1. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

2. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

3. Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Unstille

4. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

5. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry

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1. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2. Wodensthrone - Curse

3. Circus Maximus - Nine

4. Enslaved - RIITIIR

5. Threshold - March Of Progress

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1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

2. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

3. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

4. Threshold - March of Progress

5. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

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1. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2. In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

3. Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones

4. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

5. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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2012 has been such a great year for metal releases. So in honor of that, here is my personal favourite Albums of 2012.

1. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

2. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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

5. Eternal Deformity - The Beauty Of Chaos

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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. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1. The Foreshadowing - Second World

2. Anathema - Judgement

3. Crematory - Awake

4. Charon - Songs For the Sinners

5. Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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1. The Foreshadowing - Second World

2. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme

3. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5. Moonspell - Omega White

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My evolving list of 2012

1. The Faceless - Autotheism

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4. Bloodshot Dawn - Bloodshot Dawn

5. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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1. Sybreed - God Is An Automaton

2. Atoma - Skylight

3. Anathema - Weather Systems

4. Eisbrecher - Die Hölle Muss Warten

5. Oomph! - Des Wahnsinns Fette Beute

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Note; Anything I rate lower than 8 I deem underwhelming. Sure, I might even acknowledge some of them as being rather enjoyble, but considering the "bigger picture of things", I find them unsatisfactory (in varying degrees, depending on their rating).

Partially ordered (the ones with descriptions). The rest are arranged alphabetically.

1. Sybreed - God Is An Automaton

2. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

3. The Faceless - Autotheism

4. Ihsahn - Eremita

5. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

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While I'm slightly disappointed the world didn't end this year, I thought I'd share my musical tastes from throughout the year by arbitrarily ranking other people's art. When the year began I was really into sludge and stoner but as the year has worn on, it's been the black metal releases which by and large have won my attention and appreciation.

1. Royal Thunder - CVI

2. Ancestors - In Dreams and Time

3. Merrimack - The Acausal Mass

4. Hail Spirit Noir - Pneuma

5. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago

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Another year, another favourites of the year list... But hopefully this will be more complete than the previous years ones. Rather than making a massive list of everything I have listened to, I'll be as selective as possible. I've only started listening to 2012 releases since February, so I'll be playing catch up throughout the year as my time is limited. I've only gone through 556 releases this year properly as of 07/01/2013, so the list can only expand! If you feel strongly about certain albums released this year and it's not here, be sure to leave a comment! Feel free to make a list that's exactly the same =P

1. CSSABA - Underground Lo-Fi Songs

2. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

3. Monolithe - Interlude Second

4. Nadja - The Primitive World

5. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

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My favorite albums of 2012 so far. A list of 21, that I expect to grow till the end of the year.

1. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

3. Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

4. Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming

5. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

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1. Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

2. Accept - Stalingrad

3. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

4. The Foreshadowing - Second World

5. Moonspell - Alpha Noir/Omega White

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