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150 Albums To Become An Adult To: 2010-2019

I began this decade in my final year of high school, in the early phases of my metal journey (Mastodon, Machine Head, Dream Theater, Pantera and Avenged Sevenfold were still recent discoveries). One Masters degree and one PhD later, I'm now a tax-paying Londonian, and have ploughed through what must be comfortably over 2000 new releases during the previous ten years. To commemorate the end of a turbulent decade, I've put together a list of the albums that have stuck with me throughout this decade - I wouldn't consider this to be a 'best albums' list, as there have been some truly ingenious works released in more avant-garde territories, but ultimately these are the albums that have ended up dominating my listening habits, or otherwise making a sufficient impression to make this list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith
2.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
3.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone
5.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

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Created by musclassia on 27.12.2019



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Current Top 100, 5 Years On

Back when I joined the site in 2011, I did a customary top 100 album list. Every year since then, when I've looked back at it it's become increasingly unrecognisable from my own tastes. Seeing bands I once listened to daily vanish from my playlists, new bands emerge as favourites, and bands even come and go in my reckonings during that time period (Iced Earth, Alcest, even Pain Of Salvation and more certainly peaked in my listening habits around 2011-12 to slowly vanish into obscurity). Now that it's just gone 5 years since I did that list, I thought I might do an updated list just to see how much my tastes have shifted. Whilst compiling the list, I pretty much worked on gut instinct, which was weird as I found myself almost disregarding albums I know I like whilst promoting albums I'm honestly undecided on - it almost seemed to veer away from album quality at times to embracing a subconscious effect the albums have had. Anyway, here it is, plus some honorable mentions that I was surprised missed out.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Protest The Hero - Kezia

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Created by musclassia on 23.03.2016



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Metal Albums From The Land Of The Rising Sun

Choice metal albums that come out of Japan. Recommendations/Suggestions are welcome and one album per band.

Bands looking into:
Corrupted
Earthshaker
Bow Wow / Vow Wow
Thousand Leaves

1.Abigail (JPN) - Forever Street Metal Bitch
2.Albion - Campanula
3.Aldious - Deep Exceed
4.Al-Kamar - Abstract Spread
5.Anatomia - Dissected Humanity

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Created by CyberSymphony on 18.02.2015



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2010-2014: Top 100 Albums (WIP)

2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've seen me expanding my palette, with Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, and more entering my world, and Guns N' Roses triumphantly re-entering it. But 2010 was when I delved into more 'intense' stuff with Machine Head, In Flames, and most notably of all, Sylosis, and saw my relationship with metal shift from ever-increasing interest into full-blown love affair. To commemorate this 5-year anniversary, and because I love making lists, I decided to do a retrospective of the best albums and songs that have been released during this time period, and give brief tributes to them. Yay music!

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
2.Sylosis - Monolith
3.Protest The Hero - Volition
4.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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Created by musclassia on 08.01.2015



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Top 100 Albums (No Repeating Bands)

I do my best to feel confident about my top 10, After that 11-100 are just alphabetical.

1.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything
2.Iron Maiden - Brave New World
3.Evergrey - The Inner Circle
4.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother
5.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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Created by LascaillesShroud on 23.04.2014



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Favoritest Favorites - My Top 100 Albums

My favorite albums. Includes EPs and 1 compilation. Anything ouside the top 20 or so could be up or down several places. Constantly subject to change.

1.Saviour Machine - Saviour Machine II
2.Ayreon - The Human Equation
3.Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
4.Billy Idol - Cyberpunk
5.Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

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Created by M C Vice on 06.10.2012



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Metal Songs That Make You Want To Dance

An encyclopedia of metal songs that get you to dance or groove to whether you want to or not.
One album per band. Recommendations are welcome.

1.6:33 - Feary Tales For Strange Lullabies: The Dome
2.Aborym - With No Human Intervention
3.Akphaezya - Anthology II: Links From The Dead Trinity
4.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
5.The Algorithm - Polymorphic Code

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Created by CyberSymphony on 19.03.2012



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2011: Favourite To Least

Purely subjective list based on personal preferences for the year, unrelated to mass opinion of an album or a band's abilities (e.g. Trivium, Oranssi Pazuzu) - many albums lined up to listen to so will increase in size. Also, not entirely in order, middle order mainly just an approximation.

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth
2.Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
3.Infestus - E x I s t
4.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
5.Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth

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Created by musclassia on 18.11.2011



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Top Albums Of 2011 (so Far)

It remains to add bands that haven't released album and add personal comments.

1.Symphony X - Iconoclast
2.Iced Earth - Dystopia
3.Vektor - Outer Isolation
4.Megadeth - Th1rt3en
5.Warbringer - Worlds Torn Asunder

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Created by truenoacero on 30.10.2011



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Top 46 Death/Melodeath Albums

1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness
2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore
3.Obituary - Slowly We Rot
4.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
5.Deicide - Legion

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Created by truenoacero on 18.09.2011



Top 10 Best Albums Of 2011

1.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times
2.Blood Stain Child - ε Psilon
3.Symphony X - Iconoclast
4.Trivium - In Waves
5.Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa

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Created by Prometheus on 20.08.2011



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2011 - Best To Worst

My tops of this year. If you wanna know anything about those albums or got suggestions PM me!

1.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
2.Leprous - Bilateral
3.Devin Townsend - Deconstruction
4.Minushuman - Bloodthrone
5.Textures - Dualism

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Created by SceneryOfLoss on 03.07.2011



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Space Metal!

***Currently working through suggestions and adding some spacey non-metal things when they cross my mind***
As a lover of all things sci-fi I find metal to be the most accommodating of genres when it comes to themes of space/aliens. This is a list of those albums which use this theme and/or evoke an overall 'spacey' atmosphere and which I find particularly intriguing and enjoyable. No order for now and a work in progress (recommendations most welcome) Last Updated: 9th April 2014

1.Atoma - Skylight
2.Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I: The Dream Sequencer
3.Dol Ammad - Star Tales
4.Star One - Space Metal
5.Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic : Calling

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Created by R'Vannith on 25.06.2011



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BTDS's Album Roundup Of 2011 (annotated)

Welcome, no matter if you're a long-term MS member or an Avenged Sevenfold listener. Don't know what to vote for? Here's ANOTHER yearly best-of list for you to go through, or, more likely, for the usual tl;dr. But, wait - what makes this one different: 1) unqualified and totally subjective two-line reviews, 2) conscious restriction to the litte-more-than-20 most impressive albums, 3) an aversion against the much too generic thrash & power metal genres and anything without recall value.

1.Amaranthe - Amaranthe
2.Alestorm - Back Through Time
3.Thy Catafalque - Rengeteg
4.Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors
5.The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre

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Created by beyondtehdarksun on 15.06.2011



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My Top 20 Of 2011

As the MS Awards 2011 have ended I've closed the editing of this list, so here are the final standings.

1.Kauan - Kuu..
2.Insomnium - One For Sorrow
3.Demonaz - March Of The Norse
4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass
5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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Created by Cyroth on 28.05.2011