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.

2023
2022…

1.Lord Goblin - Lord Goblin

2.Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe

3.Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire

4.Cistvaen - At Light's Demise

5.Inherits The Void - Scars Of Yesteryears

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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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Another year, another list. Every 2024 release I hear at least once in entirety will be featured here. This is not a best-of nor a ranking so albums will be displayed in chronological order (newest at…

1.Grimgotts - The Time Of The Wolfrider

2.Invernoir - Aimin' For Oblivion

3.Marche Funèbre - After The Storm

4.Munarheim - Heimkehr

5.The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude

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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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1.Alcest - Les Chants De L'Aurore

2.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

3.Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion

4.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

5.Vemod - The Deepening

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1.Borknagar - Fall

2.Sear Bliss - Heavenly Down

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

5.Evergrey - Theories Of Emptiness

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Top 50. 8+ish albums.

Only LPs.

EP special mentions: Faal, Wax Portrait, Sfeerverzieker, Synestia, Cold in Berlin, Windswept & Persefone

Ranking and rating subject to constant change

Album…

1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Árstíðir Lífsins - Aldrlok

3.Ihsahn - Ihsahn

4.Rezn - Burden

5.Dark Tranquillity - Endtime Signals

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1.Akhlys - House Of The Black Geminus

2.Civerous - Maze Envy

3.SIG:AR:TYR - Citadel Of Stars

4.Whoredom Rife - Den Vrede Makt

5.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

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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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2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010…

1.Dvne - Voidkind

2.Blazing Eternity - A Certain End Of Everything

3.Disbelief - Killing Karma

4.Austere - Beneath The Threshold

5.Vale Of Pnath - Between The Worlds Of Life And Death

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…

1.Ancst - Anomaly

2.Ancst - Culture Of Brutality

3.Arizmenda - Stillbirth In The Temple Of Venus

4.Beyond Creation - The Aura

5.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

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1.Amigo the Devil - Yours Until the War Is Over

2.Æthĕrĭa Conscĭentĭa - The Blossoming

3.Ὁπλίτης - Π​α​ρ​α​μ​α​ι​ν​ο​μ​έ​ν​η

4.Chapel Perilous - The Tower Of Silence

5.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

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1.Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God

2.Hauntologist - Hollow

3.Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She

4.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

5.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

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1.Slift - Ilion

2.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

3.As The Sun Falls - Kaamos

4.Tangent Plane - The Judas Cell

5.Linkin Park - Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023)

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1.Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb

2.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

3.Ministry - HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES

4.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

5.Farsot - Life Promised Death

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