Orthodoxy is for morons who cannot compose or create themselves and need to copy the blueprint of someone else. Daring to be different might make your music stand apart. Daring to be different and standing apart might draw more people to your music. Daring to be different might make you more popular - and thus more hipster. So grow some facial hair, put on an ironic shirt, grab a PBR, and listen up.

1. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2. Alcest - Écailles de lune

3. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Sect(s)

4. Darkspace - III

5. Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons

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weeee! 2010 is pretty much toast and 2011 is coming 'round the bend. here are my top 25 picks from this past year. top six or seven are firmly in place, the rest of the list is a clusterfuck of high 7 's to low 8's, which are likely to go up or down a couple slots within seconds of my posting this.

1. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2. Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

3. Negură Bunget - Maiestrit

4. Shattered Hope - Absence

5. Eibon - Entering Darkness

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This is my fav of 2010
I include all styles since I can 1 list per week so I did all in one start whit a doom

1. Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

2. Heaven Grey - Falling Mist

3. Hooded Priest - Devil Worship Reckoning

4. Mourning Lenore - Loosely Bounded Infinities

5. My Silent Wake - IV Et Lux Perpetua

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The following are my favorite Metal releases this year, I might edit this list as/if I discover albums that are worthy of a spot. So enjoy, and check the following albums if you didn't already. It's a long list, well because I decided to list all the albums I enjoyed + this list is for myself more than anyone

1. Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

2. Hooded Menace - Never Cross The Dead

3. Procession - Destroyers Of the Faith

4. Alcest - Écailles de Lune

5. Necrite - Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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My personal best selection of releases I physically bought this year.

1. The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

2. Temnozor - Haunted Dreamscapes

3. Butterfly Temple - Земля

4. Skyforger - Kurbads

5. Viter - Derzhelo

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This list is list of my favorite albums in last 30+ year,limited to one album per year.
*Years marked with ? means that i have not decided what album to put there.
**Also there were so much good albums from '84 and '94 that i like but that is theme for another list.

1. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance

2. 2012-?

3. Crysalys - The Awakening Of Gaia

4. Darkthrone - Circle The Wagons

5. 2009-?

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1. The Vision Bleak - Set Sail To Mystery

2. Sigh - Scenes From Hell

3. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

4. Ihsahn - After

5. Negură Bunget - Vîrstele Pămîntului

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Entirely subjective viewpoint. Nothing more, and nothing less.

1. Burzum - Belus

2. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones

4. Blood Of The Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual

5. Motörhead - The Wörld Is Yours

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1. Overkill - Ironbound

2. Ghost - Opus Eponymous

3. Negator - Panzer Metal

4. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

5. Enforcer - Diamonds

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List of my Favorite albums trough 2010, this is just temporary, as things will change after MS awards 2010 and listening to all the stuff i didnt have time to listen to in 2010.

1. Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst

2. Alcest - Écailles De Lune

3. Ihsahn - After

4. Borknagar - Universal

5. Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

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1. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

2. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

3. Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon

4. Darkthrone - Panzerfaust

5. Darkthrone - Hate Them

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