1.Adagio - Life

2.Anathema - The Optimist

3.Annihilator - For The Demented

4.Anubis Gate - Covered In Black

5.Accept - The Rise Of Chaos

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One band, one album in alphabetical order. No EPs, demos, etc.
Favourite album: Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
Favourite song: Schammasch - "Above The Stars Of God"

1.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Aenaon - Hypnosophy

5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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This is my Top-20 list of the albums I listened to obsessively this year. Apart from #1 the rest are in no particular order. Feel free to comment.

Other albums that I enjoyed a lot, but didn't make the list: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper, Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep, The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension, Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him, Loss (USA) - Horizonless, Iced Earth - Incorruptible, Havok - Conformicide, Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy, River Of Souls - The Well Of Urd, Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness, Below - Upon A Pale Horse, Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy, Immolation - Atonement, Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie, Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King, Converge - The Dusk In Us, Ophis - The Dismal Circle, Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus, Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death, Persefone - Aathma, Necrot - Blood Offerings.

1.Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth

2.Venenum - Trance Of Death

3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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1.Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished

2.The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost

3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers

4.Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence

5.Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension

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1.Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis

2.Leprous - Malina

3.Decapitated - Anticult

4.Archspire - Relentless Mutation

5.Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

2.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

3.Persefone - Aathma

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Soen - Lykaia

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1.Adagio - Life

2.Obscurity - Streitmacht

3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5.Orden Ogan - Gunmen

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Still got plenty of stuff to catch up from Q1 and Q2 from this year, but will probably end up checking out some stuff from second half of 2017 before I'm done with all of that, so here's this list.

1.Mastodon - Cold Dark Place

2.The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

3.Passages - Lucid

4.Enslaved - E

5.Dvne - Asheran

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2017, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Leprous - Malina

2.Enslaved - E

3.Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

4.Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora

5.Body Count - Bloodlust

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1.Orden Ogan - Gunmen

2.Nokturnal Mortum - Істина

3.Lęk - Shadows of Black Souls

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Aherusia - Prometheus: Seven Principles On How To Be Invincible

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1.Threshold - Legends Of The Shires

2.Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge

3.Persefone - Aathma

4.Anathema - The Optimist

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮ - Disappointing

1.Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth

2.Sólstafir - Berdreyminn

3.Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis

4.Benighted - Necrobreed

5.Immolation - Atonement

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1.Abbath - TBA

2.Accept - The Rise Of Chaos

3.Arch Enemy - Will To Power

4.Atrophy - TBA

5.Bathsheba - Servus

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