1.Yob - Our Raw Heart

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Horrendous - Idol

4.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

5.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

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My favorite albums from the year…

1.The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

4.Tribulation - Down Below

5.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

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1.Bleed From Within - Era

2.Architects - Holy Hell

3.Kamelot - The Shadow Theory

4.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

5.Our Hollow, Our Home - In Moment / / In Memory

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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.Kambrium - Dawn Of The Five Suns

2.Temperance - Of Jupiter And Moons

3.Ghost - Prequelle

4.Lord Of The Lost - 10 Thorns

5.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

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so far…

1.On Thorns I Lay - Aegean Sorrow

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Riverside - Wasteland

4.The Eternal - Waiting For The Endless Dawn

5.Tribulation - Down Below

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1.Elvellon - Until Dawn

2.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

3.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Seventh Wonder - Tiara

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Summoning - With Doom We Come

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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1.The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir

2.Tribulation - Down Below

3.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

4.Ghost - Prequelle

5.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Parkway Drive - Reverence

3.Lords Of Black - Icons Of The New Days

4.Angelus Apatrida - Cabaret De La Guillotine

5.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Five Finger Death Punch - And Justice For None

3.Ghost - Prequelle

4.Graveyard - Peace

5.Korpiklaani - Kulkija

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1.Drudkh - Їм Часто Сниться Капіж (They Often See Dreams About The Spring)

2.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

3.Chapel Of Disease - ...And As We Have Seen The Storm, We Have Embraced The Eye

4.Judas Priest - Firepower

5.Shining - X - Varg Utan Flock

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1.Höstblod - Mörkrets Intåg

2.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

3.On Thorns I Lay - Aegean Sorrow

4.Ihsahn - Àmr

5.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

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1.Fifth Quadrant - Vision

2.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

3.Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

4.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

5.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮…

1.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Tribulation - Down Below

4.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

5.Madder Mortem - Marrow

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