A list of quality sophomore releases.

1. Agalloch - The Mantle

2. Alice In Chains - Dirt

3. Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

4. Asphyx - Last One On Earth

5. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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Beware of contact high and feelings of severe misanthropy.

1. Acid Witch - Stoned

2. Ancestors - In Dreams and Time

3. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

4. Bongripper - Hippie Killer

5. Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields

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This is the cream of the crop of what I've heard from the previous decade. Good times.

1. Isis - Oceanic

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

4. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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My version of The Epics (Best Songs Over 10 Minutes) only this time it's more The Epics (Songs Over 10 Minutes) because we kept griping to PG and he wouldn't update his list. According to his profile he hasn't been on in... 371 days. So I thought "Hey, why not do it myself?"
Arranged by time. If you feel or know a song should be on here, let me know. I'm a mainstream fag, so I only listen to the popular stuff. I might have missed some bands.

1. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2. Kalisia - Cybion

3. Sun Of The Blind - Skullreader

4. Nile - Ithyphallic

5. Nightwish - Once

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1. Opeth - Blackwater Park

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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

4. Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

5. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

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This is a list of my favorite post-metal albums (in order).

1. Blindead - Affliction XXIX II MXMVI

2. Cult Of Luna - Salvation

3. Isis - Panopticon

4. Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

5. Rosetta - Wake / Lift

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Here are the most captivating atmospheres I've ever heard. Including metal and non-metal albums. Grouped according to genre and one album per band.

1. Division By Zero - Independent Harmony

2. Beyond Twilight - The Devil's Hall Of Fame

3. Riverside - Out Of Myself

4. Suspyre - When Time Fades...

5. Redemption - The Fullness Of Time

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These Are Albums that give metal a good name, and create metalheads who live for little else. Originality, Raw talent, Brilliant atmosphere, Brutality with a great technical aspect, and just plain ass kicking.

1. Lux Occulta - The Mother And The Enemy

2. Borknagar - The Archaic Course

3. Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends

4. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

5. Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage

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A list of my current top 25 instrumental metal albums

1. Tides From Nebula - Aura

2. God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright

3. Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw

4. Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien

5. Planet X - Moonbabies

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Here is another list for people to like some less popular genres of metal. Now, post metal...chargee!

PS.: There are many bands that are not really metal, but it's necessary to know them to enjoy the full potencial of post metal.

1. Cult Of Luna - Salvation

2. Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth

3. Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

4. From Oceans To Autumn - Calmed By The Tides

5. God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright

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Overall year rating:
4/5

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2. Evoken - Antithesis Of Light

3. Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

4. Riverside - Second Life Syndrome

5. Månegarm - Vredens Tid

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Limited to one album per band and only those featured on Metal Storm.
I feel these albums demonstrate certain qualities that can be of enjoyment to someone who is interested in avantgarde, experimental, extreme, fusion, jazz, post rock, and technical forms of metal.

1. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick

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

3. Rush - Moving Pictures

4. Opeth - Still Life

5. Dream Theater - Images And Words

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Favorite releases from 2005

1. Cryptopsy - Once Was Not

2. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

3. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

4. Acid King - III

5. Devourment - Butcher The Weak

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