Here we go... I'd rate this year a 9 for the unusual quality of album releases! Qué impressionante! \m/

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Suidakra - Crógacht

4.Ensiferum - From Afar

5.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.After Forever - Decipher

5.After Forever - After Forever

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My best of 2009

1.Epica - Design Your Universe

2.Trail Of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance

3.Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal

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1.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

2.Ensiferum - From Afar

3.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares

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1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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1.Insomnium - Across The Dark

2.The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief

3.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

4.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

5.The Moon And The Nightspirit - Ősforrás

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1.Process Of Guilt - Erosion

2.Darzamat - Solfernus' Path

3.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

4.Trail Of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance

5.Anubis Gate - The Detached

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Once upon a time, there was a metaller who dared to say : hey, let's put symphonies in our metal, dudes. The dudes thought it was stupid at first, then they tried and guess what? The result was WONDERFUL!!! Here are my 20 favourite symphonic metal albums, taken from all subgenres, from power to folk, black and death.

1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr

3.Septicflesh - Communion

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

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1.Swallow The Sun - New Moon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Epica - Design Your Universe

4.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

5.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

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1.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

2.Delain - April Rain

3.Ensiferum - From Afar

4.Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...

5.Sirenia - The 13th Floor

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1.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

4.Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

5.Epica - Design Your Universe

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1.Megadeth - Endgame

2.God Dethroned - Passiondale

3.Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

4.Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity

5.Epica - Design Your Universe

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Actually I wanted to write a blog as several of my colleagues, but now that we have this nifty new feature there's no reason to bother with formatting all the pics and stuff

So this was it. The decade which saw me turning into a metalhead. Actually I've been listening to metal since 17 years now, but not on a regular basis. This changed (to the better) when I joined this site in the good old days of MSR. Agalloch, Anathema and Tristania got me used to growls, Immortal and Agathodaimon to extreme metal as a whole and soon enough I was hooked to the vast plethora of styles which are to be found in heavy metal. The following list presents my personal top 50 of this decade. The order isn't really set in stone, neither is my musical taste, but at least the top 10 are somewhat fixed. Especially the 2009 releases, of which none made it into my top 25, might not stand the test of time. And please don't message me because you disagree with some of the genres, they are neither there to be discussed nor to educate, but to give an impression what the bands sound like. If you have about the same (broad) taste as I have, but aren't familiar with some of these releases, try to get your hands on them. You won't regret it

1.Negură Bunget - OM

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin

4.Dark Tranquillity - Character

5.Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

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In no particular order.

1.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

3.Delain - April Rain

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

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