Best New Noise

Transience
Quiet bloom of the soul
dB rating: 8/10

Scream Bloody Gore
Eternal howl
dB rating: 9/10

End of Days
Heart-D-beat of a nation
dB rating: 8/10

Endless Pilgrimage
A time to kill, a time to heal.
dB Rating: 8/10

Grief Relic
Be like Mike
dB Rating: 8/10

The Curse That Is
Turn of the Tide
dB Rating: 8/10

Scent of the Buried
Beautiful friction
dB Rating: 8/10

Crime Traveler
Whoa, whoa, whoa—you on the list, fuckface?
dB Rating: 9/10

Krighsu
Shedders and shredders
dB Rating: 9/10

Dissemination
Still crazy good after all these years
dB Rating: 8/10

Distance | Collapsed
Out of the shadows
dB Rating: 9/10

Wildfire
Burninating the countryside
dB Rating: 8/10

Värähtelijä
Trance With the Devil
dB Rating: 9/10

Ride Forth
Not too young to drink and to shred
dB Rating: 9/10

Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die!
Long live “Decibel rebels”
dB Rating: 8/10

II
Still a bad machine
dB Rating: 8/10

Kick Me Silly – VC III
Bigger Bang
dB Rating: 8/10

Abbath
Still no Vinnie Vincent guest solo
dB Rating: 8/10

Of Terror and the Supernatural
Dirty weapons
dB Rating: 8/10

West of Everything Lies Death
Not exactly lacking direction
dB Rating: 8/10

Polemic
Only death is real
dB Rating: 8/10

Purple
Purple Reign
dB Rating: 9/10

International Blackjazz Society
Blackjazz hands!
dB Rating: 8/10

Journey Blind
Mob rulers
dB Rating: 8/10

The Direction of Last Things
They’ve been some very Intronauty boys
dB Rating: 9/10

Hole Below
Knuckle-dragging workout anthems for people who walk on ceilings
dB Rating: 8/10

Pylon
Watch the world burn
dB Rating: 9/10

Autumn Eternal
So… winter isn’t coming?
dB Rating: 9/10

Tapered Limbs of a Human Star
Yup, I think we found the Queen…
dB Rating: 8/10

Hope Finally Died
Delivered from extortionate obscurity
dB Rating: 9/10