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Top 100

In progress top 100 albums in no order yet

1.Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
3.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Created by em6568 on 25.03.2024



TOP 100 (2021)

1.Archspire - Bleed The Future
2.Gojira - Fortitude
3.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
4.Aephanemer - A Dream Of Wilderness
5.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

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Created by Killian on 20.08.2022



Ranking Power Metal Albums As I Listen To Them

just rating albums as I listen to them, work in progress

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
3.Wintersun - Wintersun
4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy
5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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Created by EFDoug on 25.03.2022



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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 don't receive enough votes to be displayed in the results, as "staff write-ins".
- albums with a release date not in 2021

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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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Best Of 2021!

Another year, another list. Huh time flies. First 10 in order I think was best of the best. Last 10 worst of the worst. Rest is in a order as I think they fits (based on todays perspective) , maybe december albums are higher as januari ones and also some middle albums might be 2-3 places higher, lover.
PS If there are duplications, let me know.

1.Thyrathen - ThanatOpsis
2.Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void
3.Cult Of Eibon - Black Flame Dominion
4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
5.Icon Of Sin - Icon Of Sin

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Created by Bad English on 30.01.2022



Glimpses Of Sanity: Top Metal Albums Of 2021

Another year, another traditional list of my top ten, or more like top thirty albums of the year. That list probably doesn't interest anyone, or most people anyway, but I like keeping up with the tradition and refuse to give up trying to influence people to give in and start listening to some obscure bands that I manage to dig up from the depths of Spotify. Well, obscure is a thing of perspective, and I am actually quite sure I have at least five people among my friends and acquaintances that are familiar with most of these bands. If you are not.. well, you should be.
I'm not going to do an album-by-album review, just a quick rundown. Two albums in the Hungarian language in the top ten, maybe I should start learning that shit after all... NOT!!! As the years go on, it seems that I delve deeper and deeper into the obscure post-metal, post-black, atmospheric black, doom whatever.. maybe I'm just finally going insane, it was about time. Anyway, surprise out of nowhere, an album that blew me away, Iotunn - Access All Worlds. Is it progressive? Is it melodic death metal? Is it whatever? Who gives a fuck. It was a very schizophrenic year for me, just like this 'review', at least when it comes to music, a lot of albums that I liked, but very few that had that catchy vibe, that I can't really describe but that I sometimes have. My point here is that I could probably take this list and honourable mentions, and write a program that randomizes the places of albums in the list every time you hit refresh, and whatever result it would yield I would say 'Yeah, that seems about right'. Down the list, I have to mention how happy I am with Thy Catafalque finally deciding to go live and do live shows, now I only pray that this pandemic doesn't fuck up another concert plan. Ephemerald is in a way, as generic Finnish melodic death metal as you can get, obvious influence by Insomnium and the likes, but I really dig it. They are not original or inventive, there is no 'one-hit wonder' catchy song that stands out.. and yet it is a fucking awesome album. Yoth Iria is a project of former Rotting Christ members, and it sounds exactly like that, so if you are into Rotting Christ, you know what to do. Beast in Black, it's the same album again, but it's an awesome album again, so... I think I don't need to comment on Swallow the Sun, yeah, the previous album was better, but this one is still awesome. Epica, well I'm a huge fanboy of Epica, make of that what you will, but if you ask me they don't have a bad or even average album. The same can be said of Be'lakor. Dalriada was kinda unexpected, I really like listening to folk metal in languages I don't really understand. I know about this Hungarian band for .. fifteen years I think, I almost went to Senta to watch them live more than a decade ago, yet this is their best album up to date. Well at least according to your ultimate metal encyclopedia, me. Duskmourn is another of that melodic death, folk, atmospheric black, whatever bands that spawn left and right. Narrowly missing out are Therion, Evergrey, and Soen, really, really good albums. I could put any or all of them in the top ten, but I guess I like going with the obscure underdogs or whatever. Stormkeep is another black metal masterpiece that came out of nowhere. Remember how I mentioned that there is a bunch of atmospheric black / folk metal bands spawning left and right. Yes, Cân Bardd is another one. For more honourable mentions, I would like to point out Romanian Sur Austru, as well as Dordeduh... duh. (OK I'll see myself out.) and another Hungarian band, Vvilderness, but this time at least you can understand what they are singing since lyrics are in the English language. I could, and probably should add at least another dozen of bands to this list, like Darkwoods My Bethrothed, Mare Cognitum, Hypocrisy, Leprous but this is too much even as it is, so feel free to give me recommendations, but just bear in mind that the fact that I did not put it into my picks doesn't mean I dislike the album.
P.S. In case anyone knows how to format album names with those strange characters so they link up properly, do let me know.

