Wall of Sound presents: “2018 YEAR IN REVIEW” – by Collision Course/The Faction’s Tim Price

Its been a BIG year for Tim Price and The Faction/Collision Course team. Not only did The Faction host the very first Hardest 100 (which saw Architects – ‘Doomsday‘ take out the #1 spot) but the man and his team have worked with some huge, upcoming and established acts like Underoath, AFI, Reliqa, Steel Panther, Intervals, Poliphia, Drown This City, Gravemind and heaps more. 2019 is set to get even bigger for Pricey (you can get a sneak peek at the very end of his list) but until then, let’s see what he loved about the year with our Wall of Sound 2018 Year In Review…

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2018?

1. Parkway Drive – Reverence
2. Skyharbor – Sunshine Dust
3. Pagan – Black Wash
4. Underoath – Erase Me
5. Dance Gavin Dance – Artificial Selection

 

6. Hyro The Hero – Flagged Channel
7. High Tension – Purge
8. Sevendust – All I See is War
9. Dead Letter Circus – Dead Letter Circus
10. Tonight Alive – Underworld

 

TOP 10 SONGS OF 2018?

1. COG – ‘The Middle’
2. Parkway Drive – ‘Wishing Wells’
3. Hyro The Hero – ‘Bullet’
4. Underoath – ‘On My Teeth’
5. Redhook – ‘Minute on Fire’

6. Circles – ‘Tether’
7. Gravemind – ‘Lifelike’
8. High Tension – ‘Ghost to Ghost’
9. Bring Me The Horizon – ‘MANTRA’
10. Architects – ‘Royal Beggars’

 

BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF 2018?

Local Band – Above, Below – ‘Beyond The Mosaic Garden‘

National Band – Parkway Drive – ‘Prey’

International Band – Bring Me The Horizon – ‘MANTRA’

 

BEST GIG YOU’VE SEEN IN 2018?

Easily Parkway Drive/Killswitch Engage/Thy Art is Murder at Riverstage.

📷: Gethin Hill  (Gethin Hill Photography)

NEXT BIG BAND/S TO WATCH IN 2018?

Windwaker, Redhook, Gravemind, The Beautiful Monument, Stepson, She Cries Wolf

 

FAV BAND YOU DISCOVERED IN 2018?

Hyro The Hero

 

WHAT ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2019?

Working on some seriously rad new stuff from some BIIIIIGGG bands – and releasing Collision Course’s first label release. Shhhh.

By Tim Price of The Faction