Another year gone by again and like almost every year we where treated with a variety of great releases. Not only by the bigger bands and the well known but also by some new fresh groups who really at some points raised the bar for the veterans in the genre. 

1. Corroded – Defcon Zero

And last but not least, my number one. Maybe for most this one will have stayed below the radar although the guys from Corroded really delivered the goods here. On this album just every single thing is just right. Nothing is overdone and that’s how it should be. The groovy metal these guys bring just sucks you in, and every song just sucks you in deeper and deeper. It’s a really varied: some songs are real groovy headbang songs, some of them are real listeners, they even manage to bring a seriously good ballad to top all of this. So for me it was clear that they would have ended high in my year list. Only after seeing them perform as support act of Pain they made it clear that it would became my number one for this year. I can only say one more thing about this, PERFECTION.