The best album covers of 2017:

Bell Witch ‎- Mirror Reaper
~ Mariusz Lewandowski ~

Tchornobog - Tchornobog
~ Adam Burke ~

Amenra - Mass VI
~ Stephan Vanfleteren ~

Blut Aus Nord - Deus Salutis Meæ
~ Anna Levytska ~

Progenie Terrestre Pura - OltreLuna
~ Abalakin ~

1.Tchornobog - Tchornobog

2.Below The Sun - Alien World

3.Emptiness - Not For Music

4.Amenra - Mass VI

5.Process Of Guilt - Black Earth

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Input:
10 years
20 decade lists
749 bands
973 albums

Output:
200 top albums from 2010-2019


FAQ

How are the points calculated?
Simple math.

Ranked top lists:
1st place = 150 pts.
2nd place = 149 pts.
...
100th place = 51 pts.
...
150th place = 1 pt.

Alphabetically sorted lists:
Each place = 100 pts.

Why just a Top 200?
Because 200 list entries are more than enough.

Is it by pure coincidence that the first four positions are occupied by bands with the initial letter "E"?
Yes.

Will your list be updated on a regular basis?
No.

Why is my favorite power metal abum not featured?
I don't know. Let's ask the list owners:

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RaduP - You Know It's Technically 2011-2020, Right?
VIG (RIP) - VIG's Top 100 Of The 2010s
Zap - I Too Listened To Some Metal In The 2010's

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

3.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

4.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

5.Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death

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2017, like all years, was once again a great year when it came to metal releases. Way too many albums too choose from. But, alas, a top 15 has to be made.
The top fifteen can be seen in this list.
Albums by Argus, Black Cilice, Clandestine Blaze, Dead Lord, Degial, Dodecahedron, Drug Honkey, Execration, Fen, Forsaken, Fuoco Fatuo, Gorephilia, Heretoir, Illimitable Dolor, Incinerator, Infernal Majesty, Jupiterian, Lantern, MahakalaMourning Dawn, Night Demon, Ophis, Pagan Altar, Paradise Lost, Phrenelith, Possession, Process Of Guilt, Primitive Man, River Of Souls, Rude, Schammasch, Shaarimoth, Tchornobog, Thantifaxath, Turia, Unaussprechilchen Kulten, Undergang, Ulsect, Usnea, Vallenfyre, Wolves In The Throne Room, Wound missed out on the finalized top 15, but are totally worthy to be heard.

1.Venenum - Trance Of Death

2.Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

3.Emptiness - Not For Music

4.Loss (USA) - Horizonless

5.Pallbearer - Heartless

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Not really sure about the order at all 1 album per band.

1.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2.Opeth - Still Life

3.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

4.Pallbearer - Heartless

5.SubRosa - For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages

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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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This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid, Watching From A Distance, and Черно at present holding a perfect 10. This list does have a cutoff point, stretching from those 10s through some high 9s and all the way down to middling 6s. If I rated it below a 6, it does not appear on this list, and that's because I disliked the album.

Given how much music I listen to and how many lists I have going concurrently, I don't update this as I go; I let albums accumulate for a while and then do periodic overhauls, so the list won't change for months at a time.

Last updated October 17, 2021.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Warning - Watching From A Distance

3.Kypck - Черно

4.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

5.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

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2017 was a weird year for me. While I did construct, update and maintain this list in 2017, I was very limited in what I was exploring and listening to. I have viewed 2017 as probably the weakest year of the 10s but I'm currently trekking back through the year's releases and finding some things I had overlooked. 2021 redux.

1.Pallbearer - Heartless

2.Almyrkvi - Umbra

3.Tyrannosorceress - Shattering Light's Creation

4.Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

5.Amenra - Mass VI

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----Updated every weeks----

I'm looking for all genres without exceptions, with currently little preferencies for Progressive, Death and Black metal! Listenning to every albums 2 or 3 times at less before including it in my list.
I specify my favourite songs in order of preferency

❤ = Amazing song!

1.Persefone - Aathma

2.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

3.Caligula's Horse - In Contact

4.Mutoid Man - War Moans

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

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Some list from 2017, 1-13 is in order, rest is just what I have heard and what is good to mention. I don't made this to please MS elitists staffers, spammers, ordinary users, shotbox freaks, media and what so ever. This list is what I think was best from this year and its my own thoughts, I don't care what other things, never have and never will!

1.Iced Earth - Incorruptible

2.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

3.Evertale - The Great Brotherwar

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven

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Top list time! Here we go!

1.La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl

2.Ragana - You Take Nothing

3.Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die

4.Turia - Dede Kondre

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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Will eventually turn this into an end of year list. Includes both Metal and non Metal stuff.
In no particular order.

1.Process Of Guilt - Black Earth

2.Rosetta - Utopioid

3.Akercocke - Renaissance In Extremis

4.Tchornobog - Tchornobog

5.Schammasch - The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite

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Last updated on 30.12.2017

1.Paradise Lost - Medusa

2.Kind Man - Kindness Ends

3.Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Immolation - Atonement

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Hooray! This is (yet another) 2017 list. Take a drink. Seeing as everyone else is doing one, might as well get off my lazy ass and vomit one out as well.

2017 was a weird and, at least February through July, an absolutely miserable year which has impacted my production and metal consumption. While I've digested a lot of metal, as you can see from my (almost non-existent) content output, not one that perhaps impacted me like prior years. Largely due to personal circumstance.

1.Emptiness - Not For Music

2.Funeralium - Of Throes And Blight

3.Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

4.The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale Of Dark Legacy

5.Loss (USA) - Horizonless

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This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.Ba'al - Ellipsism

2.Back To R'lyeh - The Awakening / Last Fight Of The Primordial

3.Bad Salad - Uncivilized

4.Bakos Attila - Aranyhajnal

5.Balance Of Power - Book Of Secrets

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In early 2018, I started my long and perilous (and awesome) journey of discovering doom metal. This is my doom noob's room of gloom aka a list of those doom albums, that I've come to love during my explorations into the genre. Will add new albums regularly. *weeps in solitude*

1.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

2.Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow

3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4.Warning - Watching From A Distance

5.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

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