This is a “best of the month” list for this month, but making the title “Best of May 2015” sounds like giving too much of a spotlight for such a short span of time, and devaluating the word “Best of” somewhat, in my opinion. Therefore I chose a title to reflect reality more clearly: these are the only albums we heard of on this website this month that were decent enough to not be considered utter disgraces to the metal genre (those were in the SMRs or were ignored). The “decent” are those that show consistency in style, coherence, a direction and a clear artistic voice and goals. The “rescuable” are those that are still confused in their composition — unclear, or that seemed to be impeded from development by their own approach to music-making (or that of their own genre).

The Decent

• Ascended Dead – The Advent                                      review
• Blasphemic Cruelty – Crucible of the Infernum      review
• Exhumation – Opus Death                                           review
• Luciferian Rites – When the Light Dies                     review
• Necrophor – Exterminatus                                          review
• Nekromanteion – Cosmic Horrors                             review
• Perversor – Anticosmocrator                                      review
• Shroud of the Heretic – Unorthodox Equilibrium  review
• Undead – False Prophecies                                           review

The Rescuable

• Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror                review
• Bureviy – Concealed Beyond the Space                     review
• Dew-Scented – Intermination                                     review
• Maruta – Remain Dystopian                                       review
• Undergang – Døden Læger Alle Sår                           review
• Wende – Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft    review

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