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My Favorite Albums

1.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields
2.Thurisaz - Scent Of A Dream
3.Opeth - Morningrise
4.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...
5.Anathema - Eternity

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Created by berkayhalfm on 26.01.2020



My Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time

Still in development

1.Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
2.Sonata Arctica - Silence
3.Wintersun - Time I
4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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Created by mazinkaiser1059 on 08.12.2019



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Best Album Of Each Year

Fifty years of metal, 50 best albums of the year. Note that in order to diversify the list I limited it to one album per band, otherwise there would have been too much Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
3.Deep Purple - Machine Head
4.Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend
5.Queen - Queen II

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Created by Ganondox on 17.10.2019



Top 10 Thrash Metal Albums Of The 90's

1.Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
2.Overkill - Horrorscope
3.Coroner - Mental Vortex
4.Testament - The Gathering
5.Sodom - Tapping The Vein

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Created by Mrtvozornik on 30.08.2019



Favorite Death Albums

1.Death - Leprosy
2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore
3.Death - Spiritual Healing
4.Death - Human
5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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Created by vermin scourge on 15.08.2019



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Club: Technical/progressive Music That Ain't Over The Top Wankery

this list is related to this forum thread, please check
this list is a collaborative one and will surely grow ; it is a proof of concept for a club feature, see here.

Hi people. I'd like to create a list of albums with the purpose of being as complete as possible. I'm looking for music that is technical or progressive, although I really don't like when things get out of hand, with crazy vocals in 4 different registers building tension and brutally stoping to yield it to a shredding solo in mixolydian helped by drums in 11/12 which try to imitate the synth syncopation in counterpoint, for ten seconds before jumping into something else.

1.Angra - Angels Cry
2.Angra - Holy Land
3.Angra - Fireworks
4.Angra - Rebirth
5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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Created by Ansercanagicus on 14.03.2019



Best Albums 1990-1999

1.Grip Inc. - Solidify
2.x - x
3.x - x
4.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
5.x - x

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Created by CamilleHuot on 26.01.2019



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Top 500 Albums of All Time

I've been listening to Metal since 2005 and it has become my biggest passion in life.

Rarely a day goes by where I don't listen to it in one form or another. The bands I listened to in my teens inspired me to pick up the guitar (and later drums) and start making music of my own.

So here are the albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the album give it an advantage over others.

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here. There are a ton of albums that I've rated 9/10 in the 'TBR' tab that may never make it to this list, be sure to check those out.)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 25 EPs (ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

Genre-Specific:
Top 50 Black Metal Albums
Top 50 Melodic Death Metal Albums
Top 45 Thrash Metal Albums
Top 40 Power Metal Albums
Top 30 Doom Metal Albums
Top 30 Heavy Metal Albums

1.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Metallica - Master Of Puppets
4.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
5.Opeth - Still Life

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Created by nonZero on 06.10.2018



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Best Album From Each Year

Unfinished as I still have to catch up on more recent years. Also all of the places on the list are of course subject to change as I discover more music from each year.

My taste is very much centred around the power of the riff. That means most of the albums on this list are thrash, death, heavy, black, or some offshoot of those genres.

1.After The Burial - Dig Deep
2.Behemoth - The Satanist
3.Carcass - Surgical Steel
4.Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
5.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

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Created by Zombie94 on 16.04.2018



My Top 10 Of 1998

1.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast
2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
3.Therion - Vovin
4.Anathema - Alternative 4
5.Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

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Created by Archie 666 on 17.03.2018



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Best Album By Year According To My Votes

1.Judas Priest - Stained Class
2.Motörhead - Overkill
3.Judas Priest - British Steel
4.Venom - Welcome To Hell
5.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

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Created by Athropos on 22.11.2017



Top 25 Death Metal Bands And Discography

This is a list about my 25 favorite Death Metal Bands and their Discography.

1.Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life
2.Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth
3.Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated
4.Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
5.Cannibal Corpse - Vile

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Created by Robinus Der Gro&szli on 02.10.2017



Best Death Albums

Death is the best death metal band, and all of their albums could tie for first place. Chuck Schuldiner was a genius and innovator, and an amazing guitarist. These are currently my favorite Death albums.

1.Death - Human
2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore
3.Death - Leprosy
4.Death - Spiritual Healing
5.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

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Created by EvilJakee on 14.09.2017



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My Favorite Albums

Just a list of my favorite albums, mostly Black or Death Metal !

There are some albums/bands I would love to put in this list, but they are not on MS.

1.1349 - Liberation
2.Agalloch - The Mantle
3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World
4.Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God
5.Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising

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Created by Kevin F. on 20.07.2017



Top 10 Metal Albums

1.System Of A Down - Toxicity
2.Nightwish - Once
3.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
4.Disturbed - Believe
5.Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

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Created by Spirke on 01.06.2017