Some easy stuff, some different. Mostly prog.
Things after 10 aren't really in any order

1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2. Orphaned Land - Mabool

3. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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those are the albums i love the most. I had to force myself to limit the list anyway and to show just one record for every band

1. Rush - Moving Pictures

2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

3. The Who - Who's Next

4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5. Kingcrow - Phlegethon

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I tried to put one album per band, so it was a fucking hard choice in many cases.
Anyway, all of them are great albums in it' genre.
No order followed.

1. Almah - Fragile Equality

2. Andre Matos - Mentalize

3. Arryan Path - Ira Imperium

4. Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part 1

5. Astral Doors - New Revelation

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise

3. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5. Opeth - Still Life

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...in no particular order

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

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This is a list of the albums that score 100 in my personal ranking system. This means they are absolute all time favorites, and they could be here because of different reasons: from absolute mind-blowing musicianship that I deeply appreciate or simply because I enjoy the music and connect to it in a special way. Albums are not listed in any particular order.

1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

3. Patrick Rondat - On the Edge

4. Helloween - The Dark Ride

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

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TOP 20 METAL CONCEPT ALBUMS

I was always fascinated by the good concept albums, which manage to tell the story in a extraordinary fashion. So I decided to make a list of best concetual metal albums up to date. I decided to concentrate on truly conceptual albums, since loosening the criteria too much would leave me with having bunch of fantastic albums, which would simply be too much to put on the list. Yes, it would probably be a lot easier to make a huge list, but I wanted to concentrate on a truly top concept-related albums. So since they do not strictly tell about some event, or follow the same story, I decided to drop out loose conceptuals. Unfortunately the likes of "Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens", "Sabaton - The Art of War" or "Nightwish - Century Child", "Bloodbound - Nosferatu" most of the Therion's albums, Amorphis and so on, went out of the list. I raised the criteria for the 'conceptual' since also there is really a lot of top-quality albums that are connected with a loose story, but they are simply not tight enough to label them as truly concept albums…Otherwise I might as well write a list of 100 albums. Also I tried to avoid multiple occurances of the same band, hence only one album from Ayreon, Symphony X, Evergrey, etc, otherwise they would probably fill up half of the bloody list.

1. Kamelot - Epica

2. Kamelot - The Black Halo

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Turisas - The Varangian Way

5. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

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1. Trail Of Tears - A New Dimension Of Might

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Sirenia - At Sixes And Sevens

4. Lacuna Coil - Comalies

5. Draconian - Dark Oceans We Cry

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Limited to one album for each band.

1. Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2. Vader - Litany

3. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

4. Apocalyptica - Reflections

5. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Dream Theater - Images And Words

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

5. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated. So finally, there are Unexpect and Pain Of Salvation next to Bands like Kamelot and Savatage. Also, some Non-Metal Bands got involved like Jeff Buckley and Oingo Boingo. But could you imagine how PoS would sound without Jeffs influence? Or what would have become of Mr. Bungle if it weren't for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo?! So I hope you have nearly as much fun with this list as I had creating it.

1. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4. Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery

5. Polkadot Cadaver - Purgatory Dance Party

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1. Symphony X - The Odyssey

2. Satyricon - Volcano

3. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines

4. Mastodon - Remission

5. Opeth - Deliverance

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1. Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2. Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

3. IRA - Visions Of Landscapes

4. Pain of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5. Savatage - Gutter Ballet

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Pure Fucking Metal !!!

1. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

5. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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This is not a typical "Best of the decade" list. To be more precise, it's a list about the top 20 albums of each year of the last decade, in my perspective of course. In this way, a lot of good albeit overlooked albums can get some exposure, in addition to covering more ground at the same time.

1. 2009

2. Sybreed - The Pulse Of Awakening

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

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