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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #140 on: August 29, 2018, 05:50:29 PM »
I did listen to the new olaf arnold album and it was nice but not something I see myself getting much mileage out of

I like For Now I Am Winter bcuz of the vocals a lot of the time tbh

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« Reply #141 on: August 29, 2018, 07:34:30 PM »
I think I'm going to have to put Frontierer's Unloved and Sectioned's Annihilate as a tie for top album of the year.  :corn
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« Reply #142 on: August 29, 2018, 07:37:30 PM »
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« Reply #143 on: August 29, 2018, 07:41:07 PM »
In reality I'm pretty sure Unloved is getting a 4/10 and Annihilated is getting a 6/10. I'm not sure I want to give Unloved another listen. It was tough to get through the first time. Annihilated was quite a bit better. I may revisit again.
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« Reply #144 on: August 30, 2018, 07:36:34 PM »
Another update with a surprise, where the hell did that come from, album making my top ten (for now)

1. Messa - Feast for Water (Bluesy Jazzy Doom Metal)
2. Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy (If Yes & Rush Merged to make Technical Death Metal)
3. Ostura - The Room (Symphonic Progressive Metal)
4. Between the Buried and Me - Automata II (Progressive Metal)
5. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury (Noire Death Metal Opera) I made this genre up
6. Oceans of Slumber - The Banished Heart (Progressive Metal)
7. Solar Fields - Ourdom (Ambient Downtempo)
8. Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
9. Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods (Black Metal)
10. Ihsahn - Àmr (Mildly Blackened Progressive Metal)

The Night Flight Orchestra has dropped out of the top 10

And my EP list as well....

1. Progenie Terrestre Pura - starCross (Alien Space Black Metal)
2. Night Verses - Copper Wasp (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
3. Horn - Retrograd (Pagan Black Metal)
4. Drottnar - Monolith II (Black Metal)
5. Starkweather/Concealment - Starkweather/Concealment (Technical Metalcore)
6. Chthe'ilist - Passage Into the Xexanotth (Technical-ish Death Metal)
7. Yndi Halda - A Sun Coloured Shaker (Post Rock)
8. Lunatic Soul - Under a Fragmented Sky (Ambient Acoustic Rock)
9. Candlemass - House of Doom (Doom Metal)
10. Ben Frost - All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated (Dark Ambient)

....and some Live Albums (2 to be exact)

1. Fates Warning - Live Over Europe
2. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine – Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv
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« Reply #145 on: August 30, 2018, 08:14:15 PM »
god i tried getting into that imperial triumphant album and the jazz stuff is cool i guess but that brand of death metal just does noooot work for me

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« Reply #146 on: September 03, 2018, 02:34:33 PM »
Not many albums I have liked this year. Some I'm still waiting for. In alphabetical order

Bend Sinister - Foolish Games
Dream the Electric Sleep - The Giant's Newground
Gleb Kolyadin - Gleb Kolyadin
Kino - Radio Voltaire
The Night Flight Orchestra - Sometimes the World Ain't Enough
Perfect Beings - Vier
We Came from Space - While you Were Away
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« Reply #147 on: October 13, 2018, 01:22:43 PM »
I'll update my top 20 as it's changed a bit:


Frank Turner - Be More Kind
Ghost - Prequelle
Between the Buried and Me - Auotomata I & II
Black Peaks - All That Divides
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Dimmu Borgir - Eonian


Ihsahn - Amr
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Riverside - Wasteland
Thrice - Palms
Larry and his Flask - This Remedy
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Ostura - The Room
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Weedpecker - III


So Black Peaks and Coheed and Cambria are now in the top 10. Boss Keloid has dropped a few and Amorphis has risen a few spots. Thrice, Riverside and Larry and his Flask are all rising. The Room by Ostura is also likely to rise, digging it. Deafheaven may still rise a few as well as I love it.

