Yeah... a very conventional idea for a list, but i couldn't resist in the end finally making this one.
A list of my personal favorites from the blackest metal of them all.
Ordered by personal preferences and updated periodically with only one album/ep/demo per band.
Please enjoy, you might also find some of your likings in here. ^^
...and if not, it can't be helped.

1. Summoning - Stronghold

2. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3. Midnight Odyssey - Firmament

4. Eismalsott - Best Before: Spring

5. Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen

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This is a list comprised of my personal favorite albums. I tried to keep a limitation of two albums per band, but some musicians such will appear on the list at a higher frequency due to having multiple bands. Small reviews for each album will be added eventually. Please note that this list is still under heavy construction, and is no where near done. Many things are probably missing, and some albums may not remain for too long. My goal is to get 100 albums, but if that becomes too difficult I will chop the list down to 50 (or maybe 75). If you can think of any album you think I may be forgetting (read: an album you think I find to be one of my favorites, not your's), don't hesitate to remind me of it's existence.

1. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

4. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

5. Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

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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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Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one album per band, unless there's been a drastic style shift (like Katatonia's).
2) I try to cover all major subgenres fairly, so I have something for everyone. It counterbalances the tendency to list all the cool bands in a style I'm into right now (like drone or epic doom).

1. Warning - Watching From a Distance

2. Candlemass - Nightfall

3. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

4. Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

5. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

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This is buy or die stuff (in no particular order), the epitome of pure awesomeness!

1. Windir - Arntor

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Cor Scorpii - Monument

4. Judas Priest - Painkiller

5. Summoning - Dol Guldur

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It's nearly been a year since I've started listening to metal. I've listened to many albums since then, but it took me some time to get used to some genres, band ideologies and listening to full albums. This is a list of albums that had a big impact on the way I perceive metal. It is NOT a favorite album list as I don't still frequently listen to some of the listed albums anymore. Ordered by impact level.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Suffocation - Pierced From Within

3. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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In no particular order. Stars ★ indicate personal favourites are random.

Inferior Other Folk Lists:
•Lokaeda's
•Diabolos'
•Starchild's
•Angel Lament's

1. Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!

2. Arkona - Vozrozhdenie

3. Arkona - Ot Serdca K Nebu

4. Arkona - Vo Slavu Velikim!

5. Darkestrah - The Great Silk Road

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1. Tristania - Beyond The Veil

2. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

3. Anathema - Judgement

4. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn

5. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

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1. Iron Maiden - Powerslave

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Summoning - Minas Morgul

4. Windir - 1184

5. Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Old and new, classic and obscure, hard rock and extreme, primal and progressive... here are 12 releases (one per month) that I have heard of on MetalStorm and elsewhere that seem to be really really good shit and that I have somehow not listened to yet

My mission, if I accept it, is to listened to all of them before the end of the year.

1. Wormphlegm - In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism And Desanctifying The Pious

2. Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

3. Summoning - Stronghold

4. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

5. Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

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My top 100 albums of all time (featured on MS).
One album per band.

In alphabetical order.

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis

3. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

4. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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Just a list of my personal favorite albums, mixed genres.

1. Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst

2. Gorgoroth - Under the Sign of Hell

3. Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4. Windir - Arntor

5. Naglfar - Harvest

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1. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky

3. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

4. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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1. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Orphaned Land - Mabool

4. Ensiferum - Iron

5. Elvenking - Heathenreel

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