As we dash towards the holidays and the end of the year Ghost Cult is feeling good about this season of giving. So we are giving our fans a chance to get to know our partners, peers, and friends  from bands in the world of music. They will chime in with some guest blogs, end of year lists, and whatever else is on their minds as we pull the plug on 2015. Today we have Bidi van Drongelen, Dutch booker and manager who has worked with the likes of The Devil’s Blood, Saint Vitus, Ghost, In Solitude and many more. Every year a multitude of his bands get booked at the excellent Roadburn festival, and we have asked him what he feels were the best releases of 2015.

1. Klone – Here Comes The Sun

Great songwriting, amazing vocals, and a crystal clear though heavy production blending prog and post metal.

2. Ghost – Meliora

Ghost has it all to become one of the leading melodic heavy rock bands in the world

3. Bliksem – Gruesome Masterpiece

If you like Metallica’s Master of Puppets of Death Angel’s ACT III….with the a raw female voice like Doro.

4. Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors

Great atmospheric rock album with the amazing voice of Mlny Parsonsz

5. Tribulation – Children of the Night

Melodies of occult rock like The Devil’s Blood drenched with a satanic black voice which reminds of Satyricon.

6. Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss

Refreshing approach of doom & drone. ART with capital A!

7. Paradise Lost – The Plague Within

8. Steak Number Eight – Kosmokoma

9. Melechesh – Enki

10. Enslaved – In Times

11. Clutch – Psychic Warfare

12. Thy Catafalque – Sgurr

13. Amorphis– Under The Red Cloud

14. RAM – Svbversvm

15. BRING ME THE HORIZON– That’s The Spirit

16. Mgła – Excercises In Futility

17. Baroness – Purple

18. Leprous – The Congregation

19. Graveyard – Innocence & Decadence

20. Hangman’s Chair – This Is Not Supposed To Be Positive

Bidi Bookings online