Another year, another list. Every 2024 release I hear at least once in entirety will be featured here. This is not a best-of nor a ranking so albums will be displayed in chronological order (newest at the top). (I had to restart this list because I accidentally deleted the last one lol).

1.Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose

2.Rezn - Burden

3.Sunburst - Manifesto

4.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

5.Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - The Blossoming

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Year Currently Covered: 2023

Hey folks! Welcome to the greatly coveted Guib Awards! Instead of creating a list every year, I've decided to make a single one that will change yearly to feature my favorite albums of the past one. So this first iteration will feature albums for 2023!

I will not be covering every genre nor a specific one and I won't limit myself to a single album per genre. It will literally be my absolute favorites of the year currently covered or albums that I listened to a lot more than I'd like to admit, so this won't be as big as my usual lists. Also, I will only cover a maximum of 50 albums, all featured on MS and they will be placed in alphabetical order (of the band's name).

Hope some of you will agree with me, but as always... It doesn't really matter, does it?

Cheers to good music and have fun!

Note: Albums with a "√" are albums I voted for in one of the categories of the last MS awards.

Last Updated: April 15th, 2024

1.Altarage - Worst Case Scenario

2.Baroness - Stone

3.Bloodletter - A Different Kind Of Hell

4.Capra - Errors

5.CauseNeffect - Validation Through Suffering

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1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

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1.Svdestada - Candela

2.Emil Bulls - Love Will Fix It

3.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

4.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

5.Malist - Of Scorched Earth

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Power Metal is a genre I've gotten into quite a bit over the past few years. I'd only really listened to Symphony X before, but discovered Blind Guardian, Wuthering Heights, Gamma Ray and others thanks to MS!

So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of power metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Wuthering Heights - Far From The Madding Crowd

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Symphony X - The Odyssey

5.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

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1.Helloween - Helloween EP

2.Helloween - Better Than Raw

3.Helloween - The Time Of The Oath

4.Helloween - The Dark Ride

5.Helloween - Master Of The Rings

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1.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

2.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

3.Bipolar Architecture - Metaphysicize

4.Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal

5.Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth

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That's all.

1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

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Here we go again

1.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

2.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

3.Scanner - The Cosmic Race

4.Steve Riley's L.A. Guns - The Dark Horse

5.Jenner - Prove Them Wrong

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Another year has come, and it is time for me to put up and rank the albums I like the most. I have been doing this silently for years with my own spread sheets so I'll give it a try using this format.

1.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

2.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

3.Ryujin - Ryujin

4.Svdestada - Candela

5.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

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1.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

2.Borknagar - Fall

3.Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things

4.Hiraes - Dormant

5.Hauntologist - Hollow

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1.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

2.Chapel Perilous - The Tower Of Silence

3.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

4.Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis

5.Dvne - Voidkind

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace

3.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

4.Aquilus - Bellum II

5.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

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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.At The Plates - Omnivore

2.Bizarrekult - Den Tapte Krigen

3.Black Sky Giant - Red Chariot

4.Full Of Hell - When No Birds Sang [Collaboration]

5.Hate - Solarflesh: A Gospel Of Radiant Divinity

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1.Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost

2.My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

3.Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

4.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

5.Vredehammer - God Slayer

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