With 600-odd albums across Q1 and Q2, I've gotten through marginally less than last year so far, let's see if I keep that up…

1.Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke

2.A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire

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

4.Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere

5.Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun

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List generated programmatically based on my last fm history so I don’t miss new albums from artists I’ve already listened to.

1.Svdestada - Candela

2.Emil Bulls - Love Will Fix It

3.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

4.Malist - Of Scorched Earth

5.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

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Instrumental tracks on albums of vocal groups are often seen as filler material or as a possibility to show musical skills.
In contrast, the title track is often considered to be the central and defining…

1.Absu - Tara

2.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

3.Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Angel Dust - Into The Dark Past

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1.The Warning - Keep Me Fed

2.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

3.The Mourning - Hush

4.Kalandra - A Frame Of Mind

5.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

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1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Weather Systems - Ocean Without A Shore

3.Iotunn - Kinship

4.Swallow The Sun - Shining

5.Opeth - The Last Will And Testament

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It’s been a great year, several of my favorite artists released excellent albums and I’ve discovered a whole lot of new artists that have become favorites as well!

Here’s some of my favorite album covers…

1.Suldusk - Anthesis

2.Inter Arma - New Heaven

3.Prostitute - Attempted Martyr

4.Leprous - Melodies Of Atonement

5.Chat Pile - Cool World

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1.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

2.Iotunn - Kinship

3.Cemetery Skyline - Nordic Gothic

4.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki

5.Yoth Iria - Blazing Inferno

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The most difficult way to create the title for an album may be to try something that is clever and/or funny.

Likewise, making a list of these titles is also not easy as it would be a very subjective…

1.Accu§er - Accuser

2.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

3.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

4.Alestorm - Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum

5.Anthrax - Attack Of The Killer B's

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