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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #148 on: October 13, 2018, 05:40:45 PM »
A lot of good stuff released this year but so far only 3 truly great albums for me:

1. Arena - Double Vision
2. Between The Buried And Me - Automata 1 & 2
3. Ghost - Prequelle

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« Reply #149 on: October 18, 2018, 04:08:20 PM »
Here are the albums worth mentioning so far:

1. Phi - Cycles (progressive metal/rock)
2. Amorphis - Queen of Time (folk/melodic death metal)
3. Fireproven - Future Diary (progressive/melodic death metal)
4. Vermilia - Kätkyt (black/folk metal)
5. Barren Earth - A Complex of Cages (progressive/melodic death metal)
6. Stam1na - Taival (progressive/thrash metal)
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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #150 on: October 19, 2018, 03:48:19 AM »
My top 2 so far:

1. Riverside - Wasteland
2. BTBAM - Automata I & II

High hopes for Haken - Vektor

My 2018 biggest disappointment was Seventh Wonder - Tiara.

In general and so far 2017 was a better year for me especially with the new releases of Pain of Salvation, Threshold, Ayreon, Steven Wilson, etc.

I guess 2019 would be an Opeth, Neal Morse and DT year.

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« Reply #151 on: October 19, 2018, 04:52:55 AM »
I don't think my top 10 has changed much throughout the back half of 2018 and since I don't see anything else coming out this year for me I think this is solid... no particular order except Angra which is #1.

Angra - Omni
Stratovarius - Enigma: Intermission II
Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
Eminem - Kamikaze
Solar Fields - Ourdom
Florence + The Machine - High As Hope
God Is An Astronaut - Epitaph
Kamelot - The Shadow Theory
Amorphis - Queen of Time

Gleb Kolyadin, Kimbra, Myles Kennedy etc. were edged out just slightly by Amorphis. While I have a hard time listening to that album from front to back because of the growls, the energy and composition is just top notch and The Bee is one of the best metal songs I've heard all year, so props to Amorphis.
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« Reply #152 on: October 19, 2018, 06:28:03 PM »
An update with only a couple changes

1. Messa - Feast for Water (Bluesy Jazzy Doom Metal)
2. Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy (If Yes & Rush Merged to make Technical Death Metal)
3. Ostura - The Room (Symphonic Progressive Metal)
4. Between the Buried and Me - Automata II (Progressive Metal)
5. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury (Noire Death Metal Opera) I made this genre up
6. Oceans of Slumber - The Banished Heart (Progressive Metal)
7. Solar Fields - Ourdom (Ambient Downtempo)
8. Night Verses - From the Gallery of Sleep (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
9. YYNOT - YYNOT (Progressive Rock)
10. Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods (Black Metal)


And my EP list as well....

1. Progenie Terrestre Pura - starCross (Alien Space Black Metal)
2. Night Verses - Copper Wasp (Instrumental Progressive Metal)
3. Horn - Retrograd (Pagan Black Metal)
4. Drottnar - Monolith II (Black Metal)
5. Starkweather/Concealment - Starkweather/Concealment (Technical Metalcore)
6. Chthe'ilist - Passage Into the Xexanotth (Technical-ish Death Metal)
7. Yndi Halda - A Sun Coloured Shaker (Post Rock)
8. Aphex Twin - Collapse EP (IDM)
9. Lunatic Soul - Under a Fragmented Sky (Ambient Acoustic Rock)
10. Candlemass - House of Doom (Doom Metal)

....and some Live Albums (2 to be exact)

1. Fates Warning - Live Over Europe
2. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine – Live at the Ancient Roman Theatre Plovdiv
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« Reply #153 on: October 20, 2018, 10:41:40 AM »
Mine goes like this at the moment:

1   Between the Buried and Me - Automata I / Automata II
2   Ghost - Prequelle
3   Amorphis - Queen of time
4   Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds pt 1
5   Obscura - Diluvium
6   Ihsahn - Ámr
7   Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets and Dead Messiahs
8   The Night Flight Orchestra - Sometimes the World Ain't Enough
9   Avatar - Avatar Country
10    In Vain - Currents

It's been a great year for me new albums-wise.

