1.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

2.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3.Grima - Will Of The Primordial

4.Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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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…

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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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…

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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This is a list of all the folk metal albums I have listened to that I found to be of at least marginal quality. It is purely for my own organizational purposes and is not meant to be a definitive statement…

1.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

2.Forefather - Ours Is The Kingdom

3.Forefather - Steadfast

4.Forefather - Last Of The Line

5.Dalriada - Áldás

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1.Waste Of Space Orchestra - Syntheosis

2.Stellar Master Elite - Hologram Temple

3.Mephorash - Shem Ha Mephorash

4.Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites

5.Strigoi - Abandon All Faith

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(Top 130... won't make it to 200 until early next year... but I don't mind, do you? *sound of crickets* well, ok then, soliloquy over =) )

update: never got to 200, but I'm hoping the 2020's…

1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Finsterforst - Zerfall

3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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My personal picks of 2019, in no particular order (so far).

1.Advent Sorrow - Kali Yuga Crown

2.Numenorean - Adore

3.Mephorash - Shem Ha Mephorash

4.Bewitcher - Under The Witching Cross

5.Vale Of Pnath - Accursed

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1.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

2.Opeth - In Cauda Venenum

3.Eternal Storm - Come The Tide

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Soen - Lotus

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone…

1.Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony

2.Cadaveria - In Your Blood

3.Caïna - Mourner

4.Caïnan Dawn - F.O.H.A.T.

5.Cain's Offering - Stormcrow

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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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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.Kaunis Kuolematon - Mielenvalta

2.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

3.Abbath - Dread Reaver

4.Bloodbound - Drink With The Gods

5.Warmen - Here For None

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

3.Borknagar - True North

4.Mgła - Age Of Excuse

5.Devin Townsend - Empath

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1.Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

2.Humanotone - A Flourishing Fall In A Grain Of Sand

3.Midnight - Let There Be Witchery

4.Konvent - Call Down The Sun

5.Xandria - The Wonders Still Awaiting

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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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