My glorious ranking of the year of our Lord 2017

Top 50 rated 8 and above

Album count: 132
Average rating: 7.1

1.Enslaved - E

2.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World

3.Pallbearer - Heartless

4.Myrkur - Mareridt

5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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1.Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day

2.Enslaved - E

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

4.Kauan - Kaiho

5.Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

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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 who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.Haar - The Wayward Ceremony

2.Hacride - Lazarus

3.Hades - The Dawn Of The Dying Sun

4.Hænesy - Garabontzia

5.Hæthen - Shaped By Aeolian Winds

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Good music keeps the layman away! (Use from top to bottom)

1.Mirror - Pyramid Of Terror

2.Green Lung - Woodland Rites

3.Lucifer - Lucifer III

4.Magnum - Lost On The Road To Eternity

5.Doomocracy - Visions & Creatures Of Imagination

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- From my collection & wishlist (last update)

- One album per band

- Bands & Albums I consider have a strong Doom flavour

- Ranked from best to worst imo

- Everything I know of is there

Let's the Doom begins

1.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

4.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

5.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

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One Decade Doom (2010/2019)

this is a free impression, but it comes from ten years breathing, walking, sleeping in Doom Land.

some bands released excellent works however i think they not reach the following main list...

40 Watt Sun, Ahab, Akelei, Amederia, Amily, Angellore, Arrant Saudade, As Autumn Calls, Aut Mori, Ava Inferi, Bell Witch, Candlemass, Catalepsia, Cathedral, Cebren-Khal, Collapse Of Light, Crimson Sky, Crimson Swan, Dark Embrace, Daylight Dies, Decemberance, Décembre Noir, Despondent Chants, Doomed, Dying Serenade, Ea, Embrace Of Silence, Endlesshade, Eternal Candle, Evadne, Exgenesis, Fading Bliss, Forest Of Shadows, Fvneral Fvkk, Fungoid Stream, Hamferð, Hanging Garden, HellLight, Hooded Menace, Il Vuoto, Illimitable Dolor, Imber Luminis, Inverloch, Isole, Ixion, Katatonia, Lethian Dreams, Loneshore, Loss, Luna, Mar De Grises, Mesmur, Messa, Mistralth, Mourning Lenore, Mourning Sun, My Dying Bride, Novembers Doom, Novembre, Nox Aurea, Oceanwake, October Tide, Officium Triste, Omit, On Thorns I Lay, Ophis, Ortega, Öxxö Xööx, Plateau Sigma, Process Of Guilt, Promethean Misery, Procession, Quercus, Ragayna, Red Moon Architect, Remembrance, Rise Of Avernus, Roaring Empyrean, Saturnus, Self-Hatred, Shape Of Despair, Skepticism, Soijl, Soliloquium, Solstorm, Sorrowful, Sorrowful Land, Suffering Dusks, Sunn O))), The 11th Hour, The Morningside, The Prophecy, The Sombre, Torpor, Torrens Conscientium, Twilight's Embrace, Tyranny, Unfaded Illusion, Uswa, Vanha, Varaha, Vin De Mia Trix, Völur, Vulturium Memoriae, Weight Of Emptiness, Within The Fall, Wine From Tears, Without Dreams, Woccon, Worm Ouroboros, Worship.

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3.The Foreshadowing - Oionos

4.Shattered Hope - Absence

5.Helevorn - Forthcoming Displeasures

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Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!

1.Møl - Jord

2.The Haunted - Unseen

3.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light

4.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

5.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

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I will most likely look back at this decade as the dark ages of popular music. A time where mainstream music was largely dominated by talentless pop/hip hop music with less memorable songs than the previous decade. However, that doesn't mean that metal music followed the same path. While it was largely dominated by metalcore during the beginning of the decade, I started to grow to love more music in this decade for metal music than I initially did during the beginning of the decade. This was the decade where I became a metalhead, where I became who I am today and started expanding my horizons musically and learn to appreciate a lot of metal music released during this decade and that will be something I will look back at fondly. As the 2010's comes to a close, I decided to make a list of the top 50 metal albums of the decade that I would consider the best. NOTE: this list might change if I discover more music from this decade that I thought are amazing.

1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Kauan - Sorni Nai

3.Angellore - La Litanie Des Cendres

4.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

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

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1.Soen - Lykaia

2.The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

4.Persefone - Aathma

5.Leprous - Malina

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1.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

2.Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing

3.Paradise Lost - Medusa

4.Samael - Hegemony

5.Egonaut - The Omega

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Honestly, top 25 albums would probably be a more fitting name, given that I have honourable mentions, and few other categories as well. Some of them are self explanatory, while I want to clarify about the few others.
-Greatest disappointment of the year doesn't necessarily mean the worst album of that year, closer to the point would be that it is an album from which I expected a lot more than I received.

1.Myrkur - Mareridt

2.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

3.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

4.Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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Some list from 2017, 1-13 is in order, rest is just what I have heard and what is good to mention. I don't made this to please MS elitists staffers, spammers, ordinary users, shotbox freaks, media and what so ever. This list is what I think was best from this year and its my own thoughts, I don't care what other things, never have and never will!

1.Iced Earth - Incorruptible

2.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

3.Evertale - The Great Brotherwar

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

2.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

3.Voyager - Ghost Mile

4.Kardashev - The Almanac

5.Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day

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It's always changing.

1.Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

2.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

3.Equilibrium - Sagas

4.Týr - Ragnarok

5.Finsterforst - Rastlos

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1.Vuur - In This Moment We Are Free - Cities

2.Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King

3.Power Quest - Sixth Dimension

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5.Nocturnal Rites - Phoenix

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