Thanks to digital media, I have been exposed to a large number of great metal albums from female vocalists, especially over the last 5 years. 2020 saw a number of these super releases, and lead me to make…

1.Konvent - Puritan Masochism

2.Julie Christmas - Mariner [Collaboration]

3.L7 - Smell The Magic

4.Royal Thunder - CVI

5.Messa - Close

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Aara - En Ergô Einai

2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Aaskereia - Dort, Wo Das Alte Böse Ruht

4.Aastraal - Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulcra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum

5.AATHMA - Avesta

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Here is a list of all the bands who received at least one write-in vote during MSA 2019.

Following the annoucement of the results, this information is lost, I post it here so you can continue to explore…

1.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

2.Cave In - Final Transmission

3.Mother Of Millions - Artifacts

4.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

5.Soen - Lotus

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These are the albums I paid attention to or that stayed with me this year, got repeated listens. I did not mean to make a list here on MS but as I was doing lists elsewhere, I thought I'd combine…

1.Klone - Le Grand Voyage

2.Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal

3.Ray Alder - What The Water Wants

4.Retrospective - Latent Avidity

5.Goblin - The Devil Is Back

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Another year, year of the pipe?
New record from new albums, many were old bands I knew before, some I found by my self, some thanks to Radu and Old Nick.
1 to 17 is in some how in order as I think was…

1.Grand Magus - Wolf God

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Amon Amarth - Berserker

4.Sun Of The Sleepless - Sun Of The Sleepless & Cavernous Gate

5.Running Wild - Crossing The Blades

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This is the list of albums I had on heavy rotation during 2019. If an album was very good but way too long or demanding to listen to it more than twice, you won't see it here (e.g. Esoteric). I have…

1.Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Diamond Head - The Coffin Train

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

5.Numenorean - Adore

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1.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

2.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

4.Idle Hands - Mana

5.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

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1.Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire

2.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

3.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

4.Blazon Stone - Hymns Of Triumph And Death

5.Borknagar - True North

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1.Isole - Dystopia

2.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

3.Borknagar - True North

4.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

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1.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

2.Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond The Dark

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1.Cellar Darling - The Spell

2.Lacuna Coil - Black Anima

3.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

4.Ex Libris - ANN - Chapter 3: Anne Frank

5.Cathubodua - Continuum

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1.Aephanemer - Prokopton

2.Avandra - Descender

3.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

4.Big Brave - A Gaze Among Them

5.Blindead - Niewiosna

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This list contains my 16 favourite albums of the year 🤘

FUN FACT:
Went to my second Tenacious D concert this year, they played Post-Apocalypto in it's entirety.
This has become one of my favorite…

1.Soen - Lotus

2.Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

3.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

4.Cellar Darling - The Spell

5.Opeth - In Cauda Venenum

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2019. Oh shit, time flies... yada yada. Here is my top list!…

1.Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

2.Nasheim - Jord Och Aska

3.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

4.Façade - The Eternal Dance

5.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮…

1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter

3.Hath - Of Rot And Ruin

4.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

5.Ethereal Darkness - Smoke And Shadows

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