1.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol

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Top 10 albums are listed in order. Rest of the list in no particular order.

1.Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

2.Benighted - Asylum Cave

3.Glorior Belli - The Great Southern Darkness

4.40 Watt Sun - The Inside Room

5.Isole - Born From Shadows

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Every album I list here I recommend. Feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments. Well enjoy.

1.Dodecahedron - Dodecahedron

2.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme

3.Verwüstung - I First Saw You On That Snowy Night And Couldn't Shake An Overwhelming Feeling Of Sadness

4.Horrendous - The Chills

5.Wilds Forlorn - We, The Damned

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1.Theocracy - As The World Bleeds

2.Iced Earth - Dystopia

3.Iron Mask - Black As Death

4.Edguy - Age Of The Joker

5.Symphony X - Iconoclast

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Here is a list of my chosen top doom albums of all time. This is not the stereotypical doom that is used by people nowadays. Rather, the focus is on the true aspect of the music, i.e. feelings of gloominess and despair expressed in a hearty and beautiful manner through music, the music that evokes wonderful emotions! For true doom metal fans out there!!

1.Swallow The Sun - Hope

2.Swallow The Sun - New Moon

3.Slumber - Fallout

4.Mental Home - Black Art

5.Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion

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1.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.1349 - Hellfire

5.Burzum - Belus

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Following are the albums which are in my opinion Pure Thrash Metal and defines the art of Thrash /Speed Metal.

1.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

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3.Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!

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5.Metal Church - Metal Church

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1.Anthrax - Among The Living

2.Anthrax - Spreading The Disease

3.Anthrax - Worship Music

4.Anthrax - Persistence Of Time

5.Anthrax - State Of Euphoria

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1.Metallica - Lulu

2.Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus

3.Black Tide - Post Mortem

4.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

5.Decapitated - Carnival Is Forever

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On the picture - John Cobbett - Hammers Of Misfortune, Vhöl, Ludicra, The Lord Weird Slough Feg

1.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Hammers Of Misfortune - The August Engine

4.Mastodon - Remission

5.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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I just love all this stufff!
It's not really in any particular order. Putting one album above the rest is something I can't do!

1.Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

2.Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea

3.Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞

4.Steve Roach - Structures from Silence

5.Sigur Rós - ( )

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The best ballads in the history of Metal. Of course, all these bands and other bands have really good ballads but this list shows the very best, handpicked by me. In alphabetical order by bands name to make the list less chaotic and not by order of preference.

1.Accept - Eat The Heat

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Adagio - Underworld

4.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

5.Allen/Lande - The Battle

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Old and new, classic and obscure, hard rock and extreme, primal and progressive... here are 12 releases (one per month) that I have heard of on MetalStorm and elsewhere that seem to be really really good shit and that I have somehow not listened to yet

My mission, if I accept it, is to listened to all of them before the end of the year.

1.Wormphlegm - In An Excruciating Way Infested With Vermin And Violated By Executioners Who Practise Incendiarism And Desanctifying The Pious

2.Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

3.Summoning - Stronghold

4.Marillion - Misplaced Childhood

5.Disembowelment - Transcendence Into The Peripheral

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1.Sólstafir - Köld

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Insomnium - Across The Dark

4.Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!

5.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters

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BEST YEAR OF THE CENTURY

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.In Flames - The Jester Race

5.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

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