A beginner's guide to genuine blasting. Call it Gothenburg, call it extreme power - whatever, it's always enjoyable.

Now ranked for even more win.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

4.Kalmah - 12 Gauge

5.Blood Stain Child - Idolator

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I'm going to stop with 2000... maybe

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

3.Gamma Ray - No World Order

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.System Of A Down - Toxicity

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Welcome, no matter if you're a long-term MS member or an Avenged Sevenfold listener. Don't know what to vote for? Here's ANOTHER yearly best-of list for you to go through, or, more likely, for the usual tl;dr. But, wait - what makes this one different: 1) unqualified and totally subjective two-line reviews, 2) conscious restriction to the litte-more-than-20 most impressive albums, 3) an aversion against the much too generic thrash & power metal genres and anything without recall value.

1.Amaranthe - Amaranthe

2.Alestorm - Back Through Time

3.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

5.The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre

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My 2 cent on last year's releases. After this retrospective, I'm highly doubtful that 2011 can get any better. I'd rate this year as 8/10. YES, NOT EVERYTHING THAT'S GREAT MUST GET A 10! ^^

1.Kalmah - 12 Gauge

2.Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void

3.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

4.Equilibrium - Rekreatur

5.Sigh - Scenes From Hell

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1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World

3.In Flames - Clayman

4.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

5.Nightwish - Wishmaster

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1.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

2.Evanescence - Fallen

3.Rage - Soundchaser

4.Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger Of Metal

5.Before The Dawn - My Darkness

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1.Reverend Bizarre - II: Crush The Insects

2.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Annihilator - Schizo Deluxe

5.Cathedral - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights

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Here we go... I'd rate this year a 9 for the unusual quality of album releases! Qué impressionante! \m/

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Suidakra - Crógacht

4.Ensiferum - From Afar

5.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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in the 4th or any other desert of your choice

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

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Disclaimer: You might also listen to Be'lakor and Omnium Gatherum and Swallow the Sun and all the other stuff that sounds the same for a decade.

1.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

2.Stortregn - Impermanence

3.Massen - Contraesthetic

4.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

5.Temperance - Diamanti

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1.Nightwish - Century Child

2.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

3.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

4.In Flames - Reroute To Remain

5.Meshuggah - Nothing

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Behemoth - Demigod

3.Grip Inc. - Incorporated

4.Dark Age - Dark Age

5.Nightwish - Once

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1.Amorphis - Eclipse

2.Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness

3.Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes

4.Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay

5.Blood Stain Child - Idolator

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1.Axxis - Doom Of Destiny

2.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

3.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4.After Forever - After Forever

5.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

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1.Norther - N

2.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

3.Raunchy - Wasteland Discotheque

4.Metallica - Death Magnetic

5.Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy

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