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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Grindcore is not one of my favorite subgenres, but I like it well enough on the whole. My experience with it has not been particularly broad, as I don't listen to it with much regularity, and so I…

1.Gridlink - Longhena

2.Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

3.Contrastic - Contrastic

4.Contrastic - Mamun

5.Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

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Favourite albums of 2018 (including only those which I would rate 7+)…

1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

3.Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It

4.Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

5.Berried Alive - Bearies Alive

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1.Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God

2.Akitsa - Credo

3.All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Antlers - Beneath.Below.Behold.

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2018 albums repos…

1.Tribulation - Down Below

2.Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

3.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

4.Therion - Beloved Antichrist

5.The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir

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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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1.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

2.Yob - Our Raw Heart

3.Obscura - Diluvium

4.Innumerable Forms - Punishment In Flesh

5.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

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I'll be spending 2 months in the US so probably won't manage to beat the 130-odd albums I heard in the first half of the year, but I'll do my best.

1.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

2.Ingrina - Etter Lys

3.Between The Buried And Me - Automata

4.King Buffalo - Longing To Be The Mountain

5.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

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1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Thou - Magus

3.The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

4.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

5.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

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1.Striker - Play To Win

2.Between The Buried And Me - Automata II

3.Soreption - Monument Of The End

4.Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch

5.Turnstile - Time & Space

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split…

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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