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Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
Death/Progressive/Psychedelic. Best songs: The Stargate |
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2.
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Iotunn - Kinship
Progressive/Melodic Death. Best songs: Twilight, Earth to Sky |
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3.
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Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe
Melodic Black. Best songs: Panzerhenker, Sturmtrupp |
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Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore
Post-Black/Shoegaze. Best songs: L'Envol, Améthyste |
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5.
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Wormwood - The Star
Melodic Black. Best songs: Liminal, Galactic Blood, Ro |
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6.
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Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera
Symphonic Death. Best songs: Morphine Waltz, Bloodclock |
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7.
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Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
Heavy. Best songs: Crown of Horns, The Serpent and the King, Invincible Shield |
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8.
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Gaerea - Coma
Black. Best songs: The Poet's Ballet, Coma |
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9.
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Seven Spires - A Fortress Called Home
Symphonic. Best songs: Love's Souvenir, The Old Hurt of Being Left Behind, Almosttown |
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10.
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Borknagar - Fall
Progressive/Folk. Best songs: Summits, Northward |
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11.
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Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
Technical Death. Best songs: Undying as an Apparition, Cutting the Throat of God |
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12.
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Oxygen Destroyer - Guardian Of The Universe
Blackened Thrash/Kaiju Metal. Best songs: Eradicating The Symbiotic Hive Mind Entity From Beyond The Void, Banishing The Iris Of Sempiternal Tenebrosity |
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13.
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Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will
Black. Best songs: Nocturnal Fire, Utmed Gyllbergens Stig |
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14.
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Kvaen - The Formless Fires
Black/Pagan/Viking. Best songs: The Ancient Gods, Basilisk |
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15.
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200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures
Death. Best songs: Hands of Eternity, Manual Manic Procedures, Defiled Gestation |
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16.
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Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
Atmospheric Black. Best songs: Vortex of the Worlds, Transcendence |
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17.
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Octoploid - Beyond The Aeons
Melodic Progressive Death. Best songs: Coast Of The Drowned Sailors, A Dusk of Vex |
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18.
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Wintersun - Time II
Symphonic Melodic Death. Best songs: Silver Leaves, The Way of the Fire |
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19.
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Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall
Progressive/Melodic Death. Best songs: A Dim Illusion, The Void |
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20.
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Vorga - Beyond The Palest Star
Black. Best songs: The Cataclysm, Tragic Humanity |
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21.
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Griffon - De Republica
Black. Best songs: The Ides of March, De Republica |
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22.
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Unto Others - Never, Neverland
Gothic/Heavy. Best songs: Momma Likes the Door Closed, Flatline, Suicide Today |
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23.
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Necrowretch - Swords Of Dajjal
Death/Black. Best songs: Swords of Dajjal, The Fifth Door |
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24.
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Triumpher - Spirit Invictus
Epic/Power. Best songs: Triumpher, Spirit Invictus |
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25.
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Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
Atmospheric Black. Best songs: Time The Mournful, Cessation of Hope |
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26.
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Seth - La France Des Maudits
Black. Best songs: Insurrection, Le Vin du Condamné |
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27.
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Unleash The Archers - Phantoma
Power. Best songs: Blood Empress, Green & Glass |
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28.
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Dungeon Crawl - Maze Controller
Symphonic Thrash. Best songs: Maze Controller, The Arcane Temptation |
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29.
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In Vain - Solemn
Progressive Death/Black. Best songs: Season of Unrest, To The Gallows |
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30.
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Nyktophobia - To The Stars
Melodic Death. Best songs: Charon Gate, Voyager 1 |
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31.
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Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno
Melodic Black. Best songs: Rites of Blood and Ice, Purgatory Revolution |
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32.
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Wolfheart - Draconian Darkness
Melodic Death. Best songs: Burning Sky, Grave, Trial by Fire |
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33.
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Helevorn - Espectres
Gothic/Doom/Death. Best songs: L'Endema, The Defiant God |
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34.
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Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin
Heavy/Epic. Best songs: Northern Skyline, Light of a Black Sun, Pt. 1 |
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35.
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Oceans Of Slumber - Where Gods Fear To Speak
Progressive. Best songs: I Will Break The Pride Of Your Will, Wish |
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36.
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Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All
Brutal/Technical Death. Best songs: Under the Curse of the One God, Naqada II Enter the Golden Age |
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37.
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Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun
Progressive. Best songs: Cloak Of The Vast And Black, Melt The Crown, The Torch |
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38.
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Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
Death/Black. Best songs: Shadows Of The Brightest Night. In The Twilight Grey |
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39.
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Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 1
Progressive Melodic Black. Best songs: Reverie, A Consciousness Throughout Time. |
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40.
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Amiensus - Reclamation: Part 2
Progressive Melodic Black. Best songs: Decaying God Child, Orb of Vanishing Light |
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41.
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Monument Of Misanthropy - Vile Postmortem Irrumatio
Brutal Death. Best songs: The Atascasdero Years, Vile Postmortem Irrumatio |
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42.
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Lowen - Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran
Progressive Doom. Best songs: Waging War Against God, Najang Bah Divhayeh Mazandaran |
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43.
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Vredehammer - God Slayer
Black/Death. Best songs: The Joker, God Slayer |
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44.
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Liminal Shroud - Visions Of Collapse
Black. Best songs: Malaspina, Nucleonic Blight |
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45.
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Hideous Divinity - Unextinct
Technical/Brutal Death. Best songs: Atto Quarto: The Horror Paradox., Mysterium Tremendum |
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46.
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Dååth - The Deceivers
Industrial/Melodic Death/Groove. Best songs: No Rest No End, Ascension |
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47.
