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1.Wormwood - The Star

2.In Vain - Solemn

3.Drown In Sulphur - Dark Secrets Of The Soul

4.Borknagar - Fall

5.Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology

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Same as before but for 2021. Have some more to add that I’ll get to sometime soon.

1.Chvrches - Screen Violence

2.Blackshape - Blackshape

3.Halsey - If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power

4.Jess And The Ancient Ones - Vertigo

5.Dvne - Etemen Ænka

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1.Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt

2.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

5.Civerous - Maze Envy

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Happy New Year guys! I think aside from the wars, crime, violence, pathology, terror, disease, droughts and famines, this one hasn't been that bad.

1.Facelift Deformation - Dominating The Extermination

2.Vulvodynia - Psychosadistic Design

3.Inquisition - Magnificent Glorification Of Lucifer

4.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

5.Extermination Dismemberment - Dehumanization Protocol

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My Personal Favorites From 2023

1.Asinhell - Impii Hora

2.Graveripper - Seasons Dreaming Death

3.Overkill - Scorched

4.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

5.Metal Church - Congregation Of Annihilation

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1.Ensiferum - Dragonheads

2.Insomnium - Songs Of The Dusk

3.Insomnium - Argent Moon

4.Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky

5.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

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1.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

2.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

3.VoidCeremony - Threads Of Unknowing

4.Panopticon - The Rime Of Memory

5.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

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It is very hard to understate how much Scott Burns' talents have given to the world of metal music. He might disagree about the following statements, but his work defined one of the most admired and revered eras of death and thrash metal, vastly influencing the sonic imprint that was to be copied for generations to come, and his skills were far and beyond just the engineering.

1.Agent Steel - Unstoppable Force

2.Whiplash - Ticket To Mayhem

3.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

4.Death - Leprosy

5.Terrorizer - World Downfall

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One of the most influential cult bands in the heavy metal scene, established in 1971 their first record was from 1980 and their last from 2023 the band just published 6 albums.
Doom - Epic - Dark and Power Metal style. The vocals of Tim Baker unique style gave to Cirith Ungol a special flavor.

1.Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire

2.Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead

3.Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell

4.Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost

5.Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade

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1.Conception - Flow

2.Conception - In Your Multitude

3.Conception - Parallel Minds

4.Conception - State Of Deception

5.Conception - The Last Sunset

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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.Carma - Ossadas

2.Cirkeln - The Primitive Covenant

3.Dopelord - Songs For Satan

4.Essence Of Datum - Radikal Rats

5.Finsterforst - Jenseits

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I did not include 3 Bonfire albums, since they were re recorded from 90's (if it would be 1 maybe, but 3 I don't consider those as this years=

1.Cultus Sanguine - Dust Once Alive

2.Primordial - How It Ends

3.WarWolf - The Apocalyptic Waltz

4.Waldgeflüster - Unter Bronzenen Kronen

5.KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again

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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.Agathocles - Theatric Symbolisation Of Life

2.Baxaxaxa - De Vermis Mysteriis

3.Demoniac (CHL) - So It Goes

4.Demoniac (CHL) - Nube Negra

5.Enforced - War Remains

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Albums i've listened to multiple times that were released this year. Ranking will be made at the end of the year.

1.Baroness - Stone

2.Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex

3.Riverside - ID.Entity

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Enslaved - Heimdal

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I've omitted Legacy Of The Dark Lands because, while I like it, it is not a conventional Blind Guardian studio album and does not feel relevant to this ranking. Additionally, while Beyond The Red Mirror is handily my least favorite BG album, it still hovers around a 7 or an 8, so the stratification is not that immense. All of these albums are at least "good," and most of them are masterpieces.

1.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth

4.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

5.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

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