1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

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The impossible task of choosing top 25 albums for this year... so many of them are not even on MS. But here they are, top 10 are kinda in order, the remaining 15 are not sorted by importance.

1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Judas Priest - Firepower

5.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

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1.Yob - Our Raw Heart

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Horrendous - Idol

4.Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury

5.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

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1.Bleed From Within - Era

2.Architects - Holy Hell

3.Kamelot - The Shadow Theory

4.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

5.Our Hollow, Our Home - In Moment / / In Memory

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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.
- in order from best to worst
- rated on a scale from 0 to 10
- few lines so I remember wtf it was about

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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1.Soulfly - Ritual

2.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

3.Warrel Dane - Shadow Work

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5.Unleashed - The Hunt For White Christ

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1.Elvellon - Until Dawn

2.Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos

3.Barren Earth - A Complex Of Cages

4.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

5.Seventh Wonder - Tiara

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1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Obscura - Diluvium

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Summoning - With Doom We Come

5.Riverside - Wasteland

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I'll be spending 2 months in the US so probably won't manage to beat the 130-odd albums I heard in the first half of the year, but I'll do my best.

1.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

2.Ingrina - Etter Lys

3.Between The Buried And Me - Automata

4.King Buffalo - Longing To Be The Mountain

5.A Forest Of Stars - Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes

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My 10 favorite Heavy Metal albums from 2018.

1.Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology

2.Polyphia - New Levels, New Devils

3.Obscura - Diluvium

4.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

5.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

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1.Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

2.Thou - Magus

3.The Body - I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer

4.Panopticon - The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness

5.Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit

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1.Band-Maid - World Domination

2.Frozen Crown - The Fallen King

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.Thrawsunblat - Great Brunswick Forest

5.Parius - The Eldritch Realm

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2018, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name

2.Haken - Vector

3.Alice In Chains - Rainier Fog

4.TesseracT - Sonder

5.Khemmis - Desolation

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1.Fifth Quadrant - Vision

2.Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs

3.Sylvaine - Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone

4.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

5.Bury Tomorrow - Black Flame

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2018 best albums

1.Møl - Jord

2.Holy Fawn - Death Spells

3.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

4.Ghost - Prequelle

5.Collapse Of Light - Each Failing Step

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