Long list huh

1.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

2.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

3.Coffin Storm - Arcana Rising

4.Ivory Tower - Heavy Rain

5.Exhorder - Defectum Omnium

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I haven't listened a lot of 2024 albums so far, here are a few I enjoyed so far.

1.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

2.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

3.For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster

4.Turbulence - Binary Dream

5.North Sea Echoes - Really Good Terrible Things

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1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Vanden Plas - The Empyrean Equation Of The Long Lost Things

3.Amaranthe - The Catalyst

4.Madder Mortem - Old Eyes, New Heart

5.The Moor - Ombra

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1.Hamferð - Men Gu​ð​s Hond Er Sterk

2.Hideous Divinity - Unextinct

3.Slimelord - Chytridiomycosis Relinquished

4.Convulsing - Perdurance

5.Aborted - Vault Of Horrors

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just albums I have my eye on

1.Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

2.Suicidal Angels - Profane Prayer

3.Firewind - Stand United

4.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

5.Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond

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1.Vitriol - Suffer & Become

2.Borknagar - Fall

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Scanner - The Cosmic Race

5.Resin Tomb - Cerebral Purgatory

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1.Griffon - De Republica

2.Ecclesia - Ecclesia Militans

3.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

4.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

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1.Judas Priest - Invincible Shield

2.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

3.Saxon - Hell, Fire And Damnation

4.Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond

5.Rage - Afterlifelines

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1.Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

2.For All We Know - By Design Or By Disaster

3.Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond

4.Khirki - Κ​υ​κ​ε​ώ​ν​α​ς

5.Neal Morse - The Restoration - Joseph: Part Two

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1.Canaan - Ai Margini

2.Obsidian ( U.S.) - Fathomless ( progressive death metal / djent ) - 8

3.Darkcluster - Stellar Tomb - 7

4.Hauntologist - Hollow

5.Slift - Ilion

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Hoping to not beat last year's total albums, but to still find the good stuff this year.

1.Dvne - Voidkind

2.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

3.Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall

4.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

5.Dark Oath - Ages Of Man

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1.Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds

2.Einvigi - Monokroma

3.Far Beyond - The End Of My Road

4.Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki

5.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

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Another year begins, same scenario, ranking ordered from favorite down to least favorite. I've no specific target set this year, but it's doubtful I'll reach last year's monstrous amount. I might even throw in the odd EP this time round.

The list is also edited daily so the ranking may be subject to change.

1.Cistvaen - At Light's Demise

2.Khirki - Κ​υ​κ​ε​ώ​ν​α​ς

3.Dödsrit - Nocturnal Will

4.Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach

5.Hauntologist - Hollow

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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 after all.

Goal? I made it to 625 albums last year, with a pretty slack first 6 months. Aiming for 800.

Update: This list is officially discontinued, apart from albums that are good enough to warrant multiple listens, aka the top end. There are various reasons for this, but a lot of changes are happening in life and I cannot/do not want to give this much time to every release I can.

1.Aquilus - Bellum II

2.Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

3.Illumishade - Another Side Of You

4.Persefone - Lingua Ignota: Part I

5.Solbrud - IIII

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1.Notochord - Aegis

2.Svdestada - Candela

3.Hauntologist - Hollow

4.Magnum - Here Comes The Rain

5.Narzissus - Akt III: Erl​ö​sung

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