This list contains my 16 favourite albums of the year 🤘

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Antimatter - A Profusion Of Thought
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation…

1.Dragonland - The Power Of The Nightstar

2.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

3.Seventh Wonder - The Testament

4.Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 2

5.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

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Hey Folks! It’s me… Again!

I’m coming back once more to explore the depths of a genre that arguably did not begin where you all thought it did! Yeah yeah… Alright, maybe Left Hand Path, [i]Necroticism:…

1.Entombed - Left Hand Path

2.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

3.Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours

5.Carcass - Heartwork

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1.Disillusion - Ayam

2.Aenaon - Mnemosyne

3.Wilderun - Epigone

4.Ghost - Impera

5.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain

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1.Avatarium - Death, Where Is Your Sting

2.Belphegor - The Devils

3.Cabal - Magno Interitus

4.Sedimentum - Suppuration Morphogénésiaque

5.Kalmah - Kalmah

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1.White Ward - False Light

2.Gaerea - Mirage

3.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

4.Morkera - Entangled Excavations

5.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

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Taken around 8:30 pm GMT
There was no write-in for djent so I voted for one.
Not totally clean (trolls in last categories are kept for fun),
Thanks to the person who curated most of the write-is since…

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2.A.A. Williams - As The Moon Rests

3.Disturbed - Divisive

4.Dog Fashion Disco - Cult Classic

5.Fleshwater - We're Not Here To Be Loved

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1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.White Ward - False Light

3.Gaerea - Mirage

4.Disillusion - Ayam

5.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

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I don't know if I am just getting too old, or is it the lack of dedicated time to just sit down and listen to an album properly, without doing anything else, but I have a feeling that more and more…

1.New Horizon - Gate Of The Gods

2.Månegarm - Ynglingaättens Öde

3.Amorphis - Halo

4.The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost

5.Ereb Altor - Vargtimman

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Every category (Best, Very Good...) in no particular order...

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3.Disillusion - Ayam

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Aenaon - Mnemosyne

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Better late than never! I tried to be thorough and listened to anything I thought I might be remotely interested in order to create this list.

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Blind Guardian - The God Machine

3.Wilderun - Epigone

4.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

5.Immolation - Acts Of God

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2022. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Exocrine - The Hybrid Suns

2.Allegaeon - Damnum

3.Tómarúm - Ash In Realms Of Stone Icons

4.Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

5.Inexorum - Equinox Vigil

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1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Gaerea - Mirage

3.Andy Gillion - Arcade Metal

4.Early Moods - Early Moods

5.Sadness (USA) - Tortuga

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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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2022 was a great year for Prog Metal.
A lot of fine albums.

1.Disillusion - Ayam

2.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

3.Aeternam - Heir Of The Rising Sun

4.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

5.Persefone - Metanoia

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This is a list of (celtic/medieval/extreme) folk metal albums (in alphabetical order) based on their artwork. It includes iconic cover art from classic albums as well as fascinating work from more recent…

1.Arkona - Гой, Роде, Гой!

2.Brymir - Voices In The Sky

3.Cnoc An Tursa - The Giants Of Auld

4.Eluveitie - Helvetios

5.Eluveitie - Slania

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