Which leaves German “New Wave of Psychedelic Heavy Rock” astronauts Black Space Riders, who hitched space-metal to Saharan sounds on Refugeem, an album (note its title) that only sounded more timely as 2015 progressed.
Texas stoner rockers The Sword, whose album went Top 30 in the U.S., have made five albums since 2006 Swedish melodic black-mass archbishops Ghost, whose album went Top 10, have made three since 2010. About Best Sellers in Digital Music These lists, updated hourly, contain bestselling items. Pagan/folk/Viking/black-metal troupes Helrunar from Germany and Heidevolk from the Netherlands are a decade into their recording careers. doom goths My Dying Bride and freeform Tokyo black metal crazies Sigh have also all been around since the ‘90s. Their second LP Animosity (Death-002/Enigma-72037-1) features this new sound. Middle Eastern-rhythmed Israel-via-Netherlands black/death metallers Melechesh U.K. A North Carolina punk rock band explains their eyebrow-raising name after. New Jersey’s Trixter, who put out their first album in 1990 but seemed to return out of nowhere in 2015 with their best one ever, probably count as the only pop-metal band on the list. There’s also Venezuela-via-Miami fusion-doom duo Cave of Swimmers, San Francisco/Portland blackened astro-thrashers Vhöl, and the ultra-heavyweight and foreboding Norwegian occultists Magister Templi, all who make the cut with their second albums. By contrast, five bands make the tally with debut full-lengths: doom bands King Heavy from Chile and Crypt Sermon from Philadelphia over-the-top California early ’80s-style throwbacks Night Demon Utah power-metal outfit Visigoth, and the Denmark-born one-woman medievalist black-metal act Myrkur. 3.96 14 votes: 05 : So Hideous None But a Pure Heart can Sing. While on the low side of what Manson generally sells, it’s one of the few. Marilyn Manson, The Pale Emperor (Loma Vista) 124,200 sold. While the band sold more albums last year when it was released, that’s a solid haul, and the 63rd biggest selling album of 2015 so far. 4.07 44 votes: 04 : Homeskin Subverse Siphoning of Suburbia. AC/DC, Rock or Bust (Columbia Records) 143,400 sold. 4.09 333 votes: 03 : Gonemage Sudden Deluge. 4.1 128 votes: 02 : Ad Nauseam Imperative Imperceptible Impulse. Raven, who’ve been around as long as Maiden and have even been known to wear hockey uniforms, fit the survivor category as well. Best Black Metal Albums of 2021 01 : Der Weg Einer Freiheit Noktvrn. The list is framed by two new wave of British heavy metal bands that have been around since the early ‘80s - Satan, who went away for decades then came back better than ever, and the far more famous Iron Maiden, who never left us. This subjective list of 2015’s 20 best metal albums is a mixture of veterans and rookies, traditionalists and extremists, household names and obscurities, hook-masters and avant-gardists from all over the world.