2005 is the year when I returned to metal after being away for 9 years.

1. Process Of Guilt - Erosion

2. Krallice - Diotima

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Before The Rain - ...One Day Less

5. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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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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Here is my provisional favorite-metal-albums-of-all-time-list! Enjoy!
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly. Thus, you can say that I enjoy album x on the list as much as the others in the interval of (x-5) to (x+5). For example album 37 would be as much enjoyed as 32, 33, 34, ..., 42, or something like that.

1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3. Grand Alchemist - Intervening Coma-Celebration

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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

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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. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

2. Virus - The Black Flux

3. Totalselfhatred - Totalselfhatred

4. Coldworld - Melancholie²

5. Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart

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This is my personal selection of albums (with specific songs) that you'd like to play in your next metal party.
The songs are sorted so the more powerful and energetic songs are equally spread all along the list, except the last songs, which are softer than average.

I'm currently working in this list (well... in my spare time), so it's not the final one.

1. Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire

2. Korpiklaani - Karkelo

3. Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst

4. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5. Kvelertak - Blodtørst

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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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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1. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

5. Animals As Leaders - Weightless

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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.

1. Machine Head - The Blackening

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Adagio - Underworld

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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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My personal top 50 list.
(In no particular order)

1. Decrepit Birth - Polarity

2. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

3. Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult

4. Joe Satriani - Time Machine

5. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

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I wanted to create my personal Top List for a long time and to be honest, I always considered it as some kind of cool Prog Metal, Avantgarde Metal mix. As you can see, it has become a bit more complicated. So finally, there are Unexpect and Pain Of Salvation next to Bands like Kamelot and Savatage. Also, some Non-Metal Bands got involved like Jeff Buckley and Oingo Boingo. But could you imagine how PoS would sound without Jeffs influence? Or what would have become of Mr. Bungle if it weren't for Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo?! So I hope you have nearly as much fun with this list as I had creating it.

1. Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

4. Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery

5. Polkadot Cadaver - Purgatory Dance Party

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1. Cynic - Traced In Air

2. Royal Hunt - Collision Course - Paradox II

3. Opeth - Watershed

4. Northern Kings - Rethroned

5. Karmakanic - Who's The Boss In The Factory

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I'll start with the disclaimer that I am not, nor ever have been, a musician. This list is of my own favorite performers, not the actual technical best musicians as I am a layman and can only go by what my stupid ears tell me. You'll notice the list is vocalist heavy which is a byproduct of my lack of musical talent. The list contains the artist, their instrument and the release where I feel they are at their best. **Last Update 08/16/11**

1. Symphony X - The Odyssey

2. Septicflesh - Communion

3. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

5. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

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

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4. Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia

5. Ayreon - The Human Equation

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