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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)

So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials…

1.Atheist - Piece Of Time
2.Nocturnus - The Key
3.Atrocity - Hallucinations
4.Death - Human
5.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

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Created by Guib on 17.10.2011



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2021 Album Ranking

1.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
2.1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet
3.Duskmourn - Fallen Kings And Rusted Crowns
4.Grima - Rotten Garden
5.Gojira - Fortitude

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Created by Anghellic67 on 01.01.2021



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My Top Dissonant Metal Picks

Are you addicted to the eerie sound of Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate and Portal? Then this list is for you.

1.Above Aurora - Path To Ruin
2.Above Aurora - Myriad Woes
3.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
4.Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
5.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

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Created by Akatash on 28.07.2016



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2021: Jan-Jun

After clocking well over 700 albums in 2020, I'm hoping 2021 will be a bit busier IRL and thus slightly less comprehensively covered in these lists, but let's see - with all the new strains emerging, who…

1.Vulgaris - Asundre
2.Dvne - Etemen Ænka
3.Heliocentric - Ishmael
4.Decline Of The I - Johannes
5.Dordeduh - Har

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Created by musclassia on 24.01.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A to # (A)

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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Created by Uxküll on 06.10.2020



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Top 20 2021 AotY

1.Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion
2.Veilburner - Lurkers In The Capsule Of Skull
3.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
4.Replicant - Malignant Reality
5.Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme Of Things

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Created by sgtrobo on 05.08.2021



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MSA 2021 All Write-ins - Best Albums By Genre

For those interested in suggestions of albums by genre

Removed:
- Trolls
- Limp bizkit outside of Alternative category
- albums already nominated. After the results, I will add the nominated albums that…

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2.Heleven - Into The Oceans
3.Imminence - Heaven In Hiding
4.Lantlôs - Wildhund
5.Leprous - Aphelion

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Created by Maxder on 28.02.2022



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My Top Metal Albums Of 2021

This time around I'm only including albums rating 78.2% or higher to ensure only quality albums by my standards. This year is the first time I'm including a small description for each album rated around…

1.Sol Kia - Zos Ethos
2.Victory Over The Sun - Nowherer
3.Peste Noire - Le Retour Des Pastoureaux
4.Chaos Echœs - Ecstasy With The Nonexistents
5.Dipygus - Bushmeat

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Created by quieted_darkness on 23.01.2021



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Death Is Only The Beginning (Of This List)

This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
2.Death - Symbolic
3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness
4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul
5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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Created by ScreamingSteelUS on 15.04.2022



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2021

My very subjective ranking of all heard metal and metal-adjacent albums 2021.

1.Atvm - Famine, Putrid And Fucking Endless
2.Worm - Foreverglade
3.Noltem - Illusions In The Wake
4.Dream Unending - Tide Turns Eternal
5.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

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Created by Jacob Butcher on 07.01.2022



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2021

1.Turnstile - Glow On
2.The Armed - Ultrapop
3.Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready
4.Panopticon - . . . And Again Into The Light
5.Thirdface - Do It With A Smile

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Created by Marc-Antoine on 15.01.2021



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My Favourite Albums Of All Time

One album per band/artist, in order.

1.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
2.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
3.An Axis Of Perdition - Deleted Scenes From The Transition Hospital
4.Dødheimsgard - A Umbra Omega
5.Kayo Dot - Choirs Of The Eye

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Created by Death_95 on 10.03.2016



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2021 of the Pangolin

My List of the releases made during 2021. Score based on the excel sheet i've made https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hk_3gkpCfeKtdZNus_z3sxg-U8XJ_MqklfC8tbealaE/edit?usp=sharing…

1.Decline Of The I - Johannes
2.Vokonis - Odyssey
3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
4.Kanonenfieber - Menschenmühle
5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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Created by Space Pangolin on 09.04.2021



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Top 100 albums 2021

1.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
2.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
3.Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
4.Leprous - Aphelion
5.Soen - Imperial

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Created by Angryfarruh on 01.07.2021



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My Mostly Metal Playlist - Top 100 (so Far) of 2021

Good morrow
This is Prnzo
this list is probably for...
idk, the more adventurous...
jack-of-all-trades listener
lots of apples/oranges here
hopefully this top list helps
at least one MS'er
and if not...
there's…

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
2.Dordeduh - Har
3.Adjy - The Idyll Opus (I-VI)
4.The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die - Illusory Walls
5.Converge and Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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Created by prnzokoshiroltra on 04.03.2021