Rok 2018 hnětal. Správný metalista to řekne jistě o každém roce, ale ten příval skvostných death metalových, black metalových i heavy metalových desek se nezastavil ani těsně před jeho koncem. Top 25 obsahuje pěknou řádku legend, které se vrátily v plné polní. Nejde nezmínit JUDAS PRIEST, které znovu nalezená palebná síla senzačně vynesla do první trojky. A dokonce bez hlasů Judášského pomstitele. Ale z říše polomrtvých se vrátili i izraelští bardi ORPHANED LAND. Ani release novinky v prvních měsících roku a horšící se paměť redaktorů je nezastavily. Vítěz se ale rekrutuje odjinud. Těžko ho řadit do konkrétní žánrové škatulky a když už, tak ji staví na hlavu. Manuel Gagneux aka ZEAL & ARDOR ale dělá to, co na redakci Metalopolis vždy platilo. Přepisuje pravidla a tvoří svoje vlastní. Jeho hudba přesahuje dogmata. Takže náš zápal a nadšení putuje za tímhle Švýcaroameričanem. Rok 2019 bude mít sakra těžkou práci, aby posunul laťku vlastního sebepřekročení, jak by napsal nehynoucí klasik Alan Rohan. Držte se kovu a Metalopolis!

1. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
2. JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
3. ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
4. GHOST - Prequelle
5. A PERFECT CIRCLE - Eat The Elephant
6. PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
7. MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
8. SUMAC - Love In Shadow
9. DEAFHEAVEN - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
10. BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
11. A FOREST OF STARS - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
12. VOIVOD - The Wake
13. AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself
14. CATASTROFY - Besnota
15. NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
16. IHSAHN - Àmr
17. RIVERS OF NIHIL - Where Owls Know My Name
18. FORGOTTEN SILENCE - Kras
19. OUTRE - Hollow Earth
20. CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - Great Escape
21. SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Smutnice
22. PORTAL - Ion
23. LAIBACH - The Sound Of Music
24. MICHAEL ROMEO - War of the Worlds Part 1
25. FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb

Arrow

1. PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
2. DEAFHEAVEN - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
3. EVOKEN - Hypnagogia
4. WINTERFYLLETH - The Hallowing Of Heirdom
5. FORGOTTEN SILENCE - Kras
6. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
7. UADA - Cult Of A Dying Sun
8. BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
9. HEGEMONE - We Disappear
10. SUMMONING - With Doom We Come
11. EMMA RUTH RUNDLE - On Dark Horses
12. GHOST - Prequelle
13. OUTRE - Hollow Earth
14. DIMMU BORGIR - Eonian
15. A FOREST OF STARS - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

Dalas

SINISTRO - Sangue Cássia
THE ATLAS MOTH - Coma Noir
JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Automata
WAKE - Misery Rites
RIVERS OF NIHIL - Where Owls Know My Name
MONSTER MAGNET - Mindfucker
THE SWORD - Used Future
FORGOTTEN SILENCE - Kras
THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA - Sometimes The World Ain't Enough
ORANGE GOBLIN - The Wolf Bites Back
KHEMMIS - Desolation
MANTAR - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze
ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
KONTINUUM - No Need To Reason
KRAKÓW - Minus
VOIVOD - The Wake
MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
REVOCATION - The Outer Ones
VOLA - Applause of A Distant Crowd
DAUGHTERS - You Won't Get What You Want
OUTRE - Hollow Earth
DIRGE - Lost Empyrean
SUEDE - The Blue Hour
HORRENDOUS - Idol

Darkmoor

FACE THE DAY - Stuck In The Present
RIVERSIDE - Wasteland
HAKEN - Vector
VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
MICHAEL ROMEO - War of the Worlds Part 1
GHOST - Prequelle
IHSAHN - Àmr
JONATHAN DAVIS - Black Labyrinth
JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
WARREL DANE - Shadow Work

Dudri

ARCHITECTS - Holy Hell
BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
CATASTROFY - Besnota
DARON MALAKIAN AND SCARS ON BROADWAY - Dictator
DEAFHEAVEN - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
FEVER 333 - Made An America (EP)
GHOST - Prequelle
OF MICE & MEN - Defy
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS - Stone Temple Pilots
TURNSTILE - Time & Space
UNDEROATH - Erase Me
ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit

Hooya

1. ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
2. JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
3. NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
4. IMMORTAL - Northern Chaos Gods
5. A PERFECT CIRCLE - Eat The Elephant
6. OPETH - Garden Of The Titans
7. JOE BONAMASSA - Redemption
8. A FOREST OF STARS - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
9. THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA - Sometimes The World Ain't Enough
10. IHSAHN - Àmr
11. GHOST - Prequelle
12. PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
13. MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
14. MICHAEL ROMEO - War Of The Worlds Part 1
15. TRAPPIST - Ancient Brewing Tactics

