Another year begins. This time I'm adding Country of origin next to the rating and genre.

2024
2022…

1.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

2.Wayfarer - American Gothic

3.Varathron - The Crimson Temple

4.Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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I reckon 735 albums in the first 6 months of this year is a 6-month record I will never match, but let's see how many I get through in Q3 and Q4…

1.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

2.Meridian Sun - The Curse

3.The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction

4.Earthside - Let The Truth Speak

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

3.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Tales Of The Void

4.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

5.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

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This is my list of newly released Albums that I listened/will listen to in 2023.
The records are presented in order of release date and I will rate them when I´m certain that I formed an opinion on them,…

1.Ὁπλίτης - Ψ ε υ δ ο μ έ ν η

2.Rye - В с ё

3.Esoctrilihum - Funeral

4.Great Cold Emptiness - Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph

5.Walg - III

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

2.Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike

3.Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen

4.Structural - Decrowned

5.Insomnium - Anno 1696

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1.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

2.Anima Hereticae - Descended From The Mountains

3.Kouta - Kaarnak ö ydet

4.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

5.Frozen Dawn - The Decline Of The Enlightened Gods

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2023 here we go. My target for the year is 100+ albums, at a rule of 2 albums a week minimum.

1.Nospūn - Opus

2.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

3.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

4.Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light: Volume Two

5.Against Myself - Tides Of Insanity

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Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

3.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

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The list has gone back to it's original format: my favorites of the year regrouped and ordered by release date (now earliest at the top). The ranked list thing didn't work out for me in the end.

1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

2.Beyond The Black - Beyond The Black

3.Crom - The Era Of Darkness

4.Haxprocess - The Caverns Of Duat

5.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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I did not include 3 Bonfire albums, since they were re recorded from 90's (if it would be 1 maybe, but 3 I don't consider those as this years=…

1.Cultus Sanguine - Dust Once Alive

2.Primordial - How It Ends

3.WarWolf - The Apocalyptic Waltz

4.Waldgeflüster - Unter Bronzenen Kronen

5.KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again

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1.Shade Empire - Sunholy

2.Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?

3.Stam1na - X

4.Sepulchral Curse - Abhorrent Dimensions

5.Warmen - Here For None

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1.Riverside - ID.Entity

2.Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars

3.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

4.Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour

5.In Flames - Foregone

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1.Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X

2.花冷え。 - 来世は偉人！

3.Frozen Crown - Call Of The North

4.Kamelot - The Awakening

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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Reminder list for myself to keep track of new music coming out from my favourite artists.

1.Anubis Gate - Interference

2.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

3.Before The Dawn - Stormbringers

4.Bloodred Hourglass - How's The Heart?

5.Buckethead - TBA

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