1.Kauan - Sorni Nai

2.Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth

3.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

2.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

3.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4.Ayreon - 01011001

5.Igric - Svet Svetlom Stvorený

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This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement about the genre; for that reason, there are some entries that don't entirely fit the description, including some neofolk albums and bands that don't exactly play "folk metal" but are close enough.

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom

3.Forefather - Steadfast

4.Forefather - Last Of The Line

5.Dalriada - Áldás

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1.Draconian - Sovran

2.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Moonspell - Extinct

5.My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery

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I doubt that anybody cares but, this is everything I listened to from 2015 in order of my enjoyment. Any and all hate is welcome!

1.Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror

2.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

3.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Kamelot - Haven

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2015

1.Kauan - Sorni Nai

2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3.Act Of Defiance - Birth And The Burial

4.Ghost - Meliora

5.Draconian - Sovran

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1.Melechesh - Enki

2.Tengger Cavalry - Blood Sacrifice Shaman

3.Fear Factory - Genexus

4.Psycroptic - Psycroptic

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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In order(from best to worst)

1.Moonspell - Extinct

2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Raise Hell - Written In Blood

5.Ensiferum - One Man Army

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Complete with all reviews this year. Added the last review. Except for some really laaaate surprise, this year should be over.

Apologies for possible grammar error and for some repetitive leitmotiv.

Non MetalStorm band links:

Aurum Solis: http://frozenlightlabel.bandcamp.com/album/--9
Basarabian Hills: http://basarabianhills.bandcamp.com

1.Irreversible Mechanism - Infinite Fields

2.Ethereal Shroud - They Became The Falling Ash

3.Basarabian Hills - Enveloped In The Velvet Cloak Of Midnight

4.Nord Frost - Solstitium

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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This decade just keeps on delivering awesome albums. So glad that so many old favourites of mine delivered great stuff. Tribulation is by far the winner this year with one of the best albums I've ever heard.

1.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2.Arcturus - Arcturian

3.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Grift - Syner

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1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Moonspell - Extinct

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Angra - Secret Garden

5.The Gentle Storm - The Diary

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1.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

2.Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask

3.Ensiferum - One Man Army

4.Slayer - Repentless

5.Melechesh - Enki

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

(sorry for German commenting, i reuse the text mostly on my social media later)

1.Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei

2.SatanaKozel - North

3.Galar - De Gjenlevende

4.

5.Wolfheart - Shadow World

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

1.Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei

2.A Secret Revealed - The Bleakness

3.Wolfheart - Shadow World

4.My Sleeping Karma - Moksha

5.Ereb Altor - Nattramn

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