1.Kauan - Sorni Nai

2.Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Enslaved - In Times

5.Leprous - The Congregation

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1.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Vektor - Terminal Redux

5.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

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My favourite albums of 2015. (In order of preference, and only including albums I would rate 7+).

1.Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega

2.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

3.Fear Factory - Genexus

4.So Hideous - Laurestine

5.I, Valiance - The Reject of Humanity

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1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Senegal Grindcore Mafia - Hay Daño En Casa

3.Leviathan - Scar Sighted

4.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

5.A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See

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1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

5.Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

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...And since that day, he was never the same.

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."…

1.Across The Sun - Before The Night Takes Us

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Agent Fresco - Destrier

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Angel Vivaldi - Universal Language

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My own top 230 essential metal albums sorted in alphabetical order by band name.

1.1349 - Beyond The Apocalypse

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

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Many to add still, but gradually updating my library …

1.Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

2.Karyn Crisis' Gospel Of The Witches - Salem's Wounds

3.Leprous - The Congregation

4.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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1.Leprous - The Congregation

2.TesseracT - Polaris

3.Heart Of A Coward - Deliverance

4.Arcane - Known / Learned

5.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2015…

1.Kauan - Sorni Nai

2.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

3.Act Of Defiance - Birth And The Burial

4.Ghost - Meliora

5.Draconian - Sovran

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I will update soon.

1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar

3.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Native Construct - Quiet World

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1.Waken Eyes - Exodus

2.Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine

3.Antimatter - The Judas Table

4.Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime

5.Threshold - European Journey (Live)

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