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Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality
Progressive Post-Metal - Belgium - Pelagic Records - Highlights: All Your Gods Have Gone, Violate Consensus Reality, Hope, Towards the Edge - [Vote: 8.7] |
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2.
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White Ward - False Light
Progressive Black Metal - Ukraine - Debemur Morti Production - Highlights: Leviathan, Phoenix, Silent Circles, Cronus - [Vote: 8.7] |
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3.
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Disillusion - Ayam
Progressive Metal - Germany - Prophecy Productions - Highlights: Am Abgrund, Tormento, Driftwood, Abide the Storm, From the Embers - [Vote: 8.6] |
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4.
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Persefone - Metanoia
Progressive Technical Death Metal - Andorra - Napalm Records - Highlights: Katabasis, Architecture of the I, Merkabah, Anabasis pt. 2 - [Vote: 8.5] |
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5.
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An Abstract Illusion - Woe
Melodic Death Metal - Sweden - Willotip Records - Highlights: Slaves, Tear Down This Holy Mountain, In The Heaven Above - [Vote: 8.4] |
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6.
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Wormrot - Hiss
Grindcore - Singapore - Highlughts: Voiceless Choir, Grieve, Weeping Willow, Glass Chards - [Vote: 8.3] |
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7.
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Allegaeon - Damnum
Technical Melodic Deathcore - USA - Metal Blade Records - Highlights: To Carry My Grief Through Torpor and Silence, Called Home, The Dopamine Void pt. II - [Vote: 8.2] |
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8.
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Hath - All That Was Promised
Melodic Blackened Death Metal - USA - Willowtip Records - Highlights: Kenosis, Iosis, Decollation, Death Complex - [Vote: 8.2] |
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9.
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Sigh - Shiki
Progressive Metal - Japan - Vote: [8.3] |
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10.
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Revocation - Netherheaven
Technical Death Metal - USA - Metal Blade Records - Highlights: Diabolical Majesty, Strange and Eternal, The 9th Chasm, The Intervening Abyss of Untold Aeons, Re-Crucified [Vote: 8.2] |
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11.
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In Aphelion - Moribund
Melodic Black Metal - Sweden - Edged Circle Production - Highlights: World Serpent, Draugr, Luciferian Age, Sorrow Fire & Hate, Requiem - [Vote: 8.1] |
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12.
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Meshuggah - Immutable
Djent - Sweden - Atomic Fire - Highlights: Broken Cog, Abysmal Eye, Phantoms, They Move Below, Armies of the Preposterous - [Vote: 8.0] |
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13.
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Aenaon - Mnemosyne
Progressive Black Metal - Greece - Agonia Records - Highlights: Cartesian Eye, Sinistry of Heartbeats, Hysteria - [Vote: 8.2] |
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14.
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Immolation - Acts Of God
Death Metal - USA - Nuclear Blast Records - Highlights: The Age of No Light - Noose of Thorns - Immoral Stain - Delerict of Spirit [Vote: 8.2] |
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15.
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Wilderun - Epigone
Progressive Metal - Australia - Century Media - Highlights: Identifier, Distraction I, Distraction II, Distraction III - Distraction Nulla - [Vote: 8.2] |
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16.
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Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
Athmospheric Black Metal - Eisenwald - [Vote: 8.2] |
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17.
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Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat
Avantgarde Black Metal - France - NoEvDia Records - Highlights: Enantiodromia, Eadem Sed Aliter, Sie Sind Gerichtet! - [Vote: 8.3] |
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18.
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Sum Of R - Lahbryce
Drone Metal - Switzerland - [Vote 8.1] |
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19.
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Wake - Thought Form Descent
Black/Death Metal - Canada - Metalblade Records - Highlights: Infinite Inward, Swallow the Light, Mourning Dirge, Observer to Master - [Vote: 8.1] |
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20.
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Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
Progressive Metal - Canada - Century Media - Highlights: Synchro Anarchy, Planet Eaters, Sleeves Off, Quest for Nothing - [Vote: 8.0] |
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21.
