Best / Worst of 2019

[oppositional]

Jackson-Pratt / Blind Date - Split c-30 (Psychic Liberation)
Ex-Jesus - White Light Suffering Abcess c-20 (Inbred Vigor)
Ex-Jesus - Invisible Head c-20 (Inbred Vigor)
Jackson-Pratt - Showgirls 2xc-24 (Dead Gods)
Kyle Flanagan - Mind Eraser c-10 (FTAM)
Lapse - Adrenal Battering 2xc-8 (Dead Gods)
Lapse - Transmissible Cancer CD-r (Small Mercies)
Mo*te - Uncut 4xCD (Audio Dissection, Industrial Recollections)
Skin Graft - Solstice c-20 (Dead Gods)
Hostage Pageant - Shielding c-20 (Dead Gods)
Dominic Coppola - Elegant Confusion c-22 (Soundholes)
White Rhino Taxidermy - Detriment c-12 (Dead Gods)
Ornamental Hairpin - Camus in Japan c-32 (Adversary Electronics)
Shredded Nerve - Attempting an Exit c-54 + c-29 (Dead Gods)
Shredded Nerve - It Was Meant to Be CD-r (Small Mercies)

[New Forces]

In no particular order:

Treriksröset - Kristen Musik Från Rågsved (Harbinger Sound)
Wince - Shame (White Centipede Noise)
Kontinent - Pornography of Power (Unrest Productions)
MO*TE - Uncut (Audio Dissection / Industrial Recollections)
Pain Jerk - Mission Invisible (Hospital Productions
Rusalka - Base Waters LP (Absurd Exposition)
Skin Graft - Guilt (Alien Passengers)
Masonna - Bursting Absolute Moods (Urashima)
Aaron Dilloway / John Wiese ‎– Sniper Counter Sniper (Hanson Records)
TEF - Framework (Dada Drumming)
Various ‎– Bidödaren (Ferns Recordings)

[ashraf]

These got played twice or more this year.

Enrico Piva - Anticlima: the magnetic activity 1978-1999 (spazio di Hausdorff, 5CD)
Jeph Jerman - Arcane Facture (White Centipede Noise, CD)
Bekëth Nexëhmü ‎– De Fördolda Klangorna (Amor Fati, 2CD)
Red Wine & Sugar - A Population of Indoor Cats (Index Clean, LP)
Duncan Harrison - Nothing's Good (Index Clean, CD)
Yeast Culture ‎– Dueterium: Yeast Culture Improvacoustic Series Vol. 1 (Regional Bears, CS)
Russ Waterhouse - 1 Minute 2 Midnight (Drag City, LP)
Tape Dekay ‎– Decadimento Del Nastro - Decadenza Di Tutto (Old Captain, CD)
Serpent Crest ‎– Hatemonger Hill (New Era Productions, CS)
Vernal Equinox - New Found World (Aural Medium, LP)
Zyklon SS - Racial Superiority (Freak Animal, CD)
Mosquitoes ‎– Vortex Veering Back To Venus (Feeding Tube, LP)
His Name Is Alive - All The Mirrors In The House (Disciples, LP)
Brahmastrika - Excarnastrial Commencination (Dunkelheit, CS)
Reynols - Minecxio Emanations (Pica Disk, 6CD)
Nivhek - After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house (No label, 2LP)
Gabi Losoncy - I Can Be Convinced (Lake Shark HN, CD)
Sequences - Gathering Colours (Park 70, CS)
V/A - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (Light In The Attic, 2CD)
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race (Dark Descent, LP)
Takamitsu Ohta - Three Ways to Output From a Recorder (Careful Catalog, CD)
Shots - Private Hate (Careful Catalog, LP)
Endless Boogie - Basement Jam Ritual (No label, CDr)
Áine O'Dwyer/Graham Lambkin - Green Ways (Erswhile, 2CD)
Fetid – Steeping Corporeal Mess (20 Buck Spin, CD)
Moonbeam Terror - Comfort Knife (Hospital Productions, LP)
The True Werwolf ‎– Wolf Metal Armageddon (Out of the Dungeon, 2CD)
De Ambassade – Duistre Kamers (Knekelhuis, LP)

[totalblack]

In no order:

