1. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

2. Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays

5. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

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The saddest albums I've ever heard in alphabetical order.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Ahab - The Giant

4. Aoria - The Constant

5. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Everything

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A list of quality sophomore releases.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

4. Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this list short.

1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

3. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice

4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

5. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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Some easy stuff, some different. Mostly prog.
Things after 10 aren't really in any order

1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2. Orphaned Land - Mabool

3. Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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Nocurnal magic atmospheres for dark and solitary moments.

1. Empyrium - Weiland

2. Dornenreich - Hexenwind

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Myrkgrav - Trollskau, Skrømt Og Kølabrenning

5. Nest - Trail Of The Unwary

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1. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

2. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

3. Madder Mortem - Deadlands

4. Opeth - Deliverance

5. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

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The best album of each year (and one close 2nd) from the past 20 years. Some years were much harder than others to choose the best 2 albums.

1. TBA - 2013

2. TBA - 2013 (Close 2nd)

3. Dissona - Dissona

4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5. Mastodon - The Hunter

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

2. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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

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My top 5 albums from every year since 2000.

Artist & Album
Rating out of 10 / Short Thought
Rated on performance, songwriting, originality, and production.

Currently in the process of re-listening to my entire collection and reviewing it. This list does not contain EPs or live albums -- studio releases that are featured on MS only. Also, only albums that are in my personal collection (i.e. I own them), make this list.

1. 2013:

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Leprous - Coal

4. Amorphis - Circle

5. Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood

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1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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

3. Opeth - Morningrise

4. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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Instrumental bands are limited to one entry.

Do not mention Metallica.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Akelei - De Zwaarte van het Doorstane

3. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

4. Anathema - The Silent Engima

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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1. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2. Kamelot - Epica

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Well, the title says it all...

1. Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness

2. In Flames - The Jester Race

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. In Flames - Whoracle

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