If you are looking to explore melancholic metal or you just want to discover some great bands you haven't heard yet, check out this list.

1.Sentenced - Down

2.End Of Green - Void Estate

3.The Man-Eating Tree - Harvest

4.Fall Of The Leafe - Vantage

5.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

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Thanks to digital media, I have been exposed to a large number of great metal albums from female vocalists, especially over the last 5 years. 2020 saw a number of these super releases, and lead me to make…

1.Royal Thunder - CVI

2.Konvent - Puritan Masochism

3.Julie Christmas - Mariner [Collaboration]

4.L7 - Smell The Magic

5.In This Moment - Blood

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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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The choice was though, not only because there were some very good albums out there, but also because as you get older, life fucks you up, and you never have enough time to listen to all the albums you…

1.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

2.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Delain - Moonbathers

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1.Netherbird - The Grander Voyage

2.Novembre - URSA

3.Ordog - The Grand Wall

4.Pretty Maids - Kingmaker

5.Primal Fear - Rulebreaker

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Some excellent records this year, it was sometimes really difficult to choose in what order I wanted to rank them.

I based this list on the scores I would give each album. When it's a tie between…

1.Iron Mask - Diabolica

2.Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians: Part 1

3.Fractal Cypher - The Human Paradox

4.Stone Magnum - Holy Blessings To None

5.In The Woods... - Pure

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1.Metallica - Hardwired?To Self-Destruct

2.Devilment - II: The Mephisto Waltzes

3.Diabulus In Musica - Dirge For The Archons

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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Very late starting on this one, been rather unable to keep up with releases over the summer so will try to catch up on as many cool releases as possible in the last couple of months of the year. Be prepared…

1.Ortega - Sacred States

2.Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape

3.Oathbreaker - Rheia

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

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1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Draconian - Under A Godless Veil

3.Draconian - Sovran

4.Gojira - Fortitude

5.Gojira - Magma

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1.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Mare Cognitum - Luminiferous Aether

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

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2016 was... well... oh oh... oh oh... well... what the fuck!

Anyhow, here is my top 50 ranking of albums I scored 8+

Album count: 126
Average rating: 7.1…

1.Alcest - Kodama

2.Khemmis - Hunted

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.Skuggsjá - A Piece For Mind & Mirror

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2016 was pretty solid year for metal, a couple of masterpieces in melodic death metal…

1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire

3.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

4.La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods

5.Demon Bitch - Hellfriends

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

2.Evoken - Hypnagogia

3.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

4.Grand Magus - The Hunt

5.Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead

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1.Gojira - Magma

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

5.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages

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