What else should I buy from 2018 (or earlier)?

It looks like 2018 wasn't a very good year (to me). I just went through the "New Albums for 2018" thread and didn't find much I'd buy (i.e., I would listen to over and over). In fact I had already planned to buy 3 that didn't even appear. 

Ashes Remain
Relentless Flood
Set for the Fall

I plan to give these better listens. What else should I include? (Most of you know I'm picky about lyrics and vocalists.)

All for the King
Deth Enemy
Fight the Fury
Ledger
Limberlost
Lordchain
Sardonyx
Stryper
Wytch Hazel

Virgin Black - Requiem: Pianissimo is a top choice for me this year.

^If Pianissimo isn't EVERYONE'S #1 choice... well, they're wrong.     My favorite Christian releases are...

Full Lengths:
Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo
Wytch Hazel - II: Sojourn
Leonov - Wake
Sardonyx - Sons Of The Kingdom
Children Of Wrath - Supernatural Dimensions

EPs:
The Slave Eye - Unto Hades
Vials Of Wrath - Ataraxia
Parakletos - Se Guds Lamm
Throne Of Awful Splendor - All Lights Relinquished

I think Death Therapy is still planning on releasing their new one this year which will most certainly be on this list.

Perhaps I should have chosen a different topic title as neither reply so far seems appropriate for what I'm after. 

(Though kerrick also likes Wytch Hazel and his mention of Death Therapy made me recall wanting to re-listen to Deth Enemy I think they were called.)

Limberlost is great musically, but their lyrics aren't going to be very "evangelical"...I didn't notice anything I found objectionable in them...but many people would listen to them and have little to no clue that it is a band full of Christians.

You did get the Lordchain worship album didn't you?  (I'm pretty certain it was only offered digitally)

I would recommend the new EP by Crimson Bridge Ministry.  I don't know if you'd like their vocalist, but they are lyrically very bold in their faith.  I dig 'em!

Check out Luke Easter's The Pop Disaster

in no particular order...

Impellitteri - Nature of the Beast  (maybe #1)
Sardonyx - Sons of the Kingdom
Jimmy P Brown's - Eraserhead
Grave Robber - Escaping the Grave
Millennial Reign - The Great Divide
Primal Fear - Apocalypse (secular)  (maybe #1)
Judas Priest - Firepower
Narnia - Made in Brazil
Luke Easter - The Pop Disaster

Favorite Reissue... No contest... SOLDIER "BABYLON 30 Years and Beyond" ... for deeply personal reasons!!

I changed the title since it was clearly throwing people off and they weren't reading the OP.

What else should I consider buying from 2018 knowing lyrics must be Christian and songs must be pretty melodic in general (I'll be singing/humming along usually)?

I've removed Ledger because the rest of the EP is sort of weak and Limberlost for lyrics on Staybrite's advice.

The suggested Sardonyx album is good for what it is, but I know I wouldn't listen to it much at all like I do Theocracy so it's out.

Chaotic Resemblance have a great album out this year.  May be my album of the year!

For the type of lyrics you like, Topshot, I would still recommend the newest Crimson Bridge Ministry EP that came out this year.  Also, Deny The Fallen would be right up your alley.  That's the new band that Rey Parra from Sacred Warrior is with that released their album this year.  It is lyrically very strong.

alldatndensum wrote:

Also, Deny The Fallen would be right up your alley.

Sounds pretty promising! I'm shocked I can find nothing about them here before your comment.

I want to like CBM, but something was off the first time I listened at work (with only 1 ear). I'll give them another shot with both ears sometime.

The last time I checked Deny the Fallen hadnt released a physical CD... just downloads...

I could be wrong at this point ... I had looked at picking it up a month or two ago...

I believe you're correct. A couple of my favorites on the list have as well.  One at least does plan to release a hard copy in a month or two. Haven't heard back yet from the other.