My favorites of the year as they come. No order.

1.Krallice - Hyperion

2.The Black Queen - Fever Daydream

3.Deströyer 666 - Wildfire

4.After The Burial - Dig Deep

5.Abbath - Abbath

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In order(from best to worst)

1.Moonspell - Extinct

2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Raise Hell - Written In Blood

5.Ensiferum - One Man Army

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My favourite albums of the past year, the list + some words about the albums can also be found on my blog
https://forsakenatthegates.blogspot.com

1.Fear Factory - Genexus

2.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

3.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

4.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld II

5.Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards

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Complete with all reviews this year. Added the last review. Except for some really laaaate surprise, this year should be over.

Apologies for possible grammar error and for some repetitive leitmotiv.

Non MetalStorm band links:

Aurum Solis: http://frozenlightlabel.bandcamp.com/album/--9
Basarabian Hills: http://basarabianhills.bandcamp.com

1.Irreversible Mechanism - Infinite Fields

2.Ethereal Shroud - They Became The Falling Ash

3.Basarabian Hills - Enveloped In The Velvet Cloak Of Midnight

4.Nord Frost - Solstitium

5.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

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Pioneers of metal. From the late 60 s to the early 70 s hard rock and psychedelic bands went further with the experimenting sound and got harder, faster and heavier than ever before. The new wave appeared to be called heavy metal in some magazines of the epoch. Arguably i ve read it was in an article of Sir Lord Baltimore ... So were they the first metallers to be called? I wouldnt mind... Just Think that the singer was the one who played the drums!!! But Nevermind, there were many of them and many more were going to come!!!

1.Agnes Strange - Graveyard

2.Ancient Grease - Women and Children First

3.Arcadium - Woman of a Thousand Years

4.Atomic Rooster - Friday the Thirteenth

5.Banchee - Children of the Universe

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1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

3.Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

4.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

5.Joe Satriani - The Extremist

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1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Black Fast - Terms Of Surrender

3.Temple Of Baal - Mysterium

4.Firespawn - Shadow Realms

5.Morgoth - Ungod

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This decade just keeps on delivering awesome albums. So glad that so many old favourites of mine delivered great stuff. Tribulation is by far the winner this year with one of the best albums I've ever heard.

1.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2.Arcturus - Arcturian

3.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Grift - Syner

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1.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

2.Orden Ogan - Ravenhead

3.Serious Black - As Daylight Breaks

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Stratovarius - Eternal

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1.Be'lakor - Vessels

2.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens

5.Persefone - TBA

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2015. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Monarchy

3.Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds

4.Hate Eternal - Infernus

5.Scarab - Serpents Of The Nile

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LATEST EDIT: December 12/2016- Added a whole bunch of progressive rock albums; processing earlier suggestions on the list.

Assembled below are some choice selections in alternative metal, prog rock, prog metal, jazz and avant-garde metal. I don't necessarily consider these styles to be my favourite (I do have a penchant for post-metal and cavernous death metal these days), but they have been the foundations of my taste for the last seven or eight years.

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2.Soundgarden - Down On The Upside

3.Rishloo - Living As Ghosts With Buildings As Teeth

4.Karnivool - Asymmetry

5.Blindead - Absence

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1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Moonspell - Extinct

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Angra - Secret Garden

5.The Gentle Storm - The Diary

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My top albums from 2015, in list are those I have heard more then 3 times.
First 3 are in order, 4-11 also in some order as I like. rest no, just add them , because those what I have played and remember most from 2015
O yes what sucked. Virgin Steele, Iron maiden, WASP, Dis Pater listed in last 4, those last 4 places sucked big time , don't know what more, hmmm VS I think

1.Draconian - Sovran

2.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

3.Moonspell - Extinct

4.My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery

5.Ereb Altor - Nattramn

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