Passive/Aggressive

Året der gik – Skribenternes lister 2019

December 27 2019
Caterina Barbieri

Ivna Franic

Dansk:
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
SØS Gunver Ryberg: “Entangled” (Avian)
Code Walk: “Distance” (Peder Mannerfeldt Produktion)
Spellcaster: “Inventory” (Visage)
Yuri: “Menat” (Janushoved)

Internationalt:
Caterina Barbieri: “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego)
HTRK: “Venus in Leo” (Ghostly International)
Kali Malone: “The Sacrificial Code” (iDEAL)
Hiro Kone: “A Fossil Begins to Bray” (Dais)
Nkisi: “7 Directions” (UIQ)
Holly Herndon: “PROTO” (4AD)
Helm: “Chemical Flowers” (PAN)
Ana Roxanne: “~~~” (Leaving Records)
Lingua Ignota: “Caligula” (Profound Lore)
Carla dal Forno: “Look Up Sharp” (Kallista Records)
Félicia Atkinson: “The Flower and the Vessel” (Shelter Press)
Matana Roberts: “Coin Coin Chapter 4: Memphis” (Constellation)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: “Ghosteen” (Ghosteen Ltd.)
Jenny Hval: “The Practice of Love” (Sacred Bones)
Chromatics: “Closer to Grey” (Italians Do It Better)
Maria W. Horn: “Epistasis” (Hallow Ground)
Triad God: “Triad” (Presto!?)
Fenella: “Fenella” (Fire Records)
Lafawndah: “Ancestor Boy” (CONCORDIA)
Alessandro Cortini: “Volume Massimo” (Mute)

Oddsize:
SCRAAATCH: “Teardrops” (Self-released)
mapalma: “Diabolical Glitter” (Self-released)
Caroline K: “Don’t Believe It’s Over” (Mannequin)
Jonnine: “Super Natural” (Good Morning Tapes)
Kelela: “Aquaphoria” (Warp)

Erika de Casier

Alexander Julin

Dansk:
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Forte: “Intermissions” (ØEN Rec)
Yearling: “PARTNERS008” (Partners)
Josiah Konder: “Through the Stutter” (Third Coming Records)
Central: “Om Dans” (Help Recordings)
Sortlegeme: “Awe” (Perfect Aesthetics)
V/A: “Summer Storms” (Posh Isolation)
Erika de Casier: “Essentials” (Independent Jeep Music)
Yuri: “Menat” (Janushoved)
Code Walk: “Distance” (Peder Mannerfeldt Produktion)

Internationalt:
Kali Malone: “The Sacrificial Code” (iDEAL)
Caterina Barbieri: “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego)
Maria W. Horn: “Epistasis” (Hallow Ground)
Pataphysical: “Periphera” (12th Isle)
Jefre-Cantu Ledesma: “Tracing Back the Radiance” (Mexican Summer)
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy: “Whities 023 (The Act of Falling From the 8th Floor)” (Whities)
Serpente: Parada” (Ecstatic Recordings)
Helm: “Chemical Flowers” (PAN)
Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: “FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem” (RVNG)
JAB: “Erg Herbe” (Shelter Press)

