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Andy's Top 2025
Albums from 2025 I've ranked in order from best down to worst, including...
Top 20 songs from 2025:
1. Blackbraid - And He Became The Burning Stars…
2. Faidra - Phantasmagoria
3. Dormant Ordeal…
Top 20 songs from 2025:
1. Blackbraid - And He Became The Burning Stars…
2. Faidra - Phantasmagoria
3. Dormant Ordeal…
| 1. | Dormant Ordeal - Tooth And Nail |
| 2. | Havukruunu - Tavastland |
| 3. | Blackbraid - Blackbraid III |
| 4. | Lorna Shore - I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me |
| 5. | Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack |
| + 780 more |
So I Heard You Like Opeth...
My other lists:
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
"Which bands sound like Opeth?" It seems that perennial question has plagued fans and non-fans of…
Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
Most Talented Vocalists In Metal
"Which bands sound like Opeth?" It seems that perennial question has plagued fans and non-fans of…
| 1. | Adeia - Serenity |
| 2. | Alley - Amphibious |
| 3. | Altesia - Paragon Circus |
| 4. | Anciients - Voice Of The Void |
| 5. | Aquilus - Griseus |
| + 45 more |
2012: Towards The Megalist
I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. 
Some stuff as…
Some stuff as… | 1. | Bound By Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell |
| 2. | Royal Thunder - CVI |
| 3. | Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy Of Nerak |
| 4. | Dissona - Dissona |
| 5. | Anhedonist - Netherwards |
| + 201 more |
Andy's Top 2023
Albums from 2023 ranked in order best to worst.
Top 10 songs:
1. Blackbraid - The Wolf That Guides The Hunters Hand
2. Sworn - A Godless Domain
3. Mephorash - Gnosis
4. Helga - Mountain Song
5.
Top 10 songs:
1. Blackbraid - The Wolf That Guides The Hunters Hand
2. Sworn - A Godless Domain
3. Mephorash - Gnosis
4. Helga - Mountain Song
5.
| 1. | Blackbraid - Blackbraid II |
| 2. | Wayfarer - American Gothic |
| 3. | Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags |
| 4. | Varathron - The Crimson Temple |
| 5. | Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire |
| + 815 more |
DooOOOooOOmmm
Doom on you! As with my Post-stonersludge list, this is a list of 25 doom albums by artists of varying stature that i enjoy. And by "enjoy", I mean "suffer through, eagerly awaiting the…
| 1. | 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room |
| 2. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 3. | Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane |
| 4. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 5. | Candlemass - Nightfall |
| + 20 more |
The Ultimate Avant-Garde Metal Albums
A collection of the most original, insane and head spinning albums from the weirdest side of metal. Suggestions are welcome.
| 1. | A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See |
| 2. | Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias |
| 3. | Akphaezya - Anthology II: Links From The Dead Trinity |
| 4. | Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale |
| 5. | Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors |
| + 39 more |
Andy's Top 2024
Albums from 2024 ranked in order best to worst.
Top 10 songs:
1. Khirki - Συμπληγάδες
2. Cistvaen - Cessation Of Hope
3. Blood Incantation - The Message: Tablet III
4. Panzerfaust - Occam's…
Top 10 songs:
1. Khirki - Συμπληγάδες
2. Cistvaen - Cessation Of Hope
3. Blood Incantation - The Message: Tablet III
4. Panzerfaust - Occam's…
| 1. | Panzerfaust - The Suns Of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion |
| 2. | Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe |
| 3. | Spectral Wound - Songs Of Blood And Mire |
| 4. | Cistvaen - At Light's Demise |
| 5. | Inherits The Void - Scars Of Yesteryears |
| + 823 more |
The Greatest Power Metal Albums Of All Time
The best Power Metal albums by the best bands in the genre. The albums are not in any specific order, at least after the first 10. I placed more than 1 album per band cause they really deserve to be here.
| 1. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I |
| 2. | Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II |
| 3. | Angra - Temple Of Shadows |
| 4. | Angra - Rebirth |
| 5. | Stratovarius - Visions |
| + 22 more |
Favourites Of The '00s
My favourites of the 00's. Bitch and moan girls, or check some of these out.
| 1. | Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale |
| 2. | Shining - IV - The Eerie Cold |
| 3. | The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand |
| 4. | Hjarnidaudi - Pain:Noise:March |
| 5. | Corrupted - El Mundo Frio |
| + 20 more |
Promo's Picks Of The Passing Decade
Actually I wanted to write a blog as several of my colleagues, but now that we have this nifty new feature there's no reason to bother with formatting all the pics and stuff 
So this was it. The…
So this was it. The…
| 1. | Negură Bunget - OM |
| 2. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 3. | Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin |
| 4. | Dark Tranquillity - Character |
| 5. | Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro |
| + 45 more |
The Most Majestic Releases Of All Time
This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical…
| 1. | Anathema - The Silent Enigma |
| 2. | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée |
| 3. | Deinonychus - The Silence Of December |
| 4. | Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age |
| 5. | Burzum - Filosofem |
| + 165 more |
Classic Metal Albums Of Forever
*** READ ME *** This list is about the greatest metal albums of all-time, from all sub-genres and all countries. You won't see bands like Deep Purple, Rush, BOC, Zeppelin, etc., nor will you see bands…
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Paranoid |
| 2. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 3. | Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son |
| 4. | Death - Symbolic |
| 5. | Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath |
| + 95 more |
My Favourite Black Metal Albums
- My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
…
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down.
- One album for every band in one TOP 75.
- Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour.
…
| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver |
| 3. | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| + 223 more |
Songs From The 60's And The 70's I Think Every Metal Fan Should Have Heard
This is a mix of my personal favourite 60's and 70's hard rock/metal songs and the more influential ones, songs that I think every metal fan need to hear. A mix of the most well-known songs to…
| 1. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced |
| 2. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love |
| 3. | The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love |
| 4. | Cream - Disraeli Gears |
| 5. | Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum |
| + 89 more |
