Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.At The Gates - At War With Reality

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase I - Neohumanity)

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Benighted - Carnivore Sublime

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1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

4.In Flames - Whoracle

5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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1.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

2.Alterbeast - Immortal

3.Archspire - The Lucid Collective

4.Barathrum - Warmetal

5.Dagor Dagorath - Dissident

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Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped to 8.26. An almost linear decrease is observable for the 10 years in between.

I was curious to see what a Top 100 for 2000-2014 would look like if I factored the votes to account for the 'rating decline'. I hope you find it interesting.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

4.Aquilus - Griseus

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 雷神創世

2.Onmyo-Za - 風神界逅

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto

5.Eluveitie - Origins

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So, my pick of top 10 albums of the year 2014

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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...And since that day, he was never the same.

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

1.Across The Sun - Before The Night Takes Us

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Agent Fresco - Destrier

4.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

5.Angel Vivaldi - Universal Language

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1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Autumnal - The End Of The Third Day

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

4.Novembers Doom - Bled White

5.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

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1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

2.Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

5.In Flames - Siren Charms

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1.Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

5.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

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These are my favourite albums of 2014. You can find this list, together with some sentences about the albums, in my blog

http://forsakenatthegates.blogspot.se/

1.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

2.Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism

3.Anubis Gate - Horizons

4.Delain - The Human Contradiction

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

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1.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front

4.Pain Of Salvation - Falling Home

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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My top 20 albums listed by order:

1.Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Neurotech - Infra Versus Ultra

5.Burzum - The Ways Of Yore

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1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Sanctuary - The Year The Sun Died

3.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Diabulus In Musica - Argia

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1.Sólstafir - Ótta

2.Behemoth - The Satanist

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

5.Falloch - This Island, Our Funeral

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