These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)

- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery that I find exceptionally special!
- A flame (🔥) denotes an album that I've heard before, enjoyed, and am revisiting this month!

1.71TONMAN - Of End Times

2.Acid Mammoth - Doom Sessions Vol. 2

3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4....And Oceans - As In Gardens, So In Tombs

5.Bee Bee Sea - Sonic Boomerang

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1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and my death metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6298
prior to updating this one

1.Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2.King Diamond - Abigail

3.Voivod - Dimension Hatröss

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1991 and the early 1990's ware the golden age of old school death metal, where progressive metal stars to kik more gear, the mayhem of the second wave/Norwegian black metal starts, And of course 1991 is the year where Grung killed Glam metal

1.Coroner - Mental Vortex

2.Fates Warning - Parallels

3.Death - Human

4.Bathory - Twilight Of The Gods

5.Armored Saint - Symbol Of Salvation

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Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

5.Josefus - Dead Man

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1.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

2.Paradise Lost - Icon

3.Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life

4.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

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

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Here are some albums that used to be replayed in my MC-player hundreds of times when I was 16. Some of them keep listening till now, some I won't ever listen to again. Some good, some bad, some rather unexpected, but all of them pirated.

1.Aggressor - Of Long Duration Anguish

2.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

3.Amorphis - Elegy

4.Brutality - When The Sky Turns Black

5.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

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The purpose of this list is not to find and record which albums are the best but to define Dark Metal. We will try to specify which albums are the definitive examples of Dark Metal. "Dark Metal" is what we would call a "post-subgenre". An album that's not quite Black, not quite Death, sometimes a little Doom or Gothic, other times just Melodic or Symphonic or even "Atmospheric", anything that could fall somewhere in between some or all of these categories, that could probably be a "Dark Metal" album, as long as the tone is somewhat dark.

1.Rotting Christ - Sanctus Diavolos

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Nightfall - At Night We Prey

4.Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons

5.Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest

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Poser alert! He put “that album” on the list? Gross.

Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Massacre - From Beyond (Death)
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind (Heavy)
Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments (Death/Thrash)
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth (Death)

1.Sepultura - Arise

2.Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick

3.Solitude Aeturnus - Into The Depths Of Sorrow

4.Overkill - Horrorscope

5.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

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Plus whatever Goth Rock I have that was available...

1.Fields Of The Nephilim - Mourning Sun

2.Moonspell - Night Eternal

3.Paradise Lost - Obsidian

4.Moonspell - Wolfheart

5.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

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Must Listen: The First 4

1.Metallica - Metallica

2.Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion II

3.Fates Warning - Parallels

4.Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera

5.Heavens Gate - Livin' In Hysteria

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Yes, I decided to do another gothic metal list because it been rapidly changing since my last two lists. I love revisiting this kind of list because of how different my tastes have changed withing this genre of music I'm passionate about.

1.Anathema - Eternity

2.Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

3.The Foreshadowing - Days Of Nothing

4.Monumentum - In Absentia Christi

5.Tiamat - Wildhoney

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A (most probably incomplete) list of albums on which I really enjoy only a single song (in alphabetical order, excluding one-track albums).
They turn out to be albums that I rate a 6 or 7 overall -- with few exceptions.
The songs mentioned though are all-time favourites, which I would rate at 9 or 10.
I only listed albums on which I found exactly one such song.

1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Amorphis - Far From The Sun

3.Annihilator - Set The World On Fire

4.Asphyx - The Rack

5.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.

1.Queen - Jazz

2.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch

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In 90s one of the my beloved subgenre has started. This should be a compendium of all death doom old school albums featured on MS. If i miss something, you are free to suggest me something to be listed. I need more death dooooom|

1.Winter - Into Darkness

2.Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise

3.Tiamat - The Astral Sleep

4.Paradise Lost - Gothic

5.Goatlord - Reflections Of The Solstice

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Doom metal happens to be my favourite musical genre specifically death doom. An attempt to all albums I have listened to and rated. In no particular order.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Anathema - Serenades

3.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4.Anathema - Alternative 4

5.Paradise Lost - Gothic

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