Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast
Dir En Grey - The Marrow Of A Bone
Mnemic - Passenger
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Laethora - March Of The Parasite
Machine Head - The Blackening
Infernaeon - A Symphony Of Suffering
Chimaira - Resurrection
Naglfar - Harvest
Aborted - Slaughter And Apparatus - A Methodical Overture
Battlelore - Evernight
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Before The Dawn - Deadlight
Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
Bloodjinn - This Machine Runs On Empty
Legion Of The Damned - Sons Of The Jackal
Ensiferum - Victory Songs
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
Kill The Romance - Take Another Life
Mendeed - The Dead Live By Love
Naildown - Dreamcrusher
Omnium Gatherum - Stuck Here On Snakes Way
Mors Principium Est - Liberation=Termination
Norther - No Way Back (EP)
Sonata Arctica - Unia
Raintime - Flies & Lies
Pain Confessor - Purgatory Of The Second Sun
Total Fucking Destruction - Zen And The Art Of Total Fucking Destruction
Sonic Syndicate - Only Inhuman
Swallow the Sun - Hope
With Passion - What We See When We Shut Our Eyes
Blinded Colony - Bedtime Prayers
Deadlock - Wolves
One Man Army And The Undead Quartet - Error in Evolution
Caliban - The Awakening
That sums up my favs. so far..
Would you actually call those albums your 'favourites' ? Because I've listened to an endless amount of albums this year, but there's only a few that I would say truly standout. Maybe I have high standards, but I haven't come across an album that deserves a solid 9/10 rating from me.