In progress, subject to change.

Title says it all really, I made an attempt to pick my favorite album from each of my favorite bands. I did not take into account the number of albums released by each band, and I did not take into account if I've actually only got one album by the band. Difficult to pick just one album by most of these giants! (Bands are listed alphabetically)

1. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2. Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time

3. Axel Rudi Pell - Mystica

4. Axxis - Utopia

5. Ayreon - 01011001

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This is unfinished

1. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

2. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

3. Alestorm - Back Through Time

4. Almôra - Gates Of Time

5. Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa

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My ranking of all Ayreon's studio albums. The indisputable best album for me is Into The Electric Castle, followed up closely by The Human Equation (I think Disc II is superior to Disc I though). 01011001 is an amazing album that contains brilliant long and epic tracks, although it also suffers from a few pretty mediocre tracks, so it's not a very consistent album in my opinion. And although The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer is a great album, it contains a few weaker tracks. My absolute least favourite album is Actual Fantasy, which has more mediocre tracks than great tracks. I have included ratings as well as the best songs (which are my favourites) of each album (3 songs (1-disc album) or 6 songs (2-disc album)), although this was extremely hard for #1 on this list, since I love pretty much every song on that album.

1. Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle

2. Ayreon - The Human Equation

3. Ayreon - 01011001

4. Ayreon - The Final Experiment

5. Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight Of The Migrator

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1. Edenbridge - MyEarthDream

2. Amberian Dawn - River Of Tuoni

3. Battlelore - The Last Alliance

4. Ayreon - 01011001

5. Midnattsol - Nordlys

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1. Moonspell - Night Eternal

2. Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked - Part 2)

3. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

4. Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

5. Warrel Dane - Praises To The War Machine

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My favourite studio albums of 2008 (May change over time)

1. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

2. Avantasia - The Scarecrow

3. Judas Priest - Nostradamus

4. Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus

5. Ayreon - 01011001

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In progress, subject to change.

1. Ayreon - 01011001

2. Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

3. Judas Priest - Nostradamus

4. Pyramaze - Immortal

5. Avantasia - The Scarecrow

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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. Kamelot - Epica

2. Kamelot - The Black Halo

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Turisas - The Varangian Way

5. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

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My choices for the best things to happen to metal between 2000 and 2009.

1. Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

2. Ayreon - 01011001

3. Extol - Synergy

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

5. Krallice - Krallice

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The most beautiful and awesome vocal duets (within bands or guest appearances) I ever heard in my life...
Any Suggestions are welcomed!

1. Kamelot - The Black Halo

2. Anathema - A Natural Disaster

3. Theatre Of Tragedy - Velvet Darkness They Fear

4. Within Temptation - Black Symphony

5. Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer

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Another yearly top 10 list.

1. Ayreon - 01011001

2. Eluveitie - Slania

3. Sabaton - The Art of War

4. Evergrey - Torn

5. Firewind - The Premonition

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This is not Avantgarde style, is vanguard music literally.... in metal of course

1. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

2. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

3. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

4. Apocalyptica - Cult

5. Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge

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1. Machine Head - The Blackening

2. Overkill - Ironbound

3. Tool - Lateralus

4. Rush - Clockwork Angels

5. Rush - Snakes & Arrows

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1. Warrel Dane - Praises to the War Machine

2. Cynic - Traced in Air

3. Ayreon - 01011001

4. Ihsahn - angL

5. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

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1. Opeth - Watershed

2. In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

3. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4. Bilocate - Sudden Death Syndrome

5. Septicflesh - Communion

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