1.Persefone - Truth Inside The Shades

2.Slumber - Fallout

3.Ayreon - The Human Equation

4.My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light

5.Haggard - Eppur Si Muove

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Just a list of my personal favorite albums, mixed genres.

1.Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst

2.Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Windir - Arntor

5.Naglfar - Harvest

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Machine Head - The Blackening

3.Dream Theater - Octavarium

4.Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

5.In Flames - The Jester Race

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1.Wintersun - Wintersun

2.Ayreon - The Human Equation

3.Orphaned Land - Mabool

4.Ensiferum - Iron

5.Slumber - Fallout

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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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These are my top 25 albums. You probably don't agree with me and you may not of heard of all of these but I do encourage you to check them out!
I had a very hard time ordering these so they are in alphabetical order. That just means you should check them all out!

1.At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

2.Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes

3.Autumns eyes - The Awakening of the Sleeping King

4.Bathory - Blood Fire Death

5.Bethlehem - Sardonischer Untergang Im Zeichen Irreligiöser Darbietung

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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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Overall year rating:
4,5/5

1.Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play

2.Esoteric - Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Enslaved - Isa

5.Woods Of Ypres - Pursuit Of The Sun & Allure Of The Earth

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Limiting my picks to one album per band (otherwise it would have been a much larger list), here are my top 50 favorite metal albums of all time including my favorite track for each album:

1.Stratovarius - Episode

2.Angra - Angels Cry

3.Helloween - Better Than Raw

4.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

5.Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark

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This list shows only my preferences in metal. These albums are not necessarily the best of the bands written by, but I return to them again and again. In my opinion, all this masterpieces confirm the variety and greatness of metal music.
Rules:
1. One album per band.
2. Ordered from highest position (top) to lowest (bottom).
3. No heavy, power, doom, gothic, sludge/stoner albums.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3.In Flames - Clayman

4.Soilwork - Natural Born Chaos

5.Gojira - From Mars To Sirius

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1.Enslaved - Isa

2.Finntroll - Nattfödd

3.Behemoth - Demigod

4.Wintersun - Wintersun

5.My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light

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just rating albums as I listen to them, work in progress

1.Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side

2.Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II

3.Wintersun - Wintersun

4.Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy

5.Angra - Temple Of Shadows

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1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Kamelot - Karma

5.Sonata Arctica - Silence

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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.Evergrey - The Inner Circle

2.In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

3.Ayreon - The Human Equation

4.Nightwish - Once

5.Wastefall - Soulrain 21

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