Could just as easily be titled "My Favorite Albums Of 2014"...and since my favorite genres are mostly BDM and other death metal derivatives, that's what you'll see.

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Guess the title says it all.
Alphabetical order.

1.Bathory - Hammerheart

2.Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods

3.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

4.Eden Weint Im Grab - Der Herbst Des Einsamen

5.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

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Neoclassical Darkwave Music you must listen to!!!

1.Abandoned Toys - The Witch's Garden

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1.Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

2.The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

3.Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

4.The Beatles - Revolver

5.Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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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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Loose order

Updated 10/17/20

1.Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity

2.Ulcerate - Vermis

3.Nails - Abandon All Life

4.Wormed - Exodromos

5.Voices - From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary Rain

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Boo ! You missed these bands, shame on you, yo !

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1.Cynic - Traced In Air

2.Royal Hunt - Fear

3.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

4.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

5.Royal Hunt - Collision Course - Paradox II

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These are the Must-Do's of Black and Death Metal. This list was made in no particular order.

1.Ruins - Spun Forth As Dark Nets

2.Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas

3.Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion

4.Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2008. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Septicflesh - Communion

2.Textures - Silhouettes

3.The Faceless - Planetary Duality

4.Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

5.Whitechapel - This Is Exile

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1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

4.Uriah Heep - Very 'eavy... Very 'umble

5.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

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1.Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Eluveitie - Origins

4.Hoth - Oathbreaker

5.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

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My musical journey seems to be radically different to most that I've seen, so here are some defining albums (one per band) for my taste in list form. There are, of course, quite a few here that I don't listen to anymore.

Generally chronological.

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3.Muse - Absolution

4.Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')

5.Maxïmo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures

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1.Saor - Aura

2.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

5.Botanist - VI: Flora

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I tried to steer clear of pretty much anything that uses distortion, and really rock in general. For instance, Zombie by the The Cranberries is pretty metal in its own way, but not pop enough for this list. I did make an exception for Say Anything as they swing a bit further in the pop direction despite the distortion. No rap either, or this would be a very different monster (Bone Thugs, Gravediggaz, Wu-Tang, etc.). These are the songs that for one reason or another give off a dark, metal vibe without actually going there. Comments should be interesting.

1.Dave Matthews Band - Halloween/The Stone/Last Stop

2.Mumford & Sons - Broken Crown

3.Fiona Apple - On the Bound

4.The Cure - Pornography

5.Jewel - Daddy/Pieces of You

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