2005 is the year when I returned to metal after being away for 9 years.

1. Process Of Guilt - Erosion

2. Krallice - Diotima

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Before The Rain - ...One Day Less

5. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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same shit, different year. found the year lacking a bit at the very top but wowzers were there a lot of really good albums released last year... so much so that i ran out of spots in the top 25 before i ran out of "8's"... passers by were surprised by the unusual amount of blood. passers by were surprised by the unusual amount of blood. passers by were surprised by the unusual amount of blood.

1. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

2. Tort - Tort

3. High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis

4. Lurk - Lurk

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Weeee my ballot in the MS Awards. I guess I was Kvlt City, USA this year. Only Black Breath snagged more than 50 votes. And only The Great Old Ones placed higher than fifth. \m/

1. The Great Old Ones - Al Azif

2. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life

3. Abske Fides - Abske Fides

4. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

5. Phobia - Remnants Of Filth

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WIP !!!!

Quite opposite to 2011, which featured both freakingly awesome releases (Terra Tenebrosa, Lazuli, Thy Catafalque...) and crap that redefined crap (Lulu or Illud Divinum Isanus), 2012 was quite consistent. Sadly, consistently average. OK, consistently quite correct, but groundbreaking releases were few and far between...

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Klone - The Dreamer's Hideaway

5. Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

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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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Another year, another list.

1. Enslaved - RIITIIR

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Mgła - With Hearts Toward None

4. A Forest of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

5. Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay

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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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Some of my favourite stuff I have scratched it up to one pile. One album per band, no order, just chaos.

1. Eibon - Entering Darkness

2. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

3. Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart

4. Ankhagram - Where Are You Now

5. Anorexia Nervosa - New Obscurantis Order

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1. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

2. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

5. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

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Voila.

1. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

3. Dordeduh - Dar De Duh

4. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Includes every full-length and EP from 2012 I listened to. Ordered alphabetically. More albums will be added, and the ratings are subject to change.

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3. Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

4. Agruss - Morok

5. Alkerdeel - Morinde

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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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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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Once again I have put together a top list of albums released during the year from best to worst. However, this time around I have also written a short personal opinion/mini review for most of the albums in their respective comment sections.

1. Royal Thunder - CVI

2. Lycanthia - Oligarchy

3. Dråpsnatt - Skelepht

4. Agruss - Morok

5. Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry

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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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