Here is a list of bands I've been listening since I started listening more black metal this year. I've never been much into black metal but I've found a good number of more melodic and atmospheric bands. Some of the bands are more black metal and some less but the element is there. I've also listed my favorite album of the bands.

1. Summoning - Stronghold

2. Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

3. Windir - 1184

4. Zornheym - Where Hatred Dwells and Darkness Reigns

5. Melechesh - Emissaries

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

1. Aenaon - Hypnosophy

2. Ghost - Meliora

3. Septicflesh - Titan

4. Twenty One Pilots - Vessel

5. Igorrr - Hallelujah

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1. 1349 - Hellfire

2. Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

3. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4. Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5. Aborted - Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done

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A list with mini-reviews. The albums are in no particular order. Lists are fun, eh?

I will be adding more albums to this as time goes by.

1. Opeth - Morningrise

2. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3. Spock's Beard - V

4. Enslaved - Isa

5. Aquilus - Griseus

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Take a look at the Top Album lists of recent years and you'll notice an obvious trend. In 2005 the average rating of the top 25 albums is 8.76. Jump to 2014 and the average among the top 25 has dropped to 8.26. An almost linear decrease is observable for the 10 years in between.

I was curious to see what a Top 100 for 2000-2014 would look like if I factored the votes to account for the 'rating decline'. I hope you find it interesting.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Opeth - Blackwater Park

3. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

4. Aquilus - Griseus

5. Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical in general .

Albums are ranked by the year,I think this way is more useful.

I will keep expanding my list as i can.

1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée

3. Deinonychus - The Silence Of December

4. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age

5. Burzum - Filosofem

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Exclusively stuff off Metalstorm, list would be way too big if not.

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

2. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

3. Death Grips - The Money Store

4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

5. Swans - To Be Kind

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1. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

2. Cormorant - Dwellings

3. Obscura - Omnivium

4. Esoteric - Paragon of Dissonance

5. Born of Osiris - The Discovery

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My first list! Woo. \o/

All this is going to be is a list of all my favourite albums. Probably of all time, but I dunno. It's going to be a mixture of metal and non-metal albums. Enjoy. I will try to avoid some of the big guns, but I may slip one or two in. This will probably just end up being a list of stuff I really just kind of like.

1. Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante

2. Aquilus - Griseus

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

4. Major Parkinson - Twilight Cinema

5. Muse - Origin of Symmetry

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Nightwish, Dimmu Borgir, Septicflesh and their respective clones are not welcome here. The title is a bit misleading since none of these albums are 'symphonic metal' per se, but they're metal with symphonic/orchestra elements added in a way that's unconventional, or at least as far as I know. Suggestions welcome.

1. Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos

2. Aquilus - Griseus

3. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time

4. Blood Thirsty - Sanguine River Absolution

5. Igorrr - Hallelujah

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My top 50 albums/EPs of all time in alphabetical order. This list will change over time and if you have any suggestions on bands I might like based on the info provided below, feel free to mention it. Albums with a ❤ have received a 10 from me. Comment/critique/complain away.

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis

3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

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I list the black metal artworks which are the most different and appealing, at least for my eyes, and give a brief excuse for a somewhat explanation of why I think it.
Edit: As suggested, I gave a link to the inages of the albums not feat. here non MS. For all the other ones... Well, one can always click on the album name.

1. A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

3. Abigail Williams - Becoming

4. Ad Hominem - Dictator

5. Alcest - Le Secret

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Albums that I have been listening to the most the past 3 months.
Mixed genre's and years, there's no pattern to the madness

1. Alcest - Écailles de lune

2. Anathema - Alternative 4

3. Aquilus - Griseus

4. Behemoth - Evangelion

5. Blut Aus Nord - 777 - Cosmosophy

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Creating good music might not be an easy task, but most bands in existence consist of multiple members who contribute to the music. One-man bands however are simply musicians who create the music all by themselves, which, in my opinion, is very impressive. Because of the fact that there are quite a few of these talented musicians, I created this list. Of course there are many more one-man band albums than I have listed here and that's why I'm open to suggestions. So be sure to give me recommendations and also let me know if I listed the "wrong" album by a band (in your opinion). Lastly, the list is ranked according to genre and then alphabetically. I only add 1 (full-length) album per band (and only albums that are featured on MS).

1. [Avantgarde]

2. Aarni - Bathos

3. Brown Jenkins - Death Obsession

4. Cloak Of Altering - Ancient Paths Through Timeless Voids

5. De Magia Veterum - The Divine Antithesis

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1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Aquilus - Griseus

3. King Diamond - Abigail

4. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5. Candlemass - Nightfall

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