Louis

1. JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
2. SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Smutnice
3. U.D.O. - Steelfactory
4. DEICIDE - Overtures Of Blasphemy
5. GHOST - Prequelle
6. MASTER'S HAMMER - Fascinator
7. DIMMU BORGIR - Eonian
8. CATASTROFY - Besnota
9. DARON MALAKIAN AND SCARS ON BROADWAY - Dictator
10. THE CROWN - Cobra Speed Venom
11. RIOT V - Armor Of Light
12. TITANIC - Soumrak Titánů
13. BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
14. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
15. MARDUK - Viktoria

Marigold

1. OUTRE - Hollow Earth
2. ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
3. FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb
4. MICHAEL ROMEO - War of the Worlds Part 1
5. TRIBULATION - Down Below
6. KRIEGSMACHINE - Apocalyptics
7. SOUTHERN EMPIRE - Civilisation
8. HAMFERĐ - Támsins likam
9. IN VAIN - Currents
10. 1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind
11. SULPHUR AEON - The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
12. SKOGEN - Skuggorna Kallar
13. JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
14. VOIVOD - The Wake
15. THRAWSUNBLAT - Great Brunswick Forest
16. GHOST - Prequelle
17. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
18. RIVERSIDE - Wasteland
19. AGE OF TAURUS - The Colony Slain
20. AVAST - Mother Culture

Martin

1. A FOREST OF STARS - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
2. IVAR BJØRNSON & EINAR SELVIK - Hugsjá
3. CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - Great Escape
4. FORGOTTEN SILENCE - Kras
5. EMMA RUTH RUNDLE - On Dark Horses
6. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
7. PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
8. JOE BONAMASSA - Redemption

Martin L.

TERRORIZER - Caustic Attack
AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself
DEICIDE - Overtures Of Blasphemy
VOIVOD - The Wake
GORTUARY - Divine Indigenous Sacrament
CATASTROFY - Besnota
MONSTROSITY - The Passage Of Existence
INTERNAL BLEEDING - Corrupting Influence
BORN TO MURDER THE WORLD - The Infinite Mirror Of Millenial Narcissism
SUBURBAN TERRORIST - Inhuman Breed
CRYPTOPSY - The Book Of Suffering: Tome II
PORTAL - Ion
STORM UPON THE MASSES - The Ones Who Came Back
SUMMONING - With Doom We Come
ABORTED - TerrorVision
NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
ENNUI - End Of The Circle
THORWALD - Sací reflex
1914 - The Blind Leading the Blind
EXORCIZPHOBIA - About Us Without Us
FLESH CONSUMED - Hymn For The Leeches
ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
OBLITERATE - Universe, Milk, Structures
PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
SKINLESS - Savagery
APRIL WEEPS - Comma
PATHOLOGY - Pathology
THE HERETIC’S FORK - Tormentore
NACHTMYSTIUM - Resilient
ALL THE FURY - Over The Line Of Meridian

Noisy

ANTIMATTER - Black Market Enlightenment
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Automata
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - Great Escape
THE DARK THIRD - Even As the Light Grows
THE ETERNAL - Waiting For The Endless Dawn
GAZPACHO - Soyuz
GREYHAVEN - Empty Black
HAIL THE SUN - Mental Knife
HUMAN FACTOR - Let Nature Take Its Course
IRREVERSIBLE MECHANISM - Immersion
MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
NIGHT VERSES - From The Gallery of Sleep
THE OCEAN - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
ÓLAFUR ARNALDS - Re:member
THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - Dissolution
RIVERSIDE - Wasteland
SILENT PLANET - When The End Began
VOLA - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

Jiří V. Matýsek

BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
DEAFHEAVEN - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
DYLAN CARLSON - Conquistador
OLAF OLFASSON AN THE BIG BAD TRIP - Feathers of Oblivion
DARON MALAKIAN AND SCARS ON BROADWAY - Dictator
SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Smutnice
DÖDSRIT - Spirit Crusher
MASTER'S HAMMER - Fascinator
PLEASE THE TREES - Infinite Dance
DROM - Tady bůh není
SUMAC - Love In Shadow
COLD-BLOOED FISH - Malvarma
EXORCIZPHOBIA - About Us Without Us
DECULTIVATE - Milovat

Radalf

YOB - Our Raw Heart
CULT LEADER - A Patient Man
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
HUATA - Lux Initiatrix Terrae
BAPTISTS - Beacon of Faith
SVARTIDAUÐI - Revelations of the Red Sword
HIGH ON FIRE - Electric Messiah
GREAT FALLS - A sense of rest
THE ARMED - Only Love
TRAGEDY - Fury
INFERNAL COIL - Within a World Forgotten
A$AP ROCKY - Testing
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA - Void XVI
MORROW - Fallow
WINDHAND - Eternal Return
WARTHOG - s/t
PRIMAL RITE - Dirge of Escapism
AGRIMONIA - Awaken
MODERN LIFE IS WAR - Trubulation Worksongs vol. 1
BLACK SALVATION - Uncertainty is bliss
DECULTIVATE - Milovat
VOIDSPHERE - To await / To expect
TOMB MOLD - Manor of Infinite Forms
HORRENDOUS - Idol
CONAN - Existential Void
RACETRAITOR - 2042
ENTHROPY CREATED CONCIOUSNESS - Impressions of the Morning Star
PORTAL - ION
NAG - Nagged to Death