Honourable mentions/EP’er/reissues:
David Granstrom: “A distant color, secluded” (Xkatedral)
Don’t DJ: “Laniakea” (Honest Jon’s Records)
Oli XL: “Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer” (Bloom)
Loraine James: “For You & I” (Hyperdub)
DJ Nigga Fox: “Cartas Na Manga” (Príncipe)
xin: “Melts Into Love” (Subtext)
Leif: “Ogam-Ogam EP” (Livity Sound)
Anunaku: “Whities 024” (Whities)
Ernest Hood: “Neighborhoods” (Freedom To Spend)
Lanark Artefax: “Corra Linn” (Numbers)
Toshifumi Hinata: “Broken Belief” (Music From Memory)
Clarice Jensen: “Drone Studies” (Geographic North)
Ondo Fudd: “Eyes Glide Through the Oxide” (Trilogy Tapes)
Rafael Anton Irisarri: “Solastalgia” (Room 40)
Young Marco: “Bahasa” (Island of the Gods)
Tasho Ishi: “Dentsu2060” (Presto?!)
Ondness: “Not Really Now Not Anymore” (Holuzam)
DJ Haram: “Grace EP” (Hyperdub)
Regular Citizen: “Sleeping Unique (Presto?!)
Low Jack: “Jingles du Lieu-dit” (Les Disques De La Bretagne)
Leif: “Loom Dream” (Whities)
DJ Python: “Derretirse” (Dekmantel)
Ellen Arkbro: “CHORDS” (Subtext)
Heith: “Mud” (Saucers)
HXE: “INDS” (UIQ)
Rainer Veil: “Vanity” (Modern Love)
Holly Herndon: “PROTO” (4AD)
Puto Tito: “Carregando A Vida Atrás Das Costas” (Príncipe)
Roza Terenzi: “Let’s Ride” (Dekmantel)
Aponogeton: “A Place of Solace” (Stroom)
Ghostride the Drift: “Ghostride the Drift” (xpq?)
Triad God: “Triad” (Presto?!)
MSYLMA: “Dhil-un Taht Shajarat Al-Zaqum” (Halcyon Veil)

Merdh Laleh

Mikkel Arre

Dansk:
Collider: “-><-” (Escho)
Merdh Laleh: “Water For Your Eyes” (Petrola80)
Jonas Munk/Nicklas Sørensen: “Always Already Here” (El Paraiso Records)
My Beautiful Decay 1973: “Bloom” (Cosmopol Music Group)
øjeRum: “Syv segl” (Obsolete Future)

Honorable mentions:
Sortlegeme: “Awe” (Perfect Aesthetics)
LOL Beslutning: “Destina & Destine” (Mauds Records)

Internationalt:
Blanck Mass: “Animated Violence Mild” (Sacred Bones)
Caterina Barbieri: “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: “Tracing Back the Radiance” (Mexican Summer)
The Humble Bee & Offthesky: “All Other Voices Gone, Yours Remains” (IIKKI)
Loraine James: “For You & I” (Hyperdub)
Leo Svirsky: “River Without Banks” (Unseen Worlds)
Nkisi: “7 Directions” (UIQ)
Sault: “5” (Forever Living Originals)

Honorable mentions:
Big Thief: “U.F.O.F” (4AD)
King Midas Sound: “Solitude” (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Matmos: “Plastic Anniversary” (Thrill Jockey)
Nivhek: “After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house” (Yellow Electric)
Oli XL: “Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer” (Bloom)

Oddsize:
Xenia Xamanek: “Togetherness Mixtape” (The Lake)
Olof Dreijer: “RA.662” (Resident Advisor)
oqbqbo: “Untitled” (Posh Isolation)
V/A: “HyperSwim” (Hyperdub/Adult Swim)

Helt, helt uden for kategori:
Björk, Royal Arena, 05.12.19

Gud Er Kvinde (G.E.K.)

Programmørens årslister

Dansk:
G.E.K.: “Mahatma”
Carsten Bo Eriksen: “Bloom”
O. Vaupel: “I Blegt og Køligt Lys”
Stress Indicators: “Seasons”
Ato Vari: “Stele”
Anders Vestergaard: “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect”
C. Haxholm: “Momentary”
We Like We & Jacob Kirkegaard: “Time is Local”
Peter Jørgensen: “Alt i stykker”
Vanessa Amara: “NTS 05.09.19”

Internationalt:
Sarah Davachi: “Pale Bloom”
Lori Goldston: “Things Opening”
Kajsa Lindgren: “Everyone is Here”
Eva-Maria Houben: “Erwartung 1 und 2” 
Miaux: “Black Space White Cloud”
JAB: “Erg Herbe”
Maria W Horn: “Epistasis” 
Félicia Atkinson: “The Flower and the Vessel”
Anne Müller: “Heliopause”
Christina Vantzou: “Six Cellos for Sol LeWitt”

Koncerter:
Gestalt Minimal (Torup Kontemporær festival)
Sarah Davachi (Sankt Johannes Kirke)
P.O. Jørgens (Insula)
Misantrop (Ved Siden Af)
Kali Malone & Erik Enocksson (Koncertkirken)

Non-music:
Emil Savas: “Dead Paintings”

