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.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Sentenced - Amok

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Anathema - Alternative 4

5.Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1995 was amazing, great Black metal albums, Iconic power metal releases, Death second best album and one of the best years for gothic metal. I had to make some rough cuts, so as honorable mentions: Stormcrowfleet by Skepticism, De Profundis by Vader, Destroy Erase Improve by Meshuggah, Ночь Короче Дня by Aria and Orchid by Opeth, 95 was a great year for metal🤘🤘


My favorite non metal albums of 1995

1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
By The Smashing Pumpkins (Alternative Rock, Dream Pop, Grunge)



2. Post
By Björk (Art Pop, Electronic)



3. Brown Sugar
By D'Angelo (Neo Soul, Contemporary R&B)



4. Wowee Zowee
By Pavement (Indie Rock, Noise Rock)



5. Liquid Swords
By Genius/GZA (East coast hip hop, Hardcore hip hop)




My favorite movie from 1995

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.The Gathering - Mandylion

5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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1.Savatage - Gutter Ballet

2.Savatage - Edge Of Thorns

3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

5.Savatage - Dead Winter Dead

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My personal exploration of the year I was born, I'll keep updating this list as I find albums I enjoy

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Virgin Steele - The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell Part II

4.Motörhead - Sacrifice

5.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

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1.Death - Symbolic

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension

5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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Must Listen: The First 6

1.Sentenced - Amok

2.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Shadow Gallery - Carved In Stone

5.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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1.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

2.Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan

3.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4.Savatage - Poets And Madmen

5.Savatage - The Dungeons Are Calling

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2.Jethro Tull - Aqualung

3.Arena - Immortal?

4.Faith No More - Angel Dust

5.King Crimson - Red

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1.Aria - Ночь Короче Дня

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

4.Paragon - World Of Sin

5.Grave Digger - Heart Of Darkness

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An entirely subjective list of my all-time favourite metal albums, well lets better say albums/genres featured on MS, since not all here is precisely metal.
Objective quality is not a criteria here, just how much I like the album. Ordered by preference, top down.

1.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Estatic Fear - Somnium Obmutum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

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From last.fm (27.07.12)

1.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2.Machine Head - Unto The Locust

3.Machine Head - The Blackening

4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

5.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

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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.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2.Kamelot - Epica

3.Kamelot - The Black Halo

4.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5.Turisas - The Varangian Way

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