2018 Album of the Year Results
Haken's Vector is r/ProgMetal's 2018 Album of the Year!
Thank you all so much for nominating and voting for your favorite albums! A total of 1,297 people voted. Many other great albums did not make it through the nominations, so check out the favorite albums mega thread and the album of the year playlist from our Discord: Images & Words for more! Stop by the Discord for even more discussion and music discovery.
Spotify Playlists:
- All Albums
- Clean Vocal Albums
- Harsh Vocal Albums
- Mixed Vocal Albums
- Instrumental Albums (includes instrumental versions from Haken, The Ocean, and The World Is Quiet Here)
r/ProgMetal's Top Albums of 2018:
| Rank | Album |
|---|---|
| 1 | Haken - Vector |
| 2 | Between the Buried and Me - Automata II |
| 3 | Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name |
| 4 | TesseracT - Sonder |
| 5 | The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic |
| 6 | Between the Buried and Me - Automata I |
| 7 | VOLA - Applause of a Distant Crowd |
| 8 | Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology |
| 9 | Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It |
| 10 | Plini - Sunhead |
| 11 | Riverside - Wasteland |
| 12 | Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit |
| 13 | The World Is Quiet Here - Prologue |
| 14 | Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep |
| 15 | Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy |
| 16 | Ihsahn - Ámr |
| 17 | Sithu Aye - Homebound |
| 18 | Amorphis - Queen of Time |
| 19 | Time, The Valuator - How Fleeting, How Fragile |
| 20 | Seventh Wonder - Tiara |
| 21 | Nautilus - The Oceanwalker |
| 22 | Erra - Neon |
| 23 | Obscura - Diluvium |
| 24 | Monuments - Phronesis |
| 25 | Revocation - The Outer Ones |
| 26 | Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone |
| 27 | Sunless Dawn - Timeweaver |
| 28 | Horrendous - Idol |
| 29 | Skyharbor - Sunshine Dust |
| 30 | Beyond creation - Algorythm |
| 31 | Kingcrow - The Persistence |
| 32 | Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs |
| 33 | Ostura - The Room |
| 34 | The Dali Thundering Concept - Savages |
| 35 | Aviations - The Light Years |
| 36 | Parius - The Eldritch Realm |
| 37 | Thy Catafalque - Geometria |
| 38 | Voices From The Fuselage - Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams |
| 39 | Conjurer - Mire |
| 40 | Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury |
| 41 | Khemmis - Desolation |
| 42 | Barren Earth - A Complex of Cages |
| 43 | Gorod - Æthra |
| 44 | Distorted Harmony - A Way Out |
| 45 | King Goat - Debt of Aeons |
| 46 | Hands of Despair - Well of the Disquieted |
| 47 | Maestrick - Espresso Della Vita: Solare |
| 48 | Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch |
| 49 | Sigh - Heir to Despair |
| 50 | Augury - Illusive Golden Age |
| 51 | Circles - The Last One |
| 52 | In Vain - Currents |
| 53 | Khôrada - Salt |
| 54 | A Forest of Stars - Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes |
| 55 | ISA - Chimera |
| 56 | Noise Trail Immersion - Symbology of Shelter |
| 57 | Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore |
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Top Clean Vocals:
| Rank | Album |
|---|---|
| 1 | Haken - Vector |
| 2 | Riverside - Wasteland |
| 3 | Time, The Valuator - How Fleeting, How Fragile |
| 4 | Seventh Wonder - Tiara |
| 5 | Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone |
| 6 | Kingcrow - The Persistence |
| 7 | Ostura - The Room |
| 8 | Aviations - The Light Years |
| 9 | Thy Catafalque - Geometria |
| 10 | Voices From The Fuselage - Odyssey: The Founder of Dreams |
| 11 | Maestrick - Espresso Della Vita: Solare |
| 12 | Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch |
| 13 | Howling Sycamore - Howling Sycamore |
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Top Harsh Vocals:
| Rank | Album |
|---|---|
| 1 | Revocation - The Outer Ones |
| 2 | Sunless Dawn - Timeweaver |
| 3 | Beyond creation - Algorythm |
| 4 | Conjurer - Mire |
| 5 | Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury |
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Top Instrumental:
| Rank | Album |
|---|---|
| 1 | Plini - Sunhead |
| 2 | Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep |
| 3 | Sithu Aye - Homebound |
| 4 | Nautilus - The Oceanwalker |
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Spreadsheet with detailed vote results
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AotY Playlist from the Discord: Images & Words
Posted Jan 14, 2019, 2:23 AM UTC · edited
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