I love Threshold. Every single of their albums is at least very good, so trying to actually order them is quite a challenge, but I'll try.

1. Threshold - Hypothetical

2. Threshold - March Of Progress

3. Threshold - Dead Reckoning

4. Threshold - Psychedelicatessen

5. Threshold - Subsurface

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1. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

2. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

3. Opeth - Deliverance

4. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

5. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

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The Decade of the 2010s is officially (just over) 75% complete. Therefore, I present my 75 favorite (thus objectively best) metal albums of the decade so far in approximate order of preference.

1. Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay

2. Arizmenda - Stillbirth In The Temple Of Venus

3. Abyssal - Antikatastaseis

4. Skáphe - Skáphe²

5. Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

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Put into alphabetical order

1. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

2. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

3. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

4. Godflesh - Streetcleaner

5. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice

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1. Adagio - Life

2. Obscurity - Streitmacht

3. Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements

4. Wintersun - The Forest Seasons

5. Orden Ogan - Gunmen

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1. Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

2. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

3. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

4. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium

5. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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There were last year some albums that apparentley aren't trendy

1. The Drowning - Senescent Signs

2. Gherzen - 1917

3. Messa - Belfry

4. (EchO) - Head First Into Shadows

5. Ortega - Sacred States

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1. Immolation - Atonement

2. God Dethroned - The World Ablaze

3. Decrepit Birth - Axis Mundi

4. Origin - Unparalleled Universe

5. Mors Principium Est - Embers of a Dying World

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Bands I've seen live and really left me amazed, sorted according to my subjective opinion of course

1. Emperor

2. Sólstafir

3. Moonsorrow

4. Anathema

5. Sabaton

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Doom metal happens to be my favourite musical genre specifically death doom. An attempt to all albums I have listened to and rated. In no particular order.

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Anathema - Serenades

3. Paradise Lost - Gothic

4. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5. Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

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I think the list is self-explanatory. Ordering is semi-random, stream-of-consciousness style.

1. Black Tongue - Born Hanged : Falsifier (Redux)

2. Traitors - Traitors

3. Immoralist - Widow

4. The Acacia Strain - Coma Witch

5. Black Sheep Wall - I Am God Songs

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My Top Albums Of 2017 (so far).

1. Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck With

2. Cytotoxin - Gammaggedon

3. Temple Of Void - Lords Of Death

4. Noumena - Myrrys

5. Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea

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ASCENDANT is a Heavy Power Metal Band Based in U.A.E formed in 2012 consisting of very talented musicians:
1- Youmni Abou Al Zahab (Vocals)
2- Alaa Abou Saada (Lead & Rhythm Guitars)
3- Ashish Shetty (Lead & Rhythm Guitars)
4- Puneet Sharma (Bass Guitars)
5- Aram Kalousdian (Drums) Former Hour Glass & Nuclear Dawn Drummer.

1. Ascendant - A Thousand Echoes

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While the order in each decade is purely personal preference, there are several rules for a song qualifying for the list. First off, the band has to be notable. I'm not going to define what that means, but I'm sure you'd agree all the bands in the list are notable. There are plenty of riffs from obscure bands I'd rather put, but I know my love for Tarby doesn't make him the greatest riff maker of the 21st century. Second, each artist can only appear once in a decade, this is to prevent the best riff makers from hogging the list and adding some variety, showing how metal has changed over time. Decades are measured by when the song was recorded, not released, and when it's unclear the beginning of recording is used. This is mainly because a lot of definitive early metal songs were released in 1970, but recorded in 1969. Third, the song itself has to be notable. Here are things that can qualify as being notable: the song was release as a single, has music video made for it, was released as a single, was the title track for an album (note that Crawl through Knives meets this criteria because it was the original title for Come Clarity, and there is no way in hell Come Clarity is getting best riff of the decade ), is included on a greatest hits compilation album, was nominated for a Grammy or musical award of similar caliber, was included as a track in a notable film or video game, was covered by a notable band, or has a Wikipedia page for some miscellaneous reason. Finally, the song needs to be metal. Misirlou gets the pass despite predating metal as it was probably the single most influential song on the development of metal, and while many of the other songs in the other songs are better classified as hard rock, I can find a source listing them as heavy metal.

1. 60s:

2. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

4. Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

5. Deep Purple - In Rock

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All of my favorite albums metal and non metal released between 2010 and 2020.
I probably missed a bunch of stuff.

1. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

2. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

4. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

5. Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels

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