1. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

2. Tiamat - Wildhoney

3. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings

4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

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1. Wintersun - Time I

2. Monuments - Gnosis

3. Thy Majestie - ShiHuangDi

4. Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails

5. Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

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My top 50 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list). I restricted every band by a maximum of 2 albums. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album is my absolute favourite (I don't have one). All albums on this list have earned at least a 9/10 rating. I've added genres and my favourite songs.

1. After Forever - Decipher

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one album per band, unless there's been a drastic style shift (like Katatonia's).
2) I try to cover all major subgenres fairly, so I have something for everyone. It counterbalances the tendency to list all the cool bands in a style I'm into right now (like drone or epic doom).

1. Warning - Watching From a Distance

2. Candlemass - Nightfall

3. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

4. Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

5. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

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There is no Order to this list, just added as they come to mind. These are albums I can throw in and listen to in their entirety. Some new some old. Some might be musically instrumentally or vocally untalented, however these albums are still entertaining. I've been called an "Opinionated Bastage" but without opinions, how can we make just decisions?
A few might not be metal, don't hate me, you might like them....
Nuffsaid... check these out if you haven't already.

1. Edge of Sanity - Crimson I and II

2. Venom - Black Metal

3. Exodus - Bonded by Blood

4. Carnivore - Carnivore

5. King Diamond - Voodoo

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1. The Gathering - Mandylion

2. Moonspell - Wolfheart

3. Theatre Of Tragedy - Theatre Of Tragedy

4. Rammstein - Herzeleid

5. Clawfinger - Use Your Brain

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Here are all of the top albums that have come out since I was born in 1993!

1. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

5. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

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Doom on you! As with my Post-stonersludge list, this is a list of 25 doom albums by artists of varying stature that i enjoy. And by "enjoy", I mean "suffer through, eagerly awaiting the end ... whether the close of the album or my own imminent demise, so long as the misery stops." woe is me. and woe is you, too.

1. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

2. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

4. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

5. Candlemass - Nightfall

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A list of 90s albums I enjoyed throughout the decade, some I discovered later.

1. Marillion - Brave

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Marillion - Holidays In Eden

4. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

5. Rush - Test For Echo

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Slow/Post/Depress/Funeral/Love/Gloom/Beauty/Sorrow/Obscure/Cold/Avantgarde/Atmospheric/Diferente...

1. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2. Ablaze In Hatred - Deceptive Awareness

3. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

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1. Death - Symbolic

2. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4. Stormlord - Mare Nostrum

5. Opeth - Deliverance

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1. Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

2. My Dying Bride - Turn Loose the Swans

3. Doom:VS - Dead Words Speak

4. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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1. Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

2. My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Tristania - Widow's Weeds

5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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1. Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

4. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5. Autumnal - Grey Universe

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