Best of 2018: A Year In Review

This year went by quick; lots of great albums, movies, games, etc came out. The staff at Kill The Music have posted their individual lists which is compiled here. Hopefully our lists encourage some of you to check out something that you might've overlooked!

Jordan Mohler (Editor-in-Chief)

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1. Underoath - Erase Me

2. Cane Hill - Too Far Gone

3. The Plot In You - Dispose

4. Shinedown - Attention Attention

5. Currents - Let The Devil In

6. Chelsea Grin - Eternal Nightmare

7. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

8. Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

9. Revocation - The Outer Ones

10. Architects - Holy Hell

11. The Amity Affliction - Misery

12. Beach House - 7

13. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

14. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I/II

15. Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

16. Burn The Priest - Legion: XX

17. CHVRCHES - Love Is Dead

18. Silent Planet - When The End Began

19. Bleeding Through - Love Will Kill All

20. Muse - Simulation Theory

21. White Ring - Gate of Grief

22. David Byrne - American Utopia

23. Ghost - Prequelle

24. Skies of December XII

25. Death Ray Vision - Negative Mental Attitude

Songs of The Year

1. On My Teeth - Underoath

2. DEVIL - Shinedown

3. Too Far Gone - Cane Hill

4. Mass Grave - Health ft. Soccer Mommy

5. FEEL NOTHING - The Plot In You

Shows of the Year

1. Underoath - Erase Me Tour

2. David Byrne - American Utopia Tour

3. Highly Suspect - Summer 2018 Tour

4. Shinedown - Attention Attention World Tour

5. After The Burial - Rareform Across The Continent Tour

Caeman Amelio

1. Ghost - "Prequelle"

2. Halestorm - "Vicious"

3. Bullet For My Valentine - "Gravity"

4. Zeal & Ardor - "Stranger Fruit"

5. Chelsea Grin - "Eternal Nightmare"

6. Bad Wolves - "Disobey"

7. Sevendust - "All I See Is War"

8. Amaranthe - "Helix"

9. Judas Priest - "Firepower"

10. Nonpoint - "X"

11. Diamante - "Coming In Hot"

12. Godsmack - "When Legends Rise"

13. Underoath - "Erase Me"

14. All That Remains - "Victim Of The New Disease"

15. Black Stone Cherry - "Family Tree"

16. Breaking Benjamin - "Ember"

17. Scars On Broadway - "Dictator"

18. Behemoth - "I Loved You At Your Darkest"

19. Shinedown - "Attention Attention"

20. Beartooth - "Disease"

21. Disturbed - "Evolution"

22. Fall Out Boy - "Mania"

23. Tremonti - "A Dying Machine"

24. Twenty One Pilots - "Trench"

25. The Struts - "Young & Dangerous"

Songs of the Year

1. Ghost - "Dance Macabre"

2. Slipknot - "All Out Life"

3. Bring Me The Horizon - "Mantra"

4. Bullet For My Valentine - "Letting You Go"

5. New Years Day - "Skeletons"

Shows of the Year

1. Machine Head (Santa Cruz, CA)

2. Ghost (San Jose, CA)

3. Slayer, Lamb Of God, Anthrax, Testament, and Napalm Death (San Jose, CA)

4. A Day To Remember, Papa Roach, Falling In Reverse, and The Devil Wears Prada (San Francisco, CA)

5. Twenty One Pilots (Oakland, CA)