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« Reply #154 on: October 28, 2018, 04:09:54 PM »
Updated, probably gonna be the last couple of versions since the only big thing I'm waiting to be released this year is Muse:

4.5/5
01. Charlie Puth - Voicenotes
02. Gleb Kolyadin - Gleb Kolyadin
03. Submotion Orchestra - Kites
04. Michael Giacchino - Incredibles 2
05. CHVRCHES - Love is Dead
06. Ludwig Goannson - Black Panther
07. Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
08. Ayum Hamasaki - Trouble

4/5
09. Tesseract - Sonder
10. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
11. Juno Reactor - The Mutant Theater
12. The Weeknd - My Dear Melancholy,
13. The Family Crest - The War: Act I
14. Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins

3.5/5
15. Twenty One Pilots - Trench
16. Haken - Vector
17. Arkona - Khram
18. A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
19. Kingcrow - The Persistence
20. Thirty Seconds to Mars - America

3/5
21. Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
22. Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day
23. Spock's Beard - Noise Floor
24. The Glitch Mob - See Without Eyes
25. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino
26. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
27. Dir en Grey - The Insulated World
28. Dimmu Borgir - Eonian
29. Breaking Benjamin - Ember
30. Brandi Carlile - By the Way, I Forgive You
31. Alice in Chains - Rainier Fog
32. Fall Out Boy - MANIA

2.5/5
33. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I
34. Aphex Twin - Collapse EP
35. Ariana Grande - Sweetener

2/5
36. Ihsahn - Amr

1.5/5
37. Epica - Beyond the Matrix - The Battle

Some things haven't aged well, some things have aged very well, and overall I've decided to be a bit harder with my rankings because I've been noticing I have a super high amount of 3.5-4.5/5 albums lol.

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« Reply #155 on: October 28, 2018, 07:39:41 PM »
the year ends in effect this week for my blog.

56 titles on my list currently

15 to check out, and another 8-10 to review.

my list could show up in the next couple of weeks.

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« Reply #156 on: October 31, 2018, 03:18:53 AM »
Not exactly a banner year for good albums, but there's been a few gems. Two stand out, and unless something brilliant drops in the next two months, I can see these being my joint album of the year:

=1. Auri - Auri
=1. Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions

3rd place would probably be Noise Floor by Spock's Beard.
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« Reply #157 on: November 01, 2018, 07:03:55 PM »
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want:

Album. Of. The. Year.

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« Reply #158 on: November 01, 2018, 10:04:21 PM »
i tried listening to that a week ago and hated it
listened to most of it just now and was mostly bored by it.
i don't get this style of music

i don't think my top 5 has changed much at all since my last update which is a bit disappointing i think. i dunno. i'll redo my list in like... a few weeks

i think when i actually get a few of the things on my upcoming purchase list they'll probably sneak into the top 10 somewhere though

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« Reply #159 on: November 10, 2018, 06:53:41 PM »
the year ends in effect this week for my blog.

56 titles on my list currently

15 to check out, and another 8-10 to review.

my list could show up in the next couple of weeks.


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« Reply #160 on: November 14, 2018, 01:22:59 AM »
Off the top of my head:

Angra - ØMNI
Bong - Thought and Existence
Clutch - Book of Bad Decisions
Conan - Existential Void Guardian
Corrosion of Conformity - No Cross No Crown
Dead Can Dance - Dionysus
Fates Warning - Live Over Europe
Freak Kitchen - Confusion To the Enemy
Haken - Vector
Horrendous - Idol
Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Judas Priest - Firepower
Michael Romeo - War of the Worlds pt. I
Revocation - The Outer Ones
Sleep - The Sciences
Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
Solar Fields - Ourdom
Voïvod - The Wake
Weedpecker - III
Yob - Our Raw Heart
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Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs
A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant
The Sea Within - s/t
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« Reply #161 on: November 14, 2018, 02:51:38 AM »
the year ends in effect this week for my blog.

56 titles on my list currently

15 to check out, and another 8-10 to review.

my list could show up in the next couple of weeks.


