Another installation of famous robpal's HIGH ENERGY list! This time for the year of 2018.
Here are the rules.

No rating=haven't heard yet/not enough spins

★★★★★ - Masterpiece!
★★★★½ - Excellent!
★★★★☆…

1.Odin's Court - Turtles All The Way Down Volume II

2.Kayak - Seventeen

3.White Wizzard - Infernal Overdrive

4.Corrosion Of Conformity - No Cross No Crown

5.Perfect Beings - Vier

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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use…

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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All the 2018 albums I listened to this year. Just like last year I always added the specific genre/subgenre so you can get an idea what might be of interest to you.

1.Sunnata - Outlands

2.Crescent - The Order Of Amenti

3.IAH - ll

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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1.Rage - End Of All Days

2.Rage - Black In Mind

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Sentenced - Down

5.Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I

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1.Angra - ØMNI

2.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

3.Between The Buried And Me - Automata I

4.Borealis - The Offering

5.In Vain - Currents

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**DISCLAIMER: This list is based on my own opinion and musical taste, and should not be taken otherwise.
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Self-explainatory list that's used mostly for personal reminders of upcoming releases.
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1.Riverside - Wasteland

2.Conception - My Dark Symphony

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Lunatic Soul - Under The Fragmented Sky

5.Skálmöld - Sorgir

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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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1.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

2.Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment

3.Svavelvinter - Mörkrets Tid

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Hamferð - Támsins Likam

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Heavy Metal as a way of life. From Spain with love and hate.

1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Khemmis - Desolation

3.Dead Shape Figure - Cacoëthes

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Vermilia - Kätkyt

3.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

4.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

5.Tribulation - Down Below

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Nibiru - Anamorphosis

5.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

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1.Aborted - TerrorVision

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Ihsahn - Àmr

4.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

5.At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

2.Pestilence - Hadeon

3.Mantar - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Obscura - Diluvium

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Yet another annual top 10.. well more like top25 list. I am sure I missed something, and that I would change something depending on the mood, but it is what it is.

1.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

2.Vermilia - Kätkyt

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

5.Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood

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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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