Phil's Honorable Mentions:

Changeling - Changeling - https://changelingofficial.bandcamp.com/album/changeling

Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia - https://www.sleep-token.com/

Allegeaon - The Ossuary Lens - https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon/

Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence - https://www.facebook.com/cryptopsyofficial/

Ghost - Skeleta - https://ghost-official.com/

Phil's Top Five =

5 - And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary - https://www.season-of-mist.com/bands/and-oceans/

4 - Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil - https://riversofnihil.com/

3 - Fallujah - Xenotaph - https://www.facebook.com/fallujahofficial/

2 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality - https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/rift-in-reality

1 - Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness - https://buriedrealm.bandcamp.com/album/the-dormant-darkness

Alex's Honorable Mentions:

Glare - Sunset Funeral - https://glaretx.bandcamp.com/

Messa - The Spin - https://messa.bandcamp.com/

Crawling Chaos - Wyrd - https://www.instagram.com/crawling_chaos_band/?hl=en

Lik - Necro - https://www.metalblade.com/us/artists/lik/

Thornhill - BODIES - https://thornhillmelb.bandcamp.com/album/bodies

Bleed from Within - Zenith - https://www.bleedfromwithin.com/

Magnolia Park - VAMP - https://www.magnoliaparkband.com/

Nightfall - Children of Eve - https://nightfall.gr/

Nydvind - Tetramental I and II - https://nydvind.bandcamp.com/

Nechochwen - Spelewithiipi - https://nechochwen.bandcamp.com/music

Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness - https://buriedrealm.bandcamp.com/album/the-dormant-darkness

Tomarum - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria - https://tomarum.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-obsidian-euphoria

Valhalore - Beyond the Stars - https://www.valhalore.com/

Fractal Universe - The Great Filters - https://fractaluniverseband.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-filters

Beholder - In the Temple of the Tyrant - https://beholderblacklion.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-temple-of-the-tyrant

Cave Sermon - https://cavesermon.bandcamp.com/album/fragile-wings

Absolva - Justice - https://www.absolva.com/band

Top Five for Alex =

5 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality - https://labyrinthusstellarum.bandcamp.com/album/rift-in-reality

4 - Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil - https://riversofnihil.com/

3 - Ghost - Skeleta - https://ghost-official.com/

2 - In the Woods... - Otra - https://www.facebook.com/inthewoodsomnio/

1 - Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens - https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon/