I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1.Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2.Overkill - The Electric Age

3.Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5.Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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My top 10 metal albums (any style) for 2012.

1.Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

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Song of the Year: Woods Of Ypres - Travelling Alone

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3.Xandria - Neverworld's End

4.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5.Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

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1.Monuments - Gnosis

2.Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

3.Munruthel - Epoch Of Aquarius

4.Ex Deo - Caligvla

5.The Levitation Hex - The Levitation Hex

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1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4.Wintersun - Time I

5.Tiamat - The Scarred People

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1.The Foreshadowing - Second World

2.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

3.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Moonspell - Omega White

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1.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

2.Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God

3.Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

4.Ahab - The Giant

5.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

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More to come once I hear more albums from this year. (but it's not like anyone is going to see this list right?)

1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3.Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

4.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

5.Nile - At The Gate Of Sethu

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A mix of progressive, doom and the darker side of metal.

1.Ihsahn - Eremita

2.Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

3.Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic

4.Virgin Black - Elegant...And Dying

5.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

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1.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

2.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3.Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

4.Adrenaline Mob - Omertá

5.To-Mera - Exile

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Final form of the list, according to what I've listened from 2012 up until the end of MSA 2012.

1.Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

2.Atoma - Skylight

3.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

4.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

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