1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

5.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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Now that was an excellent year, gems dropping from all corners, and I'm certain I still have a lot to discover! The amount of great stuff was indeed staggering.

Off with the ramblings, on with the albums:
- the first 7 albums are those I consider to be this year's ultimate best, but they're in alpha order as I couldn't make a preference order out of them

1.Alchemist - Tripsis

2.Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast

3.Machine Head - The Blackening

4.Mekong Delta - Lurking Fear

5.Neurosis - Given To The Rising

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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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Metal / Rock / Instrumental / Etc...

1.Fanisk - Noontide

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

4.

5.Anathema - A Moment In Time

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Since this is my first list, in time I'll make some changes / maybe /.

1.Megadeth - Risk

2.Death - Human

3.Metallica - Load

4.Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

5.Cynic - Focus

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1.Machine Head - The Blackening

2.Overkill - Ironbound

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Rush - Clockwork Angels

5.Rush - Snakes & Arrows

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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

4.SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day

5.Protest The Hero - Fortress

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My personal top 50 list.
(In no particular order)

1.Decrepit Birth - Polarity

2.Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

3.Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult

4.Joe Satriani - Time Machine

5.Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

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I'm not a big fan of Thrash, these are perhaps the only albums I enjoy listening to, and even then only rarely. So enjoy if you can.

1.Prong - Beg To Differ

2.Morbid Saint - Spectrum Of Death

3.Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

4.Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence

5.Exhorder - Slaughter In The Vatican

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The top album of every year since I was born.

1.Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Annihilator - Alice In Hell

2.Annihilator - Never, Neverland

3.Anthrax - Among The Living

4.Artillery - By Inheritance

5.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

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1.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

2.Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

3.After Forever - After Forever

4.Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

5.Sonata Arctica - Unia

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This is a list in which I have included the top 30 albums of the decade that has just passed. Of course it's gonna change because I'm sure there is a lot I haven't listened to yet...

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Moonspell - The Antidote

3.HIM - Love Metal

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise

5.Nightwish - Once

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

3.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

4.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

5.Autumnal - Grey Universe

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That's my list.

1.In Flames - The Jester Race

2.Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer

3.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4.Therion - Vovin

5.Opeth - Morningrise

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