Sick Drummer Magazine – Favorite Drumming Albums of 2019

We are pleased to release the Sick Drummer Magazine Favorite Drumming Albums of 2019! Our team has gone back and forth over a few different lists and have decided on these records. They are NOT in any particular order of most to least favorite, but a list alphabetized by the drummer’s first name.

We do not like to say one is better than another, but feel these performances were the best of what we were exposed to this year. Sure, there were other great records! We can’t list them all, and these just happened to be the most popular favorites among our staff. Some may be favorites for speed and others for technicality, creativity, groove, originality, musicality, and any number of other factors.

We don’t feel it necessary to open this to a vote for website hits or to make it a popularity contest, only to recognize and show our appreciation for these outstanding performances. We believe music is for you, the listener, to enjoy and judge on your own. Not to be influenced by someone else’s ranking based on their own personal taste.

If you are featured here please save the image at the bottom of the list and share on your social media with a link back to this page!

Thanks to all these Sick Drummers for giving us such great works to enjoy and share!

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Drummer | Band | Record

Adam Bjork | Bleeding Utopia | Where The Light Comes To Die

Adam Jarvis | Misery Index | Rituals of Power

AJ Viana | Hath | of Rot and Ruin

Alex Babineaux | A Novelist | Folie

Alex ‘Grind’ Pelletier | Despised Icon | Purgatory

Andrew Baird | Fallujah | Undying Light

Anthony Barone | Shadow of Intent | Melancholy

Arnau Martí (Voor) | Noctem | The Black Consecration

Baard Kolstad | Leprous | Pitfalls

Bastian Thusgaard | Soilwork | Verkligheten

Bill Denne | Visceral Disgorge | Slithering Evisceration

Bryce Butler | Circuit of Suns | Night Sister

Carolina Perez | Hypoxia | Abhorrent Disease

Chason Westmoreland | Equipoise | Demiurgus

Chris Golding | CHRMR | Warbirds

Dan Presland | A Million Dead Birds Laughing | To The Ether

Dave Bland | Full of Hell | Weeping Choir

Dave McGraw | Cattle Decapitation | Death Atlas

David Diepold | Cognizance | Malignant Dominion

Davide Billia | Hour of Penance | Misotheism

Dirk Verbeuren | Geoda | Here and Now

Doug Anderson | Unfathomable Ruination | Enraged & Unbound

Elliot Hoffman | Car Bomb | Mordial

Emilio Marquez | Possessed | Revelations of Oblivion

Eugene Ryabchenko | Locracy | Black Goddess

Flo Mounier | Vltimus | Something Wicked Marches In

Frost | 1349 | The Infernal Pathway

George Kollias | Nile | Vile Nilotic Rites & Contrarian | Their Worm Never Dies

Giulio Galati | Hideous Divinity | Simulacrum

Hellhammer | Mayhem | Daemon

Henri Sison | Disentomb | The Decaying Light

Isaac Faulk | Blood Incantation | Hidden History of the Human Race

James Stewart | Vader | Thy Messenger EP

Jason Bittner | Overkill | The Wings of War

Jocke Wallgren | Amon Amarth | Berserker

Kevin Paradis | Mithridatic | Tetanos Mystique

Lee Fisher | Fawn Limbs | Harm Remissions

Lyle Cooper | Urosepsis | Malicious Malpractice

Marco Pitruzzella | Rings of Saturn | Gidim (one of 20 records he tracked this year)

Mike Hamilton | Exhumed | Horror

Mike Heller | Abigail Williams | Walk Beyond the Dark

Navene Koperweis | Whitechapel | The Valley

Nils Fjellstrom | Nordjevel | Necrogenesis

Ray Luzier | Korn | The Nothing

Sasha Horn | Exhorder | Mourn the Southern Skies

Simon Dorfman | Nevalra | Conjure The Storm

Tomasz Pilasiewicz | Kingdom of Torment | The New Flesh (Single) From their forthcoming self-titled full-length

Yanic Bercier | Gone in April | Shards of Light

Multi-Drummer Projects

Morgan Ågren, Anup Sastry, Samus Paulicelli | Devin Townsend | Empath

Bobby Jarzombek, Thomas Lang, Mark Zonder, Baard Kolstad | Arch/Matheos | Winter Ethereal

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