We didn’t end up having enough nominations to justify a poll - no worries, Lemmy is still small and growing, that’ll happen. Here are my own picks, with the nominations we did have added at the end (next up: Silent Killers, EPs, and Off-Genre)

1. Carnosus - Visions of Infinihility (Sweden - bc, s, yt, em)
2. The Zenith Passage - Datalysium (USA-CA - bc, s, yt, em)
3. Cryptopsy - As Gomorrah Burns (CAN-QC - bc, s, yt, em)
4. Xoth - Exogalactic (USA-WA - bc, s, yt, em)
5. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite (USA-CA - bc, s, yt, em)
6. The Ritual Aura - Heresiarch (AUS-WA - bc, s, yt, em)
7. Gorod - The Orb (France - bc, s, yt, em)
8. Suffocation - Hymns from the Apocrypha (USA-NY - bc, s, yt, em)
9. Omnivortex - Circulate (Finland - bc, s, yt, em)
10. Sleep Terror - Railroad to Dystopia (USA-WA - bc, s, yt, em)

Also, since we didn’t end up doing a poll, here are the other user-submitted albums:

• Kataklysm - Goliath (USA/CAN - s, yt, em)
• The Eating Cave - The Miscalculation (USA-VA - bc, s, yt, em)