1. Turisas - The Varangian Way

2. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

3. Autumn - My New Time

4. Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

5. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

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Best Symphonic metal albums of 2007, ranging from vocals to orchestral elements, performance,ratings,Live performances etc. (May change later on if I listen to more albums from 2007)

1. Epica - The Divine Conspriracy

2. Within Temptation - The Heatt Of Everything

3. After Forever - After Forever

4. Kamelot - Ghost Opera

5. Delain - April Rain

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In no particular order - 20 albums that, for me, stood out above the rest.

1. Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium

2. Amorphis - Silent Waters

3. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

4. Winds - Prominence And Demise

5. Miseration - Your Demons - Their Angels

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My favorite albums. Includes EPs. Anything ouside the top 20 or so could be up or down several places. Constantly subject to change.

1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Ayreon - The Human Equation

3. Nightwish - Century Child

4. Sinergy - To Hell And Back

5. Lord - Set In Stone

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1. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3. Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin

4. Paradise Lost - In Requiem

5. Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination

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My personal annual choice for top 10 metal albums for each year. 2007 selection, fantastic year with at least 50 quality albums.

1. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

2. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

3. Turisas - The Varangian Way

4. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

5. Sirenia - Nine Destinies and a Downfall

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1. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2. Shining - V - Halmstad

3. Dawn Of Tears - Descent

4. Hanging Garden - Inherit The Eden

5. Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire

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1. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

2. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

3. Watain - Sworn to the Dark

4. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon

5. Machine Head - The Blackening

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1. Axxis - Doom Of Destiny

2. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

3. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4. After Forever - After Forever

5. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

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1. Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

2. Moonspell - Under Satanæ

3. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

4. Samael - Solar Soul

5. Trail Of Tears - Existentia

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Here are my favourite albums between 2000 and 2010.
Some might be missed.

1. Motörhead - Motörizer

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Empyrium - Weiland

4. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5. Immortal - All Shall Fall

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1. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2. Threshold - Dead Reckoning

3. Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

4. Le Grand Guignol - The Great Maddening

5. Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

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Basically, this is a list of those albums which are dear to me, but are often considered as (one of) the weakest releases of a certain band (Ensiferum, Helloween, Therion etc.) or in the Allen/Lande case, of certain musicians.

1. Allen/Lande - The Battle

2. Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...And A Caravan Of Weird Figures)

3. Ensiferum - Victory Songs

4. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

5. Hollenthon - Opus Magnum

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1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. Metallica - Metallica

3. Hammerfall - Legacy Of Kings

4. Hammerfall - Crimson Thunder

5. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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A really good year, just look at the top 3! Three of the world's greatest black metal albums ever! And the five albums thereafter? Magic. All I can say is that this list was a pain to order, because there's so much great albums which deserves to be higher up.

1. Watain - Sworn To The Dark

2. Shining - V - Halmstad

3. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

4. Månegarm - Vargstenen

5. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

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