2019 Albums I've enjoyed in no real order.

1. Devin Townsend - Empath

2. Borknagar - True North

3. The Offering - Home

4. Brymir - Wings of Fire

5. Vanir - Allfather

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1. Wormwood - Nattarvet

2. Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

3. Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

4. Soen - Lotus

5. Evergrey - The Atlantic

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1. Abbath - Outstrider

2. Amon Amarth - Berserker

3. As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire

4. Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

5. Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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The best metal albums and EPs for 2019, ranked in my opinion. Have to be at least a 6 to enter.

Disclaimer: You will not see shit like Dream Theater, Baroness, In Flames, Whitechapel, etc. And both Batushka's deserve to be fucked in the ass by a hellcock trident.

1. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion

2. Lord Gore - Scalpels For Blind Surgeons

3. Nucleus - Entity

4. Exhumed - Horror

5. Birdflesh - Extreme Graveyard Tornado

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1. Misþyrming - Algleymi

2. Mgła - Age Of Excuse

3. Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

4. Finsterforst - Zerfall

5. Borknagar - True North

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1. VLTIMAS - Something Wicked Marches In

2. Cellar Darling - The Spell

3. Demon Hunter - War

4. Queensrÿche - The Verdict

5. The Raven Age - Conspiracy

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1. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race

2. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion

3. Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites

4. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

5. Witch Vomit - Buried Deep in a Bottomless Grave

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In 2018 I decided to listen to as many albums as possible, and succeeded in finding new interesting stuff. But it took much effort, and in the end I think I wasn't really smart in my choices, so this year I'll try to do the same with higher creteria. Hopefully the list will grow without losing tightness like it did back then. I'm watching every new entry to MS database, and these are the few albums which caught my attention. - I mean, I'm pretty jaded so these are the only releases I've been able to sit through without complaining.

1. Sabbath Assembly - A Letter Of Red

2. Helium Horse Fly - Hollowed

3. Lingua Ignota - Caligula

4. Health - Vol.4 :: Slaves Of Fear

5. Bent Knee - You Know What They Mean

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1. Swallow the Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

2. Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3. Mayhem - Daemon

4. Borknagar - True North

5. Tool - Fear Inoculum

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Top picks from 2019 Releases in no particular order.

1. Overkill - The Wings of War

2. Soilwork - Underworld

3. Soilwork - Verkligheten

4. Children of Bodom - Hexed

5. Wormwitch - Heaven That Dwells Within

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1. Memoriam - Requiem for Mankind

2. Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion

3. Hate - Auric Gates of Veles

4. Rotting Christ - The Heretics

5. Vltimas - Something Wicked Marches In

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - 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. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2. Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter

3. Hath - Of Rot and Ruin

4. In Mourning - Garden of Storms

5. Firespawn - Abominate

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Listing albums that I have listened and liked enough to rank. My tastes skew towards Death/Black Metal which means I probably give most other genres a pass. I also don't bother rating such albums unless they catch my ear.

1. Vader - Thy Messenger

2. Legion Of The Damned - Slaves Of The Shadow Realm

3. Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound

4. Embrional - Evil Dead

5. Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast

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1. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

2. Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3. Grima - Will Of The Primordial

4. Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5. Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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Spiritual guide to a very musical and probably sexless 2019.
Scores:
10 = Best ever, and probably thinking on getting it on vinyl
9 = Best of the year, will revisit frequently even on years to come
8 = Excellent, on heavy rotation this year
7 = Great, will re-listen one or two times
6 = Good, but won't listen again
5 = Worth a mention, but not for me
1-4= Not worth a mention so they won't be here
TBR = to be rated

1. Strigae - I​:​Collision

2. Comma - And Deeper Than Oblivion Do We Bury

3. Grusig - Dr Ahfang vor Misäärä

4. Obed Marsh - Dunwich

5. Krallice - Wolf Ep

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