All the albums I've listened to in 2015, from favorite to least favorite, and a small summary.

1.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

2.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

3.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

4.Leviathan - Scar Sighted

5.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

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weeeee. all my past staff picks now compiled into one swell list.

1.High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

2.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

3.Greymachine - Disconnected

4.Kylesa - Static Tensions

5.Profetus - Coronation Of The Black Sun

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Cos by this point it's almost mandatory. I've made a pretty slow start to the year but hopefully I'll start catching up soon enough.

1.A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See

2.Maladie - ...Still...

3.Dekadent - Veritas

4.Sylosis - Dormant Heart

5.Marriages - Salome

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It's starting to seem like and endless circle...

1.Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

2.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

3.Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell

4.The Aristocrats - Tres Caballeros

5.Enslaved - In Times

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Every album to catch my ear during 2015, rated, with plenty of non-metal for those of you who like to branch out and see what the whole world of music has to offer. Variety'll always be a virtue.

Numerous focused listens needed before rating.
Updates will (hopefully) be constant.

New Update: In order to promote exploration into albums you may not know, I've decided to include "Standout Track" segments for any album which has a track I feel you all MUST listen to. Hopefully these can help hook people with albums they're not familiar with, because chances are they instantaneously hooked me.

1.Death Grips - The Powers That B

2.Leprous - The Congregation

3.Clarence Clarity - No Now

4.Björk - Vulnicura

5.Envy - Atheist's Cornea

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These are my favourite albums from the year 2015, ranked in order from my most favourite at number 1 to my least favourite.

1.Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things

2.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

3.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

4.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

5.Melechesh - Enki

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Pardon the awful title, I thought it was funny and a play on Ahab's "The Thing That Made Search", but hey, not every joke is a winner.

Here is my list for the Top albums of 2015. No grading system like last year. Real list, no gimmicks.

Albums are ordered based on preference and subject to change at random, with expanded number of albums or ordering.

1.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

2.Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

3.Enslaved - In Times

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

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Another year long journey into the world of Metal! The Earth's most interesting music. My tastes are pretty diverse. I enjoy that music that hits the nerve closest to the soul , and also that nasty sound that makes you want to break stuff! BTW that pic is not of me I'm far uglier!

1.High On Fire - Luminiferous

2.Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things

3.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

4.Minsk - The Crash & The Draw

5.Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic

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Favorites bands and records of the new age of DOOM With a twist of Sludge Stoner & Drone…

1.Sleep - The Sciences

2.Earth - Earth 2 - Special Low Frequency Version

3.Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

4.Om - Advaitic Songs

5.Pallbearer - Sorrow And Extinction

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In no particular order.

I originally made a top 15 but there is just too much music to do that shit anymore.

1.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2.Abigail Williams - The Accuser

3.Prurient - Frozen Niagara Falls

4.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

5.Imperial Triumphant - Abyssal Gods

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I'm not saying anything apart from that these hit me the hardest last year. Feel free to comment, recommend or just hate my taste.

Honorable mentions:
Bell Witch - Four Phantoms | Remmirath - Shambhala Vril Saucers | Tribulation - Children of the Night | Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

1.Mesarthim - Isolate

2.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

3.Myrkur - Myrkur

4.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

5.Leprous - The Congregation

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Well, here I put my personal top with which to me have been the best albums of 2015. They are not all they are, but if they all are.

1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Rivers Of Nihil - Monarchy

3.Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds

4.Hate Eternal - Infernus

5.Scarab - Serpents Of The Nile

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1.Slayer - Repentless

2.Monster Magnet - Cobras And Fire (The Mastermind Redux)

3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

4.Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

5.Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

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1.Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War

2.Akhlys - The Dreaming I

3.Nile - What Should Not Be Unearthed

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Tome Of The Unreplenished - Innerstanding

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1.Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

2.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

3.Mutoid Man - Bleeder

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Draconian - Sovran

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