1.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

2.Soilwork - Verkligheten

3.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

4.Shadow Of Intent - Melancholy

5.Eternal Storm - Come The Tide

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Top picks from 2019 Releases: Attempts made at the top 10 in order as a best of based on how often I found myself listening to the album.

1.Wormwitch - Heaven That Dwells Within

2.Children Of Bodom - Hexed

3.Exhumed - Horror

4.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

5.Wormwood - Nattarvet

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No stars - Don't know yet
✮✮✮✮✮ - Incredible, possibly Album Of The Year
✮✮✮✮½ - Awesome
✮✮✮✮ - Solid release
✮✮✮½ - Good release
✮✮✮ - Not bad
✮✮½ - Shuffle material (probably boring as an album)
✮✮ - Disappointing

1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Wachenfeldt - The Interpreter

3.Hath - Of Rot And Ruin

4.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

5.Ethereal Darkness - Smoke And Shadows

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Listing albums that I have listened and liked enough to rank. My tastes skew towards Death/Black Metal which means I probably give most other genres a pass. I also don't bother rating such albums unless they catch my ear.

1.Vader - Thy Messenger

2.Legion Of The Damned - Slaves Of The Shadow Realm

3.Unfathomable Ruination - Enraged & Unbound

4.Embrional - Evil Dead

5.Malevolent Creation - The 13th Beast

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Order is sorted by album repeat.

1.Equipoise - Demiurgus

2.Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex

3.Disentomb - The Decaying Light

4.Týr - Hel

5.Rotting Christ - The Heretics

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas

2.Borknagar - True North

3.Mgła - Age Of Excuse

4.Devin Townsend - Empath

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Volbeat - Rewind, Replay, Rebound

2.Babymetal - Metal Galaxy

3.Dream Theater - Distance Over Time

4.Rammstein - Rammstein

5.Soen - Lotus

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1.Brymir - Wings Of Fire

2.Avantasia - Moonglow

3.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

4.Borknagar - True North

5.Twilight Force - Dawn Of The Dragonstar

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1.Death Angel - Humanicide

2.Acid Reign - The Age Of Entitlement

3.Aeon Zen - INVERITAS

4.Allegaeon - Apoptosis

5.Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky

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1.Kryptos - Afterburner

2.Overkill - The Wings Of War

3.Brymir - Wings Of Fire

4.Iron Fire - Beyond The Void

5.Aephanemer - Prokopton

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Each band featured once, except one.

1.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.Burzum - Filosofem

4.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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1.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

2.Idle Hands - Mana

3.Darkwater - Human

4.Soilwork - Verkligheten

5.Wind Rose - Wintersaga

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1.Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light

2.Soilwork - Verkligheten

3.Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex

4.In Mourning - Garden Of Storms

5.Twilight Force - Dawn Of The Dragonstar

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1.Misþyrming - Algleymi

2.Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear

3.Sinmara - Hvísl Stjarnanna

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

5.Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave

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1.Soen - Lotus

2.Ningen Isu - 新青年

3.Candlemass - The Door To Doom

4.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno

5.Russian Circles - Blood Year

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