1.Afgrund - Vid Helvetets Grindar

2.After Forever - After Forever

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Metal albums that blow me away every time I hear them. Loosely ordered... list gets less organized as it goes on. My favorite song from each album is included.

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

2.Faith No More - Angel Dust

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Tool - Ænima

5.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

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Good musical pieces are those that initiate an emotional reaction or a subconscious shift of your subjective perception. The best music are those that elicit the most positive or dramatic of changes to our psyches. This is a list that I return to occasionally for these effects.

It is subjective of course.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

4.Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

5.Atoma - Skylight

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1.Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

2.The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night

3.Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

4.The Beatles - Revolver

5.Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

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So here we are again . After many years of dedication and love to this music that we call progressive metal, here are some of the best albums that ever existed and made the earth a better place . Give to these albums the attention and the respect they deserve and you will be fully awarded. I think i will try and limit this list to 3 cd's maximum per band to make this thing more challenging .

1.Dan Swanö - Moontower

2.Cynic - Traced In Air

3.Cynic - Focus

4.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

5.Enslaved - Ruun

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Progressive rock / metal - what I love the most in my collection. Would love suggestions to add to it.

1.Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

2.Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion

3.Ayreon - The Human Equation

4.Between The Buried And Me - Colors

5.Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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It Is Only Sound That Remains... (Forough Farrokhzad The Legendary Poet)

1.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

2.Anathema - Weather Systems

3.Anathema - Distant Satellites

4.Anathema - The Optimist

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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1.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

3.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

4.Demons And Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King

5.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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1.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

2.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

3.Green Carnation - The Quiet Offspring

4.Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

5.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

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1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

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

4.Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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Another hard list to do. Enjoy.

Songs that didn't make the cut; Trains, Time Flies, Pure Narcotic, Black Dahlia, Stars Die, and Fadeaway. These are all great songs, but couldn't make the list.

1.Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

2.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

3.Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair

4.Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

5.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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1.Sybreed - Antares

2.Atoma - Skylight

3.Thrice - Vheissu

4.Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

5.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

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OK, let's get this straight right now: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS. Neither is it a 'Best Of' list in any shape, manner or form. And it is also not a list of albums I consider to be important in Metal history in general (though many of them assuredly would be considered so).

What this list is:
I started thinking about why I listen to Metal, and why I listen to certain bands and not others. And how my tastes have changed enormously in the approx 15 years I've been, as one might say, a Metalhead. I thought it would be interesting to look over my collection and pick out those albums I consider to be landmarks in my listening career and write a little bit about why each is significant to me.

1.Anathema - Judgement

2.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5.Def Leppard - Hysteria

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In alphabetical order by country.

1.Voyager - I Am The ReVolution

2.Deadsoul Tribe - The January Tree

3.Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

4.Barren Earth - Curse Of The Red River

5.Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous

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