These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this list short.

1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

3. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice

4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

5. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes.

While there is little introduction required for some of these bands and their frontmen, there are no words that can accurately describe such jaw-dropping talent anyhow. The albums and youtube links listed are meant to display the full capacity of vocalists' talents - paste the links into your address bar and behold their prowess.

1. Amorphis - Silent Waters

2. Leprous - Bilateral

3. Dissona - Dissona

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

3. Iced Earth - Horror Show

4. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

5. Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass

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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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My favorite (thus the best) album (NOT necessarily metal) of each year I've been alive. Any description I give is only my opinion (obviously).

1. Swans - Children of God

2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

4. Bad Religion - Against The Grain

5. Slint - Spiderland

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My top 5 albums from every year since 2000.

Artist & Album
Rating out of 10 / Short Thought
Rated on performance, songwriting, originality, and production.

Currently in the process of re-listening to my entire collection and reviewing it. This list does not contain EPs or live albums -- studio releases that are featured on MS only. Also, only albums that are in my personal collection (i.e. I own them), make this list.

1. 2013:

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Leprous - Coal

4. Amorphis - Circle

5. Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood

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Instrumental bands are limited to one entry.

Do not mention Metallica.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Akelei - De Zwaarte van het Doorstane

3. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

4. Anathema - The Silent Engima

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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1. Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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These are my favorite 20 Progressive/Symphonic/Neo-Classical Power Metal albums

1. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

2. Adagio - Underworld

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

5. To-Mera - Delusions

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This is the cream of the crop of what I've heard from the previous decade. Good times.

1. Isis - Oceanic

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

4. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Orphaned Land - Mabool

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1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

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

4. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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Lots of genres, not repeating any Band (except Therion, but with 3 different styles). You cannot go wrong with this list, some nice Starts to any kind of Metal.
The list is sorted by year, but has not any particular order. Enjoy!

1. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

3. Therion - Symphony Masses - Ho Drakon Ho Megas

4. Cynic - Focus

5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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My version of The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes) only this time it's more The Epics (Songs Over 10 Minutes) because we kept griping to PG and he wouldn't update his list. According to his profile he hasn't been on in... 371 days. So I thought "Hey, why not do it myself?"
Arranged by time. If you feel or know a song should be on here, let me know. I'm a mainstream fag, so I only listen to the popular stuff. I might have missed some bands.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

4. Nile - Ithyphallic

5. Nightwish - Once

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