
• KOSMOKRATOR – Through Ruin… Behold
• KRYPTS – Cadaver Circulation
• MGLA – Age Of Excuse
• MISÞYRMING – Algleymi
• SALIGIA – Vesaevus
• SINMARA – Hvísl Stjarnanna
• URZA – The Omnipresence Of Loss

Thomas Reitmayer

• ANONYMOUS ARTIST – NED XXX
• BLACK CILICE – Transfixion Of Spirits
• BLEAKNESS – Functionally Extinct
• DER BLUTHASCH AND THE INFINITE CHURCH OF THE LEADING HAND / MHÖNOS – 12″
• HAGZISSA – They Ride Along
• IMHA TARIKAT – Kara Ihlas
• KRINGA – Feast Upon The Gleam
• MALAKHIM – II
• MALHKEBRE – Satanic Resistance
• TEITANBLOOD – The Baneful Choir