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Blind Guardian - The God Machine
Power Metal - Germany - Nuclear Blast Records - Highlights: Deliver us From Evil, Damnation, Secrets of the American Gods, Violent Shadows, Architects of Doom - [Vote: 8.0] |
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22.
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Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain
Avantgarde Death Metal - USA - Profund Lore Records - Highlights: Artificial Brain, Glitch Cannon, Celestial Cyst, A Lofty Grave, Last Words Of The Wobbling Sun - [Vote: 8.2] |
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23.
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Humanotone - A Flourishing Fall In A Grain Of Sand
Progressive Stoner Metal - Chile - [Vote: 8.1] |
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24.
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Psycroptic - Divine Council
Technical Death Metal - USA - Highlights: A Fool's Errand - This Shadowed World - Enslavement - [Vote: 7.9] |
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25.
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Shadow Of Intent - Elegy
Symphonic Deathcore - USA - Monarch Session - Highlights: Saurian King, Where Millions Have Come to Die, Blood Upon the Sands of Time, Elegy I Adapt, Elegy II Devise, Elegy III Overcome [Vote: 8.1] |
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26.
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Monuments - In Stasis
Djent/core - USA - Highlights: Lavos, Cardinal Red, False Providence, The Cimmerian - [Vote: 8.0] |
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27.
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Elder - Innate Passage
Progressive Stoner Metal - Highlights: Catastasis, Endless Return - [Vote: 7.7] |
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28.
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Kardashev - Liminal Rite
Post / Death - USA - Metal Blade Records - Highlights: Lavender Calligraphy, Cellar of Ghosts, Glass Phantoms - [Vote: 8.1] |
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29.
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Cult Of Luna - The Long Road North
Post-Metal - Sweden - Metal Blade Records - Highlights: Cold Burn, Blood Upon Stone - [Vote: 8.1] |
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30.
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Messa - Close
Prog Doom Metal - Italy - Svart Records - Highlights: Dark Horse, Rubedo, If You Want Her to Be Taken, Serving Him - [Vote: 7.9] |
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31.
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Grima - Frostbitten
Athmospheric Black Metal - Russia - Highlights: Giant's Eternal Sleep, Winter Morning Tower - [Vote: 8.0] |
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32.
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Sylvaine - Nova
Post-Metal - Norway - Season of Mist - Highlights: Mono No Aware, Nowhere still Somewhere - [Vote: 8.0] |
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33.
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Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia
Djent - USA - Sumerian Records - Highlights: Monomyth, Red Miso, The Problems of Other Minds, Micro-aggressions - [Vote: 8.0] |
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34.
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Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor
Industrial Metal - Switzerland - Highlights: Run, Death to the Holy, Church Burns, Gotterdammerung - [Vote: 7.9] |
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35.
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Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds
Deathcore - USA - Highlights: Far from Heaven, Two Towers, A Higher Level of Hate - [Vote: 8.0] |
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36.
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Lorna Shore - Pain Remains
Symphonic Deathcore - USA - Highlights: Into the Earth, Sun//Eater, Apotheosis, Wrath, Pain Remains III - [Vote: 8.0] |
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37.
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Chat Pile - God's Country
Sludge Metal - USA - Highlights: Slaughterhouse, Pamela - [Vote: 8.0] |
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38.
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Misery Index - Complete Control
Death Metal - USA - Century Media Records - Highlights: Administer the Dagger, Complete Control, Necessary Suffering, Conspiracy of None [Vote: 8.0] |
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39.
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Decapitated - Cancer Culture
Death Metal - Poland - Nuclear Blast Records - Highlights: Just a Cigarette, No Cure, Hello Death, Iconoclast, Last Supper - [Vote: 8.0] |
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40.
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Behemoth - Opvs Contra Natvram
Black Metal - Poland - Nuclear Blast Records - Highlights: Malaria Vulgata, The Deathless Sun, Neo-Spartacvs, Off to War, Versvs Christvs - [Vote: 7.9] |
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41.
