Main criterias:
How much I love it(obviously)
Songwritting
Importance and originality
Consistency and diversity (consistency is more importance, but diversity can make a difference)

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

4.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

5.Slayer - Haunting The Chapel

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No particular order.

1.Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

2.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

3.Summoning - Dol Guldur

4.Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

5.Skyclad - Irrational Anthems

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These are the albums with the highest possible rates in my personal list. Sometimes it was an emotional decision made after one single spin, but mostly these actually are my favorite albums. Also, I was wondering what genre would be most represented.

PS. The image was selected intentionally to piss you off. Still, I do consider Diabolus In Musica to be an almost perfect album

1.1833 AD - My Dark Symphony

2.1914 - The Blind Leading The Blind

3.Akhlys - Melinoë

4.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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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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Yet another one of my lists for no reason other than I feel like it

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Opeth - Blackwater Park

5.Amorphis - Am Universum

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1.Rammstein - Rosenrot

2.Rammstein - Reise, Reise

3.Rammstein - Mutter

4.Rammstein - Sehnsucht

5.Rammstein - Rammstein

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

3.Windir - 1184

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

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This is the year I basically started listening to music so I was torn between stuff I am somewhat loyal to because it was my gateway and the kind of stuff I listen to now from that year. I genuinely think this was one of the best years ever for Metal.

Congrats to Destruction who have gotten honourable mentions before but never actually made it onto the list until now.

1.Tool - Lateralus

2.System Of A Down - Toxicity

3.Sodom - M-16

4.Destruction - The Antichrist

5.Kreator - Violent Revolution

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Must Listen: The First 9

1.System Of A Down - Toxicity

2.Opeth - Blackwater Park

3.Ark - Burn The Sun

4.Evergrey - In Search Of Truth

5.Angra - Rebirth

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Constantly evolving list of my favorite metal albums from the 2000s

1.Trivium - Shogun

2.Opeth - Watershed

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Deftones - White Pony

5.Trivium - Ascendancy

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1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

2.Rammstein - Mutter

3.Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

4.The Gathering - Mandylion

5.Alice In Chains - Dirt

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1.Tool - Lateralus

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.Evoken - Quietus

4.Finntroll - Jaktens Tid

5.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

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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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Just a quick list for 2001, no order

1.Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

2.Radiohead - Amnesiac

3.Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away [EP]

4.The White Stripes - White Blood Cells

5.Opeth - Blackwater Park

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin

3.Iced Earth - Horror Show

4.Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

5.Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass

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