My personal favorite anticipated studio albums of 2018

1.Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins

2.Shylmagoghnar - Transience

3.Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light

4.Metal Allegiance - Volume II: Power Drunk Majesty

5.Harakiri For The Sky - Arson

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Death is the best death metal band, and all of their albums could tie for first place. Chuck Schuldiner was a genius and innovator, and an amazing guitarist. These are currently my favorite Death albums.

1.Death - Human

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Death - Leprosy

4.Death - Spiritual Healing

5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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Arch Enemy is so generic you can't tell which album is good or bad. True ? Let's try to sort them a bit

1.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

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5.Arch Enemy - Stigmata

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1.Crimfall - Amain

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3.Marty Friedman - Wall Of Sound

4.Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Der Rote Reiter

5.Accept - The Rise Of Chaos

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1.Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - Exuvia

3.Pallbearer - Heartless

4.Enslaved - E

5.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

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More obscure band, but one of my more recent favourites. Same deal as always. Haven't listened to all the albums yet, still have 1 to go.

1.Budgie - Bandolier

2.Budgie - If I Were Britannia I'd Waive The Rules

3.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend

4.Budgie - In For The Kill

5.Budgie - Budgie

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1.Audioslave - Audioslave

2.Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

3.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

4.Opeth - Deliverance

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

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1.Adagio - Life

2.Obscurity - Streitmacht

3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5.Orden Ogan - Gunmen

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1.Immolation - Atonement

2.Suffocation - ?Of The Dark Light

3.Obituary - Obituary

4.Morbid Angel - Kingdoms Disdained

5.God Dethroned - The World Ablaze

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Bands I've seen live and really left me amazed, sorted according to my subjective opinion of course

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My Top Albums Of 2017.

1.Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With

2.Cytotoxin - Gammageddon

3.Archspire - Relentless Mutation

4.Noumena - Myrrys

5.Looking For An Answer - Dios Carne

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ASCENDANT is a Heavy Power Metal Band Based in U.A.E formed in 2012 consisting of very talented musicians:
1- Youmni Abou Al Zahab (Vocals)
2- Alaa Abou Saada (Lead & Rhythm Guitars)
3- Ashish Shetty (Lead & Rhythm Guitars)
4- Puneet Sharma (Bass Guitars)
5- Aram Kalousdian (Drums) Former Hour Glass & Nuclear Dawn Drummer.

1.Ascendant - A Thousand Echoes

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While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means, but I'm sure you'd agree all the bands in the list are notable. There are plenty of riffs from obscure bands I'd rather put, but I know my love for Tarby doesn't make him the greatest riff maker of the 21st century. Second, each artist can only appear once in a decade, this is to prevent the best riff makers from hogging the list and adding some variety, showing how metal has changed over time. Decades are measured by when the song was recorded, not released, and when it's unclear the beginning of recording is used. This is mainly because a lot of definitive early metal songs were released in 1970, but recorded in 1969. Third, the song itself has to be notable. Here are things that can qualify as being notable: the song was release as a single, has music video made for it, was released as a single, was the title track for an album (note that Crawl through Knives meets this criteria because it was the original title for Come Clarity, and there is no way in hell Come Clarity is getting best riff of the decade ), is included on a greatest hits compilation album, was nominated for a Grammy or musical award of similar caliber, was included as a track in a notable film or video game, was covered by a notable band, or has a Wikipedia page for some miscellaneous reason. Finally, the song needs to be metal. Misirlou gets the pass despite predating metal as it was probably the single most influential song on the development of metal, and while many of the other songs in the other songs are better classified as hard rock, I can find a source listing them as heavy metal.

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2.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

3.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4.Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

5.Deep Purple - In Rock

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Upcoming albums I am curious to hear. In no particular order.

1.The Gathering - Beautiful Distortion

2.Ghost - Impera

3.Arch Enemy - Deceivers

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