Best metal songs of 2019 so far

Loudwire made our metal year so far much easier by compiling what they hear are best metal songs. It's not all, not everything is that great, but it's a start. So, they've got "an instant Amon Amarth classic" Raven's Flight, Born Of Osiris who "teeter between glitchy palm-muted chugs and atmospheric textures" in Cycles of Tragedy, "metal’s next breakout band" Jinjer with Perennial, "technical, thrashy and deliriously spastic" As I Lay Dying in Redefined, Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton solo work with late Chester Bennington in Cross Off, "unmistakable take on modern prog" by Opeth in Heart in Hand, Periphery "keep doing whatever the hell they want" on Blood Eagle, Slipknot "capture the familiar sounds of the band’s past efforts, while foreshadowing the darkness" in Unsainted, Ultar go "beyond traditional black metal and avant-garde music" in Father Dagon. There's more where this came from...