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Groza - Nadir
Black. Best songs: Dysthymian Dreams, Deluge |
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48.
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Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke
Melodic/Progressive Black. Best songs: A Reverent Stillness, Pallid |
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49.
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Carnosus - Wormtales
Technical Death. Best songs: Harbringer of Woundism, Within Throat, Within Heart |
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50.
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Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence
Death/Doom. Best songs: Apparition, Upon Burdened Hands |
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51.
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Far Beyond - The End Of My Road
Symphonic Melodic Death. Best songs: A Symphony of Light, From The Stars and the Crescent Moon. |
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52.
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Taur-Im-Duinath - Verso Casa
Black. Best songs: L'ultima Neve, Ritorno |
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53.
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Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens
Progressive/Psychedelic Black. Best songs: The Road to Awe, The Blue Dot |
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54.
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Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates II - Armada
Symphonic. Best songs: The Dead Of The Sea, Ashes To The Sea, Where The Sky And Ocean Blend |
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55.
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Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans
Doom/Heavy. Best songs: If She Floats, Ecclesia Militans |
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56.
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Vitriol - Suffer & Become
Death. Best songs: The Isolating Lie Of Learning Another, The Flowers Of Sadism |
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57.
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Malist - Of Scorched Earth
Black. Best songs: Wind Of Change, Carry Me, The Lone And Level Sands |
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58.
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Romuvos - Spirits
Epic Folk/Viking. Best songs: World Tree, Spirits of the Oak |
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59.
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Machiavellian God - Beyond The Void
Melodic Death. Best songs: Into the Abyss, Eternal Echoes |
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60.
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My Silent Wake - Lost In Memories, Lost In Grief
Gothic/Death/Doom. Best songs: Lavender Garden, Another Light |
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61.
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Cognizance - Phantazein
Technical Melodic Death. Best songs: Futureless Horizon, Chiselled in Stone |
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62.
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Skeletal Remains - Fragments Of The Ageless
Death. Best songs: To Conquer The Devout., In Sufferance |
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63.
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Darkened - Defilers Of The Light
Death. Best songs: As Apoclaypse Dawns, Defilers of The Light |
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64.
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Dark Oath - Ages Of Man
Epic Melodic Death. Best songs: Silver I (A New King), Gold I (Dawn of Time) |
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65.
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Cathubodua - Interbellum
Symphonic. Best songs: Effigy Of Aftermath, Amidst Gods |
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66.
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Sentient Horror - In Service Of The Dead
Death. Best songs: The Tombcrusher, Undead Mutation |
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67.
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Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire
Black. Best songs: Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal, At Wine-Dark Midnight in the Mouldering Halls |
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68.
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This Ending - Crowned In Blood
Melodic Death. Best songs: Hope in Inferno, Awakening |
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69.
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Demiser - Slave To The Scythe
Black/Thrash. Best songs: Slave to the Scythe, Infernal Bust |
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70.
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In Aphelion - Reaperdown
Melodic Black. Best songs: When All Stellar Light is Lost, Reaperdown |
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71.
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Winterfylleth - The Imperious Horizon
Black. Best songs: Upon This Shore, To The Edge of Tyranny |
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72.
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Baron - Beneath The Blazing Abyss
Death/Hardcore. Best songs: At the Dawn of Damnation, Primordial Posession |
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73.
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Atrexial - The Serpent Abomination
Black/Death. Best songs: Reign of Scars, Blackfire Liturgy |
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74.
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Surgical Strike - 24/7 Hate
Power/Thrash. Best songs: 24/7 Hate, The Lesson |
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75.
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Einvigi - Monokroma
Folk/Post-Metal. Best songs: Elossa eilen, tänään jo kuollut, Tumman veden lapsi |
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76.
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Black Sites - The Promised Land?
Progressive/Heavy. Best songs: Dread Tomorrow, Descent |
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77.
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Coffin Rot - Dreams Of The Disturbed
Death. Best songs: Perverted Ehumation, Unmarked, Shallow Grave |
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78.
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Vanir - Epitome
Melodic Death. Best songs: Twisting The Knife, Blood Eagle |
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79.
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Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation
Heavy. Best songs: Super Charger, Hell, Fire And Damnation, 1066 |
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80.
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Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond
Melodic/Power. Best songs: Dark Empath, Angel Defiled |
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81.
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Kawir - Kydoimos
Pagan/Black. Best songs: Fields Of Flegra, Echetlaeus |
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82.
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Together To The Stars - The Fragile Silence
Post-Black. Best songs: Gravity Eater, Waiting for a Fire |
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83.
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Flotsam And Jetsam - I Am The Weapon
Power/Thrash. Best songs: Gates of Hell, Cold Steel Lights |
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84.
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A/Oratos - Ecclesia Gnostica
Melodic Black. Best songs: Le Hiérophante., Disciplina Arcani |
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85.
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Svdestada - Candela
Black/Crust Punk. Best songs: Amargor, Efímero |
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86.
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Acid Mass - Worship
Thrash. Best songs: Inferno Queen, The Mouth of Hell |
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87.
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Void Witch - Horripilating Presence
Death/Doom. Best songs: Grave Mistake, Second Demon |
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88.
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Marche Funèbre - After The Storm
Doom/Death. Best songs: After the Storm, Devoid of Empathy |
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Observers - The Age Of The Machine Entities
Atmospheric Doom/Progressive - Instrumental. Best songs: Metaphor II |
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90.
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Nightwish - Yesterwynde
Symphonic. Best songs: An Ocean Of Strange Islands, The Antikythera Mechanism |
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Smoking Snakes - Danger Zone
Heavy. Best songs: Rocking to the Morning Light, Sole Survivors |
