Brooklyn Vegan's 7 best metal albums of 2019 so far

Since B-Vegan is indie-rock loving, it's not your "usual metal" list. They chose German post-rock/black metal of Downfall of Gaia ("bring the punks, the metalheads, and the Explosions in the Sky fans together"), Finnish orchestral-metal collective Waste of Space Orchestra ("use rock instrumentation to create music with movements that echo classical music"), Polish black metal with church chants Batuschka, Icelandic black metal Sinmara ("raw metal band can clean up their sound without losing their edge"), UK metallic hardcore band Ithaca, thrash metal Oozing Wound, and American hardcore by One Step Closer.