1.Iotunn - Access All Worlds
2.Thy Catafalque - Vadak
3.Ephemerald - Between The Glimpses Of Hope
4.Yoth Iria - As The Flame Withers
5.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

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Created by RhaegarTargaryen on 13.01.2022



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2021 My Picks

In no particular order (after the top 5), here are my AOTY for 2021.
Some albums are not featured here, for which I've added description and Bandcamp link.
Enjoy :')

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2.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
3.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
4.Khirki - Κτηνωδία
5.Omnium Gatherum - Origin

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Created by SS on 02.01.2022



Oh No !!! Not Another…The Best Of 2021 ⭐️

Another boring the best of 2021 list..

Happy new year…,,

1.Exodus - Persona Non Grata
2.Carcass - Torn Arteries
3.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined
4.Worm - Foreverglade
5.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

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Created by Blackcrowe on 29.12.2021



2021 - Stuff You Should Listen To

Disclaimer: You might also listen to Be'lakor and Omnium Gatherum and Swallow the Sun and all the other stuff that sounds the same for a decade.

1.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
2.Stortregn - Impermanence
3.Massen - Contraesthetic
4.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing
5.Temperance - Diamanti

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Created by beyondtehdarksun on 02.12.2021



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Top 20 Of 2021

1.Soen - Imperial
2.Beast In Black - Dark Connection
3.Eclipse - Wired
4.KK's Priest - Sermons Of The Sinner
5.Immortal Guardian - Psychosomatic

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Created by Alex Avagianos on 01.12.2021



Stumbling Through 2021 October-December

Only adding albums I've listened through.

1.First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
2.Emma Ruth Rundle - Engine Of Hell
3.Be'lakor - Coherence
4.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
5.Møl - Diorama

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Created by LifelikeAdvisor on 02.10.2021



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2021: Jul-Dec

At around 450 album, I've been averaging something like 75 new albums per month since the start of 2021, not to mention albums I only listen to 1-2 songs of before moving on. It's been intense, and I'm hoping the lifting of restrictions will mean I get through slightly less music in the rest of this year, but let's see what the rest of 2021 has in store musically.

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors II
2.Year Of No Light - Consolamentum
3.Be'lakor - Coherence
4.LLNN - Unmaker
5.Spaceslug - Memorial

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Created by musclassia on 02.07.2021



THRASH/POWER 2021

1.Iron Maiden - Senjutsu
2.Helloween - Helloween
3.Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon
4.Mastodon - Hushed And Grim
5.Flotsam And Jetsam - Blood In The Water

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Created by twisted_johnz on 19.03.2021



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Ranking Albums Of 2021

1.Hulder - Godslastering: Hymns Of A Forlorn Peasantry
2.Thy Catafalque - Vadak
3.Helloween - Helloween
4.Helheim - WoduridaR
5.Stortregn - Impermanence

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Created by Ball Fondlers on 17.03.2021



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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 always next yr
...unless there's not

update: this list still reflected just releases from earlier in the year - I keep updating my list offline... but I'm never happy with some of the configuration/arrangement (due mostly to indecision or losing track of even a very good release here n there)

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