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AJ's Ranking Of 2017

My glorious ranking of the year of our Lord 2017

Top 50 rated 8 and above

Album count: 132
Average rating: 7.1


1.Enslaved - E
2.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
3.Pallbearer - Heartless
4.Myrkur - Mareridt
5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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Created by AJ The Great on 27.03.2023



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Currently Listening... (January 2023 Edition)

These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.71TONMAN - Of End Times
2.Acid Mammoth - Doom Sessions Vol. 2
3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma
4....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs
5.Bee Bee Sea - Sonic Boomerang

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Created by F3ynman2000 on 02.01.2023



M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites - 8s

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

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta
2.Sepulcros - Vazio
3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away
4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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Created by M0rkeleb on 04.12.2022



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Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and my death metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6298
prior to updating this one

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
2.King Diamond - Abigail
3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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Created by sgtrobo on 14.07.2022



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Fave BM (and BM-adjacent) Albums

* Updating this as I get around to doing song-by-song on RYM.
* 1 album per band
* limiting this to actual black metal releases, as opposed to releases by bands that were, at one time, black metal.
>> Some bands really do incorporate a lot of both death metal or doom (or avant garde or folk, etc) and black metal in their albums, so I consider them to be 'black metal adjacent' even if it might not be 'purely black metal'

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Created by sgtrobo on 26.11.2021



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Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal

Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done" metal band/album that isn't on my list, feel free to recommend

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
4.Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
5.Thorns - Thorns

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Created by sgtrobo on 25.08.2021



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Land Of Metal And Heavy: Portland

Do you know this feeling when you stumble across a random word, and then suddenly that name pops up just about everywhere? That specific term haunting yours truly has long been "Portland, Oregon". It seems to me that every new discovery was founded in Portland, apparently every other album was mastered at Brad Boatright's Audiosiege Studio in Portland, and every single of my favorite bands had, at some point, performed on a stage somewhere in Portland.

In the 1980s, LA was undeniably the world's glam metal capital, alongside with San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal as a counter development. Then we witnessed the death metal boom of the early 90s, with Tampa, Florida as its global hotspot. Not to forget the New York punk and hardcore scene (NYHC), the rise of sludge metal from the swamps of New Orleans during the late 80s, grunge from Seattle gaining mainstream prominence in the early 90s...
Apparently, there has always been a tendency in the US towards rapidly developing, locally restricted music scenes, in whose environment a completely new style or genre could develop in order to have a lasting impact on the global musical landscape within a few years.

So I just had to find out if my mind was playing tricks on me or if Portland really is the current capital of the US for heavy music and extreme metal - hence this list.

Inclusion criteria:
featured on Metal Strom and
established in Portland or
a long-term creative phase in Portland or
still active and currently based in Portland
(that's why Leviathan is here but Lurker Of Chalice isn't)

Only one album (preferably the most recent full-length album) per band.

By the way, according to this article, Portland harbors the highest amount of active metal bands per capita in the US. Quite a surprise, isn't it?

While we are at it, what's your favorite Portland band?

1.Abhorrent Affliction - Forever Will He Reign
2.Acathexis - Acathexis
3.Ænigmatum - Deconsecrate
4.Ævangelist - Dream An Evil Dream III
5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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Created by Starvynth on 13.08.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (T)

This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)
2.T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca
3.Taake - ...Doedskvad
4.Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis
5.Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi

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Created by Uxküll on 24.02.2021



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DM Album rankings

jesus this is out of date, gotta take some time and update this

1.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
2.Immolation - Close To A World Below
3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile
4.Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind
5.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

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Created by sgtrobo on 30.08.2020



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MS Meta(l) List Of The 2010's - Top 200

Input:
10 years
20 decade lists
749 bands
973 albums

Output:
200 top albums from 2010-2019

FAQ

How are the points calculated?
Simple math.

Ranked top lists:
1st place = 150 pts.
2nd place = 149 pts.
...
100th place = 51 pts.
...
150th place = 1 pt.

Alphabetically sorted lists:
Each place = 100 pts.

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance
3.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole
4.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence
5.Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death

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Created by Starvynth on 24.05.2020



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Me(tal) In The 2010s

Descriptions will probably be added/edited a few times as I always write this stuff pretty quickly and sometimes can't find the right words to describe somehting so abstract as music. A lot of my taste just boils down to "sounds interesting" or "catchy". So yeah. Most of this will have overlaps with other lists I made because I have very narrow taste.

1.Gnaw Their Tongues - L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante
2.
3.Murmuüre - Murmuüre
4.
5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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Created by Desha on 10.02.2020



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Top 100 Albums Of 2010-2019

Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!

1.Møl - Jord
2.The Haunted - Unseen
3.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light
4.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd
5.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

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Created by Kuroboshi on 05.01.2020



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You Know It's Technically 2011-2020, Right?

To explain the title, there is no year 0, regardless of what Ghost may tell you. Thus, the first decade was years 1-10, instead of 0-9. So then it would be 11-20, and so on. But I know that would imply that Paranoid is a 60s album, which we cannot have.

So now that all the cool kids are doing it, here is my top 100 albums of the "decade", most of it might be a bit too mainsteam, most of it you'll find on others' lists, and so on. Restricted to one album per artist/band (including collabs), ordered alphabetically.

1.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
2.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere
3.Akhlys - The Dreaming I
4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune
5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Created by RaduP on 31.12.2019



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My Favourites And Why I Like Them

I always admired people who do really cool lists. But since I don't know anything, I can't really make a good one. So here's the babby-boy of lists, just to get my juices flowing.
Will be updated and expanded upon as I have time and see fit. The goal is to get my top 50 maybe, but there's a long road ahead of that.

1.Neurosis - Souls At Zero
2.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes
3.Neurosis - Times Of Grace
4.Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels
5.Amigo The Devil - Everything Is Fine

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Created by Desha on 05.06.2018



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Top 2017 Albs/eps.

Still not full complete list. Some new ones will be added, and others changing spots. It's just there as of now to keep track.
Been many goodies this year at least for me and i might still be caught surprised.

1.Sunless - Urraca
2.Rebirth Of Nefast - Tabernaculum
3.Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
4.Tchornobog - Tchornobog
5.Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

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Created by ShapeshiftingD on 02.12.2017