1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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Must Listen: The First 3

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Nightingale - Retribution

4.Voyager - V

5.Dynazty - Renatus

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Dan Swanö is probably more famous for his death metal adventures, still for me his greatest band is Nightingale. A very solid project that has made some stellar music throughout it's career. Here's the albums ranked with some top picks

1.Nightingale - The Closing Chronicles - The Breathing Shadow Part II

2.Nightingale - The Breathing Shadow

3.Nightingale - White Darkness

4.Nightingale - I

5.Nightingale - Alive Again: The Breathing Shadow Part IV

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Another 2010-2019 list! I guess a lot of people will hate on me for #2, but I love that album. Enjoy!

1.Møl - Jord

2.The Haunted - Unseen

3.The Moth Gatherer - A Bright Celestial Light

4.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

5.Liberteer - Better To Die On Your Feet Than Live On Your Knees

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The best album of 2014 is Sky Blue by Devin Townsend imo, but it's a double album so rated likewise.

1.Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

4.Fen - Carrion Skies

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

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So, my pick of top 10 albums of the year 2014

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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first of all, this list is not a best or something like that. we use to chat a lot about arts like, music, movies and books. we recommend this things to each other, we have IMDb for movies, Goodreads for books and here Metal Storm for music which is mostly metal we listen...
this list has no particular order, nor any rules and meaning! i just put my recommendation based on our talks there, here, so they can keep track. if it's useful for you, let me know and i'll be glad
oh, one last thing, this list will be updated regularly with more additional notes

1.Adimiron - Timelapse

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

4.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

5.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

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1.Freak Kitchen - Cooking With Pagans

2.Threshold - For The Journey

3.Serdce - Timelessness

4.Lux Occulta - Kołysanki

5.Freedom Call - Beyond

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1.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front

4.Pain Of Salvation - Falling Home

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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1.Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

3.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

4.Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral

5.Kauan - Muistumia

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1.Behemoth - The Satanist

2.Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum

3.Within The Ruins - Phenomena

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Bloodshot Dawn - Demons

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From best to worst of all the albums I listened along the 2014

1.Pallbearer - Foundations Of Burden

2.Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra

3.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

4.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

5.Earth - Primitive And Deadly

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Cos, y'know, same shiz different year. Ran out of space again so will post final album opinions in comments.

1.Infestus - The Reflecting Void

2.Dirge - Hyperion

3.Nero Di Marte - Derivae

4.Steve Rothery - The Ghosts Of Pripyat

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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This is my personal list based on the albums i've enjoyed listening to the most this year, consider it a best to worst based on all the albums i've checked out from 2014. Bear in mind i'm a power metal fan for the most part - also this list does not reflect the views of others on MS, but some of the albums here are pretty decent and you should check some of them out.!!!!

1.Galneryus - Vetelgyus

2.Equilibrium - Erdentempel

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.The Algorithm - OCTOPUS4

5.Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending

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So here it is > These are the releases i tend to hear most of the time this year. Some of my all time favourite bands released weak albums while others suprised me while i was cooking pasta .Fell free to comment and tell me your positive opinion (or else you will reveive tons of shit etc)

1.Aenaon - Extance

2.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

3.Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema

4.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

5.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

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