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My Album Of The Year, 1970-present

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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Created by sgtrobo on 04.04.2024



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Black Metal: The Expansion Pack

My initial rendition was looking at the USBM scene. Next I opted to dive into where it arguably all began… Norway. My most recent exploration was into Switzerland’s scene. Rather than repeatedly coming…

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2.Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry
3.Funeral Mourning - Drown In Solitude
4.Ill Omen - Æ.Thy.Rift
5.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

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Created by Chobo_jokeR on 30.12.2022



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Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

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
and…

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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Created by sgtrobo on 14.07.2022



M0rkeleb's Overall Favorites - 9s

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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Created by M0rkeleb on 24.04.2022



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Songs Of Ice And Fire: A Journey Through Icelandic Black Metal

The Icelandic Black Metal scene received quite a bit of hype and love in the middle of the last decade. As with most things, the supply of greatness couldn't live up to the demand. We have a handful…

1.Misþyrming - Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu
2.Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom
3.Almyrkvi - Umbra
4.Carpe Noctem - In Terra Profugus
5.Wormlust - The Wormlust Collective

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Created by Neachy on 03.01.2022



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Fave BM (and BM-adjacent) Albums

* 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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Created by sgtrobo on 26.11.2021



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Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal

Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done"…

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
4.Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography
5.Thorns - Thorns

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Created by sgtrobo on 25.08.2021



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The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (X-#)

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.X Japan - Blue Blood
2.Xandria - Neverworld's End
3.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act II
4.Xasthur - To Violate The Oblivious
5.Xeno - Sojourn

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Created by Uxküll on 23.03.2021



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Top 20 Albums Of 2016

1.Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos
2.Zhrine - Unortheta
3.Krypts - Remnants Of Expansion
4.Temple Nightside - The Hecatomb
5.Blood Incantation - Starspawn

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Created by Koen Smits on 18.01.2017



Best Albums Of 2016

1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]
2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
3.Mistur - In Memoriam
4.Thy Catafalque - Meta
5.In The Woods... - Pure

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Created by Klauwier on 19.12.2016



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My Top Dissonant Metal Picks

Are you addicted to the eerie sound of Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate and Portal? Then this list is for you.

1.Above Aurora - Path To Ruin
2.Above Aurora - Myriad Woes
3.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis
4.Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est
5.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

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Created by Akatash on 28.07.2016



Best Albums Of Twenty-sickteen

This is my Best of 2016. Obviously a work in progress. Still tons more new metal to be released this year. Right now I am going back to the early releases and making sure nothing fell through the cracks.

1.Swans - The Glowing Man
2.Sumac - What One Becomes
3.Wormed - Krighsu
4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts
5.Internal Suffering - Cyclonic Void Of Power

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Created by xXFrostyXx on 10.07.2016



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Albums Of 2016

https://fullblackreviews.blogspot.com
My blog if you want to read some reviews.

1.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
2.Schammasch - Triangle
3.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
4.Bethlehem - Bethlehem
5.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

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Created by deswesher on 29.05.2016



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MMXVI: Dobry W Pyte!

All the other 2016 lists are total garbage.

1.Schammasch - Triangle
2.Mortichnia - Heir To Scoria And Ash
3.Départe - Failure, Subside
4.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
5.Ustalost - The Spoor Of Vipers

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Created by Paz on 27.05.2016



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2016

Here we go again. This time around though I probably won't end up listening to as many albums as previous years. Time will tell.

1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale
2.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages
3.La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods
4.Fvnerals - Wounds
5.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

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Created by Draugen on 08.05.2016