Not totally clean, and I had to cut some categories to stay in the 1000 lines limit.

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2.Avatar - Dance Devil Dance

3.Avenged Sevenfold - Life Is But A Dream...

4.Code Orange - The Above

5.Death Dealer Union - Initiation

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1.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

2.Triumpher - Storming The Walls

3.Fange - Privation

4.Trespasser - Αποκάλυψις

5.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

3.Skepticism - Ordeal

4.Funeral Mist - Devilry

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal And Ardor

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1.Shylmagoghnar - Convergence

2.Sacred Outcry - Towers Of Gold

3.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

4.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

5.Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle

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These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.Archgoat - Whore Of Bethlehem

2.Ensiferum - Victory Songs

3.Green Lung - This Heathen Land

4.Green Yeti - The Yeti Has Landed

5.Hellix - Montage

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By by autumn, welcome winter and good music, and craft beer

1.Cardinals Folly - Live By The Sword

2.Wayfarer - American Gothic

3.Heavy Load - Riders Of The Ancient Storm

4.Dokken - Heaven Comes Down

5.Cirith Ungol - Dark Parade

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1.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

2.Sorcerer - Reign Of The Reaper

3.Afterbirth - In But Not Of

4.Theocracy - Mosaic

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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I'm a bit late to the party this time around but here is my list once again of what I've listened to throughout the year.

1.Fvnerals - Let The Earth Be Silent

2.Vanishing Kids - Miracle Of Death

3.Oldest Sea - A Birdsong, A Ghost

4.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

5.Victory Over The Sun - Dance You Monster To My Soft Song!

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I reckon 735 albums in the first 6 months of this year is a 6-month record I will never match, but let's see how many I get through in Q3 and Q4

1.Bees Made Honey In The Vein Tree - Aion

2.Meridian Sun - The Curse

3.The Gorge - Mechanical Fiction

4.Earthside - Let The Truth Speak

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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1.Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals

2.Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite

3.Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium

4.Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us

5.Wayfarer - American Gothic

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1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time - Live At Tavastia 2021

2.Riverside - ID.Entity

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

4.Finsterforst - Jenseits

5.Paradise Lost - Icon 30

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1.Flesh Of The Stars - The Glass Garden

2.Dødheimsgard - Black Medium Current

3.TesseracT - War Of Being

4.The Ocean - Holocene

5.Ne Obliviscaris - Exul

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1.Turmion Kätilöt - Omen X

2.花冷え。 - 来世は偉人！

3.Frozen Crown - Call Of The North

4.Kamelot - The Awakening

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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The list has gone back to it's original format: my favorites of the year regrouped and ordered by release date (now earliest at the top). The ranked list thing didn't work out for me in the end.

1.Ahab - The Coral Tombs

2.Beyond The Black - Beyond The Black

3.Crom - The Era Of Darkness

4.Haxprocess - The Caverns Of Duat

5.Obituary - Dying Of Everything

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1.Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate

2.Morne - Engraved With Pain

3.Leiþa - Reue

4.Allochiria - Commotion

5.Blackbraid - Blackbraid II

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