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Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Memory
Progressive Metalcore - England - Deathwish Inc. - Highlights: Almost Always, Mutual Ruin, Labyrinthine, To Resist Forgetting - [Vote: 7.9] |
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42.
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Playgrounded - The Death Of Death
Progressive Post-Metal - Pelagic Records - Highlights: Rituals, The Death of Death, Tomorrow's Rainbow - [Vote: 7.7] |
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43.
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Threshold - Dividing Lines
Progressive Metal - UK - Nuclear Blast Records - Highlights: Hall of Echoes, Let it Burn, The Domino Effect, King of Nothing, Last Along the Way - [Vote: 7.8] |
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44.
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Fallujah - Empyrean
Progressive Technical Death Metal - USA - Nuclear Blast - Highlights: Radiant Ascension, Soulbreaker, Celestial Resonance, Artifact - [Voto: 7.8] |
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45.
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Conjurer - Páthos
Post-Metal - UK - Nuclear Blast - Highlights: And You Will Remember, Basilisk, Those Years Condemned, Suffer Alone - [Vote: 7.5] |
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46.
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Aethereus - Leiden
Technical Death Metal |
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47.
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Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
Athmospheric Black Metal - France - Highlights: Tales of the Old Dreamer, Into the Woods, That Cannot Be Dreamed, The Apotheosis of the Unnamable - Vote: [7.8] |
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48.
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Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun
Symphonic / Melodic Death Metal - Canada - Metal Blade - Highlights: Beneath the Nightfall, Nova Roma - The Treacherous Hunt - [Vote: 7.9] |
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49.
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Gaerea - Mirage
Melodic Black Metal - Portugal - Highlights: Memoir, Salve, Mirage, Mantle - [Vote: 7.7] |
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50.
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Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
Progressive Metal - Sweden - Highlights: Save Us, Ominous, Call Out the Dark - The Orphean Testament - [Vote: 7.7] |
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51.
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Gloson - The Rift
Post-Metal - Sweden - Indie Recordings - [Vote: 7.7] |
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52.
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Devin Townsend - Lightwork
Progressive Metal - Canada - Inside Out Music - Highlights: Equinox, Call of the Void, Heartbreaker, Celestial Signals - [Vote: 8.0] |
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53.
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Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain
Black Metal - Sweden - Highlights: Ecstasies in Night Infinite, The Howling, Septentrion - [Vote: 7.7] |
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54.
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Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
Thrash Metal - USA - Highlights: Night Stalkers, Dogs of Chernobyl Mission to Mars, We'll Be Back - [Vote: 7.7] |
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55.
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Blackbraid - Blackbraid I
Athmospheric Black Metal - USA - [Vote: 7.7] |
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56.
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Soilwork - Övergivenheten
Goteborg Sound - Sweden - Nuclear Blast - Highlights: Övergivenheten, Electric Again, Dreams of Nowhere, Golgata - [Vote: 7.6] |
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57.
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Destrage - So Much. Too Much.
Mathcore - Italy - Highlights: Everything Sucks, Italian Boi - [Vote: 7.5] |
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58.
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Tankard - Pavlov's Dawgs
Thrash Metal - Germany - Highlights: [Ex-Fluencer, Beerbarians, Metal Cash Machine, Dark Self Intruder, Lockdown Forever, On The Day I Die - [Vote: 7.4] |
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59.
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Somali Yacht Club - The Space
Post-Metal - Ukraine - Highlights: Silver, Pulsar, Momentum - [Vote: 7.4] |
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60.
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Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation
Progressive Metal - England - Roadrunning Records - Highlights: Rats Return, Dignity, Herd Culling - [Vote: 7.4] |
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61.
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Ozzy Osbourne - Patient Number 9
Hard Rock - England - Highlights: Patient Number 9, One of these Days, Degradation Rules - Vote: [7.3] |
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62.
