1.Cangaço - Rastros

2.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

4.The Ocean - Pelagial

5.Timo Tolkki's Avalon - The Land Of New Hope

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The wide spectrum of sounds expressed through the sub-genre of Doom Metal often gets overshadowed by the somehow inaccessible slowness that is in its nature and so DM doesn't get the recognition it deserves for being, in my opinion, one of the most flexible subgenres of Metal ... Because of that, Doom Metal has remained among my favorite genres of music since the time I was introduced to it through My Dying Bride's "Turn Loose the Swans".

1.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

2.Saturnus - Martyre

3.Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Process Of Guilt - Erosion

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Note: Based on personal taste.

These are my ultimate choices of metal (and hard rock) music coming from my homeland of Iran.

Last update: April 1 2014

1.From The Vastland - Kamarikan

2.Qutin - Rationalism

3.1000 Funerals - Portrait Of A Dream

4.Mordab - Darker Than Grave

5.Sorg Innkallelse - Into The Dark Tower

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My choices of albums with strong forms of atmospheric sound in metal. Recommendations are welcome, though I won't add all as this will be towards personal taste.

1.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

4.Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2 Scenes From A Memory

2.Dream Theater - Awake

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

5.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

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These are my favorite progressive/power metal albums that I have listened to. Some of them are for musical technique and others are simply because they blew my mind with the crazy story lines or whatever!

1.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

2.Symphony X - The Odyssey

3.Masterplan - Aeronautics

4.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

5.Theocracy - As The World Bleeds

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What's a Maiden hangover? You know a regular hangover, right? It's really bad, your head hurts and you feel ill. You know you still love beer, but you don't want it for a while. That's how I've felt about some Iron Maiden songs for a couple of years now. I've seen Maiden six times since 2005, and that's not even during the same tours. Still I feel like they play the same couple of songs over and over again. I can understand why, being a huge band with some monumental metal classics. But a little variety, please! I went to a show last night and thought during it "it's enough now". One of the best things about seeing the same bands over and over again, is to witness them play different songs. One that I haven't already experienced live. But this never happens with Maiden, we get like 1-2 songs they haven't played in a while. And its not just witnessing the same songs over and over again, it's the fucking same coreography during them too!

1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

3.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

4.Iron Maiden - Killers

5.Iron Maiden - Killers

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Albuns i own at the moment.

1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.In Flames - Black Ash Inheritance

3.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4.At The Gates - The Red In The Sky Is Ours

5.Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

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1.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

2.Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

3.Dio - Holy Diver

4.Dio - Magica

5.Dio - The Last In Line

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1.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2.Opeth - Morningrise

3.Iced Earth - The Dark Saga

4.Nevermore - The Politics Of Ecstasy

5.Arch Enemy - Black Earth

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What a year! Here are some of my favourites

1.Lacrimosa - Inferno

2.My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River

3.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

4.Rammstein - Herzeleid

5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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This is an exclusive ten song list (in no particular order) of my favorite song from the selected bands. This is my first list, so please cut me some slack on any protocol mistakes or lack of elaboration. I will strive to improve in the future and even rewrite some of this if necessary. So enjoy, please feel free to comment and compare and even question my opinion, and above all else, stay metal! \m/

1.Angra - "The Shadow Hunter"

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3.Stratovarius - "Forever"

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5.Sonata Arctica - "White Pearl, Black Oceans"

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Here is my personnal top 50 Thrash Metal album of all time, order by my preference. (even if it's really hard to order after the top 20 )
Feel free to suggest me some I've forgot to mention, there's so much excellent band and I should have not listen to all of them ! ^^
In my opinion, the best style to see live !!

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

4.Vektor - Black Future

5.Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

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Metal albums from 1986

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Dark Angel - Darkness Descends

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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ORDERED BY PREFERENCE.

1.Bell Witch - Longing

2.Ares Kingdom - Return To Dust

3.Collision (U.S) - Collision

4.Vuvr - Pilgrimage

5.Tank - Honour And Blood

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