My Albums of the Year is up
https://allmediareviews.blogspot.com/2018/11/albums-of-year-2017-2018-11117-103118.html
But there's another month and a half to go. ???

Or do you treat the year as November-November?

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« Reply #162 on: November 14, 2018, 05:21:32 AM »
My tiny list:

Voivod-The Wake
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« Reply #163 on: November 14, 2018, 11:18:49 AM »
I'll start with some honorable mentions:
MUSE "Simulation Theory", HALESTORM "Vicious", GHOST "Prequelle", KAMELOT "Shadow Theory" & AVATAR "Avatar Country"

Next, will be the big FAILS of the year for me:
DISTURBED "Evolution", JOE SATRIANI "What Happens Next", GODSMACK "When Legends Rise", SHINEDOWN "Attention, Attention", & THE SEA WITHIN "S/T"

Now, for my top 10 of the year:
10. RIVERSIDE "Wasteland"
  9. URIAH HEEP "Living The Dream"
  8. TREMONTI "A Dying Machine"
  7. MICHAEL ROMEO "War Of The Worlds (Part 1)"
  6. GRETA VAN FLEET "Anthem Of The Peaceful Army"
  5. SLASH w MYLES KENNEDY & THE CONSPIRATORS "Living The Dream"
  4. HAKEN "Vector"
  3. REDEMPTION "Long Night's Journey Into Day"
  2. SPOCKS BEARD "Noise Floor"
  1. JUDAS PRIEST "Firepower"

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« Reply #164 on: November 17, 2018, 11:37:17 AM »
Not exactly a banner year for good albums, but there's been a few gems.


You said it. This feels like the first year in a while where I can't really pick a true standout awesome album. Just mainly a small group of good to really good records.

I really can't pick an album of the year so I will just list the standouts that I am listening to the most.

Ultraphonix - Original Human Music
Northward - Northward
Voivod - The Wake
A Light Divided - Choose Your Own Adventure
The Dead Deads - Sketches & Animation (EP)

Honorable Mention
Halestorm - Vicious
Blaze Bayley - The Redemption of William Black
Haken - Vector
Umphrey's McGee - it's not us
Umphrey's McGee - it's you
A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

Still to hear
Paul Gilbert - Behold Electric Guitar (arriving today)
Ashes Of Ares - Well Of Souls
Within Temptation - Resist
We Are Sentinels - S/T
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« Reply #165 on: November 17, 2018, 07:22:59 PM »

  9. URIAH HEEP "Living The Dream"
 

Nice. Excellent album, as have been their last half dozen or so. Bernie Shaw still sounds amazing.
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« Reply #166 on: November 18, 2018, 05:44:25 PM »
Haven't really put any thought into a top 10, haven't checked out all that much.  Having a bit of a look now;

Primal Fear - Apocalypse
Judas Priest - Firepower
Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day
Borealis - The Offering
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
UDO - Steelfactory
Saxon - Thunderbolt
Fifth Angel - The Third Secret

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« Reply #167 on: November 25, 2018, 08:58:25 AM »
Quite some shifts in rankings recently, so here is an updated version. Decided to go with a very arbitrary number of my top 21 albums, as that is the border between >8/10 albums, so I feel these are all at least great in a lot of aspects:

1. TesseracT - Sonder
2. Conjurer - Mire
3. Crippled Black Phoenix - Great Escape
4. Greyhaven - Empty Black
5. Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
6. The Dali Thundering Concept - Savages
7. The World is Quiet Here - Prologue
8. Parius - The Eldritch Realm
9. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
10. The Ocean Collective - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
11. The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques
12. Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
13. Ancestors - Suspended in Reflections
14. Distances - Diableries
15. Hundred Year Old Man - Breaching
16. Rolo Tomassi - Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
17. Earthship - Resonant Sun
18. Between the Buried and Me - Automata I
19. Beyond Creation - Algorythm
20. Behemoth - I Loved You at Your Darkest
21. Vennart - To Cure a Blizzard Upon a Plastic Sea

Full list here: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Lvialviaquez/top-2018-albums/ (everything below #57 still needs more listens to be ranked)
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« Reply #168 on: November 25, 2018, 09:24:04 AM »
Full list here: https://rateyourmusic.com/lists/edit?list_id=653308&rand=0.9145460221518511&page=1 (everything below #57 still needs more listens to be ranked)

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people on this board are actual music fans who developed taste in music and not casual listeners who are following current fashion trends and listening to only current commercial hits.

