The Icelandic Black Metal scene received quite a bit of hype and love in the middle of the last decade. As with most things, the supply of greatness couldn't live up to the demand. We have a handful…

1.Misþyrming - Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu

2.Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

3.Almyrkvi - Umbra

4.Carpe Noctem - In Terra Profugus

5.Wormlust - The Wormlust Collective

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100 full length albums that I favor in approximate order of preference plus 10 non-LP releases at the end. Limited to metal albums and albums featured on the site.

1.Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

2.Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

3.Murmuüre - Murmuüre

4.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

5.Ustalost - The Spoor Of Vipers

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No reviews for this year.

Non Metalstrom Bands

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Reprisal:…

1.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

2.Elderwind - The Colder The Night

3.The Beast Of Nod - Vampira: Disciple Of Chaos

4.Wilds Forlorn - Sapiens

5.Antigone's Fate - Insomnia

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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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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.Hwwauoch - Hwwauoch

2.Evoken - Hypnagogia

3.Ars Magna Umbrae - Lunar Ascension

4.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

5.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

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Are you addicted to the eerie sound of Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate and Portal? Then this list is for you.

1.Above Aurora - Path To Ruin

2.Above Aurora - Myriad Woes

3.Abyssal - Antikatastaseis

4.Ad Nauseam - Nihil Quam Vacuitas Ordinatum Est

5.Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse

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As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't…

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Sigh - Graveward

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Sigh - Heir To Despair

5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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1.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3.Master's Hammer - Ritual

4.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

5.Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

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