1. Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes

2. Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse

3. Fear Factory - Obsolete

4. Arch Enemy - Stigmata

5. Moonspell - Sin / Pecado

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A list for us bookworms, nerds, geeks, etc. Books are brutal and totally fucking metal.
This list lists books, poems, comic books, non-fiction and even movie adaptions of said books in some cases referenced to in albums (whether by concept, individual song or title).
This list is old. I started this way before The Epics, but never finished it. It's obviously not finished, so feel free to request. Initially, I was decided whether I should include songs based on stories from the Bible, but I'm leaning towards it. So expect that in a bit.

1. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

2. Anthrax - Among The Living

3. Anthrax - State Of Euphoria

4. Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil

5. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

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Power Metal has the whole pack. Listening to one album of Power Metal you can feel free , relaxed , happy , sad , and so many more states of mind. If you put it all together listening to Power Metal makes you human. (I only used English language albums and I know some of the albums are not completely Power Metal but all of them have some Power Metal elements . If I could I would have added more albums but my head is spinning right now). So Power up everybody!!!

1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

2. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

4. Riot - ThunderSteel

5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free

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This is unfinished

1. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

2. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

3. Alestorm - Back Through Time

4. Almôra - Gates Of Time

5. Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa

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1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3. Judas Priest - Stained Class

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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1. King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

2. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

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

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1. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2. Kamelot - Epica

3. Symphony X - The Odyssey

4. Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning

5. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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Yep, one of those lists. Everyone has one, so I thought I'd make a list of metal albums I really recommend.

This is not an absolute "best-of" list, for a few reasons:
1) I stick to one album per band, unless there's been a drastic style shift (like Katatonia's).
2) I try to cover all major subgenres fairly, so I have something for everyone. It counterbalances the tendency to list all the cool bands in a style I'm into right now (like drone or epic doom).

1. Warning - Watching From a Distance

2. Candlemass - Nightfall

3. Reverend Bizarre - In The Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

4. Pagan Altar - The Lords Of Hypocrisy

5. Katatonia - Dance of December Souls

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Since we had the whole MS album art awards, I figured I would try and list out my favourites.
This is not in any order and has no relation to the music, there are bands in here that I don't like, but the artwork is still great.
I'm not quite sure of some of the illustrators and designers on some covers, so they have been left blank, if you do know who did them, let me know. If you think there are some artists that I would dig coz of similar work, just leave me a shout.
This list is not finished so I will keep adding covers that I like.
I don't like Derek Riggs work too much so don't ask me why an Iron Maiden cover is not on the list.

1. Baroness - Red Album

2. Baroness - Blue Record

3. Mastodon - Leviathan

4. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

5. Kvelertak - Kvelertak

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No cares bout Jiri anymore. But that doesn't stop him! His best from '98

1. Kamelot - Siége Perilous

2. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

3. Ulver - Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

4. Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

5. Nightwish - Oceanborn

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Lots of genres, not repeating any Band (except Therion, but with 3 different styles). You cannot go wrong with this list, some nice Starts to any kind of Metal.
The list is sorted by year, but has not any particular order. Enjoy!

1. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

2. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

3. Therion - Symphony Masses - Ho Drakon Ho Megas

4. Cynic - Focus

5. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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1. Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

2. Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth

3. Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

4. Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World

5. Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

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This is my personal selection of albums (with specific songs) that you'd like to play in your next metal party.
The songs are sorted so the more powerful and energetic songs are equally spread all along the list, except the last songs, which are softer than average.

I'm currently working in this list (well... in my spare time), so it's not the final one.

1. Unexpect - Fables of the Sleepless Empire

2. Korpiklaani - Karkelo

3. Solefald - Norrøn Livskunst

4. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5. Kvelertak - Blodtørst

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This is a list of the albums that score 100 in my personal ranking system. This means they are absolute all time favorites, and they could be here because of different reasons: from absolute mind-blowing musicianship that I deeply appreciate or simply because I enjoy the music and connect to it in a special way. Albums are not listed in any particular order.

1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth

2. Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

3. Patrick Rondat - On the Edge

4. Helloween - The Dark Ride

5. Metallica - Master of Puppets

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