48. Hemelbestormer - "The Radiant Veil"

Instrumental post-metal that views itself as a conceptual journey across the solar system. It is both big in ambition and in scale. It works on a monumentally large canvas, scoping a gargantuan cathedral of interlinking sound. Sometimes immensely heavy but also in other places scarce and sparse, it is a hypnotically entrancing album that feels like a meditation on our finite small part in the cosmos. Brilliantly rendered, it is a breathtaking record that looks up to the skies for both salvation and inspiration.