I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

2.Qrixkuor - Poison Palinopsia

3.Skepticism - Ordeal

4.Funeral Mist - Devilry

5.Zeal & Ardor - Zeal And Ardor

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Amon Amarth discography ranked from best to worst

1.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

2.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Amon Amarth - Fate Of Norns

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here another top for another band that have a huge impact in my life.

1.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

5.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

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This is a list of all the death metal albums I have listened to that I thought were at all worth remembering. Like my other genre lists, this is just a record of my own listening experience that I use for personal organization, not a definitive account of the best or all of the death metal out there; there will probably be albums or bands that are not death metal in the strictest sense. You'll find some OSDM, melodeath, tech death, death-doom, maybe a bit of deathcore, I don't know. Maybe some non-death metal albums by death metal bands that I put in here just because.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Death - Symbolic

3.At The Gates - With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

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1.Avantasia - Ghostlights

2.Myrath - Legacy

3.Volbeat - Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie

4.Dynazty - Titanic Mass

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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Yet another list of mine, this time going back since the first one in 2017. My favorite death metal-adjacent records of 2016. I will be adding more as I find other great records, feel free to recommend stuff in the comments! Listed alphabetically by band name with the subgenre included.

1.Abnormality - Mechanisms Of Omniscience

2.Aborted - Retrogore

3.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

4.Anciients - Voice Of The Void

5.Be'lakor - Vessels

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1.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

2.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

3.Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika

4.Septicflesh - Codex Omega

5.Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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1.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

2.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

3.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

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In no particular order

1.Devin Townsend - Transcendence

2.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

3.Astronoid - Air

4.Borknagar - Winter Thrice

5.Messa - Belfry

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1.Fleshgod Apocalypse - King

2.Obscura - Akróasis

3.Vredehammer - Violator

4.Flotsam And Jetsam - Flotsam And Jetsam

5.Moonsorrow - jumalten alka

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1.Netherbird - The Grander Voyage

2.Novembre - URSA

3.Ordog - The Grand Wall

4.Pretty Maids - Kingmaker

5.Primal Fear - Rulebreaker

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1.Sabaton - The Last Stand

2.Volbeat - Seal The Deal & Let's Boogie

3.Primal Fear - Rulebreaker

4.Pretty Maids - Kingmaker

5.Evergrey - The Storm Within

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1.Mantar - Ode To The Flame

2.Temple Of Gnosis - De Secretis Naturae Alchymica

3.Uada - Devoid Of Light

4.Vanhelgd - Temple Of Phobos

5.Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary

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1.Evergrey - The Storm Within

2.Amon Amarth - Jomsviking

3.Gojira - Magma

4.Metallica - Hardwired?To Self-Destruct

5.Epica - The Holographic Principle

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