I really don't see what is so great about Skyclad at all @ this board. Everyone is always raving about them in one way or another, and just like Slint, they are excessively overrated here.
That said, here are a few of my fave metal releases so far this year...
Abigor - Fractal Possession
Ajattara - Kalmanto
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Alchemist - Tripsis
Altorių eėliai - Margi Sakalai
Anaal Nathrakh - Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn
Black Funeral - Waters Of Weeping
Blood Of The Black Owl - Blood Of The Black Owl
Corpus Christii - Rising
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
Doomsword - My Name Will Live On
Eminenz - Eminenz
Evoken - A Caress Of The Void
Farsot - IIII
Forest Of Impaled - Rise And Conquer
Forgotten Tomb- Negative Megalomania
Frostmoon Eclipse - Another Face Of Hell
Glorior Belli - Manifesting The Raging Beast
Gospel Of The Horns - Realm Of The Damned
Hel - Tristheim
Horna - Haudankylmyyden Mailla
Immolation - Shadows In The Light
Impaled Nazarene - Manifest
Impiety - Formidonis Nex Cultus
Krohm - The Haunting Presence
Lifelover - Erotik
Locus Mortis - Voust
Morkheim - Danske Hymer Til Morket
Morrigan - The Damned
Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
Neurosis - Given To The Rising
Nile - Ithyphallic
Novembre - The Blue
Omega Massif - Geisterstadt
Portal - Outre'
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead
Red Harvest - A Greater Darkness
Slavland - Echa Wieków Pradawnych
The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing
The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure
Thunderbolt - Apocalyptic Doom
Trelldom - Til Minne
Varg - Wolfszeit
Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Xasthur - Defective Epitaph