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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My favorite and most enjoyed album's of the decade 2000-2009. Roughly in order, but not exactly.

You can kinda tell from this list that I joined Metalstorm in 2009. I started discovering far more music thanks to this site, hence the number of '09 releases featured. I'm slowly starting to pick back through the top lists of previous years, so I expect more pre-'09 releases will be added to this list.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect

4.SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day

5.Protest The Hero - Fortress

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The best albums of the best metalheads there are and there were on earth.

1.Death - Symbolic

2.Opeth - Orchid

3.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Agalloch - The Mantle

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

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Overall year rating:
3/5

1.Shape Of Despair - Shades Of...

2.Saturnus - Martyre

3.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

4.Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

5.Enslaved - Mardraum - Beyond The Within

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1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.Evergrey - The Inner Circle

3.Dark Tranquillity - Haven

4.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

5.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

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1.Saturnus - Martyre

2.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3.Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun

4.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

5.Radiohead - Kid A

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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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Edit: 20.12 / 2010

1.Angel Dust - Enlighten The Darkness

2.Arena - Immortal?

3.Artension - Machine

4.Ashes You Leave - The Inheritance Of Sin And Shame

5.Atrox - Contentum

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1.Novembre - Wish I Could Dream It Again

2.Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

4.Novembre - Arte Novecento

5.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

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I've been a metal fan since 2000, I'm 20 years old, thats fair enough!! I'm more into progressive metal but still, love many albums from thrash and heavy, lets roll...

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

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

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

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1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

3.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

4.Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane

2.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3.Pain Of Salvation - "BE"

4.Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake

5.Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

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Must Listen: The First 10

1.Dark Tranquillity - Haven

2.Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I

3.Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World

4.In Flames - Clayman

5.Fates Warning - Disconnected

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1.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

2.Threshold - Hypothetical

3.Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite

4.Opeth - Still Life

5.Cynic - Traced In Air

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