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1.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan - Widower (Runners-up: N/A)
Piano ballad/mathcore |
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2.
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Be'lakor - In Parting (Runners-up: The Dream And The Waking, Remnants, Of Moon And Star)
Melodeath |
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3.
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Voyager - A Beautiful Mistake (Runners-up: The Morning Light)
Poppy Prog Metal |
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4.
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Protest The Hero - Drumhead Trial (Runners-up: Skies, C'est La Vie, Sex-Tapes)
Prog Metal |
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5.
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Sylosis - Serpent's Tongue (Runners-up: The River, Paradox, Kingdom Of Solitude)
Thrash/Melodeath |
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6.
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Mar De Grises - The Bell And The Solar Gust (Runners-up: Starmaker, Shining Human Skin)
Doom Metal |
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7.
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Thy Catafalque - Kel Keleti Szel (Runners-up: Fekete Mezok, Tribolita)
Avant-garde/Black/Folk Metal |
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8.
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Wake (Runners-up: Exegesis)
Post-Rock/Metal |
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9.
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Nero Di Marte - Time Dissolves (Runners-up: Resilience, Simulacra, Drawn Back)
Extreme Alternative/Prog/Post-Metal or something |
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10.
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Pendulum - Crush (Runners-up: Under The Waves, The Fountain, Encoder)
Electronic Rock/Drum n' Bass |
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11.
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Karnivool - We Are (Runners-up: N/A)
Progressive Metal |
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12.
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Trivium - Caustic Are The Ties That Bind (Runners-up: To Believe, Incineration, Inception Of The End)
Metalcore/Heavy Metal |
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13.
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The Gathering - I Can See Four Miles (Runners-up: Heroes For Ghosts)
Alternative/Trip Rock |
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14.
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Killswitch Engage - Beyond The Flames (Runners-up: In Due Time, All We Have, The Call)
Metalcore |
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15.
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Blood Stain Child - Electricity (Runners-up: S.O.P.H.I.A., Moon Light Wave, Merry-Go-Round)
Electropop Extreme Power Metal |
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16.
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Times Of Grace - Worlds Apart (Runners-up: N/A)
Metalcore |
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17.
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Coheed & Cambria - Domino The Destitute (Runners-up: N/A)
New Prog |
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18.
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Moonsorrow - Huuto (Runners-up: Kuolleiden Maa)
Folk Metal |
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19.
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Orphaned Land - From Broken Vessels (Runners-up: The Path (Part 1), Sapari, In Thy Neverending Way)
Folk Progressive Metal |
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20.
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Alcest - Percees De Lumiere (Runners-up: Ecailles De Lune - Part 2, Sur l'Ocean Couleur De Fer, Autre Temps)
Blackgaze |
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21.
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Subsignal - The Size Of Light On Earth (Runners-up: Feeding Utopia, Wingless, Con Todas Las Palabras)
Progressive Metal |
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22.
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Between The Buried And Me - Astral Body (Runners-up: Lay Your Ghosts To Rest, Silent Flight Parliament, Specular Reflection)
Extreme Progressive Metal |
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23.
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Cult Of Luna - In Awe Of (Runners-up: The Weapon, Vicarious Redemption, Light Chaser)
Post-Metal |
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24.
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Mechina - Xenon (Runners-up: N/A)
Symphonic Death Metal |
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25.
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Omnium Gatherum - White Palace (Runners-up: Nightwalkers, The Unknowing)
Melodeath |
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26.
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Amorphis - Mermaid (Runners-up: Narrow Path, Nightbird's Song, Enchanted By The Moon)
Melodic Metal |
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27.
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Blind Guardian - Sacred Worlds (Runners-up: Wheel Of Time)
Power Metal |
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28.
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In Vain - Against The Grain (Runners-up: Rise Against, Image Of Time)
Meloblack |
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29.
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Torchbearer - Death Meditations (Runners-up: To Takao River, The Aphotic Depths)
Meloblack |
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30.
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New Keepers Of The Water Towers - Visions Of Death (Runners-up: Pyre For The Red Sage, Lapse)
Prog/Psychedelic Stoner Metal |
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31.
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Abigail Williams - Beyond The Veil (Runners-up: Final Destiny Of The Gods, The Mysteries That Bind The Flesh, What Hell Awaits Me)
Atmos-Black/Meloblack |
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32.
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Enslaved - Lightening (Runners-up: Ethica Odini, Giants, Thoughts Like Hammers)
Progressive Black Metal |
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33.
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Persefone - Inner Fullness (Runners-up: The Majestic Of Gaia, The Great Reality, Returning To The Source)
Progressive Melodeath |
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34.
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Bossk - Pick-up Artist (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal |
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35.
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Riverside - We Got Used To Us (Runners-up: The Depth Of Self-Delusion, Feel Like Falling, Escalator Shrine)
Progressive Rock |
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36.
