I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. Some stuff as a result will be missing, but major stuff not present is stuff I probably didn't care for. Alrighty then, enough with the "stuff"...

1. Bound by Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy of Nerak

4. Dissona - Dissona

5. Anhedonist - Netherwards

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My list of favourites and interests for this year ordered roughly in descending order. My new years resolution is to branch out a bit and listen to new and unfamiliar genres, metal and non-metal.

Edit: Anything above about a 7/10 I'll keep here. Now with approximate rating in a .5 scale and ordered according to **replay value** i.e how often I listen to them. AND now with some comments, adding them gradually.

1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Pharaoh - Bury The Light

3. Anglagard - Viljans Öga

4. Overkill - The Electric Age

5. The Foreshadowing - Second World

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Too many 2012 lists around, you complain? You don't have to complain about this, though, it is NOT a 2012 list!

Previously, this list contained long-ass reviews, and distorted orders. But then this made people lose order and no one really reads what I write except about a handful of albums, so I decided to remove the X/10 rating system and use an "A-F" kinda stuff.

1. Rush - Clockwork Angels

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

5. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Note; Anything I rate lower than 8 I deem underwhelming. Sure, I might even acknowledge some of them as being rather enjoyble, but considering the "bigger picture of things", I find them unsatisfactory (in varying degrees, depending on their rating).

Partially ordered (the ones with descriptions). The rest are arranged alphabetically.

1. Sybreed - God Is An Automaton

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. The Faceless - Autotheism

4. Ihsahn - Eremita

5. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

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Other good lists with some melodic metal in them:
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's

Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list... last year saw maybe forty or so releases I thought of as 7.5+'s, a lot of them rated only at the end of the year, and some not rated at all due to the extensiveness of pre-MSA listening sessions... if you want to stalk my "bad" ratings, they're all in my album votes.

1. Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

2. Dissona - Dissona

3. Big Big Train - English Electric 1

4. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

5. Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit

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No longer going to list the albums in order of preference, can't rate music like that. Gonna go alphabetically.
January albums to listen to-Iron Fire, Horrendous

March albums to listen to- Sigh, God Forbid, OSI, Dark Empire, Ignivomous

May- Litrosis, Ne Obliviscaris

June- Miseration, Ihshan, Vintersorg, Abnormality, Gnaw Their Tongues,

1. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

2. 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution

3. Abigail Williams - Becoming

4. Abiotic - Symbiosis

5. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin

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Well, it's been a terrific 2012 for metal fans. I listened to hundreds of albums and I'd like to share my favs with you. Although it was very difficult I have narrowed down my top 20.

1. Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas

2. Downfall Of Gaia - Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes

3. Rush - Clockwork Angels

4. Adrift - Black Heart Bleeds Black

5. Constants - Pasiflora

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1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

2. Amiensus - Restoration

3. Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

5. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

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2011 Looks to be a very promising year for Metal fans with some of the biggest names in the business preparing to release their new records, and so I decided to compile a list of my own most anticipated albums that is set to be released in the course of this new year.

1. Opeth - Heritage

2. Circus Maximus - TBA

3. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

4. Symphony X - Iconoclast

5. Rush - Clockwork Angels

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You know the drill...

1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Saturnus - Saturn in Ascension

3. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

4. Be'lakor - Of Breath and Bone

5. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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1. Ihsahn - Eremita

2. Evoken - Atra Mors

3. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

4. Amenra - Mass V

5. Marduk - Serpent Sermon

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One of likely hundreds of these, more for self-enjoyment (or something) above anything, but if it helps someone find a good album/albums they wouldn't've otherwise heard I'll be happy.

1. Sylosis - Monolith

2. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4. Abigail Williams - Becoming

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Now that the year is coming close to an end, I draw the line and show the albums that impressed me (more or less) this year. This is not a best to worst list.

1. Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made

2. Threshold - March of Progress

3. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

4. In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. OSI - Fire Make Thunder

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Work in progress

1. WIntersun - Time I

2. Enslaved - Riitiir

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. The Faceless - Autotheism

5. Anathema - Weather Systems

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1. Rush - Clockwork Angels

2. Dream Theater - TBA

3. Opeth - TBA

4. OSI - TBA

5. Symphony X - Iconoclast

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