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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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact…

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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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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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

3.Devin Townsend - Empath

4.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

5.Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

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This list contains my 16 favourite albums of the year 🤘

FUN FACT:
Went to my second Tenacious D concert this year, they played Post-Apocalypto in it's entirety.
This has become one of my favorite…

1.Soen - Lotus

2.Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

3.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

4.Cellar Darling - The Spell

5.Opeth - In Cauda Venenum

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2019. Oh shit, time flies... yada yada. Here is my top list!…

1.Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

2.Nasheim - Jord Och Aska

3.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

4.Façade - The Eternal Dance

5.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

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best 20 album in 2019…

1.Soen - Lotus

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

3.Týr - Hel

4.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

5.Darkwater - Human

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1.Evergrey - The Atlantic

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Soilwork - Verkligheten

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

5.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

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

2.Soilwork - Verkligheten

3.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

4.Evergrey - The Atlantic

5.Nailed To Obscurity - Black Frost

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Tool - Fear Inoculum

3.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

4.Whitechapel - The Valley

5.Soilwork - Verkligheten

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1.Born Of Osiris - The Simulation

2.Soilwork - Verkligheten

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

4.Dust Bolt - Trapped In Chaos

5.Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮…

1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter

3.Hath - Of Rot And Ruin

4.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

5.Ethereal Darkness - Smoke And Shadows

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1.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

3.Motanka - Motanka

4.Shrezzers - Relationships

5.Saor - Forgotten Paths

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