A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2019 was solid year to end the decade with great releases in Progressive and black metal, doom metal had a strong showing and I finally found a deathcore band that I care about, the 2010's may not have been the most influential decade in metal but it did had a punch of great releases, that might be considered classics down the line, time will tell.


My favorite non metal albums of 2019

1. Remind Me Tomorrow
By Sharon Van Etten (Indie Pop, Synthpop)


2. GREY Area
By Little Simz(UK Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop)


3.Titanic Rising
By Weyes Blood (Art pop, Dream pop)


4. Morbid Stuff
By PUP (pop punk)


5. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
By clipping. (Industrial Hip Hop, Horrorcore)



My favorite movie from 2019

1.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

2.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

3.Lingua Ignota - Caligula

4.Crypt Sermon - The Ruins Of Fading Light

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Disforia - The Age Of Ether

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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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.Disillusion - The Liberation

2.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

3.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

4.Tool - Fear Inoculum

5.Iapetus - The Body Cosmic

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Ratings go from:

WORSHIP ❤️❤️❤️: Absolute greatness, a mindblowing album.
LOVE ❤️❤️🖤: Amazing release with very few flaws.
LIKE ❤️🖤🖤: Enjoyable but far from perfect.
DISLIKE 💔: Not very good or maybe not fitting my tastes.

I've decided to stop rating albums with a numerical value as I tend to feel uncomfortable with that. This list has a minimalistic, subjective and visceral approach, based purely on sensations and personal tastes. Mainly for personal use and doesn't pretend to be a serious ranking, but emerges from the need to remember which bands and albums I enjoyed and the ones I disliked. I constantly revisit new releases so first impressions may change over time. It usually takes 8-10 spins for me to get completely sure of a rating.

1.Æther Realm - Tarot

2.Abhoria - Abhoria

3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4.Agrypnie - Metamorphosis

5.Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Avantasia - Ghostlights

4.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

5.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II

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1.Volbeat - Rewind, Replay, Rebound

2.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

3.Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

4.Rammstein - Rammstein

5.Soen - Lotus

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The Metal Opera II was a very important album in my early metal years. Still remebering listening to it on repeat and it was the first time I heard Bob Catley, David Defeis, Rob Rock among others. I somehow never liked the first metal opera nearly as much and the Scarecrow trilogy was a big letdown (except for some songs). On the last three albums Toby have redeemed the name for me.

1.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II

2.Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time

3.Avantasia - Ghostlights

4.Avantasia - Moonglow

5.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

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1.Brymir - Wings Of Fire

2.Avantasia - Moonglow

3.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Twilight Force - Dawn Of The Dragonstar

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1.Death Angel - Humanicide

2.Acid Reign - The Age Of Entitlement

3.Aeon Zen - INVERITAS

4.Allegaeon - Apoptosis

5.Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky

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Here is a list of all the bands who received at least one write-in vote during MSA 2019.

Following the annoucement of the results, this information is lost, I post it here so you can continue to explore your favorite genres !

I'm still working on fixing links, if you find errors, feel free to notify in the comments !

1.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

2.Cave In - Final Transmission

3.Mother Of Millions - Artifacts

4.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

5.Soen - Lotus

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Another year, year of the pipe?
New record from new albums, many were old bands I knew before, some I found by my self, some thanks to Radu and Old Nick.
1 to 17 is in some how in order as I think was best ! Rest is alphabetically because those are albums I like are equally good and I have listen all more as 3 times.
223 to 232 are disapoinmets and last one is biggest in whole poser and TrOO metal history.
In middle like I told are decent and heavy , good albums.
What next year will bring? I hope more good music not new album number to brake.
This is trOO metal baby!

1.Grand Magus - Wolf God

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Amon Amarth - Berserker

4.Sun Of The Sleepless - Sun Of The Sleepless & Cavernous Gate

5.Running Wild - Crossing The Blades

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1.Isole - Dystopia

2.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

3.Borknagar - True North

4.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

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1.As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

3.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

4.Avantasia - Moonglow

5.Imminence - Turn The Light On

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1.Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex

2.Twilight Force - Dawn Of The Dragonstar

3.Turilli / Lione Rhapsody - Zero Gravity (Rebirth And Evolution)

4.Galneryus - Into The Purgatory

5.Wind Rose - Wintersaga

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