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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1.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

2.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

3.After Forever - Decipher

4.Amorphis - Am Universum

5.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

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1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Lacrimas Profundere - Burning: A Wish

3.Moonspell - Darkness And Hope

4.My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours

5.Therion - Secret Of The Runes

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This is a list of the top melodic death metal albums ever made between 2000 and 2010.

1.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

2.Dark Tranquillity - Fiction

3.Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore

4.Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe

5.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

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Great year, the top 8 is pretty awesome.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Sonata Arctica - Silence

3.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

4.Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta

5.Windir - 1184

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