Long hair, tight jeans, tons of chicks. Thrash metal at it's finest.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

5.Artillery - By Inheritance

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1.Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

2.Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

3.Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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1.Eden's Curse - Symphony Of Sin

2.Týr - Valkyrja

3.Wizard - Trail Of Death

4.Wisdom - Marching For Liberty

5.Annihilator - Feast

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1.Downfall Of Gaia - Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes

2.Nile - At The Gate Of Sethu

3.Cannibal Corpse - Torture

4.Ahnengrab - Omen

5.Heidevolk - Batavi

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1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

2.Amorphis - Circle

3.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

4.Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves

5.The Ocean - Pelagial

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1.Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2.Ihsahn - Eremita

3.Agalloch - Faustian Echoes

4.Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil

5.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

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1.Ex Deo - Caligvla

2.Dethklok - Dethalbum III

3.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

4.The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Cadaverous Retaliation Agenda

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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1.ZZ Top - Eliminator

2.Jimmy Page - Outrider

3.Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door

4.Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love

5.Simon And Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

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I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1.Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2.Overkill - The Electric Age

3.Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5.Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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1.Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation

2.Galderia - Universality

3.Pathfinder - Fifth Element

4.Balflare - Downpour

5.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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This is my list of my favourite albums of 2012. These albums are not necessarily "the best" of the year, just what I've heard listed by how much I've enjoyed them.

1.Wintersun - Time I

2.Enslaved - RIITIIR

3.Sigh - In Somniphobia

4.Accept - Stalingrad

5.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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WIP !!!!

Quite opposite to 2011, which featured both freakingly awesome releases (Terra Tenebrosa, Lazuli, Thy Catafalque...) and crap that redefined crap (Lulu or Illud Divinum Isanus), 2012 was quite consistent. Sadly, consistently average. OK, consistently quite correct, but groundbreaking releases were few and far between...

1.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

3.Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4.Klone - The Dreamer's Hideaway

5.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

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A list of a few releases that metalheads should listen to if they want to get acquainted with 2012 canadian metal.

I did not list some albums that I have not heard yet (Bison B.C., Black Moor, Devin Townsend, Mortor, Show of Bedlam, The Unconscious Mind) and I am probably forgetting a whole bunch more releases.

1.3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

2.Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

3.Striker - Armed To The Teeth

4.Weapon - Embers And Revelations

5.Cauldron - Tomorrow's Lost

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1.Wodensthrone - Curse

2.Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph

3.Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

4.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

5.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

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1.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata

2.Anathema - Weather Systems

3.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

4.Atoma - Skylight

5.Torche - Harmonicraft

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