to test this new feature i put some albums in it that i could think of

1.ADX - Exécution

2.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

3.Apocalyptica - Cult

4.Arch Enemy - Black Earth

5.Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant

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These are some albums that help people to like avant-garde music.

1.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

2.Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast

3.Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

4.Dog Fashion Disco - Adultery

5.In The Woods... - Omnio

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I've always been a big fan of this particular Finnish-brewed brand of metal (or rock, whichever you prefer), with its typically melancholic atmosphere and addictive melodies. Here are some of the best releases of the genre, in no particular order, max. 2 from each band. Note how one of the bands, Icon & The Black Roses, is actually from Portugal, not Finland.

1.Sentenced - The Cold White Light

2.Charon - The Dying Daylights

3.Entwine - DiEversity

4.Poisonblack - Escapexstacy

5.For My Pain - Fallen

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A list of my favourite death metal albums of all time, one listing per band, hopefully you may discover some new bands/albums from this list. They're not in any exact order but my real favourites are there in the top 5. Death metal ftw!

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

2.Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

3.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

4.Death - Spiritual Healing

5.Vital Remains - Dechristianize

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Here are the albums I consider to be the best technical death metal that there is to offer. Please note that I don't base this list on how technically proficient the album is but more the quality of music.

1.Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription

2.Anata - The Conductor's Departure

3.Sickening Horror - When Landscapes Bled Backwards

4.Martyr - Feeding The Abscess

5.Augury - Fragmentary Evidence

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1.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

4.Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

5.Epica - Design Your Universe

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This is a list of my 20 favorite BM albums ever. Apparently Mystifier and Moonblood are too kvlt to be on Metal Storm at this time, but both are incredibly fucking awesome. Moonblood played Epic Black Metal and are the undisputed gods of horrible lo-fi production, with one of their rehearsals rumored to have even been recorded in a bathroom. Mystifier is another quite good BM band, who are from South America and play in a similar vein to that of Sarcófago, old Beherit, and old Sepultura, and is some of the most evil material I have listened to in a long time.

1.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

2.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

4.Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom

5.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

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This list is not definitive and is likely to change with time - though it's improbable that I remove an entry given that those albums are supposed to be those few I can regard as true masterpieces.

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Mägo De Oz - Gaia

3.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

4.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

5.Katatonia - Viva Emptiness

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Albums that made metal history...

1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Slayer - Reign In Blood

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

5.Judas Priest - Painkiller

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Here are my all-time favourite european / melodic / neoclassical power metal albums.

1. The birth of EU power metal pt.2.
=> best songs: Eagle Fly Free, I Want Out, Keeper Of The Seven Keys

2. The birth of EU power metal pt.1.
=> best songs: A Tale That Wasn't Right, Future World, Halloween

3. The birth of hollywood metal mixing classical music and power metal pt.1.

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

3.Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Tales

4.Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I

5.Stratovarius - Visions

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This is a list of some of the very first albums that got me into metal. And before you look, yes, A7X and DragonForce are on the list, deal with it, it happened, I still listen to plenty of great bands!

1.Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

2.In Flames - Come Clarity

3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage

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This is a list of debut albums from 2007-2009 that I believe are the first from bands that will leave a legacy of great albums in their wake. It's a short list, and I chose 2007 because I wanted to pick bands that have had at most only 1 album since the debut.

1.In Mourning - Shrouded Divine

2.Irminsul - Irminsul

3.Griftegård - Solemn, Sacred, Severe

4.Kalisia - Cybion

5.Baroness - Red Album

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My favorite Megadeth albums...

1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

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

3.Megadeth - Killing Is My Business

4.Megadeth - The System Has Failed

5.Megadeth - Endgame

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Not nessecary my current favourites, but these are the albums that had a great impact on me or had opened up new horizons in different sub-genres. Most of these would be pretty recent and mainstream but I only started listening to Metal in 2007 after all. They are in chronological order of which I listened to them through these few years.

1.Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

4.To-Mera - Transcendental

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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These are 10 albums that really blew me away and either broke down all of my notions of what I though a metal album could sound like, or really opened my eyes to new sub-genres. You'll notice most albums are from after 2006, that's because it wasn't really until 2007 or so that I started listening to metal.

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

2.The Ocean - Precambrian

3.Warning - Watching From A Distance

4.Mirrorthrone - Gangrene

5.Equilibrium - Sagas

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