Another year, another top 10, or should I say top 25 of the year. Plenty of good albums, but Månegarm, Borknagar and Insomnium without a doubt top albums of the year. Villagers of Ioannina City is a revelation…

1.Månegarm - Fornaldarsagor

2.Borknagar - True North

3.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

4.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

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

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I will most likely look back at this decade as the dark ages of popular music. A time where mainstream music was largely dominated by talentless pop/hip hop music with less memorable songs than the previous…

1.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

2.Kauan - Sorni Nai

3.Angellore - La Litanie Des Cendres

4.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

5.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

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1.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Darkwater - Human

4.Soilwork - Verkligheten

5.Wind Rose - Wintersaga

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1.Numenorean - Adore

2.Tool - Fear Inoculum

3.Officium Triste - The Death Of Gaia

4.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast - Re-Mistressed

5.Iapetus - The Body Cosmic

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Only good stuff included.

So far 2019 has been truly marvelous year full of stellar metal releases. I'll be updating this list as I find more worthy ones and/or get more into the ones already listed.

My…

1.Finsterforst - Zerfall

2.Iapetus - The Body Cosmic

3.Numenorean - Adore

4.IQ - Resistance

5.White Ward - Love Exchange Failure

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Ningen Isu - 新青年

3.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

5.Russian Circles - Blood Year

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The best of 2019…

1.Disillusion - The Liberation

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis

5.Lacrimas Profundere - Bleeding The Stars

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Favourite albums of 2019 (including only those which I would rate 7+)…

1.Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth

2.Shadow Of Intent - Melancholy

3.Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

4.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

5.Numenorean - Adore

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1.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

2.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3.Soen - Lotus

4.Frostveil - Ephemeral Visions

5.Thank You Scientist - Terraformer

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1.Wormwood - Nattarvet

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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

4.Soen - Lotus

5.Brutus (Belgium Band) - Nest

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My top to bottom list of everything from 2019 I've spent time with and have also purchased either physically or digitally (which is why most of them have high ratings). Releases featured on MS only.

1.Soen - Lotus

2.Borknagar - True North

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Thank You Scientist - Terraformer

5.Brymir - Wings Of Fire

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It may have been a slow start to 2019, but May and June have started to kick things into high gear. I recently decided to start collecting vinyl, which has lead me to start a list. It's been a couple…

1.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

2.Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia

3.Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light

4.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

5.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

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1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Leprous - Pitfalls

3.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

4.Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

5.Issues - Beautiful Oblivion

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I am still lurking around. Trying to get back into the swing of it. Recs are always welcome.
Rating scale 1 thru 5. Arrows indicate trending.

1.A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices

2.A Swarm Of The Sun - The Woods

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Astronoid - Astronoid

5.Autism - Have You Found Peace

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Disclaimer:
This list is influenced by my genre preferences. Genres like Melodic death/doom, Post-Metal, Extreme Folk and Progressive.

1.Violet Cold - kOsmik

2.Numenorean - Adore

3.Cân Bardd - The Last Rain

4.Dead To A Dying World - Elegy

5.Downfall Of Gaia - Ethic Of Radical Finitude

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