1.Aborted - TerrorVision

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Ihsahn - Àmr

4.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

5.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

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1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

3.Coheed And Cambria - The Unheavenly Creatures

4.Khemmis - Desolation

5.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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1.Hamferð - Támsins Likam

2.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

3.Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Smutnice

4.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

5.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

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1.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

2.Ihsahn - Àmr

3.Riverside - Wasteland

4.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

5.Haken - Vector

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Listened and liked in 2018

1.Einherjer - Norrøne Spor

2.Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns

3.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

4.Haken - Vector

5.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

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Since this is technically not a ranking, I've made this list alphabetical. These albums are all ones I am considering for Top 50 of the year and are worth your time.

1.Aboleth - Benthos

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

4.Agrimonia - Awaken

5.Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Summoning - With Doom We Come

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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1.Eneferens - The Bleakness Of Our Constant

2.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

3.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

4.Horrendous - Idol

5.Mutilated by Zombies - Scripts of Anguish

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1.Beyond Creation - Algorythm

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

4.Obscura - Diluvium

5.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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1.Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

4.Oceans Of Slumber - The Banished Heart

5.Architects - Holy Hell

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