This is a list dedicated to everything crazy, eclectic and technical. I know there are many many more albums that could be added, but these are the ones I personally recommend. One album per band order by the level of "technical madness" (whatever that metric is).

1.Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia

2.Änglagård - Hybris

3.Coroner - No More Color

4.Invocator - Excursion Demise

5.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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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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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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1.Protest The Hero - Fortress

2.Born Of Osiris - The New Reign

3.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

4.After The Burial - Rareform

5.August Burns Red - Constellations

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1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

3.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4.Circus Maximus - Isolate

5.Anubis Gate - Anubis Gate

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My favourite 10 albums from 2000-2009

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

2.Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3.Isis - Panopticon

4.Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires

5.Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom

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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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I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried to stay away from multiple albums by an artist, but a few exceptions were made hehe.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom

3.Absu - Tara

4.ADX - Division Blindée

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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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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