1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and my death metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6298
prior to updating this one

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.King Diamond - Abigail

3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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jesus this is out of date, gotta take some time and update this

1.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

2.Immolation - Close To A World Below

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind

5.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

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2012 Has marked off another great year for metal and these albums are a testament to that.

1.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

2.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

3.Naglfar - Téras

4.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

5.Aborted - Global Flatline

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This is my list of my favourite albums of 2012. These albums are not necessarily "the best" of the year, just what I've heard listed by how much I've enjoyed them.

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Enslaved - RIITIIR

3.Sigh - In Somniphobia

4.Accept - Stalingrad

5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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Updated 5/13/20

1.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

2.Sick - Cannibalistic Torment

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

4.Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance

5.Pig Destroyer - Book Burner

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Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4.Abigail Williams - Becoming

5.Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

2.Coheed And Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension

3.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4.Cynic - The Portal Tapes

5.Circa Survive - Violent Waves

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1.Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2.Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

3.The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4.Anathema - Weather Systems

5.Ihsahn - Eremita

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Unordered
Last Update: July 12th

1.Ancestors - In Dreams And Time

2.Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy Of Nerak

3.Dark Empire - From Refuge To Ruin

4.Dawn Of Demise - Rejoice In Vengeance

5.Miseration - Tragedy Has Spoken

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These are my top 20 albums of 2012, updated evertime an amazing release is heard by me lol.

1.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

2.Cannibal Corpse - Torture

3.Job For A Cowboy - Demonocracy

4.Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

5.Psycroptic - The Inherited Repression

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Too many 2012 lists around, you complain? You don't have to complain about this, though, it is NOT a 2012 list!

Previously, this list contained long-ass reviews, and distorted orders. But then this made people lose order and no one really reads what I write except about a handful of albums, so I decided to remove the X/10 rating system and use an "A-F" kinda stuff.

1.Rush - Clockwork Angels

2.Cytotoxin - Radiophobia

3.Overkill - The Electric Age

4.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

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My top 20 favorite albums of 2012 (will be updated as time moves along)

1.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

2.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

3.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

4.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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1.Naglfar - Téras

2.Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

3.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4.Meshuggah - Koloss

5.Spawn Of Possession - Incurso

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2012 running list... my version

1.Sigh - Somniphobia

2.Sutekh Hexen - Larvae

3.Lunar Aurora - Hoagascht

4.Mondstille - Seelenwund

5.Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn

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