Slow/Depress/Funeral/Love/Gloom/Beauty/Sorrow/Obscure/Cold/Atmospheric/

1.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

2.Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

3.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

4.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

5.Corrupted - El Mundo Frio

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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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My favorites from 2011
I still need to check out (Smohalla - Fell Voices - Sleestak - Arizmenda - Owl - Cloak Of Altering)

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

3.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

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Each year countless of albums come out. This is obviously by no means a definitive guide because as of 14/12/2011, I've only heard 364 releases from 2011, but do check these albums out if you haven't already! Feel free to throw stuff at my direction. In a rough order right now and rankings get rearranged every now and again. Will be trimmed around again in January / February. Note that I still have plenty to check out though.

1.Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels

2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

3.Born Of Osiris - The Discovery

4.The Psychic Paramount - II

5.Flourishing - The Sum Of All Fossils

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A list of my favorite recent albums in 2011. I'll update this list regularly. In no particular order. I added the rating next to them for the curious ones, but you should check them all.

1.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2.Mitochondrion - Parasignosis

3.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Blut Aus Nord - 777 - The Desanctification

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Back in the 2nd half of the 70's and beginning of the 80's, Heavy Metal wasn't a common expression amongst the portuguese. Portugal had just discovered that there was a real world behind the invisible wall built by the dictatorship that had fallen a few years earlier.

"Beatnicks", "Aqui De'l Rock", or "TNT" were some of the bands who had been releasing some singles and EP's of Hard-Rock at the very beginning of the 80's. They paved the rising of other bands that would work that sound, and release the first studio albums of Hard-Rock and Heavy Metal.

It was a critical decade for heavy rock in Portugal. This chronologic list of studio albums features the ones, that I believe, are the most important portuguese Hard-Rock and metal albums until today: the best and the pioneering ones. I excluded Punk-Rock but added Hardcore and Alternative Hard-Rock albums as well.

Either you're interested in portuguese music, or if you're just curious about it, or even if you are just passing by, this list will work out for you all. This list will grow bigger as the years go by of course, so if you have any suggestions, just let me know. Enjoy!

1.Roxigénio - Roxigénio

2.Ferro & Fogo - Vidas

3.NZZN - Forte E Feio

4.Vasco Da Gama - Vasco Da Gama

5.Xeque Mate - Em Nome Do Pai Do Filho ... E Do Rock'n'Roll

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Top 100 albums of 2010-2019

1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky

2.Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

3.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

4.Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry

5.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

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List of the albums that surprised me this year (2011). Some of the albums were even more unexpected because it was my first contact with the bands. Others were confirmations.
Oh, how I like good surprises... (ongoing list)

1.Grayceon - All We Destroy

2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous

3.TesseracT - One

4.Appearance Of Nothing - All Gods Are Gone

5.Long Distance Calling - Long Distance Calling

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A list of quality sophomore releases.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Alice In Chains - Dirt

3.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

4.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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Here it is! Yet another unimaginative list of albums released in 2011!

1.MurkRat - Drudging The Mire

2.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

3.Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage

4.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

5.SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty Ones

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This list seemed obvious since I'm Portuguese and very interested in our local scene. Here are some of my favourite albums recorded by Portuguese bands so far.

1.My Enchantment - SINpHONIC

2.Moonspell - Wolfheart

3.Ramp - Nude

4.Moonspell - Irreligious

5.Ramp - Intersection

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1.Krallice - Diotima

2.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

3.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

4.Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason

5.Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood

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My favorite bands...

1.Void Of Silence - Human Antithesis

2.Why Angels Fall - The Unveiling

3.Before The Rain - Frail

4.Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

5.Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte

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Top album's form 2010-2019

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

3.Corrupted - Garten Der Unbewusstheit

4.Ihsahn - After

5.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

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