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Still haven't provided descriptions about the stars themselves or ordered in some fashion.

1. Amorphis - Skyforger

2. Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome

3. Dissona - Dissona

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

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These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1. The Foreshadowing - Second World

2. Anathema - Judgement

3. Crematory - Awake

4. Charon - Songs For the Sinners

5. Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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1. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know

2. Kreator - Hordes of Chaos

3. Behemoth - Evangelion

4. Epica - Design your universe

5. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

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From last.fm (27.07.12)

1. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2. Machine Head - Unto The Locust

3. Machine Head - The Blackening

4. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

5. Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

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Only a "20 best" list for this quite good year - or well, 'quite good year' for prog at least.

The first four are arranged in preference order, then th sixteen order are in alphabetical order.

Beware: this is a consolidated - but not definitive - version, it might see some changes in the newt few months.

1. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Sólstafir - Köld

5. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us

5. Amorphis - Skyforger

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1. Mistur - Attende

2. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

3. Adagio - Archangels In Black

4. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

5. Amorphis - Skyforger

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1. Metallica - Master of Puppets

2. Testament - The Gathering

3. Tiamat - Wildhoney

4. E Nomine - Die Prophezeiung

5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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My best of 2009

1. Epica - Design Your Universe

2. Trail Of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance

3. Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad

4. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5. Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal

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Testing out the list feature.... unfinished and unpolished.
Note to self: Borknagar - Quintessence?

1. Woods Of Ypres - Woods IV: The Green Album

2. Warning - Watching From A Distance

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

5. Solefald - In Harmonia Universali

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1. Insomnium - Across The Dark

2. The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief

3. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

4. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

5. The Moon And The Nightspirit - Ösforrás

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In no particular order.

1. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

4. Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin

5. Deströyer 666 - Defiance

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Albums are alphabetically arranged.

1. Colosseum - Chapter 2: Numquam

2. Dark Moor - Autumnal

3. Dead Head - Depression Tank

4. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles

5. Forsaken - After The Fall

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Actually I wanted to write a blog as several of my colleagues, but now that we have this nifty new feature there's no reason to bother with formatting all the pics and stuff

So this was it. The decade which saw me turning into a metalhead. Actually I've been listening to metal since 17 years now, but not on a regular basis. This changed (to the better) when I joined this site in the good old days of MSR. Agalloch, Anathema and Tristania got me used to growls, Immortal and Agathodaimon to extreme metal as a whole and soon enough I was hooked to the vast plethora of styles which are to be found in heavy metal. The following list presents my personal top 50 of this decade. The order isn't really set in stone, neither is my musical taste, but at least the top 10 are somewhat fixed. Especially the 2009 releases, of which none made it into my top 25, might not stand the test of time. And please don't message me because you disagree with some of the genres, they are neither there to be discussed nor to educate, but to give an impression what the bands sound like. If you have about the same (broad) taste as I have, but aren't familiar with some of these releases, try to get your hands on them. You won't regret it

1. Negură Bunget - OM

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin

4. Dark Tranquillity - Character

5. Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

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