Technical and Progressive albums. Pretty much alphabetical order. comment for suggestions. If I added a band but didn't put all the albums, its because I never got around to listening to their complete discography or didn't find it technical or progressive.

1. After The Burial - Rareform

2. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

3. Animals As Leaders - Weightless

4. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare

5. August Burns Red - Messengers

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1. Meshuggah - ObZen

2. Persefone - Spiritual Migration

3. Eye Of The Enemy - Eye Of The Enemy

4. Circus Maximus - Isolate

5. James LaBrie - Static Impulse

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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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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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Coolingsrock's Handpicked Albums of 2008. Best to worst.

1. Trivium - Shogun

2. After The Burial - Rareform

3. Protest The Hero - Fortress

4. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh

5. Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

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Updated version of the list previously published here. You'll notice that the comments are a bit different for sure, as is the order:
1 to 3: best of the year (in preference order)
4 to 25: other great stuff (alphabetical order)

And then there were some average (sometimes bad, sometimes good) albums that didn't make it in this list, but they featured some of the most awesome songs of the year. Like Voices Of The Fallen by Battlelore, Dylath-Leen's Frozen Reflect On A Broken Mirror, and particularly Iced Earth's Come What May...

1. Textures - Silhouettes

2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

3. Burst - Lazarus Bird

4. ADX - Division Blindée

5. Cynic - Traced In Air

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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. 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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List of Albums i Appreciate

1. Faith No More - The Real Thing

2. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

4. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution

5. Carach Angren - Death Came Through a Phantom Ship

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UPDATED Apr. 2012! Like the title says (covers '00 - '09). In numbered order by personal preference. May change as I find new releases.

1. Anubis Gate - The Detached

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Kamelot - The Black Halo

4. Warning - Watching From a Distance

5. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

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This is not a typical "Best of the decade" list. To be more precise, it's a list about the top 20 albums of each year of the last decade, in my perspective of course. In this way, a lot of good albeit overlooked albums can get some exposure, in addition to covering more ground at the same time.

1. 2009

2. Sybreed - The Pulse Of Awakening

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

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Overhauled as of May 10th, 2012! Top 5 favorite non-metal albums featured at the bottom.

This is a much improved (and more recently accurate) reworking of my previous favorite albums list, with a few albums added and a couple dropped entirely. They are in order of preference, though changes and the possibility of total equals are still in play. I've axed my undescriptive commentary but kept my genre and favorite song catgories.

1. Crimson Glory - Transcendence

2. Anubis Gate - The Detached

3. Artillery - By Inheritance

4. Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory

5. Metal Church - Hanging In The Balance

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1. Stam1na - Uudet Kymmenen Käskyä

2. Mokoma - Sydänjuuret

3. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

4. Rhapsody Of Fire - Triumph Or Agony

5. Slayer - Reign In Blood

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1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

4. The Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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Progressive Metal/Rock is my main music, but you can't ignore the beauty in other genres.

1. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

2. Opeth - Damnation

3. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5. Tool - 10,000 Days

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