A really good year, just look at the top 3! Three of the world's greatest black metal albums ever! And the six albums thereafter? Magic. All I can say is that this list was a pain to order, because there's so much great albums which deserves to be higher up.

1.Watain - Sworn To The Dark

2.Shining - V - Halmstad

3.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

4.Månegarm - Vargstenen

5.Be'lakor - The Frail Tide

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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1.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

2.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

3.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

4.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

5.Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story Of The Three Sons Of Seven

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1.Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4.Volbeat - Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil

5.Manowar - Gods Of War

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This is unfinished

1.Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

2.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

3.Alestorm - Back Through Time

4.Almôra - Gates Of Time

5.Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa

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1.Turisas - The Varganian Way

2.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

3.Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant

4.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

5.Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

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These are the first albums I listened to when I got into metal.
I've outgrown some of them but hell these albums will always be special to me.

1.Judas Priest - Painkiller

2.Twisted Sister - Stay Hungry

3.Eluveitie - Slania

4.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

5.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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1.Axxis - Doom Of Destiny

2.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

3.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4.After Forever - After Forever

5.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

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