Brahja

Mathias Ruthner

Dansk:
Forte: “Intermissions” (ØEN Records)
Collider: “-><-” (Escho)
Kasper Marott: “Forever Mix” (Kulør)
Peter Jørgensen: “Alt i stykker” (No Technique)
øjeRum: “Syv segl” (Obsolete Future)
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Teguh Permana & Yngel: “Teguh Permana & Yngel” (Resonans)
Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sørensen: “Always Already Here” (El Paraiso Records)
Sortlegeme: “Awe” (Perfect Aesthetics)
NL110: “Agility” (No Hands)

Internationalt:
Brahja: “Brahja” (RR Gems)
MMMD: “Egoismo” (Antifrost)
Akira Rabelais: “CXVI” (Boomkat Editions)
Nivhek: “after its own death/walking in a spiral towards the house” (Yellow Electric)
Deaf Center: “Low Distance” (Sonic Pieces)
Daniel Schmidt and the Berkeley Gamelan: “Abies Firma” (Recital)
Sarah Davachi: “Pale Bloom” (W.25th)
Deathprod: “Occulting Discs” (Smalltown Supersound)
75 Dollar Bill: “I Was Real” (Thin Wrist)
Kali Malone: “The Sacrificial Code” (iDEAL Recordings)

Heathe

Kim Elgaard Andersen

Dansk:
Croatian Amor: “Isa” (Posh Isolation)
Denial of God: “The Hallow Mass” (Hells Headbangers)
Gullo Gullo: “Raw Moon” (Escho)
Heathe: “On the Tombstones; the Symbols Engraved” (Wolves and Vibrancy)
Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sørensen: “Always Already Here” (El Paraiso Records)
Lunden: “Lunden” (Abstract Tits)
Musik til mor: “ζωή” (Aftenrutine)
Town Portal: “Of Violence” (Small Pond)

Internationalt:
Arthur Russell: “Iowa Dream” (Audika Records)
Bill Orcutt: “Odds Against Tomorrow” (Palilalia)
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal: “Hiding Places” (BackwoodzStudios)
Black Midi: “Schlagenheim” (Rough Trade)
Black to Comm: “Seven Horses for Seven Kings” (Thrill Jockey)
Cult of Luna: “A Dawn to Fear” (Metal Blade Records)
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib: “Bandana” (ESGN)
Injury Reserve: “Injury Reserve” (Loma Vista)
Little Simz: “Grey Area” (Age 101)
Lizzo: “Cuz I Love You” (Nice Life/Atlantic)
Michael Kiwanuka: “KIWANUKA” (Polydor/Interscope)
Motorpsycho: “The Crucible” (Stickman Records)
Purple Mountains: “Purple Mountains” (Drag City)
Roy Montgomery: “After Nietzsche” (Aguirre)
Shellac: “The End of Radio” (Touch and Go)
Sunwatchers: “Illegal Moves” (Trouble in Mind)
Swans: “Leaving Meaning” (Young God/Mute)
Tool: “Fear Inoculum” (Volcano Entertainment/RCA)
Tyler, the Creator: “IGOR” (A Boy Is a Gun/Columbia)
Ustad Saami: “God Is Not a Terrorist” (Glitterbeat)
Waste of Space Orchestra: “Syntheosis” (Svart Records)
Your Old Droog: “It Wasn’t Even Close” (Gogul Mogul)

SØS Gunver Ryberg

Sandra S. Borch

Dansk:
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Central: “Om Dans” (Help Recordings)
Erika de Casier: “Essentials” (Independent Jeep Music)
Merdh Laleh: “Water For Your Eyes” (Petrola80)
Sofie Birch: “Island Alchemy” (Constellation Tatsu)
SØS Gunver Ryberg: “Entangled” (Avian)
øjeRum: “Syv segl” (Obsolete Future)

Oddsize/bånd/compilations:
Amniote Edition (label)
Artigeardit: “Gothersgade” (track) (Heritage)
DJ Sports: “Akrasia” (EP) (Help Recordings)
Vanessa Amara: “NTS 05.09.19” (Radio-mix) 
Schacke: “Kisloty People” (track) (Kisloty)

