A little list of albums that have been kicking my ass as of late. Some albums on this list may appear to be "odd" choices, but "crushing" in this context does not necessarily mean heavy. It could be referring to the emotional intensity of the release or the literal heavy pounding sound. Hope you enjoy.

Note (1): More to be added as I see fit.
Note (2): These albums are in no specific order, I have just been adding them as I see fit.

1.Esoteric - The Pernicious Enigma

2.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Warning - Watching From A Distance

5.Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All

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The "better half" of my top 100 of the Zeroes. In list format, now with album covers!

1.Warning - Watching From A Distance

2.Negură Bunget - OM

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.Neurosis - Given To The Rising

5.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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In this list, many Death Doom have also

1.Empyrium - A Wintersunset...

2.Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

3.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

4.Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play

5.Shape Of Despair - Angels Of Distress

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This list includes many records from many doom sub genres, some of these albums could fall under black or death metal, but the complete emotion expressed within these records, in my opinion, place them within the doom genre.

1.Evoken - Antithesis Of Light

2.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

3.Ataraxie - L'Être Et La Nausée

4.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

5.Urna - Sepulcrum

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The wide spectrum of sounds expressed through the sub-genre of Doom Metal often gets overshadowed by the somehow inaccessible slowness that is in its nature and so DM doesn't get the recognition it deserves for being, in my opinion, one of the most flexible subgenres of Metal ... Because of that, Doom Metal has remained among my favorite genres of music since the time I was introduced to it through My Dying Bride's "Turn Loose the Swans".

1.Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

2.Saturnus - Martyre

3.Lacrimas Profundere - Memorandum

4.My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans

5.Process Of Guilt - Erosion

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This is a list of the doom albums I have listened to.

The list starts with a handful of what I'd call my favorite doom albums. The first few of those count among my favorite of all time, with Paranoid, Watching From A Distance, and Черно at present holding a perfect 10. This list does have a cutoff point, stretching from those 10s through some high 9s and all the way down to middling 6s. If I rated it below a 6, it does not appear on this list, and that's because I disliked the album.

Given how much music I listen to and how many lists I have going concurrently, I don't update this as I go; I let albums accumulate for a while and then do periodic overhauls, so the list won't change for months at a time.

Last updated October 17, 2021.

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Warning - Watching From A Distance

3.Kypck - Черно

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

5.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

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This is my Top 15 doom list from 2009, I include all albums what I have hear , I was planning top 20 but can fit 17, so I decide made top 15

1.Candlemass - Death Magic Doom

2.My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

3.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

4.The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief

5.Poema Arcanus - Timeline Symmetry

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Here is a list of my favourite albums of all time (that are on Metalstorm). I have limited it to one album per band. The albums are ordered in alphabetical order. The list is subject to change over time, but nearly all albums on here are set in stone and have been extremely influential on my musical tastes. If you think you have an album that could squeak its way onto this list, by all means suggest away.

1.Agalloch - The Mantle

2.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

3.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

4.Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

5.Death - Symbolic

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just taken from the blog entry and thrown into nice shiny list format for people who can't be bothered to read words. of course, they will have skipped these words as well, so we can ridicule them mercilessly after this paragraph ends and they'll probably never catch on. stupid ADHD Short-attention-span having morons. Fie, i say, FIE!

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Baroness - Blue Record

3.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4.Cobalt - Gin

5.Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu

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Album art is a crucial element to what makes a great album become monumental to the music fan. It gives us a vision and a feeling through visual sensations that are linked in the mind to the sounds that embody those ideas. A great album is intertwined into those concrete images and the two aspects make them whole. The following is a list of albums by some of the most influential, well known illustrators in the Arts Community. These artists are key figures in relation to how famous their art has become either by the success of the bands they worked for or the popularity of their own work.

1.Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard

2.Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Converge - Jane Doe

5.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

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1.Insomnium - Across The Dark

2.The 11th Hour - Burden Of Grief

3.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

4.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

5.The Moon And The Nightspirit - Ősforrás

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This list is in alphabetical order.

1.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

2.Baroness - Blue Record

3.Behemoth - Evangelion

4.Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague

5.Chthonic - Mirror Of Retribution

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Here is my very straight forward top list of albums released in 2009.

1.Bloody Panda - Summon

2.Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind

3.Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist

4.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

5.Isole - Silent Ruins

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1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4.Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

5.Animals As Leaders - Weightless

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My top Metal picks for 2009. It was in interesting year and a good transition into what I feel will be a decade of progression as never seen before.

If you don't agree with my list, make your own. I obviously don't have time to listen to 5,000 albums every year. Magazines that do, such as Decibel or Terrorizer, usually have trouble conjuring up 40 quality albums to throw on their yearly lists, so cut me some slack...I am not working with a team of people, and I don't get paid. I'm sure there are plenty of great albums that I have yet to discover or that I have just not been able to listen to...but all of those that are listed have been personally approved by me. The numbers are not as important to me. I would greatly appreciate some "Thumbs ups", as I have put a lot of my personal time into this list, and also into reviewing these great albums.

1.Wodensthrone - Loss

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

5.Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

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