1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Gojira - Magma

3.Twilight Force - Heroes Of Mighty Magic

4.Dark Oath - When Fire Engulfs The Earth

5.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

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Scoring copied from Sword_Chant:

✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮ - Disappointing
✮ - Bad / very bad

1.Be'lakor - Vessels

2.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

3.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

4.Ihsahn - Arktis.

5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

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***NOTE: This is an opinion and everything is listed based on my own preferences. Feel free to disagree and tell me what your favorite Opeth albums are from best to worst.***

01. Blackwater Park

It would be nearly impossible to list any other album as #1 given that Blackwater Park is widely considered one of the best metal albums of all time regardless of genre. This is also the perfect place to describe what Opeth has historically offered as a musical entity and why it is worth delving deeply into their music catalog. Blackwater Park has all of the elements Opeth is known for: brutal death growls, soothing clean vocals, heavy, dense atmospheres seamlessly flowing into light, airy instrumentals. You never know what to expect from one moment to the next and that has always been one of the most exciting parts of any Opeth album.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

3.Opeth - Still Life

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Opeth - Morningrise

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1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

2.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

3.Anciients - Voice Of The Void

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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Just another random guy's list of their favorite albums of the year. If it isn't on the list, either I haven't listened to it yet or just don't like it.

1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Sabaton - The Last Stand

3.Opeth - Sorceress

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Avenged Sevenfold - The Stage

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1.Epica - The Holographic Principle

2.Thy Catafalque - Meta

3.Alcest - Kodama

4.Ignite - A War Against You

5.Anthrax - For All Kings

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Very late starting on this one, been rather unable to keep up with releases over the summer so will try to catch up on as many cool releases as possible in the last couple of months of the year. Be prepared for pithy reviews

1.Ortega - Sacred States

2.Riverside - Eye Of The Soundscape

3.Oathbreaker - Rheia

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 迦陵頻伽

2.Dream Theater - The Astonishing

3.Epica - The Holographic Principle

4.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

5.Opeth - Sorceress

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1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

3.Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale

4.Ihsahn - Arktis.

5.Haken - Affinity

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1.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

2.Vektor - Terminal Redux

3.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

4.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

5.Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians: Part 1

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1.Insomnium - Winter's Gate

2.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

3.Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason

4.Opeth - Sorceress

5.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

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1.Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis

2.The Dillinger Escape Plan - Dissociation

3.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

4.Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts

5.Vektor - Terminal Redux

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

(sorry for German commenting, i reuse the text mostly on my social media later)

1.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

2.Myrkgrav - Takk Og Farvel Tida Er Blitt Ei Annen

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4.Noctem - Haeresis

5.Belenos - Kornôg

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1.Circus Maximus - Havoc

2.Haken - Affinity

3.Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty

4.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

5.Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2016, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Gojira - Magma

2.Death Angel - The Evil Divide

3.Khemmis - Hunted

4.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

5.Ihsahn - Arktis.

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