1. Alcest - Kodama

2. Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3. Uada - Devoid of Light

4. Harakiri for the Sky - III: Trauma

5. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole of the Law

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I have never attempted to create a complete end of the year list so far, but here it is. It consists of the albums that I have either purchased myself throughout the year (most of them), or that I still spent enough time listening to to get a more or less complete impression (a few). I know that there are countless albums out there that I haven't paid any attention to so far and I might change the list a bit in the coming months because of that. Since I am mostly listening to Black Metal, expect to see a lot from that genre in my list.

1. Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion

2. Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether

3. Schammasch - Triangle

4. Inquisition - Bloodshed Across The Empyrean Altar Beyond The Celestial Zenith

5. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law

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This is my Best of 2016. Obviously a work in progress. Still tons more new metal to be released this year. Right now I am going back to the early releases and making sure nothing fell through the cracks.

1. Swans - The Glowing Man

2. Sumac - What One Becomes

3. Wormed - Krighsu

4. Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts

5. Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void of Power

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Here we go again. This time around though I probably won't end up listening to as many albums as previous years. Time will tell.

Top 10 Bandcamp links:

Subrosa - For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale
Darkher - Realms
Fvnerals - Wounds
Tardigrada - Emotionale Ödnis

1. Subrosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages

2. Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

3. Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

4. Darkher - Realms

5. Fvnerals - Wounds

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Picked my top 25. Should be good.
12/25/16

1. Mouth Of The Architect - Path Of Eight

2. Départe - Failure, Subside

3. Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend

4. Alder - Sun Worshipper

5. Numenorean - Home

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Work in Progress.
Top 30 favorite albums of the year. #31 onwards have not been sorted yet.

1. The Hotelier - Goodness

2. Thank You Scientist - Stranger Heads Prevail

3. Astronoid - Air

4. Modern Baseball - Holy Ghost

5. O'Brother - Endless Light

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Well, we're days away from 2016 and now 2016 albums are either streaming or leaking, therefore here starts my journey in 2016. Once again I consider myself interesting enough for it to be worthy of you to gaze upon the albums I listen to.

Edit: Now that it is 2016 this list is finally legit. Will also try to add stream links whenever possible.

1. Death Fetishist - Whorifice

2. The Lumberjack Feedback - Blackened Visions

3. Vinterblot - Realms Of The Untold

4. Temple Of Evil - The 7th Awakening

5. Lycus - Chasms

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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.

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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As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

1. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2. Sigh - Graveward

3. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. Sigh - Heir To Despair

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