This is a list of bands featuring some of the best guitar work. This covers overall writing, riffs, grooves, and whatnot.
It isn't really in any particular order.

1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

2. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3. Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome

4. The Project Hate MCMXCIX - Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate

5. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

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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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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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This one may please people more. I will ride the black metal band wagon through the mid nineties which is considered normal. I really liked the BM movement. But there will be more surprises here and there

1. Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler

2. Satyricon - The Shadowthrone

3. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

4. Kyuss - Kyuss

5. Abigor - Verwüstung / Invoke The Dark Age

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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My top 100 albums of all time (featured on MS).
One album per band.

In alphabetical order.

1. !T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2. Ævangelist - De Masticatione Mortuorum In Tumulis

3. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

4. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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This is not Avantgarde style, is vanguard music literally.... in metal of course

1. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

2. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

3. Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

4. Apocalyptica - Cult

5. Arcana - Le Serpent Rouge

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You know, I think I'm kind of... out of myself ...

1. Agalloch - The White

2. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

3. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

4. Alcest - Le Secret

5. Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit

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1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Dream Theater - Awake

3. Queensrÿche - Rage For Order

4. The Tea Party - The Edges Of Twilight

5. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

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In semi-particular order

1. King Crimson - Red

2. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

3. Metallica - Master Of Puppets

4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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Top 100 albums pre-2000. No order. Errors likely.

1. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

2. Candlemass - Nightfall

3. Candlemass - Tales of Creation

4. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

5. Hijokaidan - Romance

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Overall year rating:
3,5/5

1. Soundgarden - Superunknown

2. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

3. Skyclad - Prince Of The Poverty Line

4. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

5. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Favorite releases from 1994

1. Kyuss - Kyuss

2. Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding

3. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

4. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

5. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

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