1. The Faceless - Planetary Duality

2. Slayer - Reign in Blood

3. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

4. Death - Human

5. Obscura - Cosmogenesis

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1. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

2. The Haunted - One Kill Wonder

3. Epica - The Phantom Agony

4. Soilwork - Figure Number Five

5. Moonspell - The Antidote

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1. Carpathian Forest - Black Shining Leather

2. Naglfar - Pariah

3. Besatt - Black Mass

4. Kriegsmaschine - Altered States of Divinity

5. Watain - Casus Luciferi

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1. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

2. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

3. SepticFlesh - Sumerian Daemons

4. Marduk - World Funeral

5. Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty

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1. Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came

2. Forest Stream - Tears Of Mortal Solitude

3. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

4. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

5. Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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1. Epica - The Phantom Agony

2. Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn

3. The Gathering - Souvenirs

4. Tiamat - Prey

5. Illnath - Cast Into Fields Of Evil Pleasure

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1. Van Halen - Van Halen

2. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

3. Cradle Of Filth - Damnation And A Day

4. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

5. Deicide - When Satan Lives

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1. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

2. Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty

3. Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy

4. Kamelot - Epica

5. Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion

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1. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

2. Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath

3. Nevermore - Enemies of Reality

4. Anathema - A Natural Disaster

5. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

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This is not a typical "Best of the decade" list. To be more precise, it's a list about the top 20 albums of each year of the last decade, in my perspective of course. In this way, a lot of good albeit overlooked albums can get some exposure, in addition to covering more ground at the same time.

1. 2009

2. Sybreed - The Pulse Of Awakening

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

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1. Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

2. Evanescence - Fallen

3. Rage - Soundchaser

4. Reverend Bizarre - Harbinger Of Metal

5. Before The Dawn - My Darkness

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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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Here are my favourite albums between 2000 and 2010.
Some might be missed.

1. Motörhead - Motörizer

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Empyrium - Weiland

4. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5. Immortal - All Shall Fall

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This is my top 50 favorite albums. If I were to ever go on a really long road trip, I would take these 50 and blare them on the trip and extra loud while driving through a city .

1. Symphony X - The Odyssey

2. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

3. Judas Priest - Painkiller

4. Ayreon - The Human Equation

5. Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

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1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2. Motörhead - Overkill

3. Týr - Ragnarok

4. Kamelot - The Black Halo

5. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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