Updated as the year goes on...

1. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

2. Oddland - The Treachery Of Senses

3. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

4. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Just a list of my personal top albums for the year 2010. When I look at it now, I would change a few things, since probably when the hype dropped, I don't actually prefer some albums as much as I did back then, (I would probably drop down/out Firewind and Agalloch) but I'm not gonna change it, it was written back then and " Everything Remains As It Never Was".

1. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time

2. Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void

3. Equilibrium - ReKreatur

4. Firewind - Days of Defiance

5. Helloween - 7 Sinners

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My tastes seem to have changed quite a bit since I originally made this list. I have since updated it to better reflect my opinions of 2012 in retrospect. A well rounded and impressive year for metal.

1. Indesinence - Vessels of Light and Decay

2. Desolate Shrine - The Sanctum of Human Darkness

3. Royal Thunder - CVI

4. Igorrr - Hallelujah

5. Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago

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1. Accept - Breaker

2. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

3. Anthrax - Among The Living

4. Anthrax - Fistful Of Metal

5. Anthrax - We've Come For You All

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

3. Devin Townsend - Terria

4. Opeth - Watershed

5. Strapping Young Lad - Alien

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1. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

2. Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever

3. Marduk - Serpent Sermon

4. Ahab - The Giant

5. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

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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.

Top 10 Bandcamp links:

Agruss - Morok
Summer Fades Away - We Meet the Last Time, Then Departure

1. Agruss - Morok

2. Summer Fades Away - We Meet The Last Time, Then Departure

3. Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...

4. Monarch - Omens

5. Sigh - In Somniphobia

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This is all my opinion dudes and dudettes.

Yeeah.

1. Randy Rhoads

2. Gary Holy & Rick Hunolt

3. Dave Mustaine & Marty Friedman

4. John Petrucci

5. Charlie Parra Del Riego

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This is a favorites list, not a guide or anything of that sort. It just highlights the albums that I've enjoyed listening to and spinned extensively since last November (When I got into this monolithic genre.) One entry for each band. The descriptions aren't necessarily descriptions of the music. I just wrote what came to my mind. I will update with new albums frequently.
EDIT: Got to 50 entries, so I guess I'll stop for now. I want more time to revisit these 50, get into the other albums of the bands listed below and delve into other genres of metal. I guess that taking a break from black metal (at least new stuff) will ensure that I won't get bored of it. It is likely that I'll continue this list by the half of July.

1. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2. Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4. Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5. Alda - : Tahoma :

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1. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

2. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth

3. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4. Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World

5. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

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Next: Turisas, Kivimetsän Druidi, Ensiferum & Wintersun

1. Equilibrium - Des Sängers Fluch

2. Equilibrium - Mana

3. Equilibrium - Heimdalls Ruf + Die Prophezeiung

4. Equilibrium - Kurzes Epos

5. Equilibrium - Ruf in Den Wind

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1. Ikuinen Kaamos - Condemned

2. Death - Flesh And The Power It Holds

3. Death - Voice Of The Soul

4. Necrophagist - Stabwound

5. Necrophagist - The Stillborn One

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Coolingsrock's Albums of 2008. What I managed to listen to that year and know very well. order: Best to worst.

1. Protest The Hero - Fortress

2. After The Burial - Rareform

3. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

4. Trivium - Shogun

5. Testament - The Formation Of Damnation

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How my tastes evolved over the last two years. For the sake of comparison, I reported the original list below the updated one.

1. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

2. Virus - The Black Flux

3. Totalselfhatred - Totalselfhatred

4. Coldworld - Melancholie²

5. Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart

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1. Avulsed - Faves. Can't shed 'em...and don't wanna.

2. King Diamond - Always. ALWAYS.

3. Kamelot - Brilliance in the form of deep, longingly beautiful power metal.

4. Cannibal Corpse - Oh...well...I never grow tired of the first 6 albums. Some bands just stick.

5. Sabaton - Such gritty, melodic, and bombastic fluff. Gotta love it.

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