2005 is the year when I returned to metal after being away for 9 years.

1. Process Of Guilt - Erosion

2. Krallice - Diotima

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Before The Rain - ...One Day Less

5. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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What I listened to last year.

1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2. Alda - : Tahoma :

3. Alrakis - Alpha Eri

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion

5. Ash Borer - Ash Borer

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I have listened like 70-80 metal albums released in 2011 until 20 August 2012 and this is my top list of them. Couple of other quite good albums simply didn't make it into selection of 20, it was a bit challenging to select only 20 pieces. But would be pointless to list nearly all or all of them on the other hand...

1. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

2. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

3. Alestorm - Back Through Time

4. Peste Noire - L'Ordure A L'etat Pur

5. Darkal - Here Comes The Darkness

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My version of The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes) only this time it's more The Epics (Songs Over 10 Minutes) because we kept griping to PG and he wouldn't update his list. According to his profile he hasn't been on in... 371 days. So I thought "Hey, why not do it myself?"
Arranged by time. If you feel or know a song should be on here, let me know. I'm a mainstream fag, so I only listen to the popular stuff. I might have missed some bands.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

4. Nile - Ithyphallic

5. Nightwish - Once

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I'm still catching up on 2011 while putting together my 2012 list. Here's what I've heard from 2011. This is bound to change a bit as I re-listen to these albums with a more critical ear and discover albums I missed entirely.

1. Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

2. Cormorant - Dwellings

3. Sleestak - The Fall of Altrusia

4. Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

5. Falls of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

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This is a favorites list, not a guide or anything of that sort. It just highlights the albums that I've enjoyed listening to and spinned extensively since last November (When I got into this monolithic genre.) One entry for each band. The descriptions aren't necessarily descriptions of the music. I just wrote what came to my mind. I will update with new albums frequently.
EDIT: Got to 50 entries, so I guess I'll stop for now. I want more time to revisit these 50, get into the other albums of the bands listed below and delve into other genres of metal. I guess that taking a break from black metal (at least new stuff) will ensure that I won't get bored of it. It is likely that I'll continue this list by the half of July.

1. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2. Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4. Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5. Alda - : Tahoma :

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Here it is! Yet another unimaginative list of albums released in 2011!

1. MurkRat - Drudging The Mire

2. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

3. Omit - Repose

4. The Wounded Kings - In The Chapel Of The Black Hand

5. Aquilus - Griseus

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1. Krallice - Diotima

2. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

3. Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

4. Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

5. Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

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I have decided to whittle this down to 10 albumsl

Honorable mentions: Mastodon (The Hunter), Omnium Gatherum (New World Shadows), Lantlôs (Agape), Insomnium (One For Sorrow), Aaskereia (Dort, wo das alte Böse ruht)

1. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

2. Fen - Epoch

3. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance

4. Deafheaven - Roads to Judah

5. Mournful Congregation - The Book of Kings

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No aww-derr. Anything that feels like a 7.5+ will probably appear here before being filtered for an end-of-year list. Mostly researched stuff outside of Metal Storm. Songs from the majority of these can be found on Youtube, Bandcamp and/or Spotify.

1. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

2. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

3. SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

4. Botanist - I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose From the Dead

5. Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

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