Internationalt:
19 Gadi Pirms Sākuma: “19 Years Before the Beginning” (Stroom)
Celestial Trax: “Serpent Power” (True Aether)
DJ Haram: “Grace” (Hyperdub)
DJ Python: “Derretirse” (Dekmantel)
Geko: “22” (3Beat)
Georgia: “Immute” (Ekster)
Koffee: “Rapture” (Promised Land Recordings/Columia)
Lukid: “Drip” (Arcola)
Nkisi: “7 Directions” (UIQ)
Ondo Fudd: “Eyes Glide Through the Oxide” (The Trilogy Tapes)
Upsammy: “Wild Chamber” (Nous’klaer Audio)

Special mention:
Farai: “National Gangsters” (LYZZA Remix) (Big Dada)
ELLLL: “Confectionary” + “Polarbergs” (Glacial Industries)

Boblere:
MC Yallah: “Kubali” (Hakuna Kulala)
Caterina Barbieri: “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego)
Slikback: “Tomo” (Hakuna Kulala)
Oli XL: “Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer” (Bloom)
LOFT: “and departt from mono games” (Tri Angle)
Matmos: “Plastic Anniversary” (Thrill Jockey)


ML Buch

Simon Christensen

De mest opsigtsvækkende / pirrende / inspirerende udtryk, men ikke nødvendigvis mest ensrettede produkter fra 2019:

Dansk:
Erika de Casier: “Essentials” (Independent Jeep Music)
Gossiwor: “Domestic Saga” (5 Gate Temple)
Collider: “-><-” (Escho)
Lowly: “Hifulatin” (Bella Union)
G.E.K.: “Mahatma” (Aether Prod.)
Bjørn Svin: “2 Point 5 Step Pets” (Endless Process)
Anders Vestergaard: “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect” (Anyines)
Henrik Thor Oscar Olsson: “Hand of Benediction” (Barefoot Records)
LOL Beslutning: “Destina & Destine” (Mauds Records)
Dinner Boi: “Nice Oxy” (37d03d)

Oddsize:
Soho Rezanejad: “Torino” (Silicone Records)
Centeret: “2000” (Centeret)
ML Buch: “I Feel Like Giving You Things” (single) (Anyines)
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Jaleh Negari: “wood·body·inside·concrete excerpts” (selfreleased)
Fryd Frydendahl & Lars Greve: “Solhverv” (Roulette Russe)
Julie Bo: “Collected Songs” (reissue) (Forlaget Kornmod/Ark Tarp)
Gate Hand: “Songs to the Keeper” (Sensorisk Verden)
G Bop Orchestra: “Pile Up” (One Take Records)
Weirdozer: “Weirdozer” (Gold Records)

Internationalt:
The Caretaker: “Everywhere, an Empty Bliss” / ”Everywhere at the End of Time 4-6” (History Always Favours the Winners)
Jenny Hval: “The Practice of Love” (Sacred Bones)
Moor Mother: “Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes” (Don Giovanni Records)
Bill Callahan: “Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest” (Drag City)
Kim Gordon: “No Home Record” (Matador)
William Tyler: “Goes West” (Spooky Buffalo Music)
FKA twigs: “Magdalene” (Young Turks)
75 Dollar Bill: “I Was Real” (Thin Wrist)
Purple Mountains: “Purple Mountains” (Drag City)
Aldous Harding: “Designer” (4AD)

Anbefalede festivaler og line-ups fra året:
Torup Kontemporær
Festival for Virkelig Ny Klassisk Musik
Percussive Outreach Programme SuMMeR SuMmiT
Kill Town Death Fest
Fanø Free Folk Festival
Frigjort Festival

Spellcaster, selfie

Emil Grarup

Dansk:
Spellcaster: “Inventory” (Visage)
LOL Beslutning: “Destina & Destine” (Mauds Records)
Josiah Kender: “Through the Stutter” (selvudgivet)
Jamaika: “Nordsiden” (Sony)
Schacke: “Kisloty Forever” (Kisloty)
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
When Saints Go Machine: “So Deep” (Escho)
Ydegirl: “Notes19” (Visage)
Nehoki: “Petersminde” (Saino)
Forte: “Intermissions” (ØEN Records)
Sortlegeme: “Awe” (Perfect Aesthetics)

