Power Metal has the whole pack. Listening to one album of Power Metal you can feel free , relaxed , happy , sad , and so many more states of mind. If you put it all together listening to Power Metal makes you human. (I only used English language albums and I know some of the albums are not completely Power Metal but all of them have some Power Metal elements . If I could I would have added more albums but my head is spinning right now). So Power up everybody!!!

1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

2. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

4. Riot - ThunderSteel

5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free

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Whenever making general lists like this, I try to include as many genres I listen to as possible. There were so many good doom/gothic/symphonic albums last year, but I didn't want to include them all, even though they deserve a high place on the list. I'll explain the reasons behind my selection, a few words for each album.

1. Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2. Wintersun - Time I

3. Kamelot - Silverthorn

4. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

5. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

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I will try to be as subjective as I can and it won't include only my favorite genres as I will try to include albums from all Metal sub-genres because I think it's important to get exposed to all kinds of metal so that a person may create a good taste in Metal music. (Might include more than 1 album per band).

1. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

3. Deep Purple - Machine Head

4. Judas Priest - Stained Class

5. Scorpions - Taken By Force

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1. Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

2. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3. Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

4. Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

5. Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

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1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

2. 3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

3. Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

4. Threshold - March of Progress

5. Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

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My favourite studio albums of 2012 (May change over time)

1. Kamelot - Silverthorn

2. Xandria - Neverworld's End

3. Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5. Circus Maximus - Nine

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1. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

4. DragonForce - The Power Within

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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1. Devin Townsend - Epicloud

2. Opera Diabolicus - 1614

3. Kamelot - Silverthorn

4. Halestorm - The strange case of...

5. Devin Townsend - By A Thread - Live In London 2011

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1. Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

2. Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

3. Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

4. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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This is the final set of my most favourite albums in 2012

1. Fear Factory - The Industrialist

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Pastore - The End of Our Flames

4. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

5. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

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Best metal albums, as chosen by me, for the year 2012. Or perhaps the ones that had influenced me most during this year. List was written or made for metalstorm, but I added it to my other profiles, because of long texts, which I didn't feel like putting here.

http://www.last.fm/user/Telcontar666/journal/2012/12/30/5pizbd_longing_for_creation:_top_10_metal_albums_of_the_2012

1. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2. Kamelot - Silverthorn

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. Eluveitie - Helvetios

5. Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

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Now that the year is coming close to an end, I draw the line and show the albums that impressed me (more or less) this year. This is not a best to worst list.

1. Marillion - Sounds that Can't Be Made

2. Threshold - March of Progress

3. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

4. In the Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. OSI - Fire Make Thunder

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1. Xandria - Neverworld's End

2. Orden Ogan - To The End

3. Whyzdom - Blind?

4. Wintersun - Time I

5. Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails

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1. Deftones - Koi No Yokan

2. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

3. Kamelot - Silverthorn

4. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

5. Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones - Part 1

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1. The Faceless - Autotheism

2. Causemos - Infinite Event

3. Kalter - Ubuntu

4. Wintersun - Time I

5. Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

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