Revisiting all the DT albums and updating my personal ranking

1.Dream Theater - Images And Words

2.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Dream Theater - Awake

5.Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

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This is an alphabetical list dedicated for the celebration of great instrumental songs that have been included by vocal groups as original contribution to an album. Therefore, this list does not include instrumental-based groups like Apocalyptica, songs that have a significant part with spoken words / human voices or instrumental versions of vocal songs or other bonus material.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite songs for this list !

1.Accept - Objection Overruled

2.Anathema - Judgement

3.Arch Enemy - War Eternal

4.Arch Enemy - Will To Power

5.As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Dream Theater - Images And Words

3.Dream Theater - Awake

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

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Must Listen: The First 4

1.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

2.Civil War - The Killer Angels

3.Trivium - Vengeance Falls

4.James LaBrie - Impermanent Resonance

5.Pretty Maids - Motherland

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My Favorite Albums Of The Year \m/

1.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

2.Stratovarius - Nemesis

3.Ghost - Infestissumam

4.Powerwolf - Preachers Of The Night

5.Orphaned Land - All Is One

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1.Dream Theater - Awake

2.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

3.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

4.Dream Theater - Images And Words

5.Dream Theater - The Astonishing

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2013

1.Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

2.Kauan - Pirut

3.Ghost - Infestissumam

4.Wolfheart - Winterborn

5.Amorphis - Circle

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

3.Dream Theater - Images And Words

4.Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

5.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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Didn't explore so much as I wanted in 2013, but these ones caught my attention.
Order from the most to the rarely listened.

1.Orphaned Land - All Is One

2.Falkenbach - Asa

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Equilibrium - Waldschrein

5.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

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This list is pretty diverse with the most Progressive Metal I think I've ever had on a year end list. This was also the toughest year end list to compile with the ridiculous amount of great music 2013 had.

1.Hell - Curse & Chapter

2.A Sound Of Thunder - Time's Arrow

3.Fates Warning - Darkness In A Different Light

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5.Epysode - Fantasmagoria

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1.Witherscape - The Inheritance

2.Spiritual Beggars - Earth Blues

3.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4.Kalmah - Seventh Swamphony

5.Tristania - Darkest White

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1.Orphaned Land - All Is One

2.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

3.Tarja - Colours In The Dark

4.Amon Amarth - Deceiver Of The Gods

5.Avatarium - Avatarium

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1.Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

2.Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

3.Soilwork - The Living Infinite

4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5.Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

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1.Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

2.Dream Theater - Awake

3.Dream Theater - Octavarium

4.Dream Theater - Train Of Thought

5.Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events

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It Is Only Sound That Remains... (Forough Farrokhzad The Legendary Poet)

1.Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here

2.Anathema - Weather Systems

3.Anathema - Distant Satellites

4.Anathema - The Optimist

5.At The Gates - At War With Reality

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