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Amon Amarth - The Crusher - Fono (Metal Blade)
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side - Fono (Metal Blade)
Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends - Fono (Metal Blade)
Ancient - Proxima Centauri - Fono (Metal Blade)
Ancient Ceremony - Fallen Angel's Symphony (fake)
Atoll Nerat - Two Pipes To Heaven - Irond (Molot)
Аркона - От Сердца к Небу - Sound Age
Bal-Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria - Irond (Cacophonous)
Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule - Irond (Cacophonous)
Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic - Irond (Cacophonous)
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic - Irond (Nuclear Blast)
Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant - Irond (Nuclear Blast)
Bal-Sagoth - The Chthonic Chronicles - Irond (Nuclear Blast)
Banished - Deliver Me Unto Pain - Soyuz (Peaceville Records)
Bathory - Hammerheart - Irond (Black Mark)
Bathory - Blood on Ice - Irond (Black Mark)
Bathory - Destroyer of Worlds (fake)
Behemoth - Evangelion (fake)
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Monthly Top Lists of 2013

January:
Top 10 Artists:
1 Rotten Sound 169 plays
2 King Diamond 168 plays
3 Emperor 151 plays
4 Mercyful Fate 116 plays
5 Borknagar 108 plays
6 Proclamation 105 plays
7 Corrosion Of Conformity 100 plays
8 Hell 86 plays
9 Falkenbach 77 plays
10 Annihilator 67 plays

Top 10 Albums:
1 Corrosion Of Conformity – Blind 100 plays
2 Emperor – Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk 86 plays
2 Hell – Human Remains 86 plays
4 Annihilator – Never, Neverland 67 plays
5 Emperor – In the Nightside Eclipse 65 plays
6 Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf 63 plays
7 Borknagar – The Olden Domain 62 plays
7 Nachtfalke – Hail Victory Teutonia 62 plays
9 Limbonic Art – In Abhorrence Dementia 54 plays
10 Falkenbach – ...En Their Medh Riki Fara... 51 plays
10 Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 51 plays

Top 10 Tracks:
1 Corrosion Of Conformity – Vote With A Bullet 12 plays
1 Hell – The Devil's Deadly Weapon 12 plays
3 Falkenbach – Winternight 11 plays
3 Emperor – Ye Entrancemperium 11 plays
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FOREWORD
If you're reading this, you're probably wondering why am I writing about 2011 in January 2013. The truth is, I've been terribly busy with exams this time last year, so I kept postponing writing this article until it was so late that I actually decided to release it together with the summary of 2012.
I wrote most of the text over the year whenever I've found some time to do it, so at least it's authentic and not reminiscing of distant past.


INTRO
2011 was an odd year compared to the previous three. Although the total amount of music I've listened hasn't shrunk much, it spread much wider and the result was that no band had excessive amounts of scrobbles, so even the winner would barely make top10 with such score any of the previous years. That also caused that the effect of hyping was huge as majority of the top spots were taken by bands that released new albums, played shows and an occasional newly discovered band. Stats also saw pop artists take some single wins, only confirming my genre benevolence :)
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Аркона (’12)
30 Seconds to Mars (’10)
Airbourne (’11)
Amorphis (’13)
Anthrax (’11)
Arch Enemy (’11)
Arkania x2 (’09 y ’11)
Aura Eterna (’11)
Avenged Sevenfold x2 (’10 y ’11)
Bad Religion x2 (’07 y ’11)
Biffy Clyro (’11)
The Big Pink (’10)
Billy Talent (’07)
Bring Me the Horizon (’11)
The Cannibal Queen (’10)
Carach Angren ('13)
Cavalera Conspiracy (’11)
Children of Bodom (’12)
Dalriada (’12)
Darkest Era (’12)
Darkest Hour (’11)
Darksun (’11)
Descending ('13)
DevilDriver (’11)
Diamond Head (’11)
Edguy (’11)
Editors (’10)
Elvandar (’10)
Enter Shikari (’07)
Fleshgod Apocalypse ('13)
The Flower Kings (’13)
Gallows (’11)
Ghost (’12)
Gojira x3 (’11 , ’12 y ‘13)
The Hardtops (’13)
HIM (’08)
Hypno5e (’13)
In Flames (’11)
Insomnium ('13)
The Joy Formidable (’12)
Khael (’10)
Kottak (’11)
Kyuss Lives! (’12)
Linkin Park (’10)
Machine Headx2 (’11 y ‘12)
Mastodon (’12)
Megadeth (’11)
Metallica (’11 y ‘12)
Moonspell ('13)
Motorhead (’11)
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Top 20 lists of what I listened in 2012:

Top 20 artists:
1 Rotting Christ 922 plays
2 Pain of Salvation 897 plays
3 Killing Joke 557 plays
4 Enslaved 554 plays
5 Devin Townsend Project 491 plays
6 Anaal Nathrakh 489 plays
7 Septic Flesh 465 plays
8 Dream Theater 442 plays
9 Nasum 399 plays
10 Devin Townsend 390 plays
11 Thin Lizzy 374 plays
12 Unleashed 352 plays
13 Rytmihäiriö 340 plays
14 Entombed 321 plays
15 Kreator 319 plays
16 Judas Priest 316 plays
17 Fear Factory 306 plays
18 Bathory 296 plays
19 Dying Fetus 235 plays
20 maudlin of the Well 230 plays

Top 20 albums:
1 Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds Kings Warriors Angels 364 plays
2 Journey – Don't Stop Believin': The Best Of Journey 174 plays
3 Septic Flesh – Sumerian Daemons 133 plays
4 Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud 129 plays
5 Katatonia – Dead End Kings 127 plays
6 Pain of Salvation – Remedy Lane 122 plays
7 Vallenfyre – A Fragile King 121 plays
8 Pain of Salvation – Be 120 plays
8 Unleashed – Midvinterblot 120 plays
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