A collection of the most original, insane and head spinning albums from the weirdest side of metal. Suggestions are welcome.

Bands currently looking into:
Solefald
Dog Fashion Disco
Polkadot Cadaver
Faith No More

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

3. Akphaezya - Anthology II: Links From The Dead Trinity

4. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

5. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

3. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

4. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

5. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

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This could be the best year from this decade. Jiri's opinion. '04 was good too.

1. Shining - V - Halmstad

2. Aesma Daeva - Dawn Of The New Athens

3. Forgotten Tomb - Negative Megalomania

4. Imperia - Queen Of Light

5. Lifelover - Erotik

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This is the cream of the crop of what I've heard from the previous decade. Good times.

1. Isis - Oceanic

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

4. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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How my tastes evolved over the last two years. For the sake of comparison, I reported the original list below the updated one.

1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Evoken - A Caress Of The Void

3. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

4. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

5. Shining - V - Halmstad

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Within the past decade, black metal has seen bands from all over the world incorporating new sounds to the style and changing its delivery like never before. As great as the classic acts are, BM bands today seem to be branching out in every possible direction. From the beautiful chaos of the French bands to the psychedelic dabblings of the Finns to the atmospheric scene out West in the U.S... all the experimentation is helping to create a new identity for the genre. So, in no particular order, here are some of the best releases from this growing trend of originality within black metal's foundations (atmospheric, psychedelic, black doom, and otherwise).

1. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

2. Blut Aus Nord - MoRT

3. Diapsiquir - Virus STN

4. Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness

5. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

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As we go into 2011, I decided to look back on the last decade, and try and put together a list of what I believe are the highest quality, and favorite releases of the previous decade.

I believe "best" is something of a misnomer, since people's opinions of quality are biased to their tastes. So a more proper title would be "Best Releases that I Enjoyed from 2001-2010".

1. Deströyer 666 - Cold Steel... For an Iron Age

2. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

3. Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4. Cobalt - Gin

5. Behemoth - Demigod

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1. Cult of Luna - Salvation

2. System of a Down - Toxicity

3. Opeth - Blackwater Park

4. Tool - Lateralus

5. Satyricon - Volcano

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Limited to one album per band and only those featured on Metal Storm.
I feel these albums demonstrate certain qualities that can be of enjoyment to someone who is interested in avantgarde, experimental, extreme, fusion, jazz, post rock, and technical forms of metal.

1. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

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

3. Rush - Moving Pictures

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Favorite releases from 2007

1. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb

2. Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund

3. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

4. Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands

5. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

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The "better half" of my top 100 of the Zeroes. In list format, now with album covers!

1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Negură Bunget - OM

3. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4. Neurosis - Given To The Rising

5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

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