KYS Contributors: our end-of-year lists for 2019

December, AKA Listcember, is finally almost over. Shortly, 2020 will kick-off a new decade and we will have to do it all over again next year, lists and all, because god knows we're all slaves to sharing our tastes and interests within an arbitary period of time on the internet. So as it is the season for it, here's what we here at KYS enjoyed the most in 2019, whether it be our top 20 records of the year or just our top 10 (despite the fact my email specified 20, Bill). Have a look, and then hit us with your 2019 release list! We hope you had a lovely Christmas (or whatever you celebrate this time of year) and that you stay safe over the new year period. See ya'll next year! 

Alex Sievers (editor, writer):

1. Northlane - Alien
2. Sleep Token - Sundowning
3. Lingua Ignota - Caligula
4. Whitechapel - The Valley
5. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entry and Exit Wounds
6. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth Of Violence
7. Greet Death - New Hell
8. Numenorean - Adore
9. Health - Slaves Of Fear
10. Gravemind - Conduit
11. Norma Jean - All Hail
12. Nova Charisma - Exposition I & Exposition II
13. Thank You Scientist - Terraformer
14. Johnny Booth - Firsthand Accounts
15. Port Noir - The New Routine
16. Emarosa - Peach Club
17. Spiritbox - Singles Collection
18. Tycho - Weather
19. Totally Unicorn - Sorry
20. American Football - LP3

Owen Morawitz (writer):

Astronoid - S/T

Benny The Butcher - 'The Plugs I Met' EP

Blood Incantation - 'Hidden History of the Human Race'

Dear Seattle - 'Don't Let Go'

Denzel Curry - 'ZUU'

Eat Your Heart Out - 'Florescence'

Frank Crater & The Rattlesnakes - 'End of Suffering'

Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - 'Bandana'

Gatecreeper - 'Deserted'

He Is Legend - 'White Bat'

Inclination - 'When Fear Turns To Confidence' EP

Johnny Booth - 'Firsthand Accounts'

SeeYouSpaceCowboy - 'The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds'

She Cries Wolf - 'Liar'

Sleep Token - 'Sundowning'

Spirit Adrift - 'Divided by Darkness'

Spiritbox - S/T EP

WAAX - 'Big Grief'

The Warriors - 'Monomyth'

We Lost The Sea - 'Triumph & Disaster'

Bill Peel (writer):

Clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood

Danny Brown - uknowwhatimsayin?

Malibu Ken - Malibu Ken

Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.

Dawn Ray'd - Behold Sedition

Plainsong Archivist - Triumvirate

Vanum - Ageless

Fire Falls of Rauros - Patterns in Mythology

Hope Drone - Void Lustre

Kollaps - Mechanical Christ

JP Pallais (writer):

Warforged – I: Voice

Cult of Luna – A Dawn to Fear

Illyria – The Carpathian Summit

Clément Belio – Patience

Thank You Scientist – Terraformer

Saor – Forgotten Path

Devin Townsend – Empath

Hypno5e – A Distant (Dark) Source

Abigail Williams – Walk Beyond the Dark

Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean

Liturgy – HAQQ

Norma Jean – All Hail

.clipping – There Existed an Addiction to Blood

Heilung – Futha

Leprous - Pitfalls

Numenorean – Adore

Moron Police – A Boat on the Sea

Northlane - Alien

Ashbringer - Absolution

From Indian Lakes – Dimly Lit

Hunter Hewgley (writer):

1. The Acacia Strain - It Comes In Waves

2. Fit For An Autopsy - The Sea Of Tragic Beasts

3. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue

4. Kublai Khan TX - Absolute

5. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs

6. Northlane - Alien

7. Trade Wind - Certain Freedoms

8. American Football - LP3

9. Turnover - Altogether

10. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

11. Counterparts - Nothing Left To Love

12. Left Behind - No One Goes To Heaven

13. The Devil Wears Prada - The Act

14. Better Off - Reap What You Sow

15. Surfaces - Where The Light Is

16. Microwave - Death Is a Warm Blanket

17. Denzel Curry - ZUU

18. Motionless In White - Disguise

19. Mat Kerekes - Ruby

20. Emarosa - Peach Club

Owen Jones (photographer):

Steve Hackett - At The Edge Of Light

Overkill - The Wings Of War

In Flames - I, The Mask

Devin Townsend - Empath

Whitechapel - The Valley

PUP - Morbid Stuff

The Damned Things - High Crimes

Bad Religion - Age Of Unreason

Sammy Hagar & The Circle - Space Between

Whitesnake - Flesh & Blood

Biffy Clyro - Balance, Not Symmetry

Northlane - Alien

Knocked Loose - A Different Shade Of Blue

Killswitch Engage - Atonement

SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds

Gravemind - Conduit

Disentomb - The Decaying Light

Voyager - Colours In The Sun

Baroness - Gold & Grey

Megan Langley (writer):

Hot Milk - “Are You Feeling Alive?”

Telltale - “Timeless Youth”

Northshore - “For What It’s Worth”

Yours Truly - “Afterglow”

Noah Kahan - “Busyhead”

Pacific Nerve - “Feel Alive”

I Prevail - “Trauma”

Arrested Youth - “Sobville: Episode I”

Point North - “Retrograde”

Wage War - “Pressure”

Youth Fountain - “Letters To Our Former Selves”

Grayscale - “Nella Vita”

Last Night Saved My Life - “Cherry”

In Her Own Words - “Steady Glow”

Awaken I Am - “The Beauty In Tragedy”

Waterparks - “FANDOM”

Sleep On It - “Pride And Disaster”

Young Culture - “(This Is) Heaven”

Cory Wells - “The Way We Are”

Victory Lane - “Bare Bones”

Christopher Michael Ovens Sneddon (writer):

20. Angel Du$t - Pretty Buff

19. Lost in the Riots - Bonds

18. Ithaca - The Language of Injury

17. Spielbergs - This is Not The End

16. Bats - Alter Nature

15. Idle Hands - Mana

14. Jamie Lenman - Shuffle

13. Black Dresses - Thank You

12. Fontaines DC - Dogrel

11. Blockhead - Free Sweatpants

10. Gender Roles - Prang

9. Microwave - Death is a Warm Blanket

8. St Pierre Snake Invasion - Caprice Enchante

7. Press Club - Wasted Energy

6. Billy Woods - Hiding Places

5. Brutus - Nest

4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

3. Black Futures - Never Not Nothing

2. Dinosaur Pile-Up - Celebrity Mansions

1. PUP - Morbid Stuff