JERRY EWING (Editor)

1 VOYAGER Fearless In Love (SEASONOFMIST)

2MOON SAFARI Himlabacken Vol2 (BLOMLJUD)

3 GREEN LUNG This Heathen Land (NUCLEARBLAST)

4CROWN LANDS Fearless (SPINEFARM)

5 PETER GABRIEL i/o (REALWORLD)

6 SILVER MOTH Black Bay (BELLAUNION)

7 THE FIERCE &THE DEAD News From The Invisible World (SPENCER PARK MUSIC)

8 STEVEN WILSON The Harmony Codex (VIRGIN/SWRECORDS)

9 LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE Fire Fortellinger (KARISMA)

10 TREVOR RABIN Rio (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

11 GOAT Medicine (ROCKETRECORDINGS)

12 ENSLAVED Heimdal (NUCLEARBLAST)

13 TESSERACT War Of Being (KSCOPE)

14 KATATONIA Sky Void Of Stars (NAPALM)

15 BLOOD CEREMONY The Old Ways Remain (RISEABOVE)

16 EINAR SOLBERG 16 (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

17 HAKEN Fauna (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

18 GALAHAD The Long Goodbye (AVALON)

19 KLONE Meanwhile (KSCOPE)

20 THE ANCHORET It All Began With Loneliness (WILLOWTIP)

NATASHA SCHARF (Deputy Editor)

1. PETER GABRIEL i/o (REALWORLD)

2 KATATONIA Sky Void Of Stars (NAPALM)

3 VOYAGER Fearless In Love (SEASONOFMIST)

4 RIVERSIDE ID.Entity (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

5 THE OCEAN Holocene (PELAGIC)

6 GODSTICKS This Is What A Winner Looks Like (KSCOPE)

7 MYRKUR Spine (RELAPSE)

8 SILVER MOTH Black Bay (BELLAUNION)

9 SOEN Memorial (SILVERLININGMUSIC)

10 TESSERACT War Of Being (KSCOPE)

11 EARTHSIDE Let The Truth Speak (MUSICTHEORIES)

12 STEVEN WILSON The Harmony Codex (VIRGIN/SWRECORDS)

13 HILARY WOODS Acts Of Light (SACREDBONES)

14 JOHN LUNN, EIVØR AND DANNY SAUL The Last Kingdom – Destiny Is All (A&GSONGS)

15 THEFIERCE &THEDEADNews From The Invisible World (SPENCER PARK MUSIC)

16 EINAR SOLBERG 16 (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

17 KLONE Meanwhile (KSCOPE)

18 HAKEN Fauna (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

19 THE MYSTICAL HOT CHOCOLATE ENDEAVORS A Clock Without A Craftsman (MASSACRE)

20 MAEBE Rebirth. Relive. Repeat. (MAEBE.BANDCAMP.COM)

RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER (Art Editor)

1 THE FIERCE &THE DEAD News From The Invisible

World (SPENCERPARKMUSIC)

2 HEDVIG MOLLESTAD WEEJUNS Weejuns (RUNE GRAMMOFON)

3 CROWN LANDS Fearless (SPINEFARM)

4 JACOB HOLM-LUPO Entire Of Itself (APOLLON)

5 THE ANCHORESS Versions (DROWNEDINSOUND)

6 HAKEN Fauna (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

7 GOAT Medicine (ROCKETRECORDINGS)

8 VVON DOGMA I The Kvlt Of Glitch (VVONDOGMAI.BANDCAMP.COM)

9 HAWKWIND The Future Never Waits (CHERRYRED)

10 RING VAN MÖBIUS Commissioned Works Pt II –SixDropsOfPoison (APOLLON)

11 SOFT MACHINE Other Doors (DYAD)

12 CREEP SHOW Yawning Abyss (BELLAUNION)

13 SOLSTICE Light Up (GEP)

14 GONG Unending Descending (KSCOPE)

15 DBA Celestial Songs (SPIRITOFUNICORNMUSIC)

16 MOON SAFARI Himlabacken Vol 2 (BLOMLJUD)

17 HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE The Light Of Ancient Mistakes (GLASSCASTLERECORDINGS)

18 PHILIP SELWAY Strange Dance (BELLAUNION)

19 GREEN LUNG This Heathen Land (NUCLEARBLAST)

20 STEVEN WILSON The Harmony Codex (VIRGIN/SWRECORDS)

JULIAN MARSZALEK (News Editor)

1EMMA TRICCA Aspirin Sun (BELLA UNION)

2MAUD THE MOTH + TRAJEDESALIVA Bordando El Manto Terrestre (TIMERELEASEDSOUND)

3 CELESTIAL NORTH Otherworldly (1142994RECORDSDK)

4 GOAT Medicine (ROCKETRECORDINGS)

5 HAWKWIND The Future Never Waits (CHERRYRED)

6 THE CORAL Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show (RUNONRECORDS)

7 KING GIZZARD &THE LIZARD WIZARD PetroDragonic Apocalypse (KGLW)

8 KAVUS TORABI &RICHARD WILEMAN Heaven’s Sun (BELIEVERSROAST)

9 STEVEN WILSON The Harmony Codex (VIRGIN/SWRECORDS)

10 GONG Unending Ascending (KSCOPE)

11 THEY WATCH US FROM THE MOON Cosmic Chronicles, Act 1: The Ascension (NEWHEAVYSOUNDS)

12 JEGONG The Complex Inbetween (PELAGIC)

13 LAURA LORIGA Vever (GODUNKNOWNRECORDS)

14 OGIVES La Mémoires Des Orages (SUBROSA)

15 BLOOD CEREMONY The Old Ways Remain (RISEABOVE)

16 BEN REED Bandaged (ESOTERIC)

17 DAVID BREWIS The Soft Struggles (DAYLIGHTSAVINGRECORDS)

18 THE WITCHING TALE What Magic Is This? (BELLISSIMARECORDS)

19 ZAHN Adria (CRAZYSANERECORDS)

20 HATS OFF GENTLEMEN IT’S ADEQUATE The Light Of Ancient Mistakes (GLASSCASTLERECORDINGS)

DAVE EVERLEY (Reviews Editor)

1 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING This New Noise (TESTCARDRECORDINGS)

2 CROWN LANDS Fearless (SPINEFARM)

3 TESSERACT War Of Being (KSCOPE)

4 HAUNT THE WOODS Ubiquity (SPINEFARM)

5 MYRKUR Spine (RELAPSE)

6 GREEN LUNG This Heathen Land (NUCLEARBLAST)

7 STEVEN WILSON The Harmony Codex (VIRGIN/SWRECORDS)

8 PETER GABRIEL i/o (REALWORLD)

9 REFORMAT Precursed (FEARBONE)

10 GONG Unending Ascending (KSCOPE)

11 ENSLAVED Heimdal (NUCLEARBLAST)

12 SILVER MOTH Black Bay (BELLAUNION)

13 RIVERSIDE ID.Entity (INSIDEOUTMUSIC)

14 THEFIERCE &THEDEADNews From The Invisible World (SPENCER PARK MUSIC)

15 LARS FREDRIK FRØISLIE Fire Fortellinger (KARISMA)

16 GOAT Medicine (ROCKETRECORDINGS)

17 NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION United Wire (VINELANDMUSIC)

18 COVET Catharsis (TRIPLECROWN)

19 BELBURY POLY THEPATH (GHOSTBOX)

20 SERMON Of Golden Verse (PROSTHETIC)

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