Finding a rock album in 2018 feels like searching for a needle in a haystack of hip hop. That’s why I’ve done my best to collect all of the rock, alternative, indie, metal, and punk albums I’ve come across in 2018 into one list for you. It’s far from complete (especially when it comes to heavy albums) but hopefully you will be able to find at least a few albums and EPs you haven’t heard yet. Enjoy! (Oh, and feel free to contribute more to the list in the comments!)
- All Above Me – Return to the Battlefield
- Altar Boys – No Substitute
- Amongst the Giants – Obscene
- Andrew Serino – The Golden Thread
- Arms for Elephants – All Rise
- Assay – Opus Quest [EP]
- Author – IIFOIIC
- The Bell Jar – I Infest, Therefore I Am
- The Blamed / The Satire – Split [EP]
- Chaotic Resemblance – Covenant
- Chasing Victory – Friends Vol. 1 [EP]
- The Choir – Bloodshot
- City of Auburn – Spinning [EP]
- CLOUDLAND – Seasons [EP]
- Collington – In Between [EP]
- Coyote Choir – Volume 1
- Crowned In Chains – King Suffering
- Death Requisite – Threnody [EP]
- Deliverance – The Subversive Kind
- Dens – No Small Tempest [EP]
- Eager Seas – Mine As Well
- Earth Groans – Rahab [EP]
- Emery – Eve
- Eric Van Zant – Eric Van Zant [EP]
- Ethan Luck – Let It Burn
- Facing Fire – Facing Fire [EP]
- Fades Away – Resurrection Part I [EP]
- Faintheart – The Overview Effect [EP]
- Fight The Fury – Still Breathing [EP]
- Fine China – Fine China
- Fit For A King – Dark Skies
- Future Of Forestry – Union
- Grandpa Loves Rhinos – Better Eat Your Wheaties [EP]
- Haiva ru – Wildflowers [EP]
- Heart Like War – Start Over [EP]
- Honest Men – Honest Men [EP]
- Household – Everything a River Should Be
- Ignescent – Fearless [EP]
- Impending Doom – The Sin and Doom Vol. II
- Jeremy Ryan – Into the Light: Songs of Redemption and Hope in the Midst of Despair [EP]
- Kevin Max – AWOL
- Kevin Max – Romeo Drive [EP]
- Knox Hamilton – Beach Boy [EP]
- LEDGER – Not Dead Yet (Rock Mix) [EP]
- Light The Way – False Memory Syndrome
- Listener – Being Empty : Being Filled
- Living In Victory – Freeman [EP]
- Mae – Multisensory Aesthetic Experience
- Mainframe – Burn the Boats
- Memphis May Fire – Broken
- mewithoutYou – [Untitled]
- mewithoutYou – [untitled] e.p.
- Must Build Jacuzzi – Last Place
- My Epic – Ultraviolet [EP]
- My Heart Lies – Love and Fear
- The New Respects – Before The Sun Goes Down
- Odds of an Afterthought – Strongholds [EP]
- Off Road Minivan – Spiral Gaze [EP]
- The Paper Kites – On the Corner Where You Live
- Peter118 / The Bricks – Split [EP]
- P.O.D. – Circles
- The Prettybads – Meet the Prettybads
- The Protest – Legacy
- Ravenhill – Midnight Gold [EP]
- A Red Arrow – A Red Arrow [EP]
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – The Awakening
- Relentless Flood – Escape the Fall
- Reliance – Crashing Down [EP]
- Remedy Drive – The North Star
- Set for the Fall – Still Just Breathing
- Signal Versus Noise – Signal Versus Noise
- Silent Culture – God Only Knows [EP]
- Silent Planet – When the End Began
- Sleeping Giant – I Am
- Small Wars – Small Wars [EP]
- Stryper – God Damn Evil
- Talkie – Fundamental Things
- Theody – Prelude [EP]
- Thre3 – Do or Die
- Thrice – Palms
- Throne Of Awful Splendor – All Lights Relinquished [EP]
- Tourniquet – Gazing at Medusa
- Twenty One Pilots – Trench
- VERIDIA – The Beast You Feed
- Vital Empire – Now or Never
- We Are The City – AT NIGHT
- Zahna – Red For War
- Whale Bones – Island Fire
- WeAreGeneration – Small World
- Weathered – Stranger Here
Note: I left out quite a few re-releases and acoustic albums from this list.
I own some that weren’t on that list 😀
Convictions – Hope For The Broken
Darkness Divided – The End Of It All EP
Dreaded Dale – Wayward EP
Enoch – Killing Starts Where Hate Begins
The Hearkening – After Dark
Lifelong – Revive The Masses
Rapture LAHC – Unburned
Rivers & Robots – Discovery
I might have left out a few worship albums like R&R as well. I was working on several genre lists including a worship one, but I’m doubtful I’ll complete the others. There are just too many worship releases.
Whoa, Noah! That’s quite a list! I’ve got just a few to add to it. They’re as follows: Not Beneath “Memento Mori”, UntilWeDie “S/T”, Broken Graves “You Won’t Have Us” Voyagers “Cave In”, Where Fire May Fail “Destroy” EP, Living Water “S/T” EP, The Eagle & Child “All Moments”, Amor Oceanico “Axioma” Dreaded Dale “Wayward” EP, Preach It Ray Ray! “Seven Stars” EP, At Your Worst “Lament”, GOD “GOD III – Holy Spirit”, Meadows “In Those Days & Also After, Pt. I” EP, Skapaltata “Nada Que Perder”, Threnody “This Loss Is Love” EP, and Thin Ice “Misery Noose”. These albums… Read more »
“Chasing the Light”By Forever Endeavor!! We just did our CD release show with Names Without Numbers!!
I’m not sure if all the following artists are Christian, and some would fall more into the ‘folk’ genre, but I though these deserved a mention:
Andy Gullahorn – Everything as It Should Be
Archabald – Carcosa
Breakaway – Ignite [EP]
Dan Conway – Northernness
The Gray Havens – She Waits
Josh Garrels & Josh White – Resurrect Our Love [EP]
Mark Lee Townsend – 1919: The Ballad of Rexford
Samecity – Lowlands [EP]
Voyagers – Cave In [EP]
Beartooth – Disease
I’m so dumb I didn’t even realize Voyagers had their Ep out. I need to give it a listen along with the Josh Garrels and Josh White ep
I just listened to it, then immediately picked it up from Bandcamp. Really good stuff! The way they build up to the chorus in the title track is quite original. I hope they can gain some traction from this.
hopesfall- arbiter. album of the year for me
I just listened to a sample … doesn’t sound much like “No Wings to Speak Of” which is all that I know from them.