Internationalt:
Kali Malone: “The Sacrificial Code” (iDEAL recordings)
GAIKA: “HEATERS 4 THE 2 SEATERS” (Warp)
Mana: “Seven Steps Beyond” (Hyperdub)
Kassel Jaeger: “Le Lisse et Le Strié” (Latency)
Caterina Barbieri: “Ecstactic Computation” (Editions Mego)
13 Block: “BLO” (Capitol)
Tasho Ishi: “Dentsu2060” (Presto!?)
Carmen Villain: “Both Lines Will Be Blue” (Smalltown Supersound)
Guleed: “50 GRADER I FEBRUARI” (Sony)
Jay Mitta: “Tatizo Pesa” (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
Vtgnike: “Steals” (Other People)
UCC Harlo: “United” (Subtext)

Valentina Magaletti

Klaus Q.

Dansk:
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Broder: “Slagtorden” (Hævngær)
Anders Vestergaard: “Prime Float // Unitary Perfect” (Anyines)
Gabestok: “Tre” (Stranger Aeons)
Gullo Gullo: “Raw Moon” (Escho)
G.E.K.: “Mahatma” (aether productions)
Blot & Bod: “Ormekongens Argelist” (Iron Bonehead)
Lunden: “Lunden” (Abstract Tits)
Halshug: “Drøm” (Southern Lord)
Ulcerot: “Necuratu” (Extremely Rotten)

Internationalt:
Will Guthrie: “Some Nasty” (Hasana Editions)
Yellow Eyes: “Rare Field Ceiling” (Gilead Media)
Kurokuma: “Sheffield’s Best Metal Bands Vol. 1” (Off Me Nut)
Valentina Magaletti & Julian Sartorius: “Sulla Pelle” (Marionette)
Beth Gibbons / Krzysztof Penderecki: “Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3” (Domino)
Full of Hell: “Weeping Choir” (Relapse)
Lightning Bolt: “Sonic Citadel” (Thrill Jockey)
Mayhem: “Daemon” (Century Media)
Tomaga: “Extended Play 1” (Negative Days)
Girl Band: “The Talkies” (Rough Trade)
Richard Dawson: “2020” (Domino)
VLTIMAS: “Something Wicked Marches In” (Season of Mist)
Thom Yorke: “Anima” (XL Recordings)
Jenny Wilson: “Trauma” (Gold Medal)
Unsilent Death: “Sentient Autolysis” (Caligari)
Intensive Care / Incinerated: Split EP (Nerve Altar)
Friendship: “Undercurrent” (Southern Lord)
Eye Flys: “Context” (Thrill Jockey)
Joy: “No Light Below” (To Live A Lie)
Darkthrone: “Old Star” (Peaceville)

Aldous Harding

Adam Thorsmark

Dansk:
Trader: ”Trader EP” (selvudgivet)
Panser Kone: ”Drengene Hører Kidd Mens Jorden Går Under” (Fantasy Forever)
Ydegirl: “Notes 19” (Escho)
Astrid Sonne: “Cliodynamics” (Escho)
Josiah Konder: “Through the Stutter” (selvudgivet)
Lust for Youth: “Lust For Youth” (Sacred Bones)
Repro: “Post-Nostalgia” (Kulør)
Collider: ”-><-” (Escho)
Scandinavian Star: “Solas” (Posh Isolation)
Jonas Munk & Nicklas Sørensen: ”Always Already Here” (El Paraiso Records)

Internationalt:
Dylan Moon: “Only the Blues” (RVNG Intl.)
DIIV: “Deceiver” (Captured Tracks)
Cate Le Bon: “Reward” (Mexican Summer)
Aldous Harding: “Designer” (4AD)
Christelle Bofale: “Swim Team” (Father/Daughter Records)
Richard Dawson: “2020” (Domino)
Kim Gordon: “No Home Record” (Matador)
Carey: “The Driver” (Already Dead Tapes and Records)
Charli XCX: “Charli” (Atlantic)
Jenny Hval: “The Practice of Love” (Sacred Bones)
Jay Som: “Anak Ko” (Polyvinyl)
Purple Mountains: “Purple Mountains” (Drag City)
Blanck Mass: “Animated Violence Mild” (Sacred Bones)
DJ Nigga Fox: “Cartas Na Manga” (Príncipe Discos)
The Flaming Lips: “King’s Mouth” (Warner)
Fontaines D.C: “Dogrel” (Partisan Records)
Black Midi: “Schlagenheim” (Rough Trade)
Institute: “Readjusting the Locks” (Sacred Bones)
Holly Herndon: “Proto” (4AD)
Pile: “Green and Gray” (Exploding in Sound Records)

