2015 was a super-productive year for extreme music in general. A lot of groups managed to release great albums and it was a tough job for me to make the list below. I tried to listen to most of new releases, but it was almost impossible to check every release out there. I am sure, several albums could earn a place in the top albums of 2015, but i focused to the ones i heard most!
Thrash
1. Running Death - Overdrive
2. Slayer - Repentless
3. Volcano - Melt
4. Vhol - Deeper Than Sky
5. Nuclear - Formula For Anarchy
6. Bio-Cancer - Tormenting The Innocent
Death
1. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction
2. Malevolent Creation - Dead Man's Path
3. Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages
4. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within
5. Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine
6. Down Among The Dead Men - Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy!
Black
1. Havukruunu - Havulinnaan
2. Macabre Omen - Gods Of War At War
3. Enslaved - In Times
4. Amestigon - Thier
5. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Folk/Viking/Pagan
1. Korpiklaani - Noita
2. Helheim - RaunijaR
3. Svartsot - Vaeldet
4. Heathen Foray - Into Battle
5. Ensiferum - One Man Army
6. Manegarm - Manegarm
Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk
3. Extreme Noise Terror - Extreme Noise Terror
4. H2O - Use YourVoice
5. Captain Cleanoff - Rising Terror
6. Fuck The Facts - Desire Will Rot
Heavy/Power/Speed
1. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night
2. Satan - Atom By Atom
3. Ranger - Where Evil Dwells
4. Satan's Host - Pre-Dating God
5. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
6. Trial - Vessel
Doom/Sludge/Stoner
1. Pentagram - Curious Volume
2. Saturnalia Temple - To Ther Other
3. Dead To A Dying World - Litany
4. High On Fire - Luminiferous
5. My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery
6. King Heavy - King Heavy
