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 opinion my own and I am obviously right

Album count: 160
Average rating: 7

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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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 your favorite genres !

I'm still working on fixing links, if you find errors, feel free to notify in the comments !

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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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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Favourite metal/rock LPs anno Domini 2019. Admittedly, this list is highly subjective. Still, it's better than yours. Or your mother's. Or Lucifer's. You get the point.
Albums in alphabetical order (top 12 first).

1.Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk

2.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

4.Haunter - Sacramental Death Qualia

5.Inter Arma - Sulphur English

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One band, one album in alphabetical order. No EPs, demos, etc.
Favourite album: Mgła - With Hearts Toward None
Favourite song: Schammasch - "Above The Stars Of God"

1.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

2.Abbath - Abbath

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Aenaon - Hypnosophy

5.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

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Albums are in alphabetical order

1.An Isolated Mind - I'm Losing Myself

2.Andavald - Undir Skyggðarhaldi

3.Árstíðir Lífsins - Saga Á Tveim Tungum I: Vápn Ok Viðr

4.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

5.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

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Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!

1.Møl - Jord

2.The Haunted - Unseen

3.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light

4.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

5.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

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This is the list of albums I had on heavy rotation during 2019. If an album was very good but way too long or demanding to listen to it more than twice, you won't see it here (e.g. Esoteric). I have limited attention span and favourite albums are called "favourite" because we keep listening to them non-stop. The order below is more or less accurate.

1.Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Diamond Head - The Coffin Train

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

5.Numenorean - Adore

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1.Borknagar - True North

2.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3.Alcest - SPIRITUAL INSTICT

4.Soilwork - Verkligheten

5.Rammstein - Rammstein

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

2.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

4.Idle Hands - Mana

5.Avatarium - The Fire I Long For

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1.Nordjevel - Necrogenesis

2.1349 - The Infernal Pathway

3.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

4.Heilung - Futha

5.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

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1.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

2.The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism

3.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

4.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

5.Borknagar - True North

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I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith

2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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1.Nusquama - Horizon Ontheemt

2.Vanum - Ageless Fire

3.Yellow Eyes - Rare Field Ceiling

4.Dreams Of The Drowned - Dreams Of The Drowned I

5.Sinmara - Hvísl Stjarnanna

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1.Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

2.Gatecreeper - Deserted

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

5.Mortiferum - Disgorged From Psychotic Depths

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