Only good stuff included.

So far 2019 has been truly marvelous year full of stellar metal releases. I'll be updating this list as I find more worthy ones and/or get more into the ones already listed.

My ratings:

✮✮✮✮✮ = Instant classic.
✮✮✮✮½ = The Force is strong with this one.
✮✮✮✮ = Pretty damn good!

1.Finsterforst - Zerfall

2.Iapetus - The Body Cosmic

3.Numenorean - Adore

4.IQ - Resistance

5.White Ward - Love Exchange Failure

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(Top 130... won't make it to 200 until early next year... but I don't mind, do you? *sound of crickets* well, ok then, soliloquy over =) )

update: never got to 200, but I'm hoping the 2020's list will - or at least a top 150

1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Finsterforst - Zerfall

3.Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Abbath - Outstrider

2.Amon Amarth - Berserker

3.As I Lay Dying - Shaped By Fire

4.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

5.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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1.Myrath - Shehili

2.Savage Messiah - Demons

3.Darkthrone - Old Star

4.Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

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The best metal albums and EPs for 2019.

1.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

2.Lord Gore - Scalpels For Blind Surgeons

3.Nucleus - Entity

4.Denner's Inferno - In Amber

5.Exhumed - Horror

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

3.Devin Townsend - Empath

4.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

5.Deathspell Omega - The Furnaces Of Palingenesia

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1.Misþyrming - Algleymi

2.Mgła - Age Of Excuse

3.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

4.Finsterforst - Zerfall

5.Borknagar - True North

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1.Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

2.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

3.Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites

4.Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

5.Witch Vomit - Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave

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1.Tool - Fear Inoculum

2.Devin Townsend - Empath

3.Mgła - Age Of Excuse

4.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

5.Heilung - Futha

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1.Memoriam - Requiem For Mankind

2.Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance

3.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

4.Hate - Auric Gates Of Veles

5.Exhumed - Horror

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The Year Begins. Let's prepare for the Heavy ceremony.

1.Soen - Lotus

2.Opera Magna - Del Amor Y Otros Demonios

3.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

4.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

5.Suicidal Angels - Years Of Aggression

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Cos Radu won't leave me alone

1.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Grandmother

2.Dreadnought - Emergence

3.Methadone Skies - Different Layers Of Fear

4.A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices

5.Cartographs - Wilt & Blossom

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Listing albums that I have listened and liked enough to rank. My tastes skew towards Death/Black Metal which means I probably give most other genres a pass. I also don't bother rating such albums unless they catch my ear.

1.Vader - Thy Messenger

2.Legion Of The Damned - Slaves Of The Shadow Realm

3.Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound

4.Embrional - Evil Dead

5.Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast

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1.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

2.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3.Grima - Will Of The Primordial

4.Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

2.Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination

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

4.Saor - Forgotten Paths

5.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

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