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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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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1. Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale

2. Cormorant - Dwellings

3. Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night

4. Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

5. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor

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This list is half-assed. So half-assed that I do not care to update it.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3. Alchemist - Spiritech

4. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde

5. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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Varied avantgarde/progressive/technical stuff. In no particular order.
Tell me how many do you know of them

Quality may vary.

Also try the QUC: Black Metal list.

TO CHECK: Cosmic Atropy, Convulse, Impetuous Ritual, Diocletian, Pyrrhon, Portal, Ulcerate, Scrambled Defuncts, Separatist

1. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II

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

3. Lykathé - Elvenefris

4. Element (USA) - The Energy

5. Unmoored - Indefinite Soul-Extension

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Bands listed alphabetically, One album per band (With the exception of Carcass and Napalm Death who appear in the Grind and Death Metal sections). Some bands may not be pure old school (Death / Thrash, Doom Death / Death Doom and early Brutal / Technical Death Included) I have also Included some of the more extreme Thrash releases that pre-dated the genre but undoubtedly help pave the way for things to come, I included these as I wish to give a general summary of the way Death Metal began and evolved throughout the 80's and 90's.

1. Old School Death Metal (Late 80's - 90's)

2. Abhorrence - Abhorrence [EP]

3. Acrostichon - Engraved in Black

4. Adramelech - Psychostasia

5. Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

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Ordered. One album per band. Assessed by quality of the track itself, impact as a conclusion and relevance to the rest of the album.

1. Deep Purple - Deep Purple

2. Windir - 1184

3. Slayer - Reign In Blood

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

5. Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

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This is my manual for getting into one of the most complex, ridiculously insane genre there is: techdeth! Many albums featured here may borrow elements from other genres (prog, thrash, melodeath, grindcore, post, etc.), but the dominant stench of complexity-laden death metal is forever present, and so deserve to be mentioned here.

1. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

2. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

3. Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction

4. Obscura - Omnivium

5. Gorod - A Perfect Absolution

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This is not a typical "Best of the decade" list. To be more precise, it's a list about the top 20 albums of each year of the last decade, in my perspective of course. In this way, a lot of good albeit overlooked albums can get some exposure, in addition to covering more ground at the same time.

1. 2009

2. Sybreed - The Pulse Of Awakening

3. Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4. Porcupine Tree - The Incident

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This is a list of out-of-the-box, unorthodox albums (metal and non-metal alike) that I've enjoyed for their originality, bravado and sheer retardedness. It's a meagre compilation as of now, but I'll expand it when I hear more of such albums. No order, and subject to change.
P.S.: Feel free to let me know if you know what I don't know...no? O.o

1. Disillusion - Gloria

2. Ulver - Blood Inside

3. Shining (NOR) - Blackjazz

4. Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium

5. Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom

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Because I felt like it and because I can. Not necessarily in order.

Viewer discretion advised: May cause headaches to Napalm Death/Carcass worshipers. And pretty much anyone else who can't bear it.

Only one album per band (or in Xysma's case, EP).

1. Repulsion - Horrified

2. Napalm Death - Scum

3. Terrorizer - World Downfall

4. Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction

5. Assück - Misery Index

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I havnt been into metal all that long...so this is a good chuck of the metal albums i own...though ive heard many, many more....these are all albums ive spent a lot of time with (or soon will). I tried to stay away from multiple albums by an artist, but a few exceptions were made hehe.

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

2. 3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom

3. Absu - Tara

4. ADX - Division Blindée

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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