Hope to manage to keep this one update... the 2011 one i still around to be completed.
This is a list about personal taste... I listen to several Metal genres, but not all strike me with the same intensity. This list reflects that intensity, not the intrinsic musical quality of the albums.

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Darklands | 25.04.2012

	1.	Xandria - Neverworld's End
	2.	Eluveitie - Helvetios
	3.	Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
	4.	Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve
	5.	Amberian Dawn - Circus Black
	6.	Pythia - The Serpent's Curse
	7.	Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent