This is a list of almost every album/EP/demo I listened to from 2012. It is primarily composed of the better albums I listened to as I tend to forget about bad albums (and rightfully so).

NOTE: Most of these ratings don't stand anymore.

1. Igorrr - Hallelujah

2. Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber II

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

4. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

5. Elderwind - Волшебство живой природы

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Pretty much a ranking of everything I heard this year

I'll add some comments for albums I feel the need to say something about.

A lot of things on this list are subject to change

1. Be'Lakor - Of Breath and Bone

2. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3. The Faceless - Autotheism

4. Circus Maximus - Nine

5. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

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Due to the overwhelming "popularity" of my last list, I have decided to do the same thing in 2012

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

2. Baroness - Yellow & Green

3. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

5. Royal Thunder - CVI

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This list is entirely subjective (a detail that seems important to add sometimes).
I update it quite often, changes in my taste, etc etc ...
PS : If you see some albums here before their release date, just notice that I'm reviewer

1. Threshold - March Of Progress

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Enslaved - RIITIIR

4. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

5. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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Other good lists with some melodic metal in them:
strade's - R'Vannith's - Unhealer's - Lkoturnindrin's

Will only add 7.5+ releases, so this won't be a gargantuan list... last year saw maybe forty or so releases I thought of as 7.5+'s, a lot of them rated only at the end of the year, and some not rated at all due to the extensiveness of pre-MSA listening sessions... if you want to stalk my "bad" ratings, they're all in my album votes.

1. Enochian Theory - Life... And All It Entails

2. Dissona - Dissona

3. Big Big Train - English Electric 1

4. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

5. Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit

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List of albums I've heard in 2012, from best to worst.

1. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

2. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

3. Borknagar - Urd

4. Wintersun - Time I

5. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

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1. Steelwing - Zone Of Alienation

2. Goatwhore - Blood For The Master

3. Angel Witch - As Above, So Below

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I'm (sorta) back. *The Finishing Touches* OKAY, so obviously not as much stuff from the last half of the year as the first. Sorry guys, but that first six months nearly killed me. Some stuff as a result will be missing, but major stuff not present is stuff I probably didn't care for. Alrighty then, enough with the "stuff"...

1. Bound by Entrails - The Stars Bode You Farewell

2. Royal Thunder - CVI

3. Akphaezya - Anthology IV: The Tragedy of Nerak

4. Dissona - Dissona

5. Anhedonist - Netherwards

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No longer going to list the albums in order of preference, can't rate music like that. Gonna go alphabetically.
January albums to listen to-Iron Fire, Horrendous

March albums to listen to- Sigh, God Forbid, OSI, Dark Empire, Ignivomous

May- Litrosis, Ne Obliviscaris

June- Miseration, Ihshan, Vintersorg, Abnormality, Gnaw Their Tongues,

1. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

2. 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Throes Of Absolution

3. Abigail Williams - Becoming

4. Abiotic - Symbiosis

5. Abominable Putridity - The Anomalies Of Artificial Origin

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My list of favourites and interests for this year ordered roughly in descending order. My new years resolution is to branch out a bit and listen to new and unfamiliar genres, metal and non-metal.

Edit: Anything above about a 7/10 I'll keep here. Now with approximate rating in a .5 scale and ordered according to **replay value** i.e how often I listen to them. AND now with some comments, adding them gradually.

1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Pharaoh - Bury The Light

3. Anglagard - Viljans Öga

4. Overkill - The Electric Age

5. The Foreshadowing - Second World

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As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it comes to themes of space/aliens. This is a list of those albums which use this theme and/or evoke an overall 'spacey' atmosphere and which I find particularly intriguing and enjoyable. No order for now and a work in progress (recommendations most welcome) Last Updated: 20th May 2013

1. Atoma - Skylight

2. Dolorian - Voidwards

3. Angst Skvadron - Flukt

4. Slough Feg - Hardworlder

5. Slough Feg - Traveller

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My Favorite Metal Songs. I tried to limit myself to one song per album, so this list also doubles as my favorite song off of each of these albums also. Probably stop the list at 666 if I ever get there.

1. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2. Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5. Wolf (UK) - Edge Of The World

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