2015 was a crazy year for hardcore, and as always, there are way too many good releases to select a personal top 9. I love looking back and realizing how many good bands are out there that write killer records; proof that hardcore is alive and well. All the contributors of Legends Arising selected their 9 favorite records of 2015 in random order. Enjoy!

Tim van Reyswoud – founder / editor-in-chief

1. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
2. The Beautiful Ones – Jaded Love
3. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
4. Malfunction – Fear of Failure
5. Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals
6. Spirits – Discontent
7. Coldburn – Down In The Dumps
8. Discourse – Sanity Decays
9. Drug Church – Hit Your Head

Anne Carolien Köhler – photographer

1. Death Cab For Cutie – Kintsugi
2. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
3. Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
4. Ryan Adams – 1989
5. Title Fight – Hyperview
6. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
7. Foundation – Turncoat
8. Best Coast – California Nights
9. Citizen – Everybody Is Going To Heaven

Alex Tabankia – writer

1. Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man
2. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
3. Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go
4. Harms Way – Rust
5. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
6. Blistered – The Poison of Self Confinement
7. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed
8. Self Defense Family – Heaven Is Earth
9. The World is a Beautiful Place… – Harmlessness

Alfie Nobes – writer

1. While She Sleeps – Brainwashed
2. Title Fight – Hyperview
3. Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals
4. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
5. Nai Harvest – Hairball
6. Discourse – Sanity Decays
7. Citizen – Everybody is Going to Heaven
8. Lotus – Israel
9. Spirits – Discontent

Wannes Dewanckel – writer

1. Title Fight – Hyperview
2. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed
3. Deafheaven – New Bermuda
4. Citizen – Everybody Is Going To Heaven
5. Forced Order – Vanished Crusade
6. The World is a Beautiful Place… – Harmlessness
7. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
8. Turnover – Peripheral Vision
9. xRepentancex – The Sickness of Eden

Victor de Meijier – writer

1. Coldburn – Down in the Dumps
2. The Story So Far – S/T
3. Malfunction – Fear of Failure
4. No Turning Back – Never Give Up
5. Wolf Down – Liberation EP
6. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
7. Forced Order – Vanished Crusade
8. Foundation – Turncoat
9. Action Bronson – Mr. Wonderful

Peter Kwint – writer

1. Blacklisted – When People Grow, People Go
2. Turnstile – Nonstop Feeling
3. G.L.O.S.S. – S/T
4. Ho99o9 – Dead Bodies in the Lake
5. Stray From The Path – Subliminal Criminals
6. Napalm Death – Apex Predator – Easy Meat
7. Terror – The 25th Hour
8. Free – Demo 2015
9. Spirits – Discontent

Niels Koster – writer

1. Title Fight – Hyperview
2. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed
3. The Body & Thou – You, Whom I Have Always Hated
4. Foxing – Dealer
5. Liturgy – The Ark Work
6. Noisem – Blossoming Decay
7. Xibalba — Tierra y Libertad
8. Teethgrinder – Misanthropy
9. Girlpool — Before The World Was Big

Though the selected records are in random order, I think we can congratulate Turnstile on putting out the record of the year as it returns in every single end-of-the-year-list I’ve seen this month.

Check out all our favorite records in the below Spotify playlist or click here.