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 of the year, and while it might not be "metal" definitely one of the top albums of this year. Blind Guardian is not bad, far from it, but I expected so much more from this album hence it (un)deservedly gets to bear the shame of the letdown, although it is a decent album. Maybe I expected too much from it. One of the bands that deserve more attention this year for certain is Croatian Old Night, a real masterpiece when it comes to doom. Another recommendation would be Serbian Svartgren with their new black metal album called Divlja Vatra, or Wildfire. The rest of it pretty much boils down to personal taste and preferences. Darkwater and Bloodbound were a very pleasant surprise when it comes to progressive and power metal respectively. When it comes to symphonic and progressive metal, Wilderun was another pleasant surprise, a band I discovered recently through metalstorm website..

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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1.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Darkwater - Human

4.Soilwork - Verkligheten

5.Wind Rose - Wintersaga

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Albums that I listened to in 2019
The Albums are ordered from best to worst but the List is changing till the end of the year.
This is just my opinion.

1.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

2.Cloak - The Burning Dawn

3.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

4.Darkthrone - Old Star

5.Midnight Priest - Aggressive Hauntings

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1.Darkwater - Human

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

3.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

4.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

5.Borknagar - True North

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1.Aephanemer - Prokopton

2.Brymir - Wings Of Fire

3.Numenorean - Adore

4.Hath - Of Rot And Ruin

5.Týr - Hel

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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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1.Avantasia - Moonglow

2.Rhapsody Of Fire - The Eighth Mountain

3.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

4.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

5.Soen - Lotus

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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.Overkill - The Wings Of War

2.Death Angel - Humanicide

3.Elvenking - Reader Of The Runes - Divination

4.Evergrey - The Atlantic

5.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

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1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

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

4.Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

5.Avantasia - Moonglow

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1.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

2.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

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

4.Saor - Forgotten Paths

5.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

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1.Soilwork - Verkligheten

2.Dust Bolt - Trapped In Chaos

3.Trollfest - Norwegian Fairytales

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

5.Evergrey - The Atlantic

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