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