Radicalcut

1. SUMAC - Love In Shadow
2. A PERFECT CIRCLE - Eat The Elephant
3. MERLIN - The Wizard
4. SLEEP - The Sciences
5. THE PINEAPPLE THIEF - Dissolution
6. LAIBACH - The Sound Of Music
7. MONSTER MAGNET - Mindfucker
8. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
9. NINE INCH NAILS - Bad Witch
10. THERAPY? - Cleave
11. VOIVOD - The Wake
12. AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself
13. DIMMU BORGIR - Eonian
14. YOB - Our Raw Heart
15. FU MANCHU - Clone Of The Universe
16. GHOST - Prequelle
17. MANES - Slow Motion Death Sequence
18. UŽ JSME DOMA - Kry
19. LEGEND OF THE SEAGULLMEN - Legend Of The Seagullmen
20. TURNSTILE - Time & Space

Reaper

NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
AUGURY - Illusive Golden Age
AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself
RIVERS OF NIHIL - Where Owls Know My Name
PORTAL - Ion
PSYCROPTIC - As The Kingdom Drowns
BARING TEETH - Transitive Savagery
OBSCURA - Diluvium
SOREPTION - Monument Of The End
FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb
HATE ETERNAL - Upon Desolate Sands
SVARTIDAUÐI - Revelations Of The Red Sword

RIP

RAVELIN 7 - Kry
DEAFHEAVEN - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
REVOCATION - The Outer Ones
TOMÁŠ PALUCHA - Čaro
SUMAC - Love In Shadow
VOIVOD - The Wake
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - Great Escape
PORTAL - ION
ORANGE GOBLIN - The Wolf Bites Back
BAPTISTS - Beacon of Faith
MAMMOTH GRINDER - Cosmic Crypt
FIVE SECONDS TO LEAVE - Nina Who Wasn't
DÖDSRIT - Spirit Crusher
VEIN - Errorzone
ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
HADAL MAW - Charlatan
BARING TEETH - Transitive Savagery
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - No Cross No Crown
JON HOPKINS - Singularity
RIVERS OF NIHIL - Where Owls Know My Name
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Automata
REPLICANT - Negative Life
WINDHAND - Eternal Return
AT THE GATES - To Drink from the Night Itself
THE ARMED - Only Love
OBSCURA - Diluvium
MARE - Ebony Tower
LETTERS FROM THE COLONY - Vignette
KRIEGSMASCHINE - Apocalypticists
GOROD - Aethra

Rudi

1. A PERFECT CIRCLE - Eat The Elephant
2. IHSAHN - Àmr
3. JUDAS PRIEST - Firepower
4. RIVERS OF NIHIL - Where Owls Know My Name
5. GHOST - Prequelle
6. OBSCURA - Diluvium
7. BEHEMOTH - I Loved You At Your Darkest
8. TESSERACT - Sonder
9. MANTAR - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze
10. PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
11. IMMORTAL - Northern Chaos Gods
12. YOB - Our Raw Heart
13. UADA - Cult Of A Dying Sun
14. DIMMU BORGIR - Eonian
15. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME - Automata
16. NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
17. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
18. AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself
19. HOODED MENACE - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
20. BEYOND CREATION - Algorythm

Shnoff

1. SIGH - Heir to Despair
2. MADDER MORTEM - Marrow
3. TERRORIZER - Caustic Attack
4. WWW - Neutopíš se dvakrát v téže řece
5. ANAAL NATHRAKH - A New Kind of Horror
6. KOVACS - Cheap Smell
7. ORPHANED LAND - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
8. EVOKEN - Hypnagogia
9. MASTER'S HAMMER - Fascinator
10. SHINING - X - Varg Utan Flock
11. CATASTROFY - Besnota
12. A PERFECT CIRCLE - Eat the Elephant
Bez poradia:
ANTIMATTER - Black Market Enlightenment
AT THE GATES - To Drink from the Night Itself
BLOODBATH - The Arrow of Satan is Drawn
CRIPPLED BLACK PHOENIX - Great Escape
CRYPTOPSY - The Book Of Suffering: Tome II
FORGOTTEN SILENCE - Kras
FUNERAL MIST - Hekatomb
IHSAHN - Àmr
LAIBACH - The Sound of Music
MANES - Slow Motion Death Sequence
NECROPHOBIC - Mark Of The Necrogram
PESTILENCE - Hadeon
PRIMORDIAL - Exile Amongst The Ruins
RIVERSIDE - Wasteland
SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY - Smutnice
SUMAC - Love in Shadow
UNLEASHED - The Hunt for White Christ
ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit

Thorn

1. ZEAL & ARDOR - Stranger Fruit
2. LAIBACH - The Sound Of Music
3. ANTIMATTER - Black Market Enlightenment
4. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - Distant Sky
5. REINDEER - Field Reports From The Western Lands
6. VOIVOD - The Wake
7. BURGR & PJONI - Výletné lode
8. CATASTROFY - Besnota
9. A FOREST OF STARS - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
10. TRAPPIST - Ancient Brewing Tactics
11. 1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind
12. SLEEP - The Sciences
13. AT THE GATES - To Drink From The Night Itself