1. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

2. Thurisaz - Circadian Rhythm

3. Type O Negative - Dead Again

4. Marduk - Rom 5:12

5. Machine Head - The Blackening

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Here is my provisional favorite-metal-albums-of-all-time-list! Enjoy!
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly. Thus, you can say that I enjoy album x on the list as much as the others in the interval of (x-5) to (x+5). For example album 37 would be as much enjoyed as 32, 33, 34, ..., 42, or something like that.

1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3. Grand Alchemist - Intervening Coma-Celebration

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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

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1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

3. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4. 1349 - Hellfire

5. Burzum - Belus

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1. Symphony X - Paradise Lost

2. Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

3. Watain - Sworn to the Dark

4. Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon

5. Machine Head - The Blackening

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Thought I'd create a list of the heaviest and hardest metal in my collection...

1. Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

2. Marduk - Rom 5:12

3. Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine

4. Grave - As Rapture Comes

5. Obscenity - The 3rd Chapter

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This is my personal top 20 albums of all time. 1 to 10 in no order, and 11 to 20 in no order.

1. Alice In Chains - Dirt

2. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

3. Faith No More - Angel Dust

4. Sepultura - Arise

5. Mastodon - Blood Mountain

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So here's my first list. I ordered them from top to bottom.
Edited 29th October 2010: Nocturnal Breed - Fields Of Rot in.
Edited 7th November 2011: Valkyrja - The Invocation Of Demise in.

1. Rotting Christ - Theogonia

2. Watain - Sworn To The Dark

3. Behemoth - The Apostasy

4. Arkhon Infaustus - Orthodoxyn

5. Samael - Solar Soul

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Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.

1. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Negură Bunget - Om

4. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

5. Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness

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1. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

2. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

4. Setherial - Nord

5. Dark Funeral - The Secrets Of The Black Arts

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List is alphabetical

1. Behemoth - Evangelion

2. Burzum - Filosofem

3. Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4. Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

5. Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon

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Top 20 Metal albums, 2000-2009 ..

1. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

2. Melechesh - Emissaries

3. Orphaned Land - Mabool

4. Necrophagia - Harvest Ritual Vol 1: Penance

5. Marduk - Rom 5:12

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Favorite releases from 2007

1. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb

2. Defeated Sanity - Psalms Of The Moribund

3. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

4. Candlemass - King Of The Grey Islands

5. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

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