If I could only listen to ten albums for the rest of my life, I would choose these ten.

1. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss

3. Death - Spiritual Healing

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

5. The Faceless - Autotheism

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The best album of each year (and one close 2nd) from the past 20 years. Some years were much harder than others to choose the best 2 albums.

1. TBA - 2013

2. TBA - 2013 (Close 2nd)

3. Dissona - Dissona

4. Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I

5. Mastodon - The Hunter

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My favorite (thus the best) album (NOT necessarily metal) of each year I've been alive. Any description I give is only my opinion (obviously).

1. Swans - Children of God

2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

4. Bad Religion - Against The Grain

5. Slint - Spiderland

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Instrumental bands are limited to one entry.

Do not mention Metallica.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Akelei - De Zwaarte van het Doorstane

3. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

4. Anathema - The Silent Engima

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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Well, the title says it all...

1. Vision Divine - Stream Of Consciousness

2. In Flames - The Jester Race

3. Dream Theater - Images And Words

4. Wintersun - Wintersun

5. In Flames - Whoracle

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I know some of the albums are more thrash than death, but I added them anyway, because I guess they could appeal to death metal fans too. Many of the albums are not so well-known, but I prefer them over the classics. If you have any other suggestions of underground albums you think I could enjoy based on my choices, you can suggest me.

1. In Flames - Clayman

2. The Crown - Eternal Death

3. Sororicide - The Entity

4. Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum

5. Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire And Demise

3. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5. Opeth - Still Life

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1. The Gathering - Nighttime Birds

2. Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter Of Innocence, A Requiem For The Mighty

3. Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays

4. Tristania - Tristania

5. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

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These are my ten favourite album covers - those that really stand out for me from my collection (although at the time of making there was one that hasn't yet been released). These are all albums that I really like, musically.

1. Darkest Hour - The Human Romance

2. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

3. Entombed - Morning Star

4. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

5. Machine Head - The Blackening

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TOP 20 METAL CONCEPT ALBUMS

I was always fascinated by the good concept albums, which manage to tell the story in a extraordinary fashion. So I decided to make a list of best concetual metal albums up to date. I decided to concentrate on truly conceptual albums, since loosening the criteria too much would leave me with having bunch of fantastic albums, which would simply be too much to put on the list. Yes, it would probably be a lot easier to make a huge list, but I wanted to concentrate on a truly top concept-related albums. So since they do not strictly tell about some event, or follow the same story, I decided to drop out loose conceptuals. Unfortunately the likes of "Sirenia - At Sixes and Sevens", "Sabaton - The Art of War" or "Nightwish - Century Child", "Bloodbound - Nosferatu" most of the Therion's albums, Amorphis and so on, went out of the list. I raised the criteria for the 'conceptual' since also there is really a lot of top-quality albums that are connected with a loose story, but they are simply not tight enough to label them as truly concept albums…Otherwise I might as well write a list of 100 albums. Also I tried to avoid multiple occurances of the same band, hence only one album from Ayreon, Symphony X, Evergrey, etc, otherwise they would probably fill up half of the bloody list.

1. Kamelot - Epica

2. Kamelot - The Black Halo

3. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

4. Turisas - The Varangian Way

5. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

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1. Rhapsody Of Fire - Legendary Tales

2. Hammerfall - Glory To The Brave

3. Children Of Bodom - Something Wild

4. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

5. Windir - Sóknardalr

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1. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

2. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

3. The 3rd and the Mortal - In This Room

4. Strapping Young Lad - City

5. Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom

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1. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

2. In Flames - Clayman

3. Trivium - Ascendancy

4. King Diamond - Abigail

5. Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done

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1. At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul

2. Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant

3. Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin

4. Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery

5. In Flames - Colony

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As a sequel to the last list. But au contraire. This list is over what I think are the scoldingly underrated peices of artwork concerning bands. They unfourtnately just didn't gain alot of recognition as works of artwork as I personally adore. Although not all of them very well-known I believe; I still could be wrong about their recognition. I find these to all be stashed emeralds in a abyss... in no particular order other then my rememberance.

1. Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

2. Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

3. Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes

4. Iron Maiden - Purgatory

5. Metallica - Creeping Death

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