Favourite releases of the year, one that has been so far fantastic for music. Not ordered by rating, ordered based on a lot of different criteria (replayability, uniqueness, surprise, etc).

1.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

2.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

3.Wintersun - Time II

4.Nightwish - Yesterwynde

5.Illumishade - Another Side Of You

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Self explanatory title. Primarily, my criteria is simply how much I like listening to them. I take technical talent into account sometimes, but it never takes priority over my enjoyability.

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I don't include EPs in my main list, so I thought it'd be a good idea add a few considering there's plenty of awesome music exclusive to EPs that was being ignored.

As for the ratings,…

1.Andrew Prahlow - Outer Wilds: Echoes Of The Eye (The Lost Reels)

2.Circus Maximus - Isolated Chapters

3.Insomnium - Songs Of The Dusk

4.Unleash The Archers - Explorers

5.An Abstract Illusion - Atonement Is Nigh

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Dream Theater! Once my favourite band of all time, now number 2. I took an involuntary break from them for a while, and upon return realised my feelings had changed to a lot of their music. Also since…

1.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

2.Dream Theater - Dream Theater

3.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

5.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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So it begins. 3rd year at MS, 5th year of devoted metal listening. Nothing particularly exciting coming up, but Eternal Storm looks promising, and any new Persefone is a good thing. It's early days…

1.Wintersun - Time II

2.Aquilus - Bellum II

3.Devin Townsend - PowerNerd

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.Illumishade - Another Side Of You

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The best album art of 2024. I usually gravitate towards album covers based on these factors:
-Level of detail (Foreground, background, etc. One dimensional album covers don't work for me usually)
-Art…

1.Solbrud - IIII

2.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

3.Infected Rain - Time

4.Darkspace - Dark Space -II

5.Borknagar - Fall

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The best album art of 2023. I usually gravitate towards album covers based on these factors:
-Level of detail (Foreground, background, etc. One dimensional album covers don't work for me usually)
-Art…

1.Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Whalesong - Leaving A Dream

4.Morwinyon - Wastelands

5.Oak - Disintegrate

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2023 here we go. My target for the year is 100+ albums, at a rule of 2 albums a week minimum.

1.Nospūn - Opus

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

3.Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

4.Crow Black Sky - Sidereal Light: Volume Two

5.Against Myself - Tides Of Insanity

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My final list for 2022.
Just one 10 this year for an absolutely spectacular album.

1.An Abstract Illusion - Woe

2.Wilderun - Epigone

3.Persefone - Metanoia

4.Jani Liimatainen - My Father's Son

5.Devin Townsend - Lightwork

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The goats. The near perfect albums that never get old. Some are full of catchy bangers I'm always humming, and some are so full to the brim of details that I still haven't even uncovered them…

1.Devin Townsend - Empath

2.Andrew Prahlow - Outer Wilds, Outer Wilds: Echoes Of The Eye

3.Gareth Coker - Ori And The Will Of The Wisps

4.Memories Of Old - The Zeramin Game

5.Wintersun - Time I

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