These are my favourite albums of all time, the best being first. This is obviously all my own opinion, so please don't shit all over my musical tastes, especially since I am a fan of melodic music, which a lot of people don't seem to like anymore. All these albums have touched me in one way or another and they are all albums I can listen to again and again without ever getting bored.

1. Iron Maiden - Brave New World

2. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day

3. Sentenced - The Cold White Light

4. Wintersun - Time I

5. Omnium Gatherum - Beyond

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This is buy or die stuff (in no particular order), the epitome of pure awesomeness!

1. Windir - Arntor

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Cor Scorpii - Monument

4. Judas Priest - Painkiller

5. Summoning - Dol Guldur

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1. Dalriada - Arany-Album

2. Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel

3. Damned Spirits' Dance - Weird Constellations

4. Ensiferum - From Afar

5. Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!

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working on the final review

1. Cain's Offering - Gather The Faithful

2. Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays

3. Amorphis - Skyforger

4. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5. Shakra - Everest

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1. Swallow The Sun - New Moon

2. Insomnium - Across The Dark

3. Darkness By Oath - Fear Yourself

4. Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin

5. Ensiferum - From Afar

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Here are my favourite albums between 2000 and 2010.
Some might be missed.

1. Motörhead - Motörizer

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Empyrium - Weiland

4. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5. Immortal - All Shall Fall

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1. Kalisia - Cybion

2. Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió

3. Karnivool - Sound Awake

4. Finsterforst - ...zum Tode hin

5. While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

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1. Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

2. Enshine - Origin

3. Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension

4. Esoteric - Paragon Of Dissonance

5. The Foreshadowing - Oionos

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1. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech

2. Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath

3. Wintersun - Wintersun

4. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5. Mors Principium Est - The Unborn

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Here are my top 25 of 2009, going to try to get more years done as I get more free time.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Baroness - Blue Record

3. Amorphis - Skyforger

4. While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

5. Mastodon - Crack The Skye

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1. While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

2. Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

3. Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow

4. Mistur - Attende

5. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious

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Only 1 album per band;
Rating:
1.-8.: 10
9.-32.: 9
33.-50.: 8

1. Subway To Sally - Herzblut

2. Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Empyrium - Songs Of Moors And Misty Fields

5. Vicious Crusade - Forbidden Tunes

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In no particular order.

1. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

4. Finsterforst - ...Zum Tode Hin

5. Deströyer 666 - Defiance

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Actually I wanted to write a blog as several of my colleagues, but now that we have this nifty new feature there's no reason to bother with formatting all the pics and stuff

So this was it. The decade which saw me turning into a metalhead. Actually I've been listening to metal since 17 years now, but not on a regular basis. This changed (to the better) when I joined this site in the good old days of MSR. Agalloch, Anathema and Tristania got me used to growls, Immortal and Agathodaimon to extreme metal as a whole and soon enough I was hooked to the vast plethora of styles which are to be found in heavy metal. The following list presents my personal top 50 of this decade. The order isn't really set in stone, neither is my musical taste, but at least the top 10 are somewhat fixed. Especially the 2009 releases, of which none made it into my top 25, might not stand the test of time. And please don't message me because you disagree with some of the genres, they are neither there to be discussed nor to educate, but to give an impression what the bands sound like. If you have about the same (broad) taste as I have, but aren't familiar with some of these releases, try to get your hands on them. You won't regret it

1. Negură Bunget - OM

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin

4. Dark Tranquillity - Character

5. Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

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