In progress, subject to change.

Title says it all really, I made an attempt to pick my favorite album from each of my favorite bands. I did not take into account the number of albums released by each band, and I did not take into account if I've actually only got one album by the band. Difficult to pick just one album by most of these giants! (Bands are listed alphabetically)

1. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

2. Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time

3. Axel Rudi Pell - Mystica

4. Axxis - Utopia

5. Ayreon - 01011001

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Power Metal has the whole pack. Listening to one album of Power Metal you can feel free , relaxed , happy , sad , and so many more states of mind. If you put it all together listening to Power Metal makes you human. (I only used English language albums and I know some of the albums are not completely Power Metal but all of them have some Power Metal elements . If I could I would have added more albums but my head is spinning right now). So Power up everybody!!!

1. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II

2. Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

3. Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part I

4. Riot - ThunderSteel

5. Gamma Ray - Land of the Free

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Whenever making general lists like this, I try to include as many genres I listen to as possible. There were so many good doom/gothic/symphonic albums last year, but I didn't want to include them all, even though they deserve a high place on the list. I'll explain the reasons behind my selection, a few words for each album.

1. Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2. Wintersun - Time I

3. Kamelot - Silverthorn

4. Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird

5. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

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1. Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White

2. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

3. Jeff Loomis - Plains Of Oblivion

4. Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

5. Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

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My favourite studio albums of 2012 (May change over time)

1. Kamelot - Silverthorn

2. Xandria - Neverworld's End

3. Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5. Circus Maximus - Nine

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I haven't been able to listen to all of this years top albums (As voted on by MS Users ) but, I tried dammit. This year was a bit disappointing as other years have had many more 9's and so on. Still a lot of great to really good releases either way.

1. Seven Kingdoms - The Fire Is Mine

2. Overkill - The Electric Age

3. Agua De Annique - Everything Is Changing

4. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

5. Arjen Anthony Lucassen - Lost In The New Real

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Best metal albums, as chosen by me, for the year 2012. Or perhaps the ones that had influenced me most during this year. List was written or made for metalstorm, but I added it to my other profiles, because of long texts, which I didn't feel like putting here.

http://www.last.fm/user/Telcontar666/journal/2012/12/30/5pizbd_longing_for_creation:_top_10_metal_albums_of_the_2012

1. Sabaton - Carolus Rex

2. Kamelot - Silverthorn

3. Wintersun - Time I

4. Eluveitie - Helvetios

5. Mors Principium Est - ...And Death Said Live

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1. Alcest - Les voyages de l'âme

2. Borknagar - Urd

3. Katatonia - Dead End Kings

4. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. The Gathering - Disclosure

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This is my list for best metal albums of 2012. I like all genres except Black, deathcore and grindcore. I hope some of you can relate to this list.

1. Eluveitie - Helvetios

2. Krampus - Survival Of The Fittest

3. Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath

4. Parkway Drive - Atlas

5. Xandria - Neverworld's End

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1. Xandria - Neverworld's End

2. Orden Ogan - To The End

3. Whyzdom - Blind?

4. Wintersun - Time I

5. Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails

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Song of the Year: Woods Of Ypres - Travelling Alone

1. Wintersun - Time I

2. Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

3. Xandria - Neverworld's End

4. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

5. Woods Of Ypres - Woods V: Grey Skies & Electric Light

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Because I reached the word limit on the previous list, and don't want to lose my quite excellent in-depth descriptions. Those without descriptions are from my other list.

1. Sylosis - Monolith

2. Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone

3. In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad

4. Abigail Williams - Becoming

5. Enslaved - RIITIIR

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Favorite Albums Of All Time!(Mine not yours)

1. Kamelot - The Black Halo

2. Kamelot - Epica

3. Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

4. Nightwish - Oceanborn

5. Kamelot - Ghost Opera

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1. Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion

2. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

3. The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet

4. Anathema - Weather Systems

5. Ihsahn - Eremita

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In progress, and subject to change.

1. Headspace - I Am Anonymous

2. Xandria - Neverworld's End

3. Threshold - March Of Progress

4. Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent

5. Luca Turilli's Rhapsody - Ascending To Infinity

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