1.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

2.The Gathering - If_Then_Else

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.The Sins Of Thy Beloved - Perpetual Desolation

5.Draconian - Frozen Features

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.After Forever - Decipher

4.Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

5.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

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Orthodoxy is for morons who cannot compose or create themselves and need to copy the blueprint of someone else. Daring to be different might make your music stand apart. Daring to be different and standing apart might draw more people to your music. Daring to be different might make you more popular - and thus more hipster. So grow some facial hair, put on an ironic shirt, grab a PBR, and listen up.

1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

3.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

4.Darkspace - III

5.Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons

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1.Omit - Repose

2.Antichrist - Forbidden World

3.Sabbat (JPN) - Sabbatrinity

4.Autumn - Cold Comfort

5.Putridity - Degenerating Anthropophagical Euphoria

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1.Equilibrium - Rekreatur

2.Kivimetsän Druidi - Betrayal, Justice, Revenge

3.Whispered - Thousand Swords

4.Finntroll - Nifelvind

5.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

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1.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

2.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland Thrash Metal!!...

1.Artillery - By Inheritance

2.Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse

3.Merciless - The Awakening

4.Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath

5.Stone - Colours

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1.Deep Purple - Machine Head

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

4.Deep Purple - Fireball

5.Deep Purple - Deep Purple

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A list of 2012 albums I found good, interesting or just worth checking out - and some I reviewed that turned out to be crap.

The albums are in order of preference down to and not including those ranked 3/5. Those and below are grouped by style, so that you can easily find similar recommendations.

You can find several full reviews on my RYM list. Check it out.

1.Susanne Sundfør - The Silicone Veil

2.Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

3.Mount Eerie - Clear Moon

4.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

5.Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

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1.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

2.Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Desecravity - Implicit Obedience

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1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Summoning - Minas Morgul

4.Windir - 1184

5.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

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Again my "best to worst" list. This time - Slayer.

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Slayer - Hell Awaits

4.Slayer - Show No Mercy

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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My favorite albums of 2012.

*Now separated into a 'metal' and 'non-metal' section. (non-metal is at the bottom of the list).

Soon to be added: Clocks, Kiko Loureiro, Deathmole, Leonard Cohen, Panzerballett, Coronado, Striker, Dethklok, The Sword.

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

2.Hypno5e - Acid Mist Tomorrow

3.The Faceless - Autotheism

4.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

5.Save Us From the Archon - How Terrible, The Undergrowth's Jaws That Tangle

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