"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
December = Heavy Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.Anvil - Metal On Metal

2.Mercyful Fate - Melissa

3.Raven - Rock Until You Drop

4.Tygers Of Pan Tang - Spellbound

5.Angel Witch - Angel Witch

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A list of albums I listen to and rated with a small commentary. This list is not meant to have an order, or a best-to-worst classification.

Links to connected lists:

Album & Artist Impressions (Part 2)

Rating:

10 - Timeless classic
9 - Masterpiece
8 - Excellent
7 - Solid
6 - Uneven
5 - Tainted by tone-deafness

1.Igorrr - Hallelujah

2.Strapping Young Lad - Strapping Young Lad

3.Cro-Mags - Revenge

4.Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

5.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

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Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3.Deep Purple - Machine Head

4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

5.Queen - Queen II

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Virgin Steele. Very few bands have had the same impact on me as Virgin Steele. There so many memories that can be connected to their songs. As time has go by David Defeis has seemed to lost it totally but you should never forget that they once were among the best and their music will live forever. I still wish I would have the possibility to see them live and I hope their next album will kick some major ass! Here's my rank, rating and some of my favourite songs from each albums!

A Hymn to the Fearless, the Savage, the Brave, The Spirit of our Liberty
Total my debts, tally my sins, charge each offence on my scroll
I'll never alter the course of my Steele, I am the King of my Soul!

1.Virgin Steele - The House Of Atreus Act I

2.Virgin Steele - Invictus

3.Virgin Steele - The House Of Atreus Act II

4.Virgin Steele - Age Of Consent

5.Virgin Steele - Guardians Of The Flame

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(Top 130... won't make it to 200 until early next year... but I don't mind, do you? *sound of crickets* well, ok then, soliloquy over =) )

update: never got to 200, but I'm hoping the 2020's list will - or at least a top 150

1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Finsterforst - Zerfall

3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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Bruce Dickinsons solo career is a varied ride. He tried some different rock styles and did try to go in a different direction than his Maiden years, still he's best work is the albums that most resemble his years in Iron Maiden so it went full circle. Even if I'm not so fond of some of his albums I still think it's an intresting career and there's plenty of good songs to find and lyrics wise he's most of the time on point. Sadly with all his different projects going on these days we will never see another solo album, but you never know. So here's my ranking of his solo records.

1.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

2.Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth

3.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

4.Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks

5.Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny Of Souls

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Demon got famous in the early 80's when releasing two NWOBHM sounding albums. And that's what they famous for. Classics as Don't Break the Circle, Night of the Demon and Deliever Us From Evil can't be underestimated, yet as you can see from my list I think nearly all their later albums surpassed those two first ones. If you are only familiar with the classics you should check out their other albums which sometimes leaning towards prog rock and sometimes melodic rock. Whatever the case they always rocked!

1.Demon - Hold On To The Dream

2.Demon - Taking The World By Storm

3.Demon - British Standard Approved

4.Demon - Breakout

5.Demon - The Plague

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1.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Frostveil - Ephemeral Visions

5.Thank You Scientist - Terraformer

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No particular order

1.Graveworm - As The Angels Reach The Beauty

2.Graveworm - Scourge Of Malice

3.Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid

4.Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst

5.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

3.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

4.Judas Priest - Stained Class

5.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

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In order of release and updated regularly. Albums without known title or release date TBC.

1.Cradle Of Filth - Existence Is Futile

2.Ad Infinitum - x Chapter II: Legacy

3.Skuggsjá - Hardanger

4.Negură Bunget - Zău

5.Devin Townsend - Puzzle/Snuggles

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1.Abbath - Outstrider

2.Amon Amarth - Berserker

3.As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire

4.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

5.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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TOP 20 ALBUMS IN 2019

1.Kalmankantaja - Kaski

2.Together To The Stars - An Oblivion Above

3.Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Mardom

4.Mesarthim - Ghost Condensate

5.Mist Of Misery - Unalterable

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My personal picks of 2019, in no particular order (so far).

1.Advent Sorrow - Kali Yuga Crown

2.Numenorean - Adore

3.Mephorash - Shem Ha Mephorash

4.Bewitcher - Under The Witching Cross

5.Vale Of Pnath - Accursed

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Slam is a sub genre of Brutal Death Metal that is characterized by extremely low guttural vocals, a high-pitched snare drum, and of course, slams. Slam is extremely primitive sounding and is very rhythmically focused. All of the instruments, including vocals, are meant to act as percussion instruments.

1.Afterbirth - Psychopathic Embryotomy

2.Internal Bleeding - Voracious Contempt

3.Necrocide - Vomit Forth Blood [EP]

4.Repudilation - Purging Of Impurity [Demo]

5.Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated

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