The goats. The near perfect albums that never get old. Some are full of catchy bangers I'm always humming, and some are so full to the brim of details that I still haven't even uncovered them all.

A brief outline of my ratings:
8.5-9.0 = An excellent album with a few mild drawbacks (Weak song, slightly irritating vocals, odd flow)
9.0-9.5 = Perfect albums that haven't quite warranted the time-earnt 9.5+.
9.5-9.9 = Perfect albums that have stood the test of time, ranked by preference.
10 = I don't expect to hear another album like these, ever.

(I use 'perfect' lightly as it makes no sense for a man-made creation to be flawless. 'Perfect' is simply a term to outline how high a level of enjoyment is, specifically the level of enjoyment when minor faults become insignificant.)

(I evaluate albums outside of metal vastly differently to the ones here, which explains the lack of representation of my other favourite genres. Blue Sky Mining is an exception due to being structured very similarly to my optimal metal album. I may add some picks from other genres down the line.)


STATS:
I know y'all don't look at my lists, so these are purely for my own interest.

-Decades
'10s: 36
'20s: 22
'00s: 7
'90s: 2

-Genres (By best fit or most prominent)
Prog: 35
Death: 11
Power: 9
Symphonic: 4
Black: 3
Contemporary: 2
Folk: 1
Doom: 1
Rock: 1

1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Memories Of Old - The Zeramin Game

3.Wintersun - Time I

4.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

5.Persefone - Aathma

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1.Adagio - Life

2.Anathema - The Optimist

3.Annihilator - For The Demented

4.Anubis Gate - Covered In Black

5.Accept - The Rise Of Chaos

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I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith

2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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

2.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pacifisticuffs

3.Bent Knee - Land Animal

4.Leprous - Malina

5.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

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Since this is technically not a ranking, I've made this list alphabetical. These albums are all ones I am considering for Top 50 of the year and are worth your time.

1.Aboleth - Benthos

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Æpoch - Awakening Inception

4.Agrimonia - Awaken

5.Alghazanth - Eight Coffin Nails

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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.Haken - Vector

2.Angra - ØMNI

3.TesseracT - Sonder

4.Arsafes - The Silk Road Experience Pt . 1

5.Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep

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Still got plenty of stuff to catch up from Q1 and Q2 from this year, but will probably end up checking out some stuff from second half of 2017 before I'm done with all of that, so here's this list.

1.Mastodon - Cold Dark Place

2.The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

3.Passages - Lucid

4.Enslaved - E

5.Dvne - Asheran

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Favourite albums of 2017 (including only those which I would rate 7+)

1.The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

2.Archspire - Relentless Mutation

3.Heretoir - The Circle

4.Converge - The Dusk In Us

5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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Top 50 albums/EPs/whatever roughly in order. Reviews on the way

1.Merkabah (POL) - Million Miles

2.Ashenspire - Speak Not Of The Laudanum Quandry

3.Almyrkvi - Umbra

4.White Ward - Futility Report

5.Netra - Ingrats

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1.Persefone - Aathma

2.Soen - Lykaia

3.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Fit For An Autopsy - The Great Collapse

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1.Impureza - La Caída De Tonatiuh

2.Aeternam - Ruins Of Empires

3.Nova Collective - The Further Side

4.Persefone - Aathma

5.Witherfall - Nocturnes And Requiems

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Work in Progress.
Top 30 favorite albums of the year. 31 and onward are not yet sorted

1.Brand New - Science Fiction

2.Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness

3.Fen - Winter

4.Heretoir - The Circle

5.White Ward - Futility Report

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----Updated every weeks----

I'm looking for all genres without exceptions, with currently little preferencies for Progressive, Death and Black metal! Listenning to every albums 2 or 3 times at less before including it in my list.
I specify my favourite songs in order of preferency

❤ = Amazing song!

1.Persefone - Aathma

2.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

3.Caligula's Horse - In Contact

4.Mutoid Man - War Moans

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

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1.Caligula's Horse - In Contact

2.Widek - Hidden Dimensions

3.The Contortionist - Clairvoyant

4.Ignea - The Sign Of Faith

5.Heretoir - The Circle

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