Lists by musclassia
2018: Let's Get It On! (Jul-Dec)
I'll be spending 2 months in the US so probably won't manage to beat the 130-odd albums I heard in the first half of the year, but I'll do my best.
| 1. | Dirge - Lost Empyrean |
| 2. | Ingrina - Etter Lys |
| 3. | Between The Buried And Me - Automata |
| 4. | King Buffalo - Longing To Be The Mountain |
| 5. | A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes |
| + 144 more |
Best Of The Year: 2022
I've played somewhere in the region of 1200 albums this year - there's been a lot of great stuff among them, so this will not be an easy list to narrow down - I'd like to say I can be stricter…
| 1. | Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality |
| 2. | Disillusion - Ayam |
| 3. | Persefone - Metanoia |
| 4. | Kardashev - Liminal Rite |
| 5. | Shadow Of Intent - Elegy |
| + 20 more |
Best Of The Year: 2024
A tricky list to write - there's a lot of albums I enjoyed this year, but very few standouts; after the top 3, any of the following albums could arguably be shifted up or down a few places. It certainly…
| 1. | Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke |
| 2. | Dvne - Voidkind |
| 3. | A Swarm Of The Sun - An Empire |
| 4. | Horndal - Head Hammer Man |
| 5. | Anciients - Beyond The Reach Of The Sun |
| + 15 more |
2013 List (continued)
Because I can't stop listening to music, but neither can I sacrifice my lovely descriptions, so same fare as before, but deleted descriptions for those covered in the first list.
| 1. | Protest The Hero - Volition |
| 2. | Persefone - Spiritual Migration |
| 3. | Amorphis - Circle |
| 4. | Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte |
| 5. | Monolithe - Monolithe IV |
| + 196 more |
2019: The Curtain Call (Jul-Dec)
I've just turned 27, I guess if I'm lucky I'll live long enough to finish this list.
| 1. | Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear |
| 2. | Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light |
| 3. | Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond The Dark |
| 4. | Disillusion - The Liberation |
| 5. | Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence |
| + 112 more |
2012: Favourite To Least (Continued)
Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.
| 1. | Sylosis - Monolith |
| 2. | Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone |
| 3. | In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad |
| 4. | Abigail Williams - Becoming |
| 5. | Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52 |
| + 177 more |
2015: One O' Dem Best Of Lists (Jul-Dec)
Been a bit slow checking releases around the halfway point of the year, but should get back into it soon and hopefully flesh out this list.
| 1. | Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud |
| 2. | Horrendous - Anareta |
| 3. | Slugdge - Dim & Slimeridden Kingdoms |
| 4. | Teramaze - Her Halo |
| 5. | Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Exile |
| + 102 more |
Blind Guardian: Favourite-->Least
| 1. | Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side |
| 2. | Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera |
| 3. | Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond |
| 4. | Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time |
| 5. | Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth |
| + 4 more |
2010-2014: Top 111 Songs (1 Per Band; WIP)
My second 5-year summary list, just to give mentions to some bands that released songs I have loved over the past few years which didn't necessarily deliver a whole package that won me over. The top…
| 1. | The Dillinger Escape Plan - Widower (Runners-up: N/A) |
| 2. | Be'lakor - In Parting (Runners-up: The Dream And The Waking, Remnants, Of Moon And Star) |
| 3. | Voyager - A Beautiful Mistake (Runners-up: The Morning Light) |
| 4. | Protest The Hero - Drumhead Trial (Runners-up: Skies, C'est La Vie, Sex-Tapes) |
| 5. | Sylosis - Serpent's Tongue (Runners-up: The River, Paradox, Kingdom Of Solitude) |
| + 107 more |
2011: Favourite To Least
Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so…
| 1. | Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth |
| 2. | Protest The Hero - Scurrilous |
| 3. | Infestus - E x I s t |
| 4. | Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times |
| 5. | Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth |
| + 148 more |
2016: Keeping Up With The Joneses (Jul-Dec)
Very late starting on this one, been rather unable to keep up with releases over the summer so will try to catch up on as many cool releases as possible in the last couple of months of the year. Be prepared…
| 1. | Ortega - Sacred States |
| 2. | Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape |
| 3. | Oathbreaker - Rheia |
| 4. | Devin Townsend - Transcendence |
| 5. | Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience |
| + 70 more |
2017, Part 2: But I Haven't Finished The First Half Yet!
Still got plenty of stuff to catch up from Q1 and Q2 from this year, but will probably end up checking out some stuff from second half of 2017 before I'm done with all of that, so here's this…
| 1. | Mastodon - Cold Dark Place |
| 2. | The Contortionist - Clairvoyant |
| 3. | Passages - Lucid |
| 4. | Enslaved - E |
| 5. | Dvne - Asheran |
| + 105 more |