1.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

2.Anthrax - Worship Music

3.Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus

4.Vektor - Outer Isolation

5.Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand

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1.Accept - Blind Rage

2.Wolf - Devil Seed

3.Enforcer - From Beyond

4.Metal Church - XI

5.Rage - The Devil Strikes Again

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Onmyo-Za - 鬼子母神

2.Dragonland - Under The Grey Banner

3.Symphony X - Iconoclast

4.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

5.Iced Earth - Dystopia

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1.Metallica - Beyond Magnetic

2.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

3.Sepultura - Kairos

4.In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading

5.Anthrax - Worship Music

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Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so will increase in size. Also, not entirely in order, middle order mainly just an approximation.

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3.Infestus - E x I s t

4.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

5.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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Even in 2012 (update: 2013), 2011 still isn't too hot a year for me. Still, new stuff keeps on coming, and 2012 itself is looking pretty good, so I'll forgive it. New in the new year is the lack of ratings. It's bothersome, especially since I've decided to sacrifice a few newborns and (retrospectively and retroactively) rate on RYM.

1.Hell - Human Remains

2.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

3.Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate

4.Hammers Of Misfortune - 17th Street

5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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Ordered best to worst. This is entirely my opinion.

1.Insomnium - One For Sorrow

2.Graveyard - Hisingen Blues

3.Havok - Time Is Up

4.Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command

5.Deafheaven - Roads To Judah

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1.Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

2.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

3.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

4.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

5.Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

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1.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

2.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

3.Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

4.Iced Earth - Dystopia

5.Iced Earth - Horror Show

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1.Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

2.Iced Earth - Incorruptible

3.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

4.Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings

5.Iced Earth - Dystopia

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Must Listen: The First 4

1.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

2.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

3.Trivium - In Waves

4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

5.Evergrey - Glorious Collision

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1.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

2.Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

4.Baroness - Yellow & Green

5.Bring Me The Horizon - Amo

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1.Rhapsody Of Fire - From Chaos To Eternity

2.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

3.Symphony X - Iconoclast

4.Powerwolf - The Sacrament Of Sin

5.Iced Earth - Dystopia

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1.Aria - Феникс

2.Bloodbound - Unholy Cross

3.Battle Beast - Steel

4.Kipelov - Against All Odds

5.Astral Doors - Jerusalem

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