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I usually like narrowing things down to a simple top ten list, but this year had so many releases that I loved that I had to make it twenty, x.x

Top albums:

• Tool - Fear Inoculum (Progressive Metal)
• White Ward - Love Exchange Failure (Black Metal)
• Baroness - Gold & Grey (Sludge Rock)
• Serpent Column - Mirror in Darkness (Progressive Black Metal)
• Saor - Forgotten Paths (Atmospheric Black Metal)
• Swallow the Sun - When a Shadow Is Forced Into the Light (Death Doom Metal)
• Possessor - Gravelands (Thrash Metal)
• Abigail Williams - Walk Beyond the Dark (Atmospheric Black Metal)
• Illyria - The Carpathian Summit (Blackened Progressive Metal)
• Opeth - In Cauda Venenum (Progressive Rock)
• Alcest - Spirtual Instinct (Atmospheric Black Metal)
• Ranges - Babel (Post Rock)
• Schattenfall - Melancholie des Seins (Depressive Black Metal)
• Iapetus - The Body Cosmic (Melodic Death Metal)
• Nullingroots - Malady's Black Maw (Black Metal)
• Kaleikr - Heart of Lead (Progressive Black Metal)
• Astronoid - Astronoid (Post Metal)
• Arctic Sleep - Kindred Spirits (Doom Metal)
• Evergrey - The Atlantic (Progressive Metal)
• Arch/Matheos - Winter Ethereal (Progressive Metal)

Top EPs/Other releases:

• Panopticon - The Crescendo of Dusk (Black Metal)
• Rosetta - Terra Sola (Post Metal)
• Takamachi Walk - Permanance (Metalcore)
• Astral Alter - AA (Black Metal)
• Turner - Parliament (Progressive Metal)
• Druids - Monument (Stoner Metal)
• Visigoth - Bells of Awakening (Heavy Metal)
• Azoth - Magnitude of Extinction (Instrumental Black Metal)
• Master Boot Record - Internet Protocol (Chiptune Metal)

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