Thought Broadcast - Vertical Tomb CS
Sadio - Sensuous Agonizing Play CS
Mania - Hardly Lethal CS
Worth - everything this year was fantastic
Prurient - Garden Of Mutilated Paratroopers 2CS
Graustich ‎– See You When You Get There CS
Ossuary - Supreme Degradation CS
Vothana - Không Bao Giờ Nộp / Never To Submit CS
The Gerogerigegege - Uguisudani Apocalypse LP
Pissgrave - Posthumous Humiliation LP
Skin Crime - Traveller On The Road LP
Linekraft - Subhuman Principle LP
Hermann Nitsch - Traubenfleisch 2LP
Torba - Musique Inconcrete LP
Proiekt Hat - XXIII 7"
Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance LP
Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise To Power LP
Human Agony - Putrescence of Calvary LP
Detrimental Effect - Your Truth CD
Incapacitants - Ostracized Enigmatic Conqueror CD
Pain Jerk - Mission Invisible CD
Final Solution - Mass Death CD

reissues:
Smell & Quim - Atom Heart Motherfucker LP
Genocide Organ - Leichenlinie LP
Slogun - Pleasures Of Death 2LP
S.P.K. - Dokument III0 1979 3x7"
Hijokaidan - King Of Noise LP
Vatican Shadow - reissue series
Moonblood - Taste Our German Steel! LP + Blut & Krieg \ Sob A Lua Do Bode LP

Pretty horrible year overall. The deaths of Keith Brewer and Simon Morris end the year & decade on a truly awful note

[ashraf]

Psyched to learn that the Human Agony album came out. I checked discogs before making my list and it's not yet on there.

[JacksonPratt]

Taskmaster on FTAM was the best thing I heard this year.

Ex-Jesus - White Light Suffering Abscess, being a close second.

[Peterson]

To paraphrase Lou Reed, "There had been loss to temper any magic." Losing Keith and Simon sucked, and made an otherwise eventful year full of experiences and accomplishments feel drab and flat. I'm still grateful for the wealth of connections I've made this year in terms of new friends and existing ones becoming family. Relocating was exhilarating and much-needed. 2020 has a lot in store from myself and a lot of people I am supportive of.

Matthew Revert "The Honey Dodger" CS (Thalamos)
Matthew Revert "The You In Me Is Me" CD (Index Clean)
Duncan Harrison "Nothing's Good" CD (Index Clean)
Red Wine and Sugar "A Population of Indoor Cats" LP (Index Clean)
Red Wine and Sugar "Lake/Wildflower" CS (Thalamos)
Ligature "245 Days In Hell" CS (Monorail Trespassing)
Candy Ricotta "Fuck You, Pay Me" CS (No Rent)

Concrete Mascara "Bilharzia" CD (New Approach)
Worth "Black Medicine" CS (Wonderland Media, LLC.)

New Juche "The Devils" (Amphetamine Sulphate)
Simon Morris "Watching The Wheels" (Amphetamine Sulphate)

[Grübelschlinge]

Records that stuck in my head when thinking of 2019:

Der Tod und die Landsknechte - Söhne des Teufels 12"
Vapaudenristi - kohti kaaosta CD
Torba - musica convenzionale CD
ZSS - racial superiority CD
Final Solution - mass death CD

Great live celebration:

Tervahäät - Berlin 21.12.19
Akitsa/Blue Hummingbird on the Left -  Kopenhagen 15/16.03.19 (would have been even more killer without the drama)
Vapaudenristi/ZSS - Kontti 10.08.19
Vladimir Central - Berlin 19.12.19

Bullshit:

Personal downfall on almost all levels, but fixed now.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

_2019 Best Of_

What a great year for new releases, so many artists really coming into their own or perfecting their style. Hymenal Opening and Interracial Sex have both been incredibly impressive across multiple releases this year. I'm also loving the resurgence of the classic Americanoise style done by Jackson-Pratt, Blind Date, Form Hunter, Heat Signature and more.

Hymenal Opening - Red Hymen (*All of their releases this year, but this one is hard to top)
Jackson-Pratt ‎– Semi Good Lookin' (*One of many excellent releases in 2019)
Wince - Shame
Wince - Fester
Form Hunter - Dripping Curve
Heat Signature ‎– Dehumanization In Progress
Interracial Sex - Forced Busing
Interracial Sex - N* Addicted Jackaholic
Interracial Sex & Unexamine ‎– Vomit A River
Selected Killing - Secret Tombstone (*All releases from this batch were great)
Mania - Hardly Lethal
Mania - All Aftermath
Worth - Hidden in Christ
Skin Crime - Lot No. 249
Skin Crime - A Legacy of Blood
Bizarre Uproar - Indoctrination Of Fist & Cock
Pain Jerk - Mission Invisible
Wolf Creek - Corruption Overload
Wolf Creek / Reaper split (*Wolf Creek side is fantastic)
T.E.F. - Framework
Howard Stelzer / Brendan Murray - Commuter
Rudolf Eb.er ‎– Om Kult: Ritual Practice Of Conscious Dying Vol. I-III (*Most material came out in 2018 but I bought the whole set this year)

