Since many of you felt annoyed by my previous list title I changed it and hopefully you will be ok with it.Power up everybody!!!

1.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I

4.Riot - ThunderSteel

5.Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free

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Whenever making general lists like this, I try to include as many genres I listen to as possible. There were so many good doom/gothic/symphonic albums last year, but I didn't want to include them all, even though they deserve a high place on the list. I'll explain the reasons behind my selection, a few words for each album.

1.Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Kamelot - Silverthorn

4.Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

5.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

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1.Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

2.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3.Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

4.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

5.Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

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1.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

2.3 Inches Of Blood - Long Live Heavy Metal

3.Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth

4.Threshold - March Of Progress

5.Barren Earth - The Devil's Resolve

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1.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

2.Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

4.DragonForce - The Power Within

5.Enslaved - RIITIIR

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1.Devin Townsend - Epicloud

2.Opera Diabolicus - 1614

3.Kamelot - Silverthorn

4.Halestorm - The Strange Case Of...

5.Devin Townsend - By A Thread - Live In London 2011

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1.Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

2.Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

3.Paradox - Tales Of The Weird

4.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

5.Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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1.Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2.Wintersun - Time I

3.Eluveitie - Helvetios

4.Kamelot - Silverthorn

5.Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

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1.Deftones - Koi No Yokan

2.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

3.Kamelot - Silverthorn

4.Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

5.Stone Sour - House Of Gold And Bones - Part 1

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1.The Faceless - Autotheism

2.Causemos - Infinite Event

3.Kälter - Ubuntu

4.Wintersun - Time I

5.Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere

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1.Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

2.Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming

3.Atoma - Skylight

4.In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans

5.Katatonia - Dead End Kings

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Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.

1.Sylosis - Monolith

2.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3.In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4.Abigail Williams - Becoming

5.Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Area 52

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1.Wintersun - Time I

2.My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures

3.Kamelot - Silverthorn

4.Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming

5.Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil

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Finally, after about 20 years, Kamelot have released enough albums to do a top 10 of their catalog.

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Kamelot - Epica

3.Kamelot - Karma

4.Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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Favorite Albums Of All Time!(Mine not yours)

1.Kamelot - The Black Halo

2.Kamelot - Epica

3.Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

4.Nightwish - Oceanborn

5.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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