Here's my AotY for each year from 1970, with a runner up (or two) following.
Pink Floyd and Yes aren't here, King Crimson is, so I'll include King Crimson

1.Black Sabbath - Paranoid

2.Deep Purple - In Rock

3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

4.Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

5.Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

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Some stories, themes or concepts are presented not just in one single song but are split in separate tracks that (often) share the same title but are distinguished by a number of the corresponding part of the song series.

However, sometimes these parts are not found together on one album, but are included on different releases of the artist.
They can be found on two (or more) conceptually linked albums (where they function as part of an ensemble together with the other songs), or they can be included on independent releases (where only they alone continue their story).

Therefore, the main purpose of this list is to give an overview that enables the reader to find the missing song pieces - or even to inform that these pieces exist at all.

Please feel free to find and suggest more examples of these "song jigsaw puzzles": one song(concept) in separate parts on different albums.

1.After Forever - Prison Of Desire

2.Agathodaimon - Higher Art Of Rebellion

3.Agathodaimon - Phoenix

4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

5.Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut

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A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

2014 and the first half of the 2010's was the time of black metal revival, a great time for the genre, along with Doom and Progressive metal the first half of the last decade was going strong for the more extreme side of metal.

1.Septicflesh - Titan

2.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

3.Schammasch - Contradiction

4.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

5.Saor - Aura

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1.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

2.Disforia - The Age Of Ether

3.Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5.Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud

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Here's my list of symphonic metal albums from the bands that I know of, this list is defined by the terms of "atmospheric/bombastic sounding". This is my first time of making list on this site, so some of this might not make any sense as I'm still a bit confused myself as well, and I don't really prefer to see these in particular orders.

1.Nightwish - Dark Passion Play

2.Within Temptation - The Silent Force

3.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

4.Xandria - Neverworld's End

5.Nightwish - Once

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1.Therion - Theli

2.Therion - Vovin

3.Therion - Lemuria

4.Therion - Sirius B

5.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

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Must Listen: The First 3

1.Evergrey - Hymns For The Broken

2.Primal Fear - Delivering The Black

3.Nightingale - Retribution

4.Voyager - V

5.Dynazty - Renatus

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1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Within Temptation - The Unforgiving

3.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

4.Leah - Kings & Queens

5.Eluveitie - Helvetios

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1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Epica - Design Your Universe

3.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

4.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

5.Epica - The Phantom Agony

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Some of the worst and best songs in here.

If I were ranking every long song of Epica:
Kingdom of Heaven would land between 3. and 4.
Serenade Of Self-Destruction would land above KoH, also between 3. and 4.

Have a great day

1.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

2.Epica - The Holographic Principle

3.Epica - Design Your Universe

4.Epica - The Phantom Agony

5.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

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This list will be constantly updated for I'm always discovering good things that can easily be the soundtrack of my life for many years

1.Epica - The Phantom Agony

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Tristania - Widow's Weeds

4.Tristania - Beyond The Veil

5.Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion

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I've chosen the order of the albums by personal taste and how each one of them is important for me.

1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Epica - The Phantom Agony

3.Epica - The Divine Conspiracy

4.Epica - Consign To Oblivion

5.Epica - Design Your Universe

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The things I liked in 2014

1.Disforia - The Age Of Ether

2.Accept - Blind Rage

3.Arion - Last Of Us

4.Exodus - Blood In, Blood Out

5.Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

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1.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

2.Doom:VS - Earthless

3.Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn

4.Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun

5.Dominia - Theophania

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My personal favorite studio albums of 2014

1.Ghost Brigade - IV - One With The Storm

2.Epica - The Quantum Enigma

3.Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

4.Sólstafir - Ótta

5.Shylmagoghnar - Emergence

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