1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Tengger Cavalry - Ancient Call

3.Avatar - Hail The Apocalypse

4.Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite

5.Devin Townsend - Z²

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1.Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out

2.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

3.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

4.DragonForce - Maximum Overload

5.Opeth - Pale Communion

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1.Adrenaline Mob - Dearly Departed

2.Anthem - Blazing Faith - Revisited

3.Avenged Sevenfold - This Is Bat Country

4.Babymetal - Live At Budokan ~Red Night & Black Night Apocalypse~

5.Babymetal - Live In London - Babymetal World Tour 2014

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1.HammerFall - Glory To The Brave

2.Nightwish - Angels Fall First

3.Sinner - Judgement Day

4.White Skull - Embittered

5.Axel Rudi Pell - Magic

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Metal and not so metal albums that had huge impact on my taste as metalhead and love for "heavy" music, ordered approximately by time I first listened to them

1.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

2.Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll

3.In Flames - The Jester Race

4.Lamb Of God - Sacrament

5.Sepultura - Arise

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1.Riot - Rock City

2.Judas Priest - Sin After Sin

3.AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

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1.Anathema - Judgement

2.Anathema - Alternative 4

3.Anathema - Eternity

4.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

5.Anathema - A Natural Disaster

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Every year, hundreds of albums are written and released for people to buy and hopefully not steal. I spend most of my free time searching far and wide for new music, most of which only very few people know about. This list will contain all the albums released this year that I listened to, and what I thought of it. The rating system is as follows:
Based = Awesome, Perfect
Chill = Solid, Substantial
Dope = Good-not-great, Something I'll only listen to if I'm bored
Retarded = Mediocre, Unremarkable
Mindfucked = Complete waste of time
Also, there will be albums that aren't metal that will appear here, just cause.

1.1349 - Massive Cauldron Of Chaos

2.Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer - The 7 Temptations Of Man

3.Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

4.Aenaon - Extance

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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This list shows the albums that had a huge impact on my musical background

1.Deep Purple - 30: Very Best Of

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Sepultura - Roots

4.Metallica - Metallica

5.Iron Maiden - Best Of The Beast

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Profound lore is one of the most important labels in the underground extreme metal scene. In this list are some discs that have excelled (personal opinion). One album per band.

1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

3.Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

4.SubRosa - More Constant Than The Gods

5.Evoken - Atra Mors

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These are some of my all time favourite albums. Not really any order, just what came to mind first.

1.John Cougar Mellencamp - Nobody's Fool

2.AC/DC - Back In Black

3.Anthrax - Attack Of The Killer B's

4.Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe

5.Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance

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1.AC/DC - Powerage

2.Van Halen - Van Halen

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4.Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'N' Roll

5.Judas Priest - Killing Machine (Hell Bent For Leather)

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This is my personal list based on the albums i've enjoyed listening to the most this year, consider it a best to worst based on all the albums i've checked out from 2014. Bear in mind i'm a power metal fan for the most part - also this list does not reflect the views of others on MS, but some of the albums here are pretty decent and you should check some of them out.!!!!

1.Galneryus - Vetelgyus

2.Equilibrium - Erdentempel

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.The Algorithm - OCTOPUS4

5.Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending

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In order of release date, a list of what are in my opinion, the best Djent related albums. (I say 'djent related', because in many cases it is not their primary genre).

1.Meshuggah - Nothing

2.SikTh - The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something Wild

3.Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree

4.SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day

5.Textures - Drawing Circles

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1.Accept - Blind Rage

2.Eluveitie - Origins

3.Astral Doors - Notes From The Shadows

4.Wovenwar - Wovenwar

5.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

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