Listen to metal for more than the half of my life, here is the list of my favorites albums of all time.

1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

2.Alcest - Kodama

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

5.Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea

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1.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

2.Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Hamferð - Támsins Likam

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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My favourite black metal albums listed and ranked, all varieties within the black metal genre.

1.Summoning - Oath Bound

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Ihsahn - Àmr

3.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

4.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

5.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

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1.Mutilated By Zombies - Scripts of Anguish

2.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

3.Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.De Profundis - The Blinding Light Of Faith

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

2.Pestilence - Hadeon

3.Mantar - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Obscura - Diluvium

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Heavy, Doom, Black, Death, Thrash, Prog, Power...these are my favorite 100 albums of 2018... STAY METAL!!!

25 Honorable Mentions:

Mortuous - Through Wilderness
Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew
Lychgate - The Contagion In Nine Steps
Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light
Cosmic Church - Täyttymys

1.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

2.Shylmagoghnar - Transience

3.Altars Of Grief - Iris

4.Horrendous - Idol

5.Sepulcher - Panoptic Horror

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All the 2018 albums I listened to this year. Just like last year I always added the specific genre/subgenre so you can get an idea what might be of interest to you.

1.Sunnata - Outlands

2.Crescent - The Order Of Amenti

3.IAH - ll

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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1.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Tribulation - Down Below

4.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

5.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

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1.Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God

2.Akitsa - Credo

3.All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Antlers - Beneath.Below.Behold.

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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.
- in order from best to worst
- rated on a scale from 0 to 10
- few lines so I remember wtf it was about

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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Since this is technically not a ranking, I've made this list alphabetical. These albums are all ones I am considering for Top 50 of the year and are worth your time.

1.Aboleth - Benthos

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

4.Agrimonia - Awaken

5.Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails

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1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Summoning - With Doom We Come

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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I'm trying to find as many albums as I can this year, and I'm building the list day after day. It should end as a top list, but now it's under construction and I'm just tracking a couple of stuff. I'm not focusing on "good" records, but more on whatever strongly catches my attention.

(+) favorites
★ most played

1.Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep

2.Cauldron - New Gods

3.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

4.Messa - Feast For Water

5.OddZoo - Future Flesh

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