Denial of God

Rasmus Søndergård Madsen

Dansk:
1. Denial of God: “The Hallow Mass” (Osmose Productions/Hells Headbangers)
2. Gabestok: “TRE” (Strange Aeons)
3. Big Mess: “Blood Punk” (We Are Suburban)
4. Deiquisitor: “Towards Our Impending Doom” (Night Shroud)
5. Kogekunst: “LALA” (Musikkens Beskyttelse)
6. Apparatus: “Yonder Yawns the Universe” (Seed of Doom)
7. Altar of Oblivion: “The Seven Spirits” (Shadow Kingdom)

Internationalt:
1. Blood Incantation: “Hidden History of the Human Race” (Dark Descent/Century Media)
2. Purple Mountains: “Purple Mountains” (Drag City)
3. Crypt Sermon: “The Ruins of Fading Light” (Dark Descent)
4. Devil Master: “Satan Spits on Children of Light” (Relapse)
5. Tomb Mold: “Planetary Clairvoyance” (20 Buck Spin)
6. Reveal!: “Scissorgod” (Sepulchral Voice)
7. Ulver: “Drone Activity” (House of Mythology)
8. Sempiternal Dusk: “Cenotaph of Defectuous Creation” (Dark Descent)
9. Swans: “Leaving Meaning” (Young God Records)
10. Orthodoxy: “Novus Lux Dominus” (The Sinister Flame)
11. Krypts: “Cadaver Circulation” (Dark Descent)
12. Witch Vomit: “Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave” (20 Buck Spin)
13. Ruby Haunt: “The Middle of Nowhere” (Selvudgivet)
14. Jungstötter: “Love Is” (Pias)
15. Abyssal: “A Beacon in the Husk” (Profound Lore)
16. Riot City: “Burn the Night” (No Remorse)
17. Pissgrave: “Posthumous Humiliation” (Profound Lore)
18. Opeth: “In Cauda Venenum (Swedish Version)” (Moderbolaget/Nuclear Blast)
19. Fetid: “Steeping Corporeal Mess” (20 Buck Spin)
20. Nucleus: “Eternity” (Unspeakable Axe Records)
21. Mortiferum: “Disgorged From Psychotic Depths” (20 Buck Spin)
22. Lingua Ignota: “Caligula” (Profound Lore)
23. Nosferatu: “Solution A” (La Vida Es Un Mus)
24. Vacivus: “Annihilism” (Profound Lore)
25. Ossuarium: “Living Tomb” (20 Buck Spin)
26. Profetus: “The Sadness of Time Passing” (Avantgarde Music)
27. Darkthrone: “Old Star” (Peaceville)
28. Institute: “Readjusting the Locks” (Sacred Bones)
29. Rome: “Le Ceneri Di Heliodoro” (Trisol)
30. Fontaines D.C.: “Dogrel” (Partisan)
31. Zu: “Terminalia Amazonia” (House of Mythology)
32. Nodding God: “Play Wooden Child” (House of Mythology)
33. Meth Assassin: “Reptilian Side of God” (Terratur Possessions)
34. Devin Townsend: “Empath” (Inside Out Music)
35. Henryk Górecki, Beth Gibbons, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki: “Symphony No. 3 (Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs) Op. 36 (Domino)
36. Superstition: “The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation” (20 Buck Spin)
37. Funeral Presence: “Achatius” (Sepulchral Voice/The Ajna Offensive)
38. Saint Vitus: “Saint Vitus” (Season of Mist)
39. Teeth: “The Curse of Entropy” (Translation Loss)
40. Here Lies a Man: “No Ground to Walk Upon” (RidingEasy)
41. Kel Assouf: “Black Tenere” (Glitterbeat)
42. Mdou Moctar: “Ilana: The Creator” (Sahel Sounds)
43. Tinariwen: “Amadjar” (Wedge)
44. Chromatics: “Closer to Grey” (Italians Do It Better)
45. Orville Peck: “Pony” (Sub Pop)
46. Nocturnal Departure: “Cathartic Black Rituals” (Selvudgivet)
47. Departure Chandelier: “Antichrist Rise to Power” (Nuclear War Now!)
48. Devourment: “Obscene Majesty” (Relapse)
49. Teitanblood: “The Baneful Choir” (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
50. Haunter: “Sacramental Death Qualia” (I, Voidhanger)

