The decade becomes slightly less irredeemable.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Cannibal Corpse - Torture (Death)
Xandria - Neverworld's End…

1.Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

2.Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

3.Marduk - Serpent Sermon

4.Mgła - With Hearts Toward None

5.Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline

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1.Abyssus - Into The Abyss

2.Acephalix - Decreation

3.Ascended Dead - Abhorrent Manifestation

4.Auroch - From Forgotten Worlds

5.Auroch - Taman Shud

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1.Faceless Burial - Speciation

2.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

3.Death - Symbolic

4.Entombed - Left Hand Path

5.Necrot - Blood Offerings

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Ba'al - Ellipsism

2.Back To R'lyeh - The Awakening / Last Fight Of The Primordial

3.Bad Salad - Uncivilized

4.Bakos Attila - Aranyhajnal

5.Balance Of Power - Book Of Secrets

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What follows are 25 very good albums that seem to have flown under the radar of MS users, as not a one has even 50 ratings. Pulled pretty much from tastes, so largely some death, doom, sludge, stoner,…

1....And Oceans - The Dynamic Gallery Of Thoughts

2.(EchO) - Devoid Of Illusions

3.5ive - Hesperus

4.Abske Fides - Abske Fides

5.Altar Of Betelgeuze - Darkness Sustains The Silence

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Metal albums (and yes, I consider metalcore to be metal) that rocked my world, with maximum 2 albums per band sorted by bands in alphabetic order. Live, EP and compilation albums allowed, also including…

1.Alabama Thunderpussy - Open Fire

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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All things modern hardcore. There will be no grind or sludgcore in this list in order to avoid duplicates. You will find some grind here and some sludgecore here. If it is classic hardcore punk you seek,…

1.Death Engine - Mud

2.Silent Planet - The Night God Slept

3.Idylls - Prayer For Terrene

4.Plebeian Grandstand - Lowgazers

5.Fjørt - D'accord

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1.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

2.Asphyx - Deathhammer

3.Accept - Stalingrad

4.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

5.Pain Confessor - Incarcerated

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same shit, different year. found the year lacking a bit at the very top but wowzers were there a lot of really good albums released last year... so much so that i ran out of spots in the top 25 before…

1.Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

2.Tort - Tort

3.High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

4.Lurk - Lurk

5.Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Weeee my ballot in the MS Awards. I guess I was Kvlt City, USA this year. Only Black Breath snagged more than 50 votes. And only The Great Old Ones placed higher than fifth. \m/…

1.The Great Old Ones - Al Azif

2.Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

3.Abske Fides - Abske Fides

4.Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

5.Phobia - Remnants Of Filth

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This is my list of my favourite albums of 2012. These albums are not necessarily "the best" of the year, just what I've heard listed by how much I've enjoyed them.

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Enslaved - RIITIIR

3.Sigh - In Somniphobia

4.Accept - Stalingrad

5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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These are the albums that have been burning a hole in my iPod this past year. I have really only created this list so that I can keep track of the albums I have enjoyed in 2012, but if you have any suggestions…

1.Godspeed You!Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

2.BADBADNOTGOOD - BBNG2

3.Amenra - Mass V

4.Wildernessking - The Writing Of Gods In The Sand

5.Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light

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Being that this is the last year of humanity you would figure it would be an excellent year for Metal!!! So far it seems so ,some great releases to enjoy as the oceans rise ,the earth cracks,and the polar…

1.Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

2.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

3.High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

4.Sylosis - Monolith

5.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

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I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. Some stuff as…

1.Bound By Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell

2.Royal Thunder - CVI

3.Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy Of Nerak

4.Dissona - Dissona

5.Anhedonist - Netherwards

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1.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

2.Amiensus - Restoration

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

4.Deftones - Koi No Yokan

5.Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind

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