1. Midnattsol - The Metamorphosis Melody

2. Septicflesh - The Great Mass

3. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

4. Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg

5. Turisas - Stand Up And Fight

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The Year 2011 as I see it. Not a very good year in my own opinion. (may change over time)

1. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

2. HammerFall - Infected

3. Theocracy - As The World Bleeds

4. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

5. Trillium - Alloy

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Favorite Albums Of All Time!(Mine not yours)

1. Kamelot - The Black Halo

2. Kamelot - Epica

3. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

4. Nightwish - Oceanborn

5. Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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My favorite albums. Includes EPs. Anything ouside the top 20 or so could be up or down several places. Constantly subject to change.

1. Opeth - Still Life

2. Ayreon - The Human Equation

3. Nightwish - Century Child

4. Sinergy - To Hell And Back

5. Lord - Set In Stone

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EDITED & ARRANGED: An encyclopaedia of metal songs to get you dancing or grooving your ass to. Recommendations are welcome.

1. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

2. Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

3. Amaranthe - Amaranthe

4. Amaranthe - The Nexus

5. Angizia - 39 Jahre Für Den Leierkastenmann

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TOP 20 METAL CONCEPT ALBUMS

I was always fascinated by the good concept albums, which manage to tell the story in a extraordinary fashion. So I decided to make a list of best concetual metal albums up to date. I decided to concentrate on truly conceptual albums, since loosening the criteria too much would leave me with having bunch of fantastic albums, which would simply be too much to put on the list. Yes, it would probably be a lot easier to make a huge list, but I wanted to concentrate on a truly top concept-related albums. So since they do not strictly tell about some event, or follow the same story, I decided to drop out loose conceptuals. Unfortunately the likes of "Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens", "Sabaton - The Art of War" or "Nightwish - Century Child", "Bloodbound - Nosferatu" most of the Therion's albums, Amorphis and so on, went out of the list. I raised the criteria for the 'conceptual' since also there is really a lot of top-quality albums that are connected with a loose story, but they are simply not tight enough to label them as truly concept albums…Otherwise I might as well write a list of 100 albums. Also I tried to avoid multiple occurances of the same band, hence only one album from Ayreon, Symphony X, Evergrey, etc, otherwise they would probably fill up half of the bloody list.

1. Kamelot - Epica

2. Kamelot - The Black Halo

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Turisas - The Varangian Way

5. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

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1. To Cast A Shadow - In Memory Of

2. Crysalys - The Awakening Of Gaia

3. Ravenscry - One Way Out

4. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

5. Powerwolf - Blood Of The Saints

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If you're like me and can't sit still with just one or two genres, perhaps you'll find some ideas in this list. I kept the variety with genres, but also by including all worthy bands from unknown newcomers all the way up to big names. Basically, everything I liked this year.

Since there are so many genres here, don't get too worked up about specific rating and placement. They're generally in order, but more importantly they're all amazing.

1. Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy - Návaz

2. Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors

3. Autumn - Cold Comfort

4. Shadowside - Inner Monster Out

5. 40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

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I usually do not like this kind of list because everybody has different tastes and nobody can match completely the taste of somebody else.
Anyway here comes my Top 21 Metal Albums of 2011. Why 21? because it sounds better for 2011...
I did not listen to everything in 2011, I will certainly discover some new good albums of 2011 in the next few months of 2012. But as I have started now, let s go for this Top 21 Metal Albums of 2011!

1. Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2. Visions of Atlantis - Delta

3. Belphegor - Blood Magick Necromance

4. Peste Noire - L'Ordure à L'état Pur

5. Red Descending - Kingdoms

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The albums released and bought in 2011 from best to worst in my opinion. I know I'll cop plenty of shit for albums 2 and 3, so if you don't like them, (pokes out tongue whilst making rasberry noise).
I couldn't split 5 and 6 and 11 through 20 could be moved up or down a couple of places. The hardest part was splitting the 2nd and 3rd last albums.
Again, I do not apologise for albums 2 and 3.

1. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

2. Gallhammer - The End

3. Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra

4. Darkest Era - The Last Caress Of Light

5. Chthonic - Takasago Army

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Heavy metal + power + thrash + death metal top 50 / 2011

1. Septicflesh - The Great Mass

2. Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

3. Samael - Lux Mundi

4. Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction

5. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Aagony

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My personal top 10 albums for 2011. It was a tough choice, as there was at least 20 more excellent albums.

1. Myrath - Tales Of the Sands

2. Insomnium - One For Sorrow

3. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

4. Amaranthe - Amaranthe

5. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

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1. Opeth - Heritage

2. Mastodon - The Hunter

3. Septicflesh - The Great Mass

4. Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two

5. Machine Head - Unto The Locust

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1. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

2. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

3. Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

4. The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne

5. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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My Top Symphonic/Atmospheric/Female Fronted(whatever you wanna call it...) Albums of all time with its subgenres: gothic, power, folk, prog...
Still, The order may change from time to time....!!

1. Within Temptation - The Silent Force

2. Nightwish - Century Child

3. Epica - Consign To Oblivion

4. Therion - Vovin

5. Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

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