A collection of all of my personal favorite black, black/thrash, black/death and black/doom metal in roughly descending order of greatness.

Note: Monarque's Ad Nausem is linking to the demo, I actually mean it to link to the LP with the exact same name.

Update 18.6.13: Added Pest - The Crowning Horror.

1. Samael - Passage

2. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

3. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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1. A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Xen

2. Abhorrent - Long Pig

3. Abnormality - Contaminating The Hive Mind

4. Absvrdist - Illusory

5. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis

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my favourites of 2012 from an extreme metal point of view

1. Abyssal - Denouement

2. Anhedonist - Netherwards

3. Ignivomous - Contragenesis

4. Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron

5. Azoic - Gateways

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My summary of the year. Omitted genres which I don't like.

Each of them has a rating of my worship in a five-star scale (5 stars = I love this shit!).

1. ---------------BEST ALBUMS BY GENRE:---------------

2. ---------------Alternative metal---------------

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

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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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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. A Million Dead Birds Laughing - Xen

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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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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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My top 100 albums of all time (featured on MS).
One album per band.

In alphabetical order.

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis

3. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

4. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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Bands listed alphabetically, One album per band (With the exception of Carcass and Napalm Death who appear in the Grind and Death Metal sections). Some bands may not be pure old school (Death / Thrash, Doom Death / Death Doom and early Brutal / Technical Death Included) I have also Included some of the more extreme Thrash releases that pre-dated the genre but undoubtedly help pave the way for things to come, I included these as I wish to give a general summary of the way Death Metal began and evolved throughout the 80's and 90's.

1. Old School Death Metal (Late 80's - 90's)

2. Abhorrence - Abhorrence [EP]

3. Acrostichon - Engraved in Black

4. Adramelech - Psychostasia

5. Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

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This is my manual for getting into one of the most complex, ridiculously insane genre there is: techdeth! Many albums featured here may borrow elements from other genres (prog, thrash, melodeath, grindcore, post, etc.), but the dominant stench of complexity-laden death metal is forever present, and so deserve to be mentioned here.

1. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

2. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

3. Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction

4. Obscura - Omnivium

5. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

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