Other good lists with some melodic metal in them:
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's

Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list... last year saw maybe forty or…

1.Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

2.Dissona - Dissona

3.Big Big Train - English Electric 1

4.Headspace - I Am Anonymous

5.Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit

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1.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation

2.Galderia - Universality

3.Pathfinder - Fifth Element

4.Balflare - Downpour

5.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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1.Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2.Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

3.The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4.Anathema - Weather Systems

5.Ihsahn - Eremita

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Due to the overwhelming "popularity" of my last list, I have decided to do the same thing in 2012…

1.Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

2.Baroness - Yellow & Green

3.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4.Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

5.Royal Thunder - CVI

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1.Accept - Blind Rage

2.Wolf - Devil Seed

3.Enforcer - From Beyond

4.Metal Church - XI

5.Rage - The Devil Strikes Again

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1.Axel Rudi Pell - Magic

2.Axel Rudi Pell - Kings And Queens

3.Axel Rudi Pell - Tales Of The Crown

4.Axel Rudi Pell - Oceans Of Time

5.Axel Rudi Pell - Circle Of The Oath

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Ah finally, it took some time to get through them all. As you can see I consider most of ARP albums to be quite equal in quality, usually it's as little as 1 songs that makes the difference. I was quite…

1.Axel Rudi Pell - Oceans Of Time

2.Axel Rudi Pell - The Masquerade Ball

3.Axel Rudi Pell - Between The Walls

4.Axel Rudi Pell - Nasty Reputation

5.Steeler (GER) - Steeler

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1.White Skull - Under This Flag

2.Bloodbound - In The Name Of Metal

3.Tank - War Nation

4.Mezarkabul - MMXII

5.A Sound Of Thunder - Out Of The Darkness

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1.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

2.Destruction - Spiritual Genocide

3.Kamelot - Silverthorn

4.Hunter - Królestwo

5.Bloodbound - In The Name Of Metal

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