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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10 essential Black Metal albums, that every self-respecting Black Metal fan should own. Well, that's my opinion.

1.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

2.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

3.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

5.Ulver - Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne Til Ulven I Manden

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Whenever I browse the winterwebz looking for good stuff to listen to, it's unavoidable that I end up facing atrociously bad stuff. However some of these horrid choices are still interesting and thus manage to stay on my head and somehow my interest for them keeps growing from time to time.
This list is dedicated to those bad things that still are interesting somehow. (read it: averagely bad stuff like skryllex or lulu isn't welcome here) Maybe, just maybe, someday I'll be able to develop my taste and start liking them? Who knows? That's how I got to Unexpect or Sunn o))) after all.
There's mostly metal, actually mostly black metal stuff here. I'll add more as I remember or find more. Suggestions are welcome =] If you have a band which it's so bad you can't stand but still keep coming back to it because it's intriguing then give a shout.

1.Army Of Gay Unicorns - Army Of Gay Unicorns

2.Axxanngabannaxaxagannababaillukuku - Marduk

3.Bacchia Neraida - Εις Τους Δωδεκα Θεους Του Ολυμπου

4.Bubblegum Octopus - The Album Formerly Known As 8-legged Dance Moves

5.Brume - Normal

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Nightwish, Dimmu Borgir, Septicflesh and their respective clones are not welcome here. The title is a bit misleading since none of these albums are 'symphonic metal' per se, but they're metal with symphonic/orchestra elements added in a way that's unconventional, or at least as far as I know. Suggestions welcome.

1.Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos

2.Aquilus - Griseus

3.Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time

4.Blood Thirsty - Sanguine River Absolution

5.Igorrr - Hallelujah

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Best To Worst!

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Opeth - Deliverance

3.Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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Barnesy's picks for best albums of 2014

1.Behemoth - The Satanist

2.Emptiness - Nothing But The Whole

3.Ancient Ascendant - Echoes And Cinder

4.Altar Of Betelgeuze - Darkness Sustains The Silence

5.Benighted - Carnivore Sublime

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My best album list to 2014 so far (january-september)

1.Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails

2.Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

3.Serdce - Timelessness

4.Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun

5.Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere

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Death metal is a genre which incorporates anger, energy, cleverness, virtuosity and creativity. Essential albums, one per band.

1.Dan Swanö - Moontower

2.Cynic - Focus

3.Opeth - Damnation

4.Pan.thy.monium - Khaooohs

5.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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1.Thin Lizzy - Black Rose

2.Motörhead - Overkill

3.Scorpions - Lovedrive

4.Van Halen - Van Halen II

5.Saxon - Saxon

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1.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

2.Septicflesh - Titan

3.Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Meshuggah - I

3.Kayo Dot - Hubardo

4.Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within

5.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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100% subjective.
I also listened to albums far from metal or metal world (Hanggai, Lisa Gerrard, ...) but I decided not to list them there.

Updated constantly - feel free to recommend something to check out.

1.Darkspace - Dark Space III I

2.Blues Pills - Blues Pills

3.Earth - Primitive And Deadly

4.Aenaon - Extance

5.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

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I realize the importance of these albums to the genres, and the influence they have had. however I do not find these albums really that great and pleasurable due to the competition and elimination through these decades of musical evolution. I respect these bands for releasing something so creative, conceptual and also brought us to the new dimension in the past.

1.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

2.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Accept - Restless And Wild

5.Accept - Balls To The Wall

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