1.Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3.In Aevum Agere - The Shadow Tower

4.Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Unstille

5.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

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1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.Wodensthrone - Curse

3.Circus Maximus - Nine

4.Enslaved - RIITIIR

5.Threshold - March Of Progress

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My best album picks of 2012

1.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

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1.Ex Deo - Caligvla

2.Dethklok - Dethalbum III

3.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

4.The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1.Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2.Overkill - The Electric Age

3.Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5.Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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1.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Eluveitie - Helvetios

4.Kamelot - Silverthorn

5.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

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1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

2.Borknagar - Urd

3.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

4.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5.The Gathering - Disclosure

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I decided not to include "folk metal" albums like "Wintersun - Time" or "Enslaved - RIITIIR".

1.Finsterforst - Rastlos

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3.Eluveitie - Helvetios

4.Hammer Horde - Vinlander

5.King Of Asgard - ?To North

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1.The Faceless - Autotheism

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

4.Enslaved - RIITIIR

5.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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1.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

3.Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones

4.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

5.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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2012 has been such a great year for metal releases. So in honor of that, here is my personal favourite Albums of 2012.

1.Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

2.Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

3.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4.Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

5.Eternal Deformity - The Beauty Of Chaos

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My top 10 metal albums (any style) for 2012.

1.Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

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A lot of bands have great debut albums. Obviously this list is just a fraction of all the great debut albums out there, but it's a start. I'll keep expanding this list continuously, so all suggestions are welcome (granted they are featured on MS). All the albums here are ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. If a certain album belongs to the (in your opinion) wrong genre, then definitely let me know.

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2.Aarni - Bathos

3.Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

4.Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

5.Sadness - Ames De Marbre

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Updated 5/13/20

1.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

2.Sick - Cannibalistic Torment

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

4.Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance

5.Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

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1.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2.Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming

3.Atoma - Skylight

4.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

5.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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