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Melechesh - The Epigenesis (Runners-up: Ghouls Of Niveneh)
Folk Black Metal |
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37.
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Symphony X - When All Is Lost (Runners-up: Reign In Madness)
Progressive Metal |
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38.
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Mastodon - Blasteroid (Runners-up: Octopus Has No Friends, Tread Lightly, The Motherload)
Proggy Stoner Metal/Hard Rock |
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39.
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Dream Theater - The Looking Glass (Runners-up: Breaking All Illusions)
Progressive Metal |
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40.
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Foo Fighters - Walk (Runners-up: Dear Rosemary)
Hard Rock |
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41.
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Nader Sadek - Sulffer (Runners-up: N/A) Death Metal |
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42.
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Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine (Runners-up: After The Fall, Fragile Minds Collapse, The King In The North)
Power Metal |
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43.
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Weedpecker - Berenjena Pipe (Runners-up: Mindbreath, Don't Trust Your Elephant, Sativa Landscapes)
Stoner Metal |
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44.
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Rise Against - Satellite (Runners-up: Make It Stop (September's Children))
Melodic Hardcore/Pop-punk |
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45.
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When Icarus Falls - The Great North (Runners-up: Erectheion, Celestial Bodies, Nyx)
Post-Metal |
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46.
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Forefather - By Thy Deeds (Runners-up: N/A)
Black/Viking Metal |
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47.
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Haken - Celestial Elixer (Runners-up: Aquarium, Sun)
Progressive Metal |
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48.
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The Faceless - Autotheistic Movement (Runners-up: In Solitude)
Progressive Death Metal |
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49.
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Dirge - Circumpolaris (Runners-up: Hyperion Under Glass, Filigree, Remanentie)
Post-Metal |
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50.
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Caravan Palace - Clash (Runners-up: Dramophone)
Electroswing |
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51.
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Wolverine - Embrance (Runners-up: Into The Great Nothing)
Progressive Metal |
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52.
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Iced Earth - Iron Will (Runners-up: N/A)
Heavy/Power Metal |
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53.
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Gojira - The Axe (Runners-up: L'enfant Sauvage, Explosia)
Progressive Metal |
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54.
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Eden Circus - Playing You (Runners-up: Her Lovely Hands Upon The Black Earth)
Post-Metal |
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55.
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Amaranthe - Invincible (Runners-up: The Nexus, Trinity, Razorblade)
Pop Metal |
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56.
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Machine Head - Who We Are (Runners-up: Be Still And Know, Locust, Darkness Within)
Groove/Thrash Metal |
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57.
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Woods Of Desolation - Darker Days (Runners-up: An Unbroken Moment, November, Anamnesis)
Atmospheric Black Metal |
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58.
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Infestus - Down Spiral Depersonification (Runners-up: Mirror Mind Reality, Cortical Spreading Depression)
Atmospheric Black Metal |
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59.
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Intronaut - Milk Leg (Runners-up: Killing Birds With Stones, A Sore Sight For Eyes, Harmonomicon)
Jazzy Post-Metal |
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60.
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Myrath - Time To Grow (Runners-up: Braving The Seas, Beyond The Stars)
Folk Progressive Metal |
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61.
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Veil Of Maya - Resistance (Runners-up: N/A)
Deathcore |
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62.
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Helloween - Nabataea (Runners-up: Straight Out Of Hell)
Power Metal |
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63.
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Klone - Rocket Smoke (Runners-up: N/A)
Alternative Metal |
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64.
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Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman (Runners-up: Santo Domingo)
Latin Guitar Virtuoso |
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65.
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Devin Townsend - Kingdom (Runners-up: Rejoice, Fallout, A New Reign)
Progressive Metal |
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66.
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Ouroboros - Black Hole Generator (Runners-up: Lashing Of The Flames, Sanctuary, Panacea)
Deathrash |
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67.
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Cattle Decapitation - Kingdom Of Tyrants (Runners-up: N/A)
Deathgrind |
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68.
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Von Hertzen Brothers - Gloria (Runners-up: N/A)
Progressive Rock |
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69.
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Anubis Gate - Circumstanced (Runners-up: Golden Days, Destined To Remember, Hear My Call)
Progressive Power Metal |
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70.
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Alice In Chains - Phantom Limb (Runners-up: Stone)
Hard Rock/Alternative Metal |
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71.
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Enshine - Refraction (Runners-up: Stream Of Light, Cinders)
Gothic Doom Metal |
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72.
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In The Silence - 17 Shades (Runners-up: Serenity, Ever Closer, Beneath These Falling Leaves)
Atmospheric Progressive Metal |
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73.
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Kongh - Tamed Brute (Runners-up: Sole Creation, Portals, Skymming)
Sludge Doom Metal |
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74.
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Monolithe - Monolithe IV (Runners-up: Harmony Of Null Matter - Parts 1 and 2)
Extreme Doom/Drone |
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75.
