My top 5 albums from every year since 2000.

Artist & Album
Rating out of 10 / Short Thought
Rated on performance, songwriting, originality, and production.

Currently in the process of re-listening to my entire collection and reviewing it. This list does not contain EPs or live albums -- studio releases that are featured on MS only. Also, only albums that are in my personal collection (i.e. I own them), make this list.

1. 2013:

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Leprous - Coal

4. Amorphis - Circle

5. Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood

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1. Deadlock - Bizarro World

2. In Flames - Clayman

3. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4. Slipknot - Iowa

5. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

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Just a list of my personal top albums for the year 2010. When I look at it now, I would change a few things, since probably when the hype dropped, I don't actually prefer some albums as much as I did back then, (I would probably drop down/out Firewind and Agalloch) but I'm not gonna change it, it was written back then and " Everything Remains As It Never Was".

1. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time

2. Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void

3. Equilibrium - ReKreatur

4. Firewind - Days of Defiance

5. Helloween - 7 Sinners

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1. Equilibrium - Rekreatur

2. Kivimetsän Druidi - Betrayal, Justice, Revenge

3. Whispered - Thousand Swords

4. Finntroll - Nifelvind

5. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

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1. Ensiferum - Iron

2. Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3. Turisas - The Varangian Way

4. Eluveitie - Slania

5. Equilibrium - Sagas

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Best Folkish albums I've heard so far...!! Please feel free to post your Suggestions!!

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Ensiferum - Iron

3. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

4. Blackmore's Night - Under A Violet Moon

5. Blackmore's Night - Shadow Of The Moon

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My "Final Selection" for 2010. Top 10 in order. The Rest for A-Z.
As a big fan of Power and Folk metal, this year was quiet good. The return of Rhapsody, new actors as Ancient Bards, Sinbreed, great comeback - Accept, Masterplan with Jorn, long awaited albums - Orphaned Land, Blind Guardian and Alcest. Some discoveries - Finsterforst, Skiltron, Pretty Maids (shame on me)and Orden Ogan. Some unexpected suprises Black Majesty, Iron Fire. Not to say that many bands didnt disappoint me with their new album - Derdian, Freedom Call, Eluvetie, Galneyrus, Wuthering Heights. Good year, a little bit above the average

1. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2. Pathfinder - Beyond The Space, Beyond The Time

3. Freedom Call - Legend Of The Shadowking

4. Derdian - New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse

5. Rhapsody Of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels

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2010 had a lot of great releases. Here are some my favorites that will look like other people's favorites.

1. Ihsahn - After

2. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3. Finntroll - Nifelvind

4. Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

5. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

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1. Alcest - Écailles de lune

2. Fear Factory - Mechanize

3. Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées

4. Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void

5. Eluveitie - Everything Remains as It Never Was

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Just a list containing some of my favorite folk metal albums of all time. Note: this list is unordered.

1. Wintersun - Wintersun

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

4. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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2010; an oddity of a year with lots of great releases from obscure and relatively unheard of bands, while at the same time some horrendous, shameful duds released by many household names. Could things get any more topsy turvy?

Subject to change, as I see fit.

1. Illidiance - Damage Theory

2. Radiance (FIN) - The Burning Sun

3. Amogh Symphony - The Quantum Hack Code

4. Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function

5. Mourning Lenore - Loosely Bounded Infinities

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1. Therion - Sitra Ahra

2. Dimmu Borgir - Abrahadabra

3. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

4. Magica - Dark Diary

5. King Of Asgard - Fi'mbulvintr

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My 2 cent on last year's releases. After this retrospective, I'm highly doubtful that 2011 can get any better. I'd rate this year as 8/10. YES, NOT EVERYTHING THAT'S GREAT MUST GET A 10! ^^

1. Kalmah - 12 Gauge

2. Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void

3. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

4. Equilibrium - Rekreatur

5. Sigh - Scenes From Hell

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1. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

2. Kalmah - 12 Gauge

3. Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

4. Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void

5. Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion

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1. Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void

2. Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

3. In Mourning - Monolith

4. Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

5. How to Destroy Angels - How to Destroy Angels

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