Honestly, top 25 albums would probably be a more fitting name, given that I have honourable mentions, and few other categories as well. Some of them are self explanatory, while I want to clarify about the few others.
-Greatest disappointment of the year doesn't necessarily mean the worst album of that year, closer to the point would be that it is an album from which I expected a lot more than I received.

1.Myrkur - Mareridt

2.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

3.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

4.Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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1.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

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3.Heidevolk - Vuur Van Verzet

4.Sinistro - Sangue Cássia

5.Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits

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1.Centuries - The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding

2.King Buffalo - Repeater

3.Weedpecker - III

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5.Decaying - To Cross The Line

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SO the MSA's are here. After all the squabbling, fighting and cajoling was done and the nominees there are a number of really great albums that didn't make the cut. With Sludge/Stoner and Doom, there were so many good releases, not everyone had the time to check them all out, or there wasn't room to put them all in. So here are a bunch of releases I rather enjoyed that found themselves on the outside looking in... and in some cases might be writing them in.

1.Harvestman - Music For Megaliths

2.Monnik - Bedevaart

3.AATHMA - Avesta

4.Evoke Thy Lords - Lifestories

5.Forsaken - Pentateuch

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My favorite albums from various genres

1.Slipknot - Iowa

2.Nirvana - Nevermind

3.Summoning - Stronghold

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Anathema - Judgement

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1.Haken - Vector

2.Angra - ØMNI

3.TesseracT - Sonder

4.Arsafes - The Silk Road Experience Pt . 1

5.Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep

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Based my choices on which tracks I enjoy listening to the most

1.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

2.Septicflesh - Communion

3.Septicflesh - Titan

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

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1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)

4.Threshold - For The Journey

5.Voyager - V

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Memorable albums from 2017

1.Affliktor - Affliktor

2.Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished

3.Voyager - Ghost Mile

4.Unleash The Archers - Apex

5.The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic

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1.Judas Priest - Firepower

2.Traitor - Knee-Deep In The Dead

3.Ashes Of Ares - Well Of Souls

4.Mantar - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze

5.Anaal Nathrakh - A New Kind Of Horror

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Reminder list for myself to keep track of new music coming out from my favourite artists.

1.Abbath - Outstrider

2.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

3.Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky

4.Amon Amarth - Berserker

5.Astronoid - Astronoid

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1.Beyond Creation - Algorythm

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

4.Obscura - Diluvium

5.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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1.Vektor - Terminal Redux

2.Exumer - The Raging Tides

3.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

4.Sabaton - The Last Stand

5.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

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2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015

1.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

3.Thy Catafalque - Geometria

4.Arkona - Khram

5.Sunless Dawn - Timeweaver

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