Only Awesome Albums (OAA)

1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift

4.Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja I

5.Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja II

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1.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin

4.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

5.Mors Principium Est - Liberation = Termination

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My personal annual choice for top 10 metal albums for each year. 2007 selection, fantastic year with at least 50 quality albums.

1.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Turisas - The Varangian Way

4.Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

5.Sirenia - Nine Destinies And A Downfall

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1.Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

2.Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

3.After Forever - After Forever

4.Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

5.Sonata Arctica - Unia

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1.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2.Testament - The Gathering

3.Tiamat - Wildhoney

4.E Nomine - Die Prophezeiung

5.Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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1.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace

2.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

3.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

4.Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

5.Slayer - South Of Heaven

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My favorite albums from 2000-2009. Just my opinion.

1.Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2.Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil

3.Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh

4.Behemoth - Demigod

5.Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

2.Threshold - Dead Reckoning

3.Phideaux - Doomsday Afternoon

4.Le Grand Guignol - The Great Maddening

5.Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

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sequences are mixed

1.Katatonia - Brave Murder Day

2.Agalloch - The Mantle

3.Trivium - Ascendancy

4.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

5.Opeth - Damnation

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A really good year, just look at the top 3! Three of the world's greatest black metal albums ever! And the six albums thereafter? Magic. All I can say is that this list was a pain to order, because there's so much great albums which deserves to be higher up.

1.Watain - Sworn To The Dark

2.Shining - V - Halmstad

3.Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

4.Månegarm - Vargstenen

5.Be'lakor - The Frail Tide

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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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I feel like my overall favorites list is getting too long. I'm splitting it up by rating.

1.So Hideous - None But A Pure Heart Can Sing

2.Metallica - Re-Load

3.Faetooth - Remnants Of The Vessel

4.Inferi - The End Of An Era

5.Midnight Odyssey - Biolume Part 1 - In Tartarean Chains

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1.Dark Tranquillity - Haven

2.Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

3.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

4.Dark Tranquillity - Projector

5.Dark Tranquillity - Atoma

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The albums below is my definition of extreme metal music, regardless of their genre. Entire list is based only on my personal preferences in metal.
Rules:
1. One album per band
2. 305 groups/305 albums

1.In Flames - Clayman

2.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3.Chimaira - Chimaira

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Testament - The New Order

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Must Listen: The First 11

1.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

2.Paradise Lost - In Requiem

3.Kamelot - Ghost Opera

4.Symphony X - Paradise Lost

5.Allen/Lande - The Revenge

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