Beware of contact high and feelings of severe misanthropy.

1. Acid Witch - Stoned

2. Ancestors - In Dreams and Time

3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

4. Bongripper - Hippie Killer

5. Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

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I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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Jiri's best of 2012!!!

1. Aberrant Vascular - Aegisthus

2. Shining - Redefining Darkness

3. Royal Thunder - CVI

4. Master's Hammer - Vracejte Konve Na Místo

5. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht

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1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Ancestors - In Dreams And Time

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Royal Thunder - CVI

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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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These are the albums that are blasting my eardrums ... in a good way ... in 2012.

1. Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

2. Evoken - Atra Mors

3. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

4. Spectral Lore - Sentinel

5. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

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Best (and worst) of 2012.
Partially ordered (the ones with descriptions). The rest are arranged alphabetically.
Subject to change, as I see fit.

Not really considering EPs. More than enough full-lengths at hand anyways.

1. A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Xen

2. The Faceless - Autotheism

3. Sybreed - God Is An Automaton

4. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5. Ihsahn - Eremita

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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. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

4. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago

5. Merrimack - The Acausal Mass

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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. Agruss - Morok

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Lycanthia - Oligarchy

4. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht

5. Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

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Another year, another favourites of the year list... But hopefully this will be more complete than the previous years ones. Rather than making a massive list of everything I have listened to, I'll be as selective as possible. I've only started listening to 2012 releases since February, so I'll be playing catch up throughout the year as my time is limited. I've only gone through 556 releases this year properly as of 07/01/2013, so the list can only expand! If you feel strongly about certain albums released this year and it's not here, be sure to leave a comment! Feel free to make a list that's exactly the same =P

1. CSSABA - Underground Lo-Fi Songs

2. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

3. Monolithe - Interlude Second

4. Nadja - The Primitive World

5. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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Due to the overwhelming "popularity" of my last list, I have decided to do the same thing in 2012

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

2. Baroness - Yellow & Green

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

5. Royal Thunder - CVI

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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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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. Snapshot of 2012 for me. No longer editing.

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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My list of favourites and interests for this year ordered roughly in descending order. My new years resolution is to branch out a bit and listen to new and unfamiliar genres, metal and non-metal.

Edit: Anything above about a 7/10 I'll keep here. Now with approximate rating in a .5 scale and ordered according to **replay value** i.e how often I listen to them. AND now with some comments, adding them gradually.

1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Pharaoh - Bury The Light

3. Anglagard - Viljans Öga

4. Overkill - The Electric Age

5. The Foreshadowing - Second World

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