_Reissues_
Striations - Vietnamization 2xCD
Mo*Te - Uncut and all other individual albums
Merzbow - Metalvelodrome

_Bought but haven't listened to yet pile_
Scathing/T.E.F. - split (Dada Drumming)
Scathing - Scathing (Idiopathic)

[teenagelightning]

Best things in 2019
Vapaudenristi-Kohti kaaosta
Breathing problem/concave convex/interior one split CS
Sarin snow deus vult lp
Drudkh - a few lines in archaic Ukrainian
ZSS lp
Totale vernichtung reissues
Fresnes - chant nocturne
Aktion Algiz - borgnis desbordes
Wagner odegard releases
Departure chandelier LP
Fanebaere - fra hand til jord
Vothana never to submit
Lust for youth self titled
Zusammenbruch heinous actions LP
Getting to go to Europe and play shows with my friends, meeting lots of new great people, going back to school. lots of personal progress in terms of habit, productivity, fitness etc
Worst:
Dealing with local commies , totaling my car

[Vermin Marvin]

Not in order, there is lot that i have not heard yet but these comes to mind first:

Odal 1986-1989 Box  - Dead Mind Records
Sadistic Approach ‎– Perverse Pleasures Of Bitch Twins  CAS
Death Shape ‎– Master Of Moral CAS - OMM
Justified Rape    Feminism/Femicide CAS - OMM
Summary Of Hatred  - Invasion I CAS - OMM
Algor Mortis - Interrupted Decomposition CAS - OMM


V/A Juurimusiikkia Teknologian Jättömailta CAS
Flagellatio orgasmus - A Stranger To Extreme CD - INBREED
North Central "3CD-R
Taeter / Penetration Squadron - Taeter / Penetration Squadron CAS - OFR
Chaos Cascade    Of Bedlam And Barbarism CD - OFR !!!
Scatmother / Chaos Cascade - Sacrificial Rites Of Devotion LP - Dunkelheit Produktionen

Killer Bug / Maskhead    Shibari Dojo / Awakenings Of The Perverted Beast 7" - Hiisi Prod
Citalopram Shunyata  - Schoolgirl Reports CAS - Black Psychosis
Heretic Grail - The Hole Of Treason ‎CAS - Black Psychosis

Umpio - Acquired Tastes - Lost Tapes 2008-2011 2xCD Freak Animal
Zyklon SS - Racial Superiority CD Freak Animal
Worth - Ruination Assessment 3"CD Freak Animal
Selected Killing  - Secret Tombstone 3"CD Freak Animal
Jaakko Vanhala - Cuts Of Grace 3"CD Freak Animal
Grunt - Kraniometria 3"CD Freak Animal

Vile Vulgar ‎– Private Art - CAS IOPS
V/A Leather - CAS - IOPS

Goatmoon / Bizarre Uproar  Vaskivittu 7" - Filth&Violence
Cervical Smear - Real-Death Enthusiast CD - Filth&Violence
Bizarre Uproar - Lily The Flesh LP - Asrar

Worth - Pompeii Treatment CAS - ANGST
SCUM - Feelings Of Hate CAS -  ANGST
Interracial Sex - Nibler Addicted Jackaholic  CAS -  Nil by mouth

Bandcamp:
Deathbed Tapes
Signora Ward Records

Worst<.
GO : Obituary of americas LP

[Decrepitude]

These are some of the new releases that have made an impression on me
Fungus Exodus - Myco Sapiens CD
Day Of The Antler - Music From The Celestial Body CS
Am Not - Extraterritoriality CS
Gnawed - Flesh Renewed CS
Naxal Protocol - Critical Mutations CS
Cervical Smear - Desu Fairu / Atrocidades CS
Violent Shogun - Kokutai CS
Edge Of Decay - Passionate Concrete Love CD
Grim - Factory Ritual LP
Heretic Grail ‎– With Ropes and Broken Will CS
Pedestrian Deposit - Dyers' Hands CD

Edit:
forgot the Killer Bug/Maskhead 7" and Leather- Comp. Both are killer. Edit 2: The Rita CD on OFR was tremendous

[eyesofsatan]

There is some key stuff I still haven't heard that I imagine would have made this list: the most recent Prose Nagge batch, the most recent New Forces titles (gripped recently but haven't played), Rusalka LP, Receiving Vault batch etc. Got a lot of a catching up to do but this is what I enjoyed this year in regards to noise:

Releases:

Ex-Jesus - Born In a Trunk (Inbred Vigor)
Ex-Jesus - White Light Suffering Abscess (Inbred Vigor)
Ex-Jesus - Invisible Head (Inbred Vigor)
Heat Signature - Dehumanization In Progress (Oxen)
Glass Half & Heat Signature - The Dark Relief (Self-Released)
Pedestrian Deposit - Dyers' Hands (Monorail Trespassing)
Treriksröset - Kristen Musik Från Rågsved (Harbinger Sound)
Jackson-Pratt - Semi Good Lookin' (Monorail Trespassing)
Skin Graft - Guilt (Alien Passengers)
Sewer Election - Efterspel (Dead Gods)
Blind Date - Cowpoke (Dead Gods)
Vasculae - New Orthodoxy (Monorail Trespassing)

Live:
Richard Ramirez @ Hospital Fest
Skin Graft @ Ende Tymes
Coteries @ Hart Bar
Being @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Form Hunter @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Dean Hurley @ Public Records
Pedestrian Deposit @ Ende Tymes
Puce Mary @ Saint Vitus
Ex-Jesus @ Ende Tymes
Jackson-Pratt @ Ende Tymes
Shredded Nerve @ Ende Tymes
Sunk Cost @ 202
Pharmakon @ Saint Vitus
Bloodyminded @ 202

[Lazrs3]

My favourites I've reviewed or bought this year that came out this year in no order.

Rusalka - Base Waters.
Nacht Und Nebel - Limitations.
Ordeal by Roses - ST cassette.
Ordeal by Roses - A Petty and Childish Obsession.
Niku Daruma - She Gets What She Wants.
Suffer In April - Pomona.
Entre Vifs - Offrande et Partage.
Wolvestribe - Understanding the Ecological Role.
Testing Vault - Amnesia Milk.
S.T.A.B. Electronics - Enemy of Pigs.
Satori - The Braver The Bull the Better the Bullfight.
Active Denial - What Dreams are Made Of.
Detrimental Effect - Your Truth.
Ritual Chair - Exploit.
Scatmother/Chaos Cascade - Sacrificial Rites of Devotion.
Mai12 - Vczcvzx


Worst things about 2019.
Cat Getting run over.

Other Good Things.
Blogging.
Discovering Salford Electronics and Dave Padbury sharing my review out.
Getting Loads of stuff off Inner Demons Records- too many great releases to mention.

[ANGST]

Off the top of my head, in no particular order.

Treriksröset - MR SM C65 (private edition)
Kiran Arora ‎– Fever Swamp (New Forces)
Mistletoe - Azoth (Dead Gods)
Ex-Jesus ‎– Invisible Head (Inbred Vigor)
Ex-Jesus ‎– Born In A Trunk (Inbred Vigor)
Ex-Jesus ‎– White Light Suffering Abscess (Inbred Vigor)
Interracial Sex ‎– Nigger Addicted Jackaholic (Nil By Mouth)
Interracial Sex ‎– Forced Busing (New Forces)
Obsidian Needles ‎– Every Angel is Terrifying (self released)
Terror Cell Unit ‎– Dedicated To All Spree Shooters (Nefarious Activities)
Mania ‎– All Aftermath (Freak Animal)
Mania ‎– Untitled 7'' (Total Black)
Wince – Shame (WCN)
Publication Ban ‎– Doubts About The Value Of Prison (self released)
Scathing  ‎– s/t (Idiopathic)
Skin Crime - A Legacy Of Blood (Self Abuse)  
Lapse ‎– Transmissible Cancer (Small Mercies)
Worth ‎– Black Medicine (Wonderland Media, LLC)
Heat Signature  ‎– Dehumanization In Progress (Oxen)
Violent Shit Part Two ‎– Death To All Teenagers Who Fuck (Reanimated Miscarriage)
Hostage Pageant ‎– Shielding (Dead Gods)
J. Peterson – Refusal (Wonderland Media, LLC)
Skin Graft - Solstice (Dead Gods)
Interior One, Concave / Convex, Breathing Problem ‎– Examples Of Abductions And Kidnapping In The USA (BPP)
Body Carve ‎– Autoamputation (New Forces)
Ferro Mortem ‎– Live In Chicago (Endangered Species)
Taskmaster  ‎– s/t (Absurd Exposition)
Unborn Salivate ‎– Paraphiliac Orgiastic Atonement (P2)
Ossuary ‎– Supreme Degradation (Ruptured Fetus Productions)


Worst: You already know. RIP.