Uden for kategori:
Vinyltrolden: “Vinyltroldens Historier (What Happened to the Reason For Screaming)” – Alt overskud går til Børnecancerfonden.

Oddsize:
Black Curse: “Endless Wound” (Demo) (Sepulchral Voice)
Denial of God: “The Shapeless Mass” (Osmose Productions)
Of the Wand and the Moon: “Bridges Burned and Hands of Time” (Heidrunar Myrkrunar/Tesco)
Lugubrum/Urfaust: “Bradobroeders” (Ván Records)
Sedimentum: “Demo 2019” (Selvudgivet)
Ariel Pink: “Oddities Sodomies Vol. 2” (Mexican Summer)
Chthonic Deity: “Reassembled In Pain” (Demo) (Carbonized Records/Woodsmoke/Lunar Tomb)
Abysmal Grief/Abhor: “Legione Occulta​/​Ministerium Diabol” (Iron Bonehead)
Phobophilic: “Undimensioned Identities, EP (Blood Harvest)
Suffering Hour: “Dwell” (Blood Harvest)
Undergang: “Ufrivillig Donation Af Vitale Organer” (Me Saco Un Ojo)
Sanguisugabogg: “Pornographic Seizures” (Demo) (Maggot Stomp)
V/A: “Killtown Death Fest 2019 Compilation” (Maggot Stomp)
Grift: “Aftonklang: Live at Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum” (Nordvis Produktion)

Genudgivelser:
Randy: “The Studio Anthology” (inkl. 7″ replika af “Shadows Are Falling/Beast in the Night”) (No Remorse)
Andrew W. K.: “I Get Wet” (Universal/Island)
Ulver: “Trolsk Sortmetall 1993–1997” (Century Media)
Reverend Bizarre: “In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend” (Svart)
Miles Davis: “Ascenseur Pour L’Échafaud” (Pan-Am)
Reverend Bizarre: “Harbringer of Metal” (Svart)
Reverend Bizarre: “Death is Glory… Now” (Svart)
Solanaceae: “Solanaceae” (Heiðrunar Myrkrunar)
Anal Cunt: “Picnic of Love” (Anti-Corp)
Venetian Snares: “Greg Hates Car Culture” (20th Anniversary) (Timesig)

Soundtracks:
V/A: “The Irishman OST” (Sony)
V/A: “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Columbia)
Hildur Guðnadóttir: “Chernobyl (Music From the HBO Miniseries)” (Deutsche Grammophon)
Ben Frost: “Dark: Cycle 1 (Original Music From the Netflix Series)” (Invada)
Ben Frost: “Dark: Cycle 2 (Original Music From the Netflix Series)” (Lakeshore)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: “Watchmen: Vol. 01 (Music From The HBO Series)” (The Null Corporation)
Bobby Krlic: “Midsommar OST” (Milan)
Hildur Guðnadóttir: “Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Watertower Music)
SQÜRL: “The Dead Don’t Die (Score)” (Sacred Bones)
Kaada: “ZombieLars Soundtrack” (Mirakel Recordings)

Koncerter:
1. Ulver, Roskilde Festival
2. Killtown Death Fest:
– Abysmal Dimensions
– Black Curse
– Funebrarum
– Malthusian
– Tomb Mold
– Vastum
– Profetus
3. Tormentor, Metal Magic Festival
4. King Diamond, KB Hallen
5. Sleep, Train
6. Chromatics, Desire, Vega