Main criterias:
How much I love it(obviously)
Songwritting
Importance and originality
Consistency and diversity (consistency is more importance, but diversity can make a difference)

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

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**DISCLAIMER: This list is based on my own opinion and musical taste, and should not be taken otherwise.
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In compliance to 2015's list, I've decided to orginize this year's list a bit differantly, as well as taking off 2016 releases from 2015's list.

Self-explainatory list that's used mostly for personal reminders of upcoming releases.

1.Neal Morse - The Similitude Of A Dream

2.Oddland - Origin

3.Iamthemorning - Lighthouse

4.Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape

5.Ihsahn - Arktis.

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Most of these were purchased with my own money under my own free will. A few of them I expected to be good but turned out not to be; the rest I have for no good reason and a couple I even listen to from time to time.

1.Boney M. - Nightflight to Venus

2.Daniel O'Donnell - The Ultimate Collection

3.Foo Fighters - One By One

4.In Case of Fire - Align the Planets

5.Kaiser Chiefs - Employment

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Funeral Doom Metal bands that imo are good and more. There are also some Death/Doom albums as an extra.

First Update:
-New Image For The List
-Short Genre Description
-More Bands!

Second Update:
-Death/Doom Albums Removed
-My opinion in some albums
-Short Genre Description Removed Since Everything Is Funeral Doom

1.Mordor - Odes

2.Unburied - Veil of Damnation

3.Funeral - Tristesse

4.Thergothon - Stream From The Heavens

5.Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency

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1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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1.Abbath - Abbath

2.Exumer - The Raging Tides

3.Rotting Christ - Rituals

4.Deströyer 666 - Wildfire

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

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A 2016 list about ugly metal, cute pop and weird music.

I was trying to do something sorted alphabetically, but I realized it makes more sense if I sort them in the order I discover/listen to. So, the closer to the top, the later I found about the release. Older entries to the bottom.

Antecipated albums are sorted in release date.

1.El Ahrairah - St

2.Mega - St

3.Crayon Pop - Evolution Pop Vol I

4.Xenon Maiden - Enigma

5.Kodemari Koruri - Lunatic Butterfly

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1.Blaze Bayley - The Man Who Would Not Die

2.Enforcer - Into The Night

3.Rage - Carved In Stone

4.Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown

5.Motörhead - Motörizer

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1.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

2.Ulver - ATGCLVLSSCAP

3.Ihsahn - Arktis.

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Opeth - Sorceress

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I haven't listened to a lot of new music this year, but here are some of the highpoints for me. This year, my selections will be posted in no particular order aside from "The Best" and "The Rest". By "The Rest", I'm certainly not insinuating that these selections are bad- in fact, they are very good albums, in my opinion! I have decided not to include awful albums on this list. This list won't be as exhaustive as previous lists I've made. I'm very open for recommendations, so please send me some if you see anything that might appeal to me!

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2.Voices From The Fuselage - Odyssey: The Destroyer of Worlds

3.Earthside - A Dream In Static

4.Marriages - Salome

5.Third Ion - 13/8 Bit

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This is my top albums for 2015 So far ..

1.Enshine - Singularity

2.Draconian - Sovran

3.Moonspell - Extinct

4.Exgenesis - Aphotic Veil

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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These are, for me, the 10 best Heavy Metal albuns of all time. If you don't agree, please comment.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

3.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

4.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

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The best metal releases of 2015, off the top of my head.

1.Ethereal Shroud - They Became The Falling Ash

2.Arche - Undercurrents

3.Demonic Possessor - Porous Chambers

4.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

5.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

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1.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

2.Alterbeast - Immortal

3.Archspire - The Lucid Collective

4.Barathrum - Warmetal

5.Dagor Dagorath - Dissident

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The best album of 2014 is Sky Blue by Devin Townsend imo, but it's a double album so rated likewise.

1.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

4.Fen - Carrion Skies

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

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