The Wimpsandposers.com Best of 2018 List!
It’s time once again for the annual WimpsandPosers.com “Top 25” list. Putting this list together was no easy feat given just how many extremely strong albums 2018 had to offer. We could have done a “Top 100” list and not struggled to fill it. Here’s the best of the best:
Top 25 Albums of 2018
1. Amorphis: Queen of Time
2. Ghost: Prequelle
3. Night Flight Orchestra: Sometimes the World Ain’t Enough
4. Magic Dance: New Eyes
5. Visigoth: Conqueror’s Oath
6. Poets of the Fall: Ultraviolet
7. Manimal: Purgatorio
8. Dire Peril: The Extraterrestrial Compendium
9. Kissin’ Dynamite: Ecstasy
10. White Widdow: Victory
11. Judicator: The Last Emperor
12. Icarus Witch: Goodbye Cruel World
13. Subsignal: La Muerta
14. Treat: Tunguska
15. Orphaned Land: Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
16. W.E.T: Earthrage
17. The Senior Management: Heart & Soul
18. U.D.O: Steelfactory
19. Powerwolf: The Sacrament of Sin
20. Gunship: Dark All Day
21. Dynazty: Firesign
22. Helion Prime: Terror of the Cybernetic Space Monster
23. Primal Fear: Apocalypse
24. Saxon: Thunderbolt
25. Judas Priest: Firepower
Honorable Mention (because 25 just wasn’t enough)
1. Nordic Union: Second Coming
2. Armored Dawn: Barbarians In Black
3. Hearts On Fire: Call Of Destiny
4. Destinia: Metal Souls
5. Kamelot: The Shadow Theory
Top 5 Reissues of 2018
1. Samson: Look To The Future, Refugee & PS
2. Cold Sweat: Break Out
3. Bugzy: She’s The One/Center of Attraction
4. The Sign: Signs of Life/The Second Coming
5. Malice: License to Kill