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Sadist - Firescorched
Prog Death Metal - Italy - Agonia Records - Highlights: Accabadora - [Vote: 7.3] |
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63.
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King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard - Omnium Gatherum
Psychedelic Metal - Australia - Highlights: Magenta Mountain, Gaia, Presumptous - [Vote: 7.3] |
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64.
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Dog Fashion Disco - Cult Classic
Experimental Rock - USA - Razor to Wrist Records - Highlights: Grand Experiment - Black Omens - Vomitorium - [Vote: 7.3] |
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65.
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Russian Circles - Gnosis
Post-Metal - USA - Sergent House - Highlights: Gnosis - [Vote: 7.3] |
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66.
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Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn
Post-Thrash Metal - USA - Nuclear Blast - Highlights: Slaughter the Martyr, Chøke øn the Ashes øf Yøur Hate - [Vote: 7.3] |
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67.
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Stratovarius - Survive
Power Metal - Finland - Highlights: Survive, World on Fire, Before the Fall, Voice of Thunder - [Vote: 7.2] |
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68.
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Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest
Death Metal - Sweden - Highlights: Putrefying Corpse, Malignant Corpse Therapy [Vote: 7.2] |
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69.
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Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons
Melodeath/Athmoblack - USA - Prosthetic Records |
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70.
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Marrasmieli - Martaiden Mailta
Athmospheric Black Metal - Finland - Naturmacht Productions - Highlights: The Forest of my Soul - Far in the Frozen North - [Vote 7.2] |
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71.
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Septicflesh - Modern Primitive
Symphonic Death Metal - Greece - Nuclear Blast - Highlights: Hierophant, Neuromancer, Coming Storm - [Vote: 7.2] |
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72.
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Kvaen - The Great Below
Melodic Black Metal - Sweden - Black Lion Records - Highlights: Cauldron of Plagues - The Great Below - Sulphur Fire - Ensamvarg - [Vote: 7.1] |
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73.
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Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void
Post/Funeral Doom Metal - Finland - Season of Mist - Highlights: Dissolution - Solitary Downfall - The Inner Desolation - [Vote 7.1] |
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74.
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Vehemence - Ordalies
Folk Black Metal - France - Antiq Label - Highlights: De Feu et D'Acier, Au Blason Brulé, La Divine Dorcellerie - [Vote: 7.0] |
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75.
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Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die
Progressive / Djent - Equal Vision Records - [Vote: 6.9] |
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76.
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Rammstein - Zeit
Industrial Metal - Germany - Highlights: Armee de Tristen, Zeit, Angst - [Vote: 6.9] |
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77.
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Parkway Drive - Darker Still
Metalcore - Highlights: Like Napalm, The Greatest Fear, Darker Still - [Vote: 6.5] |
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78.
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79.
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Sakis Tolis - Among The Fires Of Hell
Gothic Metal - Greece - Indipendent - Highlights: Among the Fires of Hell, The Dawn of a New Age, We The Fallen Angels - [Vote: 6.5] |
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80.
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Amorphis - Halo
Melodic Death Metal - Finland - Highlights: The Moon, Windmane, A New Land - [Vote: 7.2] |
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81.
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Denouncement Pyre - Forever Burning
Death Metal - Australia - Agonia Record - Highlights: Forever Burning, Tongues Stretched for Salvation - [Vote: 7.2] |
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82.
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Derek Sherinian - Vortex
Progressive Rock - USA - InsideOut Music - Highlights: The Vortex, Seven Seas - [Vote: 7.2] |
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83.
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Necrophagous - In Chaos Ascend
Death Metal - Sweden - Trascending Obscurity - Highlights: At Dawn Thee Immolate, In Chaos Ascend - [Vote: 6.7] |
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84.
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Grand Harvest - Consummatum Est
Death Doom Metal - Sweden - Messor Grandis - Highlights: No Paler A Horse - [Vote: 6.0] |
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85.
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Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero
Ambient - USA - Dark Descend - [Vote: 4.5] |
