metal7690

Getting pretty close to the end of the year here, so I figured I'd go ahead and start the list. Interested to see what people have been getting into. Here's a few of my picks in no particular order:

Ne Obliviscaris- Portal Of I
Wintersun- Time I
Katatonia - Dead End Kings
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'ame
Aquilus - Griseus
Be'lakor- Of Breath And Bone
Ahab - The Giant
Anathema - Weather Systems
Blut Aus Nord - 777: Cosmosophy
Dodsengel- Imperator
Dragged Into Sunlight - Widowmaker
Drudkh- Eternal Turn Of The Wheel
Les Discrets- Ariettes Oubliées…
Pallbearer- Sorrow & Extinction
Swallow The Sun- Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
Om - Advaitic Songs
Evoken - Atra Mors
Cloudkicker - Fade
Ash Borer - Cold Of Ages
Agruss - Morok
Hexen - Being And Nothingness
Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
Kontinuum - Earth Blood Magic
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Neurosis - Honor Found In Decay
Oak Pantheon - From A Whisper

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Burning_Angel

I see Winterfylleth on there but not Wodensthrone.

Automatically your list has become irrelevant [ ] because Winterfylleth is completely inferior in every single respect to Wodensthrone. Seriously, Wodensthrone makes them completely superfluous.

On the other hand though I agree with some of this.

There's a pretty huge list of stuff that I could list as at the very least good from this year.

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metal7690

I tried for 3 months to get into the new Wodensthrone, just wasn't feeling it. Every moment of brilliance seemed to be negated by minutes of contrived black metal conventions. Just my opinion, of course

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ambivalent615

inverloch - dusk\subside
anhedonist - netherwards
aldebaran - embracing the lightless depths (i think is what it was called)
encoffination - o hell, shine in thy whited sepulchres
wrathprayer - the sun of moloch
pallbearer - sorrow and extinction
grave upheaval\manticore - split

not much else i've heard from this year, don't think. have yet to get around to BAN, ahab, and a few others mentioned. forgive me if anything i said is from last year.

also, as much as i really, really wanted to love dragged into sunlight, i found it to be a huge let down. i guess it's fairly good, in it's own right, has a few really cool bits, but next to hatred for mankind, it's lackluster and mediocre at best.

sup

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Absurder22

I still have a ****ton more to go through, I'm pretty behind, but so far these have all been awesome releases. I think Ihsahn may have won this race for me back in June though haha.

Ihsahn - Eremita
Conan - Monnos
My Dying Bride - A Map of all our Failures
Vision Divine - Destination set to nowhere
Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
In Mourning - Weight of the Oceans
Hour of 13 - 333
Great Sabatini - Matterhorn
Unleashed - Odalheim
Sigh - In Somniphobia
Panopticon - Kentucky
Overkill - Electric Age
Orange Goblin - Eulogy for the Damned
Napalm Death - Utilitarian
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Cryptopsy - Cryptopsy
Candlemass - Psalms of the Dead
Borknagar - Urd
Black Breath - Sentenced to Life
Angel Witch - As Above
Anaal Nathrakh - Venitas
Blut Aus Nord - Cosmosophy
Ahab - The Giant
Adrenechrome - Hideous Appetites
Accept - Stalingrad

henrihell

Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth
Devin Townsend Project - Epicloud
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird
Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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ChemicalFire

As much as I like Katatonia I'd dispute Dead End King's being best of the year, no where near in the same ball park as Night is the New Day

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Iced Earth9

1. Of Breath And Bone



2. Resolution
3. Torture

..End of discussion

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Burning_Angel

Portal of I and Curse and many more would like words with you on that.

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palm mute

You'd like Bell Witch's debut, Longing.

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guitgrinder

...and Night was vastly inferior to Great Cold Distance... yet, still, DEK was a solid release.

I also 2nd the votes for Testament & Swallow the Sun

palm mute

I actually still like Swallow the Sun and honestly Emerald Forest is one of their weakest releases.

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ambivalent615

i'll have to check it out. i'm gonna go ahead and assume death doom/ funeral doom based on most of my list. thanks.

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BenRaah

I think the Neurosis album was the only metal album from this year I got into. Never got round to the Om or Alcest albums and I didn't enjoy Faustian Echoes all that much.

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Riffmast

Der Sturmer-Transcendental Racial Idealism

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AnnihiSlateR

Pretty sure that was 2011

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Kytokinesis

Can't really think of any off the top of my head. The bands I listen to that released albums this year released pretty mediocre albums.

Riffmast

Yeah you are right, I'm not even sure what came out this year metal wise that I was really into.

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Sanitarium91

Can't think of anything... Man did I fall off the face of the earth.

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