1.Amorphis - Circle

2.Battle Beast - Battle Beast

3.Electronomicon - Unleashing The Shadows

4.Enforcer - Death By Fire

5.Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure

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Simple ranking of all my favorite albums. Favorite song from the album in the notes. Sure to change/expand as I learn and explore more within metal.
2023: This was starting to get too long so I split it into separate lists for albums at each ranking 10 to 7. This list will no longer be updated.
10: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6891
9: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7213
8: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=7512
7: https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=8058

1.Madder Mortem - Eight Ways

2.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

3.Ayreon - 01011001

4.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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A bunch of albums with a big circle on the cover

1.Karnivool - Sound Awake

2.Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Pentagram - Pentagram

5.Russian Circles - Empros

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1.Rob Zombie - Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

2.Monster Magnet - Last Patrol

3.Atrocity - Okkult

4.Finntroll - Blodsvept

5.Voivod - Target Earth

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2008 might've been my first proper taste of metal, with the acquisition of albums from the likes of Metallica, Megadeth, Black Sabbath and that most grandiose of gateway bands, DragonForce. 2009 might've seen me expanding my palette, with Iron Maiden, Alice In Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, and more entering my world, and Guns N' Roses triumphantly re-entering it. But 2010 was when I delved into more 'intense' stuff with Machine Head, In Flames, and most notably of all, Sylosis, and saw my relationship with metal shift from ever-increasing interest into full-blown love affair. To commemorate this 5-year anniversary, and because I love making lists, I decided to do a retrospective of the best albums and songs that have been released during this time period, and give brief tributes to them. Yay music!

1.Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth

2.Sylosis - Monolith

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR

5.Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

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1.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

2.Stratovarius - Nemesis

3.Helloween - Straight Out Of Hell

4.Pretty Maids - Motherland

5.Battle Beast - Battle Beast

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Didn't explore so much as I wanted in 2013, but these ones caught my attention.
Order from the most to the rarely listened.

1.Orphaned Land - All Is One

2.Falkenbach - Asa

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

5.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

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Max is 5.

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1.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

2.Fjoergyn - Monument Ende

3.Myrkgrav - Sjuguttmyra

4.Falkenbach - Asa

5.The Revolt - Lost in Fiction

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What can I say, my 2013 likes!

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1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

2.In Vain - Ænigma

3.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

4.Witherscape - The Inheritance

5.Caligula's Horse - The Tide, The Thief & River's End

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Hello and welcome to my first ever top albums list. While I've been listening to metal for over 15 years I've never compiled an actual year end list. The reason for this is because I feel my current favorites to be ever changing dependent on mood, season and situational. But the reason I feel it's necessary is because I want to spread the joy of music. I see many people jaded on music, well if this list is any indication music is alive and doing some amazing things. I've encountered so many lists this year and honestly can't say there's anything close to my list. Whole brilliant albums left off of list after list, but it is all opinion. Other albums held up in high regard that just made me shake my head or perplex me. Even reading many lists gets annoying do to slideshows or advertisement overload or no explanations, I've made this as easy to browse as I could. This is a celebration of the music of 2013. Doing this list was fun yet stressful for me. To me a list isn't a versus or better than. It's just a personal list, still I want to make the numbers carry weight and importance.
Enjoy, comment below and spread the word

1.In Vain - Ænigma

2.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

5.Haken - The Mountain

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1.Leprous - Coal

2.Avatarium - Avatarium

3.Orphaned Land - All Is One

4.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

5.Ulver - Messe I.X-VI.X

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1.Letlive. - The Blackest Beatiful

2.Clutch - Earth Rocker

3.Protest The Hero - Volition

4.Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here

5.Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Construct

2.Wolfheart - Winterborn

3.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

4.Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen

5.October Tide - Tunnel Of No Light

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1.Carcass - Surgical Steel

2.Sodom - Epitome Of Torture

3.Gorguts - Colored Sands

4.Hail Of Bullets - III The Rommel Chronicles

5.Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Construct

2.Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy

3.Leprous - Coal

4.Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn

5.Heaven Shall Burn - Veto

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