OVERDRIVE END OF YEAR – THE BEST OF 2018.
Posted on December 23, 2018 by Oran
As the final days of 2018 slip away, the Overdrive team took a look back on the albums and gigs that made the biggest impact for each of us.
It’s been a year of up’s and down’s but mostly a breath-taking 12 months of some stellar new music from all corners of the heavy metal universe.
Without further ado, let’s get stuck into Overdrive’s “Best of 2018” breakdown!
ORAN O’BEIRNE
- A Perfect Circle – ‘Eat The Elephant‘
- Turnstile – ‘Time and Space‘
- Zeal and Ardor – ‘Stranger Fruit‘
- Khemmis ‘Desolation‘
- Conjurer ‘Mire‘
- Tribulation ‘Nightbound‘
- YOB ‘Our Raw Heart‘
- Deafheaven ‘Ordinary Corrupt Human Love‘
- The Dirty Nil ‘Master Volume’
- Ihsahn ‘Àmr’
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Ghost – The Royal Albert Hall, London
- Danzig – Brixton Academy, London
- Iron Maiden – S.S.E Arena, Belfast, N. Ireland
- Slayer – 3Arena Dublin, Ireland
- Gary Numan – Olympia Dublin, Ireland
STEVE DEMPSEY
- Audrey Horne ‘Blackout‘
- Ghost ‘Prequelle‘
- Parkway Drive ‘Reverence’
- Amorphis ‘Queen Of Time‘
- Lychgate ‘The Conatgion in Nine Steps‘
- The Skull ‘The Endless Road Turns Dark‘
- Visigoth ‘Conqueror’s Oath‘
- Panopticon ‘The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness part II’
- Tribulation ‘Down Below‘
- Unleashed ‘The Hunt For White Christ‘
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- The Exploited – Voodoo Lounge, Dublin
- Zeal & Ardor – Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium
- Slayer – Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England
- Dead Cross – Graspop Metal Meeting, Belgium
- The Temperance Movement – Grand Social, Dublin
KERRI CLARKE
- Lord of the Lost ‘Thornstar‘
- Ghost ‘Prequelle‘
- The Lazy’s ‘Tropical Thunder‘
- Clutch ‘The Book of Bad Decisions‘
- Behemoth ‘I Loved you at your Darkest‘
- Amorphis ‘Queen of Time‘
- The Crawling ‘Wolves and the Hideous White‘
- Tribulation ‘Down Below‘
- Marduk ‘Viktoria‘
- Avatar ‘Avatar Country‘
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Satyricon/The Crawling, – Tivoli, Dublin, Ireland
- Lord of the Lost – Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, Scotland
- Combichrist – Limelight, Belfast, N. Ireland
- Courtesans – Sunflower Fest, N. Ireland
- Monster Magnet – Limelight, Belfast, N. Ireland
NORRIE KIVLEHAN
- Alkaloid ‘Liquid Anatomy‘
- Obscura ‘Diluvium‘
- Coheed and Cambria ‘The Unheavenly Creatures‘
- Cryptopsy ‘The Book of Suffering -Tome II‘
- Behemoth ‘I Loved You At Your Darkest‘
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Allegaeon – Voodoo, Dublin, Ireland
- Cannibal Corpse – Tivoli, Dublin, Ireland
- Pat McManus – On The Rox, Dublin, Ireland
- Sons of Apollo -Tivoli, Dublin Ireland
- Obscura -Tivoli, Dublin, Ireland
EOIN LAWLOR
- Judas Priest ‘Firepower‘
- Ghost – ‘Prequelle‘
- Gama Bomb ‘Speed Between The Lines‘
- Street Dogs ‘Stand For Something Or Die For Nothing‘
- Watain ‘Trident Wolf Eclipse‘
- Sick Of It All ‘Wake The Sleeping Dragon‘
- Clutch ‘The Book Of Bad Decisions‘
- Carpenter Brut ‘Leather Teeth‘
- Memoriam ‘The Silent Vigil‘
- Primordial ‘Exile Amongst The Ruins‘
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Iron Maiden – S.S.E Arena, Belfast, N. Ireland
- The Exploited – Voodoo Lounge, Dublin, Ireland
- Slayer – 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
