2005 is the year when I returned to metal after being away for 9 years.

1. Process Of Guilt - Erosion

2. Krallice - Diotima

3. Faal - The Clouds Are Burning

4. Before The Rain - ...One Day Less

5. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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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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1. Moonspell - Memorial

2. Madder Mortem - Desiderata

3. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress

4. Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance

5. Into Eternity - The Scattering Of Ashes

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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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My top 5 albums from every year since 2000 w/ my rating out of 10. Does not include singles, EPs, live albums, etc. The notable omissions are in no particular order and have received a rating of at least 8.0. There are a few years that I don't have very many albums from but I'm working on expanding that. Please make recommendations! I put a lot of effort into this list and would love some feedback. Always looking for new/more music. I will update this list as needed.
-- Thanks.
(This list has been approved by Gandcage the White)

1. 2013:

2. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)

3. Amorphis - Circle

4. Ghost B.C. - Infestissumam

5. Persefone - Spiritual Migration

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In the years since I began listening to metal, black metal has become my go-to genre. The despair, anger, dissonance, experimentation, beauty, passion and hatred are second to none. These are the albums which sit at the forefront of my listening experience.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agrypnie - Exit

3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4. Blut Aus Nord - Odinist - The Destruction of Reason By Illumination

5. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band
Favorite tracks included.

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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1. The Gathering - How To Measure A Planet?

2. Tiamat - Wildhoney

3. My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings

4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

5. Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

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1. Wintersun - Time I

2. Monuments - Gnosis

3. Thy Majestie - ShiHuangDi

4. Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails

5. Weeping Silence - For The Unsung

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My top 50 favourite albums of all time (initially it was a top 20 list). I restricted every band by a maximum of 2 albums. The list is in alphabetical order, so it doesn't represent explicitly which album is my absolute favourite (I don't have one). All albums on this list have earned at least a 9/10 rating. I've added genres and my favourite songs.

1. After Forever - Decipher

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Agalloch - The Mantle

4. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

5. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

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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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(Probably are plenty of more obscure discs I've never heard of that you could substitute for a few of the following, but a lot of them would likely require some journey into the web. Where people have a tendency to make their presence known. Not advisable when hungover. Best to stick to the whole alone thing and the sorts of albums that everyone should either have a physical copy of or at least in their comp music folders somewhere.)

1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

3. Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade

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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. Tool - Lateralus

2. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia

3. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

4. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient

5. Agalloch - The Mantle

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1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Asphyx - The Rack

5. Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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