These are my favourite albums from the year 2023, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.TesseracT - War Of Being

2.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

3.Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre

4.Haken - Fauna

5.Extreme - Six

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2022, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Russian Circles - Gnosis

2.Brutus (BEL) - Unison Life

3.Elder - Innate Passage

4.Gaupa - Myriad

5.Final Light - Final Light

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2021, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Wheel - Resident Human

2.Carcass - Torn Arteries

3.Mastodon - Hushed And Grim

4.Thy Catafalque - Vadak

5.Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2020, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Psychonaut - Unfold The God Man

2.Enslaved - Utgard

3.The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic

4.Elder - Omens

5.Garganjua - Toward The Sun

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2019, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan

2.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

3.Tool - Fear Inoculum

4.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

5.Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2018, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Haken - Vector

3.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

4.TesseracT - Sonder

5.Khemmis - Desolation

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2017, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Leprous - Malina

2.Enslaved - E

3.Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

4.Darkest Hour - Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora

5.Body Count - Bloodlust

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2016, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Gojira - Magma

2.Death Angel - The Evil Divide

3.Khemmis - Hunted

4.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

5.Ihsahn - Arktis.

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2015, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things

2.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

5.Melechesh - Enki

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These are my personal favourites - only one song chosen from the nine Led Zeppelin studio albums (but have allowed myself the indulgence of choosing two from Physical Graffiti, because it's a double-album…

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

2.Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

5.Led Zeppelin - Presence

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If you believe in God then bad luck, some people have a different view than you - get over it. Don't write to me.

1.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

2.Darkest Hour - The Eternal Return

3.Slayer - Christ Illusion

4.Machine Head - The Blackening

5.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

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Based on the original BBC radio program from 1942 that asked "if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course,…

1.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

2.Faith No More - The Real Thing

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Alice In Chains - Dirt

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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These are my bakers-dozen favourite album covers - those that really stand out for me from my collection (although at the time of making there was one that hasn't yet been released). These are all…

1.Darkest Hour - The Human Romance

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Entombed - Morning Star

4.Behemoth - Zos Kia Cultus (Here And Beyond)

5.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

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