Some albums are really good. Many of these are good all the way around. And, in many cases, there is a single song that stands out, sometimes it's the last song on the album. This is a list of those songs.

For a more in depth look at this, I've codified each into a given category:
Type 1 - 'The long song at the end.' Often the title track. These have a tendency to be most well written and dynamic pieces on the album.

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

2.Abigail Williams - Becoming

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anekdoten - Vemod

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The best album of each year (and one close 2nd) from the past 20 years. Some years were much harder than others to choose the best 2 albums.

1.In Vain - Ænigma

2.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

3.Dissona - Dissona

4.Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5.Obscura - Omnivium

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1.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

3.Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts

4.Gotthard - Need To Believe

5.Rebellion - Arise: From Ginnungagap To Ragnarök - The History Of The Vikings Volume III

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1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Epica - Design Your Universe

3.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

4.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5.Hearse - Single Ticket To Paradise

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1.Ensiferum - From Afar

2.Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death

3.Guilt Machine - On This Perfect Day

4.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

5.Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

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1.Death - Human

2.Death - Symbolic

3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4.Opeth - Watershed

5.Opeth - Heritage

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Only a "20 best" list for this quite good year - or well, 'quite good year' for prog at least.

The first four are arranged in preference order, then th sixteen order are in alphabetical order.

Beware: this is a consolidated - but not definitive - version, it might see some changes in the newt few months.

1.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2.Kalisia - Cybion

3.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4.Sólstafir - Köld

5.Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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When I first heard a Dream Theater song I said to myself "OMG!THIS IS MAGIC".It was this year with their brand-new album A Dramatic Turn Of Events,so I have not been a fan for a long time.It was pretty difficult for me to put their albums in a specific order because I love all of them.

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

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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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.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

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

4.Dream Theater - Images And Words

5.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

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These are my favorite releases of 2009 in order

1.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

2.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

3.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

4.Swallow The Sun - New Moon

5.Amorphis - Skyforger

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

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

5.Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

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My Favorite Metal Songs. I tried to limit myself to one song per album, so this list also doubles as my favorite song off of each of these albums also. Probably stop the list at 666 if I ever get there.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - Rock In Rio

3.Testament - The Legacy

4.Exodus - Bonded By Blood

5.Wolf (UK) - Edge Of The World

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If you know other wonderful songs which are missing in this list, feel free to suggest them to me

1.Adagio - Underworld

2.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

3.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

4.After Forever - Decipher

5.After Forever - After Forever

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Progressive Metal/Rock is my main music, but you can't ignore the beauty in other genres.

1.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

2.Opeth - Damnation

3.Porcupine Tree - The Incident

4.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5.Tool - 10,000 Days

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