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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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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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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same as rym except this obviously limits to metal albums which might be interesting. ah well it just meant iron maiden are 2x more of the albums

1.Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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I will update soon.

1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar

3.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Native Construct - Quiet World

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1.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Iron Maiden - Killers

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death

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1.Slayer - Repentless

2.Monster Magnet - Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Redux)

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

5.Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

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Pardon the awful title, I thought it was funny and a play on Ahab's "The Thing That Made Search", but hey, not every joke is a winner.

Here is my list for the Top albums of 2015. No grading system like last year. Real list, no gimmicks.

Albums are ordered based on preference and subject to change at random, with expanded number of albums or ordering.

1.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

2.Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

3.Enslaved - In Times

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

2.Kamelot - Haven

3.Symphony X - Underworld

4.Ghost - Meliora

5.W.A.S.P. - Golgotha

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Been a bit slow checking releases around the halfway point of the year, but should get back into it soon and hopefully flesh out this list.

1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Horrendous - Anareta

3.Slugdge - Dim & Slimeridden Kingdoms

4.Teramaze - Her Halo

5.Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Exile

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