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Soen - Fraccions (Runners-up: N/A)
Alternative Metal |
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76.
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High On Fire - King Of Days (Runners-up: N/A)
Sludge Metal |
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77.
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Equilibrium - Waldschrein (Runners-up: Wellengang, Wirtshaus Gaudi, Aufbruch)
Folk Metal |
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78.
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Rintrah - World And Man (Runners-up: Salt Of The Earth, Masters Of Our Fate, Separated)
Stoner Metal |
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79.
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Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (Runners-up: Drive Home, The Great Watchmaker)
Progressive Rock |
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80.
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Moanaa - Away (Runners-up: Repulsive, Lit, Lost In The Noise)
Post-Metal |
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81.
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Lunatic Soul - Pygmalion's Ladder (Runners-up: Sky Drawn In Crayon, Walking On A Flashlight Beam)
Atmospheric Rock |
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82.
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Hark - Clear Light Of... (Runners-up: Palendromeda)
Stoner Metal |
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83.
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Insomnium - Lay The Ghost To Rest (Runners-up: N/A)
Melodeath |
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84.
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Rush - Clockwork Angels (Runners-up: The Garden, Caravan)
Progressive Rock |
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85.
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Helms Alee - Pinniped (Runners-up: Dangling Modifiers)
Sludge Metal/Noise Rock |
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86.
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Witherscape - Astrid Falls (Runners-up: N/A)
Extreme Progressive Metal |
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87.
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Ortega - The Serpent Stirs (Runners-up: Crows)
Sludge Doom Metal |
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88.
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Quantum Fantay - Cowdians (Runners-up: Azu Kene Dekke Leppe, Chopsticks and Gongs)
Folk Space Progressive Rock/Metal |
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89.
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Obscura - Septuagint (Runners-up: Ocean Gateways, Eucledian Spheres, Celestial Spheres)
Technical Death Metal |
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90.
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Behemoth - The Satanist (Runners-up: Messe Noire, Amen, O Father O Sun O Satan)
Blackened Death Metal |
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91.
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Suidakra - Dowth 2059 (Runners-up: N/A)
Folk Metal |
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92.
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Anathema - The Beginning And The End (Runners-up: N/A)
Atmospheric Rock |
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93.
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Primordial - Bloodied Yet Unbowed (Runners-up: No Grave Deep Enough, Born To Night)
Pagan Metal |
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94.
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Atoma - Skylight (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal |
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95.
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Evile - Tomb (Runners-up: In Memorian)
Thrash Metal |
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96.
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Pagan's Mind - Live Your Life A Dream (Runners-up: Intermission, Power Of Mindscape)
Progressive Power Metal |
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97.
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Borknagar - Frostrite (Runners-up: The Winter Eclipse)
Meloblack |
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98.
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Long Distance Calling - Waves (Runners-up: Into The Black Wide Open)
Post-Metal |
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99.
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Amiensus - Dawn Of Release (Runners-up: Become The Fear, I Am, Thanatos)
Meloblack |
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100.
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Fallujah - Chemical Cave (Runners-up: Allure, Sapphire, Cerebral Hybridization)
Tech/Prog Death Metal |
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101.
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Fen - Our Names Written In Embers (Runners-up: Sentinels, Menhir - The Supplicant, Gathering The Stones)
Post/Atmospheric Black Metal |
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102.
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Cynic - The Lion's Roar (Runners-up: True Hallucination Speak, Kindly Bent To Free Us)
Progressive Metal |
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103.
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Black Country Communion - One Last Soul (Runners-up: N/A)
Hard Rock |
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104.
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Down - Steeple (Runners-up: Dogshead/Hogshead)
Southern Metal |
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105.
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Process Of Guilt - Harvest (Runners-up: Empire, Cleanse, Faemin)
Sludge Doom/Post-Metal |
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106.
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Tribulation - Randa (Runners-up: Suspiria, Spell, Apparitions)
Black/Death Metal |
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107.
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Stratovarius - Unbreakable (Runners-up: Elysium, Halcyon Days)
Power Metal |
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108.
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Agalloch - Black Lake Nidstang (Runners-up: Celestial Effigy, Plateau Of The Ages, The Watcher's Monolith)
Black Metal |
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109.
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Pet Slimmers Of The Year - La Tormenta (Runners-up: N/A)
Post-Metal |
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110.
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Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Sweet Thoughts And Visions (Runners-up: A Thousand Years Of Servitude, The Fall)
Post-Black Metal |
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111.
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Gorguts - An Ocean Of Wisdon (Runners-up: The Battle Of Chamdo)
Progressive/Technical Death Metal |
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112.
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Consciousness Removal Project - Mercurial (Runners-up: Colossus II: Thrashing, Colossus III: Deadlock, The Unknown Knows)
Post-Metal |
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