1. High on Fire - De vermis Mysteriis

2. Early Graves - Red Horse

3. Horseback - Half Blood

4. The Howling Wind - Of Babalon

5. Old Man Gloom - NO

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Now that the year is coming close to an end, I draw the line and show the albums that impressed me (more or less) this year. This is not a best to worst list.

1. Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made

2. Threshold - March of Progress

3. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

4. In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. OSI - Fire Make Thunder

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1. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

3. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4. Anathema - Weather Systems

5. Ihsahn - Eremita

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My evolving list of 2012

1. The Faceless - Autotheism

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4. Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn

5. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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While I'm slightly disappointed the world didn't end this year, I thought I'd share my musical tastes from throughout the year by arbitrarily ranking other people's art. When the year began I was really into sludge and stoner but as the year has worn on, it's been the black metal releases which by and large have won my attention and appreciation.

1. Royal Thunder - CVI

2. Ancestors - In Dreams and Time

3. Merrimack - The Acausal Mass

4. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

5. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago

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Once again I have put together a top list of albums released during the year from best to worst. However, this time around I have also written a short personal opinion/mini review for most of the albums in their respective comment sections.

1. Royal Thunder - CVI

2. Lycanthia - Oligarchy

3. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht

4. Agruss - Morok

5. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry

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Ordered from best to worst. Because listing it is easier than voting and much easier than voting twice.

Latest additions: Blutmond, Wrathblade, High On Fire

Today is January 17, 2013. The update previous to this was on 5/5/12. Welcome to the future.
Fear not, dear reader, I've only been neglecting the list, but not the music.

1. Borknagar - Urd

2. Carach Angren - Where the Corpses Sink Forever

3. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

4. Enslaved - RIITIIR

5. Om - Advaitic Songs

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Albums that have intrigued me and ones that I've liked and loved from 2012, rather than EVERYTHING I've heard from 2012. One again, more emphasis on the obscure and the unknown.
No order.

BANDCAMP LINKS:

METAL
Monolithe | Sigh | Chimp Spanner | Orange Goblin | Christian Mistress | Lord Mantis | Kayo Dot | Nadja | Abigail Williams | Yayla | Nachtruf | What The Blood Revealed | Hiemal | Abyssal | Hellvetron | Bologna Violenta | Vulgaari | Prison Of Mirrors | Nebula VII | Umbah | Ice Dragon | Vattnet Viskar | Biipiigwan | Conan | Pike | A Cloud Forest | Noûs | Beyond Terror Beyond Grace | Abest | Apotheosis | Hivelords | Spelljammer | Inverloch | SaturninE | Demon Lung | Bloodshot Dawn | Book Of Sand | Agruss

1. Reverence - The Asthenic Ascension

2. Monolithe - Interlude Second

3. Diskord - Dystopics

4. Sigh - In Somniphobia

5. Agruss - Morok

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This list is entirely subjective (a detail that seems important to add sometimes).
I update it quite often, changes in my taste, etc etc ...
PS : If you see some albums here before their release date, just notice that I'm reviewer

1. Threshold - March Of Progress

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Enslaved - RIITIIR

4. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

5. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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This is my work-in-progress rankings of the albums I've listened to in 2012. The order is likely to change throughout the year.

10 - Godly Album. Will likely listen to at least once a week for a decade.
9 - Fantastic Album. Will be a classic I remember even in senility.
8 - Great Album. Will recommend to friends.

1. Cannibal Corpse - Torture

2. Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

3. Spawn of Possession - Incurso

4. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5. Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn

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Welcome to Lkoturnindrin's obligatory rating system of 2012. There will be only one voice of reason, mine. And since I have loads of albums to review, that will be all.

Re-edits in process

1. Christian Mistress - Possession

2. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

3. High on Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

4. Pharaoh - Bury the Light

5. Ram-Zet - Freaks in Wonderland

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Other good lists with some melodic metal in them:
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's

Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list... last year saw maybe forty or so releases I thought of as 7.5+'s, a lot of them rated only at the end of the year, and some not rated at all due to the extensiveness of pre-MSA listening sessions... if you want to stalk my "bad" ratings, they're all in my album votes.

1. Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

2. Dissona - Dissona

3. Big Big Train - English Electric 1

4. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

5. Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit

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I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. Some stuff as a result will be missing, but major stuff not present is stuff I probably didn't care for. Alrighty then, enough with the "stuff"...

1. Bound by Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy of Nerak

4. Dissona - Dissona

5. Anhedonist - Netherwards

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A list, much like my list of good 2011 albums. Ranging from great to good. Will be subject to constant adding, trimming & editing until end of January, 2013. Mostly stuff I've reviewed.

1. Lurk - Lurk

2. Everything Went Black - Cycles Of Light

3. Murder Construct - Results

4. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

5. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

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No longer going to list the albums in order of preference, can't rate music like that. Gonna go alphabetically.
January albums to listen to-Iron Fire, Horrendous

March albums to listen to- Sigh, God Forbid, OSI, Dark Empire, Ignivomous

May- Litrosis, Ne Obliviscaris

June- Miseration, Ihshan, Vintersorg, Abnormality, Gnaw Their Tongues,

1. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

2. 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution

3. Abigail Williams - Becoming

4. Abiotic - Symbiosis

5. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin

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