- Saor – Glasgow, North Of The Wall Festival
- Testament – Vicar Street, Dublin Ireland
SHAUN MARTIN
- Machine Head ‘Catharsis’
- Devildriver ‘Outlaws til the End Vol 1’
- Black Stone Cherry ‘Family Tree’
- Burn the Priest ‘Legion XX’
- Judas priest ‘Firepower’
- Avatar ‘Avatar country 2’
- Amon Amarth ‘In Pursuit of Vikings’
- Halestorm ‘Vicious’
- Monster Magnet ‘Mindfucker’
- Black Label Society ‘Grimmest Hits’
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Slayer – 3Arena, Dublin Ireland
- Queen and Adam Lambert – Marlay Park, Dublin Ireland
- Black Stone Cherry – Dublin Academy, Ireland
- Def Leppard – 3Arena Dublin, Ireland
- Killswitch Engage – Dublin Academy, Ireland
ROSS McDermott
- Satan- ‘Cruel Magic‘
- Carpenter Brut ‘Leather Teeth‘
- Bloodbath ‘The Arrow of Satan is Drawn‘
- Revocation ‘The Outer Ones‘
- Ghost ‘Prequelle‘
- Clutch ‘The Book of Bad Decisions‘
- Gama Bomb ‘Speed Between the Lines‘
- Necrophobic ‘Mark of the Pentagram‘
- Immortal – ‘Northern Chaos Gods‘
- Judas Priest ‘Firepower Ghost‘
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Ghost – Royal Albert Hall, London
- Suicidal Tendencies – Bloodstock Festival, UK
- Jess and The Ancient Ones – North of the Wall Festival, UK
- Satyricon – Tivoli Theatre, Dublin Ireland
- Steven Wilson, Olympia Theatre, Dublin Ireland
STEPHEN BROPHY
- Myles Kennedy – Year Of The Tiger
- Sari Schorr – Never Say Never
- The Fierce And The Dead – The Euphoric
- Maverick – Cold Star Dancer
- Audrey Horne – Blackout
- Midnite City – There Goes The Neighbourhood
- Beyond Creation – Algorythm
- Blood Tsunami – Grave Condition
- The Temperance Movement – A Deeper Cut
- W.E.T. – Earthrage
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Iron Maiden – SSE Arena, Belfast – 02-08-2018
- Myles Kennedy – Academy, Dublin 05/07/2018
- Sons Of Apollo – Tivoli, Dublin 04-07-2018
- The Temperance Movement – Grand Social, Dublin – 27-02-2018
- New Model Army – Button Factory, Dublin – 07-12-2018
Bláthín Eckhardt
- Voivoid – The Wake
- Conjurer- Mire
- Skeletonwitch – Devouring Radiant Light
- Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats – Wasteland
- The Ocean – Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
- Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
- Tesseract – Sonder
- Sumac -Love in Shadow
- YOB – Our Raw Heart
- Haken – Vector
TOP FIVE LIVE SHOWS
- Gojira, Bloodstock Open Air UK
- Wiegedoo, Musik & Frieden, Berlin, Germany
- Inter Arma, Bi Nuu, Berlin, Germany
- YOB, Musik & Frieden, Berlin, Germany
- Graveyard, Desertfest, Berlin, Germany
Honorable mention (Tracks, EP’s and LP’s)
- Ruam Kingdom – Everything & Nothing
- Bailer – Long Gone
- Vein – Errorzone
- Words that Burn – When We’re Forgotten
- Arabrot – Why Do You Love
- Wordruna – Skald
- Soulfly – Ritual
- Sigh – Heir to Despair
- God Alone – Dagda
- ZhOra – Ruthless Bastards
- Grey Stag – The Guide
- High on Fire – Electric Messiah
- Under – Stop Being Naive
- Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror
- Jesus Piece – Only Self
- Tusky – Rated Gnar
- Lucifer – Lucifer II
- Sectile – The Hunt
- Don Broco – Technology
- Bleed From Within – Era
- Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal
Thank you to you all for your support in 2018. We’ll be back with a plethora of interviews, competitions, up to the minute news and much more in 2019.
Oran O’Beirne
www.overdrive.ie 2018
