Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part of the song series.

However, sometimes these parts are not found together on one album, but are included on different releases of the artist.
They can be found on two (or more) conceptually linked albums (where they function as part of an ensemble together with the other songs), or they can be included on independent releases (where only they alone continue their story).

Therefore, the main purpose of this list is to give an overview that enables the reader to find the missing song pieces - or even to inform that these pieces exist at all.

Please feel free to find and suggest more examples of these "song jigsaw puzzles": one song(concept) in separate parts on different albums.

1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

2.Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion

3.Agathodaimon - Phoenix

4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

5.Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut

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Listen to metal for more than the half of my life, here is the list of my favorites albums of all time.

1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

2.Alcest - Kodama

3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

5.Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea

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Just a list of my favorite albums, mostly Black or Death Metal !

There are some albums/bands I would love to put in this list, but they are not on MS.

1.1349 - Liberation

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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1.Desolate Shrine - The Heart Of The Netherworld

2.Marduk - Frontschwein

3.Gruesome - Savage Land

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere

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1.Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2.Slayer - Repentless

3.Leprous - The Congregation

4.Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine

5.Kauan - Sorni Nai

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My top3: Lost Soul, Infernal War and Unleashed.
Biggest surprise: Benighted with their live kick ass album!
Also find a band called Angelus Apatrida and their latest release 'Hidden Evolution' as for me the best Trash Metal last year!
I know i have added Dark Funeral even if this is a single but to me those where the best 2 Black Metal tracks i have heard in 2015 alongside to Infernal War - 'Axiom ', hoping for a massive album this year!
Anyway this is my top 20 !

1.Lost Soul - Atlantis: The New Beginning

2.Infernal War - Axiom

3.Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine

4.Angelus Apatrida - Hidden Evolution

5.Benighted - Brutalive The Sick

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1.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2.Black Fast - Terms Of Surrender

3.Temple Of Baal - Mysterium

4.Firespawn - Shadow Realms

5.Morgoth - Ungod

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Some black coffee, some milky atmosphere, some folk syrup and some sweet death.

No special order.

(sorry for German commenting, i reuse the text mostly on my social media later)

1.Finsterforst - Mach Dich Frei

2.SatanaKozel - North

3.Galar - De Gjenlevende

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5.Wolfheart - Shadow World

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1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Avatarium - The Girl With The Raven Mask

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

5.Jess And The Ancient Ones - Second Psychedelic Coming: The Aquarius Tapes

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A list of my favorite 2015 albums. Also with my favorite tracks.

1.A Forest Of Stars - Beware The Sword You Cannot See

2.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

3.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

4.Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards

5.Misþyrming - Söngvar Elds Og Óreiðu

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Just a list of the albums I have picked up so far this year. I will update the list throughout the year as I pick up more. Some may be pre-orders.

1.Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

2.Marduk - Frontschwein

3.Ensiferum - One Man Army

4.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

5.Enslaved - In Times

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As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

On the off-chance that you've found this and actually care about what I think (you shouldn't), be advised that my favorites come first. Some are favorites in the general sense; some are favorites within black metal. The first few of those are in some order and not so much after that.

Because this is for my own purposes and not intended to be a definitive list of pure black metal, there are some black metal-adjacent bands, or albums by black metal bands that may not themselves be black metal. That's why you'll find so much Sigh clogging up the top of the list. I prefer to keep whole discographies together on one list. I used to include Primordial, Forefather, and other such bands, but a while back I created a list for folk and I decided that those artists would fit better there.

I update these lists very infrequently. This was last updated December 7, 2022.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Sigh - Graveward

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Sigh - Heir To Despair

5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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The list is arranged from the most enjoyable album IMO to the less enjoyable.
All items on this list are worth to be listened though...

Legend:
O Listened and arranged (right position, may vary while not all the albums are listened)
< Currently listening
x Not listened

1.Enslaved - In Times

2.Melechesh - Enki

3.Heidevolk - Velua

4.Dope Stars Inc. - TeraPunk

5.Svartsot - Vældet

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1.Shining - IX - Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends

2.Abigor - 1994-1998 - The Complete Hörnix Recordings

3.Barren Earth - On Lonely Towers

4.Carach Angren - This Is No Fairytale

5.Lamb Of God - VII: Sturm Und Drang

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1.Napalm Death - Apex Predator - Easy Meat

2.Sylosis - Dormant Heart

3.Angra - Secret Garden

4.Serious Black - As Daylight Breaks

5.Marduk - Frontschwein

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