Compiled for personal recollection as much as it is for public scrutiny, I hope this list leads you somewhere you want to go. No Order whatsoever. I'm using ♦ to rate the albums, there's really…

1.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

2.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

3.Witherscape - The Inheritance

4.Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

5.Ulcerate - Vermis

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Another year, another top list. These are all the 2013 releases that I have listened to so far.

1.SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods

2.Nhor - Within The Darkness Between The Starlight

3.Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana

4.Kauan - Pirut

5.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love

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Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't here, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson…

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

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A third revision was in order, after hearing the colossal "Void Mother" from Obscure Sphinx.

1.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

2.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

3.Chthonic - Bú-Tik

4.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

5.Skeletal Spectre - Voodoo Dawn

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I rate albums with rating not less than 8…

1.Fell Voices - Regnum Saturni

2.Deafheaven - Sunbather

3.Narjahanam - Wa Ma Khufiya Kana A'atham

4.Year Of No Light - Tocsin

5.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love

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If to any of these thou hast not listened, do so immediately. Maximum volume yields maximum results.

1.Fear Before - The Always Open Mouth

2.Genghis Tron - Board Up The House

3.Sermon Of Flames - I Have Seen The Light, And It Was Repulsive

4.Wormlust - Kosmískur Hryllingur [Collaboration]

5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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In alphabetical order by album title!…

1.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

2.Obsidian Tongue - A Nest Of Ravens In The Throat Of Time

3.Finnr's Cane - A Portrait Painted By The Sun

4.Sun Devoured Earth - A Static Life

5.Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris

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My favs of the year. Ever changing, not complete until it is complete.

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1.An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love

2.Deafheaven - Sunbather

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Airs - Adore

5.Perfect Pussy - I have lost All desire for feeling

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1.In Vain - Ænigma

2.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

3.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

4.Dark Tranquillity - Construct

5.The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

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1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
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1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.King Diamond - Abigail

3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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To commemorate the top 100 albums of 2010 - 2019 I thought I would follow suit and make a list of my own. This has been a very challenging task to say the least. As I reflected on the releases from the…

1.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

2.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

3.Un - Sentiment

4.Mournful Congregation - The Incubus Of Karma

5.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

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2013 has come and gone. I just wanted to share some of my favourite albums from the year, as there have been several strong albums that have creeped into my favourite albums. If you enjoyed my "Crushing?"…

1.Ulcerate - Vermis

2.Station Dysthymia - Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out

3.Woebegone Obscured - Marrow Of Dreams

4.Rivers Of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light

5.Castevet - Obsian

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Because I can't stop listening to music, but neither can I sacrifice my lovely descriptions, so same fare as before, but deleted descriptions for those covered in the first list.

1.Protest The Hero - Volition

2.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

5.Monolithe - Monolithe IV

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* Updating this as I get around to doing song-by-song on RYM.
* 1 album per band
* limiting this to actual black metal releases, as opposed to releases by bands that were, at one time, black metal.
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1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

4.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

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Albums for me to listen to and potentially add to my music library. Since I always tend to lose my "To Listen" lists, I'll just put it here. I will take any recommendations.

❤ - Loved it!
✔…

1.Satyricon - Satyricon

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

3.Ulcerate - Vermis

4.Rage - LMO

5.Stratovarius - Nemesis

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