1. Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails

2. Æther Realm - One Chosen By The Gods

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. Nightwish - Imaginaerum

5. Amorphis - Skyforger

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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
Favorite tracks included.

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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A majority of these albums I have listened to more recently than 2 years
And about 2 of these albums I have not listened to in their entirety but many of their songs blew me away.

1. Atheist - Elements

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Carcass - Heartwork

4. Death - Human

5. Death - Symbolic

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From last.fm (27.07.12)

1. Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

2. Machine Head - Unto The Locust

3. Machine Head - The Blackening

4. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

5. Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

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Here are all of the top albums that have come out since I was born in 1993!

1. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

4. Edge of Sanity - Crimson

5. Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

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OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1. Anathema - Judgement

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Def Leppard - Hysteria

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A list of 90s albums I enjoyed throughout the decade, some I discovered later.

1. Marillion - Brave

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Marillion - Holidays In Eden

4. Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray

5. Rush - Test For Echo

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This is a list of the albums that score 100 in my personal ranking system. This means they are absolute all time favorites, and they could be here because of different reasons: from absolute mind-blowing musicianship that I deeply appreciate or simply because I enjoy the music and connect to it in a special way. Albums are not listed in any particular order.

1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

3. Patrick Rondat - On the Edge

4. Helloween - The Dark Ride

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

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RANKING CRITERIA :

1. Originality

2. Songwriting

3. Historical value

4. Performance

1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3. Deep Purple - In Rock

4. Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Under construction

(Metal + Porcupine Tree, anyway)

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

2. Dream Theater - Images and Words

3. Opeth - Still Life

4. Dream Theater - Awake

5. Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes

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1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Judas Priest - Painkiller

3. Anacrusis - Screams And Whispers

4. Coroner - Grin

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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1. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi

4. Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow

5. Megadeth - Youthanasia

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When I first heard a Dream Theater song I said to myself "OMG!THIS IS MAGIC".It was this year with their brand-new album A Dramatic Turn Of Events,so I have not been a fan for a long time.It was pretty difficult for me to put their albums in a specific order because I love all of them.

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

2. Dream Theater - Images And Words

3. Dream Theater - Awake

4. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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