1.Pain Of Salvation - "BE"

2.Cea Serin - Where Memories Combine

3.Orphaned Land - Mabool

4.Watch My Dying - Klausztrofónia

5.Ayreon - The Human Equation

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Finally, after about 20 years, Kamelot have released enough albums to do a top 10 of their catalog.

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Kamelot - Epica

3.Kamelot - Karma

4.Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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Not a top year, but the finalists are:

1.Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows

2.Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us Melancholic Sludge/post-grunge. Good-a little bit below its predecessor

3.Junius - Reports From The Threshold Of Death

4.Black Sun Aeon - Blacklight Deliverance

5.Mastodon - The Hunter

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Lately I have found that I am really, really into melodeath and doom/melancholic metal albums. I enjoy other genres, but after a while I keep reverting back to a small list of masterpieces.

This is a list of these albums. They somehow keep finding their way back into my CD player. As it happens, they (mostly) fit in the following genres:

1.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

2.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3.Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times

4.Before The Dawn - Deathstar Rising

5.Insomnium - Across The Dark

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These are 44 of the my favorite Gothic Metal albums in no particular order. This will hopefully serve as a starting point for someone new to the style. If one of your favorites isn't on here, it's because this is my favorites list, not yours. Feel free to make recommendations, however.

1.The Foreshadowing - Second World

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Crematory - Awake

4.Charon - Songs For The Sinners

5.Darkseed - Ultimate Darkness

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1.Anathema - Weather Systems

2.Anneke Van Giersbergen - Everything Is Changing

3.Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

4.Calabrese - Dayglo Necros

5.Tarja - Act I

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I tend to judge albums based on listenability. Which is to say how many times I've listened to said album and the albums with the greatest ratio of fantastic songs

1.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

2.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

3.Thou - Summit

4.Ghost - Opus Eponymous

5.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

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those are the albums i love the most. I had to force myself to limit the list anyway and to show just one record for every band

1.Rush - Moving Pictures

2.Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

3.The Who - Who's Next

4.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5.Kingcrow - Phlegethon

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My top 75 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list, and after that top 50). Only 1 album per band. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album is my absolute favourite (I don't have one). All albums on this list have earned at least a 9/10 rating. Albums with a star (★) have received a 10/10 rating from me. I've added genres and my favourite songs.

1.After Forever - Decipher

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

4.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

5.Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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1.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity

2.Coheed And Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension

3.Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

4.Cynic - The Portal Tapes

5.Circa Survive - Violent Waves

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A list for power metal bands and albums, which are sadly overlooked by the majority, but are highly deserving much more attention. That means obviously that this is no place for the genres biggest and most well known acts, like Blind Guardian, Helloween, Sabaton or the likes.
This list is ever progressing, so feel free to suggest as many bands as they come up in your mind. I will check them out and then decide if they need to be included or not.
The only requirements: They should be quite well hidden in the metal world and not only be extraordinary good but also really something else (I obviously don't want to fill this list with a bunch of unknown, but average, generic and thousand times copied plastic power metal bands).
This list is ordered by my personal impressions.

1.Crom - Vengeance

2.Wuthering Heights - The Shadow Cabinet

3.Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

4.Dol Ammad - Ocean Dynamics

5.Eldritch - El Niño

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Favorite Albums Of All Time!(Mine not yours)

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Kamelot - Epica

3.Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

4.Nightwish - Oceanborn

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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1.Enslaved - RIITIIR

2.Ancestors - In Dreams And Time

3.Wintersun - Time I

4.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5.Royal Thunder - CVI

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1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Slayer - South Of Heaven

3.Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?

4.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

5.Candlemass - Ancient Dreams

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