1.Soen - Lykaia

2.The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost

3.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

4.Persefone - Aathma

5.Leprous - Malina

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I think this will be a collection of albums I dig. They're in no particular order either

1.Dark Fortress - Ylem

2.Dominia - Judgement of Tormented Souls

3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5.Darkthrone - Panzerfaust

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This is my personal preference. Also, I'm always searching and finding new bands and new albums. Recommend me some good shit, I'll listen and maybe I'll change my mind on my personal top!

1.Altar Of Betelgeuze - Among The Ruins

2.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

3.Persefone - Aathma

4.Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World

5.Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay

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1.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

2.Spectral Voice - Eroded Corridors Of Unbeing

3.Paradise Lost - Medusa

4.Samael - Hegemony

5.Egonaut - The Omega

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Honestly, top 25 albums would probably be a more fitting name, given that I have honourable mentions, and few other categories as well. Some of them are self explanatory, while I want to clarify about the few others.
-Greatest disappointment of the year doesn't necessarily mean the worst album of that year, closer to the point would be that it is an album from which I expected a lot more than I received.

1.Myrkur - Mareridt

2.Elvenking - Secrets Of The Magick Grimoire

3.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

4.Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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My favorite albums from various genres

1.Slipknot - Iowa

2.Nirvana - Nevermind

3.Summoning - Stronghold

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Anathema - Judgement

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Based my choices on which tracks I enjoy listening to the most

1.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

2.Septicflesh - Communion

3.Septicflesh - Titan

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

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1.Mastodon - Cold Dark Place

2.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

3.The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic

4.Fragile Vastness - Perception

5.Leprous - Malina

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My personal Top 50 of a fantastic Year. As you can see the major part of this list is kind of proggy, concluded with some heavier stuff and a few Rock Albums. There may be some more creative or boundary breaking releases left out, but these are the works that exited and convoyed me throughout 2017.
Please enjoy, suggestions are appreciated.

1.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

2.The Night Flight Orchestra - Amber Galactic

3.Soen - Lykaia

4.Voyager - Ghost Mile

5.Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

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This is my Top-20 list of the albums I listened to obsessively this year. Apart from #1 the rest are in no particular order. Feel free to comment.

Other albums that I enjoyed a lot, but didn't make the list: Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper, Satyricon - Deep Calleth Upon Deep, The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension, Vallenfyre - Fear Those Who Fear Him, Loss (USA) - Horizonless, Iced Earth - Incorruptible, Havok - Conformicide, Full Of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy, River Of Souls - The Well Of Urd, Aetherian - The Untamed Wilderness, Below - Upon A Pale Horse, Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy, Immolation - Atonement, Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie, Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King, Converge - The Dusk In Us, Ophis - The Dismal Circle, Inconcessus Lux Lucis - The Crowning Quietus, Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death, Persefone - Aathma, Necrot - Blood Offerings.

1.Wormwood - Ghostlands - Wounds From A Bleeding Earth

2.Venenum - Trance Of Death

3.Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4.Paradise Lost - Medusa

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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1.Ne Obliviscaris - Urn

2.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

3.Voyager - Ghost Mile

4.Kardashev - The Almanac

5.Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day

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1.Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished

2.The Faceless - In Becoming A Ghost

3.The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers

4.Trivium - The Sin And The Sentence

5.Goatwhore - Vengeful Ascension

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1.Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand

2.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

3.At the drive - in.ter. a.li.a

4.AFI - the blood album

5.Grandaddy - last place

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These are my top 10 metal albums of 2017 so far, I will update the final judgement at the end of the year.

1.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

2.Beast In Black - Berserker

3.Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay

4.Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5.Crimfall - Amain

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