These are 36 of the my favorite Melodeath 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.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.The Absence - Riders Of The Plague

3.Darkane - Expanding Senses

4.Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down

5.Luna Mortis - The Absence

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A kinda weak metal year for me. Slania and Watershed are two great albums but Ghosts and Hindsight aren't really metal and A Sense of Purpose id good but not outstanding.

1.Eluveitie - Slania

2.Anathema - Hindsight

3.Opeth - Watershed

4.In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose

5.Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV

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1.Norther - N

2.Machinae Supremacy - Overworld

3.Raunchy - Wasteland Discotheque

4.Metallica - Death Magnetic

5.Into Eternity - The Incurable Tragedy

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Only albums which I was able to listen to.

1.Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!

2.Týr - Eric The Red

3.Skyclad - A Semblance Of Normality

4.Heidevolk - De Strijdlust Is Geboren

5.Arkona - Vo Slavu Velikim!

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Ok, this is my list of the greatest metal albuns of all time!
Honestly, my real list would be all about Opeth (hehe) but i want to put also other bands I admire!
Enjoy!

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Moonspell - Memorial

3.Draconian - Turning Season Within

4.The Gathering - Mandylion

5.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

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Okay guys the countdown is really not a countdown, as in they aren't in any specific order.
PS: I'm sure I forgot some albums, so I might edit this list later on.

1.Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master

2.Saattue - Jäähyvästi

3.Isole - Bliss Of Solitude

4.Forefather - Steadfast

5.Grand Magus - Iron Will

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1.Draconian - Turning Season Within

2.Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

3.Moonspell - Night Eternal

4.Therion - Live Gothic

5.Heavenwood - Redemption

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Here are my top 25 albums for 2008

1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Protest The Hero - Fortress

3.Mirrorthrone - Gangrene

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Oceans Of Sadness - The Arrogance Of Ignorance

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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1.Moonlyght - Shining

2.Ayreon - 01011001

3.Keldian - Journey Of Souls

4.Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls

5.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

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1.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2.Amon Amarth - Once Sent From The Golden Hall

3.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

4.Angizia - Das Schachbrett Des Trommelbuben Zacharias

5.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

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My most beloved albums

1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

5.Equilibrium - Sagas

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Metallica - Metallica

3.HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings

4.HammerFall - Crimson Thunder

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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1.Equilibrium - Sagas

2.Equilibrium - Turis Fratyr

3.Moonlyght - Progressive Darkness

4.Windir - Arntor

5.Eluveitie - Everything Remains As It Never Was

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1.Ayreon - 01011001

2.Hollenthon - Opus Magnum

3.Therion - Live Gothic

4.Within Temptation - Black Symphony

5.Eluveitie - Slania

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