I will try to be as subjective as I can and it won't include only my favorite genres as I will try to include albums from all Metal sub-genres because I think it's important to get exposed to all kinds of metal so that a person may create a good taste in Metal music. (Might include more than 1 album per band).

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

2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3. Deep Purple - Machine Head

4. Judas Priest - Stained Class

5. Scorpions - Taken By Force

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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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These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1. The Foreshadowing - Second World

2. Anathema - Judgement

3. Crematory - Awake

4. Charon - Songs For the Sinners

5. Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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Around 30 albums that are my favorites. This list may irritate some people so don't be hating because I don't have a Slayer album there. This list consists mostly of Doom/Goth atmospheric albums.

1. Tiamat - Wildhoney

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Anathema - Eternity

4. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

5. My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World

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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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1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum

3. Control Denied - The Fragile Art Of Existence

4. Anathema - Judgement

5. My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World

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1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

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

4. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Def Leppard - Hysteria

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It may have been black metal's finest hour, but for the most part I don't care for the genre - check some other lists for recoms there.

As if I needed to say that... ...on with the show... (looking for more words? scroll down to #27)

1. Anacrusis - Manic Impressions demo

2. Anthrax - Persistence of Time

3. Forbidden - Twisted into Form

4. Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

5. Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare

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1. Tristania - Beyond The Veil

2. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

3. Anathema - Judgement

4. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn

5. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

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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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1. Elend - The Umbersun

2. Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse

3. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

4. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

5. Anathema - Judgement

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The best ballads in the history of Metal. Of course, all these bands and other bands have really good ballads but this list shows the very best, handpicked by me. In alphabetical order by bands name to make the list less chaotic and not by order of preference.

1. Accept - Eat The Heat

2. Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3. Adagio - Underworld

4. Aerosmith - Aerosmith

5. Allen/Lande - The Battle

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This list is half-assed. So half-assed that I do not care to update it.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3. Alchemist - Spiritech

4. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde

5. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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1. Paradise Lost - One Second

2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

3. Type O Negative - October Rust

4. Silencer - Death-Pierce Me

5. Anathema - Alternative 4

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