Best Albums Of 2025

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Best Albums Of 2025

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A list by
EnigmaLake
Created
January 16, 2025
Entries
206
Endorsements
4
206.
1.
The Halo Effect - March Of The Unheard
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2.
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
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3.
Majestica - Power Train
206.
4.
Eluveitie - Ànv
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5.
Rivers Of Nihil - Rivers Of Nihil
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6.
Shadecrown - Zero
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7.
Lik (SWE) - Necro
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8.
Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail
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9.
Buried Realm - The Dormant Darkness
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10.
Green Carnation - A Dark Poem Part I: The Shores Of Melancholia
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11.
Testament - Para Bellum
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12.
In Mourning - The Immortal
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13.
The Haunted - Songs Of Last Resort
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14.
Igorrr - Amen
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15.
Novembers Doom - Major Arcana
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16.
Ihlo - Legacy
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17.
Aephanemer - Utopie
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18.
Rolo Tomassi - In The Echoes Of All Dreams
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19.
Omnium Gatherum - May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way
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20.
An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City
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21.
Revocation - New Gods, New Masters
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22.
Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
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23.
Suotana - Ounas II
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24.
Warbringer - Wrath And Ruin
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25.
Bloody Valkyria - In Our Home, Across The Fog
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26.
Mors Principium Est - Darkness Invisible
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27.
Nailed To Obscurity - Generation Of The Void
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28.
...And Oceans - The Regeneration Itinerary
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29.
Volbeat - God Of Angels Trust
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30.
Nightfall - Children Of Eve
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31.
Spire Of Lazarus - Those Who Live In Death
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32.
Needless - Premonition
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33.
Fallujah - Xenotaph
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34.
Burned In Effigy - Tyrannus Aeternum
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35.
Shadow Of Intent - Imperium Delirium
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36.
Blackbriar - A Thousand Little Deaths
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37.
Ancient Death - Ego Dissolution
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38.
Remina - The Silver Sea
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39.
Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence
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40.
Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence
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41.
Amorphis - Borderland
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42.
Defecto - Echoes Of Isolation
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43.
Dyssidia - Deeper Wells Of Meaning
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44.
Fleshvessel - Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
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45.
The Algorithm - Recursive Infinity
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46.
Dissona - Receptor
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47.
Sleep Token - Even In Arcadia
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48.
Changeling (GER) - Changeling
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49.
Wall Of Sleep - The Kingdom
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Subterranean Lava Dragon - The Great Architect
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51.
Opia - I Welcome Thee, Eternal Sleep
206.
52.
The Great Old Ones - Kadath
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53.
Centuries Of Decay - A Monument To Oblivion
206.
54.
Saor - Amidst The Ruins
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55.
Cryptosis - Celestial Death
206.
56.
Nite - Cult Of The Serpent Sun
206.
57.
Nephylim - Circuition
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58.
Messa - The Spin
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59.
Cradle Of Filth - The Screaming Of The Valkyries
206.
60.
Baest - Colossal
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61.
Walg - V
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62.
Feversea - Man Under Erasure
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63.
Erocis - The Sunken Lands
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64.
Drudkh - Гра тіней (Shadow Play)
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65.
Retromorphosis - Psalmus Mortis
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66.
Epica - Aspiral
206.
67.
Naxatras - V
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68.
Impureza - Alcázares
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Pillars Of Cacophony - Paralipomena
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70.
Grima - Nightside
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71.
Cytotoxin - Biographyte
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72.
In The Woods... - Otra
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73.
Tómarúm - Beyond Obsidian Euphoria
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74.
Allegaeon - The Ossuary Lens
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Skyforger - Teikas
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76.
Crimson Shadows - Whispers Of War
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77.
Haxprocess - Beyond What Eyes Can See
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Destinity - Ascension
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79.
Game Over - Face The End
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80.
Vertex - The Purest Light
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81.
Rwake - The Return Of Magik
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82.
Akiavel - InVictus
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83.
Supreme Void - Towards Oblivion
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84.
Bleed From Within - Zenith
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85.
Exterminatus - Echoes From A Distant Star Part I
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86.
Valhalore - Beyond The Stars
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87.
Benediction - Ravage Of Empires
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88.
Dessiderium - Keys To The Palace
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89.
Kardashev - Alunea
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90.
Pathogenic - Crowned In Corpses
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Spiritbox - Tsunami Sea
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92.
Hate - Bellum Regiis
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93.
Your Spirit Dies - My Gnawing Pains Will Never Rest
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Sodom - The Arsonist
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Herta - Crossing The Illusion
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Benthos - From Nothing
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Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty
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98.
Syncatto - Memento
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99.
