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AJ's Ranking Of 2014

TOP 50 of 2014.

The great return of Empyrium!

Album rate 8 & above

Album count: 144
Average rating: 7.04…

1.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides
2.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era
3.Fen - Carrion Skies
4.Anathema - Distant Satellites
5.Moanaa - Descent

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Created by AJ The Great on 16.07.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2015

2015 was the edge, the cliff, the abyss looking back at us... and we jumped... oh yes we did...

Top 50 of my 8+ ratings

Enjoy! or not I don't really care

Album count: 155
Average rating:…

1.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields
2.Arcturus - Arcturian
3.Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
4.Kauan - Sorni Nai
5.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

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Created by AJ The Great on 06.05.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2016

2016 was... well... oh oh... oh oh... well... what the fuck!

Anyhow, here is my top 50 ranking of albums I scored 8+

Album count: 126
Average rating: 7.1…

1.Alcest - Kodama
2.Khemmis - Hunted
3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate
4.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale
5.Skuggsjá - A Piece For Mind & Mirror

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Created by AJ The Great on 27.04.2023



AJ's Ranking Of Alexi Laiho

For years, Alexis Laiho's talent obsessed me. Even after seeing him in flesh and bones, being 2 heads shorter than me, he was for me a giant. The last years were heartbreaking but when I think about…

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
3.Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
4.Children Of Bodom - Something Wild
5.Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?

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Created by AJ The Great on 07.04.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2017

My glorious ranking of the year of our Lord 2017

Top 50 rated 8 and above

Album count: 132
Average rating: 7.1


1.Enslaved - E
2.Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World
3.Pallbearer - Heartless
4.Myrkur - Mareridt
5.Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar

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Created by AJ The Great on 27.03.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2021

The top 50 of the year that will be remembered as the gap year between the pandemic and the war

Album count: 138
Average rating: 7.24…

1.Empyrium - Über Den Sternen
2.Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
3.Wardruna - Kvitravn
4.Leprous - Aphelion
5.Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

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Created by AJ The Great on 30.01.2023



AJ's Ranking Of 2020

Top 50 ranking of 2020 from my collection. Only 8 & above

Opinion my own, so bow to it

Album count: 161
Average rating: 7.13…

1.Myrkur - Folkesange
2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
3.Dark Buddha Rising - Mathreyata
4.Ihsahn - Telemark
5.Ulver - Flowers Of Evil

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Created by AJ The Great on 22.02.2022



AJ's Ranking Of 2019

Well, 2020 is not the most enjoyable year, is it...

So I looked back at 2019 to do a little nostalgic ranking of when the world was only half crazy....

My top 50 (rate 8 & above)

Like always…

1.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear
2.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
4.Borknagar - True North
5.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

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Created by AJ The Great on 04.05.2020



AJ's Ranking Of Machine Head

I discovered metal with Machine Head - No shame - with their very infamous Supercharger... Oh yes.

It is crap, sure, but it holds an important place for me as my first (and we are not always proud…

1.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
2.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
3.Machine Head - The Blackening
4.Machine Head - The More Things Change...
5.Machine Head - Øf Kingdøm And Crøwn

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Created by AJ The Great on 26.04.2020