To add fuel to the fire of the "they'll never top their first album" rhetoric, here are all my favorite full length debuts in alphabetical order. Full lengths, not EPs.

1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

2.Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon

3.Agruss - Morok

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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This is an alphabetical list dedicated for the celebration of great instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups like Apocalyptica, songs that have a significant part with spoken words / human voices or instrumental versions of vocal songs or other bonus material.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite songs for this list !

1.Accept - Objection Overruled

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Arch Enemy - Will To Power

5.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

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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.

2010 was a great start for the decade, a lot of great release came out that year, one of the strongest in power metal, black metal had a strong showing same with Progressive, Gothic and Doom metal, even thrash and old school Havey metal had a great number of releases.

1.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

2.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape

5.Anthriel - The Pathway

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Must Listen: The First 5

1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

4.Volbeat - Beyond Hell/Above Heaven

5.Pretty Maids - Pandemonium

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1.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

2.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.In Solitude - Sister

5.Gojira - Magma

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1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

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1.Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare

2.Overkill - Ironbound

3.Death Angel - Relentless Retribution

4.Drowning Pool - Drowning Pool

5.Helloween - 7 Sinners

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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Note: these are only for the traditional style of metal borne out of the period of late 60s - late 80s. Modern bands are permitted but they need to be playing in that style.

Recommendations are welcome. I'll listen and if I like it, I'll add it.

1.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

4.Deep Purple - In Rock

5.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

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best album of each year from 1967 onwards

1.Wayfarer - American Gothic

2.Grima - Frostbitten

3.Beast In Black - Dark Connection

4.Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota

5.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

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1.Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory

2.Slipknot - Iowa

3.Summoning - Stronghold

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

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1.Ghost - Meliora

2.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

3.Ghost - Infestissumam

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I will be filling the gap years with more albums soon... :3

1.IDLES - Brutalism

2.Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Septicflesh - Titan

5.Twenty One Pilots - Vessel

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier

2.Star One - Victims Of The Modern Age

3.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

4.Rhapsody Of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels

5.Eluveitie - Everything Remains (As It Never Was)

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1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Dio - Holy Diver

3.Flotsam And Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace

5.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

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