Fantasy metal is pretty much self-satirizing. That said, the more cheese the better. These are 10 of my favorite albums in the genre. Not sure they are all technically fantasy metal, but if they make me want to suit up and go questing for stuff, then they count.

1. Rhapsody Of Fire - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands

2. Iron Fire - Thunderstorm

3. Fairyland - Of Wars In Osyrhia

4. Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

5. Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic

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I know I will be fucking ripped apart for this list (more than likely), but this is my opinion
of who I think the worst fucking "metal" bands are (most of these bands have not done
anything to deserve the title of being metal).

1. Korn

2. Slipknot

3. Rage Against the Machine

4. Bullet for my Valentine

5. Hatebreed

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1. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I 10

2. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity 10

3. Unisonic - Unisonic 10

4. Soen - Cognitive 9,5

5. Carach Angren - Where The Corpses Sink Forever 9,5

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This list is a fun little project for me. It chronicles my quest to collect the works of my favorite band of all time, the mighty Sigh! I've tried to list the albums in the order that I collected them, although my memory may be off a bit it is basically correct. Before Sigh I had never really ran into the problem of an album I wanted to buy being out of print and hard to find. Scouring the internet for these rare treasures has turned into a fun (albeit expensive) hobby of mine. Every time I get some new Sigh loot I'll update this list. Still missing the demo tapes and early EPs, however the main part of the collection is near completion. I'd like to see other similar lists to see what other MSers are collecting.

1. Sigh - In Somniphobia

2. Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

3. Sigh - Scenes From Hell

4. Sigh - Gallows Gallery [re-edit]

5. Sigh - Hail Horror Hail

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

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

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

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1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998)

2. Kamelot - The Black Halo (2005)

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I (1987)

4. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1998)

5. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II (1988)

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1. Alestorm - Back Through Time

2. Iced Earth - Dystopia

3. Symphony X - Iconoclast

4. Turisas - Stand Up And Fight

5. Stratovarius - Elysium

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1. Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

2. Grave Digger - Clash Of the Gods

3. Secret Sphere - Portrait Of A Dying Heart

4. Blaze Bayley - The King Of Metal

5. Running Wild - Shadowmaker

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Just for my favorite
2016.09.15 update

1. Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

3. Testament - The Legacy

4. Anthrax - Among The Living

5. Annihilator - Alice In Hell

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In no particular order - 20 albums that, for me, stood out above the rest.

1. Negură Bunget - OM

2. He Came From The Sun - Ever-Arch-I-Tech-Ture

3. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

4. Solefald - Black For Death: An Icelandic Odyssey Part II

5. Torchbearer - Warnaments

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1. Saga - Silent Knight

2. Saga - Worlds Apart

3. Saga - Saga

4. Saga - Generation 13

5. Saga - Heads Or Tales

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The title is self-explanatory, i guess.

1. Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme

2. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

3. Be'Lakor - Of Breath And Bone

4. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

5. Meshuggah - Koloss

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Because I'd sooner spend an hour-and-a-half with Pokemon than a mindless action movie. I know you know what I'm talkin' about. ...No, not that. Honestly - some people...

(Seriously though, happy 67th birthday + 6+7 days to Neil Young. Hope I see you next year )

1. Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

2. Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown

3. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Sleeps with Angels

4. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

5. Immolation - Providence

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Based on the original BBC radio program from 1942 that asked "if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles".

Pretty f&rkin' hard to choose just eight albums but I've given it a go. Hope it never happens because I'd probably get sick of these awesome albums after just a few weeks - then what!?

1. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

2. Faith No More - The Real Thing

3. Megadeth - Rust in Peace

4. Alice in Chains - Dirt

5. In Flames - The Jester Race

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1. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

2. Tiamat - Wildhoney

3. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings

4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

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