2019
Watch this space…
2020
Album of the Year: Zeal and Ardor, Wake of a Nation**
The best of the rest:
An Autumn for Crippled Children, All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet*
Band-Maid, Unseen World*
Clara Engel, Hatching Under the Stars*
Fish, Weltschmerz*
Niku Daruma, Light Up the Room*
Emma Ruth Rundle/Thou, May Our Chambers Be Full*
Sarah Hennies, Spectral Malsoncities*
Ulcerate, Stare into Death and Be Still*
The Vomit Arsonist, None of Us Are Worth Saving*
2021
Album of the Year: Frontierer, Oxidized**
The best of the rest:
M.W. Daniels, Keeley*
Filth Is Eternal, Love Is a Lie, Filth Is Eternal*
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Candyman*
Raison d’Être, Daemonum/Daemoniacum*
Emma Ruth Rundle, Engine of Hell*
Silver Godling, Witness, Unweave*
Succumb, XXI*
Thy Light, Thy Light*
Various Artists, We, Jonathan*
2022
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Album of the Year: Zeal & Ardor, Zeal & Ardor**
The best of the rest:
E-L-R, Vexier*
Fletcher, Girl of My Dreams*
Diamanda Galás, Broken Gargoyles*
Aaron Martin, The End of Medicine*
Merzbow, Animal Liberation: Until Every Cage Is Empty*
Murderous Vision, The Gas Stove Companion*
Vampiir Nazarenii, An Eyeless Savior*
V/A, Fuck Kelloggs: A Mostly Mayo Compilation*
Johanna Warren, Lessons for Mutants*
2023
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Album of the Year: An Autumn for Crippled Children, Closure**
The best of the rest:
Austere, Corrosion of Hearts*
Cryptopsy, As Gomorrah Burns*
Kitchen Cynics, Fractured Memories*
Liturgy, 93696*
Merzbow, CATalysis*
Murderous Vision, Amor Fati*
Orbit Culture, Descent*
The Owl, Exit to Entrance*
Zombie Deer, Adrenochrome*