WHAT WERE MY FAVORITE ALBUMS OF 2015?

	1) PERIPHERY: Juggernaut Alpha / Omega This double album has the perfect blend of catchy tunes and brutal bludgeoning riffs. A masterpiece.
	2) PUTRIDITY: Ignominious Atonement From the insanely precise drumming to the whirlwind riffing, this album is probably just the most brutal thing I have ever heard, and dominated my itunes for the last 3 months of the year.
	3) CATTLE DECAPITATION: The Anthropocene Extinction The band took all of their various elements that never quite worked together as well as they should and balanced them perfectly for this release, really intense.
	4) CRYPTOPSY: The Book Of Suffering Tome 1 Short EP, but a strong continuation of what they did on their self titled release. Can't wait for the second Tome.
	5) NAPLAM DEATH: Apex Predator - Easy Meat Still intense after all these years, and still manages to surprise with an odd sounding riff.
	6) RIVERS OF NIHIL: Monarch Nice debut, very heavy and thundering material. Love the cover art too.
	7) LOST SOUL: Atlantis - The New Beginning Best album from the band an an excellent example of symphonic brutal death metal.
	8) SANZU: Painless One of the heaviest albums I have ever heard.
	9) SLAYER: Repentless Despite the loss of 2 original members, Tom and Kerry still have it in the riff and intensity department.
	10) GODS OF EDEN: From The End Of Heaven Quite a surprise, progressive, neoclassical, super fast double bass, catchy, angry, this band has it all covered.

	SHATTERED SKIES: The World We Used to Know Really strong set of hooks, glad to see them pushing forward.
	WHORETOPSY: Never Tear Us Apart I sorta wrote them off as a boring deathcore band, but this particular album does deathcore right, and has enough riff variety to avoid the monotony.