1.Destiny Potato - Lun

2.Silent Planet - The Night God Slept

3.Giant Squid - Minoans

4.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

5.††† - †††

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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1.Sólstafir - Ótta

2.Lunatic Soul - Walking On A Flashlight Beam

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Opeth - Pale Communion

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1.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

2.Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

4.Baroness - Yellow & Green

5.Bring Me The Horizon - Amo

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The best album of 2014 is Sky Blue by Devin Townsend imo, but it's a double album so rated likewise.

1.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

4.Fen - Carrion Skies

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

2.Opeth - Pale Communion

3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

4.Planet Of Zeus - Vigilante

5.Semen Of The Sun - Those Pills

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My top 20 albums listed by order:…

1.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra

5.Burzum - The Ways Of Yore

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1.Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

2.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

3.Behemoth - The Satanist

4.More Than A Thousand - Vol.5 Lost At Home

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

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From best to worst of all the albums I listened along the 2014…

1.Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

2.Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra

3.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

4.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

5.Earth - Primitive And Deadly

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1.Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

2.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

3.Stream Of Passion - A War Of Our Own

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Soreption - Engineering The Void

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Cos, y'know, same shiz different year. Ran out of space again so will post final album opinions in comments.

1.Infestus - The Reflecting Void

2.Dirge - Hyperion

3.Nero Di Marte - Derivae

4.Steve Rothery - The Ghosts Of Pripyat

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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For Posterity. In No Particular Order. I'm certain I missed some quality releases, so I might update the list some time. Cheers.

1.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

2.Botanist - VI: Flora

3.Nachtmystium - The World We Left Behind

4.Nightbringer - Ego Dominus Tuus

5.Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

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Every year, hundreds of albums are written and released for people to buy and hopefully not steal. I spend most of my free time searching far and wide for new music, most of which only very few people…

1.1349 - Massive Cauldron Of Chaos

2.Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer - The 7 Temptations Of Man

3.Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

4.Aenaon - Extance

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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Barnesy's picks for best albums of 2014…

1.Behemoth - The Satanist

2.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

3.Ancient Ascendant - Echoes And Cinder

4.Altar Of Betelgeuze - Darkness Sustains The Silence

5.Benighted - Carnivore Sublime

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