My 13 favourites releases in 2018

After my list for favourite releases in grindcore (HERE) and in death matal (THERE), this is my list for my favourite releases for all other styles. Some you will find also in other lists, some others probably not.
I give it in alphabetical order, click the name of the album to go to my review.

Abjection ritual - Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth

Anguish - Anguish

Author and Punisher - Beastland

B.Abuse - Memories of Better Days are Gone

Christian Kjellvander - Wild Hxmans

Dylan Carlson - Conquistador

H880 - God Is Dead

Hank von Hell - Egomania

La Muerte - La Muerte

Oltretomba - L'Ouverture des fosses

Sammal - Suuliekki

Turbonegro - Rock' n' roll Machine

Uniform - The Long Walk

H880 - God Is Dead (2018)

God Is Dead, the  new H880 (the French producer Hacène Hargas) release is just two tracks but two really strong 5 minutes tracks, maybe even better than the good stuff he released this year (read HERE my previous reviews). Maybe the best recent techno producer. First track The Birth of Tragedy is a really memorable one, with its combination of hard hitting beats and psychedelia, he tried something different with this one and the result is awesome. The second track The Will To Power is good as well, in a more industrial/noise vein.

The BC page.

H880 - Self-Perception (2018)

H880 is a French producer that combines his techno beats and industrial/noise/dark ambient music. His new album Self-Perception (with the good German label Instruments of discipline) is another testimony of his skills at producing that mix with some more straight-forward beats driven tracks and some more ambient ones. I especially likes how he discreetly adds eerie unsettling sounds here and there, like it's coming from a great distance, from some forgotten memories or from deep under water, to contribute to his mysterious and dark atmospheres. Good stuff.

The BC page.

H880 - Noir et Mornes (2018), Czarnadusza (EP 2017), You, Me and the Violence (2016)

I'm briefly reviewing here three releases form the French techno producer H880.
His most recent Noir et Mornes stress the most dark ambient side of his industrial & hardcore techno, you guessed it it's darker and more ambient...
the Czarnadusza EP released in the end of last year is more beat-driven, with a more warehouse rave / hardcore feel.
You, Me and the Violence released in 2016 is more an album, a set in 6 acts, and progress from a quieter dark feel to more direct hardcore tracks. (so we could say it combines the sound of his two releases that followed).
Anyway, those three releases, as well as what he did before, is all good and anyone into the bleaker/darker /industrial side of hardcore techno should pay attention to it and enjoy.

The bandcamp pages :
Noir et Mornes

Czarnadusza

You, Me and the Violence