Apocalypse Orchestra - A Plague Upon Thee
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Admire the Grim - Resist
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101.
Symbiotic Growth - Beyond The Sleepless Aether
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Euphrosyne - Morus
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Heaven Shall Burn - Heimat
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Hazzerd - The 3rd Dimension
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Warfield - With The Old Breed
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Disarmonia Mundi - The Dormant Stranger
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Dawn Of Solace - Affliction Vortex
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Obscura - A Sonication
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Tribunal - In Penitence And Ruin
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Dream Theater - Parasomnia
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Slaughter To Prevail - Grizzly
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Destruction - Birth Of Malice
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Valtari - Emperor
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114.
NevBorn - Alkaios · Part II · The Peacock
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Sphere - Inferno
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Warmen - Band Of Brothers
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You Win Again Gravity - Don't Leave Me Here, Pt. 1
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Jade - Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream
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Ominous Ruin - Requiem
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Skaphos - Cult Of Uzura
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Teramaze - The Harmony Machine
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Dawn Of Ouroboros - Bioluminescence
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Synaptic - Enter The Void
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Red Moon Architect - October Decay
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Vermilia - Karsikko
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The Man-Eating Tree - Night Verses
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Ereb Altor - Hälsingemörker
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Jinjer - Du​el
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Decline Of The I - Wilhelm
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Gruesome - Silent Echoes
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Daughter Chaos - Noble Rot
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Melancholic Seasons - Four Seasons
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Trold - I Skovens Rige
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Frogg - Eclipse
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Soul Demise - Against The Abyss
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Caliban - Back From Hell
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Monumentum Damnati - From Beyond
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Fragments Of Unbecoming - Dawnbringer: Chapter VII - The Amber Emperor
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Aversed - Erasure Of Color
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LANDMVRKS - The Darkest Place I've Ever Been
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Wythersake - At War With Their Divinity
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Tremonti - The End Will Show Us How
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Blood Monolith - The Calling Of Fire
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Harakiri For The Sky - Scorched Earth
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Fayence Dream - Repose the Soul
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Avantasia - Here Be Dragons
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Unreal Overflows - Slaves Of The Inhuman Future World
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SpiritWorld - Helldorado
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Whitechapel - Hymns In Dissonance
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Uulliata Digir - Uulliata Digir
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Shepherds Of Cassini - In Thrall To Heresy
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Warkings - Armageddon
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The Night Flight Orchestra - Give Us The Moon
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Fractal Universe - The Great Filters
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Thy Kingdom Will Burn - The Loss And Redemption
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Scour - Gold
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Fleshbore - Painted Paradise
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March Of Scylla - Andromeda
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Drown In Sulphur - Vengeance
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Frantic Amber - Death Becomes Her
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To Obey A Tyrant - Frigore Inferni
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Chemicide - Violence Prevails
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Vildhjarta - Där Skogen Sjunger Under Evighetens Grana
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Soliloquium - Famine
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Voidfallen - The Rituals Of Resilience
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Crypts Of Despair - We Belong In The Grave
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Veil Of Conspiracy - Shape Of Grief
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Havukruunu - Tavastland
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Dynazty - Game Of Faces
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The Obsidian Resurrection - As Darkness Falls
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Katatonia - Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
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Lacuna Coil - Sleepless Empire
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Burn Down Eden - Dismal Epiphany
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Killswitch Engage - This Consequence
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Arion - The Light That Burns The Sky
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Crown Of Madness - Memories Fragmented
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Eonian - Born From Ice
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Horizon Ignited - Tides
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Bleeding Through - Nine
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Sulfator - Gemini
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Forsaken Hill - The Fortress Of Solitude
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Guts - Nightmare Fuel
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Avatarium - Between You, God, The Devil And The Dead
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Sepulchral Curse - Crimson Moon Evocations
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Awakeness - Low Spirits
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Serenity In Murder - Timeless Reverie
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All That Remains - Antifragile
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Wardruna - Birna
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One Hundred Thousand - Liminal
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Aasar - I, The Hell
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Nospūn - Ozai
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Obscure Sphinx - Emovere
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Ex Deo - Year Of The Four Emperors
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Mirar - Ascension
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Atlases - Penumbra: Recast
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Septicflesh - Amphibians
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Aeonian Sorrow - From The Shadows
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Darko - Dethmask Pt. 3
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Carnal Forge - The Fractured Process
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Anneke Van Giersbergen - La Vie
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Molotov Solution - Void
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Hanging Garden - The Unending
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Tyrmfar - Symbiosis
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Vader - Humanihility
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Necrophobic - Nordanvid
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Effuse - On Others
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