No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮ - Disappointing

1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter

3.Hath - Of Rot And Ruin

4.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

5.Ethereal Darkness - Smoke And Shadows

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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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**DISCLAIMER: The following list is based on my own opinions and musical diversity, and should not be taken as Metalstorm's input on any artist/record/band whatsoever.
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With no further ado,
Let 2019 BEGIN!

1.Leprous - Pitfalls

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

3.Devin Townsend - Empath

4.Týr - Hel

5.The Dark Element - Songs The Night Sings

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It's always changing.

1.Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

2.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

3.Equilibrium - Sagas

4.Týr - Ragnarok

5.Finsterforst - Rastlos

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My top 3 albums per year starting in 1999.

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2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Finntroll - Midnattens Widunder

4.Shaman (FIN) - Idja

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1.Death Angel - Humanicide

2.Acid Reign - The Age Of Entitlement

3.Aeon Zen - INVERITAS

4.Allegaeon - Apoptosis

5.Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2019. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Shadow Of Intent - Melancholy

2.Memoriam - Requiem For Mankind

3.Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth

4.Equipoise - Demiurgus

5.Disillusion - The Liberation

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Hour Of Penance - Misotheism

3.Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion

4.Venom Prison - Samsara

5.Flotsam And Jetsam - The End Of Chaos

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In no particular order

1.Xoth - Interdimensional Invocations

2.Borknagar - True North

3.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

4.Vorna - Sateet Palata Saavat

5.Darkthrone - Old Star

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Here are my favorite metal records from 2019.

1.Shadow Of Intent - Melancholy

2.Jinjer - Macro

3.Allegaeon - Apoptosis

4.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Wormwood - Nattarvet

2.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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

4.Soen - Lotus

5.Brutus (Belgium Band) - Nest

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1.Eluveitie - Ategnatos

2.Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods

3.Grand Magus - Wolf God

4.Exumer - Hostile Defiance

5.Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

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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.Evergrey - The Atlantic

2.Soen - Lotus

3.Soilwork - Verkligheten

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

5.Beast In Black - From Hell With Love

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Tool - Fear Inoculum

3.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

4.Whitechapel - The Valley

5.Soilwork - Verkligheten

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