last year was a tale that chased its own tail. now what will entail? nothing's on sale WE PAY RETAIL…

1.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of The Last Human Being

2.Doedsmaghird - Omniverse Consciousness

3.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

4.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

5.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

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1.Khirki - Κ​υ​κ​ε​ώ​ν​α​ς

2.Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose

3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Muuntautuja

4.Achelous - Tower Of High Sorcery

5.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

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This year was unlike the last year I will say. There have been loads of music that has impressed me, so much so that I had a hard time including which albums on the bottom of my list to include. One thing…

1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Pøltergeist - Nachtmusik

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Gaerea - Coma

5.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

3.Linkin Park - Papercuts - The Single Collections

4.As The Sun Falls - Kaamos

5.Tangent Plane - The Judas Cell

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1.Kólga - Black Tides

2.Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision

3.Joeyy - Try

4.Joey Valence & Brae - NO HANDS

5.Bladee - Cold Visions

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i made a really, really long break from metal

i want to find new music and new bands
*new to me

the albums i like most i will order on vinyl (or cd)

i am curious how my "taste" will…

1.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

2.Hail Spirit Noir - Fossil Gardens

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

5.Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs no cover album or re-recordings.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Meanstreak, Enforced, Norkturnal Frost, Ixion &…

1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

5.Rezn - Burden

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1.In Vain - Solemn

2.Gaerea - Coma

3.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

4.Borknagar - Fall

5.Octoploid - Beyond The Aeons

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1.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

2.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

3.Civerous - Maze Envy

4.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

5.Mother Of Graves - The Periapt Of Absence

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1.Canaan - Ai Margini

2.Obsidian ( U.S.) - Fathomless ( progressive death metal / djent ) - 8

3.Darkcluster - Stellar Tomb - 7

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Slift - Ilion

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Hoping to not beat last year's total albums, but to still find the good stuff this year.

1.Vulgaris - Seat Of The Fire

2.Dvne - Voidkind

3.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

4.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

5.Horseburner - Voice Of Storms

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Only what I like, not everything I listen to.
I am perfectly aware of sometimes putting aside quality albums but "les goûts et les couleurs " are not always rational.
Dominant genres: Black…

1.Narbeleth - A Pale Crown

2.Forlorat - Bury Me In Winter

3.Saevus Finis - Facilis Descensus Averno

4.Cariosus - Will, Until Beauty

5.Dzhatinga - Forgotten And Lost

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Another year begins, same scenario, ranking ordered from favorite down to least favorite. The list is also edited daily so the ranking may be subject to change.

2025
2023
2022…

1.Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

2.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

3.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

4.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

5.Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge

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