I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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"CALENDAR MADE OF METAL"
November = Doom Metal
Listening to as many albums as possible in said genre during said month and listing them here as I go. Suggestions welcome.

1.Witchfinder General - Death Penalty

2.Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory Of The Bizarre Reverend

3.Trouble - Psalm 9

4.Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow

5.Orodruin - Ruins Of Eternity

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For most of 2018 so far I haven't had neither much time nor interest in catching up with the latest album releases. There are some exceptions though so I thought I might as well list them. I haven't gone as much out of my comfort zone compared to my previous lists which is very much reflected in the overall ratings.

1.Wolvennest - Void

2.Vanishing Kids - Heavy Dreamer

3.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

4.Anna Von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

5.Shishkin Les - Универс

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Debated doing this because I usually never keep up with year lists, but I guess I'm folding and giving it a shot. This follows in line with my 2015 Rituals and 2016 Psychosermons lists in that here I'm focused specifically on the more trance like, ethereal, and hallucinatory releases from this current year. That probably means it'll mostly be composed of drone, ambient, and psychedelic albums like the previous two, but hey, if any album really sends me "into the zone" with its music, it has a potential for inclusion here. Not really limited by how dark and evil or how bright and uplifting a release is here either, as there are certainly many different ways for music to achieve that lulling, hypnotic effect.

1.Weedpecker - III

2.Old Tower - Stellary Wisdom

3.Naxatras - III

4.Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew

5.Trontari - Mona Lisa Del Contra Instrumentals

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I'll be spending 2 months in the US so probably won't manage to beat the 130-odd albums I heard in the first half of the year, but I'll do my best.

1.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

2.Ingrina - Etter Lys

3.Between The Buried And Me - Automata

4.King Buffalo - Longing To Be The Mountain

5.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

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1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Thou - Magus

3.The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

4.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

5.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

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1.Striker - Play To Win

2.Between The Buried And Me - Automata II

3.Soreption - Monument Of The End

4.Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch

5.Turnstile - Time & Space

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid, Watching From A Distance, and Черно at present holding a perfect 10. This list does have a cutoff point, stretching from those 10s through some high 9s and all the way down to middling 6s. If I rated it below a 6, it does not appear on this list, and that's because I disliked the album.

Given how much music I listen to and how many lists I have going concurrently, I don't update this as I go; I let albums accumulate for a while and then do periodic overhauls, so the list won't change for months at a time.

Last updated October 17, 2021.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Warning - Watching From A Distance

3.Kypck - Черно

4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

5.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

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