My first list! Celebrating 25+ years of listening to metal I present my 25 favorite metal albums. Mostly prog and thrash in my early years and exploring other metal avenues today, I hope my fellow metalheads will take notice and discover (or re-discover) some great music!

1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Coroner - Grin

3.Voivod - The Outer Limits

4.Fates Warning - Parallels

5.Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

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This will the best place to jot down my favorite music for 2013...I'll follow IronAngel's rating system (3.5-5 and can change at anytime). Arrows indicate trending...

1.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

2.Everything In Slow Motion - Phoenix

3.Steak Number Eight - The Hutch

4.Fen - Dustwalker

5.Enshine - Origin

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Revised to TOP 20 but might still update...
Last updated: 3/14/15

1.Lantlôs - Melting Sun

2.Eden Circus - Marula

3.Moanaa - Descent

4.Fen - Carrion Skies

5.Pet Slimmers Of The Year - Fragments Of Uniforms

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Well, it's been a terrific 2012 for metal fans. I listened to hundreds of albums and I'd like to share my favs with you. Although it was very difficult I have narrowed down my top 20.

1.Sunpocrisy - Samaroid Dioramas

2.Downfall Of Gaia - Suffocating In The Swarm Of Cranes

3.Rush - Clockwork Angels

4.Adrift - Black Heart Bleeds Black

5.Constants - Pasiflora

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As one of the volunteer presiders over the post/sludge/atmospheric genre here at MS I'd like to share some discoveries made in 2011. I'll be adding to the list so stayed tuned! Oh and post your recommendations!

1.Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

2.Jet Plane - All The Static Stars

3.Hull - Beyond The Lightless Sky

4.Amia Venera Landscape - The Long Procession

5.Fading Waves - The Sense Of Space

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Picked my top 25. Should be good.
12/25/16

1.Mouth Of The Architect - Path Of Eight

2.Départe - Failure, Subside

3.Klimt 1918 - Sentimentale Jugend

4.Alder - Sun Worshipper

5.Numenorean - Home

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Slow start to 2017. Keep an eye on this list you bargain-basement shoppers...

1.Au-Dessus - End Of Chapter

2.Viscera - 3/Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals

3.Slowdive - Slowdive

4.Echoes(UK) - Cornerstone

5.Fen - Winter

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Rush is my favorite band of all eternity. I have listened to each album so many times I have no problem ranking them from first to last and my favorite song on each album. Discuss.

1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Rush - Power Windows

3.Rush - Counterparts

4.Rush - Grace Under Pressure

5.Rush - Signals

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You know the drill.

1.A Swarm Of The Sun - The Rifts

2.Actors&Actresses - Pyre

3.An Autumn For Crippled Children - The Long Goodbye

4.Anderwelt - Schattenlichter

5.Anomalie - Refugium

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I am still lurking around. Trying to get back into the swing of it. Recs are always welcome.
Rating scale 1 thru 5. Arrows indicate trending.

1.A Secret Revealed - Sacrifices

2.A Swarm Of The Sun - The Woods

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Astronoid - Astronoid

5.Autism - Have You Found Peace

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A personal collection of all things excellent from 2018. I want to share with you.

1.Møl - Jord

2.Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd

3.Dirge - Lost Empyrean

4.Erdve - Vaitojimas

5.The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

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Horrible times. Thank the metal gods for music.

1.A Light In The Dark - Insomnia

2.Ages - Uncrown

3.Ainsoph - Ω - V

4.An Autumn For Crippled Children - All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet

5.An Evening With Knives - Sense Of Gravity

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It will get better. In the meantime, here is stuff to get me through.

1.A Death By The Seaside - A Death By The Seaside

2.Bossk - Migration

3.Breaths - Lined In Silver

4.Cult Of Luna - The Raging River

5.Decline Of The I - Johannes

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