Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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A list of my favourite drummers in rough order (not precise) along with the songs that made me love them. I added the albums too

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony

3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

4.Mastodon - Blood Mountain

5.Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Septicflesh - Communion

5.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

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1.Burzum - Filosofem

2.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

5.Marduk - Rom 5:12

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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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1.Moonspell - Extinct

2.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

3.Ghost - Meliora

4.Helloween - My God-Given Right

5.Enslaved - In Times

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1.Desolate Shrine - The Heart Of The Netherworld

2.Marduk - Frontschwein

3.Gruesome - Savage Land

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Sulphur Aeon - Gateway To The Antisphere

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1.Cult Of Luna - Mariner [Collaboration]

2.Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä

3.Mistur - In Memoriam

4.Thy Catafalque - Meta

5.In The Woods... - Pure

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1.Agalloch - Pale Folklore

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

5.Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig

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1.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

2.Leprous - The Congregation

3.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

4.Marilyn Manson - The Pale Emperor

5.Puscifer - Money Shot

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A bit late in coming, the top ten albums of 2015. I had many close calls, as few albums almost made to the list. Edited to the new format I used across all the platforms.... it's very unbalanced list, cause it has too much power and doom, but I picked albums that I either really enjoyed or listened to really really much.. hence on of the honorable mentions were left out, they are good, but I simply didn't listened to them as much as I did to this...

1.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

2.Draconian - Sovran

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

5.Månegarm - Månegarm

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1.Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

2.Deafheaven - New Bermuda

3.Mutoid Man - Bleeder

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Draconian - Sovran

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1.Kroda - Ginnungagap-Ginnungagaldr-Ginnungakaos

2.Ad Hominem - Antitheist

3.Batushka - Litourgiya

4.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

5.Kres - Na Krawędziach Nocy

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Not finished, of course. Never shall be.

1.Macabre Omen - Gods Of War - At War

2.Wiegedood - De Doden Hebben Het Goed

3.Amygdala - EPiphany

4.I Chaos - Masterbleeder

5.Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

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1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Mgła - Exercises In Futility

3.Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III

4.Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields

5.Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

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