Celebrating new music is important. In the subculture, we are constantly faced with a chorus of people who will tell you that the genres are dead and that there is nothing good coming out anymore. This opinion alone indicts how out of touch a person can be. There is a deluge of incredible new music coming out every year and it is important to take the time to praise the work of those who contribute to the subculture's sonic archive.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Best Hardcore / Punk LPs
1.) The Chisel - Retaliation (La Vida Es Un Mus)
2.) Gauze – 言いたかねえけど目糞鼻糞 (XXX)
3.) Ekulu - Unscrew My Head (Cash Only)
4.) Quarantine - Agony (Damage United)
5.) Section H8 - Welcome To The Nightmare (Flatspot)
6.) Rudimentary Peni - Great War (Sealed)
7.) Goodbye World - At Death's Door (Youth Attack)
8.) God's Hate - God's Hate (Closed Casket Activities)
9.) Koma - Internment Failure (La Vida Es Un Mus)
10.) C-4 - Chaos Streaks (Triple-B)
11.) Rata Negra - Una Vida Vulgar (La Vida Es Un Mus)
12.) Scowl - How Flowers Grow (Flatspot)
13.) Porvenir Oscuro - Asquerosa Humanidad (La Vida Es Un Mus)
14.) Dead Heat - World At War (Triple-B)
15.) Tower 7 - ...Peace On Earth? (Roachleg)
Honorable Mentions
1.) Gauntlet Ring - Upon The Wings Of The Black Eagle (Blood And Crescent)
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Best Rap / Hip-Hop Releases
1.) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
Best Hardcore / Punk EPs
1.) Electric Chair - Social Capital (Iron Lung)
Jarhead Fertilizer - Product Of My Environment (Closed Casket Activites)
Hologram - No Longer Human (Iron Lung)
Nag - Observer (Self-Released)
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Best Metal Releases1.) Gauntlet Ring - Upon The Wings Of The Black Eagle (Blood And Crescent)
2.) Pan-Amerikan Native Front – Little Turtle's War (Self-Released)
3.) Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal (20 Buck Spin)
4.) Fellwinter – Loyalty, Honor, Darkness (Self-Released)
5.) Worm - Foreverglade (20 Buck Spin)
6.) Gauntlet Ring - May The Skies Rain Blood Upon The Earth (Self-Released)
7.) Frozen Soul - Crypt Of Ice (Century Media)
8.) Gatecreeper - An Unexpected Reality (Closed Casket Activites)
9.) Lamp Of Murmuur - Submission And Slavery (Black Gangrene)
10.) Stress Angel - Bursting Church (Stygian Black Hand)
11.) Antichrist Siege Machine - Purifying Blade (Profound Lore)
12.) 200 Stab Wounds - Slave To The Scalpel (Maggot Stomp)
13.) Mortiferum - Preserved In Torment (Profound Lore)
14.) Hulder - Godslastering Hymns Of A Forlorn Peasantry (Iron Bonehead)
15.) Enforced - Kill Grid (Century Media)
Honorable Mentions
Genocide Pact - Genocide Pact (Relapse)
Hooded Menace - Blood Ornaments (Season Of Mist)
Full Of Hell - Garden Of Burning Apparitions (Relapse)
Best Rap / Hip-Hop Releases
1.) Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (Age 101)
2.) Young Thug - Punk (YSL / Atlantic)
3.) Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost (Columbia)
4.) Benny The Butcher & Harry Fraud - The Plugs I Met 2 (Black Soprano Family)
5.) Westside Gunn - Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf (Griselda)
6.) Jazmine Sullivan - Heaux Tales (RCA)
7.) Dave - We're All Alone In This Together (Neighbourhood)
8.) Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson (ALC)
9.) Key Glock - Yellow Tape 2 (Paper Route EMPIRE)
10.) Conway The Machine - La Maquina (Griselda)
11.) Kanye West - Donda (GOOD Music)
12.) Peewee Longway & Cassius Jay - Longway Sinatra 2 (MPA BandCamp)
13.) Nas - King's Disease II (Mass Appeal)
14.) Maxo Kream - Weight Of The World (RCA)
15.) Polo G - Hall Of Fame (Columbia)
Honorable Mentions
Skepta - All In (Boy Better Know)
Mach-Hommy - Pray For Haiti (Griselda)
Moneybagg Yo - A Gangsta's Pain (Roc Nation)
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Best Releases In Open Competition
1.) Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
Best Releases In Open Competition
1.) Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee (Dead Oceans)
2.) PinkPantheress - to hell with it (Parlophone)
3.) Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime (Matador)
4.) Dry Cleaning - New Long Leg (4AD)
5.) Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2
6.) Lil Ugly Mane - Volcanic Bird Enemy And The Voiced Concern (Self-Released)
7.) Faye Webster - I Know I'm Funny haha (Secretly Canadian)
8.) Chubby And The Gang - The Mutt's Nuts (Partisan)
9.) Chvrches - Screen Violence (Glassnote)
10.) Dawn Richard - Second Line (Merge)
11.) Sturgill Simpson - The Ballad Of Dood And Juanita (High Top Mountain)
12.) Turnstile - Glow On (Roadrunner)
13.) Snail Mail - Valentine (Matador)
14.) Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon ● I (Epitaph)
15.) BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory (XL)
Honorable Mentions
Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1 (Hinge Finger)
Iceage - Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer)
Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready (Sargent House)
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1.) Electric Chair - Social Capital (Iron Lung)
2.) Dollhouse - The First Day Of Spring (Toxic State)
3.) Never Ending Game - Halo & Wings (Triple-B)
4.) Chain Whip - Two Step To Hell (Neon Taste)
5.) The Chisel – Enough Said (Wardance)
6.) Spy - Habitual Offender (Triple-B)
7.) Reek Minds - Rabid (11PM)
8.) Suffocating Madness - Suffocating Madness (Roachleg)
9.) Sunami / Gulch Split (Triple B)
10.) Ztuped - Are You Stupid? (11PM)
Honorable Mentions
Mess - Innercity (Offside)
Taqbir - Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause (La Vida Es Un Mus)
Final Gasp - Haunting Whisper (Triple B)
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Best Demos
1.) People's Temple
Best Demos
1.) People's Temple
2.) 80HD
3.) Sociedad Bastarda
4.) Indre Krig
5.) The Anarchy
6.) Kontaminate
7.) Nisemono 偽者
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Best Sets
1.) Warthog @ Undisclosed Location on July 30th
2.) Public Acid @ Market Hotel on August 28th
3.) Hank Wood And The Hammerheads @ Saint Vitus on September 23rd
4.) Skourge @ Meanwhile Brewing Company on July 10th
5.) Cave In @ Saint Vitus on December 1st
6.) Nothing @ Elsewhere on October 15th
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