These bands have more or less created the genre and its sub-genres

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A good year, no more, no less. Although the top 10 is pretty awesome and Norther's debut album will always be a favourite of mine.

1.Norther - Dreams Of Endless War

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Power Quest - Wings Of Forever

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Shining - III - Angst, Självdestruktivitetens Emissarie

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Everyone thinks of black metal as some satanic subculture of corpse-paint, crappy quality albums, murder, arson and shit originating from Norway in the 1990s. But the real founders of this darkest of metal's genres are rarely ever given their due respect!

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Great year with a lot of albums that has meant a lot to me and shaped parts of my taste in music.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Norther - Death Unlimited

3.Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process

4.Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

5.Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine

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These are my current Favourite albums. Though some bands could of had 3 or 4 albums on this list, I limited it to one album per band.

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

5.Wuthering Heights - Salt

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Judas Priest - Painkiller

5.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

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I just thought over and decided for my top 20 metal-hard rock guitarist, but I had to mention some other ones from another styles

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My top Metal picks for 2009. It was in interesting year and a good transition into what I feel will be a decade of progression as never seen before.

If you don't agree with my list, make your own. I obviously don't have time to listen to 5,000 albums every year. Magazines that do, such as Decibel or Terrorizer, usually have trouble conjuring up 40 quality albums to throw on their yearly lists, so cut me some slack...I am not working with a team of people, and I don't get paid. I'm sure there are plenty of great albums that I have yet to discover or that I have just not been able to listen to...but all of those that are listed have been personally approved by me. The numbers are not as important to me. I would greatly appreciate some "Thumbs ups", as I have put a lot of my personal time into this list, and also into reviewing these great albums.

1.Wodensthrone - Loss

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

5.Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

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One on my favourite band, thanks this guys I start to listen metal. My best 15 powerfull song CoB. (1-15 random choose)

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Death - Human

5.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

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1.Opeth - Still Life

2.Paradise Lost - Gothic

3.Testament - The Gathering

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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1.Nightwish - Oceanborn

2.Nightwish - Century Child

3.Nightwish - Once

4.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

5.Nightwish - Wishmaster

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1.Opeth - Watershed

2.Communic - Payment Of Existence

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Ayreon - 01011001

5.Metallica - Death Magnetic

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