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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #170 on: November 25, 2018, 09:51:30 AM »
Cool to see Dead Magic in the top 10  :metal

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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #171 on: November 25, 2018, 10:47:22 AM »
Haven't really put any thought into a top 10, haven't checked out all that much.  Having a bit of a look now;

Primal Fear - Apocalypse
Judas Priest - Firepower
Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day
Borealis - The Offering
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
UDO - Steelfactory
Saxon - Thunderbolt
Fifth Angel - The Third Secret

Can't even come up with 10.  Would chuck in the Vega or Kamelot if I had to.

Jesus dude... let me help you out.  Pretty sure you checked these out, but just to be sure...

Lords of Black - Icons of the New Days
Subsignal - La Muerta
King Company - Queen of Hearts (much better than the 1st release)
Trillium - Tectonic
Gus G - Fearless
That's a word salad - and take it from me, I know word salad
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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #172 on: November 25, 2018, 02:43:19 PM »
Haven't really put any thought into a top 10, haven't checked out all that much.  Having a bit of a look now;

Primal Fear - Apocalypse
Judas Priest - Firepower
Redemption - Long Night's Journey Into Day
Borealis - The Offering
Amorphis - Queen of Time
Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
UDO - Steelfactory
Saxon - Thunderbolt
Fifth Angel - The Third Secret

Can't even come up with 10.  Would chuck in the Vega or Kamelot if I had to.

Jesus dude... let me help you out.  Pretty sure you checked these out, but just to be sure...

Lords of Black - Icons of the New Days
Subsignal - La Muerta
King Company - Queen of Hearts (much better than the 1st release)
Trillium - Tectonic
Gus G - Fearless

Never liked anything I heard from Lords of Black.  Haven't checked this new one though.
Forgot there was a new Subsignal, will have to check.
I thought the first song released for the King Company was shit, but I'll look into it.
Not a Trillium fan, first album didn't stick at all.
The Gus G was quite decent, but not top 10 material.
Everyone else, except Wolfking is wrong.

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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #173 on: November 26, 2018, 04:45:57 AM »

Never liked anything I heard from Lords of Black.  Haven't checked this new one though.
Forgot there was a new Subsignal, will have to check.
I thought the first song released for the King Company was shit, but I'll look into it.
Not a Trillium fan, first album didn't stick at all.
The Gus G was quite decent, but not top 10 material.

You got some backasswards standards if you'd 'throw in' Kamelot ahead of Gus G.  Check Trillium out - WAY better than their first one too - which I deleted from my library because I disliked it so much.  Glad I gave this album a chance - it's certainly better than Vega or Kamelot.
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Re: Top 10 (or however many you want to rank) albums of 2018 so far...
« Reply #174 on: December 05, 2018, 09:53:15 AM »
So we're closing in on the end if the year and come Jan I'm going to give everything in my top 30 a proper listen and get a definitive top 20.

As it stands my top 20 is as follows:

Frank Turner - Be More Kind
Ghost - Prequelle
Between the Buried and Me - Auotomata I & II
Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures
Haken - Vector
Ostura - The Room
Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit
Sigh - Heir to Despair
Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
Amorphis - Queen of Time


Black Peaks - All That Divides
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic
Thrice - Palms
Circles - The Last One
Boss Keloid - Melted on the Inch
Rivers of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name
Dimmu Borgir - Eonian
Thy Catafalque - Geometria
Riverside - Wasteland
Larry and his Flask - This Remedy



If everyone gets in their top 5/10/20/whatever then we can make a DTF top 10? If someone's willing to do it, I ain't volunteering  :lol