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1.Solstice - New Dark Age 2.Black Sabbath - Master of Reality 3.Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead 4.Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 5.Manilla Road - Open the Gates 6.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 7.Solstice - Lamentations 8.Scald - Will of Gods Is a Great Power 9.Solitude Aeturnus - Beyond...

Mostly GG Allins refreshing poetry comes to mind. And this piece of Westboro Baptist theology from Slayer:

I agree with this with a minor reservation. I'd say there are a few trad.- and doom metal albums who also accomplish masterfully everything you list here and have the same (or similar) artistic merit as the most accomplished works of black metal. I guess so. I can relate to why many would not...

1.Root - The Temple in the Underworld 2.Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark 3.Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky 4.The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure 5.Sigh - Infidel Art 6.Master's Hammer - Jilemnický okultista 7.Mütiilation - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul...

Not a full length but anyway and

Atlantean Kodex- The White Goddess Chelsea Wolfe- Pain is Beauty There were other albums I liked this year but these two are the absolute apex for me.

yeah, this is even worse than DEP. Nice try though (I mean the music and this shameless plug of a thread).

Absolutely stunning.

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