These are the albums which I like the most. Since I have not listened to a lot of albums( let's say, max 400 for me), it would be pretentious to make a list of my 100 favorite albums, so I keep this list short.

1. Tool - Lateralus

2. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

3. Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice

4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

5. Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

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This could be the best year from this decade. Jiri's opinion. '04 was good too.

1. Shining - V - Halmstad

2. Aesma Daeva - Dawn Of The New Athens

3. Forgotten Tomb - Negative Megalomania

4. Imperia - Queen Of Light

5. Lifelover - Erotik

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How my tastes evolved over the last two years. For the sake of comparison, I reported the original list below the updated one.

1. Warning - Watching From A Distance

2. Evoken - A Caress Of The Void

3. Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

4. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

5. Shining - V - Halmstad

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1. Death - Human

2. Death - Symbolic

3. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

4. Opeth - Watershed

5. Opeth - Heritage

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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 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. Therion - Gothic Kabbalah

2. Shining - V - Halmstad

3. Dawn Of Tears - Descent

4. Hanging Garden - Inherit The Eden

5. Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire

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1. Forgotten Tomb - Songs To Leave

2. Shining - V - Halmstad

3. Bethlehem - Dictius Te Necare

4. Silencer - Death - Pierce Me

5. Burzum - Filosofem

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1. Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

2. Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell

3. Saturnus - Martyre

4. Draconian - Turning Season Within

5. Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

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Pure Fucking Metal !!!

1. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4. Akelei - De Zwaarte Van Het Doorstane

5. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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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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1. satyricon - volcano

2. satyricon - Now, Diabolical

3. satyricon - The Age Of Nero

4. Nocte Obducta - Nektar Teil II: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher

5. Agrypnie - Exit

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Here are my favourite albums between 2000 and 2010.
Some might be missed.

1. Motörhead - Motörizer

2. Equilibrium - Sagas

3. Empyrium - Weiland

4. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5. Immortal - All Shall Fall

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Comprehensive list of my top 50 metal albums from the previous decade. Though a number of non-metal albums would make my 50, I have excluded them here.

1. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Negură Bunget - Om

4. Primordial - To The Nameless Dead

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

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