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Tasty Stuff Not Currently Featured On MS
So I Heard You Like Opeth...

A concise list of my metalhead man-crushes (now featuring ladies.)

While there is little introduction required for some of these bands and their front(wo)men, there are no words that can accurately describe such jaw-dropping talent anyhow. The albums and youtube links listed are meant to display the full capacity of vocalists' talents, not the bands' most quality or popular tracks - click the links below and behold the prowess.

1.Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra

2.Adagio - Underworld

3.Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

4.Amorphis - Silent Waters

5.Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

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This list is provisional with no specific order. It's subject to change as time passes and more albums get released. For now, Triptykon's new work tops my chart.

1.Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare

2.Triptykon - Melana Chasmata

3.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

4.Behemoth - The Satanist

5.Witch Mountain - Mobile Of Angels

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Albums I'm enjoying as 2014 progresses, order and all that is updated weekly. Suggestions and also comments are very welcome, I'm also finally finished my 2013 list. Check that out as well
As new 2014 albums come and go please note the order is subject to change before you have an aneurism.

Definitely always looking for more metal/music friends https://www.facebook.com/derek.handelong (add me)

1.Buckethead - Pikes 42-129

2.Vader - Tibi Et Igni

3.Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era

4.Delain - The Human Contradiction

5.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

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These are MY Top 250 Albums that are featured on Metal Storm in chronological order to celebrate 50 Years of Metal.

Some bands are featured on this list with more than one album, which means that they are perticulary amazing to me.

I listen to a wide spectrum of metal genres, which is why I tried to keep it diverse and not focus on one genre.

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

5.Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

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1.Judas Priest - Redeemer Of Souls

2.Accept - Blind Rage

3.Grave Digger - Return Of The Reaper

4.Gamma Ray - Empire Of The Undead

5.Iced Earth - Plagues Of Babylon

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Compilation of many Hard Rock or Metal Ballads I've heard. Bands and Albums are ordered by name alphabetically.

1.Accept - Balls To The Wall

2.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

3.Accept - Eat The Heat

4.Adagio - Underworld

5.Aerosmith - Aerosmith

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1.Accept - Blind Rage

2.Wolf - Devil Seed

3.Enforcer - From Beyond

4.Metal Church - XI

5.Rage - The Devil Strikes Again

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1.Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon

2.Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony

3.Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

4.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

5.Accept - Blood Of The Nations

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1.Accept - Blind Rage

2.Wolf - Devil Seed

3.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

4.Grave Digger - Return Of The Reaper

5.Aria - Через Все Времена

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1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Vanden Plas - Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld (Path 1)

3.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

4.Pretty Maids - Louder Than Ever

5.Teramaze - Esoteric Symbolism

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Ningen Isu rocked in retrospect

1.Ningen Isu - 無頼豊饒

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Lords Of Black - Lords Of Black

4.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

5.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

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Primal Fear albums in order of preference. New Religion is still my favorite...

PS: I don't like Nuclear Fire that much. Too fast and heavy but lacks great songs...

1.Primal Fear - New Religion

2.Primal Fear - 16.6: (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)

3.Primal Fear - Devil's Ground

4.Primal Fear - Primal Fear

5.Primal Fear - Black Sun

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1.Primal Fear - Black Sun

2.Primal Fear - Jaws Of Death

3.Primal Fear - Nuclear Fire

4.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

5.Primal Fear - Primal Fear

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1.Primal Fear - Seven Seals

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Primal Fear - Rulebreaker

4.Primal Fear - 16.6: (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)

5.Primal Fear - Apocalypse

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Must Listen: The First 3

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Nightingale - Retribution

4.Voyager - V

5.Dynazty - Renatus

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