1.Metal Church - Metal Church

2.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

3.Slayer - Show No Mercy

4.Viva - What The Hell Is Going On

5.Satan - Court In The Act

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1.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

2.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

3.Greylotus - Dawnfall

4.John Petrucci - An Evening With John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess [Collaboration]

5.John Petrucci - Suspended Animation

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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Thy Catafalque - Meta

2.Sepulcros - Vazio

3.Kassad - Faces Turn Away

4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

5.Xanthochroid - Of Erthe And Axen: Act I

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1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

2.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

3.Savatage - Poets And Madmen

4.Savatage - Power Of The Night

5.Savatage - Sirens

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1.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

3.Whitesnake - Whitesnake

4.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

5.Gary Moore - Wild Frontier

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1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

2.King Diamond - Abigail

3.Dio - Dream Evil

4.Testament - The Legacy

5.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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Not my genre so this is a pretty limpdicked list.

Inc. Avant Garde Metal because I'm a Philistine who can't tell the difference.

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

4.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5.Death - Symbolic

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I'm not forcefeeding music this year. 2020 had me wasting a lot of time focusing on the lesser releases every week. Nowadays I just listen to what I want, and try to explore new things, dig my backcatalog, and take notes at each significant step. There's unfortunately little metal for now, hopefully it will change.

1.Nina Hagen - live at Fürstenhof Tanzpalast

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3.Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

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1.King Diamond - Abigail

2.Kat - Oddech Wymarłych Światów

3.Candlemass - Nightfall

4.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

5.Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

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1.Testament - The Legacy

2.Overkill - Taking Over

3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Sodom - Persecution Mania

5.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

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1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

3.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

4.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

2.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

3.Pretty Maids - Future World

4.Def Leppard - Hysteria

5.Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

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1.Anthrax - Among The Living

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3.King Diamond - Abigail

4.Dio - Dream Evil

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Metallica - Metallica

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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